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Ma Long

Ma Long (simplified Chinese:马龙; traditional Chinese: 馬龍; pinyin: Mǎ Lóng; born 20 October 1988 in Anshan) is a Chinese table tennis player. In 2015 and 2017 he became World Champion in Singles, and in 2016 and 2020 he became Olympic champion.

Career                                                                                                                                                                                          
Ma first appeared internationally in 2006, where he won gold with the team at the World Table Tennis Championships. In 2007 he apperead more internationally in appearance, which he rose in the world rankings. After good performences in the year, Ma won the Kuwait and Qatar Open as well as the World Tour Grand Finals. Nevertheless, he wasn't nominated for the 2008 Olympic Games. In 2009 he took part in World Championships for the first time, where he lost in the semifinal and bronze won. In 2010 Ma Long with the Chinese Team won gold at the World Championship. In the final they beat Germany 3:1. In 2011 took part in World Championships again, where he lost to Wang Hao in the semifinal again. So he won bronze again.

In 2012 he wasn't nominated for the Olympic Games, but Ma Long won gold at the World Championships with the Team again. He also participated in the same year for the first time at the World Cup, where he won gold after a final victory over Timo Boll. 2013 Ma lost the third time against Wang Hao in the semifinals at the World Championships. In the same year he won the World Tour Grand Finals and the German and Qatar Open. 2014 he won with team the goldmedal at the WTTC and Ma took part in the World Cup event, where he lost to Zhang Jike in the final. 2015 was his best year: Ma won the Qatar Open and won silver at the Kuwait Open. At the World Championships he won the first time gold in the singles event and was since this event Nr.1 in the world ranking. He also won the World Cup and the World Tour Grand Finals.

In 2016 Ma won for the seven time the WTTC with the team. In this year he won the Kuwait, China and Qatar Open too. 2017 won Ma for second time the WTTC in the singles categorie. In the final he beat Fan Zhendong. In June 2017, when he played the China Open he boycotted this event and must pay a fine from $20,000 dollars. After that, Ma Long played for a long time no events. In 2018 he won the German Open and is now the number 7 in the world ranking. At the WTTC the Chinese team won gold, he could win the China Open, but lost at the Japan Open to Tomokazu Harimoto.

Results from the ITTF-database

Successes

World Championships 

 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 Winner with the Team
 2009, 2011, 2013 Singles Bronze
 2015, 2017 Winner in the Singles

Olympic Games 

 2012, 2016 Olympic champion with the team
 2016, 2020 Olympic champion in the singles

World Cup 

 2012, 2015 Winner in the Singles
 2014 Silver in the Singles
 2017 Bronze in the Singles
 2015, 2018 Winner with the Team

References 



1988 births
Living people
Chinese table tennis players
Richland County, Ohio

Richland County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 124,475 people lived there. The county seat is Mansfield.

1808 establishments in Ohio
Ohio counties
Pepper Pike, Ohio

Pepper Pike is a city in Ohio in the United States.

Cities in Ohio
Blank cheque

A blank cheque is a cheque where a person has filled all the details, including his signature, but has not written the amount that is to be cashed by the other person.

The term is a metaphor meaning "there's no limit". It may used to describe giving someone unrestricted funds for a project, for example; "The city council gave the contractors a blank cheque to build the new library".

Metaphors
Isao Takahata

was a Japanese movie director, animator, screenwriter and producer.

Takahata was the co-founder of Studio Ghibli along with long-time collaborative partner Hayao Miyazaki. He has directed movies such as Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, and the comedy My Neighbors the Yamadas. Takahata's most recent movie is The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

On April 5, 2018, Takahata died at a hospital in Tokyo of lung cancer at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 
 Isao Takahata anime at Media Arts Database 

1935 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Japanese movie directors
Japanese animators
Japanese screenwriters
Japanese movie producers
Anime directors
Eric Bristow

Eric John Bristow MBE ("The Crafty Cockney") (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018) was a professional English darts player.

He was ranked number one by the World Darts Federation a record six times, in 1980 and 81, 1983 to 1985, and in 1990. He was a five-time World Champion, a five-time World Masters Champion and a four-time World Cup singles champion.

Bristow died on 5 April 2018 after a heart attack in Liverpool at the age of 60.

References

Other websites
Eric Bristow's profile and stats on Darts Database
Arrows - A John Samson documentary about Eric Bristow (1979)
Eric Bristow at the British Film Institute

1957 births
2018 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in England
Darts
Deaths from myocardial infarction
People from Hackney
Sportspeople from London
Yuriy Abramochkin

Yuriy Vasilyevich Abramochkin (Юрий Васильевич Абрамочкин; normally rendered in English as Yuriy or Yuri Abramochkin, 11 December 1936 – 5 April 2018) was a Soviet and Russian photographer and photojournalist.

