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Leo Schwarz

Leo Schwarz (9 October 1931 – 26 November 2018) was a German Catholic figure. He was born in Braunweiler, Germany. Schwarz was from 1982 to 2006 the Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Trier, and was bishop of Abbir Germaniciana.

Schwarz died on 26 November 2018 in Cologne, Germany from lymphoma at the age of 87.

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Tom Dart

Thomas J. Dart (born May 25, 1962) is an American politician and police official. He is the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois since 2007. A Democrat, he is the chief executive of the second largest such department in the United States after Los Angeles.

Dart was a member of the Illinois Senate from 1991 to 1993. From 1993 to 2003, he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives.

Dart was the Democratic nominee for state treasurer of Illinois but lost to incumbent Republican Judy Baar Topinka.

Dart, who studied at Loyola University, lives in Mount Greenwood, Chicago.

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Snus

Snus is smokeless tobacco. It has been used in Sweden for almost a century. The name is a bit like the English snuff, but it is a different product. Snus is placed under the upper lip; snuff is inhaled into the nostrils.

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LeBreton Flats

LeBreton Flats is a 21-hectare (52 acres, 21,000 square meters) piece of undeveloped land in the center of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa.

The Great Fire of 1900 destroyed most of the land.

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Marthe Cnockaert

Marthe Mathilde Cnockaert (28 October 1892 – 8 January 1966), later Marthe McKenna, was a Belgian nurse. She spied for the British forces after the First World War. She became a novelist and wrote over a dozen spy novels in addition to her memoirs.

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Tsukuyomi

Tsukuyomi (), or Tsukuyomi-no-mikoto  (), is the god of the moon in Japanese mythology. He is the brother of Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, and of Susanoo, the god of the sea and storms.

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Max Fleischer

Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 25, 1972) was a Polish-American animator, inventor, movie director and producer. He was born in Kraków, Poland. Fleischer was the head of Fleischer Studios. He was known for creating Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen.

Fleischer died on September 25, 1972 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 89.

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Betty Boop

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop movie series. They were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.

She is based on the singer and actress Helen Kane.

Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as: "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated—a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a very small body of which perhaps the leading characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable". 

She was first voiced by Margie Hines, but was popularly played by Mae Questel.

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Busy Philipps

Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an  American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is known for her roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Dawson's Creek (2001–03) and ER (2006–07), and for her role of Laurie Keller on the ABC series Cougar Town (2009–15).

Philipps was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Philipps has also appeared in movies, such as The Smokers (2000), Home Room (2002), White Chicks (2004), Made of Honor (2008), He's Just Not That into You (2009), The Gift (2015), and I Feel Pretty (2018). and voiced roles in Nutri Ventures english-dubbed role as Ben in several episodes, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go, American Dad, Fish Hooks.

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Jefferson County, Kentucky

Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 741,096. It is the most populous county in the commonwealth. Its county seat and largest city is Louisville, Kentucky.

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William Raborn

William Francis Raborn, Jr., (June 8, 1905 – March 6, 1990) was the United States Director of Central Intelligence from April 28, 1965 until June 30, 1966.  He was also a career United States Navy officer who lead the project to develop the Polaris missile system and retired from the Navy in 1963 as a Vice Admiral.

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Shapleigh

Shapleigh, pronounced "SHAP-lee", is a town of York County in the state of Maine, United States.

Towns in Maine
Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni Eareckson Tada (born October 15, 1949) is an American evangelical Christian author and radio host. She is the founder of Joni and Friends, an organization "accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community". Tada was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Tada wrote of her life in her 1976 international best-selling autobiography, Joni: The unforgettable story of a young woman's struggle against quadriplegia & depression.

Career 
In November 2009, Tada signed an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration calling on evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox Christians to work towards changing laws which permit abortion.

Tada is a conference speaker. Her articles have been published in Christianity Today, Today's Christian Woman, The War Cry (Salvation Army), and newspapers around the world. Tada has appeared four times on Larry King Live.

Personal life 
In 2010, Tada was diagnosed with breast cancer. She underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy. Her treatment was successful and was declared cancer-free in 2015. In November 2018, Tada was diagnosed with malignant thyroid cancer.

