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James Nicholas "Nick" Ayers (born August 16, 1982) is an American political strategist. He is the Chief of Staff to Vice President Mike Pence since July 2017.

Ayers was the national chairman for Mike Pence's vice-presidential campaign in 2016, and as the former executive director of the Republican Governors Association from 2007 to 2010. He also was principal of C5 Creative Consulting,

From November 2016 to January 2017, Ayers was a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

Many believed that President Donald Trump would hire Ayers as John F. Kelly's replacement as White House Chief of Staff. On December 9, 2018, Ayers turned down the offer.

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Danay García (born 5 July 1984) is an Cuban-born American actress. She was born in Havana, Cuba. She is known for her roles as Sofía Lugo on Fox's drama series Prison Break and Luciana Galvez on AMC's horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead.

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The coat of arms of Cyprus show a dove and an olive branch (a well-known symbol of peace) over “1960”, the year of Cypriot independence from British rule. Northern Cyprus uses a separate coat of arms and “1983” is used for when it gained independence but its recognised by Turkey.

Cyprus
Republic of Cyprus
Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 28,567 people lived there. The county seat is Walker.

Minnesota counties
Chippewa County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 12,441 people lived there. The county seat is Montevideo.

Minnesota counties
Chisago County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010,  53,887 people lived there. The county seat is Center City.

Minnesota counties
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 census, 58,999 people lived there. The county seat is Moorhead.

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The coat of arms of Lithuania consists of a man wearing armour, holding a sword and shield, and riding a horse in front of a red background. It is also known as Vytis.

Lithuania
Lithuania
Rickenbach is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Rünenberg is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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"Delicate" is a song recorded by American recording artist Taylor Swift.   It was released on March 12, 2018, as the fourth single from Swift's sixth studio album, Reputation.  The song reached the top twenty in the US and Canada.

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Weekly charts

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Zunzgen is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Bajlo Tomar Alor Benu is an Indian Bengali language soap opera. It aired on Star Jalsha. The series told the story of an abandoned girl, Minu. She had a natural talent for sculpting. Minu wanted to be famous for being a sculpter. The series was made by Agnidev Chatterjee Productions. Its screenplay and the dialogues were written by Sudipa Chatterjee. Supriti Ghosh sang the title song of the series. The series starred Shyamoupti Mudly and Sanjeev Dasgupta. It was directed by Agnidev Chatterjee.

Plot
On the shore of the Ganges River, a famous sculptor named Kalikrishna found a young girl. She was trying to make a small statue of Lord Shiva out of clay. He saw that she had a natural talent in sculpting. Kalikrishna helped the girl make the statue. He learned that Minu had been separated from her mother. He took to his home and let her live with him. Kalikrishna told her that Maa Durga was looking over her in the absence of her mother. The story showed how Minu grew up to become amaster the art of idol-making.

Cast
 Shyamoupti Mudly as Minu
 Sanjeev Dasgupta as Kalikrishna
 Rahul Dev Bose as Somnath

Indian soap operas
2018 Indian television series debuts
2019 disestablishments
Doab is an word used in India and Pakistan and means a piece of land between two rivers, extending to where the two rivers meet. The most important of these is between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

Landforms of Asia
Gate of China is one of the Gates of old China. In Chinese, people call it "Zhōnghuámén" (). "Gate of China" was built in Ming Dynasty and now settles in Qinghai District, Nanjing, China. It is 16512 square meter. "Gate of China" is very magnificent for its barbican. It's the firmest barbican in China. The barbican is a small space between gate and the barbican door. When the enemies go into it, the doors can block them so that the soldiers that have already hidden in the barbican can kill them easily. In the past, Taiping Kingdom of Heaven tried to attack into Nanjing, however, the gate wasn't ruined at all.

China
Catalan solids are a concept from geometry: For each Archimedean solid there is a Catalan solid that is its duality (mathematics. In total, there are thirteen Catalan solids (as there are thirtin Archimedean solids). They are named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan of the 19th centurty.
Each Catalan solid is a convex polyhedron. Like with Archimewdean solids, each surface is made of the same shape.
Geometry
Clearwater County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 8,695 people lived there. The county seat is Bagley.

