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Li Xiaoxia (simplified Chinese: 李晓霞; traditional Chinese: 李曉霞; born 16 January 1988 in Anshan) is a Chinese table tennis player. With her team, she won gold five times at the world championships and gold two times at the Olympics. In doubles Li became the world champion three times and won gold twenty-one times on the world tour. After the Olympics 2016 she finished her career. Career. In 2006 she took part in the world championships for the first time. With the team, she won gold. After that, Li came under the best 10 players in the world rankings. At the world cup, where she took part for the first time too, Li came to the Quarterfinals. In the next year, she won silver in the singles and doubles at the WTTC, and at the grand finals she won gold. For her win at the world cup in 2008, Li was for the first time number one in the world. But she wasn't nominated for the Olympics in 2008. In the next year, Li did not win a lot of big titles, except the Asian Games, so she fell back in time to 8th place in the ITTF-rankings. In the doubles Li Xiaoxia became the 2009 and 2011 world-champion and won the 2011 world tour grand finals, too. In the singles, she became vice-world champion. In 2012, Li was for the first time nominated for the Olympics, where she beat Ding Ning in the finals, and won gold. With the team Li won gold, too. The lastest big title she won was in 2013: At the world championships she beat Liu Shiwen in the final and so became world champion in the singles. In the doubles she won the gold medal, too. At the grand finals in the same year she won gold in the doubles. In 2014 she won silver at the world cup, but at the world championships she lost in the semifinal to Liu Shiwen and won bronze. In the doubles she could win silver. In 2016 she played her lastest biggest event: At the Olympics, where she came to the final and lost to Ding Ning she won silver. At the team event she won gold.
Ding Ning (simplified Chinese: 丁宁; traditional Chinese: 丁寧; born 20 June 1990 in Daqing) is a Chinese table tennis player. She became olympic champion in Rio 2016 in singles and team category. She is a lefthanded-player and uses the Shakehand-style.  Career. In 2009 Ding played for her first time international: At the world championships she won silver. Therefore she came under the top 10 in the world rankings. At the asian championships she won gold in the singles, doubles and with the team. 2010 she was a part of the Chinese National Team that lost to Singapore in the final at the world championships in Moscow. In 2011 she finally put in the world rankings: Ding became world champion in singles, won three Pro Tour Titles , became vice-world champion in doubles and won the world cup at their first participation. In November 2011 she was for the first time number one in the world. 2012 she won gold with the team at the world championships. In the final they beat Singapore. In the same year Ding took for her first time part in the Olympics in London, where she won with the team gold and in the singles met Li Xiaoxia, where she lost and silver won. At the grand finals she won for her first participation silver in the singles. At the world championships 2013 she came to the semifinal in the singles category, but she lost to Li Xiaoxia again. Indeed she won silver in doubles. In 2014, she beat at the world cup and at the Asian cup Li Xiaoxia and won so gold and came back to number one in the world. At the world championships 2015, she won gold in the singles, and was so two times world champion. In the doubles she won together with Li Xiaoxia silver. Also she won the world tour grand finals, but slipped on place three in the world rankings. The year 2016 began good for Ding Ning: She became world champion with the team again and won for her first time gold in the singles at the olympics and with the team too. At the world championships 2017 Ding won for her third time gold in the singles and in the doubles she won silver. In 2018 she only played the world team cup, where she won gold with the chinese national team.
Barsha Shiwkoti (born April 6, 1993) is a Nepalese actress &amp; model. She started her career in Nepali film industry from her debut movie Nai Nabhannu La 2. She rose to fame from her second movie “Pashu Pati Prasad” which was one of the Superhit Nepali Movies. She has also done modeling in Nepali music videos. One of the best music video she had in her career was "Sanjha Pakha Ekanatama" by Nabin K. Bhattarai. Recently she has been cast in the hit movie Lappan Chhappan.
Salon Basnet is a Nepali actor and model. He started his career in Nepali Film Industry as a child actor from the movie “Nepali Babu”. He rose to fame from superhit Nepali Movies “Hostel” &amp; “Gajalu”. He is listed as one of the top actors of Nepal.
