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Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. His parents were Giovanni and Annetta and his family grew up with art. His father was a Post-Impressionist painter. 

When he was ten, he began drawing with pencil and crayon and sending his drawings to his godfather, Amiet. Then he started to use oils and he painted his first photo of a face at the age of 12. He used his siblings as models. 

In 1915, he went to the Evangelical School in the town of Schiers. He left school in 1919. He continued to develop his art skills in Geneva where he enrolled at the École des Arts Industriels. He travelled to Venice, Padua, Florence and Rome. Here, he was influenced by the collections of Egyptian art he studied. African and Oceanic art also inspired him. He also focused on the surrealism of art. Example of this are Suspended Ball and The Palace at 4 a.m.

From 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris. He regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and to work on his art.

In 1940, Giacometti and his brother, Diego, went to the south of France to escape Nazi invasion. He returned to Paris in 1941. He died on 11 January 1966.

Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. 

       

           

1901 births
1966 deaths
Swiss sculptors
Swiss painters
Graubünden
Printmakers
Salinas  is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California. It is an urban area located just outside the southern part of the Greater Bay Area and  east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River. The population was 157,218 .

Salinas is known for its vibrant and large agriculture industry and being "The Salad Bowl of the World" as the hometown of writer and Nobel Prize in Literature winner John Steinbeck, who based several of his novels there.

References

Other websites 

 Official website of the city of Salinas
 Salinas Chamber of Commerce

1874 establishments in California
Cities in California
County seats in California
Settlements in Monterey County, California
The Egyptian Premier League  is league competition of Egyptian football. It consists of eighteen teams. The teams compete in a home and away league system. The league is known as the Presentation Egyptian Premier League. The highest attendance in the history of the league is 120,000 (in a match betwwen Al Ahly and Zamalek). The Egyptian League was established for the first time in 1948. Al-Ahly Club leads the most winning teams in the championship with 41 titles, followed by Zamalek Club with 12 titles, while the Ismaili Club occupies third place with 3 championships.

The five most popular Egyptian clubs are Al-Ahly, Zamalek SC, Ismaili, Al-Ittihad Al-Sakndary and Al-Masry. Also there is a historically established club named Tersana.

Stadiums

Current stadiums

List of seasons 
This is a summary of seasons:

Performance

Performance by club

Performance by city

Doubles

Top goalscorers

All Seasons Top Goalscorers

All Time Top Goalscorers

References

Other websites 

 (Arabic) Official website
 Premier League at soccerway.com; standings, results & fixtures
 egyptianfootball.net
 RSSSF competition history
 (Arabic) yallakora.com  Egyptian Premier League schedule, match results
 Filgoal.com  Egyptian Premier League
 goal.com Egyptian Premier League
 Egyptian Premier League – Hailoosport.com  (Arabic)
 Egyptian Premier League – Hailoosport.com 
 Egyptian Premier League 

Football leagues
Sport in Egypt
Faiyum (;  ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ) is a city in the Middle of Egypt. It is  away from Cairo. The city is located in the Faiyum Oasis, and it is the capital of Faiyum Governorate. The city was called Shedet in Ancient Egypt. When the Greeks took Egypt, they called it Crocodilopolis or Krocodilopolis. the Romans called it Arsinoë. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities, and it has a strategic location.

Climate

Main sights 

 Hawara, archeological site  from the city
 Lahun Pyramids,  outside the city
 Qaitbay Mosque, in the city. the wife of the Mamluk Sultan Qaitbay built it.
 Qasr Qarun,  from the city
 Wadi Elrayan or Wadi Rayan, the largest waterfalls in Egypt, around  from the city
 Wadi Al-Hitan or Valley of whales, It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Images

Related pages 
 Faiyum Governorate
 Wadi Elrayan

References

Other websites 
 
 
 Fayum towns and their papyri, edited with translations and notes by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt at the Internet Archive
 . 148 pages, public domain.
 Fayoum Photo Gallery 

Cities in Egypt
Donald Moffat (born 26 December 1930) is an English-American actor. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. Moffat trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His best known roles as Lyndon B. Johnson in The Right Stuff (1983), the corrupt U.S. President in Clear and Present Danger, as well as Garry, the station commander in The Thing.

Moffat died on 20 December 2018 in Sleepy Hollow, New York from complications of a stroke, aged 87.

References

Other websites
 

1930 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York
Naturalized citizens of the United States
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from Devon
François de Candia was a Savoyard nobleman, Vidame, Viscount of Geneva (Latin: Vice Dominus Genevarum) and Captain of the castle on the island of the Rhône in 1377.

Related pages
House of Candia

References

Nobility
The House of Candia was a noble family from Savoy. It held a castle at Chambéry-Le-Vieux under the name "Château de Candie".

Members 

François de Candie was Viscount of Geneva (Latin:Vice Dominus Genevarum)  and Captain of the castle on the island of the Rhône in 1377.

References

Sources 
 Comte Amédée de Foras, Armorial et nobiliaire de l'ancien duché de Savoie, vol. 1, Grenoble, Allier Frères, 1863-1966 (archive), p. 299 à 301, « Candie (de) »
 Annuaire de la noblesse de France (1861), on line
 Chateau de Candie 

Noble families
El-Mansoura () is a city in Egypt. 960,423 people live in it. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.

Name 
Mansoura in Arabic means "victorious". The city's name came from the Egyptian victory at the El Mansoura Battle over Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade.