Abramochkin worked with Soviet and world leaders, politicians and celebrities, making among others the photos of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, Francois Mitterrand, Richard Nixon, Urho Kekkonen, Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Yuri Gagarin, Ronald Reagan, Valentina Tereshkova and Elizabeth II.

Gallery

References

Other websites
Yuriy Abramochkin, as retrieved by the Wayback Machine on 2 May 2014
Interview with Yuriy Abramochkin in Sakharov Center

Russian artists
Photojournalists
Russian journalists
1936 births
2018 deaths
Jeremy Piven

Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Ari Gold in the comedy series Entourage, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and three consecutive Emmy Awards, and as Spence Kovak on Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom Ellen. 

Piven also starred in the British period drama Mr Selfridge.

In October 2017, Piven was accused of sexual harassment and assault by three women. In January 2018, three more women accused Piven of assault.

References

Other websites
 
 Interview on WHO.com with Jeremy Piven and Doug Ellin

Golden Globe Award winning actors
Emmy Award winning actors
1965 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
American television producers
Actors from New York City
Comedians from New York City
Colorado Crush

The Colorado Crush were an American football team in the Arena Football League.  The team began in 2003 and played in Denver, Colorado until 2008. They won the Arena Bowl in 2005.

Arena Football League
Crush
2003 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Colorado
2008 disestablishments in the United States
Sheila Houlahan

Sheila Houlahan is an American actress and musician based in Seattle, Washington. Sheila is best known for portraying Optima Prime in the feature movie Wallflower. In 2012, Sheila won an award in the American Protégé
International Voice Competition.

Career
Sheila studied at the Manhattan School of Music and obtained a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. In 2009, Sheila performed at the Salzburg Festival as a featured soprano soloist. She appeared on the Science Fiction TV series Exceptionals (2017), where she played the role of Ghania. Sheila also appeared in the feature movie Wallflower (2017), which was produced by Seattle based Paradigm Studios.

Notably, in 2016 she performed as a headliner soloist at the CES Intel Live Show, Las Vegas along with Indian music director A.R. Rahman. According to IMDB, in August 2018, Sheila will appear on one episode of The Wonderland Murders (2018).

Filmography

Recognition
 First Place Winner at the American Protégé International Voice Competition, 2012
 Winner at the Washington District Metropolitan Opera Competition, 2014

References

Other websites
 
 

Singers from Seattle, Washington
Actors from Seattle, Washington
Living people
Logan (movie)

Logan is a 2017 superhero drama thriller action movie based upon the fictional character known as Wolverine.

The movie was directed by James Mangold. It deals with a story set in an alternate universe's future where an aging Wolverine coping with an old and senile Charles Xavier.

Plot
In an alternative future, half of the mutants have been killed by a group of mercenaries of Transigen named Reavers and no mutant children have been born for years.

An aged Logan, that has left his identity, and who is disguised as a normal human using his second name "James" and his surname "Howlett" as a fake identity faking to be a normal human to be leaved in peace, now Logan works as a schaeffer trying to get money to buy a boat for living in the ocean together with the now old and senile Charles Xavier, and the mutant albino Caliban as fugitives from the law.

Two years ago the Reavers found a way to manipulate Charles's powerful brain and through it they maked a psichic attack that killed and injured 6000 persons, their plan succeeded as Charles was indendtify as a threats for the world and the X-Mansion was closed with the survived X-Men's members escaped, this leaved Charles in a shock status that maked him have Alzheimer forcing his mind to forget all of that but also to having needs of medicins to being mentally sane and to not having psichic attacks.

Cast

Reactions and box office 
The movie was one of the biggest hits of 2017. It earned more than $616 million worldwide. The movie got nominated Best Adapted Screenplay.

Trivia 
This is a future that could be happen if humans would never accepted as X-Men: Days of Future Past showed that they has accepted them.

References

Other websites
 
 

2017 movies
2010s superhero movies
20th Century Fox movies
Movies directed by James Mangold
Movies produced by Lauren Shuler Donner
Movies produced by Simon Kinberg
Movies set in Mexico
Movies set in Texas
Movies set in the future
Superhero drama movies
X-Men (movie series)
Wolverine movies
Dystopian movies
American superhero movies
Frederick D. Reese

Frederick Douglas Reese, or F. D. Reese, (November 28, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American civil rights activist, educator, and minister. He was born in Selma, Alabama. He was known as a member of Selma's "Courageous Eight". 

Reese was the president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) when that organization invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. to come to Selma to amplify the city's local voting rights campaign.  

Reese retired from teaching and from February 2015 until his death in April 2018, he was active as a minister at Selma's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church.

Reese died on April 5, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
 The Grio, "Frederick D. Reese Remembers Bloody Sunday in Selma"

People from Selma, Alabama
Educators from Alabama
American civil rights activists
1929 births
2018 deaths
Susan Anspach

Susan Florence Anspach (November 23, 1942 – April 2, 2018) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in movies during the 1970s such as Five Easy Pieces (1970), Play It Again, Sam (1972), Blume in Love (1973), and during the 1980s such as Montenegro.