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Hinds County, Mississippi

Hinds County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 245,285. It is the most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Raymond and Jackson, the state capital. The county was created in 1821. It is named for General Thomas Hinds, a hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.

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 Hinds County - Official website

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Raymond, Mississippi

Raymond is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,933. Raymond is one of two county seats of Hinds County (along with Jackson) and is the home of the main campus of Hinds Community College.

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Harrison County, Mississippi

Harrison County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 187,105. It is the second-most populous county in Mississippi. Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison.

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Loop AI Labs

Loop AI Labs is an AI and cognitive computing company that focuses on language understanding technology. The company was founded in San Francisco in 2012 by Italian entrepreneur Gianmauro Calafiore, who sold his company Gsmbox to Buongiorno in 2004 and then relocated from Italy to San Francisco. Wanting to start an artificial intelligence company, he recruited two veterans of the DARPA CALO project, the largest government-funded AI project in history, who had worked on the project at SRI International and Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. The original company name, Soshoma, was changed to Loop AI Labs in 2015 after the company decided to change its focus from consumer-oriented to enterprise. Loop AI Labs is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Milan, and Singapore. The company is privately funded.

On May 4, 2017, Loop AI Labs entered into a deal with LINK Mobility Group, a leading European provider of mobile messaging and solutions, to bring their cognitive computing technology to LINK's business clients, which cover 234 million people across Europe.

Artificial intelligence
Cornu aspersum

Cornu aspersum is the garden snail. They are often called a pest. In English books it was called Helix aspersa for over two centuries, but the current classification now places it in the genus Cornu. They are native go Europe, though have spread elsewhere. It is very similar, but smaller than the Roman Snail (Helix pomantia).

Food

These snails mainly eat plants, since they are herbivores.

Reproduction
Snails are both male and female. They are able to reproduce by themselves, though normally reproduce sexually.

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Umberto Borsò

Umberto Borsò (3 April 1923 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian operatic tenor. He was born in La Spezia, Italy. 

In 1953 and 1954, he performed in the role of Aio in the premiere of Medea by Pietro Canonica conducted by Ottavio Ziino with Maria Pedrini at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. He also replaced Mario Del Monaco in Andrea Chénier starring aloside with Renata Tebaldi in 1953.

Borsò died on 26 November 2018 in Rome at the age of 95.

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 Umberto Borsò at Virtual Museum

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Patricia Quintana

Patricia Quintana (1946 – 26 November 2018), was a Mexican Chef, writer, businesswoman and professor. She was a known international cook and expert in Mexican gastronomy. She was born in Mexico City. She studied and taught on ancestral Mexican cuisine mixed with the classical. She was the owner City of Mexico of the restaurant Izote from 2001 to the 2013, but resigned to start a banquet catering company.

She was culinary ambassador of her country for the world, distinction that awarded her the Office of Tourism and the Association of Restaurants of Mexico.

Quintana died in Mexico City on 26 November 2018 from an aortic aneurysm at the age of 72.

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Ed Pastor

Edward Lopez Pastor (; June 28, 1943 – November 27, 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Claypool, Arizona. He was Arizona's first Hispanic congressman.

Pastor was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona from 1991 to 2015. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He represented Arizona's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 2003, and  Arizona's 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2015. The latter district was numbered as the 4th district from 2003 to 2013.

Pastor died on November 28, 2018 following a heart attack in Phoenix at the age of 75.

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Claypool, Arizona

Claypool is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,538 at the 2010 census. 

Claypool is located in southern Gila County at  (33.408626, -110.847532), between Miami to the west and Globe, the county seat, to the east. U.S. Route 60 runs along the northern edge of the community.

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Miami, Arizona

Miami is a town in Gila County, Arizona, United States. Miami is a classic Western town. Miami's old downtown has been partly renovated, and the Bullion Plaza Museum features the cultural, mining and ranching history of the Miami area.

According to the 2010 Census, the population of the town was 1,837. It is near Globe, Arizona.

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John Murtha

John Patrick Murtha Jr. (; June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010) was an American politician. He was born in New Martinsville, West Virginia. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010. 