Felix Chen (; 9 July 1942 – 9 April 2018) was a Taiwanese conductor. He was resident conductor and music director of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until he resigned in 2003 under "extremely controversial circumstances." Every year Chen and TSO produced one or two operas, such as "Aida", "Otello" or "Turandot", which were major musical events in Taiwan. Chen died at the age of 75 on 9 April 2018 in Taipei of liver failure.
Leonid Sokov (; October 11, 1941 – 4 April 2018) was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor. He was born in Tvern, Russia. In 2001 he represented Russia at the Venice Biennale. He participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea. He was known for his works being displayed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Sokov died in Copake, New York of a pulmonary embolism on 4 April 2018 at the age of 76.
John Miles (14 June 1943 – 8 April 2018) was a British former racing driver, engineer, journalist and music executive. He participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix. His career began on 6 July 1969, in the Lotus 63 4-wheel drive F1 car for which he was the official Team Lotus test driver. He scored a total of 2 championship points with a fifth place in the 1970 South African Grand Prix. In 1985 Miles founded 'Miles Music', a jazz recording company. Miles died on 8 April 2018 in London at the age of 74.
Donald McKayle (July 6, 1930 – April 6, 2018) was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer. He was best known for creating socially concert works during the 1950s and 1960s.  Early life. McKayle was born in Harlem, New York. Career. His instructors included modern dance pioneer Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Anna Sokolow and Karol Shook. McKayle was "among the first black men to break the racial barrier by means of modern dance." He worked with Martha Graham multiple times during his career. His work for the concert stage, especially "Games" (1951) and "Rainbow Round My Shoulder" (1959), were his best known works. In addition, McKayle was the first black man to both direct and choreograph major Broadway musicals, including the Tony Award-winners "Raisin" (1973) and "Sophisticated Ladies" (1981).  McKayle held an endowed chair in the Dance Department at University of California, Irvine, where he was the Claire Trevor Professor of Dance. He previously served on the faculties of Connecticut College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Bennington College. Death. McKayle died in Irvine, California on April 6, 2018 at the age of 87.
The Pig War was a border dispute in 1859 between the U.S and Great Britain over the San Juan Island on the U.S-British border. This island is occupied by both British and American citizens. In 1859, a pig owned by a British employee of Charles Griffin got onto the farm of an American farmer named Lyman Cutlar. The pig fed on Lyman's potatoes and this made him kill the pig.This started a land dispute between the two countries and almost caused another war as tension rose.
Marc Allison Veasey (born January 3, 1971) is an American politician. Veasey is the United States Representative for Texas's 33rd congressional district, winning the office in November 2012.  Before, he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 2005 to 2013, where he served as Chair Pro Tempore of the House Democratic Caucus. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Frances Hussey Sternhagen (January 13, 1930 – November 27, 2023) was an American actress. Sternhagen appeared on- and off-Broadway, in movies, and on TV since the 1950s. She is known for her role as Richard Farnsworth's wife in "Misery" (1990). She may be also best known to TV audiences as Esther Clavin, mother of John Ratzenberger's Boston postman character Cliff Clavin, on the long-running series "Cheers" for which she received two Emmy Award nominations. On November 27, 2023, Sternhagen died of natural causes at the age of 93.
STOL refers to short take-off and landing aircraft. They only need a short runway for takeoff and landing. This type of aircraft is made to use short runways for take off and landing in high altitudes, hilly regions, and remote areas.  An STOL aircraft has a large wing for its weight. These wings often use aerodynamic devices like flaps, slots, slats, and vortex generators. Typically, an STOL aircraft has lower maximum speed, but good payload lifting. The payload is critical, because many small, isolated communities rely on STOL aircraft for their transport link to the outside world.