Anspach died on April 2, 2018 in Los Angeles, California of heart failure at the age of 75.

References

Other websites

Susan Anspach at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection

1942 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Los Angeles
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
Actors from New York City
Salah Nooruddin

Salah Abdulla Nooruddin Nooruddin (; born 1963) is a significant Bahraini Businessman and entrepreneur. He is the current CEO of Envest Limited. 

Nooruddin is also the former chairman of Leeds United A.F.C.. In 2014 Nooruddin was removed as club chairman by the new owner of Leeds United A.F.C. He remained as a member of board of directors until April 2014 when he resigned from the board.

References 

1963 births
Living people
Bahraini people
Tyrosine

Tyrosine (Tyr or Y) or 4-hydroxyphenylalanine is an amino acid.

Tyrosine is one of the 20 standard amino acids used by cells to make proteins. It is a non-essential amino acid, meaning the body can make it. Its codons are UAC and UAU.

Tyrosine can be synthesized in the body from phenylalanine. It is also found in many high-protein food products such as chicken, turkey, fish, milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese, peanuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, soy products, lima beans, avocados, bananas and eggs.

It is called tyrosyl when referred to as a functional group or side chain.

References 

Amino acids
The Mississippi Bar

The Mississippi Bar is the required group that attorneys in the U.S. state of Mississippi must join.

History 
The Mississippi Bar was first a voluntary membership organization formed in 1821. However, this association ended four years later. It was restarted in 1886 but ended six years after that. In 1905 it was started again. During the Great Depression, membership declined because the public did not thing that the lawyers were ethical. So, the main lawyers in Mississippi got the state to pass its Unified Bar Act in 1932, which led to the current required Bar assocation.

References

1932 establishments in the United States
20th-century establishments in Mississippi
Camden County, Georgia

Camden County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 50,513. Its county seat is Woodbine, and the largest city is St. Marys. It is one of the first counties of Georgia, created February 5, 1777.

References

Other websites

Camden County website
Camden County Schools, Board of Education
Democratic Party, Camden County, Georgia
"Camden County" New Georgia Encyclopedia 
Camden County historical marker

1777 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Peshmerga

Peshmerga () are the military forces of the federal region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Peshmerga and other Kurdish security forces are responsible for the security of the regions in Iraqi Kurdistan. These forces include Asayish (intelligence agency), Parastin u Zanyarî (assisting intelligence agency) and the Zeravani (military police).  The peshmerga was started in 1943, but built upon a traditional, strictly tribal pseudo-military border guard under the Ottomans and Safavids.

The regular Iraqi army is forbidden to enter Iraqi Kurdistan,  so Peshmerga forces are the only security forces in the area.

Formally the peshmerga are under the command of the Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs. In reality the peshmerga force itself is largely divided and controlled separately by the two regional political parties: Democratic Party of Kurdistan and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Unifying and integrating the peshmerga has been on the public agenda since 1992 but the forces remain divided due to factionalism which has proved to be a major stumbling block.

In 2003, during the Iraq War, peshmerga were said to have played a key role in the mission to capture Saddam Hussein. In 2004, they captured key al Qaeda figure Hassan Ghul, who revealed the identity of Osama Bin Laden's messenger, which eventually led to the attack that killed Osama Bin Laden. In 2017 Peshmerga troops were part of the coalition that took back Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

References

Iraq
Kurdistan
Taylor Stadium

Ralph and Debbie Taylor Stadium at Simmons Field (also Taylor Stadium at Simmons Field) is a baseball stadium at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.  It is the home field of the Missouri Tigers baseball.  It was also the home of the defunct Mid-Missouri Mavericks minor league baseball team of the Frontier League. It originally opened in 2002 and holds 3,031 people.  The stadium was named for Mizzou alumni Ralph Taylor and his wife Debbie, who gave a donation to build the stadium.

References

Other websites

Buildings and structures in Missouri
2002 establishments in the United States
21st-century establishments in Missouri
Alabama Soccer Stadium

The Alabama Soccer Stadium was built in 2004 at the University of Alabama. The soccer field was the first home of Alabama soccer and saw its first action on Oct. 2, 1994, when Alabama played Furman University.

Other websites
 Alabama Soccer Stadium

Buildings and structures in Alabama
2004 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Alabama
Mortice and tenon

A mortice (or mortise) and tenon joint is a type of joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material. Carpenters  have used it for thousands of years to join pieces of wood. It is used when the adjoining pieces connect at an angle of 90°. 

In its basic form, it is simple and strong. There are many variations. The basic mortice and tenon has two parts: the mortice hole and the tenon tongue. The tenon, on the end of a member (called a rail), fits into a square or rectangular hole in the corresponding member. The tenon is cut to fit the mortice hole exactly and usually has shoulders that seat when the joint fully enters the mortice hole. The joint may be glued, pinned, or wedged to lock it in place.