Murtha died on February 8, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia from complications of intestine surgery at the age of 77.

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 Profile at SourceWatch
 

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New Martinsville, West Virginia

New Martinsville is a city in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,366 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Wetzel County.

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Jim Leach

James Albert Smith Leach (born October 15, 1942) is an American academic and politician. He was born in Davenport, Iowa. He was the ninth Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2009 to 2013. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa from 1977 to 2007 as a Republican.

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Other websites

 
 
 June 21, 2007 speech by Leach on US foreign policy to the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council, MP3 

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Salome Zourabichvili

Salome Zourabichvili (; born 18 March 1952) is a French-born Georgian politician. She is the 5th President of Georgia since 16 December 2018. 

She was an Independent MP in the Parliament of Georgia from 2016 until her election as President in 2018.

From 2003 till 2004 she was ambassador of France to Georgia.

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President of Georgia

The President of Georgia (, sakartvelos prezidenti) is the head of state and supreme commander-in-chief.

His role is ceremonial as in many parliamentary democracies. Prime Minister is the head of government. The office was first introduced by the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia on 14 April 1991, five days after Georgia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.

The President serves a five-year term. The incumbent is Giorgi Margvelashvili, who was sworn in on 17 November 2013.

List of mayors

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Prime Minister of Georgia

The Prime Minister of Georgia is the most senior minister within the Cabinet of Georgia. He is appointed by the President of Georgia. 

Georgia has had 40 Prime Ministers since 1918.

List of prime ministers (since 1995)

Georgia (1995–present)

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Mamuka Bakhtadze

Mamuka Bakhtadze (; born June 9, 1982) is a Georgian politician. He is the Prime Minister from 20 June 2018 to 2 September 2019. He was approved by Georgian Parliament in a 99–6 vote.

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Charles Arthur Bowsher

Charles Arthur Bowsher (born May 31, 1931) is an American politician and businessman. He was the 6th Comptroller General of the United States from 1981 to 1996. He was born in Elkhart, Indiana.

Raised in Chicago, Bowsher studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Chicago. He was in the United States Army from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean War.

In 1956, he worked as an accountant and as a key business figure for Arthur Andersen & Co..

From 1967 to 1971, he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) during the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency.

Bowsher was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and was Comptroller General for 15 years from 1981 to 1996. During that period, he led the Government Accountability Office during the savings and loan crisis and other major issues. With a term limit of fifteen years, Bowsher worked for the Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton presidencies.

In 1996, Bowsher was added to the Accounting Hall of Fame. After civil service, he is the Chairman for the Board of Directors of the Concord Coalition.

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Biography at Accounting Hall of Fame 

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The Son of Neptune

The Son of Neptune is a 2011 fantasy-adventure book written by American author Rick Riordan in the series Heroes of Olympus. It follows Percy Jackson after his memories have been erased. He meets Roman demigods Frank Zhang and Hazel Lavesque and they start their adventure to defeat Gaea and save Hera.

2011 books
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Yayoi Kusama

is a Japanese contemporary artist and writer. She is well known for her repeating dot patterns, her art uses a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation. It ranges from works on paper featuring intense semi-abstract imagery, to soft sculpture known as ‘Accumulations’, to her ‘Infinity Net’ paintings, made up of carefully repeated arcs of paint built up into large patterns.
Since 1977 Kusama has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution, and much of her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a desire to escape from psychological trauma. In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessive vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space.

Biography

Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto city in Nagano. She started drawing pictures with a motif of polka dots with water colorat, pastel and oil at 10 years old. She entered art university in Kyoto afterwards went to the United States of America to study art even though her parents didn't agree with her. She did intense performances whose name were “happening” there to protest wars and her name was known from top to bottom in the US as a great performer. In 1968 her own movie won the prize of The 4th Belgian International Short Film Festival. Moreover, her exhibitions were held around the world. In 2009, she was selected as a person of culture merits which give people who are active in terms of culture. Finally The documentary movie on her was released in 2019. It received high evaluations.

Sickness

She actually has suffered from Hallucination; her field of vision is covered with polka dots and flowers speak to her, since an early age. She has got schizophrenia, nerve sick, from childhood to now. Therefore, she decided to paint to run away from the hallucination and fearness of death. Her works reflect what she really sees through her eyes.

