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Southwest Sumba Regency

Southwest Sumba Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
South Central Timor Regency

South Central Timor Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Sikka Regency

Sikka Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Sabu Raijua Regency

Sabu Raijua Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Rote Ndao Regency

Rote Ndao Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
North Central Timor Regency

North Central Timor Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Ngada Regency

Ngada Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Nagekeo Regency

Nagakeo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Manggarai Regency

Manggarai Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Malaka Regency

Malaka Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Lembata Regency

Lembata Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Kupang Regency

Kupang Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Ende Regency

Ende Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
East Sumba Regency

East Sumba Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
East Manggarai Regency

East Manggarai Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
East Flores Regency

East Flores Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Central Sumba Regency

Central Sumba Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Belu Regency

Belu Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Alor Regency

Alor Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of East Nusa Tenggara.

 

Regencies_of_East_Nusa_Tenggara
Regencies of Indonesia

A regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) is government division of Indonesia. First, the country is divided into provinces. Then, provinces are divided into regencies. The Indonesian word kabupaten is also sometimes translated as "municipality." Regencies and cities are divided into districts (called Kecamatan, or Distrik in Papua).

References

Subdivisions of Indonesia
Japan Academy Prize

The  is a group of awards that is given every year to Japanese movies. It is also called the Japan Academy Awards and the Japanese Academy Awards. It is given out by the Nippon Academy-shō Association. The categories of the awards are very similar to the Academy Awards. The awards have been given every year since 1978.

Awards

References

Other websites
 

Movie awards
1978 establishments in Asia
1970s establishments in Japan
Ilyushin Il-18

Ilyushin Il-18 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-18; NATO reporting name: Coot) is a Soviet large turboprop airliner, produced by Ilyushin.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Civil aircraft
Ilyushin Il-38

Ilyushin Il-38 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-38; NATO reporting name: May) is a Soviet maritime patrol aircraft and anti-submarine warfare produced by Ilyushin.

Soviet & Russian aircraft
Civil aircraft
Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917),  was a Parsi  intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an Indian political and social leader. He was known as the Grand Old Man of India. Naoroji was the first Indian to be a British MP, He was a Liberal Party member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons between 1892 and 1895. He began the Indian National Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. He wrote a book, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, about how India's wealth was being sent to Britain. He was also a member of the Second International along with Kautsky and Plekhanov .

In 2014, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg began the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for services to UK-India relations.

India Post dedicated stamps to Naoroji in 1963, 1997 and 2017.

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1917 deaths
British academics
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Freemasons
Gujarat
Indian academics
Indian businesspeople
Indian journalists
Indian National Congress politicians
Indian writers
Liberal Party MPs (UK)
Zoroastrians
Banten

Banten is a province of Indonesia. It is on the island of Java. The capital city is Serang. The population was 10.6 million during the 2010 census. The government reported the population to be 11,834,087 in 2014.  Banten was part of the province of West Java. It became a separate province in 2000.

History
In the 5th century, Banten was part of the Kingdom of Tarumanagara. After Srivijaya attacked Tarumanagara, it became weaker. Then, the Kingdom of Sunda became more powerful in West Java. In the early 16th century, the port of Bantam (Banten) was an important port in the Kingdom of Sunda. In 1527, Javanese Muslims captured the port of Banten. Their leader was Sunan Gunungjati. They started the Sultanate of Banten.

Geography
Banten is near the Sunda Strait. This strait is important as a link bewteen Australia and New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Also, Banten is the link between Java and Sumatra.

Religion

List of Governors

References

Other websites

 Official website 
 Research and Development Agency
Deep Carbon Observatory

The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is a research program  to investigate carbon's deep in the Earth. It is a community of scientists (biologists, physicists, geoscientists and chemists) who  develop this new field of deep carbon science.

In December 2018, researchers announced that amounts of life forms are deep underground. They think  70% of bacteria and archaea on Earth (23 billion tonnes of carbon) live at least  deep underground, including  below the seabed. 

There is a ten-year Deep Carbon Observatory project.

References 

Extremophiles
2007 establishments in the United States
Carbon compounds
Earth sciences
Bad Cat

Bad Cat is a 2016 Turkish computer-animated comedy-action movie. It was produced by Anima Istanbul Studios and distributed by Odin's Eye Entertainment. It was Turkey's first adult full-length animated movie. It was shown at the 2016 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in the category "Feature Films out of competition".