Minnesota counties
Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 5,176 people lived there. The county seat is Grand Marais.

Minnesota counties
Crow Wing County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 62,500 people lived there. The county seat is Brainerd.

Minnesota counties
Dakota County is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 398,552 people lived there. The county seat is Hastings.

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Minnesota counties
Thürnen is a municipality of the district Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Wenslingen is a municipality of the district Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Wittinsburg is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Zeglingen is a municipality of the district of Sissach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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The Labrador Peninsula is a large peninsula in eastern Canada. It is bounded by the Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the southeast. The peninsula includes the region of Labrador, which is part of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Côte-Nord, and Nord-du-Québec, which are in the province of Quebec. It has an area of .

The peninsula is very sparsely populated, especially in the north.
Geography of Canada
Győző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935 – 6 December 2018) was a Hungarian chess master and an economist. He was born in Budapest. He first participated in the Hungarian Championship as early as 1954 and became the national champion in 1968/1969. Forintos was awarded the International Master title in 1963 and the Grandmaster title in 1974.

Forintos died in Budapest on 6 December 2018 at the age of 83.

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1935 births
2018 deaths
Hungarian sportspeople
Chess grandmasters
People from Budapest
João Clemente Baena Soares (born 14 May 1931) is a Brazilian diplomat. He was born in Belém. He worked at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations for 31 years before being elected to replace Alejandro Orfila as Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1984 to 1994. He was replaced in 1994 with President César Gaviria.

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Alejandro Orfila (9 March 1925 – 9 June 2021) was an Argentine politician and winemaker. He was born in Mendoza, Argentina. He was the Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1975 to 1984 replacing Galo Plaza, an Ecuadorian President.

He was an active figure in United States foreign policies dealing with South American. He was a key figure in the Panama Canal Treaty formation. He was present when President Jimmy Carter signed the treaty in 1977. He worked with Carter to fight human rights abuses in the continent. 

When Ronald Reagan became president, his influence decreased with Reagan and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick criticizing the Organization of American States.

In 1984, he was replaced with Brazilian diplomat João Clemente Baena Soares.

Orfila died on 9 June 2021 in San Diego, California at the age of 96.

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98 Degrees (stylized as 98°) is a Grammy-nominated American pop and contemporary R&B band. The group is made up of four vocalists: Justin Jeffre, Jeff Timmons and brothers Nick and Drew Lachey. It was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, California. All members of the group come from Ohio.

Instead of being assembled by a record label or a producer like most boy bands, 98 Degrees formed independently. They joined a record label later.

The group has sold over 10 million records across the world. They have had eight top 40 singles in the United States.

Songs from 98 Degrees include "This Gift", "True to Your Heart" and "Invisible Man". In 1999 the group released the album This Christmas. It sold over one million copies.

In 2002, the group took a break from recording and touring. In 2012, they got back together. In May 2013, they released a new album, 2.0.

Albums 
 Self-Titled (1996)
 98° (1997)
 98° and Rising (1998)
 This Christmas (1999)
 Revelation (2000)
 2.0 (2013)
 Let It Snow (2017)

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The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in 2019. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

Months
 January
 February
 March
 April
 May
 June
 July
 August
 September
 October
 November
 December

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016
 Deaths in 2017
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Melvin Floyd "Mel" Sembler (born May 10, 1930) is an American politician. He was United States Ambassador to Italy from 2001 to 2005 and Ambassador to Australia and Nauru from 1989 to 1993.

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Richard Newton Gardner (July 9, 1927 – February 16, 2019) was an American politician. He was born in New York City. He was the United States Ambassador to Spain from 1993 to 1997 and the United States Ambassador to Italy from 1977 to 1981. He was a professor emeritus of law at Columbia Law School.

Gardner died on February 16, 2019 in New York City at the age of 91.