Geography

Location 
Mansoura is on the east bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile. It is about 120 km northeast of Cairo. The town of Talkha is on the other bank of the Nile

Climate 
The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh).

Clubs 

 Gezert Elward Sport Club: It has tennis courts, swimming, gymnastics, squash and social club.
 Mansoura Sports Club: It has an official football field.
 Mansoura Sports Stadium: It has an official football field, swimming pool, social club and many sports facilities.
 The Olympic Village (Mansoura University Stadium)

References

Other websites 

 (Arabic) Official website
Cities in Egypt
1219 establishments
13th-century establishments in Africa
Establishments in Egypt
Anchalumoodu is a town and neighbourhood of the city of Kollam, India. 

Speciality of Anchalumoodu is that, 75% of it is surrounded by Ashtamudi lake, which is famous for its scenic beauty and attracts hundreds of tourists around the globe to Kollam.

Transport

Rail

The nearest railway station to Anchalummodu is Perinad railway station which is about 2.5 km from the town.  All passenger trains stop at this railway station. Kollam Junction Railway Station, one of the biggest junction and busiest railway stations in Kerala is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu. Kundara railway station is 9 km away from Anchalumoodu town.

Roads

Anchalumoodu is connected well with roads.  The town is 8 km away from Kollam city centre Chinnakada and 8 km from Kundara town. Regular city services and transport buses are there to Kollam city from Anchalumoodu.
Bus services are available to important places in Kerala which include Trivandrum, Ernakulam, etc.

Education
Anchalummodu has its fair share of privately owned and state owned educational institutions. Institutions of education are affiliated to either the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), or the Kerala State Education Board. Most private schools use English as the medium of instruction whereas government run schools offer both English and Malayalam as a medium of instruction. The Government  Higher Secondary School at Anchalumoodu is one of the biggest and reputed government schools in Kollam district. The main higher education centre near to Anchalumoodu is the College of Engineering, Perumon.

Places of worship
Anchalumoodu has a mix of different religious community. Main temples in and around Anchalumoodu town include Kadavoor Siva temple, Ashtamudi Virabhadra Swamy temple, Panayam Durga Temple, Sastholi Temple, Kuppana Velayudha Mangalam Temple, kolleril Siva Temple,Karuva Temple, Perumon devi temple
Mosques include Kureepuzha Mosque, Karuva Mosque and Chiraiyil Mosque.
Important churches are St.Thomas Orthodox Church, Inchavila and the Church at Kureepuzha.

References

Villages in Kollam district
Not to be confused with the tiger keelback snake

The tiger snake (Notechis scutatus) is a venomous species of snake inhabiting Australia and its coastal islands, Tasmania included.

Habitat 
Tiger snakes generally situate themselves near a source of water, such as a creek or wetland. They live from Western Australia to South Australia, and also in its coastal islands, such as Tasmania.

Diet 
It eats mainly frogs and tadpoles, but also small rodents, bats, insects, lizards, fish, birds, and they might also eat each other.

Venom and danger levels 
Tiger snake venom has myotixons, coagulants, haemolysins, and  neurotoxins, all of which are dangerous to people.
Elapidae
Jasmine Ying Thompson (born 8 November 2000 in London) is an English singer and songwriter.

Biography 
At the age of ten, Thompson started a YouTube-channel. After only one year, she met Robin Schultz, he saw that Jasmine Thompson can become a good singer and asked Thompson to sing with him. So in 2013, when she was 13 years old, her first song was published. She didn't become internationally popular until her song Ain't Nobody, with that song she got on place one in the German singlecharts. In England she got place 4. She became popular although she is still 17 years old. She lives near London.

Songs at a glance 
 2015- Ain't Nobody
 2013- Under the Willow tree
 2014- Take Over
 2013- Willow
 2016- Fast car

Family 
Thompson is the daughter of a Chinese mother and an English father.

References 

2000 births
Living people
English songwriters
Artists from London
Atlantic Records artists
British child singers
British pop singers
English composers
English guitarists
English pianists
R&B musicians
Singers from London
YouTubers
Eduard Nikolayevich Mudrik (; July 18, 1939 in Starobilsk – March 27, 2017 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian footballer.

He earned 8 caps for the USSR national football team.

Other websites
Profile (in Russian)

References

1939 births
2017 deaths
Soviet sportspeople
Sportspeople from Moscow
Russian footballers
The Northern water snake, or Nerodia sipedon, is a species of non-venomous snake found throughout North America.

Habitat 

The Northern water snake is true to its name and is often found swimming in bodies of water including bogs, marshes, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams. They are also sometimes found basking, since like all snakes they're cold-blooded, and they're sometimes found under logs or rocks near a water source.

Diet 
The Northern water snake eats mostly small fishes, reptiles, amphibians, small mammals and insects.

Defense 
The Northern water snake, if threatened, will bite even though its bite isn't venomous, and musk on you. Their form of defense is very similar to that of Garter snakes.

Snakes
is a puzzle video game released by the Taito Corporation in 1990.

Gameplay
Palamedes is a puzzle game requiring the player to match the dice they are holding to the dice at the top of the screen. Using the "B" button, the player can change the number on his/her dice, then throw the dice using the "A" button when it matches the dice at the top of the screen, which wipes the target dice off the screen. The player can play in "solitaire" mode against the computer or another player, or "tournament" mode against AI opponents. There are six sides and numbers on the dice, making an attempt to match all the numbers on the screen and eliminating them as a challenge.