Release dates

Cast
 Ugur Yucel as cat Shero
Don Anjaya Battee as cat Shero (English)
 Demet Evgar as kitten Taco and kitty Misscat
 Okan Yalabik as cartoonist and bulldog
 Guven Kirac as rat Riza
 Gokce Ozyol as seagull Rifki
 Yekta Kopan as cat Black
 Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan as artist Tank
 Aysen Gruda as landlady, grandma Hazel
 Cezmi Baskin as grocer Semi

Awards
Bad Cat was nominated for the following awards:
 2016 Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, Silver Méliès Award for Best European Film – lost to Parents
 2016 Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, Anima't Award for Best Animated Feature Film – lost to Your Name
 2017 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, Silver Méliès Award for Best European Film – lost to Small Town Killers
 2017 Tokyo Anime Award for Best Feature Film – lost to The Girl Without Hands

References

Other websites
 
 

2016 movies
2016 comedy movies
2010s action movies
Computer-animated movies
Movies about cats
Movies based on comics
Istanbul
Movies set in the 1990s
Turkish movies
Adult animated movies
Ilyushin Il-10

Ilyushin Il-10 (, NATO reporting name: "Beast") was a Soviet ground attack aircraft developed at the end of World War II, produced by Ilyushin.

References 

Soviet & Russian aircraft
World War II aircraft
Blaine County, Idaho

Blaine County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, 21,376 people lived there. The county seat and largest city is Hailey.

Communities

Cities 
 Bellevue
 Carey
 Hailey
 Ketchum
 Sun Valley

Unincorporated communities 
 Cream Can Junction
 Galena
 Gannett
 Gimlet
 Picabo
 Triumph
 Sawtooth City

Ghost towns 
 Boulder City
 Vienna

References 

1890s establishments in Idaho
1895 establishments in the United States
Idaho counties
Picabo, Idaho

Picabo is an unincorporated community of Idaho in the United States. It is in Blaine County.

Unincorporated communities in Idaho
Emblem of Guatemala

The emblem of Guatemala was adopted in 1871. It comprises:
 A wreath of bay laurel branches, the symbol for victory; 
 The resplendent quetzal, a bird that symbolizes liberty;
 A parchment scroll on which is written LIBERTAD 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821 in gold (15 September 1821 is the date of Central America's independence from Spain);
 Two crossed Remington rifles with bayonets indicating Guatemala's willingness to defend itself by force if need be;
 Two crossed swords, representing honor.

The emblem was designed by Swiss artist and engraver Johan-Baptist Frener, who lived in Guatemala from 1854 until his death in 1897.

The emblem also appears on the middle third of the flag of Guatemala. The quetzal previously appeared in the flag of Los Altos, Central America in the 1830s.

Other websites 
 Guatemala - Coat of Arms at Flags of the World

Guatemala
Guatemala
Emblem of Ethiopia

The Emblem of Ethiopia has a yellow star with five rays of light on a blue shield.

Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Avery, Idaho

Avery is an unincorporated community of Idaho in the United States.

Unincorporated communities in Idaho
Séry Bailly

Zacharie Séry Bailly, or Séry Bailly, (13 March 1948 – 2 December 2018) was an Ivorian academic, politician and short-story writer. He was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He was known as chairperson of Harris Memel-Fotê-Jean Jaurès Fondation in Abidjan, he was also vice-chairman of the Academy of sciences, arts, cultures of Africa and the African diaspora (ASCAD).

Bailly died in Abidjan on 2 December 2018 from complications of surgery, aged 70.

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1948 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Ivorian people
Educators
Politicians
Remedios Loza

Francisca Remedios Loza Alvarado (21 August 1949 – 14 December 2018) was a Bolivian artisan, television presenter and politician. She was born in La Paz.

Biography 
After hearing her native Aymara language on the radio for the first time in September 1965, Loza became a television presenter. She became the first person of indigenous descent to be seated in the Bolivian National Congress. Loza was a member of the Conscience of Fatherland (CONDEPA) and represented La Paz between 1989 and 2002. 

She ran on CONDEPA presidential ticket twice in 1993 and in 1997.

Loza died of stomach cancer on 14 December 2018 in La Paz, aged 69.

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1949 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Bolivian politicians
Television presenters
President of Bolivia

The President of Bolivia () officially known as the President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia. The Constitution says the president is elected by popular vote to a five-year term, renewable once. In 2016, in a referendum the country voted to maintain term limits. Since 2009, if no candidate wins a majority, the top two candidates advance to a runoff election.  

Jeanine Áñez was the county's first female president.

In October 2020, Luis Arce was elected president.

