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The Waterford Viking Triangle is part of in Waterford City. It is so called because of the 1000-year-old Viking walls which were around the old city. The most famous building in the triangle is Reginald's Tower (which contains the Viking Museum). The Medieval Museum and the Bishop's Palace Museum are also there. The three are called Waterford Museum of Treasures. Sites. Reginalds Tower. The best-known building in the Viking Triangle is Reginald's Tower. It is the oldest civic building (belongs to the city) in Ireland. It is on The Quay/The Mall. It was used for many things over the years. Today it is the Viking Museum. Waterford Crystal. The Waterford Crystal factory and showroom are on The Mall, just to the south of the Triangle. Guided tours are available for the factory. Waterford Treasures. There are three museums in the Viking Triangle. The Viking Museum is in Reginald's Tower. The Medieval Museum and Bishop's Palace Museum are close to Cathedral Square. The Medieval Museum is a new building which also has the 13th-century Choristers’ Hall and the 15th-century Mayor’s Wine Vault. The only piece of clothing from Henry VIII, a cloth cap, is in the museum. The Bishop's Palace Museum is a 250-year-old Georgian structure. It has items from 17th century Waterford to the present. French Church. The French Church (Greyfriars Abbey) is on Bailey's New St./Greyfriars. It is a Christian Friary dating from the 13th century. Other. A replica Viking longship is beside Reginald's Tower. This boat is long. It was built by a local boat builder. Cathedral Square is the site of Christchurch Cathedral. Near there is the Theatre Royal. On 33 The Mall (close to Waterford Crystal) is the building where Thomas Francis Meagher, a famous Irishman from Waterford, held meetings. Meagher made the Irish flag in 1848. This is the flag which is now used for Ireland.
The 2020 United Democratic Party leadership election and convention elected the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP). It was triggered on 18 November 2018, when Prime Minister of Belize, Dean Barrow‘s cabinet urged him to remain as Prime Minister of Belize until 2 November 2020, a day after the Next Belizean general election on 1 November 2020. Barrow’s Cabinet also urged him to remain as Leader of the UDP until February 2020. He said he would take that move and eventually scheduled the United Democratic Party leadership election and convention to February 2020. . Nominations would be opened in January 2020. There will be three ballots. The first ballot will be endorsement and voting by Dean Barrow.The second ballot will be from the former members and Candidates of the UDP who will be voting and the third ballot is from the . There will also be a exhaustive ballot of MPs also talking place in mid-February 2020. The ultimate decision will be made by the general membership of the party who will elect the leader by postal ballot. The results will be announced by the end of February 2020. Speculation about a leadership election started in 2006. Barrow told LOVE FM that he would resign as Leader of the UDP If his party loses the Municipal Elections. The UDP had not defeated the than rulling People’s United Party in any election until the 2006 municipal elections and the UDP was not doing very well after Barrow called for Civil Unrest In 2005. However, that all changed after the UDP won a landslide victory in the 2006 Municipal elections and eventually took control of the government in the 2008 Belizean general election. Background After being in power for seven years the People’s United Party was desperate to win the 2006 Belizean municipal elections and govern the country like never before. It has never lost any election since coming to power after the 1998 Belizean general election. The UDP however, was faced with a shocking traumatic defeat in the 1998 general election with only three of the UDP Candidates getting elected.. Barrow and Member of Parliament for Mesopotamia constituency, Michael Finnegan were the
Wangen bei Olten is a municipality in the district Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. Demographics. As of December 2020, Wangen bei Olten has a population of 5239 people. Most of the people speak German there. Education. Wangen bei Olten has 1 Secondary school and 3 Primary schools.