This joint is also used with other materials.  For example, it is a traditional method for stonemasons and blacksmiths.

Wood
Tongue and groove

Tongue and groove is a method of fitting objects together edge to edge. It is used for wood flooring, parquetry, panelling, and similar constructions. 

Tongue and groove joints allow two flat pieces to be joined strongly together to make a single flat surface. Before plywood became common, tongue and groove boards were also used for wood-covered buildings and to construct concrete formwork (the wooden frames for concrete to be poured into).

Woodworking
Arjun: The Warrior Prince

Arjun: The Warrior Prince is an Indian animated movie. It is an action movie and was released on 25 May 2012 in India.

The movie is based on the growth of a boy Arjun into a warrior. This movie is little based on Mahabharat.

Other websites
 

Hindi-language movies
2010s animated movies
Ahmed bin Ali bin Abdulla Al Khalifa

Sheikh Ahmed bin Ali bin Abdulla Al Khalifa () is a Bahraini businessman. He is a member of Bahrain's Royal family, the Al Khalifa family. He is the Chairman of Board of Al-Muharraq SC. He also is the chairman of Zain Bahrain.

Early life and career
Ahmed was born in Muharraq Governorate. He started his business career in Bahrain through the chairmanship of the boards of companies. It includes Zain Bahrain, Al Areen Desert Resort, and Al Areen Holding Company. He served as Vice Chairman of Al Muharraq Club from 1978 to 1989. He currently serves as its chairman since April 1994.

References 

Living people
Arab people
Bahraini people
Zhang Jike

Zhang Jike (simplified Chinese: 张继科; traditional Chinese: 張繼科; born 16 February 1988 in Qingdao) is a Chinese table tennis player. He became the world champion in 2011 and 2013. In 2012 he won the Olympic Games. Zhang is the fourth man in history to win the Grand Slam.

Career                                                                                                                                                                                      
In 2006 Zhang Jike came into the National Team. After two years he become the Chinese Master in the Singles. His first World Championship that he played, was 2011 in Rotterdam. Zhang came into the final and beat Wang Hao with which he became World Champion in singles. In the same year he won the World Cup, where his opponent was Wang Hao again. He is the third player in history after Jan-Ove Waldner and Jorgen Persson, who won these important titles in one year. In 2012 Zhang Jike was nominated for the Olympic Games in London. He competed in singles as well as team competitions, where he won gold in both. From June to December 2012 he was the number 1 in the world, because he won the Olympic Games in the singles. 

In the final at the World Championships 2013 Zhang played against Wang Hao and defended his title after defeating him. In 2014 he won the World Cup for second time. His final-opponent was Ma Long. At the WTTC 2015 he won bronze in the singles and gold in the doubles with Xu Xin. In the semifinals in the singles category he lost to Fang Bo. During this year he lost unusually often against non-Chinese players. Nevertheless, he was nominated for the Olympic Games 2016. Here he won the silver medal in singles and with the team the gold medal. At the Asian Cup in the same year he lost to Xu Xin the final at the singles category. In the Chinese Superleague 2016 he didn't play. In 2017 he had to stop because of a fever in the second round. At the World Championships he came to Round 32 only.

At the Asian Championships in the same year he came into the semifinals and won with the team the gold medal. At the China Open he lost at the Round of 32. And didn't play the year anymore. That's why in 2018 he was only ranked 78th, the lowest since 2008.

Results from the ITTF-database

Successes

World Championships 

 2011, 2013 Winner Singles
 2015 Bronze Singles
 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 Winner Team
 2015 Winner Doubles

Olympic Games 

 2012, 2016 Winner Team
 2012 Winner Singles
 2016 Silver Singles

World Cup 

 2010 Silver Singles
 2011, 2014 Gold Singles
 2015, 2018 Winner Team

Asian Championships 

 2009, 2011 Silver Singles
 2017 Bronze Singles
 2017 Gold Team

References 



1988 births
Living people
Chinese table tennis players
Golden Hind

Golden Hind was a large sailing ship whose captain was Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known by name Pelican but was later renamed by her captain in the respect of his patron Sir Christopher Hatton.

References

Ships
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an American animated TV show made by Mike Young that started on November 19, 2004 and ended on June 27th, 2006.

Characters
The show is loosely based on Puffy AmiYumi, with cartoon versions of them as the main characters. Ami was voiced by Janice Kawaye and Yumi was voiced by Grey DeLisle.

Danish Voice Cast
 Niclas Mortensen – Kong Chad
 Peter Zhelder – Master Stenz
 Annevig Schelde Ebbe – Ami Onuki & Yumi Yoshimura

Additional Voices
 Ole Rasmus Møller

Episodes list

Season 1 (2004-2005)

References

Channel Links

American children's television series
Cartoon Network series
2004 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
2000s American television series
English-language television programs
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003 TV series)

Star Wars: Clone Wars is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky set after Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones from Three Months after the Battle of Geonosis and before Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith when Anakin turns evil. It serves as a spiritual predecessor to Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Plot
The Clone Wars has begin as the Jedi Knights struggle to maintain peace in the galaxy and are forced to lead the Clone army of the Republic against the evil droids army of the Sith led by Count Dooku, General Grievous and other villians.