Living former presidents
As of , there are seven living former presidents:

References
Jaime Paz Zamora

Jaime Paz Zamora (born April 15, 1939) is a Bolivian politician. He was President of Bolivia from August 6, 1989 to August 6, 1993. He was vice-president between 1982 and 1984.

References

1939 births
Presidents of Bolivia
Vice Presidents of Bolivia
Living people
President of Honduras

The President of Honduras () officially known as the  President of the Republic of Honduras (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Honduras), is the head of state and head of government of Honduras, and the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. 

Per the 1982 Constitution of Honduras, the Government of Honduras is made up of three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The President is the head of the Executive branch. Their job is to "Execute and enforce the Constitution, treaties and conventions, laws and other legal dispositions." 

The President is directly elected for a four year term.

Living former presidents
Jon Bluming

Johannes Cornelius Bluming (6 February 1933 – 17 December 2018) was a Dutch martial artist, instructor and actor. Bluming held 9th dan in judo, 10th dan in Kyokushin Karate and 10th dan in Hapkido. He was also the coach of two-time Olympic champion Willem Ruska. Bluming was born in Amsterdam.

Bluming died on 17 December 2018 in De Bilt, Netherlands at the age of 85.

References

Other websites
 Jon Bluming official website
   Autobiography

1933 births
2018 deaths
Dutch movie actors
Amélie Mummendey

Amélie Mummendey  (19 June 1944 – 17 December 2018) was a German social psychologist. From 2007 until her death she was a Vice-Rector for the Graduate Academy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She was born in Bonn, Germany. She held a chair in social psychology at the University of Münster (1980–1997) before taking up a chair in social psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 1997.

Mummendey died on 17 December 2018 at the age of 74.

References

Other websites
 Homepage of the Graduate Academy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena 

1944 births
2018 deaths
German writers
German educators
German psychologists
People from Bonn
Lebak Regency

Lebak Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Banten.

 

Regencies_of_Banten
Pandeglang Regency

Pandeglang Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Banten.

 

Regencies_of_Banten
Serang Regency

Serang Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Banten.

 

Regencies_of_Banten
Tangerang Regency

Tangerang Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Banten.

 

Regencies_of_Banten
Cilegon

Cilegon is a city in the Indonesian province of Banten.

 

Banten
Cities in Indonesia
Serang

Serang is a city in the Indonesian province of Banten.

 

Banten
Cities in Indonesia
South Tangerang

South Tangerang is a city in the Indonesian province of Banten.

 

Banten
Cities in Indonesia
Anca Pop

Anca Pop (October 22, 1984 – December 16, 2018) was a Romanian-Canadian singer-songwriter. In 2008, she wrote two songs for Goran Bregovic's thirteenth studio album Champagne for Gypsies. After, she signed with Roton Music. She released four singles: "Free Love", "Super Cool", "Ring Around", and "Loco Poco".

Pop died on December 16, 2018 in a car crash on the Danube river, near the commune Svinița, aged 34.

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1984 births
2018 deaths
Road accident deaths
Canadian singer-songwriters
Romanian singers
Romanian writers
Robert Neild

Robert Ralph Neild (10 September 1924 – 18 December 2018) was an British economist. He was born in Hertfordshire, England. He was Professor of Economics at Cambridge University. 

He was Deputy Director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, he was in 1966 appointed as founding Director (with Alva Myrdal and then Gunnar Myrdal as chairman) of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He also wrote Public Corruption: The Dark Side of Social Evolution (Anthem Press).  

He died on 18 December 2018 at the age of 94.

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1924 births
2018 deaths
British economists
Writers from Hertfordshire
Gunnar Myrdal

Karl Gunnar Myrdal (; 6 December 1898 – 17 May 1987) was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for their work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations. He was best known in the United States for his study of race relations, which is seen in his book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.

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1898 births
1987 deaths
Scientists from Stockholm
Economists
Writers from Stockholm
Shinobu Sekine

was a Japanese middleweight judoka. He won a gold medal at his only Olympics in 1972. He was born in Oarai, Ibaraki, Japan.

Sekine died on 18 December 2018 at the age of 75.

References

1943 births
2018 deaths
Japanese Olympic gold medalists
Judoka
Joy to the World

"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas song. English minister Isaac Watts added the words to the song. As of the late 20th century, the song was the most published Christmas hymn in North America.

Origin
The words of the hymn are from Isaac Watts. They are based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12 and Genesis 3:17-18. The song was first published in Watts' collection The Psalms of David in 1719.

The version of this hymn heard since 1848 is from an edition by Lowell Mason for The National Psalmist. It was his fourth revision of the tune he named ANTIOCH.

