cahya/wikipedia-simple-en huggingface dataset:
Flag of Burkina Faso

The flag of Burkina Faso has two equal horizontal bands of red (top) and green, with a yellow five-pointed star in its center. It was adopted on 4 August 1984.

Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
1984 establishments
1980s establishments in Africa
Flag of Togo

The flag of Togo was created in April 1960.

Appearance 
It has five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow. There is a white five-pointed star on a red square in the upper hoist-side corner.

Togo
Togo
Richwiller

Richwiller is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Ei Chheleta Bhelbheleta

Ei Chheleta Bhelbheleta (); was a popular Bengali television Soap Opera that premiered on March 28, 2016 and aired on Zee Bangla. Produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures, it started  Prapti Chatterjee and Somraj Maity in lead roles, Nabanita Malakar in a negative role and Sabitri Chatterjee, Anusuya Majumdar, Shankar Chakraborty and Bharat Kaul in supporting roles. The show Got replaced by a Mythology show Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni.

Plot summary 
The show's unique name has been taken from common Bengali childhood rhyme. It truly captures the free-spirited love and chemistry between the protagonists - Abir and Shaluk. Life takes a turn when introvert city-bred boy 'Abir' meets the vivacious village girl 'Shaluk'. Their unusual friendship clicks in an instant and soon a sweet innocent chemistry develops between the two. Soon they realize their feelings towards each other. Thus, starts the story of their 'first love'. 'Eii Chhele Ta Bhelbhele Ta' is a tale of love, which follows the protagonists through myriad of situations and sees them unite against all odds. The story showcases a pure love story between two teenagers and how their love matures over time and rises above the different obstacles of life.

The show however has a lot of exist undertones too. The lead female character Shaluk is characterized as an all virtuous young lady without any faults .The writers and producers of the show, portray female lead characters idealistically instead of celebrating their faults as part of normal human nature. The supporting characters on the other hand are extremely blatant and malleable. They never show any strong or original viewpoints, as if the only reason for their casting is to complete a joint Bengali family. The male lead Abir is a polygamist and also narcissistic. He is a postgraduate student in Physics(it remains to be seen how that is possible because he is really stupid); without any source of income while staying in his parents house and without even trying is able to seduce two women to marry him. This is either because the women married him for the family heirloom or testimony to the dystopian mindset of the writers.

Cast 
 Prapti Chatterjee as Shaluk {Main Female Lead}
 Somraj Maity as Abir {Main Male Lead}
 Nabanita Malakar as Aishwarya / Mimi {Main Antagonist} (Jailed)

 Sabitri Chatterjee as Shaluk's Grandmother {Parallel Female Lead}
 Anusuya Majumdar as Jaan {Parallel Female Lead} 
 Rita Dutta Chakraborty as Shaluk's Aunt
 Shankar Chakraborty as Abir's Father
 Bharat Kaul as Abinash Sen
 Ritoja Majumder as Sonali {Antagonist}
 Rajasree Bhowmik as Kamalini 
 Suchismita Chowdhury as Nilanjana {Antagonist}
 Surajit Banerjee as Pupe's Father
 Diganta Bagchi as Choton
 Samata Das as Choton's wife
 Ayesha Bhattacharya as Pupe {Antagonist}
 Debjani Chakraborty as Nodi/Ranga Dii
 Debolina Mukherjee as Dighi/Ful Dii
Oriental Pearl Tower

The Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower  is a TV tower in Shanghai. It was the tallest building in China from 1994 to 2007. This tall building in Shanghai, China is used to broadcast television. The tower is 468 meters tall.

The tower is in the Lujiazui neighbourhood in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. 
At the bottom of the tower, there are three large columns. There are also eleven spheres in the tower of different sizes. The tower is supposed to make the viewer think that pearls are dropping onto a jade plate.

References

Other websites

 Official website  

Buildings and structures in Shanghai
Towers in China
1994 establishments in Asia
1990s establishments in China
Buildings and structures completed in the 20th century
Premer Phaande

Premer Phande (); was a  popular romantic comedy Bengali television Soap Opera that premiered on April 18, 2016 and aired on Zee Bangla, produced by Ravi Ojha Productions and started Mishmee Das as main female protagonist and Rajib Basu as main male protagonist.

Plot 
The story revolves around the lives of Mohor and Rishi. Rishi belongs to a joint family and works for a matrimonial company. Rishi’s family is very supportive. He is a young lad and being the elder among two brothers, he is loved and pampered by everyone in the family. On the other hand, Mohor is a mature orphan girl. Mohor comes to Kolkata for her job. One fine day, much to his disgust, Mohor joins the matrimonial company as Rishi’s boss. Mohor, who is new in the city, ends up becoming a tenant at Rishi’s house. Rishi’s family likes Mohor very much and his grandmother wants that Rishi should fall in love with Mohor. From here, starts the sweet fun chemistry of Rishi and Mohor, who being the boss troubles Rishi at work and Rishi, being the landlord irritates Mohor at home. This creates a hilarious ruckus due to the unconventional role reversal of Mohor and Rishi. Will this unique chemistry give rise to a sweet love story?