Production
The series was intended to be one minute short length, but due to test screenings, they were extended to three minutes.

Episodes 
The first nineteen episodes released during 2003 and 2004 are three minutes long. The twentieth episode was eight minutes long. The last five episodes released during 2005 are twelve minutes long.

Release

Broadcast
The series aired on Cartoon Network U.S and Cartoon Network Worldwide. First in U.S in 2003.

Home media
The seasons of the show was made in DVD released as Volume One for the first two seasons and Volume Two for the third and final season.

References

Other websites 

Clone Wars at the Big Cartoon DataBasey

Clone Wars, Star Wars.
Cartoon Network series
2003 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
2000s American animated television series
Television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky
English-language television programs
Alamania

Alamania punicea is a species of epiphytic orchids. It is the only species of the genus Alamania and is endemic to Mexico. There are two recognized varieties:

Alamania punicea subsp. greenwoodiana Soto Arenas & R.Jiménez - Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
Alamania punicea subsp. punicea - similar range

References

Other websites 
IOSPE orchid species photos

Orchids
Louisville, Ohio

Louisville is a city in Ohio in the United States.

Cities in Ohio
Mansfield, Ohio

Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is the county seat of Richland County.

Cities in Ohio
County seats in Ohio
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

The government of Russia interfered with the 2016 United States presidential election to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and help the campaigns of Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. 

On October 7, 2016, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that the United States Intelligence Community was sure that the Russian government hacked into e-mail servers with the intention of interfering with the election. The ODNI′s January 6, 2017 report said the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) had hacked into the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the personal Google email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and sent the files to WikiLeaks.

In January 2017, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said that Russia had also interfered in the elections by creating fake news that was promoted on social media.

References 

2016 United States presidential election
2016 United States presidential campaigns
United States Democratic Party
Burton Smith

Burton J. Smith (March 21, 1941 – April 3, 2018) was an American computer architect. He was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft.

Smith co-founded Tera Computer Company and from 1988 until 2005 he served as its chief scientist and a member of the board of directors. He was also the company's chairman from 1988 until 1999.

Smith died on April 3, 2018 at a hospital in Burien, Washington of complications from heart disease at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
 Microsoft
 Press Release

1941 births
2018 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Washington (state)
American computer scientists
Scientists from North Carolina
People from Greensboro, North Carolina
Andres Ammas

Andres Ammas (25 February 1962 – 4 April 2018) was an Estonian politician. He represented the Estonian Free Party in the Riigikogu. He was elected with 1,859 votes in the 2015 election. He was born in Tartu.

Ammas died on 4 April 2018 of a heart attack in Tallinn at the age of 56.

References 

1962 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Estonian politicians
Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

Taylor was known as having been one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized as energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds. His piano technique has been likened to percussion, for example described as "eighty-eight tuned drums" (referring to the number of keys on a standard piano).

Taylor died at his Brooklyn, New York home on April 5, 2018 at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 Cecil Taylor  - Interviewed by Jason Gross, January 2000
 Mr. Taylor's Filibuster - Interviewed by Kurt Gottschalk, March 11, 2004
 A Fireside Chat With Cecil Taylor - Interviewed by Fred Jung
 Sessionography of Cecil Taylor

1929 births
2018 deaths
American jazz musicians
American pianists
American poets
Musicians from New York City
Writers from New York City
Jacques Higelin

Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer. He was born in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne.

Career
He became famous in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups.

He began attracting popular attention through his live concerts, typically held in smaller venues, and released his first solo album, in 1971.

Death
Higelin died on 6 April 2018 in Paris of colorectal cancer at the age of 77.

Albums 
1971 – Jacques "Crabouif" Higelin
1976 – Irradié
1976 – Alertez les bébés !
1978 – No Man's Land
1979 – Champagne pour tout le monde, and Caviar pour les autres... (also released as a double album under the title Champagne et Caviar, currently the standard edition)
1980 - La Bande du Rex
1982 – Higelin 82
1985 – Aï (double album)
1988 – Tombé du ciel
1991 – Illicite
1994 – Aux héros de la voltige

References

Other websites
 
RFI Biography – Jacques Higelin 
Europop Music - Jacques Higelin (English)

1940 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in France
French pop singers
Invasion of Privacy (album)

Invasion of Privacy is the debut studio album by American singer Cardi B.  It was released on April 5, 2018, by Atlantic Records.  Five singles have been released from the album: "Bodak Yellow", "Bartier Cardi"," Be Careful","I Like It" and "Ring". Two of the Singles(Bodak Yellow and I Like It) reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing

References 

2018 albums
Hip hop albums
Debut albums
Don't Forget About Us

"Don't Forget About Us" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey.  It is the third single from her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), appearing on the Ultra Platinum Edition of the album.  It was released on December 13, 2005.  The song became her 17th number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, then tying her with Elvis Presley as having the most US number-ones by a soloist.  It entered at number 81, was number one for two weeks, and spent a total of 21 weeks on the chart. It reached number 50 on the Year-End Hot 100 of 2006.