Words
The text appears thus in The Psalms of David : imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship (London 1719):

Psalm XCVIII. Second Part.
The Messiah's Coming and Kingdom

Joy to the World; the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King!
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields & floods, rocks, hills & plains
Repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love.

Alternate lyrics
In the Latter-day Saints' hymn, the refrain in the first verse is "And Saints and Angels Sing".

Modern recordings, mostly those aimed at children, take out the first verse.

Recordings
A version from the Trinity Choir was very popular in 1911. Since then, the song has been recorded by a number of artists, including Johnny Cash, Mariah Carey, Pat Boone, Ella Fitzgerald, The Supremes and Nat King Cole.

References

Christmas music
Mel Hutchins

Melvin R. Hutchins (November 22, 1928 – December 19, 2018) was an American basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1951 to 1958 when he played for the Milwaukee Hawks, Fort Wayne Pistons and New York Knicks. He was born in Sacramento, California.

Hutchins died in 2018 in Encinitas, California from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 90.

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1928 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in California
New York Knicks players
Atlanta Hawks players
Detroit Pistons players
Sportspeople from California
Encinitas, California

Encinitas is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California. It is located within Southern California. It is about  north of San Diego. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 59,518.

References

Cities in California
Settlements in San Diego County, California
Central Sulawesi

Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tengah) is a province of Indonesia. It is at the center of the island of Sulawesi. The  capital and largest city is Palu. The population was 2,633,420 in the 2010 census. In 2014, the government reported the population as 2,839,290. The area of Central Sulawesi is

References

Provinces of Indonesia
Gorontalo

Gorontalo (Gorontaloan: Hulontalo) is a province of Indonesia. It is on the island of Sulawesi. Gorontalo is part of the Minahasa Peninsula. Gorontalo was part of the province of North Sulawesi until it became a new, separate province on 5 December 2000. The provincial capital and largest city is Gorontalo City.

Religion

Like most Indonesian provinces, Islam is the majority religion. Islam came to Gorontalo in the 15th century from Ternate and Bone. Non-governmental Islamic organisations such as Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have offices in Gorontalo.

Christians are the second-largest population in Gorontalo. Most are migrants from North Sulawesi and other parts of Indonesia. They are 2.19% of the population. There are several churches in Gorontalo.

Other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism are mostly followed by migrants from other parts of Indonesia.

Language 
Indonesian is the official language of the province. Road signs and government documents are in Indonesian. However, Gorontaloan language is the most common spoken language in the province. There are several other languages that are similar and may be dialects of Gorontaloan. These include: Suwawa language, Atinggola language, Limboto language, Kwandang language, Tilamuta language and Sumawata language.

Gorontaloan is related to languages from North Sulawesi and the Philippines. Gorontaloan is written in the Latin alphabet. Gorontaloan is the language of everyday life. However, Indonesian is used in schools, the media, and government.

References

Provinces of Indonesia
Sulawesi
Lowell Mason

Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792 - August 11, 1872) was an important person in American church music. He composed over 1,600 hymn tunes. Some of them are sung even in the 21st century.

Mason's most well-known tunes include the arrangement of "Joy to the World" and "Bethany". The latter is his setting to the hymn text "Nearer, My God, to Thee".

Mason was responsible for bringing music to American public schools. He is considered to be the first important music educator in the United States.

Mason was born in Medfield, Massachusetts. He died in Orange, New Jersey at age 80.

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People from Orange, New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
American composers
Writers from Massachusetts
1792 births
1872 births
Boalemo Regency

Boalemo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.

 

Regencies of Gorontalo (province)
Bone Bolango Regency

Bone Bolango Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.

 

Regencies of Gorontalo (province)
Gorontalo Regency

Gorontalo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.

 

Regencies of Gorontalo (province)
Pohuwato Regency

Pohuwato Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.

 

Regencies of Gorontalo (province)
North Gorontalo Regency

North Gorontalo Regency is a regency () of the Indonesian Province of Gorontalo.

 

Regencies of Gorontalo (province)
West Sulawesi

West Sulawesi () is a province of Indonesia. It is on Sulawesi island. Its capital is Mamuju. The population was  1,158,651 in the 2010 Census. In 2014, the government reported the population as 1,284,620. The area of the province is 16,796.19 km2. The province was established in 2004. It separated from South Sulawesi.

Economy 

Main industries in the province are mining, agriculture and fishing.

Demographics
The population in the 2010 census was 1,158,651. 171,356 people live below the poverty line of Indonesia.

