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Fallon is a city in Churchill County, Nevada, United States. The population was 8,606 at time of the 2010 census. Fallon is the county seat of Churchill County and is located in the Lahontan Valley.
Illinois's 5th congressional district
The 5th congressional district of Illinois is a congressional district that covers parts of Cook and DuPage counties.
All or parts of Chicago, Elmhurst, Elmwood Park, Franklin Park, Hinsdale, La Grange Park, Norridge, Northlake, River Grove, Schiller Park, and Oakbrook Terrace are included.
It has been represented by Democrat Mike Quigley since a special election in April 2009.
Joe Crowley
Joseph Crowley (; born March 16, 1962) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He was Chair of the House Democratic Caucus from 2017 to 2019. He also was Chair of the Queens County Democratic Party from 2006 to 2019.
On June 26, 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary for his seat. Crowley’s unseen defeat is thought to be one of the biggest upsets in congressional history.
Until his defeat in June 2018, Crowley was seen by many as the replacement of Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic House leadership.
Dimbulukeni Nauyoma
Dimbulukeni Nauyoma (born 1992) is a Namibian youth activist. Along with Job Amupanda and George Kambala, he co-founded a radical youth movement known as the Affirmative Repositioning Movement in 2014. He also served as Secretary General of the Namibia National Students Organisation (NANSO) from 2015 - 2017.
Nauyoma was born in Windhoek, Namibia. He attended the University of Namibia. He holds an advanced diploma in Banking Finance & Credit from the Namibian Institute of Bankers (IOB) where he served as Student Representative Council President. He was part of the SWAPO Party Youth League leaders who were suspended and expelled from the party for occupying a plot in an upmarket Windhoek suburb.
In November 2014, three youth leaders occupied land in an affluent Klein, Windhoek suburb as a means to demand land in the city.
Nauyoma alongside fellow land activists named their occupied land as in reference to the year of occupation with the initiative receiving help from many young Namibians.
In 2016, the Namibian government announced plans to build a new Parliament. However, the Affirmative Repositioning Movement began to Mobilization young Namibians for a June 16 protest against the decision saying resources could be used in more needed areas.
Pineberry
Chrissy Metz
Christine Michelle Metz (born September 29, 1980) is an American singer and actress. She played Kate Pearson in the NBC television series "This is Us". She won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble for the role.
For her acting in "This is Us", Metz was also nominated for several Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Awards.
Metz was born in Homestead, Florida.
George Kambala
George Hidipo Hamba Kambala (born 9 May 1992) is a Namibian youth activist who along with Job Amupanda and Dimbulukeni Nauyoma, he co-Founded a radical youth movement known as the Affirmative Repositioning Movement in 2014.
Kambala was born and grew up in Windhoek's Katutura where he attended Martti Ahtisaari Primary School. He was part of the SWAPO Party Youth League leaders who were suspended and expelled from the party for occupying a plot in an upmarket Windhoek suburb.
Following reports that Windhoek Mayor Agnes Kafula allocated a plot to a Big Brother Africa winner, Kambala alongside Nauyoma and Amupanda occupied land in a Windhoek suburb to raise more concerns on the land question in Namibia.
Landover, Maryland
Maratha Empire
The Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy was a grouping of Indian states that dominated much of the Indian subcontinent in the 17th and 18th centuries. The empire formally existed from 1674 until 1818. The Marathas are given much of the credit for ending Mughal rule in India.
The Marathas were a warrior people from the western Deccan Plateau (present-day Maharashtra) that rose to prominence by establishing "self-rule of Hindu/Indian people" in their region. The Marathas became prominent in the 17th century under the leadership of Shivaji who revolted against the Adil Shahi dynasty and the Mughal Empire and formed a kingdom with Raigad as his capital. Known for their mobility, the Marathas were able to consolidate their territory during the Mughal–Maratha Wars and later controlled a large part of the Indian subcontinent. Their power was eventually ended by the series of wars they fought against the British.
List of British heritage and private railways
James S. Denton
James Simon Denton (July 5, 1951 – June 22, 2018) was an American publisher and editor. He was born in Lakehurst, New Jersey. He was the publisher and editor of "World Affairs" and the director of the World Affairs Institute in Washington, D.C.. Denton was the executive director of Heldref Publications.
Denton died at his home in Washington, D.C. from prostate cancer on June 22, 2018, aged 66.
Florida Parishes
Florida Parishes is a region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Peter Firmin
Peter Arthur Firmin (11 December 1928 – 1 July 2018) was an British artist and television producer. He was the founder of Smallfilms, along with Oliver Postgate. They created a number of popular children's TV programmes, "The Saga of Noggin the Nog", "Ivor the Engine", "Clangers", "Bagpuss" and "Pogles' Wood".
On 1 July 2018, Firmin died at the age of 89.
