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The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Helsinki, Finland, following Lordi's win at the 2006 contest in Athens, Greece with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The contest was held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland from 10 May to 12 May, and staged by host broadcaster Yle. A budget of €13 million was presented for arranging the contest. Other bids to host the contest came from Espoo, Turku and Tampere. The hosts were Finnish television personality Jaana Pelkonen and Finnish musician, stage performer and actor Mikko Leppilampi. Krisse Salminen acted as guest host in the green room, and reported from the crowds at the Senate Square. A record number of 42 countries participated. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) put aside its limit of 40 countries, which would have meant excluding some countries using a ranking order scheme. The winner was Serbia, appearing as an independent country for the first time. After Lordi scored the first ever Eurovision victory with a hard rock song, several countries sent rock songs to the Contest rather than the soft pop and schlager styles more closely associated with Eurovision. This trend continued at the 2008 and 2009 Contests. Cyprus and Latvia entered songs in languages other than their own or English. Although this happened with the Belgium 2003 entry, this was the first time the contest featured countries doing this with actual languages as opposed to an imaginary one. Participating countries. Participating countries in a Eurovision Song Contest must be active members of the EBU. 42 countries submitted preliminary applications. Although in previous years the maximum number of participating countries was 40, the EBU allowed all 42 to participate in 2007. The Czech Republic, Serbia, Montenegro and Georgia all entered the contest for the first time in 2007. Monaco announced its withdrawal on 12 December 2006, and the EBU announced the final lineup of 42 countries on 15 December 2006. Returning artists. Evridiki returned to represent Cyprus,
David Owen (David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP, born 2 July 1938) is a British politician and physician. Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979. At 38 he was the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an independent social democrat. Owen is widely regarded as one of the key politicians of the 1970s and 1980s.
Cassoulet is a casserole made particularly in the south of France. It is called after its traditional cooking vessel, the "cassole", a deep, round, earthenware pot with slanting sides. The name comes from the Occitan "caçolet" (or "cassolet)." It contains meat (usually pork sausages, goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin ("couennes") and white beans (haricots blancs). It may be baked with an open or a closed top. The homeland of cassoulet is the province of Languedoc, especially the towns of Toulouse, Carcassonne, and Castelnaudary. The brotherhood of Cassoulet "La Grande Confrérie du Cassoulet de Castelnaudary" organizes competitions and fairs about Cassoulet.
Pyramids is a fantasy book by Terry Pratchett. It was published in 1989 and it is the seventh book in the Discworld series. It won a British Science Fiction award in 1989. Plot. The main character in the story is a young man called Pteppic who is the crown prince of Djelibeybi, a small country similar to Ancient Egypt. Pteppic returns to rule the country after training as an assassin. Reception. The Guardian said the books "juggle thoughtful ideas with a compelling structure." The Metro said that it "taught us everything we need to know about religion."
Denzil Minnan-Wong (; born ) is a Canadian politician. He is a Toronto city councillor. He is the person that represents Ward 16, an area of Toronto. He was a chairperson of the Employee and Labour Relations Committee in Toronto's municipal government and was also the deputy mayor of Toronto. He is also part of the board of the Toronto Transit Commission and the Toronto Hydro. In 2018, he ran for election in the 2018 Ontario election in Don Valley East. He represented the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. City politics. Minnan-Wong first got into city politics in 1994. This was when one of the councillors of North York, Barry Burton, died of cancer. The city council made him a temporary councillor. After that, in the elections later that year, he was elected in. In the 1997 elections, he was elected to the new city council. This was after the amalgamation of Toronto. In 2011, he supported outsourcing garbage collection. His plan was to outsource garbage collection in the western part of Toronto. This saved the Toronto government $12 million a year. He also supported adding bike lanes to the streets of downtown Toronto. He opposed creating bike lanes before learning how to ride a bike. This created several bike lanes in downtown Toronto. Afterwards, Minnan-Wong helped get Bixi, a bike sharing company, to become operated by the Toronto Parking Authority. This was because Bixi was in debt. In December 2010, the Toronto City Council put him on the TTC board of directors. He was one of the five people that voted to fire Gary Webster in 2012, who was the General Manager of the TTC. After the firing of Webster, the five people were removed from the TTC Board. They were removed because many of the councillors did not agree with Rob Ford. In 2014 he was put back on the TTC board after John Tory was elected as mayor. After the provincial election, Minnan-Wong ran for councillor again in the 2018 municipal election. He ran in the new Ward 16 Don Valley East. Before the 2018 election, the Government of Ontario made the number of councillors
Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American movie pretending that there was a cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a possible link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism.  People were scared that vaccines might cause autism after an English doctor called Andrew Wakefield wrote a scientific article that said that they did. It was a fraud. When the General Medical Council found out, they took away his licence to be a doctor. The Vaxxed film was made by Andrew Wakefield. Scientists have looked carefully at the MMR vaccine and found that it does not cause autism. According to "Variety magazine", the film "purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revealed that the CDC had allegedly manipulated and destroyed data on an important study about autism and the MMR vaccine". This did not happen.
