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Pumpuang Duangjan () (-) was a superstar singer from Thailand. She born in the poor farmers, Pumpuang had only two years of primary education before her family's plight forced her to take to the fields as a sugar cane cutter. Although illiterate, she was adept at memorising lyrics and participated in many local singing competitions. At age 15, she came to the notice of a visiting band, and from the late 1970s onwards her fame skyrocketed. She died by Lupus in June 13, 1992, age 30 years.
The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024, was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship. Germany was hosting the tournament. It took place from 14 June to 14 July 2024. Spain won the tournament against England, winning their 4th title. Historical background. It would be the third time that the matches are played on German territory and the second time in reunified Germany. The former West Germany hosted the tournament of 1988. Four matches of the multi-national Euro 2020 were played in Munich. However, it would be the first time the match is held in the former East Germany with Leipzig as a host city. Italy are the defending champions going into the tournament. They have beaten England on penalties in the 2020 final. Bid process. On 8 March 2017, UEFA announced that only two countries, Germany and Turkey, had announced their intentions to host the tournament before the deadline of 3 March 2017. The host was selected on 27 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland. The UEFA Executive Committee voted for the host in a secret ballot, with only a simple majority (more than half of the valid votes) required to determine the host. In the event of a tie, the UEFA President would cast the decisive vote. Of the twenty members of the Executive Committee, two were ineligible to vote and one was not there, leaving a total of seventeen voting members. Qualification. As hosts, Germany qualified for the tournament automatically. The 23 remaining spots will be determined through qualifying, with the group stage taking place from March to November 2023, and the play-offs linked with the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League in March 2024. The qualifying draw is expected to take place in Hamburg in December 2022. Venues. Germany had a wide choice of stadia that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 30,000 seats for European Championship matches. Nine venues used at the 2006 FIFA World Cup were selected: Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen. Düsseldorf,
The 2015 Canadian federal election (formally the 42nd Canadian general election) was held on October 19, 2015, to elect members to the House of Commons of the 42nd Canadian Parliament and the Prime Minister of Canada. The 2015 election were issued by Governor General David Johnston on August 4.  The election was one of the longest in Canadian history. It was also the first time since the 1979 election that a Prime Minister attempted to remain in office into a fourth consecutive Parliament and the first time since the 1980 election that someone attempted to win a fourth term of any kind as Prime Minister. The Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won 184 seats, allowing it to form a majority government with Trudeau becoming the next Prime Minister. Trudeau was sworn in on November 4, 2015.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, also called FIFA World Cup 26, will be the 23rd edition. It takes place from June to July 19, 2026, hosted by 16 cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States – the first World Cup with three hosts. Argentina is the current champion. This tournament includes 48 teams, up from 32, and was won by the United States over Morocco. It's the first multi-nation World Cup since 2002. Mexico has hosted twice before, while it's Canada's first time. The event returns to its traditional summer schedule, unlike the 2022 World Cup in Qatar held in November and December. Teams. Qualification. The United Bid expected all three host countries to get automatic World Cup spots. FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed this on August 31, 2022, with Canada, Mexico, and the United States securing spots as hosts. The FIFA Council officially confirmed this on February 14, 2023. Before the 67th FIFA Congress, the FIFA Council met in Manama, Bahrain, and approved the slot allocation. This includes a playoff tournament with six teams to decide the final two World Cup spots. In the playoffs, there will be one team from each confederation except UEFA, and an extra team from the host countries' confederation, CONCACAF. Two seeded teams (based on World Rankings) will face off against the winners of two knockout games between the unseeded teams. These matches will take place in one or more of the host countries and serve as a test event for the World Cup. This allocation also ensures that the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) gets a guaranteed spot in the tournament for the first time. So, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the first where all six confederations have at least one guaranteed spot, and all continents will have teams in the finals for the first time since 2010. AFC (2) CONCACAF (3) CONMEBOL (1) OFC (1) Draw. The group stage draw will take place in December 2025. While no host venue has been confirmed, Las
Gilles Duceppe (; born July 22, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He was leader of the Québec sovereignty movement and former leader of the Bloc Québécois. He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada for over 20 years and has been the leader of the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois for 15 years in three stints: 1996, 1997-2011 and in 2015. He resigned as party leader after the 2011 election, in which he lost his own seat to New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Hélène Laverdière and his party suffered a heavy defeat; however, he returned four years later to lead the party into the 2015 election. After being defeated in his own riding by Laverdière again, he resigned once more.