Critics compared the song to her previous single, "We Belong Together".  Both songs feature a slow beat and instruments from a piano and a drum machine.

Notes

References 

Mariah Carey songs
2005 songs
Mariah Carey
Hip hop soul songs
R&B songs
Larry Sharpe (politician)

Larry Sharpe (born July 12, 1968) is an American business consultant, entrepreneur, and political activist. He was born in Manhattan. He was a candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for Vice President of the United States in 2016. He is founder and Managing Director at NeoSage.

On July 12, 2017, he announced his candidacy for Governor of New York for the 2018 election.

On April 13, 2020 it was announced that Sharpe would again seek the Libertarian Party's nomination for Vice President in the 2020 election, as the running mate of 2012 Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Judge Jim Gray.

References

Other websites
 Gubernatorial campaign website

1968 births
Living people
American political activists
Politicians from New York City
Businesspeople from New York City
US Libertarian Party politicians
2020 United States vice-presidential candidates
2016 United States vice-presidential candidates
Kmele Foster

Kmele Foster (born October 31, 1980) is an American telecommunications entrepreneur and political commentator. 

Foster is co-founder and Vice President of the telecommunications consultancy TelcoIQ and is currently a co-host of the libertarian podcast The Fifth Column.

References

Other websites
 Kmele Foster at Reason.com
 

1980 births
Living people
American political writers
American political commentators
American television presenters
Writers from New York City
Television personalities from New York City
Etelka Keserű

Etelka Keserű (née Bérci; 26 August 1925 – 1 April 2018) was a Hungarian economist and politician. He served as Minister of Light Industry between 1971 and 1980.

Keserű died in Budapest on 1 April 2018 of cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 92.

References

1925 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Hungarian politicians
Hungarian economists
Lou Henson

Louis Ray Henson  (January 10, 1932 – July 25, 2020) was an American college basketball coach. He was born in Okay, Oklahoma. He retired as the all-time leader in victories at the University of Illinois with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. Overall Henson won 779 games.

Henson is also one of only four NCAA coaches to have amassed at least 200 total wins at two institutions.

In 2005-2006, Henson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He was treated with chemotherapy, but the cancer returned in 2007. In 2014, Henson was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer.

In 2014, he briefly came out of retirement to support the University of Illinois.

On February 17, 2015, Henson was selected as a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Henson died from cancer in Champaign, Illinois on July 25, 2020 at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
 New Mexico State biography (2004)

1932 births
2020 deaths
Coaches
Deaths from bone marrow cancer
Sportspeople from Oklahoma
Sportspeople from New Mexico
Sportspeople from Illinois
Soon-Tek Oh

Soon-Tek Oh (, Oh Sun-taek – also spelled as Soon-Taek Oh or Soon-Taik Oh or Soon-Teck Oh; June 29, 1932 – April 4, 2018) was a South Korean-American actor and playwright. He was born in Mokpo, South Korea.

Oh was best known for the voice of Fa Zhou in Disney's Mulan and the direct-to-video sequel Mulan II. He has starred in many movies, and also acted in television series, including MacGyver, M*A*S*H, Charlie's Angels, Airwolf, Magnum, P.I., Hawaii Five-O, Kung-Fu, Zorro, and Touched by an Angel.

Oh died in Los Angeles, California on April 4, 2018 at the age of 85.

References

Other websites

Soon-Tek Oh at the NNDB

1932 births
2018 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
South Korean actors
South Korean writers
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
American playwrights
Actors who played in James Bond movies
Actors from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Jack Lord

John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name, Jack Lord, was an American actor, director and producer. He was known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the CBS television program Hawaii Five-O, which ran from 1968 to 1980.

Lord suffered from Alzheimer's disease for at least seven years before his death. He died of congestive heart failure at his home in Honolulu, on January 21, 1998, at age 77.

References

Other websites
 
 Jack Lord early in career; NYP Library

1920 births
1998 deaths
Deaths from congestive heart failure
American military personnel of World War II
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American philanthropists
American television directors
American television producers
People with Alzheimer's disease
Actors from New York City
Actors who played Felix Leiter
Fan Zhendong

Fan Zhendong (; born 22 january 1997 in Guangzhou) is a Chinese table tennis player. In 2016 he won the World Cup and become Vice- World Champion in 2017.