Ports
Ports of the game were published for the NES, MSX, FM-Towns and Game Boy by HOT-B. The Japan-only sequel, Palamedes 2: Star Twinkles, was released in 1991 for the NES by HOT-B. It featured most of the same basic gameplay elements as the original but with the play field scrolling in the opposite direction.

Reception
On release, Famitsu magazine scored the Game Boy version of the game a 22 out of 40.

References

1990 video games
Arcade games
Game Boy games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games developed in Japan
Wallis and Futuna national football team is the national football team of Wallis and Futuna.

Caribbean national football teams
Football in France
national football team
This is a list of all the artists and songs that have competed in the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals and grand finals from 1956 to 2021.

Withdrawn entries 

This list presents all the cases when a country withdrew or was disqualified from the contest.

Native language versions 

This list presents versions of the entries recorded in the official languages that were not used in the contest performance of the represented country.

References 

entries
Music-related lists
A gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 18, 2018. The attack left ten people dead (eight students and two teachers). At least 13 people from the shooting were treated at Texas hospitals, including eight students. Six of the eight students have already been discharged.

Police identified the alleged shooter as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who was taken into custody. A second person, an unidentified 18-year-old, was also taken into custody.

President Donald Trump expressed his thoughts in a press conference shortly following the shootings, and promised action from his administration.

References

2018 crimes in the United States
2010s crimes in Texas
Mass shootings in Texas
Massacres in the United States
May 2018 events
Razia Sultan is an Indian historical television Soap Opera drama.
The show tells story of the first Indian women sultana of Delhi Razia Sultana.
The was produced by Swastik Pictures.
The show was shown on television from 2 March 2015 to 23 October 2015.

Plot
During the 13th century, Iltutmish, the sultan of Delhi, appoint his daughter Razia as the head of the state. 
Razia Sultana fought oppositions from conformists in establishing a flourishing kingdom.

Cast
 Pankhuri Awashthy as Razia Sultana.

References

Hindi-language television series
Indian television series
2015 Indian television series debuts
2015 television series endings
2010s disestablishments in India
Dimitrij Ovtcharov (ukrainian Вшьшекшо Щмесрфкщм; born 2 September 1988 in Kiev) is a German table tennis player, who comes from the Ukraine.

Career 
His parents were Sovetian National players, so they trained Dima in his childhood. 2005 he got into the Bundesleague. His best moment came first at the Olympics 2008 in Beijing, in the singles he lost very early but with the German team he came to the final, were they lost to China. But in thiy year he won for the first time the  European Championships. At the World Championships (this was the first of him) Ovtcharov reached the Round of 16, where he met his teammate Timo Boll, so he lost to him. At the German National Championships he lost very just to Bastian Steger. Also he won the Brazilian Open, where Dima doesn't give up a set. 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games again, where he won with the team bronze. He lost his match against Ma Long. In the singles Ovtcharov beat Michael Maze in the Quarterfinals, in the 3rd place match he met Chuang Chih-Yuan an beat him. At the European Championships he lost in the singles in the Quarterfinals but won together with Wladimir Samsonow the bronzemedal. In this year he was voted as the player of the year. 2013 he took part in the World Championships but lost again- this time in the Round of 16. In this year he became for the first time European Champion and won the third place at the World Cup- in the match he beat Timo Boll. At March 2014 he became German Champion, at the WTTTC they won after 2010 and 2012 for the third time the silvermedal. 2015 Ovtcharov took part in the WTTC, where he lost again- this time in the second round already. At the European Championships he won silver with the team and the goldmedal at the Europe Games in the singles. 2016 he took part in the Olympics, where he met the Quarterfinals, there he lost to Wladimir Samsonow despite a 2:0 leading. The World Cup and the European Championships ending very early, too. This was not a good year of Ovtcharov, because his grandmother ia death and had to spend lots of time of his child. 2017 he won the Europe-Top three times. 2018 lost early at the German Open, but won the World Team Cup and the 2nd place at te WTTTC with th team.

Results

Singles 

 Olympic Games: Bronze 2012
 European Games: Gold 2015
 European Championships: Gold 2013, 2015, Bronze 2007
 World Cup: Gold 2017, 3rd place 2013, 2015
 German Natonal Championships: Gold 2014, 2nd place 2007, 2011, 2012                                                                                                               
 Bundesranking- Tournament: Gold 2007

Doubles 

 European Championships: Bronze 2012
 German National Championships: 2008, 2010

Team 

 Olympic Games: Bronze 2012, 2016
 World Championships: Silver 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018

Family 
His parents were Russian, so he speaks Ukranian, Russian and German.

References 

1988 births
Living people
German table tennis players
Sportspeople from Kiev
Competitors at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. They also produced of health, hygiene and home products.

Other websites 
 Official website

1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
Companies of the United Kingdom
Avaneeswaram is a small village located on Kunnicode-Pathanapuram road in Kollam district, Kerala. It is about 7 kilometers south of Pathanapuram town and 36 kilometers from Kollam. It is a part of Vilakkudy panchayat. Avaneeswaram has a FCI (Food corporation of India) storage facility. Economy of this village primarily is agricultural.  Most common farm produce includes coconut, tapioca, areca, and cashews. Some rice cultivation is also seen.