Art works

Her every works are expensive. The highest one is no less than 63 million. One reason, of course, is popularity and originality. Furthermore, another reason is her attitude to works. She only releases her works into auctions when she has trouble with money. She also said, “I don’t create my works just because they can make a lot of money.” That's why her works are really expensive.

Looking at the features of her works, many polka dots are seen in her works. Identical pattern cover on painting and sculpture is her own way. We can say polka dots are her trademark. Her works don't stop on campus. She also uses mirrors in her works to make objects seen as though they were infinity.

—Belief

Throughout her entire life, her belief is “I’m fighting for the production of arts.” Her works has been put into her heart and soul. She also said “There are many people who are suffering from war, poverty and loneliness. I couldn’t be happier that my passion tells them through my works after I pass away.”

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Caesars Superdome

The Caesars Superdome (formerly the Louisiana Superdome and the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, and also simply known as the Superdome) is a sports domed-stadium that is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and is the home of the New Orleans Saints.

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Captain Tractor

Captain Tractor is a Canadian folk rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West. Their songs are often rich in local, cultural, and geographical references.

The band's most famous songs have been renditions of the folk music classics "The Log Driver's Waltz" and "Drunken Sailor", as well as a cover of the Arrogant Worms' "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate". They have also developed a following for their brand of Canadian rock, with singles such as "Up the Hill", "Frozen Puck to the Head", "This Is Not a Sad Song", "Another Drinking Song", and "The Bastard of Strathcona County".

In celebration of the release of the band's sixth album, 'North of the Yellowhead' (2005 Six Shooter Records), Alley Kat Brewing Company released "Captain Tractor's Yellowhead Wheat Ale".

Their seventh studio album, Famous Last Words, was released on May 3, 2011. A live record, Live at the Roxy, was released in 2015.

Band members
The band consists of five men, one woman, and their mascot, a deer named Bucky.  The band members are:
 Chris Wynters - vocals, guitar, songwriter
 Scott Peters - vocals, mandolin, guitar, bodhran, songwriter, driver
 Jules Mounteer - drums, percussion, driver
 Jon Nordstrom - bass, trumpet, guitar, vocals, songwriter. Joined before "Hat Trick".
 Jason Kodie - keyboards, vocals, musical restraint. Joined before "North of the Yellowhead".
 Shannon Johnson - Fiddle, Vocals

Former members include:
 Aimee Hill - flute, vocals. Left after "East of Edson".
 Jeff Smook - bass, vocals, songwriter. Left after "Bought the Farm".
 Brock Skywalker - accordion, flute, guitar, bodhran, penny whistle, harmonica, mandolin, keyboards, vocals, songwriter. Left just before "North of the Yellowhead".

Discography
Captain Tractor has released seven albums:
 Land (1994)
 East of Edson (1995)
 Bought the Farm (1997)
 Hat Trick (1998)
 Celebrity Traffic Jam (1999)
 Hoserista (2000)
 North of the Yellowhead (2005)
 Famous Last Words (2011)
 "Live at the Roxy" (2015)
 "25 Years On" (2018)

They have also released a video entitled Inconsequential Things in 1998, and an interactive CD-ROM, Bus Madness, in 1995.

Members' solo albums:
 Chris Wynters' Skywriting (Six Shooter Records, 2005) and 2010-1982 (Shameless Records, 2010).
 Jon Nordstrom's Brick and Stone (Independent, 2003) and Waiting for Summer (Independent 2005).
 Former member Brock Skywalker Cerebral Reruns (FrozenPuck, 2004).

References

Other websites
 Official site
 CanConRox entry CanadianBands.com

Canadian musical groups
Musical groups established in 1993
Mike Plume

Mike Plume (born May 28, 1968) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter. He was born in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Background
Canadian singer/songwriter Mike Plume fronts his roots-based namesake band. His first record, Songs From a Northern Town, was recorded in Texas and released in 1993... Touring with groups like Blue Rodeo helped built the group's following, and their 1998 album Song & Dance, Man has won them more fans and awards. In 2009 he released the album "8:30 Newfoundland", followed in June 2013, with the new album "Red and White Blues".