Casts
 Mishmee Das as Mohor Roy / Priyanka Majumdar (Main Female Lead)
 Rajib Basu as Rishi Ganguly (Main Male Lead)
 Tanima Sen as Rishi’s Grandmother 
 Anirban Guha as Rishi’s Father 
 Chaitali Dutta Burman as Srimoyee Ganguly
 Kanchana Moitra as Shiuli Ganguly
 Abhijit Deb Roy as Rishi’s Uncle
 Aniket Chakraborty as Jeet Ganguly
 Partha Sarathi Deb as Mishra Ji 
 Sujoy Saha as Bijit 
 Misty Das as Mili Ganguly 
 Piyali Mukherjee as Tithi Ganguly 
 Arnab Banerjee as Jayanta Ganguly
 Koushik Chakraborty as Barin Majumdar

References
Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe

Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe (); was a Bengali television serial which used to air on GEC Star Jalsha. It was produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and started Payel Dey and Sourav Chakraborty in the lead roles.

Plot 
The serial takes its name from a song from the dance drama Chitrangada,by Tagore.This is a story of a beautiful girl name Aalo and the various ups and downs she goes throughout her life. A failed marriage caused Aalo to attempt suicide but the twist of fate brought Sourav to her. Aalo accepts to nurture Sourav’s daughter Icche, who suffers from an incurable disease. Though Aalo and Sourav care for each other they never represented themselves as ideal married couple as both of them are traumatized with their past experience of marriage.

Present cast 
 Payel Dey as Aalo Moitra
 Sourav Chakraborty as Sourav Moitra
 Chandrayee Ghosh as Debjani Moitra / Debi
 Koushik Roy as Sougata Moitra
 Sagnik Chatterjee as Sourish Moitra
 Sohini Sanyal as Indrani / Indu
 Elfina Mukherjee as Chandrani / Chhutki
 Manoj Ojha as DK
 Ananya Chatterjee as Debi's Mother
 Ashmita Mukherjee as Sharmi
 Tapan Ganguly as Surendranath Moitra
 Sushmita Dey as Malobika Dutta / Mishtu
 Antara as Bonolata / Lata
 Ratna Ghoshal as Pishima
 Ripom Majumdar as Shobuj / Debarshi

Former cast 
 Saayoni Ghosh as Ujjaini Sen / Rini
 Kaushik Chakraborty as Adinath Siddhanth
 Arindam Chatterjee as Angshuman Lahiri
 Arpita Mukherjee as Mallika
 Debdut Ghosh as SK
 Swagata Mukherjee as Surekha
 Rajat Ganguly as Mamadadu
 Bodhisatva Majumdar as Somnath / Shomu
 Shakuntala Barua as Nonibala
 Ratri Ghatak as Angshuman’s younger sister in law
 Koushani Roy as Rupa
 Kaushik Bhattacharya as Rupa’s Husband
 Saugata Bandyopadhyay as Angshuman’s Boss
 Manasi Sinha as Aalo’ s Mother
 Debesh Chattopadhyay as Aalo’ s Father
 Subhajit Bakshi as Aalo’s Brother
 Ekavali Khanna as Rinky
 Joyjit Banerjee as Shambhu
 Animesh Bhaduri as Indu’s Husband
 Indrani Basu as Ujjaini’s Mother.
 Moumi Bose as Ichche Moitra
 Prity Biswas as Suhaani Sharma
 Basanti Chatterjee as Mishtu’s Grandmother

References 

Soap operas
Indian television series
2012 television series debuts
2012 establishments in India
2014 Indian television series endings
Miguel Díaz-Canel

Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician. He is the 19th and current President of Cuba since 10 October 2019. He is also the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 19 April 2021. Before He was president of the council state of Cuba from 2018 to 2019. He was also the First Vice President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers from 2013 to 2018. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2003.

Díaz-Canel Bermúdez served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 to 2012; he was promoted to the post of Vice President of the Council of Ministers (deputy Prime Minister) in 2012. A year later, on 24 February 2013, he was elected as First Vice President of the Council of State.

Díaz-Canel Bermúdez was close with Raúl Castro and many knew when Castro retired, he would have been the likely successor when he retired in April 2018. He was sworn-in as President a day before his 58th birthday. In April 2021, he replaced Castro as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba.

Has also allowed his country to have WIFI for the first time. This has changed society for the better as well as making him more popular. During the 2021 protest in Cuba, he ordered the police and the Cuban military units to attack the pacific activists and use violence to defend their dictatorship regime. He is also responsible for disappearances, deaths and kidnappings of political activists and protesters.

References

1960 births
Living people
Presidents of Cuba
Current national leaders
Vice presidents
Fletcher Thompson

Standish Fletcher Thompson (born February 5, 1925) is an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia.

Other websites
  Retrieved on 2008-01-24

1925 births
Living people
Lawyers from Atlanta, Georgia
United States representatives from Georgia
Politicians from Atlanta, Georgia
US Republican Party politicians
Benjamin B. Blackburn

Benjamin Bentley Blackburn  (born February 14, 1927) is an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Georgia, who served from 1967 to 1975.