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Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from New York City
US Democratic Party politicians
Edward L. Romero (also Romæro, born on January 2, 1934) is an American politician and activist. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra between the years of 1998 and 2001.

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Living people
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from Colorado
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Alamosa is a city and the county seat in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States.  The city population was 8,780 at the 2010 United States Census.

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County seats in Colorado
Paul Heron Robinson Jr. (born June 22, 1930) is an American businessman and politician. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Robinson Jr., a Republican, was United States Ambassador to Canada from 1981 to 1985 during the Ronald Reagan presidency.

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NNDB Profile

1930 births
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Ambassadors of the United States
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Politicians from Chicago
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Julian Nava (born June 19, 1927) is an American educator and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador of Mexico from 1980 to 1981 during the Jimmy Carter presidency. He was born in Los Angeles, California. Nava is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Felix George Rohatyn ( ; May 29, 1928 – December 14, 2019) was an American politician and investment banker. Rohatyn was born in Vienna, Austria. He spent most of his career with Lazard from the 1960s through the 1990s. He was the United States Ambassador to France from 1997 to 2000.

Rohatyn died in Manhattan on December 14, 2019 at the age of 91.

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Howard H. Leach (born June 19, 1930) is an American diplomat, college administrator and philanthropist. He was the United States Ambassador to France from 2001 to 2005.

He studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1953 and at Stanford Advanced Management College in 1968.

He is a member and former chairman of the Board of Regent of the University of California.

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Munster is a town located in North Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. It is in the Chicago metropolitan area. It is  southeast of the Chicago Loop. The 2010 U.S. Census counted the town's population at 23,603. Munster is located at  (41.551457, -87.501431).

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Towns in Indiana
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 American fantasy adventure comedy movie directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, and Jeff Pinkner, based on a story by McKenna. Part of the Jumanji franchise, the movie is a sequel to the 1995 Jumanji, which was based on the 1981 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. A sequel titled Jumanji: The Next Level released in 2019.

2017 comedy movies
2010s fantasy movies
2010s adventure movies
American fantasy movies
American adventure movies
American comedy movies
English-language movies
Jungle movies
Movies directed by Jake Kasdan
Venom is a 2018 American superhero movie based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the first movie in Sony's Marvel Universe, adjunct to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marcel, it stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. In Venom, journalist Brock gains superpowers after being bound to an alien symbiote whose species plans to invade Earth.

Despite receiving mixed reviews from film critics, the film was positively welcomed from audience and fans alike which praised its story, humor, Eddie Brock and Venom's relationship, characters, soundtrack, special effects, cast performances (especially Hardy's double one), action scenes and the ending.

Cast
Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom
Michelle Williams as Ann Weying
Riz Ahmed as Dr. Carlton Drake / Riot
Jenny Slate as Dr. Dora Skirth
Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kassady (cameo)

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2018 movies
American superhero movies
English-language movies
2010s monster movies
2010s superhero movies
American movies
American science fiction movies
Columbia Pictures movies
Drone movies
IMAX movies
Movies set in 2018
Augst (Swiss German: Augscht) is a municipality of the district Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.

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Dodge County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 20,087 people lived there. The county seat is Mantorville.

Minnesota counties
Douglas County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 36,009 people lived there. The county seat is Alexandria.

Minnesota counties
Omega (Ѡ ѡ or Ѡ ѡ; italics: Ѡ ѡ or Ѡ ѡ) is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet. It came from the Greek Omega.
Faribault County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 14,553 people lived there. The county seat is Blue Earth.

Minnesota counties
Fillmore County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 20,866 people lived there. The county seat is Preston.

Minnesota counties
Freeborn County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 31,255 people lived there. The county seat is Albert Lea.