Career 
In the world rankings Fan appeared for the first time in 2012, when he won alle four titles (Singles, Doubles, Mixed, Team) at the Youth World Championship. Because of good performances in the Chinese Trials, he was even nominated in 2013 for the men's competition at the World Championship. There Fan came to the Round of 32, where he lost to Zhang Jike. In the same year he won with the team the Asian Championship.

In 2014, Fan Zhendong with his team won the WTTC. At the Asian Cup he lost to Chen Chien-An. At the World Championship in 2015 he came to the semifinals, where he lost to Ma Long, but still won bronze. At the Asian championships in the same year he won all four titles. At the World Cup he became Vice- World Cup champion, because he lost in the final against Ma Long. In the World Cup in 2016 he won in the final against Xu Xin. Fan with his team won the World Championships again.

At the China Open in June 2017 he boykotts and had to pay a fine of 20,000 Dollars. At the Grand Finals he won gold in the singles category. After winning the Qatar Open in 2018 it's the first time that he's world number one. With the Chinese team he won the WTTTC, too.

Results from the ITTF-database

Successes

World Championships 

 2015 Bronze in Singles
 2017 Silver in Singles
 2015 Silver in Doubles
 2017 Gold in Doubles

Olympic Games 

 2016 Gold with the Team

World Cup 

 2015 Silver in Singles
 2016 Gold in Singles
 2015 Gold with the Team
 2018 Gold with the Team
 2020 Gold in singles

References 

1997 births
Living people
Chinese table tennis players
SpongeBob SquarePants (season 11)

The eleventh season of SpongeBob SquarePants started on June 17, 2017. It started with the episodes "Patrick's Coupon" and "Out of the Picture." It ended on November 25, 2018 with the episode "Goons on the Moon." Stephen Hillenburg, the show's creator, was the executive producer. Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller were the showrunners.

Season 11

Notes

References

SpongeBob SquarePants seasons
2010s television seasons
2017 television seasons
5th century BC

The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. The ancient Greeks became powerful in this time and won the Greco-Persian wars.
Aleksandr Kurlovich

Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kurlovich (, English Alternate: Alexandre Kurlovich; 28 July 1961 – 6 April 2018) was a Belarusian weightlifter. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Grodno. He was born in Grodno, Belarus.

In 2006, he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.
He was caught in 1984 entering Canada with $10,000 worth of anabolic steroids that he wanted to sell to fellow weightlifters.

Kurlovich died on 6 April 2018 at the age of 56.

References 

1961 births
2018 deaths
Belarusian sportspeople
Weightlifters
Soviet Olympic gold medalists
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Xu Xin

Xu Xin (; born 8 January 1990) is a Chinese table tennis player. He won the mixed gold medal at the World Championships in 2015. In 2013 and in 2017 he won bronze in the singles at the World Championships too.

Career 
In 2007, Xu played in his first World Championships, where he came to the round of 16 in the doubles. The next years he played international activ and came under the Top 10 in the world. In 2010 he took part in the world-team Championships for the first time, where he won with the team gold. In 2011, he won gold in doubles and came to round of 16 in the Singles category. In 2012 he won gold with the team again. In the same year, he took part in the World Cup, where he finished in 4th place. In January 2013 he finished for the first time world number one.

At the World Championships in the same year Xu won bronze in the singles. In the semifinals he lost to Zhang Jike. Also he won the world cup over Vladimir Samsonov in the final. With the team he won the World Championships and the Asian Games. From March 2014 to March 2015 he was for the second time number one in the world. At the World Championships in 2015, he took part in three competitions. In the Singles he lost in the Round of 16 to Fang Bo. In the Mixed and Doubles category he won gold.

In 2016, Xu won for the fourth time the world Championships in the team event. At the Olympic Games he didn't play in the singles but won with the team gold. At the World Cup he lost in the final to Fan Zhendong. In 2017, at the World Championships he came to the semifinals and won gold in the doubles category. At the China Open 2017 he boycotted his Round-of-16-match, because the coach was supendend. In 2018 Xu Xin won with the team gold at the World Championships.

Results from the ITTF-database

Successes

World Championships 

 2013, 2017 Bronze Singles
 2015, 2017 Gold Singles

Olympic Games 

 2016 Gold Team

World Cup 

 2013 Gold Singles
 2016 Silver Singles

References 

1990 births
Living people
Chinese table tennis players
Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist. He played in a Latin jazz band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor.

With 1972's Attica Blues and The Cry of My People, he spoke out for civil rights; the former album was a response to the Attica Prison riots.

Shepp was also a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York.

References

Other websites
 Official site
 Stewart Smith, "Archie Shepp interview", Summerhall, July 31, 2012.
 Phil Freeman, "Interview: Archie Shepp on John Coltrane, the Blues and More" , Red Bull Music Academy, August 25, 2014.
 