Religion

References
F. W. Bernstein

F. W. Bernstein (born Fritz Weigle, 4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018) was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic. He worked for the satirical monthly Pardon. He was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1984 to 1999. He was one of the founding members of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, which published the satirical Titanic.

Bernstein died on 20 December 2018 in Berlin at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
 
 Der Göttinger Elch
 Lyriker und Satiriker F.W. Bernstein gestorben (obituary) Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, 21 December 2018
 Nachruf auf den Karikaturisten F.W. Bernstein Ein fast schon kriminell bescheidener Mann  rbb24.de 21 December 2018

1938 births
2018 deaths
German poets
Cartoonists
German educators
Gerard Bernacki

Gerard Bernacki (3 November 1942 – 21 December 2018) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1967. He was titular bishop of Sala Consilina and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Katowice, Poland, from 1988 to 2012.

Bernacki died on 21 December 2018 in Prudnik, Poland at the age of 76. He was buried in Katowice.

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1942 births
2018 deaths
Polish Roman Catholics
Bishops
Jiko Luveni

Jiko Fatafehi Luveni ( – 22 December 2018) was a Fijian politician. She was Speaker of the Parliament of Fiji. She was a member of the FijiFirst party. 

On 22 December 2018, Luveni died at the age of 72 after a short illness.

References

1946 births
2018 deaths
Fijian politicians
Simcha Rotem

Simcha Rotem (born Simcha (Szymon) Rathajzer; 24 February 1924 – 22 December 2018) was a Polish-Israeli veteran. He was a member of the Jewish underground in Warsaw. He was the head courier of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB), which planned and executed the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis. 

He was one of the last two surviving Jewish fighters in the Warsaw uprising and the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising.

Rotem died on 22 December 2018 in Jerusalem from a long-illness at the age of 94.

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1924 births
2018 deaths
People from Warsaw
Polish Jews
Holocaust survivors
Hellsing

is a Japanese manga series created by Kouta Hirano. The series began in 1997 and ended in September 2008.

The series is about a secret Hellsing Organization. The organization fights against vampires, ghouls, and other supernatural enemy who threaten England. The series was licensed for English language release in North America by Dark Horse Comics, in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment, and in Singapore by Chuang Yi.

An anime series of the same name was produced by Gonzo. The series was directed by Umanosuke Iida. It was based on the manga but used a screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka. It was different from the manga in terms of plot, though it used some of the same characters and similar character designs. It has thirteen episodes. It was broadcast on Japan's Fuji Television from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002. An original video animation (OVA) called Hellsing Ultimate was produced by Geneon. It followed the manga storyline more closely than the anime series. The series was 10 episodes long. It was released in Japan between February 10, 2006 and December 26, 2012. In North America, the series ran from December 5, 2006 to October 28, 2014.

Reception
In 2005, the six and seventh volumes of the Hellsing manga series ranked among Diamond Comics Distributors' list of the top 48 manga volumes sold in the United States for the year.  In November 2007, the ninth volume was among the top 10 volumes sold according to Japan's monthly sales rankings.

References
Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (15 August 1931 – 22 December 2018), formerly also called The Red Prince, was a senior member of the Saudi royal family. He was known for his liberal stance. He supported a national Constitution, the full rule of law and equality before the law. He was also the leader of Free Princes Movement. His father was Ibn Saud.

Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud died on 22 December 2018 in Riyadh, aged 87.

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1931 births
2018 deaths
Saudi Arabian people
Princes and princesses
Political activists
Lucas Bersamin

Lucas Purugganan Bersamin (born October 19, 1949) is a Filipino politician. He was the 25th Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines. 

He was named by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the High Court as an Associate Justice on April 2, 2009. He was a member of the Court of Appeals.

References

1949 births
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Living people
Alfred Bader

Alfred Robert Bader, CBE (April 28, 1924 – December 23, 2018) was a Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was called by the Chemical & Engineering News poll of 1998 to be one of the "Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" during C&EN's 75-year history.

Bader in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 23, 2018 from heart failure at the age of 94.

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1924 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Canadian businesspeople
Canadian chemists
Canadian philanthropists
Scientists from Vienna
Octobass

A octobass is a musical instrument. It is a giant bass with three strings. It is played with a stick like a double bass. It has the deepest sound of any string instrument. There are only seven octobass in the world and they are mostly in museums. The only full working octobass is the one in the Montreal symphony orchestra, making it the only orchestra in the world to have a octobass.