Career
In 1966, Blackburn was elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress, having narrowly defeated freshman incumbent James MacKay by 360 votes. In that same election fellow Republican Bo Callaway challenged the Democrat Lester Maddox. Blackburn was reelected to Congress in the three succeeding terms but was unsuccessful in a campaign for reelection in 1974.

Blackburn served as president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation from 1976 until 1985. In 1982, he ran for Governor of Georgia, but was defeated in the Republican primary by State Senator Bob Bell. Bell then lost in the general election to the Democrat Joe Frank Harris.

References

Other websites
 Retrieved on 2009-5-13

1927 births
Living people
United States representatives from Georgia
Politicians from Atlanta, Georgia
US Republican Party politicians
Jack Thomas Brinkley

Jack Thomas Brinkley (December 22, 1930 – January 23, 2019) was an American politician, educator and lawyer.

Brinkley's political career began as a one term in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1965–1966 and eight consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1967 and ending in 1983 when he chose not to run for re-election.

Brinkley died on January 23, 2019 in Columbus, Georgia from a heart attack at the age of 88.

References

Other websites

1930 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
United States representatives from Georgia
American conservatives
US Democratic Party politicians
Elliott H. Levitas

Elliott Harris Levitas (born December 26, 1930) is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia's 4th congressional district. Levitas was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1964 and served from 1965 to 1974.

References

Other websites
Kilpatrick Townsend profile
 
 

1930 births
Living people
United States representatives from Georgia
Politicians from Atlanta, Georgia
US Democratic Party politicians
J. Roy Rowland

James Roy Rowland, Jr. (born February 3, 1926) is an American politician and physician. 

Rowland served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1976 through 1982. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982 when he defeated Billy Lee Evans, who had accepted illegal campaign contributions. Rowland served six terms in Congress, from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1995, and did not seek renomination in 1994.

References

Other websites

Living people
1926 births
United States representatives from Georgia
American physicians
US Democratic Party politicians
Cato Street conspiracy

The Cato Street conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. Cato Street was their meeting-place, near Edgware Road in London. 

The police had an informer. The plotters fell into a police trap. 13 were arrested, and one policeman was killed. Five conspirators were executed, and five others were transported to Australia. 

How widespread the Cato Street conspiracy was is uncertain. It was a time of unrest; rumours abounded.  Chase notes that, "the London-Irish community and a number of trade societies, notably shoemakers, were prepared to lend support, while unrest and awareness of a planned rising were widespread in the industrial north and on Clydeside".

References 

1820
Punishments
Politics of the United Kingdom
1820s in the United Kingdom
Flag of Senegal

The flag of Senegal () has three equal vertical bands of green, yellow, and red, with a five-pointed green star in its center.

Senegal
Senegal
Flag of Niger

The flag of Niger was adopted on 23 November 1959.

Appearance 
It uses the national colors of orange, white and green, in equal horizontal bands, with an orange rondel in the center.

References 

Niger
Niger
Flag of Norway

The flag of Norway is deep red with a dark blue cross outlined in white. The red, white and blue colors are inspired by the flags of France, United Kingdom and the United States. The colors represent liberty and independence. The flag was created in 1821 by Fredrik Meltzer, who was a member of Norway's parliament, but it wasn't flown until 1899, when Norway and Sweden ended their union.

References

Norway
Norway
Flag of Iceland

The flag of Iceland has a white-fimbriated red Nordic cross on a blue field.

Iceland
Iceland
Riedisheim

Riedisheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. In 2015, 12,151 people lived there.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Tschiertschen-Praden

Tschiertschen-Praden is a municipality of the district Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It started on 1 January 2009 when Praden and Tschiertschen combined.

References 

2009 establishments in Switzerland
Municipalities of Graubünden
Flag of Somalia

The flag of Somalia was created in 1954. It has a single white five-pointed star centered on a light blue field.

Somalia
Somalia
Hashem Asad Allah

Hashem Asad Allah (Arabic:هاشم أسد الله)(Born 15 December 1985) is a Kuwaiti actor, producer and presenter at Alrai TV.

Background 
In 2005, he started his career as a presenter in Alrai TV. He is an actor but he best known as a presenter because he has anchored several shows in Kuwait’s Alrai TV channel over the past 13 years.

References

1985 births
Living people
Kache Aye Shoi

Kache Aye Shoi(English: come close my friend) was a Bengali television serial which used to air on Zee Bangla. It Started Chandini Saha and Gourob Roy Chaudhary in Lead roles.

Cast 
 Chandni Saha as Shoi
 Mimi Dutta as Brishti
 Priyam as Ujaan Roy Chowdhury
 Gourab Roy Chowdhury as Roop
 Bhaswar Chatterjee as Tiyash
 Rupsha Chakraborty as Raahi
 Shaon Dey as Shampa
 Pushpita Mukherjee as Mithu
 Shanghamitra Talukdar as Rinku

References 

Indian television series
2013 television series debuts
2013 establishments in India
2014 Indian television series endings
Tumi Robe Nirobe

Tumi Robe Nirobe () was a Bengali television soap opera which aired on Bengali General Entertainment Channel Zee Bangla. The show telecasted Monday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Plot
The plot revolves around the love story of two special people, Jheel (Shweta Bhattacharya) and Sanju (Shubhankar Saha). They are both deaf and mute. Jheel is the lead dancer of a group called Taal. This dance group is again special because all the performers of this group are deaf and mute. Jheel has a sister Dighi who is also deaf and mute. These two orphan sisters are trying to live their lives against all odds. In the course of time Jheel and Sanju meet through Sanju's father (Arjun Chakraborty). How Jheel and Sanju develop the most special relationship is the story of Tumi Robe Nirobe.