Discography

Albums

References

Plume's career picks up steam, Edmonton Journal, September 3, 2008
The Mike Plume Band, The Vue Weekly, Aug. 27, 2008
Plum’s down home stories by way of Nashville, The Record, October 20, 2009
Biography, CMT.ca

Other websites
Official Website
CanadianBands.com entry
Mike Plume at MySpace

1968 births
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Charles Huxtable

General Sir Charles Richard Huxtable, KCB, CBE (22 July 1931 – 26 November 2018) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in the Korean War. He was Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces between 1988 and 1990. In the 1961 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).

Huxtable died on 26 November 2018 at the age of 87.

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 Duke of Wellington's Regimental Website – Who We Are, by General Huxtable

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Altaf Fatima

Altaf Fatima (1927 – 29 November 2018) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist, short-story writer, and teacher. She was born in Lucknow. Her novel Dastak Na Do ("The One Who Did Not Ask ") is thought as one of the best works in the Urdu language. 

Fatima died on 29 November 2018 in Lahore from a stroke at the age of 91.

Novels
 Nishaan-i-Mehfil
 Dastak Naa Do (The One Who Did Not Ask (Novel) English translation published by Heinemann in 1994) 
 Chalta Musafir
 Khwabgar

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Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy movie directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland. It is a sequel to the 1987 movie Lethal Weapon and the second movie in the Lethal Weapon series.

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Eldon George

Eldon Thomas George  (May 10, 1931 – November 29, 2018) was a Canadian fossil collector and amateur geologist. He was born in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. He made many important discoveries on the shores of the Minas Basin and the Bay of Fundy in the 1940s. 

George found the world's smallest dinosaur tracks in 1984 near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. His other finds include many fossilized amphibian and dinosaur prints that were displayed, along with the world's smallest dinosaur tracks, at his Parrsboro Rock and Mineral Shop and Museum. 

One of them is a 17-inch (45-cm) track that may have been made by a primitive, two-legged, crocodile-like creature that was nearly 20 feet (6 m) long. George's other discoveries include a fossilized insect with three pairs of wings and a tiny horseshoe crab that supplies a missing link in evolutionary history.

George died on November 29, 2018 in Parrsboro at the age of 87.

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Order of Nova Scotia recipients - 2013

1931 births
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Geologists
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Robert Morris (artist)

Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was thought of as one of the most well known theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd. He made important works to the development of performance art, minimalism, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art.

In 2013 as part of the October Files, MIT Press published a volume on Morris, examining his work and influence, edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson.

Morris was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied at the University of Kansas,  Kansas City Art Institute, Reed College and at Hunter College. Morris died on November 28, 2018 in Kingston, New York from pneumonia at the age of 87.

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Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist. He worked with minimalism. In his work, Judd worked with autonomy and space that objects created by it. He was also known for his works alongside sculptor Robert Morris.

When the National Endowment for the Arts supported his work, Northern Kentucky University hired Judd to build his notable  aluminium sculpture that was opened in the middle of the school's campus in 1976. Another commission, Untitled (1984), a three-part sculpture out of concrete with steel reinforcements, was installed at Laumeier Sculpture Park.

Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, but raised in Marfa, Texas. He studied at College of William and Mary, Columbia University School of General Studies and at the Art Students League of New York. Judd died on February 12, 1994 in Manhattan, New York from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 65.

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Excelsior Springs, Missouri

Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay and Ray counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 11,084 at the 2010 census. It is located about  northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri.

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Marfa, Texas

Marfa is a city in far West Texas, located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. It is the county seat of Presidio County, and its population as of the 2010 United States Census was 1,981.

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Viktor Matviyenko

Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko (9 November 1948 – 29 November 2018) was a Ukrainian footballer and manager. He was born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. Matviyenko won the bronze medalist in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He played for Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national team. He managed Torpedo Zaporizhya.

Matviyenko died in Kiev on 29 November 2018 at the age of 70.