Anton Zaslavski (born 2 September 1989), better known by his stage name Zedd, is a Russian-born German DJ, songwriter, and record producer. He was born in Saratov, Russia, and raised in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is known for remixing the music of other singers while also releasing his own singles. He released "Clarity" (2013; featuring the singer Foxes), "Stay" (2017; with Alessia Cara), "The Middle" (2018; with Maren Morris and Grey), and was featured on Ariana Grande's song "Break Free" (2014). All of these songs reached the top ten on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in the US. The first song won him a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. Zedd collaborated with Lady Gaga on her third studio album, "Artpop". He cites Gaga as an inspiration. In 2019, he worked with Katy Perry on the songs "365" and "Never Really Over". He lives in Beverly Hills, California.
The Indian Space Research Organisation is the agency of India that deals with space exploration and astronomy. Also known as ISRO, the organisation has made many successes since its creation in 1969. It built and launched the Mars Orbiter Mission which made India the first country to get to Mars on its first try. Creation. Organised research about space in India was led by two scientists: Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhaba. Bhaba was the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy when it was founded in 1950. He supported Sarabhai in creating India's first rocket launch station. In 1962, the Indian National Committee for Space Research was set up by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1969, ISRO was created to follow INCOSPAR. Space flight programs. Like other space programs, ISRO has had many successes and failures. In the beginning, ISRO built satellites that were then launched by other countries, like the Soviet Union. Later, ISRO built many types of rockets. Some of those rockets are now decommissioned, meaning ISRO does not use them anymore. In the future, India also wants to send people to space and send more missions to other planets.  Launch vehicles. During the 1960s and 1970s India began its own rocket program. ISRO has had five different types of rockets. The Satellite Launch Vehicle was a 4-stage solid-propellant light launcher. It was supposed to be tall and be able to carry . The first launch was in 1979 and launched every year until 1983. It launched successfully for the first time on July 18, 1980. This means that India is the sixth country to get spaceflight by itself. It is now decomissioned. The Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle was a five-stage solid propellant rocket. It was able to carry into low Earth orbit. The design was based on the SLV and the project started in the 1980s. The rocket was tested in 1987, 1988, 1992, and 1994 and only two of them were successful. It is now decommission
Kesgrave is a town on the eastern side of Ipswich in Suffolk. Its population is roughly around 14,000 people. To the west of Kesgrave, there is a town called Martlesham. Kesgrave has a historical church called Oscar Parkins' All Saints.
Dwight "D." Watkins (born February 10, 1980) is a former drug dealer, author and professor at the University of Baltimore. Life. Watkins was born in Baltimore City. His mother was a teenager. His father was in prison. At eighteen, after losing his brother, Watkins began to use and sell narcotics. After some of "fateful encounters" he used his profits to buy a bar. Education. Watkins holds a Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA in creative writing from University of Baltimore. Career. "The Beastside: Living (and Dying) While Black in America". Watkins first book, "The Beastside: Living (and Dying) While Black in America" was published in 2015 under David Talbot and Skyhorse Publishing's investigative book imprint, Hot Books. "The Beast Side" is about two Baltimores, taking an in-depth look at systemic racism and the failure of the education system, particularly for black men. "The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir". "The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir" published in 2016 by Grand Central Publishing, is a memoir. It is about the operations of a drug empire after Watkins' brother Bip's death, his acceptance to Georgetown University and the struggle to leave the trade behind. It was an editor's pick of The New York Times in May 2016. "Kirkus Reviews" described the book as "A familiar story to fans of The Wire, but Watkins provides a gritty, vivid first-person document of a desperate demographic." "We Speak For Ourselves". "We Speak For Ourselves" is Watkins' third book. It was published in April 2019 by Atria. It is a collection of essays showcasing black voices in east Baltimore. Salon. , Watkins is an editor at large for the online magazine, Salon.
Bentonite is a kind of clay. Bentonite usually forms from weathering of volcanic ash. It is volcanic ash mixed with water under pressure. The different types of bentonite have different proportions of sodium, calcium or potassium. They can absorb quite a lot of water, and are used as fillers and/or lubricators in various industries. The clay is used for many practical purposes.