Paola Paternoster (née "Carotenuto"; 22 December 1935 – 27 June 2018) was an Italian athlete. She competed in the discus throw at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and in the javelin throw in 1956, and placed 11th–20th. Paternoster won 17 national championships at senior level. She was born in Rome.
Paternoster died on 27 June 2018 from colorectal cancer in Rome at the age of 82.
Nicholls State University
Nicholls State University is a university located in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Centreville, Mississippi
Centreville is a town in Amite and Wilkinson counties, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,684 at the 2010 census. It is part of the McComb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Amite City, Louisiana
Allen, Louisiana
Scorpion (Drake album)
Jacques François Mouret
Jacques François Mouret (1787–1837) was a French chess player. He became the chess teacher of the future Louis Philippe I. He was one of the most successful operators of The Turk, a famous chess-playing machine.
Mouret was a great-nephew of the famous chess player Philidor. He learned the game at the Café de la Régence, taught by Bernard and Carlier, two of Philidor's students. He was a pupil of Alexandre Deschapelles and later he became a teacher of La Bourdonnais. He also gave chess lessons to the children of the French King Louis Philippe I. In 1819, he was the operator of The Turk during its tour in England and probably the person, who sold the secret of The Turk to the press.
Mouret was an alcoholic. In 1842 the editor of the chess magazine "Le Palamède", said  ""He was a clever fellow, sharp, gay, lively, amusing, and had studied seriously the theory of chess, by which he made his living. His talent redeemed a little the rudeness of his manner and a certain licentiousness which he indulged in. He used to be in a continual state of semi-intoxication"". George Walker wrote that ""His brain was consumed in the Brandy"".
Mouret was believed to have written a book in 1836, "The Treaty Elementary Game of Chess." But later evidence shows that he only made some corrections to the text.
He had no money when he died and so the members of the Chess Club of Paris paid for his funeral.
Mouret is best known as the person hidden inside The Turk, a fake chess-playing machine. Mouret was one of many great chess players who worked inside the machine, others being Johann Baptist Allgaier, who defeated Napoleon in 1809, Schlumberger, Boncourt and Lewis. Fifty games played by Mouret from inside the Turk in London in 1819, are collected in a book published in 1820. In the beginning of the book it was written that out of 300 games, the Turk (Mouret) only lost six.
Mouret's weakness for drinking often left him without any money, so he probably sold the secret of the Turk in 1834 to "Le Magasin picturesque". The article, "An attempt to analyze the automaton chess-player of M. Kempelen", explained how a man could be hidden inside the Turk. Mouret was not named, but many people. including Walker, believe he was the source. The French master was sick and short of money at the time, and died three years later.
Mouret often used a move now called the French Defense. He was one of the only players to use it and is one of the main reasons for it being called the French Defense. Mouret taught the move to players at the Café de la Régence. One of his students convinced the Paris team to use the defense in games played by letters against a London team. Following the victory of the French team, the opening quickly became known as the French Defense.
Benton, Louisiana
Benton is the parish seat of Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
Dungeness Nuclear Power Station
Magnox
Advanced gas-cooled reactor
Torness Nuclear Power Station
Heysham nuclear power station
Pressurized water reactor
The Mpemba effect
The Mpemba effect is that hot water can, under certain circumstances, not only freeze but do so quicker than colder water. This phenomenon has been reported as working as far back as Ancient Greece, even though it would seem contradictory to the laws of thermodynamics. In 1969 a scientist named Erasto B. Mpemba did experiments that proved that the effect is real, however, scientists are left with more questions than answers. Many solutions have been suggested as reasons for this phenomenon, but none have been agreed upon by scientists and most contradictory explanations were obtained by very different experiments with different controls. Perhaps someday after more study scientists will understand this, but currently the results are inconclusive at best.
Communications-based train control
Communications-based train control (CBTC) is a railway signaling system that makes use of telecommunications between the train and track equipment. By means of a CBTC system, the exact position of a train is known more accurately than with the traditional signaling systems. This results in a more efficient and safe way to manage trains. Metros (and other railway systems) are able to run more frequent trains while maintaining or even improving safety.
Rolling stock
Armando (artist)
Armando (18 September 1929 – 1 July 2018), born Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd, was a Dutch painter, sculptor and writer. He was born in Amsterdam. In 1958 he was one of the founding members of the Nederlandse Informele Groep (Informelen).
His first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Le Canard, Amsterdam, in 1954. At this time he also started to write poetry. He was influenced by the CoBrA art group. In 2007, he retired following an art museum fire that destroyed most of his work.
Armando died on 1 July 2018 in Berlin at the age of 88.
François Corbier
François Corbier (1944 – July 1, 2018) was a French television presenter and songwriter. He was born in Paris. He became a television presenter on "Récré A2", a programme with singer Dorothée on Antenne 2, in 1982. He was a co-presenter of "Club Dorothée" on TF1 from 1987 to 1997. His best known song that he wrote was "Le Nez de Dorothée" in 1986.
