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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is a type of exploitation movie which focuses on black people. Blaxploitation movies emerged in and were most popular during the early 1970s. 

These movies were often criticized for their use of stereotyped characters. They were also praised for showing black people as the heroes and subjects, rather than being sidekicks or as victims of violence.

Following the example set by Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, many blaxploitation films feature funk and soul jazz soundtracks with heavy bass, funky beats, and wah-wah guitars.

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African-American history
Genres
Movies
Jordan Nikolić

Jordan Nikolić (; 11 May 1933 – 26 April 2018) was a Serbian folk singer. He sang traditional songs from Kosovo. He was born in Prizren, Yugoslavia. About a hundred of his voice recordings are saved in Radio Belgrade archives. Nikolić participated in Jugovizija (Yugoslavian Eurosong qualification contest) in 1976. 

Nikolić died in Belgrade on 26 April 2018 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 84.

References

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1933 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Serbian singers
Kosovan people
Earl Balfour

Earl Frederick "Spider" Balfour (January 4, 1933 – April 27 2018) was a Canadian NHL hockey player. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Balfour served as a forward from 1952 to 1961. He was a defensive forward and penalty-killing expert. Balfour won the Stanley Cup with the 1960–61 Chicago Black Hawks. He also played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He retired after 288 games, posting 30 goals, 22 assists, 52 points and just 78 penalty minutes.

Balfour died on April 27, 2018 of prostate cancer in Guelph, Ontario, aged 85.

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1933 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in Canada
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Chicago Blackhawks players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Sportspeople from Toronto
American Hockey League players
Ontario Hockey League players
Esther Ofarim

Esther Zaied, better known by her married name Esther Ofarim (; born June 13, 1941), is an Israeli singer. She came second in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "T'en vas pas", representing Switzerland. A

After marrying Abi Ofarim in 1961, she was half of the singing husband and wife duo, Esther & Abi Ofarim. The couple divorced in Germany in 1970. After they divorced, the duo broke up and she undertook a successful solo career.

References

Other websites
 Esther's official website

1941 births
Living people
Israeli singers
Israeli writers
Israeli musicians
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Songwriters
Mel Lastman

Melvin Douglas "Mel" Lastman (March 9, 1933 – December 11, 2021), nicknamed "Mayor Mel" or "Mega City Mel", was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was the founder of the Bad Boy Furniture chain.  He served as the mayor of the former city of North York, Ontario, Canada from 1973 until 1997.

Lastman died on December 11, 2021, at the age of 88.

References

Other websites

City of Toronto, Mel Lastman profile 

1933 births
2021 deaths
Mayors of Toronto
Mayor of Toronto

The Mayor of Toronto is the leader of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The mayor is directly-elected in municipal elections every four years alongside Toronto City Council.

The office
The mayor is responsible for the administration of government services overseeing Toronto government departments and serves as the chairperson for meeting of Toronto City Council. The current mayor of Toronto is John Tory.

Art Eggleton is the longest-serving mayor of Toronto, serving from 1980 until 1991. No Toronto mayor has been removed from office. Toronto's 64th mayor, Rob Ford, lost a conflict of interest trial in 2012, and was ordered to vacate his position; but the ruling was stayed pending an appeal, which Ford won to remain in office.

Living former mayors

As of December 21, 2017 there are six living former mayors of Toronto:

 David Crombie (1972–78)
 John Sewell (1978–80)
 Art Eggleton (1980–91)
 Barbara Hall (1994–97)
 Mel Lastman (1998–2003)
 David Miller (2003–2010)

Rob Ford and June Rowlands are the most recent mayors that have died. Ford is the first mayor of Toronto after the amalgamation of Toronto to die.

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David Crombie

David Edward Crombie  (born April 24, 1936) is a Canadian politician,  professor and consultant.  Crombie served as Mayor of Toronto from 1972 to 1978.

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1936 births
Living people
Mayors of Toronto
Privy Councillors (Canada)
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
Art Eggleton

Arthur C. "Art" Eggleton,  (born September 29, 1943) is a Canadian politician. He was a Senator representing Ontario from 2005 to 2018. He was the longest serving Mayor of Toronto, serving from 1980 to 1991. 

Eggleton has held several federal government posts, including President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Infrastructure from 1993–1996, Minister for International Trade from 1996–1997, and Minister of National Defense from 1997 until 2002.

References

Other websites
 Liberal Senate Forum 
 Official Website

1943 births
Living people
Mayors of Toronto
Privy Councillors (Canada)
Martha MacIsaac

Martha MacIsaac (born October 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role of Becca in the 2007 teen comedy Superbad.

Early life 
MacIsaac was born and raised in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the youngest of three girls; her mother Irene was one of twelve.