Kohalpur () is a municipality of Banke District of Bheri Zone which is located on Mid-Western Development Region of Nepal. Kohalpur municipality was established on 18 May 2014 by merging the two VDC called Kohalpur &amp; Rajhena. The city of Nepalgunj is to the south of the region, and Ghorahi is to the west. It is six kilometres from the Indian border. It is one of the most developing city of Nepal. It is the centerpoint of roadway transport to East, West , North &amp; South. It is listed on the Province 5 of Nepal.
Keki Adhikari (; born February 2, 1989) is a Nepalese actress and a professional model. She is one of the successful Nepali actress. She has played dozens of Nepali Movies, Music Videos &amp; Television Ads. She debut in Nepali Film Industry from her first movie called "Swor". She was widely recognized from superhit Nepali movie Shree 5 Ambare. She had won various National Film Awards. Recently she has produced Nepali Movie called Kohalpur Express.
Ritva Annikki Vepsä (12 February 1941 – 30 July 2016) was a Finnish actress. She was born in Helsinki, Finland. In 1970 she received a Jussi Award as the Best Leading Actress for her appearances in a Jörn Donner movie "Sixtynine 69" and a Risto Jarva movie "Ruusujen aika". Vepsä died on 30 July 2016, aged 75, at her home from lung cancer.
Rekha Thapa (born 21 August, 1982) in Morang Nepal is a Nepali actress, Model and film maker. Two years later of being top ten finalist of Miss Nepal in 1999, she debuted in Nepali Film Industry from Nepali movie "Hero". Until now she has worked in more than 200 Nepali movies and has gained wide popularity in the Kollywood because of her glamourous role. She has also her own movie production house called “Rekha Films” She has won the CG Digital Film Awards for Best Actress, and she has won the NEFTA Film Awards for Best Actress in 2011. She was also elected as the central member of Nepali political party called Rastriya Prajatantra Party.
Red Hots are a type of hard candy. It has a hard red outer shell and a slightly chewier inside. They are called Red Hots because of their spicy cinnamon taste. After the spicy flavor, the candy produces a sweet flavor. Red Hots come in a red box with flames on it, saying "Red Hots".
F'Murr or F'Murrr (March 31, 1946 – April 10, 2018) whose real name was Richard Peyzaret, was a French comics creator. He was most famous for the long-running series "Le Génie des alpages" ("The Genius of the Mountain Pastures"). In 1978, F'Murr was awarded Angoulême International Comics Festival, Best Comic Book for "Barre-toi de mon herbe".
John Lambie (19 March 1941 – 10 April 2018) was a Scottish football player and manager.  Lambie made over 200 appearances for Falkirk and also had a successful time with St Johnstone. After retiring as a player, Lambie had three spells as manager of Partick Thistle, guiding them through a financial crisis and won promotion to the Scottish Premier League.  Lambie also had spells as manager of Hamilton Academical and Falkirk. Lambie died at the age of 77 on 10 April 2018 of pneumonia.
The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&amp;B singing group.  Members. Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), the founder of the family group, formed the group with his children Cleotha (1934–2013), Pervis (1935–2021), and Mavis (b. 1939). Yvonne (1936–2018) replaced her brother when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and again in 1970. Songs. They are best known for their 1970s hits "Respect Yourself", "I'll Take You There", "If You're Ready (Come Go with Me)", and "Let's Do It Again", which with one exception ("I'll Take You There") peaked on the Hot 100 within a week from Christmas Day. While the family name is Staples, the group used "Staple" commercially. Awards. In 1999, The Staple Singers was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2005, the group was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Staple Singers were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2018.
Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American Gospel and R&amp;B musician. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers. In 1998 he received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and traditional arts in the United States. Staples was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago.
Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. She has recorded and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers, and also as a solo artist. Staples was added into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
The Boyz (Hangul: 더보이즈; stylised as THE BOYZ) is a South Korean boy group formed in 2017 by Cre.ker Entertainment. This group consists of 11 members as of October 22nd, 2019 and they officially debuted with "The First" mini album, which was launched on 6 December 2017.
The Nuclear arms race was a Competition between the United States, the Soviet Union and their allies to prove their greater Power in nuclear warfare. It was done during the Cold War.