Corbier died on July 1, 2018 in Évreux, France from cancer, aged 73.
Bozhidar Dimitrov
Bozhidar Dimitrov Stoyanov (, 3 December 1945 – 1 July 2018) was a Bulgarian historian. He worked in Medieval Bulgarian history, the Ottoman rule and the Macedonian Question. He was the director of the National Historical Museum. He was born in Sozopol, Bulgaria.
Dimitrov Cove in Antarctica is named after him.
Dimitrov died on 1 July 2018 in Sofia from a heart attack at the age of 72.
Shirley Huffman
Shirley Todd Huffman (July 22, 1928 – July 1, 2018) was an American Republican politician. She was born in Dayton, Oregon. She later moved to Hillsboro, Oregon, where she served on the city council before serving two terms as mayor from 1985 to 1993. After leaving office, she was replaced by Gordon Faber and served on the board of directors for TriMet and as a development coordinator for the city.
Huffman died on July 1, 2018 in Ventura, California from natural causes at the age of 89.
Dayton, Oregon
Dayton is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. The population was 2,534 at the 2010 census.
Gillian Lynne
Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne, (née Pyrke; 20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018) was a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director. She was known for her popular choreography with "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera". She was made a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours List.
Lynne died at a hospital in Marylebone, London from pneumonia on 1 July 2018 at the age of 92.
Julian Tudor Hart
Alan Julian Macbeth Tudor-Hart (9 March 1927 – 1 July 2018), commonly known as Julian Tudor Hart, was a British doctor and politician. He worked as a general practitioner (GP) in Wales for 30 years. He was involved with research and wrote many books and scientific articles. He was born in London.
He was a member of the Sigerist Society from 1947 to 1955. Hart joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and ran as the CPGB candidate for Aberavon at the 1964, 1966 and 1970 general elections.
President of Mexico
The President of Mexico
(), officially known as the President of the United Mexican States (), is the head of state and government of Mexico.
Under the Constitution, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces. The current President is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office on December 1, 2018.
After the end of the Mexican War of Independence, a Provisional Board of Governing consisting of thirty-four persons was set up. The Board decreed and signed the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire and appointed a regency composed of six people.
The Provisional Government of 1823–24 was an organization that served as the Executive in the government of Mexico after the end of the Mexican Empire of Agustín I, in 1823. The organization was responsible for convening the body that created the Federal Republic and existed from April 1, 1823 to October 10, 1824.
On June 22, 1863, a "Superior Governing Board" was established. On July 11, the Board became the Regency of the Empire.
After the constitutional reform of 1926, the presidential term in Mexico was extended to six years starting in 1928; with a formal ban on reelection. After the federal election of 1934 all the presidents have completed their six-year terms.
To be eligible to serve as president, Article 82 of the Constitution specifies that the following requirements must be met:
The 1917 Constitution was influenced from the Constitution of the United States. It made it clear separation of powers while giving the president wider powers than his American counterpart. However, this has only recently become the case in practice.
The President's official residence and main workplace is Los Pinos, located inside the Bosque de Chapultepec (Chapultepec Park). The President has the right to use this residence for the six-year term of office.
There are six living former presidents. The most recent former president to die was Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1988), on 1 April 2012.
Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, GColIH (; born December 27, 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was 54th President of Mexico from December 1, 1994 to November 30, 2000.
He was the last Mexican president from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a 71 year streak. He became the PRI candidate after the original nominee Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari () (born April 3, 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician. He worked with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as 53rd President of Mexico from December 1, 1988 to November 30, 1994.
Gudrun Burwitz
Burwitz was arrested and made to testify at the Nuremberg trials. She fought to defend her father’s reputation and became closely involved in Neo-Nazi groups that give support to ex-members of the SS.
Burwitz died on 24 May 2018 at her home near Munich, aged 88. Her death was announced a month later.
Denis Akiyama
Denis Van Akiyama (May 28, 1952 – June 28, 2018) was a Canadian actor. He was born in Toronto. He was best known for being the voice of Iceman/Bobby Drake, Silver Samurai, and Sunfire in the "X-Men Animated Series" and Malachite/Kunzite in the original English version of "Sailor Moon". He played Shinji in "Johnny Mnemonic".
In 2015, he appeared in the movie "Pixels" as Professor Iwatani.
Akiyama died in Toronto on June 28, 2018 at the age of 66.
Toru Iwatani
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a 2018 American science fiction adventure movie. It is a the sequel to "Jurassic World" (2015). It is directed by J. A. Bayona. The movie is the fifth installment of the "Jurassic Park" movie series. Steven Spielberg is an executive producer in the movie.
It stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, B. D. Wong, and Jeff Goldblum with Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Toby Jones, Ted Levine, Isabella Sermon, and Geraldine Chaplin joining the cast.
It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. "Fallen Kingdom" premiered in Madrid on May 21, 2018, and was released in the United States on June 22, 2018 to mixed reviews. A sequel, "", is set to be released on June 11, 2021.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Rafe Spall
Rafe Joseph Spall (born 10 March 1983) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in "The Shadow Line", "Pete versus Life", "One Day", "Anonymous", "Prometheus", "Life of Pi," "The Big Short", "The BFG" and "."
His father is actor Timothy Spall.
Tank car
A tank car or tank wagon is a type of railroad car designed to transport liquids or gases.
BD Wong
Bradley Darryl "BD" Wong (born October 24, 1960) is an American actor. Wong won a Tony Award for his role as Song Liling in "M. Butterfly".
Wong is known for his role as Dr. George Huang on "", Dr. Henry Wu in the "Jurassic Park" franchise, his role in "Mr. Robot", and as Li Shang from the Disney animated movie "Mulan".
Wong appeared in the TV series "Gotham" as Hugo Strange.
Billy Kinard
Billy Russell Kinard (December 16, 1933 – June 30, 2018) was an American football player and coach. Kinard was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He played professionally as a defensive end for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) and the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League (AFL).
Kinard died on June 30, 2018 in Fort Payne, Alabama at the age of 84.
Daniella Pineda
Daniella Pineda (born 20 February 1987) is an American actress, writer, and comedian. She was born in Oakland, California. She is known for her role as Zia Rodriguez in "". She also starred as Sophie in the television series "The Originals".
Justice Smith
Justice Elio Smith (born August 9, 1995) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Radar in the movie "Paper Towns" (2015), Ezekiel in the Netflix television series "The Get Down" (2016–2017) and as Franklin in "". Smith will star in "" (2019). He was born in Los Angeles, California.
Hunterston B nuclear power station
Hunterston B Power Station is a nuclear power station in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is about 6 miles (9 km) south of Largs and about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of West Kilbride, on the Firth of Clyde coast.
It has generated electricity since 1976. It is operated by EDF Energy. It currently generates up to 1000 MW and is due to operate until 2023.
Hunterston B is very similar in design to the Hinkley Point B power station which is also due to operate until 2023.
San Rafael, California
San Rafael ( ; "Saint Raphael") is a city in and the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. The city is in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2010 census the city's population is 57,713.
The term "420" when used in reference to cannabis consumption is believed to have started in San Rafael, specifically, at San Rafael High School. Since then, use of "420" has spread throughout the rest of the United States, and much of the rest of the world, in reference to cannabis consumption on April 20 or at 4:20 p.m., the time the original group gathered after school.
San Rafael has a Mediterranean climate ("Csb" in the Köppen climate classification).
2018 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. Voters elected a new president to serve a term of five years and ten months.
It also elected 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years.
It was one of the largest election days in Mexican history, with most of the nation's states holding state and local elections on the same day, including nine governorships. It has been the most violent campaign Mexico has experienced in recent history, with 130 political figures killed since September 2017.
During the election cycle, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was the leading candidate and would eventually win in a landslide victory.
Currently, the results are: López Obrador, 53%; Anaya, 23%; Meade, 16%; and Rodríguez Calderón, 5%. This is the first time since the (controversial) 1988 election that a presidential candidate has been elected with an absolute majority (50%+1) of the votes cast.
Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller
Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (born 13 January 1969) is a Mexican writer and investigator. She is the wife of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. She worked as a journalist, managing to work for "El Universal" while she lived in Puebla. Later on, she worked in the Mexico City government during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's time as Head of Government of Mexico City.
Margarita Zavala
Margarita Zavala de Calderón (; born Margarita Ester Zavala Gómez del Campo on 25 July 1967) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. She is the wife of the former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. She served as the First Lady of Mexico during her husband's tenure.
Zavala also ran as an independent candidate for the presidency of Mexico between 12 October 2017 and 16 May 2018 during the 2018 election cycle.
Democratic Socialists of America
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is an organization of democratic socialist and left-social democratic and labor members in the United States. It is a member of the Socialist International (SI) from its founding in 1982.
DSA has its roots in the Socialist Party of America (SPA), whose most prominent leaders included Eugene V. Debs, Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington.
The organization has at times endorsed Democratic electoral candidates such as Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, John Kerry, Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders as well as Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.
By the end of 2017, DSA membership had risen from over 6,000 to over 32,000, due to the youth reaction to the presidency of Donald Trump, hence becoming by far not only the largest socialist organization in the United States in the 21st century. Many of the new members were relatively wealthy millennials.