Career 
MacIsaac started her career playing Emily Byrd Starr in the Emily of New Moon television series, based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

She has appeared in several plays including the 2006 play The Wild Duck in which she played Hedwig and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for "Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play". In 2009, she played Paige in a remake of the Wes Craven film The Last House on the Left. She also performed in three consecutive productions of Soulpepper Theatre Company's Our Town as Emily, beginning in 2006.

In a 2007 Entertainment Weekly article, she stated she has been inspired by Julia Roberts from the age of four and was self-described as "obsessed". She also stated she would like to perform alongside her in a film, particularly "a female version of Twins".

In late 2012, MacIsaac began a main role on the NBC comedy 1600 Penn as the president's eldest daughter, Becca. Brittany Snow was originally cast as Becca but because she did not physically resemble and fit in well with the other family members, Martha MacIsaac was cast. In a 2012 interview with the CBC Radio series Island Morning, she revealed that 1600 Penn was her last audition before she considered returning to Canada.

Personal life 
She was married to film producer, director, and writer Torre Catalano from 2010 to 2015. She lives in Los Angeles, California as of 2017.

She is represented by the Agency for the Performing Arts.

Filmography

References

Other websites
 
 About Martha on CBC webpage

1984 births
Canadian voice actors
Living people
Jerrod Carmichael

Jerrod Carmichael ( ; born June 22, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. Carmichael is best known for creating and playing the lead role in the semi-biographical NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show.

Life and career 
Carmichael was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2005, he graduated from Robert B. Glenn High School.

Carmichael's early comedic influences were stand-ups Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Sinbad, and George Carlin.

Carmichael moved to Los Angeles at the age of 20. His first time doing stand-up was an open-mic night at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood. Carmichael then appeared in the "New Faces" showcase at the 2011 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Carmichael's star role was in the 2014 film Neighbors.

He has released two stand-up HBO comedy specials: Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store (2014) and Jerrod Carmichael: 8 (2017). 

In June 2019, Carmichael was hired by Quentin Tarantino to co-write a film adaptation based on the Django/Zorro crossover comic book series.

Filmography

Movie

Television

Music videos

References

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Living people
1987 births
American stand-up comedians
American television producers
American television writers
Comedians from North Carolina
Writers from North Carolina
People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Cirilo Bautista

Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941 – May 6, 2018) was a Filipino poet, fictionist, critic and writer of nonfiction. He was awarded with the National Artist of the Philippines award in 2014. He was born in Manila. 

Bautista works include Boneyard Breaking, Sugat ng Salita, The Archipelago, Telex Moon, Summer Suns, Charts, The Cave and Other Poems, Kirot ng Kataga, and Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V. Hernandez. His novel Galaw ng Asoge was published by the University of Santo Tomas Press in 2004.

Bautista died on May 6, 2018 in Manila of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 76.

References

Other websites
 Cirilo F. Bautista home page
 Mindanao Creative Writers Group Inc.
 U.S.T. Creative Writing Workshop, Baguio City
 About Culture and the Arts 

1941 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from neuroendocrine cancer
Filipino writers
Poets
Novelists
Critics
Filipino educators
People from Manila
Ben Miller

Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor, and director. He is best known as one half of comedy double act Armstrong and Miller, with Alexander Armstrong. Miller starred in the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller, as well as the BBC sketch show The Armstrong & Miller Show. 

Miller also played the lead role of Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC Crime Drama Death in Paradise.

References

Other websites
 The Armstrong & Miller Show official website
 
 Ben Miller hands out his very own BAFTAs

1966 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English television personalities
English television directors
Comedians from London
Actors from London
Noah Taylor

Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is an English-Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in HBO series Game of Thrones, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in He Died with a Felafel in His Hand.

References

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1969 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian stage actors
Australian voice actors
Actors from London
Freddie Highmore

Alfred Thomas "Freddie" Highmore (born 14 February 1992) is an English Actor and Director. He is known for his film roles in Women Talking Dirty (1999), Finding Neverland (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). He has appeared as a television actor in 2 TV series: as Norman Bates in the A&E drama series Bates Motel (2013–2017), and as autistic resident surgeon Dr. Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor (2017–2020) on ABC TV.

Highmore won a Saturn Award in 2007. He also twice won the Critic's Choice awards for Best Young Performer in a film.

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Saturn Award winners
1992 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English voice actors
English child actors
English television directors
English television producers
Screenwriters from London
Actors from London
William Gillock

William Gillock (July 1, 1917 - September 7, 1993) was an American composer.  He was born in La Russell, Missouri. He taught music and composed piano music.

Early life and education

Gillock studied music at Central Methodist College (called Central College at that time), in Fayette, Missouri.  His instructor was N. Louise Wright.