String instruments
Nana Chudasama

Nana Mansinh Chudasama (17 June 1933 – 23 December 2018) was an Indian jurist and politician. He was the Mayor and Sheriff of Mumbai from 1989 to 1990. He was the founder of the NGO Giants International which has over 500 branches in India and branches across the world including the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Mauritius and Ukraine.

He died 23 December 2018 in Mumbai at the age of 86 after a brief illness.

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1933 births
2018 deaths
Politicians from Mumbai
Elias M. Stein

Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician. He was a known in the field of harmonic analysis. He was professor of Mathematics at Princeton University from 1963 until his death in 2018.

His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), and the National Medal of Science (2001). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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 Citation for Elias Stein for the 2002 Steele prize for lifetime achievement
 Elias Stein Curriculum Vitae

Wolf Prize winners
1931 births
2018 deaths
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People from Antwerp
Galaxy Express 999

is a manga created in 1977 by Leiji Matsumoto. Many anime movies and television series were created based on this manga. It is set in a high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions into mechanical bodies. By doing so they achieve practical immortality.

The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981.

Matsumoto was inspired to create Galaxy Express 999 by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa.

The movie Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy was released in 1998.

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1998 anime movies
Great Teacher Onizuka

, in short GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga series. It was created by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old Eikichi Onizuka. He becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. Shonan Junai Gumi (lit. "Shōnan True Love Group") and Bad Company are other manga series by Tooru Fujisawa. They focus on the life of Onizuka before he became a teacher in Great Teacher Onizuka. 

A twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 was created based on this manga. A live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 was also created based on this manga. A 43-episode anime television series based on this manga aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000. Both the anime and manga have been licensed in North America by Tokyopop. A second live action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014. It won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen category.

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Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (or just Michelle Yeoh; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. She became famous by having a number of roles in 1990s Hong Kong action movies. She is best known for her role as Wai Lin in Tomorrow Never Dies. Also, she played as Yu Shu Lien in the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. 

Yeow won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant at age 20 in 1983. She also represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant. The pageant was held in Australia. She won.

Yeoh started her career acting in martial arts and action movies. She did her own stunts. In a few earlier movies, she was credited as Michelle Khan. She later wanted to use her real name.

Yeoh played the family matriarch Eleanor Young in Crazy Rich Asians in 2018.

She was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999.

Yeow was born in Ipoh, Malaysia.

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Yona of the Dawn

is a Japanese manga series by Mizuho Kusanagi. It is published in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume from  August 2009. An anime television series based on this manga was created by Pierrot. It aired between October 7, 2014 and March 24, 2015.

Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video rights in North America. The first opening theme is an song by Kunihiko Ryo, called . The first ending theme is  by Vistlip. The second opening theme is "Akatsuki no Hana", by Cyntia. The second ending theme is "Akatsuki", by Akiko Shikata. The first OVA was released on September 18, 2015, the second OVA was released on August 19, 2016 and the third OVA was released on December 20, 2016.

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Glass harmonica

The glass harmonica (also called the armonica) is a musical instrument. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin. It is made up of a spinning stick with glass bowls around it. The player rubs their fingers on the glass bowls as the instrument spins to make music. Different sizes of bowl make different sounds.

Musical instruments
Charles Mattocks

Charles Porter Mattocks (October 11, 1840 – May 16, 1910) was a colonel in the Union Army. He was given the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War.  He was born in Danville, Vermont and served in the 17th Maine Infantry during the American Civil War. After being captured by the Confederate States Army he was a prisoner of war for nine months in Danville, Virginia. Later, he commanded the Maine State Militia and fought as a Brigadier General during the Spanish–American War. He was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1880, was a county attorney for Cumberland County, Maine, and argued a case in the Supreme Court.

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Patrick Steptoe

Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS (9 June 1913, Oxford, England – 21 March 1988, Canterbury) was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist.

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Tupolev Tu-114

Tupolev Tu-114 «Rossiya» (Russian: Tyполев Тy-114 Poccия; NATO reporting name: Cleat) was a Soviet turboprop-powered, long-range airliner designed by Tupolev.

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Majene Regency

Majene Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is  on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Majene. The population of Majene Regency was 150,939 at the 2010 Census.

Administration 
The regency has eight districts ().

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Other websites 

 

Regencies of West Sulawesi
Mamasa Regency

Mamasa Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is  on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Mamasa. The population was 139,962 in the 2010 Census. The Toraja are the most common ethnic group.

Sumarorong Airport
The airport opened in 2012 with a 700-meter runway in 2012. The airport closed in 2016.

Administration 

The regency has seventeen districts ().