On June 26, DSA member and endorsee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary against incumbent Representative Joseph Crowley in New York's 14th congressional district in a surprise upset. As a result of her win, 1,000 new members joining the organization the next day, approximately 35 times the daily average
The DSA resolved not to campaign for any candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election other than Bernie Sanders; however, many members encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden, even though he was not endorsed.
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (born February 18, 1989) is an American politician. He is the alderman for Chicago's 35th Ward, serving since May 18, 2015. He worked as a community organizer with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and a congressional aide to U.S. Representative Luis Gutiérrez.
Ramirez-Rosa is a member of the Chicago City Council's Progressive Caucus, and was elected to serve as a delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention as a Bernie Sanders supporter. He is the city's youngest alderman, and one of the youngest Aldermen ever elected, when elected at age 26.
On August 31, 2017, he was announced to be Daniel Biss's running mate in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Ramirez-Rosa was dropped from the ticket on September 6, 2017. After Luis Gutiérrez announced his retirement from Congress, Ramirez-Rosa announced his candidacy for Gutiérrez’s seat, Illinois' 4th congressional district; he withdrew on January 9, 2018.
He is a self-described democratic socialist and a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
Henry Butler
Henry Butler (September 21, 1949 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz pianist. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Butler recorded for several record labels, including Impulse, Windham Hill, and Basin Street Records. Butler was blinded by glaucoma in infancy.
Butler died of end-stage colorectal cancer in New York City on July 2, 2018 at the age of 68.
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett (born January 28, 1972) is an American judge. Barrett is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since October 26, 2020. She was nominated by President Donald Trump. She was the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 2017 until 2020.
Before, she served as the Diane and M.O. Miller Research Chair of Law and Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School.
Barrett was on President Trump's "shortlist" of potential Supreme Court nominees since 2017. She was seen as a possible replacement for then-retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Shortly after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2020, she was seen as the top choice to replace her. On September 26, President Trump nominated her to replace Ginsburg.
On October 26, 2020, the Senate confirmed Barrett to the Supreme Court by a vote of 52–48.
United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations Trusteeship Council
George Vancouver
Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British officer of the Royal Navy, best known for his 1791–95 expedition which explored and mapped the northwest of North America, including the coasts of what are now Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. He also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia. The cities of Vancouver, BC and Vancouver, WA, as well as Vancouver Island, are named after him.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a major public university located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with another location in Kelowna. It was started in 1908 and moved to its current location in Point Grey in 1925. It is one of the largest universities in Canada, with a student population of over 60,000. UBC has a 1,000-acre campus, a part of which has been set aside for an endowment fund which generates $1.6 billion for the university.
The Vancouver location is in the University Endowment Lands, about west of Downtown Vancouver. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national workplace for particle and nuclear physics. It has the world's largest cyclotron. UBC also has the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute. UBC and the Max Planck Society founded the first Max Planck Institute in North America, which studies quantum materials. The UBC Library system has over 9.9million books in its 21 locations and is one of the largest research libraries in Canada. The Okanagan campus, added in 2005, is located in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Three Canadian prime ministers, including Canada's first female prime minister Kim Campbell and current prime minister Justin Trudeau, went to UBC.
Ricardo Anaya
Ricardo Anaya Cortes (Spanish: ]; born 25 February 1979) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He is a member and former president of the centre-right National Action Party (PAN).
He held the position of National President of the National Action Party until 9 December 2017, when he resigned to run in the 2018 presidential election for the PAN party in political coalition. Anaya scored second behind Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the election results.
José Antonio Meade
José Antonio Meade Kuribreña (; born 27 February 1969) is a Mexican politician, economist, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of Social Development, Secretary of Energy and twice as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit.
On 27 November 2017, he resigned his post as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit in order to run for President of Mexico as a candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 2018 presidential election.
Jaime Rodríguez Calderón
Jaime Heliodoro Rodríguez Calderón (born 28 December 1957) is a Mexican politician. He was Governor of the northern state of Nuevo León. He is the first independent candidate to have won a governorship in Mexico. He served as mayor of García, Nuevo León (2009–2012) as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
Rodríguez ran as an Independent candidate for President of Mexico in the 2018 presidential race.
National Regeneration Movement
The National Regeneration Movement (, MORENA) is a left-wing political party in Mexico.
It was formally registered as a political party in 2014, it was led by three-time presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador until 12 December 2017, when he registered himself as a candidate for the party's nomination, and was succeeded by Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz.
Grey Cup
National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party (, PAN), founded in 1939. It is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. It has been an important political party winning local, state, and national elections. It is the most conservative party.
In 2000, PAN candidate Vicente Fox was elected President for a six-year term; in 2006, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón replaced Fox in presidency. During the period 2000-2012, both houses of the legislature had PAN pluralities, but the party did not have a majority in either house of the Congress.