Later life

He moved to New Orleans as a young man.  He taught music there for many years.  Later, he stopped teaching and moved to Texas.  In Texas, "
he was the first and only judge for the first twenty-one years of the Junior Pianists’ Guild, which involved over fourteen hundred students."

Music

Gillock wrote piano music for children.  Some of his compositions were solo pieces, and some were ensemble pieces. He taught music at many workshops.    Because his music was very melodic, he was called "the Schubert of children’s composers." 

His music is often played at piano festivals.

Honors 

Gillock was given the Award of Merit for Service to American Music by the National Federation of Music Clubs five times.

Later life and death 

He died in Dallas on September 7, 1993.

Legacy

In March 2018, the AADGT held a piano competition in honor of Gillock.  

The ABRSM exam syllabus includes his works.

Further reading

 Dictionary of International Biography-Men of Achievement.
 International Who's Who of Musicians.
 Bona, N.J., 1995. An Analytical Guide to Teaching and Performing Selected 'Lyric Preludes' of William Gillock (Doctoral dissertation, University of Miami).
 Duarte, K.S., 2004. ''The Piano Music of William Gillock (Doctoral dissertation, University of Oklahoma).

1917 births
1993 deaths
American composers
Naser Cheshm Azar

Naser Cheshm Azar (31 December 1950 – 4 May 2018) was an Iranian pianist, composer, and arranger. Cheshm Azar was known for his vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple genres. He was mater in classical music, musical theatre, blues, folk music, jazz, and popular music. He was born in Ardabil, Iran.

Cheshm Azar died of a heart attack in Tehran on 4 May 2018 at the age of 68.

References

Other websites
 Naser Cheshmazar  dailyvideoreports.net
 Nasser Cheshmazar imdb.com
 .isna.ir .isna.ir (Persian Language)
 .irna.ir .irna.ir (Persian Language)

1950 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Iranian musicians
Asian pianists
Composers
Renate Dorrestein

Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the Annie Romein prize in 1993. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called Panorama. She published her first novel (Buitenstaanders) in 1983. She was born in Amsterdam.

Dorrestein died on 4 May 2018 of esophageal cancer in Amsterdam at the age of 64.

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1954 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Dutch journalists
Dutch novelists
Feminist writers
Writers from Amsterdam
Paolo Ferrari

Paolo Ferrari (26 February 1929 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 45 movies between 1938 and 2018. He made his acting debut at 9 years old, in Alessandro Blasetti's Ettore Fieramosca. He became first known as "the balilla Paolo", a character he played in numerous radio programs for children and teenagers during the fascist era.

Ferrari died in Rome on 6 May 2018 of complications from pneumonia at the age of 89.

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1929 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Italy
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Radio actors
Actors from Brussels
Tarcisio Gitti

Tarcisio "Ciso" Gitti (18 April 1936 – 6 May 2018) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He was born in Gardone Val Trompia. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1979 and served until 1994. 

Gitti was Undersecretary of the Treasury from 30 July 1897 to 22 July 1989, and President of COPASIR from 29 January 1991 to 22 April 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he was Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies. 

Gitti died in Brescia, Italy of Parkinson's disease-related complications on 6 May 2018, aged 82.

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1936 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Italy
Italian lawyers
Italian politicians
Khaled Mohieddin

Khaled Mohieddine (August 17, 1922 – May 6, 2018) was an Egyptian Communist politician and a major in the Egyptian Army. He fought in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which overthrew the monarchy under King Farouk. 

Mohieddine held important roles throughout Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency. He founded the leftist political party National Progressive Union Party (Tagammu) in 1976. Under Mohieddine's leadership, Tagammu became a significant opposition force during Hosni Mubarak's rule.

Mohieeddin died on May 6, 2018 at a hospital in Cairo of congestive heart failure at the age of 95.

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1922 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from congestive heart failure
Egyptian politicians
Generals
Communists
Flula Borg

Flula Borg (born March 28, 1982) is a German actor, comedian, musician, and YouTube personality who is better known as DJ Flula or simply Flula (sometimes stylized as f|u|a). He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Borg has appeared in several feature movies, including Pitch Perfect 2, and a number of popular TV shows. He has collaborated with both well-known YouTubers, including Rhett and Link, Miranda Sings, Smosh, Jacksfilms, and many more, and mainstream celebrities such as Sir Mix-A-Lot, RZA, and Dirk Nowitzki. In 2015, he was named one of The Hollywood Reporters Top 25 Digital Stars as well as one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch.

Other websites 

 Flula's official website

1982 births
Living people
German comedians
German musicians
Actors from Bavaria
DJs
2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series

The 2019 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series will be the 71st season of professional stock car racing in the United States, and the 48th modern-era Cup series season. The season began at Daytona International Speedway with the Advance Auto Parts Clash, the Can-Am Duel qualifying races and the 61st running of the Daytona 500. The regular season will end with the Brickyard 400 on September 8, 2019. The playoffs will end with the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 17, 2019.