Cast
Shweta Bhattacharya as Jheel Mukherjee (née Banerjee)
Shubhankar Saha as Sanjit Mukherjee / Sanju
Arjun Chakraborty as Jashojit Mukherjee
Suchismita Chowdhury as Leela Sen Mukherjee
Anusuya Majumdar as Jaya Bhattacharya
Tonni Laha Roy as Dighi Mukherjee (née Banerjee)
Rajiv Bose as Ranjit Mukherjee / Ranju
Upanita Banerjee as Sneha Roy (née Mukherjee)
Vikramjit Chowdhury as Neel Roy
Kanchana Moitra as Rotee Roy
Raja Chatterjee as Agnidev Roy
Lily Chakraborty as Sunetra Lahiri 
Deerghoi Paul as Arna
Puja Gangopadhyay / Sreemoyee Chattoraj / Piyali Mukherjee as Sneha
Malobika Sen as Malobika Sen
Paean Sarkar as Roosha
Amitabha Bhattacharyya as Doctor

References
 http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/Tumi-Robe-Nirobe-First-Ever-Soap-on-the-Differently-Abled/871378

2014 Indian television series debuts
2016 television series endings
Indian television series
2010s disestablishments in India
Rannaghor

Rannaghor is a Popular cookery show which airs on Zee Bangla. It is hosted by Sudipa Mukherjee. Sometimes in the special episodes, it had also been hosted by film personalities, such as Sonali Chowdhury and Manali Dey. It is the third longest-running Indian television series.

Rules
Everyday a person is invited to the show who prepares a certain item.

Guest appearances
Many eminent figures of Bengal including Raja Narayan Deb, Srabanti Chatterjee, Tanusree Chakraborty, Usha Uthup Koel Mallick Dev and others have appeared in the show..

References

Indian television series
2018 Hawaii false missile alert

On January 13, 2018, a false ballistic missile alert was issued by the Emergency Alert System and Commercial Mobile Alert System over television, radio, and cellphones in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The alert said that there was an incoming ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, advised residents to seek shelter, and said "this is not a drill". 

The message was sent at 8:07 a.m. HST. 38 minutes later a second message was sent describing the first as a "false alarm". State officials later blamed a button pushed in error during a shift change at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for the false first message.

Governor David Ige publicly said he was sorry for the false alert. The United States Federal Communications Commission and the Hawaii House of Representatives announced investigations into the incident.

References

February 2018 events
2018 in Hawaii
Doodhnath Singh

Doodhnath Singh (17 October 1936 – 12 January 2018) was an Indian Hindi language writer, critic, playwright, editor and poet. He was born in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. Singh did his masters in Hindi from the University of Allahabad. He served as an assistant professor there till 1994. In 2014, the Government of Uttar Pradesh honoured him with their Bharat Bharti Samman.

Some of Singh's well known works were Sapaat Chehre Wala Aadmi, Aakhri Kalaam, Nishkaasan, Bhai Ka Shok Geet, Dharmakshetra-Kurukshetra and Surang se Lautate Huye. He also authored three collections of poems, Ek Aur Bhi Aadmi Hai, Agli Shatabdi Ke Naam and Yuva Khusboo. He was also a literary critic.

Singh died on 12 January 2018 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh of prostate cancer at the age of 81.

References

1936 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in India
Indian academics
Indian playwrights
Indian poets
Indian novelists
Indian critics
People from Uttar Pradesh
Yılmaz Onay

Yılmaz Onay (April 20, 1937 – January 9, 2018) was a Turkish author, artist, theatre director, playwright and translator. He was born in Gaziantep, Turkey.

He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published.

As a director, he staged most of Brecht’s works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. He was known for staging a known play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich written by Brecht.

Onay died in Gaziantep of stomach cancer on January 9, 2018 at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
Publisher Mitos Boyut

1937 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Turkish writers
Novelists
Playwrights
Critics
Artists
Stephane Gauger

Stephane Gauger (August 30, 1969 – January 11, 2018) was a Vietnamese-born American movie director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City. He was raised in Orange County, California. He was best known for his movies Owl and the Sparrow, Saigon Electric and Chinatown Squad. 

Gauger was a nominee of the Breakthrough Director Award at the 2007 Gotham Awards and the John Cassavetes Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards (for his work with Owl and the Sparrow (2007)). 

On January 11, 2018, Gauger died of a stroke in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at the age of 48.

References

Other websites
 

1969 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Los Angeles
Vietnamese people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American cinematographers
Movie directors from California
Screenwriters from California
Claude Lelouch

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French movie director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. He was born in Paris, France. He is known for his work in the musical epic Les Uns et les Autres (1981). He also directed C'était un rendez-vous. He won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Movie and for Original Screenplay.