In the 2006 legislative elections the party won 207 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 52 out of 128 Senators. In the 2012 Legislative Elections, the PAN won 38 seats in the Senate, and 114 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
Fraser River
"Seven Nation Army" (also stylized as "7 Nation Army") is a song by American rock duo the White Stripes. It was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, "Elephant", in March 2003, and reached number one on the Alternative Songs chart for three weeks in a row. It won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
Following a speech by Jeremy Corbyn at Wirral Live music festival in May 2017, supporters in the audience began to chant Corbyn's name to the tune of the song's riff. This was repeated on several times in the run-up to the British general election 2017, and afterwards at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival, where Corbyn appeared on the Pyramid stage.
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, PRI) is a Socialist-leaning political party in Mexico founded in 1929. It held power in the country for 71 years from 1929 to 2000, first as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM), and finally renaming itself as the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1946.
The current President Enrique Peña Nieto is a member of PRI. Former presidents under PRI include: Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Lázaro Cárdenas, Adolfo López Mateos, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Ernesto Zedillo.
Amber Lee Connors
Amber Lee Connors (born April 9, 1991) is an American voice actress, casting and voice director and script writer. She has provided voices for English dubbed Japanese anime and video games. Connors was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but raised in Dallas, Texas.
Connors is perhaps best known for proving her voice for Chica and other characters in the "Five Night's at Freddy's" series beginning in "FNaF World" and later in "" and "Ultimate Custom Night". She is also known for her role as Nozomi in "Keijo!!!".
Connors endorsed U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Virginia, Minnesota
Virginia is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. It is on the Mesabi Iron Range. The population was 8,712 at the 2010 census. It is relatively small, but is still one of the most dangerous cities in Minnesota when measured by the number of violent and property crimes compared to the number of people.
Chaitali Das
Chaitali Das is an Indian entrepreneur and social worker in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Chaitali is thes managing trustee of "Rakshak Foundation", a non-profit organization. In 2018, she won the "Exceptional Woman of Excellence" award by Women Economic Forum.
Chaitali Das obtained a degree in "Human Resource Management" from University of Cambridge. She had been supporting social causes since 1991 as part of family charity and later on founded Rakshak Foundation along with her husband, Jaydip Das in 2014. Rakshak Foundation has been running 2 child development centers with Kolkata Police, "Nabadisha Tollygunge" and "Ekbalpur Nabadisha".
She also runs a social program "Jute Story beyond Bars," with jail inmates to develop their skills at correctional homes across the country.
Cal 3
Cal 3 (also called Proposition 9) is a halted 2018 voter initiative to split California into three states. It was introduced by Tim Draper. If it passed, California would not be immediately split. The U.S. Congress would need to approve.
Supporters of the split said the state is too large to govern efficiently, and those against said the split is a waste of time and resources.
The initiative was taken off of the ballot in July 2018 by the Supreme Court of California. Tim Draper called the decision "corrupt."
California is currently a stronghold for the Democratic Party. If the state were to split in three, Southern California could become a swing state. Splitting the state would also create 4 more Senate seats. The Republicans would not want all those 4 extra seats to go to the Democrats.
All three potential states voted for the Democratic nominee in the 2016 presidential election.
Drover (company)
Drover is a London based company providing vehicle subscriptions. Users pay a recurring fee for the right to use a car with insurance, maintenance, tax, MOT and breakdown cover, and can swap vehicles during the subscription or to cancel their subscriptions outright.
Drover was founded in late 2015 by Felix Leuschner, previously CEO of a fashion platform Sylistpick and virtual goods market Gamegoods, and Matt Varughese. They had observed that most of the innovation in the mobility space had been focused on how to get from A to B but that very little had been done around car ownership itself.
In March 2018 Drover received funding of £5.5m from investors including BP Ventures, Partech Ventures and Cherry Ventures. This was on top of a £2m pre-seed investment.
In April 2018 Drover partnered with BMW Group to provide BMW and Mini vehicles on the platform.
Drover does not own any cars, but provides a marketplace for vehicle subscriptions. Users pay a monthly fee for a car, including insurance, breakdown cover, maintenance tax and MOT. There are no long term commitments so users can swap, upgrade, downgrade or cancel their subscriptions. Felix Leuschner, CEO, claims that by providing a more seamless, online and all-inclusive experience, Drover will be able to improve the typical car purchasing experience.
Some industry predict that the rise of autonomous vehicles will see traditional finance methods superseded by subscription services.
Bergün Filisur
Bergün Filisur is a new municipality of the district Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Bergün/Bravuogn and Filisur merged to form the new municipality of Bergün Filisur.
Vicosoprano
Vicosoprano is a former municipality of the district Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, and is the largest village in the Val Bregaglia. It is part of the municipality of Bregaglia.
Bregaglia
Bregaglia () is a municipality of the district of Maloja in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was formed by the 2010 merger of the municipalities of Bondo, Castasegna, Soglio, Stampa and Vicosoprano, all in the Val Bregaglia.