It will be the fourth season of the current 10-year television contract with Fox Sports and NBC Sports and the third of a five-year race sanctioning agreement with all tracks. It will also be the first year the Cup Series will be fielding the Ford Mustang.

Teams and drivers

Chartered teams

Limited schedule

Changes

Offseason changes

Rule changes

Schedule 
Key changes from 2018 include:

The schedule, comprising 36 races, including the Advance Auto Parts Clash, Can-Am Duel (qualifying races for the Daytona 500) and the All-Star Race, was released on April 3, 2018.

Related pages
 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series
 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series

References 

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races
Natalia Cordova-Buckley

Natalia Cordova-Buckley (born November 25, 1982) is a Mexican actress. She was born in Mexico City. Cordova-Buckley is best known for playing Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and as the voice of Frida Kahlo in Disney-Pixar Coco (2017).

References

Other websites

1982 births
Living people
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican voice actors
Actors from Mexico City
Nabih Berri

Nabih Berri (; born 28 January 1938) is a Lebanese politician. He has been the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon since 1992. He heads the Amal Movement.

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1938 births
Living people
Lebanese politicians
Saad Hariri

Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri (; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese politician. He was the 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon from December 2016 to January 2020. He was also the Prime Minister from November 2009 to June 2011.

On 29 October 2019, amid the 2019 Lebanese protests, Hariri announced his resignation, and that of his cabinet.

References

Other websites
Future Movement's Official Site 
March 14 Alliance's Official Site 
To Live and Die in Beirut, A portfolio of Saad Hariri

1970 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Lebanon
Émile Lahoud

Émile Jamil Lahoud () (born 12 January 1936) is a Lebanese politician. He was President of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007.

Honours

Foreign honours
  : Grand Cross of the Order of Grimaldi (13 July 2001)

References

Other websites

1936 births
Living people
Presidents of Lebanon
Military people
Paul Goma

Paul Goma (; October 2, 1935 – March 25, 2020) was a Romanian-Moldovan writer and political critic. He was known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989. After 2000, Goma has expressed opinions on World War II, the Holocaust in Romania and the Jews, claims which have led to widespread criticism for antisemitism.

On March 18, 2020, Goma was hospitalized in Paris after being infected with COVID-19. He died on March 25, 2020 from the infection, aged 84.

Honours
 "Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (France), 1986
 Writers' Union of Moldova's Prize for Prose, March, 1992.
 Writers' Union of Romania's Prize for Prose, May 25, 1992.
 "Honorary Citizen" by the Municipal Council of Timişoara, January 30, 2007.

References

Other websites
  Paul Goma's site with downloadable recent writings 

1935 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France
Political activists
Political writers
Critics
Moldovan people
Romanian writers
Novelists
Essayists
Anti-Communists
Simon MacCorkindale

Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale (12 February 1952 – 14 October 2010) was a British actor, movie director, screenwriter, composer and producer. He was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He was known for his roles in Manimal as the lead character, Dr. Jonathan Chase. He also acted for the longer-running role of lawyer Greg Reardon in Falcon Crest.

MacCorkindale died of colorectal cancer on 14 October 2010 in London at the age of 58.

References

Other websites
 
 
 

1952 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in London
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
British movie directors
British movie producers
British television producers
British screenwriters
Actors from Cambridgeshire
20th-century British composers
21st-century British composers
George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American actor, comedian and dancer. He was born in New York City.  

Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940).

Raft died in Los Angeles, California of leukemia on November 24, 1980 at the age of 79.

Other websites

 
 
George Raft's FBI File at Internet Archive
 
 George Raft profile, Virtual-History.com

1901 births
1980 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American radio actors
American dancers
Comedians from New York City
Actors from New York City
Buona Vista MRT station

Buona Vista MRT station (EW21/CC22) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the East West Line and Circle Line in Queenstown, Singapore. This station is in close proximity to one-north, a high technology business parks made up of biomedical science, infocomm technology and media industries.

History 
Buona Vista station opened on 12 March 1988, as part of Phase 1B of the MRT line which runs from Outram Park to Clementi.

In the late 1990s to early 2000s, a temporary overhead bridge was built across North Buona Vista Road, leading into the concourse level.

With the construction of the Circle Line from 11 January 2005, the bridge was demolished and replaced with a newer one. The second storey of the EW Line station was also converted into a transfer level between the two lines. The Circle Line part was opened on October 8, 2011, while the two new exits share the same location as the original one.

Following the 25 March 2006 accident, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) made the decision in 2008 to install Platform Screen Doors in this station, whereby operations commenced on 10 June 2011.