In 1993, he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.

References

Other websites

Academy Award winning writers
1937 births
Living people
French movie actors
French screenwriters
Cinematographers
Movie directors from Paris
Writers from Paris
Tschiertschen

Tschiertschen is a village in the municipality of Tschiertschen-Praden of the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

The formerly independent municipality merged with Praden to form Tschiertschen-Praden on January 1, 2009.

Villages in Graubünden
Former municipalities of Graubünden
Flag of Gabon

The flag of Gabon has three horizontal bands of green, gold, and blue.

Gabon
Gabon
Flag of Eswatini

The flag of Eswatini was adopted on October 6, 1968.

Appearance 
It has a horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) and the yellow-edged red (triple width) with the large black and white Nguni shield covering two spears and the staff decorated with the feather tassels called injobo (tassels-bunches of feathers of the widowbird and the lourie) all centered horizontally of the red band.

Eswatini
Eswatini
Spanky Manikan

Spanky Manikan (March 22, 1942 – January 14, 2018) was a Filipino actor for theater, movie and television. He was born in Manila. 

Manikan was known for his roles as Orly in Himala (1981) and as NAVA in the 1986 movie Behind Enemy Lines, co-starring David Carradine. He won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Himala in 1982. At the time of his death, Manikan was starring as Mr. Jang in the drama series My Love from the Star.

Manikan died of lung cancer on January 14, 2018 in Manila at the age of 75.

References

Other websites
 

1942 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Filipino actors
Filipino movie actors
Stage actors
Filipino television actors
People from Manila
Flag of Namibia

The flag of Namibia was adopted on 21 March 1990 upon independence from South Africa. It was designed by Frederick Brownell.

Appearance 
It has a white-edged red diagonal band radiating from the lower hoist-side corner. The upper triangle is blue, charged with a gold sun with 12 triangular rays and the lower triangle is green.

References 

Namibia
Namibia
Mohammed Hazzaz

Mohammed Hamid Hazzaz named also Hamid El-Hazzaz (30 November 1945 – 13 January 2018) was a Moroccan football goalkeeper. He also played for MAS Fez.

Hazzaz died on 13 January 2018 at the age of 72.

References 

1945 births
2018 deaths
Moroccan footballers
Flag of Rwanda

The flag of Rwanda was adopted on October 25, 2001. It has a horizontal tricolour of blue (double width), yellow and green, with a yellow sun in the upper-fly side corner.

Rwanda
Rwanda
Jeraldine Saunders

Jeraldine Saunders (born Geraldine Loretta Glynn; September 3, 1923 – February 26, 2019) was an American television writer, columnist, model and lecturer. She was born in Los Angeles. Saunders was best known as the creator of The Love Boat, an ABC Television series. She was the columnist of Omarr’s Astrological Forecast, a nationally syndicated horoscope column.

Saunders was involved in a homicide investigation in 1968, when she discovered her fiance, actor Albert Dekker dead in his Hollywood home. The death was ruled to be accidental. 

Saunders died from complications of kidney stone surgery on February 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, aged 96.

References

Other websites
 

1923 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Deaths from kidney disease
American television writers
American columnists
Educators from Los Angeles
Models from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Albert Dekker

Albert Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American character actor and politician. He was best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1945 through 1947 as a Democrat.

Dekker was found dead at his home in Hollywood, California by his fiancée Jeraldine Saunders on May 5, 1968. He was 62 years old. He was naked, kneeling in the bathtub, with a noose tightly wrapped around his neck and looped around the shower curtain rod. His death was ruled to be an accidental case of erotic asphyxiation.

Dekker has a star, in the motion picture category, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6620 Hollywood Boulevard.

References

Other websites

 
 
 
 

1905 births
1968 deaths
Accidental deaths from erotic asphyxiation
Accidental deaths in the United States
American movie actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
Politicians from New York City
Politicians from California
Actors from New York City
Actors from California
US Democratic Party politicians
State legislators of the United States
Stephen Milligan

Stephen David Wyatt Milligan (12 May 1948 – 7 February 1994) was a British Conservative politician and journalist. He was elected to serve as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh in 1992. 

Milligan was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jonathan Aitken, Minister of State for Defence, and was regarded as a "rising star" of the Conservative Party.

Milligan was found dead in his house in Chiswick, London, in February 1994, apparently self-strangled by the use of an electrical cord during an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.

References

1948 births
1994 deaths
Accidental deaths from erotic asphyxiation
Accidental deaths in the United Kingdom
British journalists
Writers from Surrey
William Howard Taft High School (Chicago)

William Howard Taft High School is a public 4–year high school in the Norwood Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Taft allows students from Norwood Park, Edison Park, Jefferson Park, Forest Glen and O'Hare to attend. 

Taft is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. The school is perhaps most famous as the high school attended by Jim Jacobs, the writer of Grease. Jacobs used Taft as an inspiration in writing the musical. 

Since 2014, Taft High School has been considered a "wall-to-wall" IB school as part of the International Baccalaureate foundation. Taft high school has offered the International Baccalaureate program since 2001.