Minnesota counties
Bubendorf is a municipality of the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Frenkendorf is a municipality of the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Godzilla  is a 1998 American monster movie directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The movie is a reimagining of Toho's Godzilla franchise and is the 23rd movie in the franchise and the first Godzilla movie to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio. The movie stars Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Michael Lerner, and Harry Shearer. The film is dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka, the co-creator and producer of various Godzilla movies, who died in April 1997. a mutated iguana creature over 60-meter long called Godzilla attacks Manhattan, New York from its terrorized.

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Adnams is a regional brewery founded in 1872 in Southwold, Suffolk, England, by George and Ernest Adnams. 

1872 establishments in England
Companies of the United Kingdom
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Suffolk
Goodhue County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 46,183 people lived there. The county seat is Red Wing.

Minnesota counties
Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 6,018 people lived there. The county seat is Elbow Lake.

Minnesota counties
Houston County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 19,027 people lived there. The county seat is Caledonia.

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Hubbard County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 20,428 people lived there. The county seat is Park Rapids.

Minnesota counties
Füllinsdorf is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Giebenach is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Hersberg is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Seltisberg is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Lupsingen is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Ziefen is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Ramlinsburg is a municipality in Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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The Spengler Cup is an ice hockey tournament in Davos, Switzerland.

Ice hockey competitions
Sport in Switzerland
Graubünden
Therwil is a municipality in Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Arlesheim is the capital of the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Isanti County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 37,816 people lived there. The county seat is Cambridge.

Minnesota counties
André Holland (born December 28, 1979) is an American actor. He got a lot of attention for his performance as Kevin in the 2016 Academy Award-winning movie Moonlight.

Holland has acted in theatre plays, television programs and movies. His first on-screen performance was in an episode of the drama series Law & Order in 2006.

Also in 2006 he played three characters on stage in the play Blue Door. The New York Times gave the performance a good review.

Holland was born in Bessemer, Alabama.

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The coat of arms of Liechtenstein is used as the great arms of the nation. As the sovereign emblem of the Principality of Liechtenstein, its use is reserved for the members of the Princely House and state authorities. Private individuals may be authorized to use the great arms, if it is in the interest of the State. The arms are a history of the Princely House, and show the many different areas of Europe with which Liechtenstein has been involved, either by conquest or by marriage.

The first quarter is Silesia; the second is the arms of the Kuenring family; the third quarter, the Duchy of Troppau; and the fourth quarter, the arms of the East Frisian family Cirksena representing County of Rietberg. The base is occupied by the arms of the  Duchy of Jägerndorf. The small gold and red shield of the Princely House is shown in the middle of the larger shield. The Princely hat crowns a purple cloak with ermine lining behind the large coat of arms.

Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein
Sir David John Weatherall,  (9 March 1933 – 8 December 2018) was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. In 1974 Weatherall was appointed Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford, and, in 1992, he assumed the most prestigious chair, that of Regius Professor of Medicine, which he held until 2000.

He was knighted in 1987 and appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to medicine.

Weatherall died on 8 December 2018 in Oxford, England at the age of 85.

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On 11 December 2018 a terrorist attack happened in Strasbourg, France. Five people were shot dead and several others were injured. The suspect, a 29 years old man who was known to the security services and thought of as an extremist was wounded in an exchange of fire with a soldier, is at large.

The incident occurred near Place Kléber, where Christkindelsmärik, a Christmas market, was being held.

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2018 mass shootings
2010s crimes in France
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Strasbourg
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Terrorist incidents in Europe in the 2010s
Terrorist incidents in France
William Blum (; March 6, 1933 – December 9, 2018) was an American author and historian. He was a critic of United States foreign policy. He worked in a computer-related position at the United States Department of State in the mid-1960s. He was known for his works The CIA: A Forgotten History (1986), Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (2000) and Killing Hope (2003).

In early 2006, Blum briefly became the subject of widespread media attention when Osama bin Laden issued a public statement in which he quoted Blum and recommended that all Americans read Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.

Blum was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died on December 9, 2018 in Arlington, Virginia from kidney failure at the age of 85.