The lifts were upgraded in August 2009 and had been the last station to be barrier-free, due to the big size of the station. Buona Vista MRT station is the second station to serve as an interchange between an above and underground MRT line, with the first being Paya Lebar. The station is fitted with high-volume low-speed fans, which commenced operations on 25 June 2012, the same day as the fans at Commonwealth.

Art in Transit 
The artwork featured under the Art in Transit programme is The Tree of Life by Gilles Massot. Located on the lift shaft in the underground station, the artwork depicts a eucalyptus tree located at the nearby Kent Ridge Park that has been digitally edited to create an effect similar to David Hockney's photo montages. The tree also represents the jungle greenery which used to exist next to the above-ground station and is a result of the deep impression left on the artist of the landscape and view of the area.

References

Other websites 
 

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Wilson Frost

Wilson Frost (December 27, 1925 – May 5, 2018) was an American politician. He served as Chicago alderman of the 34th Ward. In 1976, upon the death of longtime mayor Richard J. Daley, Frost declared that he was acting mayor. 

In a power struggle that lasted several days, the entirely Democratic Chicago City Council determined that Frost was incorrect in his claim, and appointed Alderman Michael Anthony Bilandic as acting mayor instead. If he had been elected mayor, Wilson Frost would have been Chicago's first African American mayor. He was born in Cairo, Illinois.

Frost died on May 5, 2018 in Palm Desert, California at the age of 92.

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1925 births
2018 deaths
Lawyers from Chicago
Chicago City Council members
US Democratic Party politicians
Ray Szmanda

Raymond Jack Szmanda, Sr. (June 22, 1926 – May 6, 2018) was an American radio and television announcer. He became well-known for his "Menards Guy," commercial role who has advertised for the home improvement store for more than 20 years. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Szmanda once appeared in a 1970s science fiction movie, The Alpha Incident as the Official.  He also hosted the Wausau version of High Quiz Bowl. 

Szmanda died on May 6, 2018 in Antigo, Wisconsin of pneumonia caused by a fall at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
Ray Szmanda's Website

1926 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Wisconsin
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
American radio personalities
American television personalities
American television presenters
American movie actors
Actors from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Chase Bank

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., also known as Chase Bank, is a national bank headquartered in Manhattan, New York City. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with J.P. Morgan & Co. in 2000. Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and The Manhattan Company in 1955. 

The bank has been headquartered in Columbus, Ohio since its merger with Bank One Corporation in 2004. The bank acquired the deposits and most assets of Washington Mutual. The current CEO of the bank is Jamie Dimon.

Chase offers more than 5,100 branches and 16,000 ATMs nationwide. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has 250,355 employees (as of 2016) and operates in more than 100 countries. JPMorgan Chase & Co. had assets of US$2.49 trillion in 2016.

JPMorgan Chase is one of the largest banks of the United States.

References

Banks based in New York City
2000 establishments in the United States
JPMorgan Chase

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is a banking and money managing company headquartered in New York City that operates all over the world. It is the largest bank in the United States, and one of the biggest in the world. It is also the world's most valuable bank by market capitalization. JPMorgan is one of America's Big Four banks, along with Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. Some of the different ways they manage money are called investment banking, asset management, private banking, private wealth management, and treasury & securities services; they use the name "JPMorgan" for these services. They use the name "Chase" for credit card services in the United States and Canada, retail banking activities in the United States, and commercial banking. 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City is the headquarters for activities using both names. The company was formed in 2000, when Chase Manhattan Corporation merged with J.P. Morgan & Co.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is a big company that used to be several smaller companies. These companies include banks that were active two hundred years ago. Like most American banks, the smaller companies that make up JPMorgan Chase all made a lot of money from slavery.

References

Companies based in New York City
Slavers
Timeline of prehistoric Britain

Events from the prehistory of Britain (to 1 BC). The entries are backed by modern research in archaeology.