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Sils im Engadin/Segl
Sils im Engadin/Segl (; Romansh ), often also as "Sils i.E./Segl", is a municipality and village in the Upper Engadine in the Swiss canton of the Graubünden. It is found of the district of Maloja.
The municipality has two villages "Segl Maria" (Romansh, ; "Seglias" is part of Segl Maria) and "Segl Baselgia" (German: "Sils Baselgia"; "Baselgia" is Romansh for church), the Val Fex (German: "Fextal"), and the three "Maiensäss"e Grevasalvas, Blaunca and Buaira above "Plaun da Lej" on the left side of the valley.
Sils (disambiguation)
Sils can mean:
Ross, California
Ross is a small incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States, just north of San Francisco. It is about west-southwest of San Rafael. The population was 2,415 at the 2010 census. The town is bordered by Kentfield and Greenbrae to the east, Larkspur to the south and San Anselmo to the north.
Ross is named in honor of James Ross, who bought Rancho Punta de Quentin in 1859.
Lake Brienz () is a lake just north of the Alps, in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. The shores are steep, and there is almost no shallow water in the entire lake.
The village of Brienz, from which the lake takes its name, lies on the northern shore to its eastern end.
Nadine Trintignant
Nadine Trintignant (born 11 November 1934) is a French movie director, producer, editor, screenwriter, and novelist. She is known for her movies "Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres" and "L'été prochain". Her movie "Mon amour, mon amour" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival.
Brienz (disambiguation)
Brienz is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
Bill Watrous
William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He was best known for his version of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love," which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name.
In 1971, he played with the jazz fusion group Ten Wheel Drive. Also in the 1970s, Watrous formed his own band, The Manhattan Wildlife Refuge Big Band, which recorded two albums for Columbia Records. The band was later renamed Refuge West when Watrous moved to southern California.
Watrous died in Los Angeles, California on July 2, 2018 at the age of 79.
Richard Swift (singer-songwriter)
Richard Swift (March 16, 1977 – July 3, 2018) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He was the founder, owner, and recording engineer of National Freedom, a recording studio located in Oregon. He worked as producer for such acts as The Shins, Damien Jurado, David Bazan, Foxygen, Jessie Baylin, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Mynabirds, Wake Owl, Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Gardens & Villa, Cayucas, and Guster.
Swift was a former member of indie rock band The Shins and The Arcs. In April 2014, Richard announced via Twitter that he had joined The Black Keys as their touring bassist and backing singer.
In June 2018, Swift was hospitalized in Tacoma, Washington with a "life-threatening illness". He died on July 3, 2018 from hepatitis caused by his alcoholism, aged 41.
Michael Bell
Michael Bell (born July 30, 1938) is an American actor, voice actor, director and animal-rights activist. He is known for his youthful voice. He has acted in video games and animated series, including "The Transformers", "", "The Houndcats", "Rugrats", "The Smurfs", and "Snorks".
In live-action, he appeared in "Dallas" and "Star Trek".
David Durenberger
David Ferdinand Durenberger (born August 19, 1934) is an American politician. He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He served as a Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota from November 8, 1978 to January 3, 1995.
Durenberger endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential election.
Dennis DeConcini
Dennis Webster DeConcini (born May 8, 1937) is an American lawyer, philanthropist, politician. He served as the Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1977 until his retirement in 1995. He was replaced by Jon Kyl. DeConcini was born in Tucson, Arizona.
In February 1995 DeConcini was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), where he served until May 1999.
DeConcini is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), a global nonprofit organization that combats child sexual exploitation, child pornography, and child abduction.
Birr
Birr can mean:
Ethiopian birr
The birr () is the unit of currency in Ethiopia.
Puma (brand)
PUMA AG is a German multinational company that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel and accessories, which is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.
PUMA is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world.
As of 2017, Puma SE employs more than 13,000 people worldwide and distributes its products in more than 120 countries.
Munevera Zulfikarpašić
Munevera Zulfikarpašić, born Gavrankapetanović (19181999), was a distinguished Bosnian and Sarajevan master of pharmacy. She was born in Ljubuški and died in Sarajevo.
Munevera Zulfikarpašić finished elementary and high schools in Sarajevo and graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy at University of Zagreb, 1942. The Pharmacy Exam passed in 1948, when she was promoted to "Pharmacy Health at the Level of "master of pharmacy"".
Military base
A military base is where a country keeps its armed forces. It could be an air base, an army base, or a navy base. It could be inside its home country, in a different, friendly country, or in a country being invaded or occupied.
The name used generally refers to the type of military that uses the base.
A military base may go different names, such as the following:
J.Crew
Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor and dancer. He is best known for playing Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, "" (2016), "" (2017), "" (2018), "" (2019), and "" (2019). He also stared in the famous musical Billie Elliot (2008)
Holland was diagnosed with dyslexia in 2003.