References

Schools in Illinois
William Howard Taft
Lane Technical College Prep High School

Lane Technical College Preparatory High School (also known as Lane Tech) is a public 4-year selective enrollment magnet high school located in the Roscoe Village neighborhood in North Center, Chicago, United States. It is a part of the Chicago Public Schools district. Lane is one of the oldest schools in the city and has an enrollment of over four thousand students, making it the largest high school in Chicago.

References

Schools in Illinois
Mark Herring

Mark Rankin Herring (born September 25, 1961) is an American lawyer. He was the 47th Attorney General of Virginia from 2014 to 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Senate of Virginia since a 2006 special election.  He represented the 33rd district, made up of parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties.

In December 2018, Herring announced his plans to run for Governor of Virginia in the 2021 election. However; later decided to run for re-election as State Attorney General. He lost his re-election campaign in November 2021 to Republican Jason Miyares.

In the wake of Ralph Northam's controversy over blackface pictures appearing on his yearbook page, Herring admitted to also wearing blackface. Herring, like Northam, resisted calls to resign.

References

1961 births
Living people
lawyers from Virginia
lawyers from Tennessee
Politicians from Virginia
Politicians from Tennessee
US Democratic Party politicians
Victoria, Grenada

Victoria is a town in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada.

Towns in North America
Grenada
Steve Smith (cricketer)

Steven Peter Devereux Smith (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team.
, Smith is the top-ranked Test batsman in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. On 30 December 2017 he reached a Test batting rating of 947, the second-highest of all time only behind Don Bradman's 961. He is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world. He plays for New South Wales and Sydney Sixers in domestic cricket.

Although he was initially selected for Australia as a right-arm leg spinner, Smith now plays primarily as a batsman. After a few tests in 2010 and 2011, he has been a regular player in the Australian team since 2013, and took over captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015. Since then he has primarily batted at number 4.

Awards he has won include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015, 2017; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One Day International Player of the Year: 2015. He was named by Wisden as one of their Cricketers of the Year for 2015. In 2014, Martin Crowe described Smith as one of the young Fab Four of Test Cricket along with Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli.

In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa. Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from all international and domestic cricket for one year, and will not be considered for a leadership role for another year after that.

Early life
Smith was born in Sydney to an Australian father, Peter, who has a degree in chemistry and works with pigments and waxes, and an English mother, Gillian.

Records
 He holds the record for the most consecutive 50+ scores in World Cup history with 5 such scores in the 2015 Cricket World Cup
 The second highest Test batting rating of 947, only behind Don Bradman's 961.

Suspension
In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa.

Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from international cricket for 12 months, and will not be considered for a leadership role for 12 months after that.

References

Other websites

Steve Smith at Howstat
Steve Smith at Cricket Australia
Steve Smith at Yahoo! Cricket

Australian cricketers
Living people
1989 births
Doug Harvey (umpire)

Harold Douglas Harvey (March 13, 1930 – January 13, 2018) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). He worked in the National League (NL) from 1962 through 1992. He was born in South Gate, California but was raised in San Diego, California.

Harvey umpired five World Series and six All-Star Games. His career total of 4,673 games ranked third in major league history at the time of his retirement. He was the ninth umpire to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

On January 13, 2018, Harvey died at the age of 87. He was under hospice care in Visalia, California. He had been suffering from esophageal cancer.

References

1930 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Cancer deaths in California
Sportspeople from San Diego, California
Jean Porter

Bennie Jean Porter (December 8, 1922 – January 13, 2018) was an American actress. She was born in Cisco, Texas. She was known for her roles in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) and One Million B.C. (1940).

Porter was active throughout the 1940s. She appeared in almost 30 movies with MGM stars like Esther Williams, Mickey Rooney and the comedy duo Abbott & Costello. In the 1950s, Porter appeared mainly in television series such as The Red Skelton Show, Sea Hunt,  and 77 Sunset Strip. She retired from acting in 1961.

Porter died in Canoga Park, California of natural causes, at the age of 95.

References

Other websites

 
 

1922 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
Disease-related deaths in California
American movie actors
American child actors
American television actors
Actors from Texas
Actors from California
Engels, Saratov Oblast

Engels is a city located in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1747.  It's a port connected with Saratov over Volga River with a bridge.

It was previously known as Pokrovskaya sloboda (until 1916), Pokrovsk (until 1931-1933).

Twin cities 
Engels is a sister city of
 Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

References 

Cities in Russia
Saratov Oblast

Saratov Oblast (, Saratovskaya oblast) is a  administrative division of Russia.

Geography
Saratov Oblast is located in southeast of European Russia, in northern part of Lower Volga region and borders are:

 Volgograd Oblast to south
 Voronezh and Tambov oblasts to west
 Penza, Samara and Ulyanovsk oblasts to north;
 Republic of Kazakhstan to east.

Demographics 
In terms of people, population of this oblast: 2,521,892 (2010).