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Profile 

1948 births
2018 deaths
Ukrainian footballers
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 9 August 1962), commonly referred to by her initials AKK, is a German CDU politician. She was the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2018 to 2021. She was chief minister of Saarland from 2011 to 2018, making her the first woman to lead the government of Saarland and the fourth woman to head a German state government. 

From February to December 2018, she was general secretary of the CDU.

She was elected CDU party leader on 7 December 2018 following Angela Merkel's retirement from that role.

On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation as Chairwoman of the CDU.

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Women politicians
Friedrich Merz

Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician. He is the Leader-designate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was a Member of the European Parliament 1989 to 1994, a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2009, and as the chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2000 to 2002. 

In 2018 he announced his candidacy in the CDU leadership election in December 2018. He lost the election to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In February 2020, he announced his second candidacy for the party's 2021 leadership election. He lost the race on 16 January 2021 after losing to Armin Laschet in the second round.

In March 2020, Merz was tested positive for COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

On 15 November 2021, Merz announced his candidacy in the second 2021 CDU leadership election to replace Armin Laschet. He ran against Norbert Röttgen and Helge Braun. On 17 December 2021, he was elected leader in a landslide victory.

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1955 births
Living people
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Members of the German Bundestag
MEPs for Germany
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Politicians of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany
2018 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election

The 2018 Christian Democratic Union leadership election was held in Hamburg on 7 December 2018. This is after Angela Merkel's decision in October 2018 not to stand for party leader at the 2018 party conference following the party's bad performance in the 2018 Hessian state election and low numbers in national polls.

On 29 October 2018, both the CDU's General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn announced their candidacy in the election. This was followed by Merkel's arch-rival Friedrich Merz announced his bid on 30 October 2018.

Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected leader by winning 45.05% of the vote. Merz won 39.24% of the vote and Spahn won 15.72% of the vote.

Candidates
 Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer — General Secretary of the CDU (2018–today), Minister-President of Saarland (2011–2018), Leader of the CDU Saar (2011–2018), Minister for Family and Social Affairs in Saarland (2009–2011), Minister for Education in Saarland (2007–2009), Minister for the Interior in Saarland (2000–2007), Member of Landtag of Saarland (1999–2018), Member of Bundestag (1998) Kramp-Karrenbauer has been endorsed by the Saarland state association of the CDU.
 Friedrich Merz — Leader of the Opposition and Parliamentary Leader of the CDU (2000–2002), Member of Bundestag (1994–2009), Member of the European Parliament (1989–1994) Merz has been endorsed by the local associations of Fulda and of Hochsauerland.
 Jens Spahn — Minister for Health (2018–today), Parliamentary Secretary of State for Finance (2015–2018), Member of Bundestag (2002–today) Spahn has been endorsed by the local association of Borken.

Polling

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2018 elections
2018 in Europe
2010s in Germany
December 2018 events
Hamburg
Jens Spahn

Jens Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician. He is the Federal Minister of Health since March 2018. He is a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag as a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

In October 2018, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her retirement for the CDU party leadership. Spahn announced his intention to stand for election as her successor in December 2018.

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1980 births
Living people
German politicians
Andrea Nahles

Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a German politician. She was the Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 to June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 to June 2019. 

Nahles was a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. She is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010.

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1970 births
Living people
German politicians
Jörg Meuthen

Jörg Hubert Meuthen (; born 29 June 1961) is a German economist and politician. He is the Federal spokesman for Alternative for Germany (AfD) since July 2015.

Meuthen is professor for political economy and finance at the Academy of Kehl.

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1961 births
Living people
German educators
German politicians
Alexander Gauland

Alexander Eberhardt Gauland (born 20 February 1941) is a German politician, journalist and lawyer. He is the Leader of the German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and Co Leader of the party since December 2017.

He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and is its federal spokesman and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg.

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1941 births
Living people
German politicians
Christian Lindner

Christian Wolfgang Lindner (born 7 January 1979) is a German politician. He is a member of the Bundestag and leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP). In December 2021, he became the  Minister of Finance.

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1979 births
Living people
politicians of the Free Democratic Party of Germany
Government ministers of Germany
members of the German Bundestag
politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia
People from Wuppertal
Katja Kipping

Katja Kipping (born 18 January 1978) is a German politician. She was the Chairperson of The Left and a member of the Bundestag (German Parliament).