Elizabeth Evans May (born June 9, 1954) is an American-born Canadian politician. May was leader of the Green Party of Canada and Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands. She is an environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer, May served as the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada from 1989 to 2006. On May 2, 2011, she became the first member of the Green Party of Canada to be elected as a Member of Parliament. May ran for re-election in the 2015 federal election in the riding of Saanich–Gulf Islands and was successful in regaining her seat in Parliament. After the 2015 election, she was the only Green Party member in the House of Commons. This changed on May 6, 2019, when Paul Manly was elected. Manly became the second Green Party member in the House of Commons. After the 2019 Canadian federal election, May said she was going to stop being the leader of the Green Party.
The 2019 Canadian federal election (formally the 43rd Canadian general election) took place on October 21, 2019. References. Notes
Andrew James Scheer (born May 20, 1979) is a Canadian politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle since 2004. Between 2017 and 2020, he was the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Official Opposition. Scheer was selected to the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle at the age of 25. Scheer was reelected in 2006, 2008 and 2011 before becoming the Speaker of the House of Commons at age 32, making him the youngest Speaker in the chamber's history.  On September 28, 2016, Scheer announced his bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party, running under the slogan “Real conservative. Real leader.” He won the leadership position on May 27, 2017. On 12 December 2019, Scheer announced he would be resigning as the leader of the Conservative Party effective upon the election of a new one. Political career. Scheer was elected for the first time in the 2004 election. He was elected in the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle for the Conservative Party. With that election, he beat the New Democratic Party MP Lorne Lystrom. He won by over 800 votes. He was elected again in the 2006 election. He beat Lystrom again by 2740 votes.
Rhéal Éloi Fortin () is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He is the spokesperson of the Groupe parlementaire québécois in the House of Commons of Canada. He served as interim leader of the Bloc Québécois after the resignation of leader Gilles Duceppe until the next leader, Martine Ouellet was named on March 18, 2017. Fortin was named interim leader of the Bloc Québécois on October 22, 2015 following the resignation of Gilles Duceppe as leader after Duceppe was unable to win his seat in the October 19, 2015 federal election.
Wahbi Khazri (; born 8 February 1991 in Ajaccio) is a Tunisian professional football player who currently plays for Sunderland and the Tunisia national team. He plays as a midfielder and a winger. He has also played for SC Bastia, Girondins de Bordeaux, and Stade Rennais. He played in the 2018 FIFA World Cup for Tunisia, and he scored two goals.
Québec debout (Translation: "Quebec Standing Up, or Quebec Stand Up"), formerly the Groupe parlementaire québécois (Translation: "Quebec Parliamentary Group") is a Quebec-based parliamentary group in the House of Commons of Canada that is in the process of registering as a political party. The group does not have a party leader but named Rhéal Fortin as its spokesperson on March 21, 2018. The "Groupe parlementaire québécois" was formed on February 28, 2018 by seven Members of Parliament (MPs) who resigned from the caucus of the Bloc Québécois (BQ) due to their opposition to the leadership of Martine Ouellet. In September 2018, Rheal Fortin and the rest of Quebec Debout rejoined the Bloc Quebecois.
