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Bajlo Tomar Alor Benu

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

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

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

Indian soap operas
2018 Indian television series debuts
2019 disestablishments
Doab

Doab is an word used in India and Pakistan and means a piece of land between two rivers, extending to where the two rivers meet. The most important of these is between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

Landforms of Asia
Digital audio

Digital audio is sound which has been turned into a computer file. Digital audio files can be played on MP3 players, computers, smartphones, and more. Digital audio may be uncompressed, such as CDs, losslessly compressed, such as FLAC files, or lossily compressed, such as MP3 files. Audio is converted to digital format using a device called an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC takes samples of the amplitude of the signal at a specific sample rate (for example, 44100 times per second). These samples are binary numbers. When converting back to analog, a device called a digital to analog converter (DAC) recreates the original analog signal that matches the given samples.

Sound
Electronics
Gate of China

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

China
Aerobic organism

An aerobic organism or aerobe is a very small organism which lives in a place that has oxygen.

Cellular respiration
Microbiology
Catalan solid

Catalan solids are a concept from geometry: For each Archimedean solid there is a Catalan solid that is its duality (mathematics. In total, there are thirteen Catalan solids (as there are thirtin Archimedean solids). They are named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan of the 19th centurty.
Each Catalan solid is a convex polyhedron. Like with Archimewdean solids, each surface is made of the same shape.
Geometry
Clearwater County, Minnesota

Clearwater County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 8,695 people lived there. The county seat is Bagley.

Minnesota counties
Cook County

Cook County is the name of three counties in the United States:
 Cook County, Georgia
 Cook County, Illinois
 Cook County, Minnesota

Other 
 Cooke County, Texas
 Crook County
Cook County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Crow Wing County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Dakota County, Minnesota

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

References 

1849 establishments in Minnesota Territory
Minnesota counties
Thürnen

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

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Wenslingen

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Wittinsburg

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Zeglingen

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Labrador Peninsula

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

The peninsula is very sparsely populated, especially in the north.
Geography of Canada
Győző Forintos

Győző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935 – 6 December 2018) was a Hungarian chess master and an economist. He was born in Budapest. He first participated in the Hungarian Championship as early as 1954 and became the national champion in 1968/1969. Forintos was awarded the International Master title in 1963 and the Grandmaster title in 1974.

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

References

Other websites
Olimpbase - Olympiads and other Team event information

1935 births
2018 deaths
Hungarian sportspeople
Chess grandmasters
People from Budapest
Jim Meehan

Jim Meehan (March 19, 1952 – December 6, 2018), sometimes known as Minneapolis Jim Meehan, was an American professional poker player. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before his poker career, Meehan worked as a lawyer for many years. 

Meehan began playing poker in the 1960s, and began playing poker tournaments regularly in 1997, when he had a 2nd-place finish in the $3,000 limit hold'em event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He finished 3rd in the $2,500 limit Omaha event at the 1999 WSOP.

Meehan died on December 6, 2018 in Minneapolis at the age of 66.

References

1952 births
2018 deaths
Lawyers from Minnesota
Poker players
People from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Enrico Crispolti

Enrico Crispolti (18 April 1933 – 8 December 2018) was an Italian art critic, curator and art historian. He was born in Rome.

From 1984 to 2005 he was professor of history of contemporary art at the Università degli Studi di Siena, and director of the school of specialisation in art history. He taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome (1966–1973) and at the Università degli Studi di Salerno (1973–1984). He was author of the catalogues raisonnés of the works of Enrico Baj, Lucio Fontana and Renato Guttuso.

Crispolti died in Rome on 8 December 2018, aged 85.