Ethnic composition (2010):
 Russians - 87.6%
 Tatars - 2.2%
 others - 2.1%

Religion 
A 2012 survey showed these are the major religions in the oblast:

Related pages
 Russia

References 

Oblasts of Russia
Politics
Nina Turner

Nina Turner (born December 7, 1967) is an American progressive politician. Turner, a Democrat, served as a member of the Ohio State Senate from 2008 to 2014, and was elected to be the chamber’s Minority Whip in the 129th General Assembly.

Works
Turner has been seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party. She endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and became an active supporter for him. 

Turner is President of the Sanders-affiliated group Our Revolution in 2017, taking over from former Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver.

After Marcia Fudge was selected as Biden's nomination for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Turner filed paperwork to run for in the special election for Ohio's 11th congressional district. She lost the election ton Shontel Brown.

References

1967 births
Living people
American progressives
Politicians from Cleveland, Ohio
US Democratic Party politicians
State legislators of the United States
Jim Hightower

James Allen Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American columnist, progressive  political activist, and author. From 1983 to 1991, he served as elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture during the Governships of Mark White and Bill Clements. He was born in Denison, Texas.

Hightower had endorsed Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in 2016, actively campaigning for the Democratic candidate.

References

1943 births
Living people
American columnists
American progressives
American political activists
Writers from Texas
Politicians from Texas
US Democratic Party politicians
People from Denison, Texas
American bloggers
Doreen Tracey

Doreen Isabelle Tracey (April 13, 1943 – January 10, 2018) was an American performer and actress. She was known for appearing on the original Mickey Mouse Club television show from 1955 to 1958. She was born in London, England.

Tracey died of pneumonia complicated from cancer on January 10, 2018 in Thousand Oaks, California, at the age of 74.

References

Other websites

1943 births
2018 deaths
Actors from London
American child actors
American models
American movie actors
American television actors
Cancer deaths in California
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in California
Models from London
Cyrille Regis

Cyrille Regis, MBE (9 February 1958 – 14 January 2018) was an English international footballer. He played as a forward.

His professional playing career lasted 19 years, where he made 614 league appearances and scored 158 league goals, most notably at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City. He also won five caps for the England national team.

Regis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

Regis died of cardiac arrest on 14 January 2018 at the age of 59.

References

1958 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
English footballers
Premier League players
Northerly Island

Northerly Island is a  man-made peninsula along Chicago's lakefront. 

The site of the Adler Planetarium, Northerly Island connects to the mainland through a narrow isthmus along Solidarity Drive made-up by Neoclassical sculptures of Kościuszko, Havliček and Copernicus. With the demolition of Meigs Field Airport, it is now a part of the Museum Campus and has been made into parkland. 

A semi-temporary concert venue, the Huntington Bank Pavilion occupies part of the site of the former airport.

References

Parks in Chicago
Birobidzhan

Birobidzhan (; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן‎) is a town in Russia. It is the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the Chinese border. As of 2019, the population was 73,129.

Other websites
 Official website of Birobidzhan

Cities in Russia
Capital cities in Russia
Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony (born January 20, 1922) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

From 1953 to 1954 Anthony was the musical director of the television series TV's Top Tunes, and he also appeared as himself in the 1955 movie Daddy Long Legs.

In 1957, Anthony and his orchestra recorded the music score for the movie This Could Be The Night, with vocals performed by Julie Wilson.

Anthony's compositions include "Thunderbird", "The Bunny Hop", "Trumpet Boogie", "Big Band Boogie", and "Mr. Anthony's Boogie".

Anthony was a close friend of the late Hugh Hefner and appeared in many episodes of The Girls Next Door.

References

Other websites
 Ray Anthony Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2008)
 The official Ray Anthony Webpage
 Ray Anthony biography at SwingMusic.net
 Ray Anthony biography at SpaceAgePop.com
 
 

1922 births
Living people
Trumpeters
American songwriters
American jazz musicians
American movie actors
American bandleaders
Musicians from Pennsylvania
Actors from Pennsylvania
Writers from Pennsylvania
DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Currently, DARPA's mission statement is “to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.”

Military of the United States
Research organizations in the United States
Technology organizations
Fritter

A fritter is a fried food. The food is a portion of batter or breading. It is filled with either meat, seafood, vegetables or fruit.

In the United Kingdom, fritters can be with fish and chips. There is also a food item, like an apple ring or a slice of potato.

In the United States, fritters are small cakes made with a primary ingredient; it is then mixed with an egg and milk batter. The fritters are pan-fried or deep-fried. Corn fritters are made with corn and are generally deep fried. Apple fritters are well known in America; the contemporary apple fritter in America is not like the British one.

References

Fried foods
Ke Apon Ke Por

Ke Apon Ke Por is a Bengali Drama series that airs on Star Jalsha and Star Jalsha HD at 7:30 PM every day. Pallabi Sharma plays the role of protagonist Joba having garnered momentous viewer appraisal. Bishwajit Ghosh plays Param, the other half of a well-loved screen-couple.

The show comes from Boyhood Productions, one of the leading production houses in Kolkata.

Plot
Ke Apon Ke Por focuses on the journey of a girl that started out as a domestic help and went on to establish herself as someone who’s well suited to be the daughter-in-law of the household and a Lawyer by profession. Alternatively, what forms the core of the show is also reflected in the beautiful love story between Joba and the son of the very affluent family, Param. 