Presidential elections were held in Austria on 24 April 2016, with a second round run-off on 22 May 2016. However, the results of the second round were annulled and a re-vote took place on 4 December 2016. The President of Austria is directly elected by the people once every six years. The election is held under a two-round system; if no candidate receives more than 50% of votes cast in the first round, then a second ballot occurs in which only those two candidates who received the greatest number of votes in the first round may stand.  Incumbent President Heinz Fischer had served two terms and was not eligible to be elected for a third successive term.  Results. In the first round of the election, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) received the most votes. Alexander Van der Bellen, a member of the Austrian Greens ran as an independent, placed second. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote, Hofer and Van der Bellen went head-to-head in the second round in May. This was the first time since World War II that an Austrian president had not been backed by either the People's or the Social Democratic party. During the run-off, Van der Bellen defeated Hofer on 23 May 2016 after the postal ballots had been counted. Annulment of second round. On 22 July, the results of the second round of voting were annulled after the results in 20 of the 117 administrative districts were challenged, and the Constitutional Court of Austria found that Austrian electoral law had been disregarded in 14 of them. The Court found that over 77,900 absentee votes were counted too early, however without any signs of votes having been cheated. The second round re-vote was planned on 2 October, but was postponed to 4 December 2016. Van der Bellen ultimately won the second round re-vote with 53.8% of the vote and a voter turnout of 74.2%. Hofer announced his defeat in the race to Van der Bellen when the result had become apparent shortly after polls closed. Van der Bellen was sworn in as the twelfth president of Austria on 26 January 2017.
Norbert Gerwald Hofer (; born 2 March 1971) is an Austrian politician. He is a member of the Freedom Party (FPÖ). He was the party's chair from 2019 until 2021. He was the Third President of the National Council from 2013 to 2017. Hofer was a candidate for President of Austria in the 2016 election. He received the plurality of votes, 35% as opposed to 21% of rival Alexander Van der Bellen, in the first round. The much closer results of the second round of voting (49.7%/50.3%) were annulled by the Constitutional Court due to voting irregularities affecting nearly 78,000 votes, requiring the election to be re-held. In the re-run on 4 December 2016 he received 46% of the vote and lost the election to Van der Bellen.
The Russian Women's Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин, "Chempionat Rossii po Futbolu credi zhenshchin") is the women's top division football league in Russia. The current champions are Zvezda Perm. Zvezda Perm has also won the most titles. The tournament was created in 1992. Clubs 2018. Below is a list of all the clubs that are playing in the 2018 season. Result table. Below is a table showing the overall results of all the teams.
The 2016 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 26 June 2016, to elect the 12th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. Opinion polling going into the election predicted a growing polarisation between this alliance and the People's Party (PP), which would be fighting to maintain first place nationally. In the end, the alliance suffered a surprise decline in votes and vote share compared to the previous election, while the PP increased its number of votes and seats. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), while clinging on to second place, kept losing votes and seats and scored a new historical low. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was re-elected as Prime Minister for a second term in office on 29 October amid public outcry and protest.
Pablo Manuel Iglesias Turrión, known as either Pablo Iglesias or Pablo Iglesias Turrión (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish politician. He was the Secretary-General of political party Podemos from 2014 to 2021. He was a lecturer in political science at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 elections as the leading candidate of the newly formed party Podemos, along with four other members of his party. Iglesias hosts the internet programs "La Tuerka" and "Fort Apache", and appears in Spanish political TV shows. On 27 October 2015 he resigned his seat in the European Parliament in order to focus on the campaign for the 2015 Spanish general election and Spanish general election, 2016. He was vicepresident of Spanish government from January, 2020 to March, 2021. He resigned to be candidate in the 2021 elections of Madrid. He had bad results in said elections and he resigned from all political charges.
Gabriel Rufián Romero (born 8 February 1982) is a Spanish politician and activist. In the Spanish general election, 2015 and 2016 he led the Republican Left of Catalonia, a pro-independence electoral party. He is also a member of the secretariat of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana and a member of Súmate, two other pro-independence groups. In the 2016 general election, he was elected to the Congress of Deputies for the constituency of Barcelona. The presence of Rufián in the ERC list has been suggested to be a case of tokenism.