Events
 c. 950,000 or 840,000 BC
 2010. Flints worked in south-eastern  Britain.
 c. 800,000 BC
 Happisburgh early flint workings; footprints.
 c. 700,000 BC
 Pakefield early flint workings.
 c. 500,000 BC
 Eartham Pit, Boxgrove the oldest known human remains found in Britain.
 c. 250,000 BC
 Swanscombe Man (actually a woman), the second oldest known human remains found in Britain.
 c. 180,000 BC
 English Channel forms, separating Britain from the mainland.
 c. 26,000 BC
 Cave-dwelling Upper Paleolithic peoples in Britain.
 c. 10,000 BC
 Last Ice Age ends.
 c. 8300 BC
 Mesolithic period begins.
 Cheddar Man, the oldest complete human skeleton found in Britain (c 7150 BC)  
 c. 4000 BC
 Neolithic period begins in Britain, introducing the first agriculture.
 c. 3000 BC
 First henge monuments.
 c. 2600 BC
 Main phase of construction at Stonehenge begins, replacing earlier wooden and earthen works.
 c. 2300 BC
 Arrival of the Beaker People in Britain.
 c. 1800 BC
 Wessex culture brings bronze-working to Britain.
 c. 1600 BC
 Last construction at Stonehenge.
 c. 1400 BC
 Wessex culture replaced by more agrarian peoples; stone circles and early hillforts produced.
 c. 800 BC
 Celts bring iron working to Britain; Hallstatt Culture.
 c. 400 BC
 Parisi tribe from northern France settle in Yorkshire.
 First brochs constructed.
 c. 330 BC
 Pytheas of Massilia circumnavigates Britain.
 c. 300 BC
 La Tene artwork introduced from northern France.
 c. 100 BC
 First wave of Belgic invaders settle in the south-east, establishing the Catuvellauni and Trinovantes tribes.
 First coins introduced.
 c. 80 BC
 Second wave of Belgic invaders settle in Sussex, Berkshire, and Hampshire, establishing the Atrebates and Regnenses tribes.
 55 BC
 Commius, chieftain of the Atrebates, captured by the British after serving as an envoy to Rome.
 26 August – Julius Caesar lands between Deal and Walmer, wins skirmishes against the British, and frees Commius.
 31 August – Britons in war-chariots defeat the Romans. Romans return to Gaul.
 54 BC
 July – Julius Caesar invades Britain and defeats the Catuvellauni under Cassivellaunus.
 September – Tribute fixed, and peace agreed between the Catevellauni and the Trinovantes, allied with Rome. Romans return to Gaul.
 50 BC
 Fleeing to Britain after a failed revolt in Gaul, Commius becomes chieftain of the Atrebates.
 34 BC
 Emperor Octavian makes an alliance with the Atrebates and Trinovantes.
 c. 25 BC
 Tincommius, leader of the Atrebates, issues Roman-style coinage.

References

Great Britain
Swanscombe Heritage Park

Swanscombe Heritage Park or Swanscombe Skull Site is a  geological Site of Special Scientific Interest Swanscombe in north-west Kent. The site has two Geological Conservation Review sites, and a National Nature Reserve.

The park is in a former gravel quarry, Barnfield Pit. The area was already famous for numerous Palaeolithic-era handaxes—mostly Acheulean and Clactonian artifacts, some as much as 400,000 years old.

In 1935/1936 work at Barnfield Pit uncovered two fossilised skull fragments. These fragments were the remains of Swanscombe Man. The bones were later found to have belonged to a young woman. The Swanscombe skull were early Neanderthal, dating to the Hoxnian Interglacial around 400,000 years ago.

They are one of only two sites in Britain which have yielded Lower Palaeolithic human fossils, together with the 500,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis leg bones and teeth at Boxgrove.

The skull fragments were found in the lower middle terrace gravels at a depth of almost eight metres beneath the surface. Further excavations, carried out between 1968-1972 uncovered more animal bone and flint tools, and established the extent of a former shoreline that the bones were found on.

Most of the bone finds are now in the Natural History Museum in London, and the stone finds are at the British Museum. The other key paleolithic sites in the UK are Happisburgh, Pakefield, Pontnewydd, Kents Cavern, Paviland, and Gough's Cave.

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Happisburgh

Happisburgh, pronounced "Hazeborough", is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is on the coast, to the east of a north-south road, the B1159. Its population is under 1,000.

This small place became a site of national archaeological importance in 2010. Flint tools over 800,000 years old were unearthed. This is the oldest evidence of human occupation anywhere in the UK. In May 2013, a series of early human footprints were discovered on the beach at the site, providing direct evidence of early human activity at the site. Rough seas had eroded the sandy beach. This uncovered some elongated hollows.

Related pages 
 Timeline of prehistoric Britain

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Firuz Shah Tughluq

Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Turkic Muslim ruler of the Tughlaq Dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. His father's name was Rajab (the younger brother of Ghazi Malik) who had the title Sipahsalar. He succeeded his cousin Muhammad bin Tughlaq following the latter's death at Thatta in Sindh, where Muhammad bin Tughlaq had gone in pursuit of Taghi the ruler of Gujarat. For the first time in the history of Delhi Sultanate, a situation was confronted wherein nobody was ready to accept the reins of power. With much difficulty, the camp followers convinced Firuz to accept the responsibility. In fact, Khwaja Jahan, the Wazir of Muhammad bin Tughlaq had placed a small boy on throne claiming him to the son of Muhammad bin Tughlaq, who meekly surrendered afterwards. Due to widespread unrest, his realm was much smaller than Muhammad's. Tughlaq was forced by rebellions to concede virtual independence to Bengal and other provinces.