Transport
The roads to Thalavoor and Pattazhy pass through Avaneesaram. Avaneeswaram is connected to Kollam city by Kollam-Punalur Broad gauge railway line. Avaneeshwaram railway station (Code: AVS) falls under the Madurai railway division of the Southern Railway Zone. It is a 'D-Class' Adersh Station.

Worship centers

There are so many worship centers in Avaneeswaram. Thanniyappankavu Sree Mahadevar Temple, St. Mary's Orthodox Church, Emmanuel Marthoma church, St.Mary's Malankara Catholic church, Avaneeswaram Juma Ath etc. are some of them

References

Villages in Kollam district
Edakkidom is a village in Kollam district in the Indian state of Kerala, located about  north of Kollam city. The main attraction is Thettikkunnil Mahadevi Temple.

Distance from nearest known places
 Kottarakkara : 8.1 KM
 Paravur : 23.3 KM
 Ezhukone :3 KM
 Kundara : 8.4 KM
 Chathannoor : 14.8KM
 Odanavattom : 7.2 KM
 Nedumankavu:5.8 KM
 Ambalathumkala South Bus Stop, NH744, 3.3 km
 Ayoor:21.3 KM
 kollam Railway Station, Chamkkada, 22.3 KM

Demographics

This village has a majority population of the Hindus (Mainly Nairs and Ezhavas).

Economy
This village is mainly dependent on agricultural products which includes rubber, black pepper,  cashewnut, rice Plantain etc. Some of the famous nearby places are Kollam, Kottarakkara, Ezhukone, Odanavattom, Punalur etc.

Industries
Kareepra Cooperative Bank, Edakkidom & SupplyCo Maveli Store at KSN Building, Sodiac Tiles (BK Agencies), SLS wood industries, Mother rubber manufacturers. Rajan cashews, Ambalakara cashwes factory,11 KV Substation (KSEB) AM Junction Edakkidom North,S.R. Agencies

Educational institutions

There is one primary school at Edakkidom, Govt L.P.School Edakkidom, and one aided SANSKRIT secondary school SNGSHS Kadaikode, Edaikkidom , KNS memorial S N Central school (CBSE), St George vocational higher secondary school at Chowalloor, Edakkidom. Sree Sankara Sanskrit vidyapeetam (BA, MA in Sanskrits),  S.S.V.U.P.S Edakkidom.Akshya computer education centre,SRI SRI ACADEMY EZHUKONE-Edakkidom 691505

Temples
 Edakkidom Thettikkunil Sree Maha Devi Devaswam
 Munnur Indilayappan Temple
 Valayikkodu Karthikeyapuram Temple
 Gurunadan Mukal Temple
 Malanada Temple
 Mannoor Thevar vishnu temple
 Thevarpoyika Mahavishnu Temple Edakkidom.
 Nalannil Sree Nagaraja Kshethram,Valayikkodu,Edakkidom

Tourism
The Kerala backwaters of Kollam/Alappuzha is 14 km from Edakkidom. Some of the tourist spots near Edakkidom are Thenmala Ecotourism (39 km) and Palaruvi Water Falls (33 km).
Edakkidom is a part of assembly constituency Kottarakara and Lok Sabha constituency Mavelikkara. INC, CPI(M) is the major working political party in Edakkidom.

Villages in Kollam district
Elampal is a village in Kollam district of Kerala, India. It is known for its religious unity, festivals, and rich heritage. Elampal means young in Tamil. It lies on the Kollam-Thirumangalam National Highway (NH-744). The nearest town is Punalur. Its pin code is 691322.

Institutions
Its government is under the General Education Department of the Government of Kerala offers education from Standard I to VII. 

Elampal Service Cooperative Bank Limited and Federal Bank

Elampal(Ilambal, as they say) are the major banks in the locality. 

Valiyavila family was the landlords of this place with multiple business.They held the major land and property at this region.

Places of worship
The village has two temples: Kottaram Aayiravally Devi Temple and  Elampal Mahadevar Temple, which is one of the very old temples in Kerala.

Experts says the temples history dates back to The Sangha era.

A new temple is now being constructed at Thiruvazhi . 

It has churches and mosques also including: St. Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Elampal, Mar Gregorios Orthodox Church Marangadu, St. George Orthodox Church, Elampal, St. Thomas Malankara Catholic Church, Thiruvazhy, and Church of God.

References 

Villages in India
Lake Onega (also known as Onego, ;  or ; Karelian: Oniegu or Oniegu-järve; Veps: Änine or Änižjärv) is a lake in the northwest part of the European country of Russia. It is the second largest lake in Europe after Lake Ladoga.

Lakes of Russia
Harriet Sofie Bosse (19 February 1878 in Oslo – 2 November 1961 in Oslo) was a Norwegian actress.

Biography 
The actress Bosse began her career as an actress at a Theatre group from her sister, it follow engagements in Stockholm. Of course that, Harriet Bosse became very famous in Scandinavia. Of course that, she was seen from August Strindberg- they married in 1901. In that time August wrote a lot of pieces for Harriet and Harriet for him. Of course August was very jealous, the married ends in 1904. 1912 she went through a dark phase of life- her exman August Strindberg died and her nephew and second exman, too. In 1919 she reacted for the first time in front of a camera. In this year she turned two movies Ingmasörnerna and Kameraden. After sixteen years she truned the third movie Bombi Bitt och jarg. The next years she worked one more time with a movie, but died at the 2nd November 1961 in the middle of filming in a stroke.