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William Blum

American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth by William Blum at CovertAction Magazine

1933 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in Virginia
American journalists
American political activists
American political writers
American critics
American historians
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C. N. Balakrishnan (18 November 1934 – 10 December 2018) was an Indian politician. He was the minister for Co-operation, Khadi and Village Industries and Pollution Control -Government of Kerala under the Oommen Chandy Ministry. He became the representative in the Wadakkanchery constituency in Kerala after winning in the 2011 State Election.

Balakrishnan died on 10 December 2018 in Kochi, Kerala from kidney and heart failure at the age of 84.

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 Minister for Co-operation Khadi and Village Industries and Pollution Control at the Government of Kerala

1934 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Deaths from heart failure
Indian politicians
Classic Shell is a discontinued computer program, that was created to restore Windows XP and Windows Vista features for later versions of Windows.

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 Offical Website

Computer programming
Microsoft Windows software
Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American actress, novelist and playwright. She was called "the only African American woman to have written, produced and published plays for four decades."

Childress was later involved in social causes. She formed an off-Broadway union for actors.

When Childress' stage play Trouble in Mind was produced at Stella Holt's Greenwich Mews Theatre in 1955, it won an Obie Award for best Off-Broadway play in the 1955-56 season. That made Childress the first African American woman to win the honor.

Her next dramatic work, Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, was completed in 1962. Its setting was South Carolina during World War I. It dealt with a forbidden and interracial love affair. For the scandalous nature of the show and the major realism it had, it was impossible for Childress to get any theater in New York City to stage the play. It wasn't until 1972 that it played in New York at the New York Shakespeare Festival. It was later filmed and shown on television, although many stations didn't want to play it.

Childress was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She later moved to New York. She died there of cancer at age 77.

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1916 births
1994 deaths
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Robert Thomas Giggie (August 13, 1933 – December 9, 2018) was an American professional baseball player and Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Milwaukee Braves from 1959 to 1960 and for the Kansas City Athletics from 1960 and 1962. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Giggie died on December 9, 2018 in Braintree, Massachusetts at the age of 85.

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2018 deaths
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Kansas City Athletics
Sportspeople from Boston, Massachusetts
Xavier Tilliette (23 July 1921 – 10 December 2018) was a French philosopher, historian, and theologian. He was born in Corbie, Somme. He was a former student of Jean Wahl and of Vladimir Jankélévitch.

Tilliette was a member of the Society of Jesus (1938) and professor emeritus at the Catholic Institute of Paris (1969), having taught also at the  Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome (1972), the Lateran University, and the Centre Sèvres in Paris.

He was a member of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften of Munich), the Centro studi filosofico-religiosi Luigi Pareyson, and, since 2006, a corresponding member Accademia di estetica internazionale de Rapallo.

Tilliette was knight of the Légion d'honneur and of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Tilliette died in Paris on 10 December 2018 from pneumonia at the age of 97.

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The Dhulbahante garaadship was a kingdom from 1530 until 1899. Its successor state was Darwiish State. Diiriye Guure was the first Dhulbahante king to become king through being elected by the people. Diiriye Guure was also the first Dhulbahante monarch to be called sultan. By proclaiming himself Dhulbahante Sultan, Diiriye Guure reunited the Dhulbahante schism created by Ali Harran, also spelled Ali Xaram of the Maxamud Garad subclan, and Garaad Ali III around 7 decades earlier. Diiriye Guure was the first Dhulbahante king whose position was subordinate to someone else, namely the Sayid. Aar Dheel and Diiriye Guure are the only two people who gained the Dhulbahante throne despite not being in the line of succession.

Garaads

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Thutmose III  (Thutmose means "Thoth is born") was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. 

Thutmose III was pharaoh in name for almost 54 years (24 April 1479 BC to 11 March 1425 BC) from the age of two and until his death at age fifty-six. 

For the first 22 years of his reign, he was coregent with his stepmother and aunt, Hatshepsut. She was also pharaoh, and probably the actual ruler for the first part of his reign. During the final two years of his reign, he appointed his son and successor, Amenhotep II, as his junior co-regent. His firstborn son and heir to the throne, Amenemhat, died before Thutmose III.