Omar Kabbaj is advisor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, since 22 June 2006. He has been the President of the African Development Bank from 26 August 1995 to 1 September 2005. He was a member of the International Monetary Fund (1980–1993) board and member of the Board of Directors of the World Bank (1979–1980), and Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister of Morocco, and was in charge of Economic affairs, from 1993 to 1995. Education and career. Omar Kabbaj graduated from the Toulouse Business School (Class of 1963).  He began his career in July 1963 at the Bureau de recherches et de participation minières (BRPM) as the head of the mineral marketing department in the investment division of this organization.  In 1966, he was recruited to the National Bank for Economic Development (BNDE) first as an attaché in the credit control department. He was then appointed Director of the financial department of this institution.  In 1970, he was appointed by King Hassan II as the general director of the National Sugar Factory of Tadla (SUNAT), where he oversaw its construction and presided over the launch of its activities. Simultaneously, Kabbaj was attached to the general secretariat of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Merchant Marine.  In 1974, King Hassan II appointed Omar Kabbaj as the general director of the National Sugarcane Factory of Sebou (SUNACAS), the first sugarcane factory in Morocco, while also assigning him a mission in the cabinet of the Minister of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Merchant Marine.  In 1977, he was appointed chief of staff to the Minister of Finance, a position he held until 1979, when he joined the World Bank Group as a member of its board of directors, representing not only Morocco but also Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Iran, Ghana, Oman, Afghanistan, and Yemen.  In 1980, he was appointed a member of the board of directors of the International Monetary Fund (
A technology company (often tech company) is a type of business that focuses primarily on the development and manufacturing of technology, or providing technology as a service. This can include, for example, business relating to digital electronics, software, and internet-related services, such as e-commerce services. Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Oracle, and eBay, among others, are considered technology companies. Many large tech companies are known for innovation, spending large sums of money annually on research and development. According to PwC's 2017 Global Innovation 1000 ranking, tech companies made up nine of the 20 most innovative companies in the world, with the top R&amp;D spender (as measured by expenditure) being Amazon, followed by Alphabet Inc., and then Intel. Information technology (IT) companies and high tech companies are subsets of technology companies.
Tweed is a word which may mean: Tweed may be a place name: Tweed River may refer to:
Scabies is caused by infection with the female mite "Sarcoptes scabiei". The mite is an ectoparasite. The mite burrows into the skin to live and deposit eggs.  The symptoms of scabies are due to an allergic reaction to the mites. Scabies is usally spread by direct skin contact with an infected person (at least 10 minutes). Spread of disease may occur even if the person has not yet developed symptoms. Crowded living conditions, such as those found in child-care facilities, group homes, and prisons, increase the risk of spread. Areas with a lack of access to water also have higher rates of disease. The mite is very small and usually not directly visible.
Lynton is a small English town on the Exmoor coast in Devon. It stands on top of the cliffs above the picturesque harbour village of Lynmouth. They are connected by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway. Lynton was once the terminus for the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, which served both towns.
Meghana Lokesh (born 16 August 1994) is an Indian actress. She has worked on Telugu and Kannada television shows including "Sasirekha Parinayam" and "Purushottama". She is currently acting in "Kalyana Vaibhogam" and "Kalyanam Kamaneeyam" on Zee Telugu. She also appeared in movie named "Idhi Maa Prema Katha" opposite Telugu Anchor Ravi.