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Regencies of West Sulawesi
Mamuju Regency

Mamuju Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is  on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Mamuju. Mamuju is also the capital of West Sulawesi. The population of the regency was 336,879 at the 2010 Census.

Administration 
The regency has eleven districts ().

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Regencies of West Sulawesi
Mamuju (city)

Mamuju is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi.

Education 
Education in Mamuju extends up to SMA III (Year 12) and people from surrounding areas (especially the area of Kalumpang) travel to Mamuju for schooling. Students must travel to larger towns like Makassar for higher education.

Agriculture 
Agriculture in this area includes jackfruit, rambutan, durian, rice, and bananas.

Demographics 
Most people in Mamuju are Muslim. There are many mosques. However, some Christians and Buddhists also live here.

Culture
There is a sandeq race every August from Mamuju to Makassar.

Sister cities
Mamuju has two sister cities:
 Gorontalo City, Gorontalo, Indonesia
 Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa

West Sulawesi
Achille Beltrame

Achille Beltrame (March 18, 1871 – February 19, 1945) was an Italian painter and illustrator from Arzignano.

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

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Mustafa Ali (wrestler)

Adeel Alam (born March 28, 1986) is an American professional wrestler currently signed WWE and perform in SmackDown brand under in his ring name Mustafa Ali. Ali is first wrestler of Pakistani descent.

Professional wrestling career

Independent Circuit (2003-2016) 
Alam wrestle in various wrestling promotion. During his first six years he used a mask. He did it all during the day, while working night shifts as a police officer.

WWE

205 Live (2016-2018) 
On June 25, 2016, after Brazilian wrestler Zumbi was not able to participate in the WWE Cruiserweight Classic due to visa issues, WWE announced that Mustafa Ali would replace him. On July 20, Linch Dorado defeat Ali and he was eliminated from tournament.  He appeared October 26 episode of NXT, where he and Dorado teaming with each other and entered Dusty Rohdes Tag Team Classic. But in first round they were defeated by Kota Ibushi and TJ Perkins.

Professional Wrestling Highlights

In Wrestling 
 ‌‌Finishing Moves
 054 (Imploding 450° Splash)
 450° Splash
 Springboard Spanish Fly 
 Signature Moves
 Dropkick
 Top con grio
 Suicide dive
 Thunder rolling neckbreaker
 Middle rope jumping X-factor
 Tornado DDT
 Superkick
 Chop
 Jackhammer
 Entrance Themes
 "Put 'Em Up" (Cruiserweight Classic; July 20, 2016)
 "Go Hard" by CFO$ feat. Maino (WWE 2016 – 2020)

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2018 Puebla helicopter crash

On December 24, 2018, a helicopter carrying Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo, the newly elected Governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, and her husband, Senator and former Governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, crashed on a hill in Coronango near the city of Puebla.

Five people on board the helicopter were killed in the crash: Alonso, Moreno, the two pilots, Captain Roberto Coppe Obregón and Captain Marco Antonio Pavera Romero, and Héctor Baltazar Mendoza, an assistant to the senator. Alonso was 10 days into her term as governor.

Its destination was the Helipuerto Radio Capital in Mexico City. It crashed on 24 December at 14:50 local time (20:50 GMT), just ten minutes after takeoff from a heliport in Puebla. The crash site is in the Santa María Coronango.

Mexico had sought the aid of the United States National Transportation Safety Board, but the NTSB could not support the investigation due to the government shutdown underway.

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2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown

At midnight EST on Saturday, December 22, 2018, the Federal government of the United States began a shutdown because neither legislative funding was passed for the upcoming fiscal year or a continuing resolution. It lasted until 25 January 2019, the longest shutdown in history. This was also a response from President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign a bill to keep the government open due to lack of funding for his border wall. The shutdown could cost billions of dollars.

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Jozef Adamec

Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager.

He played mostly for Spartak Trnava (1959–61, 1963–64, 1966–76). He was member of Dukla Prague (1961–63), he spent one year with Slovan Bratislava (1964–65) and at the end of career played for lower-division Austrian club Slovan Wien (1977–80).

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 Osobnosti.sk 

1942 births
2018 deaths
Slovak footballers
Osvaldo Bayer

Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, living in Linz am Rhein, Germany. An anarchist, he was a critic of the National Reorganization Process dictatorship (1976–1983).

He also founded the Department of Human Rights in the School of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Buenos Aires.

He worked at the newspapers Noticias Gráficas, Clarin and Esquel, a local newspaper in the Patagonian town of Esquel. In 1958 he founded La Chispa ("The Spark").