As the sole ruler of the kingdom after the deaths of Thutmose II and Hatshepsut, he created the largest empire Egypt ever had. 17 campaigns were conducted. He conquered lands from the Niya Kingdom in northern Syria to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Nubia.

When Thutmose III died, he was buried in the Valley of the Kings. Other kings from this period in Egypt were also buried there.

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Itasca County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 45,058 people lived there. The county seat is Grand Rapids.

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Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 10,266 people lived there. The county seat is Jackson.

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Kanabec County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 16,239 people lived there. The county seat is Mora.

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Kandiyohi County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 42,239 people lived there. The county seat is Willmar.

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Kittson County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 4,552 people lived there. The county seat is Hallock. It is on the border with Canada.

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Rock County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 9,687 people lived there. The county seat is Luverne.

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Lac qui Parle County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 7,259 people lived there. The county seat is Madison.

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Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 10,866 people lived there. The county seat is Two Harbors.

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Koochiching County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 13,311 people lived there. The county seat is International Falls.

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Lake of the Woods County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 4,045 people lived there. The county seat is Baudette.

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Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 5,896 people lived there. The county seat is Ivanhoe.

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Lyon County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 25,857 people lived there. The county seat is Marshall.

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Mahnomen County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 5,413 people lived there. The county seat is Mahnomen.

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Marshall County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 9,439 people lived there. The county seat is Warren.

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BLS AG is a Swiss train company. It was founded in 2006.

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Oberwil is a municipality of the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Edward Te Rangihiwinui "Hiwi" Tauroa (1927 – 11 December 2018) was a  Māori rugby union player, school principal, and civil servant. He was born in Hawera, New Zealand. He was the principal of Wesley College from 1968, before becoming the principal of Tuakau College in 1974.

Tauroa was originally best known for his rugby career, and played for the New Zealand national rugby union team, the "All Blacks," from 1951 to 1954. He became coach of the Counties Rugby Union in the 1970s.

In 1979, he was appointed New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner. He also was chairman of Te Māngai Pāho and the New Zealand Sports Foundation. Tauroa was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1994.

Taurua died on 11 December 2018 in Hokianga, New Zealand aged 91.

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Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. In June 2020, she became Leader of the Opposition. She is the Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018 and Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central since the 2011 general election. She was Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin from 2004 to 2009.

On 10 February 2018, McDonald replaced longtime party leader Gerry Adams after a special election in Dublin.

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Iraj Danaeifard (11 March 1951 – 12 December 2018) was an Iranian football player. He played most of his career for Taj (currently Esteghlal) and also Iran national football team. He was born in Tehran.

Danaeifard died on 12 December 2018 in Shiraz from a heart attack, aged 67.

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  National Team Statistics
 Interview with Irankicks.com 
 Tulsa Roughnecks stats

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Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet stories are often short, user-generated, ghost stories meant to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences. 

According to Time magazine, the genre had its peak audience in 2010 when it was covered by The New York Times.

Famous creepypastas include Slender Man, "Jeff the Killer", Candle Cove and "Ted the Caver".

After a 12-year old committed stabbings in the name of Slender Man, some creppypaster administrators told their viewers that these stories have a fine line between reality and fiction.

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Horror
Jean-Robert de Cavel (born September 12, 1961) is a French-American celebrity chef He was Chef de cuisine at The Maisonette from 1993-2002, Executive chef at Jean-Robert at Pigall's from 2002-2009, and now works at Jean-Robert's Table, Le Bar a Boeuf and French Crust Cafe. His career is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Roubaix, France.

In 2003 de Cavel and his wife Annette founded the de Cavel Family SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Foundation following the death of their first child, Tatiana. De Cavel has four times been a semifinalist for the James Beard Best Chef in the Great Lakes Region, in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013.

De Cavel was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leiomyosarcoma in May 2018.

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 The de Cavel Family SIDS Foundation

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Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is an American politician. He was the United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. 