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1933 births
2018 deaths
Italian artists
Italian educators
Italian historians
Italian art critics
Writers from Rome
João Clemente Baena Soares

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

References

1931 births
Living people
Diplomats
Secretaries General of the Organization of American States
Brazilian politicians
Alejandro Orfila

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

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

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

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

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

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1925 births
2021 deaths
Diplomats
Human rights activists
Argentine politicians
Secretaries General of the Organization of American States
98 Degrees

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

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

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

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

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

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

References

American R&B bands
American pop music groups
American boy bands
1996 establishments in California
1990s American music groups
2000s American music groups
2010s American music groups
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Deaths in 2019

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

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

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

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016
 Deaths in 2017
 Deaths in 2018
 Deaths in 2020

Other websites
The Guardian, UK obituaries
The Telegraph obituaries
Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
The New York Times, US obituaries
The Washington Post obituaries
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries

Index lists
Mel Sembler

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

References

1930 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from Missouri
US Republican Party politicians
Richard N. Gardner

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

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

References

Other websites

1927 births
2019 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from New York City
US Democratic Party politicians
Edward L. Romero

Edward L. Romero (also Romæro, born on January 2, 1934) is an American politician and activist. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra between the years of 1998 and 2001.

References

Other websites
 Ambassador Romero 

1934 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from Colorado
US Democratic Party politicians
Alamosa, Colorado

Alamosa is a city and the county seat in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States.  The city population was 8,780 at the 2010 United States Census.

References

Cities in Colorado
County seats in Colorado
Paul H. Robinson Jr.

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

References

Other websites
NNDB Profile

1930 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States
Businesspeople from Chicago
Politicians from Chicago
US Republican Party politicians
Julian Nava

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

References

Other websites

1927 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to Mexico
Educators from Los Angeles
Politicians from Los Angeles
US Democratic Party politicians
Felix Rohatyn

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

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

References

1928 births
2019 deaths
Ambassadors of the United States
Businesspeople from New York City
Politicians from New York City
Politicians from Vienna
US Democratic Party politicians
Howard H. Leach

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

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

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

References

1930 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to France
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from California
Politicians from California
US Republican Party politicians
Munster, Indiana

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

References

Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
Towns in Indiana
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

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

2017 comedy movies
2010s fantasy movies
2010s adventure movies
American fantasy movies
American adventure movies
American comedy movies
English-language movies
Jungle movies
Movies directed by Jake Kasdan
Venom (movie)

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

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

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

References

Other websites

 
 
 

2018 movies
American superhero movies
English-language movies
2010s monster movies
2010s superhero movies
American movies
American science fiction movies
Columbia Pictures movies
Drone movies
IMAX movies
Movies set in 2018
Didube Pantheon

The Didube Pantheon () is a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, scholars, scientists and political activists of Georgia are buried. It was opened in 1939. The pantheon is located in the Didube District.

Related pages 
 Mtatsminda Pantheon
 Saburtalo Pantheon

Cemeteries
Buildings and structures in Asia
Tbilisi
College City, Arkansas

College City is a town in the US state of Arkansas.

Towns in Arkansas
Eric Anderson

Eric Walfred Anderson (May 26, 1970 – December 9, 2018) was an American basketball player. He is best known for his college career at Indiana University and played two seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the New York Knicks. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Anderson died on December 9, 2018 at the age of 48.

References 

1970 births
2018 deaths
American basketball players
New York Knicks players
Sportspeople from Chicago
Augst

Augst (Swiss German: Augscht) is a municipality of the district Liestal in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Kapellbrücke

The Kapellbrücke ("Chapel Bridge" in German) is a  long bridge crossing the Reuss River in the city of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is the oldest wooden bridge in Europe, and one of Switzerland's main tourist attractions.

Buildings and structures in Switzerland
Wooden bridges
Lucerne
Dodge County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Douglas County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Omega (Cyrillic)

Omega (Ѡ ѡ or Ѡ ѡ; italics: Ѡ ѡ or Ѡ ѡ) is a letter used in the early Cyrillic alphabet. It came from the Greek Omega.
Faribault County, Minnesota

Faribault County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 14,553 people lived there. The county seat is Blue Earth.