On 10 May 2014 she was reelected, along with Bernd Riexinger, as chairperson of The Left by a national party conference.

Since 2005, Kipping has been a member of the German Parliament for The Left party. She was listed as the lead candidate on the state-level party list in Saxony.

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1978 births
Living people
German politicians
Bernd Riexinger

Bernd Riexinger (born 30 October 1955) is a German politician of the Left Party. He was named co-chairman of the party, together with Katja Kipping, on 2 June 2012.

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1955 births
Living people
German politicians
Annalena Baerbock

Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock (born 15 December 1980) is a German politician. In December 2021, she became Minister of Foreign Affairs. She is a leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens and the current chairwoman of her party. Since 2013, she also holds a seat in the Bundestag, the German federal diet.

References

Other websites
 Baerbock's profile on the website of the Green Party parliamentary faction

1980 births
Living people
German politicians of Alliance '90/The Greens
Government ministers of Germany
members of the German Bundestag
politicians from Lower Saxony
People from Hanover
Women politicians
Robert Habeck

Robert Habeck (born 2 September 1969 in Lübeck) is a German writer and politician. Habeck has been the Vice-Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action since December 2021. He is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens and has been their leader since January 2018.  

Habeck has been Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Energy, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas in the Albig Cabinet since 2012 and in the Cabinet Günther since 2017.

Under his leadership, the Green Party became the third largest group in the Landtag after the 2017 state elections.

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1969 births
Living people
German writers
German politicians of Alliance '90/The Greens
Vice Chancellors of Germany
Government ministers of Germany
members of the German Bundestag
politicians from Schleswig-Holstein
People from Lübeck
Albert Bryan (politician)

Albert Bryan Jr. is an American politician. He is the 30th and current Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. He defeated Governor Kenneth Mapp in the runoff election on November 20, 2018. 

Bryan was commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Labor.

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Living people
Governors of the United States Virgin Islands
US Democratic Party politicians
Balaji Telefilms

Balaji Telefilms is an Indian company that makes soap operas, reality TV, comedy, game shows, and other TV programs in several Indian languages. Balaji had a partnership with White Leaf Productions from 1997 to 2006.

Balaji Telefilms is promoted by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and is a public company listed at Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.

Current productions

Past productions

National

References

Other websites
 
 

Companies of India
.223 Remington

The .223 Remington (.223 Rem) is a type of firearm cartridge. It is the most used cartridge for AR-15 type rifles.

Pistol and rifle cartridges
Military cartridges
Shraddha Arya

Shraddha Arya (born 17 August 1987) is an Indian actress who has been in television shows like Main Lakshmi Tere Aangan Ki, Tumhari Paakhi and Dream Girl.

Television

References

Other websites 

 
 
 

Living people
1987 births
Indian actors
People from New Delhi
Marie Avgeropoulos

Marie Avgeropoulos (; born 17 June 1986) is a Canadian actress and model. She is best known for her role as Octavia Blake on The CW’s post-apocalyptic science fiction television series The 100 (2014–present).

Early life
Avgeropoulos was born on 17 June 1986 in Thunder Bay, Ontario. She grew up fishing, hunting and camping, spending most of her free time outdoors. Avgeropoulos started playing drums when she was 16. After studying broadcast journalism for two years in her hometown, Avgeropoulos moved to Europe. Several months later, she came back to Canada and settled in Vancouver.

Career
One of her friends invited her for a casting call in Vancouver, which happened to be looking for drummers. A talent agent recognized her talent and invited her to appear in various national commercials. She caught the attention of director Chris Columbus. He hired Avgeropoulos for I Love You, Beth Cooper, which became her first feature film role. Her appearance in the film gave her the opportunities to star in more films and television shows.

In 2010, Avgeropoulos was cast as Kim Rhodes in the film Hunt to Kill, which became her break-out role.

Early in 2013, Avgeropoulos made her break-out in television after being cast for a recurring role in The CW's Cult. However, the series failed to attract viewers and after episode 7, the show was cancelled. The remaining six episodes of the show were broadcast later in the summer.