Francesc Homs Molist (born 5 September 1969) is a Spanish politician. He was born in Barcelona. He served as Minister of the Presidency and Spokesperson of the Government of Catalonia. He ran in the 2016 general election, but came in last place. He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2003 to 2010. He was writer of the draft of the new Statute of Catalonia on behalf of Convergència i Unió (CiU), and speaker of the new Statute (2006).
The Tham Luang cave rescue involved the rescue of twelve boys aged 11 to 16 and a 25-year-old man who became stranded in Tham Luang Nang Non (; "Great Cave of the Sleeping Lady"), a cave in Thailand's Chiang Rai Province on 23 June 2018. Heavy rains flooded the cave during their visit. The boys – all members of a local association football team – and their assistant coach were reported missing a few hours later, and search operations began immediately. The rescue effort expanded into a massive operation. After struggles through narrow passages and muddy waters, British divers discovered the missing people, all alive, on an elevated rock about from the cave mouth, on 2 July, over nine days after they went missing. To leave the cave, they may need to learn to dive or wait months for the floodwater to drop in a few months Over 1,000 people have been involved in the rescue operation, including Thai Navy Seals as well as volunteers, teams and technical assistance from multiple countries A 38-year-old former Thai Navy Seal died while attempting to return after delivering supplies of air to the cave on 5 July. Aftermath: the captain of the football team died in 2023; As of 2023, he had a head injury.
Smart casual is a dress code that is neat yet casual. Oxford defines it as "neat, conventional, yet relatively informal in style, especially as worn to conform to a particular dress code". "Business casual" is another similar term. It suggests some formality, not really casual in fact. Different localities, kinds of events, contexts, or cultures have varying interpretations of the dress code.
The 2018 Russian Women's Football Championship (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу среди женщин 2018) is the 27th Russian Women's Football Championship season. It is being played from 21 April 2018 to 23 October 2018. The defending champions are Zvezda Perm. Statistics. Top scorers. 7 goals 6 goals 4 goals
Zvezda-2005 Perm (Russian: Звезда-2005 Пермь) is a professional women's football club from Perm, Russia. The club currently plays in the Russian Women's Football Championship. Zvezda Perm is the most successful team in the tournament, having won 6 titles. The team was founded in 2005 and is named after the men's team, Zvezda Perm, which was dissolved in 1997. Zvezda Perm reached the final of the 2008–09 UEFA Women's Cup, but lost to FCR Duisburg. Their best performance in the Champions League was in 2010–11 when they reached the quarter-finals. The club's head coach is Elena Suslova.
Nadezhda Smirnova (Russian: Надежда Смирнова; born on 22 February 1996 in Sergiyev Posad) is a Russian professional football player who currently plays for CSKA Moscow and the Russian national team. She played for Russia in the UEFA Women's Euro 2017. She has also played for Rossiyanka, and Zorky Krasnogorsk.
An EPROM (rarely EROM), or erasable programmable read-only memory, is a type of memory chip. Unlike a normal programmable read-only memory (PROM), this type of chip can have its information cleared and written again. EPROMs are cleared by shining ultraviolet light on the clear opening on their top. Some EPROMs can be cleared using only electricity instead of needing ultraviolet light. These are called EEPROMs (standing for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory).
Friendswood is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. Geography. Friendswood has a total area of 20.9 square miles.
Vietnam observes Indochina Time (ICT) () and does not observe daylight saving time.
Oroville is a city in California. It is the county seat of Butte County. The population was 20,042 at the 2020 census. Oroville is thought to be the gateway to Lake Oroville and Feather River recreational areas.
Leavenworth is a city in Chelan County, Washington, United States. The population was 2,263 at the 2020 census. The entire town center is modeled on a Bavarian village.