Minnesota counties
Er with tick

Er with tick (Ҏ ҏ; italics: Ҏ ҏ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Er with tick is used only in the alphabet of the Kildin Sami language.

Cyrillic letters
Fillmore County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Powhatan, Arkansas

Powhatan is a town in the US state of Arkansas.

Towns in Arkansas
Freeborn County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Bubendorf

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

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Frenkendorf

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

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Houston, Arkansas

Houston is a town in the US state of Arkansas.

Towns in Arkansas
Stadio Renzo Barbera

Stadio Renzo Barbera is a sports stadium in Palermo, Italy. It is mainly used for football matches. It has a seating capacity of 36,349. The stadium was opened on 24 January 1932. It is the home stadium of U.S. Città di Palermo of Serie A and sometimes the Italy national team.

Stadio Renzo Barbera hosted three matches of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

References

Other websites

 

Sports buildings in Italy
Football in Italy
Football stadiums in Europe
Palermo
1930s establishments in Italy
1932 establishments in Europe
Godzilla (1998 movie)

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

References 

1998 action movies
1990s adventure movies
1990s science fiction movies
1990s American action movies
1990s American adventure movies
American science fiction movies
English-language movies
Godzilla
Movies about dinosaurs
Movies directed by Roland Emmerich
List of Latin phrases (N)



N 

Latin words and phrases
Away colours

Away colours are a choice of coloured clothing used in team sports.

Related pages
 Throwback uniform
 Road (sports)

References

Other websites
 Galleries of historical soccer kits: English clubs & Scottish clubs
 True Colours Football Kits history site

Sports clothing
Sports words
Adnams Brewery

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

1872 establishments in England
Companies of the United Kingdom
Drink companies
Suffolk
Gold Coast Desalination Plant

The Gold Coast desalination plant is a  reverse osmosis, water desalination plant located in Tugun, a seaside suburb of the Gold Coast.

References 

2009 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in Queensland
Goodhue County, Minnesota

Goodhue County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2010, 46,183 people lived there. The county seat is Red Wing.

Minnesota counties
Grant County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Elbow Lake, Minnesota

Elbow Lake is a city in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It is the county seat of Grant County.

Cities in Minnesota
County seats in Minnesota
Houston County, Minnesota

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

References 

1850s establishments in Minnesota Territory
1854 establishments in the United States
Minnesota counties
University of Lucerne

The University of Lucerne (UNILU; ) is a public university with a campus in Lucerne, Switzerland. It is the smallest university in Switzerland.

Other websites 

 Official website 

2000s establishments in Switzerland
2000 establishments in Europe
Lucerne
Lucerne
Hubbard County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Füllinsdorf

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Giebenach

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Hersberg

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Seltisberg

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Lupsingen

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Ziefen

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Ramlinsburg

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

References 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Ravenden Springs, Arkansas

Ravenden Springs is a town in the US state of Arkansas.

Towns in Arkansas
Reyno, Arkansas

Reyno is a city in the US state of Arkansas.

Cities in Arkansas
Sunbury, Pennsylvania

Sunbury is a city in Pennsylvania in the United States. It is in Northumberland County.

Cities in Pennsylvania
County seats in Pennsylvania
Spengler Cup

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

Ice hockey competitions
Sport in Switzerland
Graubünden
Therwil

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

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Arlesheim

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

References

Other websites 

 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Isanti County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
André Holland

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

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

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

Holland was born in Bessemer, Alabama.