Sai Pallavi Senthamarai Kannan (born 9 May 1992), is an Indian actress and dancer who mainly works in Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films. She has received numerous accolades, including six Filmfare Awards. She was featured by "Forbes" magazine as one of India's 30 Under 30 in 2020. After participating as a contestant in regional dance shows, and appeared uncredited roles in films, She had her first lead role in the top-grossing Malayalam film "Premam" (2015). Her portrayal of a teacher in it earned her a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South. In 2017, she ventured into Telugu cinema with "Fidaa", winning the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu. Pallavi has since established herself as a leading actress of South Indian cinema, starring in the films "Kali" (2016), "Middle Class Abbayi" (2017), "Athiran" (2019), a Netflix anthology film -"Paava Kadhaigal" (2020), "Love Story" (2021), "Shyam Singha Roy" (2021), "Gargi" (2022). This success was followed by a series of commercially unsuccessful films, such as "Diya" (2018), "Padi Padi Leche Manasu" (2018), "Maari 2" (2018), "NGK" (2019), "Virata Parvam" (2022). Pallavi has since had commercial success in the 2024 Tamil-language biographical action war film "Amaran". Her performances in "Gargi" and "Love Story" earned the Filmfare Award for Best Actress in Tamil and Telugu, respectively, while her work in "Shyam Singha Roy" and "Virata Parvam" gained her the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – Telugu. Early life. Sai Pallavi was born on 9th May 1992 in Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu to Senthamarai Kannan and Radha. She has a younger
The Lion of Kea is the name of a gigantic archaic sculpture of a guardian lion, chiselled from a single block of local limestone. It was most likely done in the 6th century BC, when the island of Kea, Greece, was known as Cheos. Very little else is known about this 9 m long sculpture, which even today stands "in situ" near the village of Ioulida.
Vispa is a river in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It gives the name to the city of Visp. Vispa comes from the confluence of the Matter Vispa, which flows into the Mattertal valley and the Saaser Vispa, which flows into the Saastal valley, near Stalden. It runs about in the Vispertal valley and flows into the Rhône near Visp. The length is .
Gurley is a town in Madison County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. In 2020, the town had 816 people in it.
The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in September 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting. Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.
Morris G. Hallock (February 17, 1926 – August 11, 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Springview, Nebraska. He was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a Republican. In the 1950s, Hallock also was Secretary of Finance in the South Dakota Government. Hallock died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on August 11, 2018 from Parkinson's disease, aged 92.
Charles Gain (November 1, 1923 – August 21, 2018) was an American police official. He was born in Hanford, California. He first was police chief for Oakland, California, then as chief in San Francisco in the 1970s.  In 1975, Gain was appointed to run the San Francisco Police Department by Mayor George Moscone and was until 1980. Gain died from respiratory failure in San Francisco on August 21, 2018 at the age of 94.
Richard Victor Kadison (July 25, 1925 – August 22, 2018) was an American mathematician. He was born in New York City. Kadison was known for his works to the study of operator algebras. Kadison was a member of the National Academy of Sciences from 1996 until his death in 2018. Kadison died on August 22, 2018 in New York City from heart failure at the age of 93.
Barrie Dunsmore (1939 – 26 August 2018) was a Canadian journalist. He covered foreign affairs for ABC News, the American television network for 30 years. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. Works. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said of Dunsmore's book, "This compilation of essays dating from the weeks when he accompanied me on the Midest shuttles in the early 1970's, to his commentaries on the Arab Spring will mark Dunsmore firmly as one of the significant journalists of our era." Death. Dunsmore died on 26 August 2018 in Charlotte, Vermont at the age of 79.
Silvano "Nano" Campeggi (; January 23, 1923 – August 29, 2018) was an Italian artist. He designed and produced the artwork for the posters of many classic Hollywood movies. He was born in Florence, Italy. Campeggi was known for his poster designs for "Casablanca", "Singin' in the Rain", and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Campeggi died on August 29, 2018 in Florence from respiratory failure at the age of 95.
Gary Friedrich (; August 21, 1943 – August 28, 2018) was an American comic book writer. He was best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos", and, in the following era, for the series "The Monster of Frankenstein". He was also known for co-creating the supernatural motorcyclist the Ghost Rider and the supernatural hero the Son of Satan. Friedrich died from complications of Parkinson's disease on August 28, 2018 in Hillsboro, Missouri, aged 75.
Meghan Marguerite McCain (born October 23, 1984) is an American columnist, author, former Fox News contributor, and former co-host of "The View". She is the daughter of diplomat Cindy McCain and the late senator John McCain.
David Garcia is an American politician and educator. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 2018 Arizona gubernatorial election. He lost to Doug Ducey. Garcia is an associate professor at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
Alexander Vladimirovich Zakharchenko (, ; 26 June 1976 – 31 August 2018) was a Ukrainian separatist leader. He was the head of state and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed state and a rebel group Donetsk People's Republic, which declared independence from Ukraine on 11 May 2014. Zakharchenko was assassinated by a bombing in Donetsk, on 31 August 2018, aged 42.