Oroville is a city in the northern bulk of the Okanagan Highlands in north-central Washington, United States. Oroville is a member municipality of Okanogan County, Washington, between Omak and Penticton. The population was 1,795 at the 2020 census.
Bozeman is a city in and the seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States. It is located in southwest Montana. The 2020 census put Bozeman's population at 53,293, making it the fourth largest city in Montana. Bozeman is home to Montana State University. The local newspaper is the "Bozeman Daily Chronicle", and the city is served by Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport. Points of interest are the Museum of the Rockies and Bridger Bowl Ski Area.
Butte is a city in, and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. The city covers . In the 2020 census, it has a population of around 34,500, making it Montana's fifth largest city.  It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM. Butte is home to Montana Technological University.
Kalispell (ˈkæl əˌspɛl, ˌkæl əˈspɛl) is a city in, and the county seat of Flathead County, Montana, United States. The 2020 Census put Kalispell's population at 24,558. The name Kalispell is a Salish word meaning "flat land above the lake". Kalispell is also the gateway to Glacier National Park. Flathead Lake is nearby.
Plungė is a city in Lithuania. It has a population of 18,904 people. Before World War II, Plungė had a large Jewish population. Twin towns – Sister cities. Plungė is twinned with:
Doncaster railway works is a plant in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. When it was set up by the Great Northern Railway in 1853, it replaced the previous works in Boston and Peterborough.  Until 1867 it did only repairs and maintenance. In 1866, Patrick Stirling was appointed as Locomotive Superintendent, and the first of the 875 class was built in 1886. At this time the works also began building new coaches. In 1873 they built the first sleeping cars; in 1879 the first dining cars in the United Kingdom; and in 1882 the first corridor coaches. In 1891, 99 locomotives, 181 carriages and 1493 wagons were built. In 1957, the last of over two thousand steam locomotives was built. Carriage building finished in 1962. The works was modernised with the addition of a diesel locomotive repair shop. Under BREL, new diesel shunters and 25 kV electric locomotives were built, also Class 56 and Class 58 diesel locomotives. In July 2003 the works celebrated its 150th anniversary with an open weekend.  Owners Wabtec closed the train engine plant in 2007. In early 2008 the main locomotive repair shop was demolished to make way for housing. Wabtec still does passenger fleet refurbishment at the Doncaster site.
Mogadiscio was the name of Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, when it was under Italy's rule from 1905 until 1947. The Italian influence in Mogadishu lasted 80 years, from 1880 until 1960. The city grew from a small city of just two thousand inhabitants to a metropolis of nearly half a million "mogadiscians" in the metropolitan area. History. The ancient city of Mogadishu was under Italian colonial rule/influence for nearly seventy years, from the 1880s until after the end of WW2. In 1905 it was declared capital of the newly created "Somalia Italiana". The first Italian to write about Mogadiscio was Marco Polo, who knew of the city during his merchant travels in Asia. But only in the late XIX century the commerce company "Filonardi" from Italy took control of facilities in the port of Mogadishu. By 1882, Mogadishu was under the joint control of the Somali Geledi Sultanate (which was also holding sway over the Shebelle Valley region in the interior called Benadir) and the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar. In 1885, Ali bin Said leased the city to an Italian chartered company owned by Vincenzo Filonardi. This "Compagnia Filonardi" (1893-96) and later the "Società Anonima Commerciale Italiana del Benadir" (1899-1905) was taken over by the Italian government. They got control of the entire region of Benadir with the port of Mogadishu through an agreement with the British government in 1892. From 3 August 1889 to 15 May 1893 Filonardi was the first Governor of the "Somalia italiana". He was governor again from 1896 to 1897. The Kingdom of Italy purchased the city in 1905 and made Mogadishu the capital of the newly established Italian Somaliland. The Italians subsequently referred to the city as "Mogadiscio". The city was modernized