References

People from Bessemer, Alabama
African American actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American movie actors
Actors from Alabama
1979 births
Living people
Coat of arms of Liechtenstein

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

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

Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein
David Weatherall

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

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

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

References

1933 births
2018 deaths
British physicians
British educators
2018 Strasbourg shooting

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

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

References

2018 crimes in Europe
2018 mass shootings
2010s crimes in France
2010s mass shootings in Europe
2010s murders in Europe
December 2018 events
Islamic terrorist incidents in Europe
Islamic terrorist incidents in the 2010s
Mass murder in 2018
Mass murder in Europe
Murders by firearm in France
Strasbourg
Terrorist incidents in 2018
Terrorist incidents in Europe in the 2010s
Terrorist incidents in France
William Blum

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

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

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

References

Other websites

William Blum

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

1933 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in Virginia
American journalists
American political activists
American political writers
American critics
American historians
Writers from New York City
Writers from Washington, D.C.
C. N. Balakrishnan

C. N. Balakrishnan (18 November 1934 – 10 December 2018) was an Indian politician. He was the minister for Co-operation, Khadi and Village Industries and Pollution Control -Government of Kerala under the Oommen Chandy Ministry. He became the representative in the Wadakkanchery constituency in Kerala after winning in the 2011 State Election.

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

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

1934 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Deaths from heart failure
Indian politicians
Classic Shell

Classic Shell is a discontinued computer program, that was created to restore Windows XP and Windows Vista features for later versions of Windows.

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Other websites 
 Offical Website

Computer programming
Microsoft Windows software
Alice Childress

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

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

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

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

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

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American stage actors
American novelists
Writers from South Carolina
Actors from South Carolina
1916 births
1994 deaths
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Jim Florentine

James "Jim" Florentine (born August 18, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, puppeteer, voice artist, and comedian, best known as the voice of Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher in Crank Yankers.

Early life
Florentine was born James Florentine in Brooklyn, New York on August 18, 1964.

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1964 births
Living people
American stand-up comedians
American puppeteers
American voice actors
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Brooklyn
American Internet celebrities
Comedians from New York City
Bob Giggie

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

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

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Other websites
 

1933 births
2018 deaths
Atlanta Braves players
Kansas City Athletics
Sportspeople from Boston, Massachusetts
Braintree, Massachusetts

Braintree (), officially the Town of Braintree, is a suburban New England city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 35,744 at the 2010 census.

References

Cities in Massachusetts
Chiang Pin-kung

Chiang Pin-kung (; 16 December 1932 – 10 December 2018) was a Taiwanese politician. He led the Ministry of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 1996. He was named Minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development, where he worked until 2000. 

He was elected to consecutive terms on the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008. During his first term as a legislator, Chiang was Vice President of the Legislative Yuan. He was Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation from 2008 to 2012.

Chiang collapsed at a restaurant on 8 December 2018 in Taipei. He died of multiple organ failure at a hospital on 10 December 2018, aged 85.

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1932 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Taiwanese politicians
Robert Spaemann

Robert Spaemann (5 May 1927 – 10 December 2018) was a German Roman Catholic philosopher. He was thought of as a member of the Ritter-School. He was born in Berlin. Spaemann's focus was on Christian ethics. He was known for his work in bioethics, ecology, and human rights. Spaemann was internationally known and his work is highly regarded by Pope Benedict XVI.

Spaemann died on 10 December 2018 in Berlin at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
 Spaemann speaks on "Paradoxes of Love" at the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project's Conference in Rome, May 28, 2010 
 Christoph Zimmer: Spaemanns Homilie und ihr letzter Gottesbeweis. 2011 

1927 births
2018 deaths
German philosophers
German Roman Catholics
Writers from Berlin
Xavier Tilliette

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

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

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

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

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

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1921 births
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Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Paris
French historians
French philosophers
French educators
French theologians
Writers from Paris
Bobotie

Bobotie is a South African dish. It is made of minced meat and has an egg-based topping.

Meat dishes

it is a meat dish
Viaduct

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans. It is built for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.

The word viaduct has two parts from Latin: via for road and ducere, to lead. The ancient Romans did not use this word; it was invented in the nineteenth-century by analogy with aqueduct.

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Bridges
Dhulbahante garaadship

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

Garaads

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Thutmose III

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

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

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

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

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

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Pharaohs
Bagnères-de-Luchon

Bagnères-de-Luchon (), also called Luchon, is a commune and spa town in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of southwest France.