Husbands 

 1901- 1904: August Strindberg
 1908- 1911: Gunnar Wingård
 1927- 1932: Edvin Adolphson

Movies and works 

 Die Ingmarssöhne
 Comrades
 Kameraden
 Bombi Bitt och jarg

References 

1878 births
1961 deaths
Norwegian movie actors
Norwegian stage actors
Actors from Oslo
Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman. He resisted William the Conqueror. His base was the Isle of Ely in East Anglia. According to legend he roamed the Fens, covering North Cambridgeshire, Southern Lincolnshire and West Norfolk, leading popular opposition to William the Conqueror.

Hereward was exiled from England by Edward the Confessor around 1060 - the exact date is unknown - when he was around 14 or 18 years old. Some sources point his own father as requesting the exile as he was a troublemaker.

Norman Assault on the Isle of Ely 
It is unknown exactly when the next event happened but it is thought to have happened around 1069 and 1070. After being exiled Hereward returned to his family home where he discovered that the Normans had murdered his brother and set his head above the door. Hereward sought revenge and murdered a bunch of Normans and set their heads in place of his brother's. Hereward then fled to the Fens where he was sheltered by Abbot Thurstan. 

Around spring time in 1070, Hereward the Wake and King Sweyn of Denmark took the Isle of Ely. Hereward made the Isle his base for his rebellion against the Normans. 

June, 1070, Hereward raided Peterborough Abbey as an act of defiance against the Normans. He stated that he would take the Abbey's treasures into safekeeping away from the Normans. Some sources state that his uncle was the Abbot of the Abbey and Hereward persuaded his uncle to kill him.

Primary sources
Several primary sources exist for Hereward's life. Their accuracy is difficult to judge. They are the version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written at Peterborough Abbey (the "E manuscript" or Peterborough Chronicle), the Domesday Book (DB), the Liber Eliensis (Book of Ely) and, much the most detailed, the Gesta Herewardi (Gesta).

11th century
English people
Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, incorporated in 1894. It is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is about  east of Oakland, and  west of Livermore. The population was 70,285 at the 2010 census.

Pleasanton was ranked number 4 in USA Today'''s list of "America's 50 best cities to live in" in 2014, number 63 in Money list of "The Best Places to Live" in 2010, and was named one of "Americans' Top Hometown Spots" in the United States in 2009 by Forbes. Pleasanton was named the third richest city in terms of earnings in the United States by NerdWallet in 2013.

 References 

 Other websites 

 
 Alameda County Fairgrounds
 Tri-Valley Community Television (TV30)
 101.7 KKIQ
 Pleasanton Weekly
 Tri-Valley Herald Online Edition
 Contra Costa Times (parent of Valley Times'')
 Pleasanton Patch, local newspaper
 Pleasanton Downtown

1890s establishments in California
1894 establishments in the United States
Cities in California
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Settlements in Alameda County, California
The Guardafui Channel also known as the Socotra Passage is a strait between Puntland and Socotra.

Its width is roughy  between Puntland and Abd al Kari, and roughly  between Puntland and Socotra.

References

Straits
Somalia
The RATP (Régie autonome des transports Parisiens) is responsible for operating part of the public transport network in the Greater Paris area. In 2010, it transported around 3 billion passengers.

Paris
Public transport
Mohamed Barakat (; born 20 November 1976) is a retired Egyptian football player. Barakat played as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Al-Ahly in Egypt. He also played with the Egyptian National Team.

Barakat was famous for his runs from midfield and his box-to-box kind of play, and that made him important in defence and attack. He is called "The Mercurial" () by his fans. 2005 and 2006 were the best years of his career. He helped his club Al-Ahly to win the CAF Champions League 2005 and CAF Champions League 2006. He also won African Cup of Nations 2006 with Egypt. In 2006, he started to get injuries.

International career

International goals 

 Source:

Honours and achievements

Club 

 Ismaily

 Egyptian Premier League: 2001–02
 Egypt Cup: 2000

 Al Ahli Saudi

 Arab Unified Club Championship: 2002

 Al Ahly

 Egyptian Premier League: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
 Egypt Cup: 2006, 2007
 Egyptian Super Cup: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011
 CAF Champions League: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013
 CAF Super Cup: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013

International 

 Egypt

 African Cup of Nations: 2006

Individual

Awards 

 BBC African Footballer of the Year: 2005
 African Inter-Club Player of the Year: 2005
 CAF Team of the Year: 2005

Performances 

 CAF Champions League top goalscorer: 2005 (Shared with Joetex Frimpong)

References

Other websites 

 Egyptian Barakat wins BBC award
 Egypt's outstanding Pharaoh
 Barakat named the best player in Africa's continental club competition

1976 births
Egyptian footballers
Living people
Egypt international footballers
Ahmed Hassan (; born 2 May 1975 in Maghagha, Egypt) is a retired Egyptian football player. He used to play as an attacking midfielder. He also played on the right wing for Egyptian national team. He played more international games than any other footballer in history. He appeared in 184 international matches for Egypt. He is considered one of the best players in the history of Africa.