1937 births
Living people
American saxophonists
American pianists
American composers
American civil rights activists
Educators from Florida
Musicians from Florida
Musicians from New York City
People from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Educators from New York City
Oregon, Ohio

Oregon is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. It is an industrial suburb of Toledo, located on Lake Erie, just east of the city. 20,291 people lived there at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Ohio
Pharoah Sanders

Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once called him as "probably the best tenor player in the world."

In 1968 he participated in Michael Mantler and Carla Bley's Jazz Composer's Orchestra Association album The Jazz Composer's Orchestra, featuring Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Larry Coryell and Gato Barbieri.

References

Other websites
 – official site

1940 births
Living people
American jazz musicians
American saxophonists
Musicians from Arkansas
People from Little Rock, Arkansas
Petr Braiko

Braiko Petr (September 9, 1918 – April 7, 2018) was a Soviet soldier. He served during the Second World War. He gained the status of Hero of the Soviet Union. He took part in seven raids by the guerrilla brigade of Sydir Kovpak.  He was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.

Braiko died on April 7, 2018 in Moscow of complications from bronchopneumonia at the age of 99.

References

Other websites
Oral history

1918 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from bronchopneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Moscow
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Pavol Paška

Pavol Paška (23 February 1958 – 6 April 2018) was a Slovak politician. He served as Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2014. He was a member  of the Direction - Social Democracy (Smer-SD) party.

Paška was a member of Prague Society for International Cooperation

Paška died of cardiac arrest on 6 April 2018 in Košice, Slovakia at the age of 60.

References

Other websites
 Paška's page on the Homepage of the National Council
 

1958 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Slovakian politicians
Nancy Roman

Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer. She was one of the first female executives at NASA. She was known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope.

Roman died on December 25, 2018 in Washington, D.C. from a long-illness at the age of 93.

References

Other websites
 Oral History interview transcript with Nancy G. Roman 19 August 1980, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
 

1925 births
2018 deaths
Disease-related deaths in Washington, D.C.
American astronomers
Scientists from Nashville, Tennessee
Educators from Nashville, Tennessee
Margaret Hamilton (scientist)

Margaret Heafield Hamilton (born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. It developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program.

On November 22, 2016, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama for her work leading the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.

References

Other websites
 MIT News
 Margaret Hamilton   Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America

1936 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Engineers from Indiana
Businesspeople from Indiana
Scientists from Indiana
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Daniel Chavarria

Daniel Chavarria (23 November 1933 – 6 April 2018) was a Uruguayan revolutionary and writer.

Chavarria’s books are strongly critical of the violence in Fascism. Chavarria’s life and writings clearly show his communist and revolutionary background. He is a well known supporter of the Cuban Revolution.

In 2010, Chavarria won the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national prize for literature and more important award of its type in Cuba.

Chavarria died on 6 April 2018 in Havana of kidney failure at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 (it) Perché ho deciso di vivere a Cuba
 (it) L'uomo dalle tre patrie 
 (es) Daniel Chavarria Bastélica 

1933 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Uruguayan writers
Cuban writers
A Quiet Place (movie)

A Quiet Place is a 2018 American horror thriller science fiction movie directed by John Krasinski, who also stars alongside Emily Blunt. The screenplay was written by Krasinski, Bryan Woods, and Scott Beck. It was produced by Michael Bay. It is based on a story by Woods and Beck. It is about a family of four in a small New York state town who must live life in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. 

A Quiet Place premiered at South by Southwest on March 9, 2018 and was released in the United States on April 6, 2018, by Paramount Pictures. It received very well reviews from critics, who called it a "smart, wickedly frightening good time."

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2018 horror movies
2010s horror thriller movies
2018 science fiction movies
American horror thriller movies
American science fiction horror movies
Movies based on books
Movies set in New York
Paramount Pictures movies
Apocalyptic movies
Post-apocalyptic movies
Movies directed by John Krasinski
Beagle 2

The Beagle 2 was a British Mars lander that was carried to Mars by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission.  It was an astrobiology mission that was designed to look for past life on the shallow surface of Mars.

The Beagle 2 was conceived by a group of British academics. It was led by Professor Colin Pillinger of the Open University. 

The spacecraft successfully arrived in orbit round Mars on 19 December 2003. It was going to land on the surface of Mars on 25 December. There was no contact at the expected time of landing. ESA declared that the mission was  lost in February 2004, after several attempts to contact the spacecraft were unsuccessful.

Beagle 2 fate remained a mystery until January 2015. Then it was found on the surface of Mars by a series of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera. The images suggest that two of the spacecraft's four solar panels failed to deploy, blocking the spacecraft's communications antenna.

The Beagle 2 was named after , the ship used by Charles Darwin.

References

 
ESA spacecraft
Freestyle Script

Freestyle Script is a cursive font designed by Martin Wait in 1981. Bold version of Freestyle Script was designed in 1986. Publishers of Freestyle Script are Adobe, ITC and Letraset. It has the few versions: Regular, Bold, SH Reg Alt, and SB Reg Alt.

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Fonts