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Alpine orogeny

The Alpine orogeny (sometimes Alpide orogeny) is the building of mountain ranges in central and southern Europe and west Asia.
This mountain-building phase started in the later Mesozoic era. It happened as the two large continents Africa and India (plus a smaller plates) moved north and collided with Eurasia. This happened at the end of the Mesozoic era, and is slowly continuing today.

So this slow collision sqeezed the Eurasian plates, and caused mountains to build from the western edge far into Asia. These are the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt. They include (from west to east) the Atlas, the Rif, the Baetic Cordillera, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Apennine Mountains, the Dinaric Alps, the Hellenides, the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Taurus, the Armenian Highlands, the Caucasus, the Alborz, the Zagros, the Hindu Kush, the Pamir, the Karakoram, and the Himalayas.

The Alpine orogeny also led to more distant and smaller geological features such as the chalk hills in southern England and northern France (the 'Weald–Artois Anticline'). The remains of this can be seen in the chalk ridges of the North and South Downs in southern England. Its effects are visible on the Isle of Wight, where the chalk and overlying Eocene strata are folded to near-vertical, as seen at Alum Bay and Whitecliff Bay, and on the Dorset coast near Lulworth Cove.

The Alpine orogeny was the last of the three major phases of orogeny in Europe that made its geology. The Caledonian orogeny which formed the Old Red Sandstone continent was the first. The second was the Variscan orogeny. That was when Pangaea formed as Gondwana and the Old Red Sandstone continent collided in the middle to late Palaeozoic.

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Rockstar North

Rockstar North Limited (former DMA Design Limited) is a British video game developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The company was founded as Acme Software in Dundee in 1984.  The founders were classmates David Jones, Russell Kay, Steve Hammond, and Mike Dailly. It was renamed DMA Design in 1987. During its early years, the publishing company Psygnosis backed DMA Design, and it focused mainly on making games for the Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 game systems. During this time, DMA created successful shooters such as Menace and Blood Money, but it soon turned to platform games after the release of Lemmings in 1991. Lemmings was an international success and led to several sequels and spin-offs. After developing Unirally for Nintendo, DMA Design was set to become one of their main second-party developers, but this partnership ended after Nintendo's disapproval of Body Harvest.

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 Official website

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Charles W. Steger

Charles William Steger Jr. (June 16, 1947 – May 6, 2018) was an American architect and engineer. He was the 15th president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. 

Steger was President during the Virginia Tech massacre of April 16, 2007, in which 32 people were killed and another 17 were injured by Seung-Hui Cho in two buildings on opposite sides of the sprawling campus. Steger called the shootings "a tragedy of monumental proportions."  

On May 14, 2013, Steger announced that he would step down as the President of Virginia Tech. He was succeeded on June 1, 2014 by Timothy D. Sands, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Purdue University.  

Steger died on May 6, 2018 in his home in Blacksburg, Virginia at the age of 70.

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Ermanno Olmi

Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 5 May 2018) was an Italian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Bergamo, Italy. He was best known for his movie The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. In 1983 his movie Walking, Walking was screened out of competition at Cannes.

Olmi died of complications from Guillain–Barré syndrome in Asiago, Italy on 5 May 2018 at the age of 86.

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Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

Jesús Kumate Rodríguez (13 November 1924 – 7 May 2018) was a Mexican physician and politician. He was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He served as the Secretary of Health during the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari from 1988 to 1994. He was awarded Legion of Honour, Chevalier and Officier. His family were immigrants from Japan.

Kumate Rodríguez died of respiratory failure in Mexico City on 7 May 2018 at the age of 93.

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 Curriculum Vitae – Jesús Kumate Rodríguez

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Won't You Be My Neighbor? (movie)

Won't You Be My Neighbor? is a 2018 documentary movie directed by Morgan Neville. It is about the life and philosophy of Fred Rogers, the host and creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. The trailer was released on what would have been Rogers' 90th birthday, March 20, 2018.

The movie premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released on June 8, 2018. The movie received very good reviews and has a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

It has made $22 million in the box office making it the highest grossing biographical-documentary of all time.

It was nominated for numerous awards, won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was chosen by Time magazine as one of its top ten films of 2018.

Background 
In November 2018, Morgan revealed that the original title of the movie was The Radical Mister Rogers, but after the election of Donald Trump, the term "radical" had a negative connotation according to Morgan.

PBS aired the movie on February 9, 2019, as part of the network's Independent Lens series.

On July 27, 2018 the movie became the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all-time, and on August 12 passed Bowling for Columbine to become the 12th-highest-grossing documentary overall.

Cast 
Joanne Rogers as herself.
François Clemmons as himself.
Yo-Yo Ma as himself.
Joe Negri as himself.
Tom Junod as himself.
David Newell as himself.
Fred Rogers as himself in archival recordings.