Stan Brock (April 21, 1936 – August 29, 2018) was a British philanthropist. He founded the charity Remote Area Medical in 1985. "The Independent" states his work rescued millions of uninsured Americans. He was very critical of the American healthcare system. Brock was born in Preston, Lancashire, England. Brock died at RAM Headquarters in Rockford, Tennessee, on August 29, 2018 from a heart attack at the age of 82.
A fisheye lens (or fish eye lens) is a wide-angle lens, which has a very wide angle of view. Unlike normal wide angle lenses, fisheye lenses use Gnomonic projection, which will distort the image. Straight lines which do not run through the center of the image will be shown as curved ones. Common fisheye lenses have angles of view between 180 and 220 degrees. Prototypes have been built with angles of view as large as 270 and even 310 degrees. Due to their construction, conventional wide angle lenses cannot reach angles of view greater than 180 degrees. Even though they have very wide angles of view, fisheye lenses show less vignetting. Vignetting occurs when the border of the image is much darker than the center.  Because of their wide angle of view, fisheye lenses are often used in cameras used for surveillance.
A public inquiry (or tribunal of inquiry) is an official review ordered by a government body.  It is used in many common law countries, such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada. The idea is also used in many other countries, perhaps not with the same title. It is an expression of democracy, that in some cases people and groups should be able to have their voice heard directly. The issues at stake may be of a local kind, or special to a particular group of people. A public inquiry differs from a Royal Commission. A public inquiry accepts evidence, conducts its hearings in public and deals with a specific occurrence. Interested members of the public and organisations may make oral or written submissions, and listen to oral evidence given by other parties. Research on the effects of public inquiries suggests they may not do much to change people's minds. However, it is normal for a public enquiry to be about some controversy. That is the point of the exercise.
A gentleman is an historical term used in the British class system for an educated man who is wealthy. Its significance is that in a class system, people were educated, lived and worked in quite different ways according to the circumstances of their birth. This is behind the otherwise strange divide in sports like cricket between amateur and professionals (who often played in the same side), and between Rugby Union and Rugby League. This distinction is needed to understand many of the novels, plays, and films of the pre-WWII era. Similar distinctions ran in most other countries before the modern era. Consider the characters in Tolstoy's "War and Peace" as an example.
Anushka Sharma (; born 1 May 1988) is an Indian actress and movie producer. She is one of the most popular and highest-paid actresses in India. She acts in Bollywood movies. She has won many awards including one Filmfare Award from seven nominations. She was born in Ayodhya and raised in Bangalore. She is married to the Indian cricketer Virat Kohli. Her debut movie was "Titanic" (2008) in which she acted with Shah Rukh Khan. "Sultan" (2016), "PK" (2014), "Jab Tak Hai Jaan", "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" and "" (2019) are some of her famous movies. Personal Life. Anushka is a practicing Hindu. She married an Indian cricketer, Virat Kohli, in Italy on 11 December 2017. On 11 January 2021, Sharma gave birth to a girl named, Vamika.
Michael Jarboe Sheehan (July 9, 1939 – June 3, 2023) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the eleventh Archbishop of Santa Fe. He was the Bishop of Lubbock from 1983 to 1993. He was born in Wichita, Kansas. In August 2018, Sheehan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Sheehan died on June 3, 2023, at the age of 83.
Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson (December 17, 1933 – December 19, 2020) was an American politician and lawyer. She was a member and former Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She was appointed to the court in 1976 by Governor Patrick Lucey. She became first woman on Wisconsin's high court. Career. She was the only woman on the court from 1976 until 1993. Abrahamson was re-elected to the Supreme Court in 1979, 1989, 1999, and 2009. She became Chief Justice on August 1, 1996 and served until April 29, 2015. Retirement. On May 30, 2018, Abrahamson announced she would not seek re-election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2019. Death. In August 2018, Abrahamson announced she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died on December 19, 2020 in Berkeley, California from the disease, aged 87.
The Daugava () or Western Dvina is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, Russia, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia and into the Gulf of Riga. The total length of the river is : in Russia, in Belarus, and in Latvia. Within Latvia it flows through Latgale, Zemgale, Vidzeme and Riga, before flowing into the Gulf of Riga.
John Venn, FRS, FSA, (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923) was an English logician and philosopher. He introduced the Venn diagram. The Venn diagram is one of many ways to represent logical relationships. It is well-known because it is easy to understand, and is used in elementary set theory, probability, logic, statistics, competition math, and computer science. In 1883, Venn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1884, he was awarded a Sc.D. by Cambridge.