Before the Senate, he was in the United States House of Representatives, representing .

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 Mark Udall for Colorado

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Newar (; ; endonym: Newa:; , Prachalit Script: 𑐣𑐾𑐰𑐵𑑅), or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Nepal Mandala which consists of Nepa Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilization.

Newar people have developed a division of labor and a sophisticated urban civilization not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills.  Newar people have continued their age-old traditions and practices and pride themselves as the true custodians of the religion, culture and civilization of Nepal.  They are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation. Newars form a linguistic and cultural community of primarily Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ethnicities following Hinduism and Buddhism with Nepal Bhasa as their common language.  

The Kathmandu Valley and surrounding territories constituted the former Newar kingdom of the Nepal Mandala. Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups of Nepal, the Newar people are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relic identity, derived from an ethnically-diverse, previously-existing polity. Newar civilization within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the descendants of the diverse group of people that have lived in Nepal Mandala since prehistoric times.

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The Kathmandu Valley (, Nepal Bhasa: स्वनिगः, नेपाः गाः), historically known as Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations of South Asia and the broader Asian continent, and has at least 130 important monuments, including several pilgrimage sites for Hindus and Buddhists. There are seven World Heritage Sites within the valley.

Historically, the valley and adjoining areas made up a confederation known as the Nepal Mandala. Until the 15th century, Khwopa was its capital, when two other capitals, Kathmandu and Yala, were established. After the annexation of the valley by the Gorkha Kingdom, and subsequent conversion of the Valley as the capital of their empire, the designation of "Nepal" was extended to all the lands they had conquered.

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 Theravada

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Tower 42, previously known as the NatWest tower or National Westminster Tower is a skyscraper in the City of London, England. From the top the design of the building is made to resemble the NatWest logo.

It was constructed between 1971 and 1980, first occupied in 1980 and opened on 11 June 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. When completed it became the tallest building in the United Kingdom and remained the tallest in the city of London for 30 years until the completion of Heron Tower in December 2009.

The cost to build it was £72 million (£283 million today). The building today has grade A office spaces, a restaurant on the 24th floor and a champagne and seafood bar on the 42nd floor.

Tenants

Current tenants of the building include:

 Adjusting Services International Limited - ASi
 Avaya Technologies
 Boston Technologies, Inc.
 CEBS Secretariat
 City Osteopath Clinics
 Corporate Communications (Europe)
 Coriolis
 Crazy Domains
  (Lawyers)
 CSJ Capital Partners LLP
 Daewoo Securities (Europe)
 Davis & Co, Solicitors
 EUKOR Car Carriers Inc
 European Banking Authority
 Front Capital Systems
 GPQS
 Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner, Solicitors
 Hong Kong Airlines
 Knight Piésold
 Kofax
 Majedie Investments
 Meditor Capital Management
 Momenta Consulting
 Natexis Banques Populaires
 Regus
 RMG Networks
 Oanda
 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Legal Services
 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
 Piraeus Bank
 Private Dining 24
 Project Brokers
 R G A (UK)
 City Social (restaurant)
 Samsung
 System Access (Europe)
 Taylor Vinters
 The Walpole Group
 Tower Trading Group
 Tower 42 Property & Estate Management
 Tullett Prebon Information
 Vertigo 42
 ViewSonic

Design

In June 2012, a Capix LED multi-media lighting system was installed around levels 39 to 45. This replaced the previous high-energy floodlighting at the top of the building.

The top of the tower is made to resemble the NatWest logo of three chevrons in a hexagonal arrangement.

There are four sections known as the core, leaf 1, leaf 2 and leaf 3.

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Yigal Bashan (September 11, 1950  December 9, 2018) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor. He was awarded the ACUM Prize for Life Achievement in 2016. 

Bashan was a member of the pop trio "Kmo Tzoanim" (Hebrew: "Like Gypsies") that appeared on the "Hopa Hey" Israeli children's television show.