Saugat Malla (born 7 June 1981) in Nawalparasi, Nepal is a Nepali film actor and producer. He started his career from the superhit Nepali movie Loot which made him widely recognized all over Nepal. He rose fame from hit Nepali movies "Mukhauta" , "Soongava", "Lappan Chhappan", "Kabaddi Kabaddi" , Loot 2,"Fateko Jutta", &amp; Fanko. In "Fateko Jutta", a romantic movie directed by Nikesh Khadka, he acted with Priyanka Karki and Kameshwor Chaurasiya. The film did not do well in the Nepali box office but audience love the chemistry between Malla and Priyanka Karki.
Omega Centauri (ω Cen or NGC 5139) is a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus. It is 15,800 light-years (4,850 pc) away, and is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way. Its diameter is about 150 light-years. It contains about 10 million stars with a total mass equivalent to 4 million solar masses. Omega Centauri is so different from the other galactic globular clusters that it may have a different origin from the others. It may be a core remnant of a disrupted dwarf galaxy. In 150 A.D. Greco-Roman writer and astronomer Ptolemy catalogued this object in his "Almagest". Using a telescope from the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, English astronomer Edmond Halley rediscovered this object in 1677, listing it as a non-stellar object. In 1715, it was published by Halley among his list of six "luminous spots or patches" in the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society". Omega Centauri is one of the few globular clusters visible to the naked eye. It appears almost as large as the full Moon when seen from a dark, rural area. It is the brightest, largest and, at 4 million solar masses, the most massive known globular cluster in the Milky Way. Of all the globular clusters in the Local Group of galaxies, only Mayall II (orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy) is brighter and more massive. Orbiting through the Milky Way, Omega Centauri contains several million Population II stars and is about 12 billion years old. The stars in the core of Omega Centauri are so crowded that they are on average only 0.1 light years away from each other.
SF9 (Hangul: 에스에프나인) is a South Korean boy band formed by FNC Entertainment. This group is formed after they won the reality show "d.o.b: Dance or Band", where they participated as "NEOZ Dance". SF9 debuted with "Feeling Sensation" single album, which was launched on 5 October 2016. Their fandom name is Fantasy. Their fandom colour is called, "Fantasia Hologram". SF9 got their first win on January 16 2020.  On October 5, SF9 dropped a music video called "Shine Together" dedicated to their Fans. At the end of the music video, they listed the names of the fans that sent them letters as a credit.
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (commonly abbreviated as SARPBC), is a vehicular soccer video game for the PlayStation 3. The game was released in North America in October 2008, and in Europe in February 2009. The campaign mode of the game is made up of a series of different mini-games, and tournaments against AI which can only be played in single-player mode. A sequel, titled Rocket League, was released in July 2015. Rocket League was released for the PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows early in development, but in 2016, it was also released on Xbox One. In 2017, it was released on the Nintendo Switch.
Amersfoort concentration camp (, ) was a Nazi concentration camp in Amersfoort, Netherlands. The official name was "Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort", P.D.A. or Police Transitcamp Amersfoort.  Between 1941 and 1945, over 35,000 prisoners were kept here. The camp was in the southern part of Amersfoort, on the city limit between Amersfoort and Leusden in central Netherlands.
The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in 1923 in Lausanne, Switzerland, after Turkey had won the Greco-Turkish War in (1919-1922). It settles the Turkish border withGreece and other countries. Other countries that signed the treaty were Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Japan and Yugoslavia. Greece and Turkey still have disputes, which are often focused on the question over the country that owns islands and rocks, most of which are uninhabited, in the Aegean Sea. In 1987 and 1996, those disputes almost led to military conflict.