Holland has three younger brothers: Harry, Sam, and Patrick (Paddy). His parents are Nicola Frost and Dominic Holland. He was bullied in school for being a dancer.
Tom Holland lives in London.
Gun language
Gun language () is a language in the Gbe languages group. It is spoken by the Gun people in Benin and Nigeria. This language is close to Fon, as well as to Agbome, Kpase, Maxi and Weme (Ouémé) languages. It is the second most spoken language of Benin. It is used in some schools in the Ouémé Department of Benin.
It is mainly spoken in south Benin in Porto-Novo, Sème, Bonou, Adjara, Avrankou, Dangbo, Missérété, Akpro-Missérété, Cotonou and other cities where Gun people live. Gun is also spoken by a minority of people in southwest Nigeria near the border with Benin.
A bot is a computer program which acts automatically. It may do things that a person wouldn't normally do, or take a long time to do. It is an automated or semi-automated tool or script. They may be simple, or advanced and complex:
Societies are going through a rapid learning process at present. The freedom of bots to mine data is challenged. By mining data is meant collecting information about use, and about users, so as to advance some commercial or other purpose. In the European Union, for example, bots must now ask for permission to mine data from users. Before, they could collect any data they liked from users inorder to promote the welfare of the companies that used them.
There is a Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases. It is a directive of the European Union in the field of copyright law, made under the Treaty of Rome. The need to protect the data of "users" is a more recent development.
Data mining is certain to be extremely important in the future. On Wikipedia the use of bots is frequent (see link above), but the use of data mining is minimal.
Aphorism
An aphorism is a memorable saying. It often contains a surprising truth. Most aphorisms are quite short, but not all:
Henri Dirickx
Hendrik Paul "Rie" Diricx (7 July 1927 – 4 July 2018) was a Belgian football player. He was born in Duffel.
Dirickx played for Union Saint-Gilloise. He earned a total of 30 caps for Belgium between 1952 and 1960. He was part at the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
Dirickx died on 4 July 2018, three days shy of his 91st birthday.
Parson's Cause
The "Parson's Cause" was a legal and political dispute in the Colony of Virginia. Many people think it was an  important event leading up to the American Revolution. The case was about the payment of clergy of the Anglican Church in Virginia. At the time, a lot of tobacco was planted in Virginia. It was one of the commodity crops of the colony. The colony of Virginia had passed laws in 1748: These laws said that Virginia's Anglican clergy were to be paid 16,000 pounds of tobacco per year.
The problem was that the harvest of tobacco was poor in 1758. Because of that, the price of tobacco in Virginia rose from from two to six pennies per pound. This also meant the salary of clergy effectively tripled, that year. The state of Virginia was forced to act, and passed a law called the "Two Pennies Act": This law allowed the state authorities to pay the clergy in currency, instead of tobacco. It also fixed the exchange rate of tobacco: it said that for these payments, the state should take a rate of two  pennies per pound of tobacco.  King George III of Great Britain vetoed the law, causing an uproar in the colony. Many Virginia legislators saw the king's veto as a breach of their legislative authority.
Colonel John Henry, father of Patrick Henry, was the judge who presided over the court case and jury that decided the issue. Patrick Henry was the person who argued in favor of colonial rights in the case. He was relatively unknown at the time.
The Reverend James Maury had sued in Hanover County Court (April 1, 1762) for back wages on behalf of all the ministers involved: he effectively became a representative of the British cause. The court ruled (Nov. 5, 1763) that Maury's claim was valid, but that a jury had to determine the amount of damages. This jury was called for in December 1763. Patrick Henry rose to prominence by defending Hanover County against Maury's claims. Henry argued in favor of the Two Penny Act. As reported by the plaintiff Maury in a letter (Dec. 12, 1763) to fellow Anglican minister John Camm shortly after the trial, Henry argued in substance "that a King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all right to his subjects' obedience."
The jury awarded Maury one penny in damages. The award essentially nullified the Crown veto, and no other clergy sued.
The Hanover County Courthouse is still operating; historic U.S. Route 301 passes by it. The courthouse is next to the Hanover Tavern, where Patrick Henry lived while arguing the Parson's Cause. It is the third oldest courthouse still in use in the United States. The state historic office dates the building's construction between 1737 and 1742.
Hans Hürlimann
Hans Hürlimann (6 April 1918 –22 February 1994) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1974-1982).
He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 5 December 1973. He served until 31 December 1982 when Alphons Egli took office. He was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.
During his office time he held the Federal Department of Home Affairs and was President of the Confederation in 1979.
France (disambiguation)
France is a country in Europe.
France may also refer to:
In French-speaking countries, France may also be a woman's first name:
On rarer occasions, it may also be a surname:
1946–47 Chicago Stags season
Jagmeet Singh