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The Ellen Show is a television sitcom created by and starring Ellen DeGeneres. It was broadcast in 2001 and 2002 on CBS. It was the second sitcom that DeGeneres's made. The first one was called Ellen, and was shown on ABC from 1994 to 1998. It was canceled after 13 episodes because it did not have strong ratings.

After coming out as a lesbian on her first sitcom, DeGeneres's character on The Ellen Show, Ellen Richmond, was also a lesbian.

The Ellen Show also starred Cloris Leachman, Martin Mull, Kerri Kenney, Jim Gaffigan, and Emily Rutherfurd. The show was created by Carol Leifer and Mitchell Hurwitz, who co-wrote the pilot episode. The first title of the show was Ellen Again.

Plot 
After her internet company Homelearn.com goes bankrupt, Ellen Richmond decides to move back to the town she is from to live with her eccentric mother, Dot, and wikt:disorganized sister, Catherine. At home, Ellen meets the guy who was her senior prom date, named Rusty. They think they can continue their romantic relationship where they left off. Ellen also meets her silly high school teacher, Mr. Munn. Though she is a long ways apart from the people who love her, Ellen gets used to a very different way of life. Ellen takes a job as a guidance counselor at the high school she went to.

Cast

Main 

 Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Richmond
 Jim Gaffigan as Rusty Carnouk
 Emily Rutherfurd as Catherine Richmond
 Martin Mull as Ed Munn
 Kerri Kenney as Pam
 Cloris Leachman as Dot Richmond
 Diane Delano as Bunny Hoppstetter

Guest stars 

 Jennifer Irwin as Meg (episode: "Pilot")
 Regan Burns as Officer "B" Arthur (episodes: "Walden Pond", "Joe"")
 John Francis Daley as Erik (episode: "Walden Pond")
 Susan Yeagley as Waitress (episode: "Chain Reaction")
 Marissa Jaret Winokur as Tina (episode: "Vanity Hair")
 Tom Poston as Joe (episode: "Joe")
 Betty White as Mrs. Gibson (episode: "Missing the Bus")
 Dakota Fanning as Young Ellen (episode: "Missing the Bus")
 Mary Tyler Moore as Aunt Mary (episode: "Ellen's First Christmess")
 Ed Asner as Santa Claus (episode: "Ellen's First Christmess")
 John Ritter as Percy Moss (episode: "Gathering Moss")
 Maureen McCormick as Rita Carter (episode: "Shallow Gal")
 Kaley Cuoco as Vanessa Carter (episode: "Shallow Gal")

Episodes 
The Ellen Show made 18 episodes, but was canceled part-way through its season. The final 5 episodes were never broadcast, but are available on DVD.

Home media 
The whole series was put on Region 1 DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on July 11, 2006.

In 2014, Mill Creek Entertainment bought the rights to the series. They re-made the full series on February 4, 2014.

The company Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, in partnership with CBS Home Entertainment, owns the international rights. The full series was released in Region 4 (Australia) as a 2 DVD set on February 1, 2017 by a company called Umbrella Entertainment.

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2001 American television series debuts
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Gringo is a Spanish and Portuguese term used mostly in Latin America to denote foreigners, specially people from the United States, Canada, and UK. 

In Brazil, the term is used to refer to any foreigner, regardless of their ethnicity or nationality, even when it comes to other Latin-Americans.

Etymology
The most supported theory is that the term originates from the word griego ('Greek'), used in the same way as the English phrase it's all Greek to me. Some theories assert that the term originated in the Mexican-American War, when American troops sang a song which began with "Green grows..." such as "Green Grow the Rushes, O", "Green Grow the Lilacs", among others.

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Anthony David Hawthorn Smith (born 13 March 1967) is an Australian politician. He was the 30th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 10 August 2015 until 23 November 2021. He has been a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives since 2001. He represents the Division of Casey, Victoria.

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Personal website
 The Hon Tony Smith MP, Official Parliament website biography, retrieved August 2015

1967 births
Living people
Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives
Politicians from Melbourne