Bayer died on 24 December 2018 in Buenos Aires, at the age of 91.

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Documentos de Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer page Anarchist Encyclopedia (English)
Osvaldo Bayer, la Patagonia rebelde. La escritura de la memoria.
Artículo de Bayer en Página12 referido a un caso de la problemática de los Pueblos Originarios

1927 births
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Argentine journalists
Photographers
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Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo

Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo (; 17 December 1973 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. She was a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Alonso Hidalgo was the first woman Governor of Puebla. She was Governor for ten days, from 14 December to 24 December 2018.

Her husband was Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, who was the governor of Puebla from 2011 to 2017.

On 24 December 2018, both Alonso Hidalgo and her husband Valle Rosas were killed in a helicopter crash near Santa María Coronango, Puebla, aged 45.

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Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas

Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the National Action Party (PAN). He was the Governor of Puebla from February 2011 through January 2017. Moreno Valle also was a Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla and as a Senator.

Personal life 
He was married to Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, who was the first woman Governor of Puebla from 17 December to 24 December 2018.

On 24 December 2018, a helicopter carrying Moreno Valle and his wife crashed in a field near the town of Santa María Coronango, where they both died.

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Mexican politicians
Bill Baillie

William David Baillie (28 May 1934 – 25 December 2018) was a New Zealand runner. He represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he placed sixth in the 5000 m. 

He also competed at the 1954, 1958, 1962, and 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand.

In 2001, Baillie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to athletics.

Baillie died in Auckland on 25 December 2018, aged 84.

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Larry Eisenberg

Lawrence Eisenberg (December 21, 1919 – December 25, 2018) was an American biomedical engineer and science fiction writer. He is best known for his short story "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?," published in Harlan Ellison's anthology Dangerous Visions. 

His stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century, The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F, and Great Science Fiction By the World's Great Scientists. He was also known for the limericks he posts in the comments sections of various articles in The New York Times.

Eisenberg died in Lincoln, Massachusetts on December 25, 2018 from acute myeloid leukemia, aged 99.

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Sulagitti Narasamma

Sulagitti Narasamma (Kannada: ಸೂಲಗಿತ್ತಿ ನರಸಮ್ಮ; 1920 – 25 December, 2018) was an Indian midwife. She was from the Pavagada village, in Tumkur district of Karnataka state. She performed more than 15,000 traditional deliveries over a 70-year period of service with no medical facilities and no medical cost. 

Her medical services were directed towards poor people in Karnataka. Her work was honored with the National Citizen's award of India in 2012 and the country’s fourth highest civilian award,  the Padma Shri, in 2018.

Narasamma died at a hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on 25 December 2018 at the age of 98 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Deaths from COPD
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Baldur Ragnarsson

Baldur Ragnarsson (25 August 1930 – 25 December 2018) was an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland. His best known work was La lingvo serena. He was in charge of the World Esperanto Association's literary contest from 1975 to 1985. He was president of the organizing committee for the 1977 World Esperanto Congress at Reykjavík and vice-president of the World Esperanto Association.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature following the death of William Auld in 2006.

Ragnarsson died on 25 December 2018 in Reykjavík at the age of 88.

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Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann is a Japanese mecha anime television series. It was animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. It ran for 27 episodes on Japan's TV Tokyo between April 1, 2007, and September 30, 2007. It was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi. It was written by veteran playwright Kazuki Nakashima. Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome. Lordgenome forces people to live under the surface of the earth. The plot focuses on two teenagers, Simon and Kamina. They live in a village under the earth surface and wish to go to the surface. Using a mecha known as Lagann, Simon and Kamina reach the surface. There they and other humans start fighting against Lordgenome's forces.

In North America, at first it was announced to be licensed by ADV Films in 2007, the license was transferred to Bandai Entertainment in 2008. The license was again transferred to Aniplex of America in 2013. In the United Kingdom, it was licensed by Manga Entertainment in 2007, then transferred to Beez Entertainment in 2008. The license was again transferred to Anime Limited in 2013. The Sci Fi Channel got the broadcasting rights of Gurren Lagann and began airing the anime on July 28, 2008. The anime won several awards at the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Animation Kobe and Japan Media Arts Festivals.

A manga based on this was published by ASCII Media Works between 2007 and 2013. Bandai Entertainment licensed the manga and released it in English in North America. A series of four light novels was published by Shogakukan between 2007 and 2008. A Nintendo DS video game was released in October 2007. Two animated film versions were produced. The first premiered in Japanese theaters on September 6, 2008, and the second premiered on April 25, 2009.

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