This story also brings to light the trials of a joint family where sons and daughters try to break away. Joba however, still tries to hold the family together. As parents try to build a family with a lot of love and care, sons and daughters grow up to be selfish and remain concerned only about parents’ money and property. As parents fear divisive tendencies in the family, circumstances get Param and Joba to tie the knot. Siblings rot over possibilities of paternal property going entirely to Joba and Param and eventually seize riches and drive the parents out. Param and Joba toil endlessly to hold pieces of the family together.

In the recent past, the story has taken a successful leap as Joba and Param face the bitter-sweet realities of being parents to kids that continue to grow up and grow apart. The show is also simultaneously establishing the position of Itu who happens to resemble Joba in more ways than one. Fate intervenes and Itu gets married to Sarthak, Joba and Param’s Son.

Cast
 Pallavi Sharma as Joba
 Biswajit Ghosh as Param
 Indranil Chattejee as Sarthak
 Titli Aich as Itu
 Simran Upadhyay as Koyel

Crew
 Director - Siddhartha Pal
 Producer - Nispal Singh & Susanta Das
 Screenplay - Sayantani Bhattacharya
 Dialogue - Saurav Sengupta
 Camera - Ashok Pramanik
 Editing - Amitabha Bagchi
 Music Director - Debjit

Adaptations

References

Indian television series
2016 Indian television series debuts
Rozendaal

Rozendaal is a village and municipality in the Province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.

About 1,500 people were living in the municipality in 2017.

Rozendaal lies at the southern edge of the nature reserve of the Veluwe, and consists of heath and forests.

The village is just northeast of the city of Arnhem, and borders the village of Velp.

Settlements 
 Imbosch (hamlet)
 Rozendaal (village)
 Terlet (hamlet, partly in the municipality of Arnhem)

Other websites 

Municipalities of Gelderland
Settlements in Gelderland
Jean-Louis Koszul

Jean-Louis Koszul (; January 3, 1921 – January 12, 2018) was a French mathematician. He was born in Strasbourg, France. Koszul was best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. From 1980 until his death, Koszul was a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Koszul died on January 12, 2018 in Paris at the age of 97.

References

Other websites
 *Jean-Louis Koszul at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

1921 births
2018 deaths
French mathematicians
Masahito, Prince Hitachi

is a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the younger brother of Emperor Akihito. He is the second son and sixth born child of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun and is fourth in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne. 

Prince Hitachi is mainly known for philanthropic activities and his research on the causes of cancer.

Prince Hitachi and his wife Princess Hitachi have their official residence in a palace in large gardens off Komazawadori in Higashi, Shibuya. They have no children.

References

Other websites
Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Hitachi at the Imperial Household Agency website

1935 births
Princes and princesses
Living people
People from Tokyo
Atsuko Ikeda

, formerly , is the widow of Marquis  and fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. She is the older sister of Emperor Akihito. She married Takamasa Ikeda on 10 October 1952. As a result, she gave up her imperial title and left the Japanese Imperial Family, as required by law.

Titles and styles
 7 March 1931 – 10 October 1952: Her Imperial Highness The Princess Yori
 10 October 1952 – present: Mrs. Takamasa Ikeda

References

1931 births
Living people
Japanese people
Princes and princesses
Dolores O'Riordan

Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (; 6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician and singer-songwriter. She led the rock band The Cranberries for thirteen years before the band took a break starting in 2003, reuniting in 2009.

Her first solo album Are You Listening? was released in May 2007 and was followed up by No Baggage in 2009. She was known for yodeling and for her strong Limerick accent. 

O'Riordan appeared as a judge on RTÉ's The Voice of Ireland during the 2013/14 season. In April 2014 O'Riordan joined Jetlag (now called D.A.R.K.) and began recording new material. 

In May 2017, O'Riordan said that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

O'Riordan, who was drunk, accidentally drowned in her London hotel room on 15 January 2018 at the age of 46.

References

Other websites

1971 births
2018 deaths
Accidental deaths by drowning
Drug-related deaths in the United Kingdom
Irish guitarists
Irish rock musicians
Irish singer-songwriters
Irish television personalities
People from Limerick
People with bipolar disorder
Bobby Rush

Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23, 1946) is an American politician, civil rights leader and pastor. Rush is the U.S. Representative for . He was first elected in 1992 and took office in 1993. The district was located in the South Side of Chicago. 

A member of the Democratic Party, Rush is the only politician to have defeated Barack Obama in an election, which he did in the 2000 Democratic primary for Illinois' 1st congressional district.

A civil rights activist during the 1960s, Rush became radicalized for a period and founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers.

In 1999, Rush ran for Mayor of Chicago, but lost in the Democratic primary to incumbent Richard M. Daley.

In 2015, Rush endorsed Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Emanuel's run-off reelection campaign against Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.

On January 3, 2022, he announced that he was retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives.

References

Other websites
Congressman Bobby Rush official U.S. House site

 

1946 births
Living people
African American politicians
United States representatives from Illinois
American civil rights activists
Politicians from Chicago
Politicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
US Democratic Party politicians