International career

International

International goals

Honours

Club 

 Ismaily

 Egypt Cup: 1997

 Beşiktaş

 Türkiye Kupası: 2005–06

 Anderlecht

 Belgian Pro League: 2006–07
 Belgian Cup: 2007–08
 Belgian Super Cup: 2007

 Al Ahly

 Egyptian Premier League: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
 Egyptian Super Cup: 2008, 2010
 CAF Champions League: 2008
 African Super Cup: 2009

 Zamalek

 Egypt Cup: 2013

International 

 African Cup of Nations: 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010

Individual 

 Africa Cup of Nations Best Player: 2006, 2010
 African Inter-Club Player of the Year: 2010
 Africa Cup of Nations Dream Team: 2006, 2010

References

Other websites 

 
 
 SoccerEgypt.com

1975 births
Egyptian footballers
Living people
Egypt international footballers
Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital () is a well-known hospital in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of Europe's largest hospitals. It has a long history of treating patients with mental illnesses. Many famous people worked there, like Sigmund Freud, Georges-Gilles de la Tourette, and Jean-Martin Charcot.

References 

Buildings and structures in Paris
Hospitals in France
Ahmed Mohamed Salah El-din El-Sakka (; born March 1, 1973) is an Egyptian action actor.

Filmography

Other websites 

 
 Ahmed El Sakka at ElCinema.com (Arabic)
 Ahmed El Sakka Filmography

1973 births
Living people
People from Cairo
Egyptian Muslims
Amr Waked (Egyptian Arabic: عمرو واكد; born April 12, 1973) is an Egyptian film and television actor. He is also a stage actor. Many people know him internationally because of his role in the 2005 film Syriana. He had some other notable roles. Another one of his roles is a Yemeni Sheikh called Muhammad in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

Filmography

Films

Television 

 "Lahazat Harega" "Critical Moments, Season One" (32+ episodes, 2007)
 House of Saddam (3 episodes, 2008)
 The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (2008)
 "Lahazat Harega" "Critical Moments, Season Two" (32+ episodes, 2010)
  Abwab el khoof (2011)
  Awlaad Al-Shaware'a
  Spiral (season 4) (2012)
  Flight of the Storks (2013)
  Marco Polo (TV series) (2014)
  Riviera (TV series) (2017)

Theater 

 1992, Afareet Hamza We Fatma
 1992, Vinegar Tom
 1993, Crimes Of The Heart
 1993, Al Ghaba Al Saeeda
 1994, Tales From Agabad
 1994, Compass Berserk
 1994, The Bus
 1995, Oedipus The President
 2000, Al Ze'ab Yohaddid Al Madinah
 2002, Shabab Rewish Tahn

Awards and nominations 

 1999, won 'Film Writers and Critics Special Award' at Alexandria International Film Festival
 1999, won 'Best Supporting Actor' award at Alexandria International Film Festival for Gannat al shayateen
 2003, won 'Best Actor' award at Alexandria International Film Festival for Dail el samakah
 2006, won 'Special Award for Arabs in The International Cinema' at Cairo International Film Festival for Syriana
 2006, won  'Horus Award' for 'Best Supporting Actor' at Cairo National Festival for Egyptian Cinema for Dam el ghazal
 2010, won 'Best Supporting Actor' at Dear Guest Festival for Ibrahim Labyad
 2010, won "Best Actor for Second Role" at Cairo National Festival for Egyptian Cinema for Ibrahim Labyad
 2013, won "best actor" at Dubai Film Festival for the Egyptian movie Winter of Discontent

References

Other websites 

 
 Carlo Coppola, Anche l’attore Amr Waked sulle barricate del Cairo per la libertà, lsdmagazine.com (Italian)

1973 births
Living people
People from Cairo
Cubana de Aviación Flight 972 (CU972/CUB972) was a scheduled domestic flight from Havana to Holguín, Cuba, on May 18, 2018. The Boeing 737-200 flying the route crashed shortly after takeoff, bursting into flames near Santiago de las Vegas,  from Havana city centre. Of those onboard, 108 died and 3 survived with critical injuries. and one of them died hours later at the hospital.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated that a special commission had been formed to find the cause of the crash.

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2018 in North America
2010s in Cuba
2018 aviation disasters
May 2018 events
François Bréda (; 20 February 1956 – 16 May 2018) was a Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist.

In 1991 he was a founding member of the György Bretter Literary Circle, a society with great literary traditions that had ceased to exist in 1983 and being revived after the 1989 revolution in Romania.

Bréda died on 16 May 2018 at the age of 62.

References

Other websites
  Site officiel de l'Association Présence de Gabriel Marcel
  Homepage of Romanian Writer's Union, Cluj-Napoca
  Homepage of Hungarian Scientific Academy

1956 births
2018 deaths
Romanian writers
Essayists
Poets
Critics
Romanian historians
Diana E. Murphy (January 4, 1934 – May 16, 2018) was an American judge. She was born in Faribault, Minnesota. She was a member of the Democratic Party.

Murphy served as United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit after being nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and gained Senior Judge status in 2016 until her retirement in 2018. She was also a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter.

In 1993 she was reportedly considered for the post of Attorney General of the United States, which later went to Janet Reno.

Murphy died in her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 16, 2018, shortly after announcing her full retirement from the bench, of congestive heart failure, aged 84.