Not long after the show ended, The CW cast her as one of the main characters in their new sci-fi, The 100, to portray the character Octavia Blake.

Personal life
The 32-year-old actress and her 41-year-old boyfriend allegedly began arguing in a car on the Ventura (134) Freeway shortly after midnight 5 August 2018. Avgeropoulos was accused of striking him multiple times in the head, neck and arm, resulting in minor injuries, according to the District Attorney’s Office. She was then charged with domestic violence. Avgeropoulos's boyfriend wants the charges against the actress dropped as he said she doesn't pose a threat.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Other websites

 

1986 births
Actors from Ontario
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Living people
People from Thunder Bay
Eptingen

Eptingen is a municipality of the district of Waldenburg in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Other websites 

 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Union County, Arkansas

Union County is a county of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,639. The county seat is El Dorado. It was founded on November 2, 1829.

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1829 establishments in Arkansas Territory
Arkansas counties
Palden Gyatso

Palden Gyatso (1933 – 30 November 2018) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He was born in Panam, Tibet. During the Chinese invasion of Tibet he was arrested for protesting and spent 33 years in Chinese prisons and labor camps, where he was tortured. 

After his release in 1992 he fled to Dharamsala, (North India) in exile. He was still a practicing monk and political activist, traveling the world publicizing the cause of Tibet up until his death in 2018. 

Gyatso died on 30 November 2018 in Dharamshala, India of liver cancer at the age of 85.

References

Other websites
Waller, Douglas Weapons Of Torture, CNN, March 31, 1998
Yangzom, Tsering Walk for Tibetan freedom passes through Boston area, The Boston Globe, July 31, 2005
Palden Gyatso - 33 years in Chinese concentration camps

1933 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Tibetan people
Political activists
Prisoners
Asian writers
Harold O. Levy

Harold  O. Levy (December 14, 1952 – November 27, 2018) was an American lawyer and philanthropist. He was the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the largest scholarship foundation in the United States. Levy was best known as Chancellor of the New York City public schools from 2000 to 2002.

Levy was born in New York City. He studied at Cornell University and at Oxford University. Levy died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in New York City on November 27, 2018 at the age of 65.

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Other websites
Harold O. Levy  at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
New York City Department of Education

1952 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
Disease-related deaths in New York City
Lawyers from New York City
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from New York City
Common bronzewing

The common bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) is a species of pigeon. They are found in Australia. They eat vegetable matter.

Looks
They are 20 to 36 centimetres long.

Distribution
They are common in Australia. They are found in a variety of habitats, though they are nearly always near water.

Eating
They eat material from plants, such as seeds. They drink rather frequently.

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Birds of Australia
Doves
Laughing kookaburra

The laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) is a type of kingfisher. They were previously called the laughing jackass and the giant kingfisher.

Breeding 
It is thought that laughing kookaburras only have one mate for their whole life.

Looks 
They are normally off white with pale brown lines. They have brown wings and back. They look similar to the Blue-winged kookaburra which is found in the same area.  male and female birds look similar. They are 43 to 45 cm long and weigh around 0.5 kg.

Distribution 
They are originally from eastern Australia. Humans have put them into south-west Australia, Tasmania and New Island. They live nearly everywhere in this area where there are suitable trees.

Food 
They eat insects, crustaceans and worms. Sometimes, they will eat small snakes, mammals, frogs and birds.

Relationship with humans 
They can become tame and may accept meat from a human's hand.

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Coraciiformes
Birds of Australia
2018 Anchorage earthquake

On November 30, 2018, at 8:29 AKST (17:29 UTC), a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska. The earthquake's epicenter was near Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, about  north of the city. 

It was followed by a 5.7 aftershock epicentered  north-northwest of the city. There were a total of 40 aftershocks. The earthquake could be felt as far as Fairbanks. 

Severe damage to several buildings and a highway overpass near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport have been reported. There are no casualties reported so far.

A tsunami warning was issued for nearby coastal areas, including Cook Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula, but they were lifted shortly after.

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November 2018 events
2018 earthquakes
Anchorage, Alaska
Earthquakes in the United States
2018 in the United States