Robert William Collymore (13 January 1958 – 1 July 2019) was a Guyanese-born British businessman. He most notably served as the chief executive officer of Safaricom, a multinational telecommunications company based in Kenya. He became CEO of Safaricom in 2010. Before this position, he worked for Dixons Retail, Cellnet and Vodafone. Collymore took medical leave in 2017 after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. He died of the disease on 1 July 2019 in Nairobi. He was 61.
Lisa Martinek (11 February 1972 – 28 June 2019) was a German actress. She started her screen acting career in the early 1990s. She appeared in many movies and television series, including "Blankenese", "The Old Fox", "Der Kriminalist", "Soundless" and "Die Zürcher Verlobung". She was born in Stuttgart. Martinek was twice married, and had three children. She died in a swimming accident on 28 June 2019 near Marciana on the Italian island of Elba. She was 47.
Sebastián Ramón Alarcón Ramírez (14 January 1949 – 30 June 2019) was a Chilean movie director and screenwriter. He lived in Russia for a time and was active in Soviet cinema. He directed the Soviet drama movie "Night Over Chile" (1977). The movie won the Special Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2008, Alarcón was a member of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival. Alarcón was born in Valparaíso. He died of cancer on 30 June 2019, at the age of 70.
Desmond Daniel Amofah (May 12, 1990 – June 19, 2019), better known online as Etika, was an American YouTuber, live-streamer and model. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was best known for his reactions to many Nintendo products and games. Amofah was reported missing on June 19, 2019, after uploading a video in which he admitted to being mentally ill and suicidal. Amofah's body was discovered in the East River on June 24 by the New York City Police Department. They later confirmed his cause of death was suicide by drowning. Amofah was 29 years old.
Guillermo Mordillo (4 August 1932 – 29 June 2019), known simply as Mordillo, was an Argentine cartoonist and animator. He was born in Buenos Aires. Mordillo was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s. He was known for creating greeting cards for Hallmark Cards. From 1976 to 1981, Mordillo's cartoons were used by Slovenian artist Miki Muster to create "Mordillo", a series of 400 short animations that were later presented at Cannes and bought by television studios from 30 countries. Mordillo died on 30 June 2019 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain at the age of 86.
Borka Pavićević (1947 – June 30, 2019) was a Serbian dramaturge, newspaper columnist, and cultural activist. She was a "dramatist, Belgrade liberal and pacifist intellectual". She founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination in 1994, and was a co-founder of the Belgrade Circle. Pavićević was born in Kotor, Montenegro, Yugoslavia. Pavićević died on June 30, 2019 in Belgrade at the age of 72.
Amy Pietz (born March 6, 1969) is an American actress. Pietz is known for her roles on television such as Donna on "The Office". She received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for her role as Annie Spadaro in the NBC sitcom "Caroline in the City" (1995-1999).  She later had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms "Cursed" (NBC, 2000–01), "Rodney" (ABC, 2004–06), and "Aliens in America" (The CW, 2007–08). Pietz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied at DePaul University.
Susan Bernard (February 11, 1948 – June 21, 2019) was an American author, actress, model and businesswoman. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of photographer Bruno Bernard. Bernard was known for her role as Linda in "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965) and for being a Playboy model. Bernard died on June 21, 2019 in Los Angeles from a heart attack at the age of 71.
Whitney North Seymour Jr. (July 7, 1923 – June 29, 2019) was an American Republican politician and attorney. He was in the New York State Senate from 1966 to 1968 and as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1970 to 1973. He also co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia. Seymour Jr. died on June 29, 2019 at a hospital in Torrington, Connecticut at the age of 95.
Yevheniya Mykhaylivna Dembska (; 28 November 1920 – 29 June 2019) was a Ukrainian actress. Dembska was born in Kyiv. In 1946, she created the Lviv Theater of Musical Comedy. She was known for her role as Larisa in the 1957 Soviet comedy movie "White Acacia". Dembska died on 29 June 2019 in Kyiv at the age of 98.
Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov (; 2 June 1930 – 26 June 2019) was a Soviet-Russian historian. His best known works were the monographs "The Diplomacy of Ancient Rus" (1980) and its sequel, "The Diplomacy of Svyatoslav" (1982). He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1991). He was born in Kulebaki, then Soviet Union. In 1993, Sakharov was appointed Director of the Russian History Institute, affiliated with the Academy of Sciences. He was an active member of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests between 2009 and 2012. Sakharov died on 26 June 2019 in Moscow at the age of 89.
Sascha Pohflepp (January 30, 1978 – June 17, 2019) was a German artist, designer, and writer. He was born in Cologne. His works focused on the role of technology to influence the environment, often in working with artists and scientists. His best known works were "Growth Assembly" (2009, with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, illustrations by Sion Ap Tomos); "Spacewalk" (2017); "Deep Unlearning (I)" (2018, with Chris Woebken); and "Those Who" (2019). His death was announced on 25 June 2019. He was 41 years old.
Edgardo Mesa (29 December 1937 – 25 June 2019) was an Argentine actor, journalist and radio broadcaster. He was born in Pergamino, Argentina. Mesa worked for Radio Mitre, Radio El Mundo, Radio Rivadavia, Radio Continental, Concordia and Entre Ríos. An actor, he was known for his roles in "Los reyes del sablazo", "Rambito y Rambón, primera misión", "Los colimbas se divierten", "Brigada explosiva contra los ninjas", "Los colimbas al ataque", "Galería del terror", "Atracción peculiar" and "Pacto de silencio". Mesa died at a Buenos Aires hospital on 25 June 2019 from emphysema at the age of 81.
Aldo Ruben Pignanelli (1 April 1950 – 15 June 2019) was an Argentine accountant and politician. He was born in Lanús, Argentina. Pignanelli was the Chair of the Central Bank of Argentina from 1 July 2002 to 6 December 2002. He was a member of the Justicialist Party. Pignanelli died in Buenos Aires on 15 June 2019 from prostate cancer, aged 69.
Zakaria Ben Mustapha (7 July 1925 – 4 June 2019) was a Tunisian politician. He was born in Tunis. Mustapha was the Mayor of Tunis from 1980 to 1986. Before, he was Governor of Gabès from 1967 to 1969. He was the Minister of Culture from 1986 1988. He was a member of the Socialist Destourian Party and of the Democratic Constitutional Rally. He was an ally of President Habib Bourguiba. Mustapha died in Tunis on 4 June 2019 at the age of 93.
Florijana Ismaili (1 January 1995 – 29 June 2019) was a Swiss footballer. She played as a forward. She captained BSC YB Frauen in the Women's Nationalliga A and played for the Switzerland national team. She started playing for the national team in 2014 and was part of her country's squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. 29 June 2019, Ismaili went missing while swimming at Lake Como in Tuscany, northern Italy. On 2 July, her dead body was found in the lake.
Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya (18 September 1937 – 25 June 2019) was a Soviet-Russian actress and educator. She was born in Moscow. Pokrovskaya was a professor at the Moscow Art Theatre School. She was married to actor Oleg Yefremov. Pokrovskaya was known for her roles in "July Rain", "Take Aim", "Fox Hunting". Pokrovskaya died on 25 June 2019 at a Moscow hospital due to sepsis caused by liver disease, aged 81.
Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (, 1 October 1927 – 24 May 2000) was a Soviet-Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). He was born in Moscow. He was married to actress Alla Pokrovskaya. His best known roles were "The Alive and the Dead" (1964), melodrama "Three Poplars in Plyushcikha" (1967), "Shine, Shine, My Star" (1969), comedies "Aybolit-66" (1966), and "Beware of the Car" (1966). Yefremov died on 24 May 2000 at his apartment in Moscow from lung disease at the age of 72.
Respiratory disease, or respiratory tract disease, is a medical term that is made up of diseases affecting the lungs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing animals such as humans.  They include conditions of the respiratory tract including the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleurae, pleural cavity, and the nerves and muscles of respiration. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting, such as the common cold, to life-threatening diseases such as bacterial pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, acute asthma and lung cancer.