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1934 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from congestive heart failure
American judges
Politicians from Minnesota
US Democratic Party politicians
Women judges
Nicole Fontaine (16 January 1942 – 17 May 2018) was a French politician and lawyer. She was born in Grainville-Ymauville, France. Fontaine was a member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. She was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. Fontaine was the President of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2002, and was then replaced by Pat Cox.

Fontaine died on 17 May 2018 in Paris at the age of 76.

References

Other websites
 European Parliament website entry 

1942 births
2018 deaths
Former MEPs
French lawyers
MEPs for France
Presidents of the European Parliament
Ayad Futayyih Khalifa al-Rawi () (1942 – 18 May 2018) was an Iraqi general of the Iraqi Republican Guard. He later served as the head of the Jerusalem Army. He started his service in the Army as an officer in an armoured unit, later fighting in the Iran-Iraq War. He was one of Saddam Hussein's closet allies.

Rawi was arrested on 4 June 2003, following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Despite its claimed size, the Al Quds Army ended up playing virtually no role in the war.

Rawi was born in Rawa. He died of a stroke in Baghdad on May 18, 2018, aged 76.

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1942 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Iraqi politicians
Generals
Criminals
Sharon Kristin Nelson (née Harmon; June 25, 1945 – April 27, 2018) was an American primitive painter, actress and author. She was married to musician Ricky Nelson.

She was the daughter of Tom Harmon and actress/model Elyse Knox, her younger siblings are model-actress Kelly Harmon and actor Mark Harmon. 

In 1988, she married Mark Tinker, who encouraged her to paint. Her brightly colored primitives found favor with Jacqueline Kennedy and Mia Farrow, among other celebrities, and they form the basis of her coffee-table autobiography Out of My Mind.

Nelson starred in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Adam-12, The Resurrection of Broncho Billy, which won an Academy Award for best live action short movie, and Liar's Moon.

Her daughter, actress Tracy Nelson, announced on Facebook that her mother had suddenly died on April 27, 2018 of a heart attack.

References

Other websites
 
 Filmography for Kristin Nelson at The New York Times
 
 "Broncho Billy" (1970) short film

2018 deaths
1945 births
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American movie actors
American television actors
American painters
Writers from Los Angeles County, California
Actors from Burbank, California
Harvey Leonard Hall (January 5, 1941 – May 19, 2018) was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 25th mayor of Bakersfield, California. Hall was first elected in 2000, and re-elected in 2004, 2008 and 2012. He was one of the longest serving mayors in Bakersfield's history. He was born in Bakersfield.

As mayor, one of his focuses had been physical improvement of the city, through "Keep Bakersfield Beautiful" and the creation of, and participation in, monthly "Mayor’s Freeway Cleanups", trash pickups on local freeways. Hall has donated his mayor’s salary to the Kern Community Foundation, which provides scholarships to local colleges, and to California State University, Bakersfield, for local students.

Hall was the founder and former president of Hall Ambulance Service.

Hall died on May 19, 2018 in Bakersfield of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
Keep Bakersfield Beautiful website
kern foundation website

1941 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Disease-related deaths in California
American mayors
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from California
Politicians from California
People from Bakersfield, California
US Republican Party politicians
Reginald Grant Lucas (February 25, 1953 – May 19, 2018), known as Reggie Lucas, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was born in New York City. Lucas was best known for having produced the majority of Madonna's 1983 self-titled debut album, his production work with percussionist Mtume, and for playing with the Miles Davis electric band of the first half of the 1970s.

In 1986, Lucas founded the Jersey City recording studio Quantum Sound. Clients included the Pet Shop Boys, Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Sepultura.

In 1981, Lucas and James Mtume won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for their composition "Never Knew Love Like This Before", which was performed by Stephanie Mills.

Lucas died of heart disease in New York City, at the age of 65.

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1953 births
2018 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
American record producers
American songwriters
Grammy Award winners
Musicians from New York City
Businesspeople from New York City
Petrissa Solja (born 11 March 1994 in Kandel) is a German table tennis player. At the World Championships 2017 she won a bronzemedal together with Fang Bo in the mixed- doubles. She is the best female German table tennis player.

Career 
2009 she played at the European Championships. There she played with her team against Netherlands and lost her match against Elena Timina. 2014 she joined to TTC Berlin eastside. Because of her successes she was chosen as the best German player in the Youth. 2013 she won the German Open in the doubles with Sabine Winter. At the European Championships 2014 she won gold with the team. In the same year she took part in the World Cup, where Solja reached the Round of 16. At the European Ranking tournament in 2015 she lost in the final to Liu Jia. At the World Cup, where Petrissa took part for the second time, she won bronze, after beating Li Jiao in the 3rd place match. 2016 she reached together with the team the Quarterfinals at the WTTC, there they lost to Japan. At the Olympic Games Solja retired already in her first match, where she played against Ri Myong-sun and lost. With the team they came surprise to the final, where they lost very clearly to China. At the WTTC 2017 in Düsseldorf she won together with Fang Bo the bronzemedal in the mixed-doubles, in the other categories she lost.

Game system 
Solja is an lefthanded-player and attacker. She uses the Joola Ryzhm 425 at the backhand, on the forehand Joola Ryzhm.