Communes in Haute-Garonne
Spa towns in France
Itasca County, Minnesota

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

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Minnesota counties
Jackson County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Grand Rapids, Minnesota

Grand Rapids is a city in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It is the county seat of Itasca County.

Cities in Minnesota
County seats in Minnesota
Kanabec County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Kittson County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Rock County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Lake County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Koochiching County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Lincoln County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Lyon County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Mahnomen County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
Kazuo Sakamaki

was a Japanese naval officer who became the first Japanese prisoner of war of World War II captured by US forces.

1918 births
1999 deaths
People from Tokushima Prefecture
Japanese military people
Military personnel of World War II
Marshall County, Minnesota

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

Minnesota counties
BLS AG

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

Other websites 

 BLS AG official website

2000s establishments in Switzerland
2006 establishments in Europe
Transport companies of Switzerland
Train operating companies
Oberwil, Basel-Landschaft

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

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 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Cities in Switzerland
More4

More4 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Channel 4 Television Corporation. It was launched in 2005. Despite the advertising communication that it would, the latter of, be free-to-air on satellite television, More4 was not free-to-air on Sky and was encrypted under Sky's NDS until 2008 when it became free-to-air and no longer need to have a package to the encrypted under NDS. It joined the BBC's and ITV's new satelite platform, Freesat, on the same day (6 May 2008).

British television channels
2005 establishments in the United Kingdom
Sky Replay

Sky Replay (formerly Sky2) is a British entertainment television channel that launched in 1997 and, later 2002. It comes from the original broadcast which broadcast on analogue platforms for a year from 1996. Sky2 Broadcast from 7:00 PM to 6:00 AM nightly, timesharing with another new channel, Fox Kids (now Disney XD), before extending its hours to 10:00 PM. Another broadcasting was The Death of Princess, which was aired at 5:00 Am, before closing on 31 July 1997. The programmes included Road Wars, Party Wars, and the simulcast of Sky Sports. The current channel began broadcasting (as Sky One Mix) in December 2002. Sky2 became a 1-hour timeshift of Sky One on 10 May 2010, showing programmes one-hour later or the channel ceased as a standard channel. On 9 August 2010, Sky Two ceased a 1-hour timeshift of Sky One and replaced back to its standalone programming not shown on Sky One (some Sky One programmes are often broadcast on Sky2).

British television channels
British Sky Broadcasting
Blaine Higgs

Blaine Higgs (born March 1, 1954) is a Canadian politician. He is the 34th and current Premier of New Brunswick since 2018 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party since 2016.

Higgs was first elected to the legislature in the 2010 provincial election and was Minister of Finance from 2010 to 2014 in the government of David Alward.

Life and career
Blaine Higgs was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick. He completed graduation from the University of New Brunswick as an engineer. He worked for 33 years for a company named Irving Oil where he rose to the rank of a senior executive. His works include overseeing oil transportation across eastern Canada and New England. He retired from Irving Oil in 2010.

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1954 births
Living people
Premiers of New Brunswick
Hiwi Tauroa

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

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

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

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

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1927 births
2018 deaths
New Zealand rugby union players
New Zealand educators
New Zealand politicians
Mary Lou McDonald

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

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

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1969 births
Living people
Former MEPs
Sinn Féin politicians
Iraj Danaeifard

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

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

References

Other websites

  National Team Statistics
 Interview with Irankicks.com 
 Tulsa Roughnecks stats

1951 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Iranian footballers
People from Tehran
Ferenc Kósa

Ferenc Kósa (21 November 1937 – 12 December 2018) was a Hungarian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He directed thirteen movies between 1961 and 1988. He won the award for Best Director at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for the movie Ten Thousand Days. He also directed The Upthrown Stone (1969).

Kósa died on 12 December 2018 in Budapest at the age of 81.

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1937 births
2018 deaths
Hungarian movie directors
Hungarian screenwriters
Creepypasta

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

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

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

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

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Internet
Horror