Related pages
 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

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Joe Negri

Joseph Harold Negri (born June 10, 1926) is an American jazz guitarist and educator. He is best known for starring as "Handyman Negri" in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

He appeared on the 1959 children's television program Adventure Time. He also worked closely with Fred Rogers while his career was based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Negri appeared, along with pianist and fellow Pennsylvanian Johnny Costa, on the 1954 TV series, 67 Melody Lane, hosted by Ken Griffin. They played two songs: "After You've Gone" and "Little Brown Jug" the latter accompanied by Griffin at the organ. He also recorded with the Three Suns.

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 Official site 

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François Clemmons

François Scarborough Clemmons (born April 23, 1945) is an African-American singer, actor, playwright, and university lecturer, best known for his appearances on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood throughout the 1970s as Officer Clemmons.

Clemmons is openly gay.

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 Clip from final appearance on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

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Middlebury, Vermont

Middlebury is the shire town (county seat) of Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 8,496 at the 2010 census. Middlebury is home to Middlebury College and the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.

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Antigo, Wisconsin

Antigo ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Langlade County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 8,234 at the 2010 census.

The name "Antigo" comes from the Chippewa Indian name for the river that flows through the area, "Nequi-Antigo-sebi" meaning "spring river" or "evergreen."

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2018 lower Puna eruption

The 2018 lower Puna eruption, which began May 3, 2018 is an ongoing volcanic event on the island of Hawaii on Kīlauea while at the time day, faced a 6.9 earthquake. It caused outbreaks of lava fountains up to  high, lava flows and volcanic gas in the Leilani Estates on the island of Hawaii. 

As of May 6, 2018, the eruption has caused in the destruction of 26 houses. This volcanic event is the 62nd episode of the ongoing east rift zone eruption that began in January 1983.

On May 3, 2018, after a 5.0 earthquake earlier in the day, steaming ground cracks opened in Leilani Estate and began to spew lava, causing evacuations of the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens areas. The next day, May 4, the first two homes were reported destroyed in Leilani Estates from three erupting vents.

The Civil Defense Agency reported extreme levels of sulphur dioxide gas in the area, and Talmadge Magno, the Civil Defense Administrator for Hawaii County, stated that power lines had melted off the poles due to heat.

By May 25, 2018, over 20 fissures had erupted lava in or near the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens subdivisions, resulting in the destruction of at least 82 structures in lower Puna. The eruption forced the evacuation of about two thousand residents. 

The fissures had sent lava rivers that on May 19 buried part of Hawaii Route 137 and began flowing into the ocean. On May 29 the approach of lava forced closure of Hawaii Route 132.

By July 12, over  of land had been covered by lava flows. About  of new land has been created in the ocean. The official number of houses destroyed by the ongoing eruption reached 700 on July 9. The eruption was said to have stopped near August 15, 2018.

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On May 4, 2018, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck Hawaii at around 12:33 p.m. local time. The earthquake's epicenter was near the south flank of Kīlauea, which has been the site of seismic and volcanic activity since late April. The quake happened at the same time as the lava outbreaks at the volcano.

The earthquake left two deaths and 28 injuries.

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Stickler syndrome

Stickler syndrome, is sometimes called Stickler's dysplasia (hereditary progrerssive arthro-ophalmo-dystrophy). It is a rare medical condition discovered by Gunnar B. Stickler in the early 1960s. It affects the way a person produces collagen. 

When someone has Stickler's they may have problems with their joints, eyes, ears, heart, and in some rare cases their skin. Stickler syndrome affects around 1 in 10,000 people.
There are six types of Stickler syndrome known, and each has its own gene. 

Some people may live long and productive lives if the condition is discovered early on. 

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Peter Temple-Morris

Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (12 February 1938 – 1 May 2018) was a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Leominster in 1974. He stepped down from the office in 2001 after changing parties. He sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. He was born in Cardiff, Wales.

Temple-Morris died on 1 May 2018 in London, aged 80.

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 Lord Temple-Morris - UK Parliament

1938 births
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UK MPs 1997–2001
Maurane

Maurane (born Claudine Luypaerts; 12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018) was a Belgian French language singer and actress. She was born in Ixelles, Belgium. In 2012, she became a member of the Jury in Nouvelle Star broadcast on television station D8. She was known for her 2002 single "Tu es mon autre". She also starred in the 2010 movie My Afternoons with Margueritte.

Maurane died in Schaerbeek, Belgian on 7 May 2018 of suspected cardiac arrest at the age of 57.

Honours
 2001 Knight of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (France)
 2003 Knight of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
 2011 Officer of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (France)

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 Official website

1960 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Belgian movie actors
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