Strengthen: Backhand Tospin and Konter

Weaknesses: Long rallies from the table, play against defenders

Results

Singles 

 World Cup: Bronze 2015
 Youth- WTTC: Bronze 2012
 German Open: Silver 2015
 German National Championships: Gold 2015, Silver 2013, Bronze 2011

Doubles within Mixed 

 German Open: Gold 2013,
 WTTC: Bronze 2017
 German National Championships: Gold 2010, Gold 2012, Gold 2015, Gold 2016

References 

1994 births
Living people
Sportswomen
German table tennis players
German Olympians
Tomokazu Harimoto (; ; ; born 27 June 2003 in Sendai) is a male Japanese table tennis player with Chinese origin. In Japan he is the best player in his vintage and is a monster in the table tennis scene, because he beat Timo Boll and very strong other players.

Career 
Harimoto started to play table tennis with two years- that time at home at a kitchen table. In 2014 he came to the third round at the Japanese National Championships. At the Japan Open he began to play international. He was on position 826 in the world. At the Safir Open 2015 in Örebro he beat two top-100-players and came under the top 100 in the world. So he was the youngest player ever that came to the main round. At the Polish Open he met Ma Long and lost 0:4 to him. 2016 he took part in the Youth-World Championships, where he won gold in the singles and with the team, too. So Harimoto came under the top 60 in the world. At the Slovenian Open Tomokazu was the youngest player again, who reached the Quarterfinals in the singles. Also he won the Japan Open in the singles and became so youngest player ever who wins a World Tour event. In the U-18 world ranking system he became number one. One year later he reached the final again but lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov. At the World Championships he was the youngest player who reached the Quarterfinals at a WTTC, in the world rankings for adults he became place 20. At the Czech Open he won his first World Tour event- in the final he beat the German table tennis star Timo Boll and got another record. 2018 he beat Jun Mizutani (his teammate) and won so the Japanese National Championships for the first time. After participation at the WTTTC 2018, he came to the top 10.

Results

Singles 

 Czech Open: 2017 Gold
 Youth- WTTC: Gold 2016
 Japan Open: Gold 2016
 Japanese National Championships: Gold 2018
 World Championships: Quarterfinals 2017

Team 

 World Championships: Quarterfinals 2018
 World Team Cup: Silver 2018
 Youth- WTTC: Gold 2016

Results from the ITTF-databank

Family and Chinese origin 
Harimotos parents were table tennis players from China. In 1998 they came to Japan and worked there as table tennis coaches. Harimoto came 2003 in Japan under the name Zhang Zhihe to the world. But he does have the Japanese citizenship he got the name Tomokazu Harimoto.

References

Living people
2003 births
People from Sendai
Table tennis players
Nick van de Wall, better known by his stage name Afrojack, is a Dutch music producer and DJ. He was born and raised in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Afrojack's song "Take Over Control", which features Eva Simons, has charted in a number of countries. he was listed at number 19 on DJ MAG's top 100 DJs of 2010.

Discography

Singles 

 Take Over Control

References

1987 births
Living people
DJs
Dutch musicians
Record producers
Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking,  (born 3 November 1934) is a British politician. He is a former Conservative Member of Parliament and cabinet minister. He served for the offices of Home Secretary, Education Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman. He is a life member of the Tory Reform Group.

References

Other websites
 Kenneth Baker interview at History of Parliament Online

1934 births
Living people
British politicians
May Blood, Baroness Blood, MBE (born 26 May 1938) is a Labour politician. She is a member of the British House of Lords. She was born and raised in Belfast. 

Since 1994, she has been an Information Officer of the Greater Shankill Partnership and is a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours.

References

Other websites
 Profile, theyworkforyou.com; accessed 29 March 2014.
 Baroness Blood, Grassroot Diplomat

1938 births
Living people
British politicians
People from Belfast
Ann Elizabeth Oldfield Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss GBE PC (née Havers; born 10 August 1933), is an English judge. She was the first female Lord Justice of Appeal and, until 2004, was the highest-ranking female judge in the United Kingdom.

She was made a dame (DBE) on appointment to the High Court in 1979, and was sworn in to the Privy Council in 1988 when she became the first woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. When she retired as a judge in 2005, she was awarded Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). In 2006, the government announced that she would be awarded a life peerage as Baroness Butler-Sloss. She sits as a independent peer in the House of Lords.

Until June 2007, she chaired the inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed.

References

Other websites
No-nonsense approach of the right-to-die judge – Profile of Butler-Sloss at Guardian Unlimited, 22 March 2002
Announcement of her introduction at the House of Lords, House of Lords minutes of proceedings, 25 July 2006
Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life

1933 births
Living people
British judges
English politicians
People from Buckinghamshire
Women judges
Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, DBE (born 19 April 1959) was is a British activist and baroness. She is Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) from 2006–08.

Career 
She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which lead on the EHRC Disability Programme. She was the former Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).  She was Commissioner of the Disability Rights Commission until it was wound up in October 2006.

Personal life 
She was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy and given a prognosis that she would not live to reach the age of two years; however, it was her younger sister, Sally, who died from the same disease before that age. As a child she was prone to getting severe chest infections, which occurred two or three times per year, sometimes requiring hospitalisation.

References

1959 births
Living people
English activists
People with disabilities
Politicians from London
Audrey Caroline Emerton, Baroness Emerton DBE, GCStJ, FRCN (born 10 September 1935) is a British crossbench member of the House of Lords.

She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 New Year Honours. She was created a life peer as Baroness Emerton, of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent and of Clerkenwell in the London Borough of Islington on 17 February 1997.

References

1935 births
Living people
British politicians