In the State of Florida, persons convicted of a felony are stripped of their voting rights in addition to other sentencing. This restriction lasts for life, and the right can only be restored through special permissions from both the governor and the state clemency board. This practice is known as felony disenfranchisement and it is a common punishment across the United States, being law in 48 states (not practiced in Vermont and Maine). However, Florida is one of only twelve states that bans convicted felons from voting post-sentence and one of only four that maintains that ban for life. History. Florida’s constitution was ratified in 1838 and with that felony disenfranchisement was established in Florida. Article VI section 13 of the original state constitution states, “Laws shall be made by the General Assembly, to exclude from office, and from suffrage, those who shall have been or may thereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crime, or misdemeanor.” This law took effect in 1845 when Florida became a U.S. State and remained largely intact despite notable wording changes in 1868 and 1968 until 2007. In 2007, governor Charlie Crist amended the rules for executive clemency to permit felons to vote upon the completion of their full sentences.
Aegean Dispute is the name for a number of disputes between Greece and Turkey over sovereignty in the Aegean Sea. These disputes started in the 1970s. Since the early 2000s, both countries are trying to resolve them. The disputes fall into different categories: Turkey has also talked about "grey" areas about the status of certain islands/rocks.
Filemón Bartolomé Vela Jr. (born February 13, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the U.S. Representative for from 2013 until his resignation in 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as an intern in Congressman Solomon P Ortiz’s Washington, D.C. office. Vela earned his J.D. from University of Texas at Austin School of Law in 1987. From 2021 until 2022, Vela Jr. was the Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. In March 2022, Vela Jr. resigned from the House of Representatives to go work at a law firm.
Relative dating is the kind of geochronology that determines the relative order of past events. The idea is to find the age of an object or event by comparing it to another object or event, or by using clues from the environment or circumstances where it was found. Relative dating is not about finding the absolute age. In geology, rock or superficial deposits, fossils and lithologies can be used to correlate one stratigraphic column with another. Before the discovery of radiometric dating in the early 20th century, archaeologists and geologists used relative dating to determine ages of materials.  Radiometric dating, on the other hand, is a means of absolute dating. Relative dating can only determine the "order" in which a series of events occurred, not "when" they occurred. Even so, it remains a useful technique. Relative dating by biostratigraphy is the preferred method in paleontology and is, in some respects, more accurate. Steno's Law of Superposition states that older layers will be deeper in a site than more recent layers. This law was the 'relative dating' method of choice in geology from the 17th century to the early 20th century
Ronali Amatya (born 1996) in Kathmandu Nepal is a Nepali model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss Nepal Interational 2018. She is 26th Miss Nepal International of the Nation. She has also won the Model Hunt Nepal in 2016 and won Miss Congeniality in Miss Rco International 2017 in Egypt.
Manita Devkota (born 1995) in Gorkha Nepal is a Nepali Model &amp; beauty pageant titleholder of Miss Universe Nepal 2018. She defeated 25 participants in the Miss Nepal pageant which was held on 11th April 2018. She is 2nd Miss Nepal Universe of the Nation crowned by 1st Miss Universe Nepal, Nagma Shrestha.
Miss International is a Tokyo based internationally recognized beauty pageant organized by The International culture Association which was created in California, USA in 1960. It is the fourth largest pageant of the world after Miss World, Miss Universe &amp; Miss Earth.
Asmi Shrestha () (born June 30, 1993 in Chitwan, Nepal is a Nepalese model, many beauty pageant titleholder and celebrity of the Nation. She has won the title of Miss Nepal in 2016 and participants of Miss World 2016. She had also won the title of Best Evening Gown, Miss Photogenic &amp; Miss Personality sub titles.
Mitzi Shore (née Saidel; July 25, 1930 – April 11, 2018) was an American comedy club owner. She founded The Comedy Store in Los Angeles in 1972 and became owner two years later. She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Through the club, she has had a huge influence on the careers of up-and-coming comedians for years. Mitzi also founded Comedy Channel Inc. in 1982. Mitzi died of Parkinson's disease on April 11, 2018 in West Hollywood, California at the age of 87.
Li Yaowen (; 1 May 1918 – 10 April 2018) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was an alternate member of the 11th CPC Central Committee, a member of the 12th CPC Central Committee, and a member of the Central Advisory Commission.
The 38th parallel (north) is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. It's best known as the line that splits North and South Korea.