William Eugene Burrows Jr. (November 30, 1945 – June 24, 2019), known by his stage name Billy Drago, was an American actor. He was known for his villain roles. His best known roles were in Clint Eastwood's western "Pale Rider" and Brian De Palma's "The Untouchables". He also had roles in the television series "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." and "Charmed". Drago died in Los Angeles from stroke-related problems on June 24, 2019 at the age of 73.
Stevens County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 5,250. Its county seat is Hugoton. The county is named for the Reconstruction era Pennsylvania politician Thaddeus Stevens. History. 19th century. On July 25, 1888, the Hay Meadow Massacre was a violent county seat fight between groups from Hugoton and Woodsdale, where 4 men were murdered. On August 3, 1886, Stevens County was created. Geography. The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that is land and (0.02%) is water. Communities. Townships. Stevens County is divided into six townships. None of the cities within the county are considered "governmentally independent", and all figures for the townships include those of the cities. In the following table, the population center is the largest city (or cities) included in that township's population total, if it is of a significant size.
Kenneth Eugene Behring (June 13, 1928 – June 25, 2019) was an American real estate developer, philanthropist and businessman. He was the former owner of the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks. He was born in Freeport, Illinois. In 1996 and 1999, Behring was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. He was also criticized of his trophy huntings and killed many endangered species. Behring died on June 25, 2019 in Martinez, California at the age of 91.
Martinez is a city in and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 37,287 at the 2020 census. The downtown has many old buildings and antique shops. It is on the south shore of the Carquinez Strait in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Douglas Fielding (June 6, 1946 – June 26, 2019) was a British actor. He was born in London. Fielding was best known for playing the role of Sergeant Alec Quilley in the police procedural drama "Z-Cars" (1969–1978). He later played the first regular policeman Roy Quick in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" from 1985 until 1986. Fielding died on June 26, 2019, aged 73.
HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper &amp; Row, an American publishing company and the British company William Collins, Sons (founded 1819). The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India, and China. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints.
David Nthubu Koloane (5 June 1938 – 30 June 2019) was a South African artist and political writer. In his drawings, paintings and collages they are about the actual questions of political injustice and human rights. Koloane was called "an influential artist and writer of the apartheid years" in South Africa by "The New York Times". He was born in Alexandra, South Africa. Biography. Koloane's works are part of many collections worldwide, including the collections of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi, the South African National Gallery in Cape Town and the Botswana National Museum. In 2015, Koloane was honoured by Rhodes University with an honorary degree. On 30 June 2019, Koloane died of natural causes in Johannesburg. He was 81.
Radoje Kontić (Радоје Контић) (born May 31, 1937) is a Montenegrin politician and technologist. He was born in Nikšić, Zeta Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was the last Chairman of the Socialist Republic of Montenegro's Executive Council from 1989 to 1991. He also was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from February 9, 1993 until May 19, 1998 when he lost a no-confidence vote.  He was a member of the League of Communists of Montenegro and later a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro.
František Čuba (23 January 1936 – 28 June 2019) was a Czech agronomist and politician. He served as a member of the Czech Senate from 2014 to 2018. In 2013, he was honoured with the Medal of Merit by President Miloš Zeman. Čuba was born in Březová. He died on 28 June 2019, at the age of 83.
Abigail Suzanne Martin (born September 6, 1984) is an American citizen journalist and presenter. She hosts the web series "The Empire Files". Martin was born in Oakland, California.  Martin hosted "Breaking the Set" on the Russian network RT America from 2012 to 2015. Martin also works on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation. In 2015, Martin launched "The Empire Files", an interview and documentary series, hosted by Telesur.
Hartmut Nickel (16 November 1944 – 27 June 2019) was a German ice hockey player. He played for SC Dynamo Berlin from 1963 to 1974. He competed for the East Germany national team at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Nickel was born in Weißwasser, Saxony. He died on 27 June 2019, at the age of 74.