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Rajeev Taranath (17 October 1932 – 11 June 2024) was an Indian classical musician. He played the sarod. He was born in Bangalore, Karnataka. Rajeev was singing for the All India Radio before he was twenty. He taught English literature at the University of Aden in 1980s. He was the head of the Indian music program at the World Music Department of the California Institute of the Arts from 1995 to 2005. Taranath died on 11 June 2024 at a hospital in Mysuru, India at the age of 91.
Mohan Rangachari (16 October 1952 – 10 June 2019), better known by his stage name Crazy Mohan, was an Indian actor, comedian, screenwriter and playwright. He wrote over 30 plays, and worked on over 40 movies as a dialogue writer and actor. He also wrote more than 100 short stories. He appeared many Tamil movies, including the comedies "Michael Madana Kama Rajan" (1990), "Thedinen Vanthathu" (1997) and "Vasool Raja MBBS" (2004). Mohan died of a heart attack on 10 June 2019 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was 66.
Ghana used to be ruled by a military government. In 1992, Ghana allowed its citizens to elect its leaders, and in 1993, Ghana became a parliamentary democracy known as the Fourth Republic. The 1992 constitution splits powers between a president, parliament, cabinet, council of state, and an independent national court. Anyone can vote in Ghana, regardless of their gender, race, background, money, and so on. Government. Political parties became legal in Ghana in 1992. Right now, there are 20 political parties. The two most dominant ones are the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party. The National Democratic Congress won elections in 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2012. The New Patriotic Party won elections in 2000, 2004, and 2016. Relations to other countries. Ghana has believed in the non-aligned movement, meaning that it does not form official relationships with other countries. However, Ghana prefers to cooperate with other countries.  Ghana is a member of the United Nations and the African Union. Many people from Ghana serve as diplomats for those kinds of groups. Regions. There are ten regions of the Republic of Ghana which are divided into 6 metropolitan assemblies, 55 Municipal assemblies, and 216 districts.
Duma is a genus of flowering plants. Tanja Schuster made it in 2011. The species in it used to be in "Muehlenbeckia". She found that some were different, and put them in "Duma". The genus is in Australia. Species. "Duma" has three species in it.
Lee Hee-ho (; 21 September 1922 – 10 June 2019) was a South Korean women's rights and peace activist. She served as First Lady of South Korea from 1998 to 2003. She was married to the 8th President of South Korea, Kim Dae-jung from 1962 until his death in 2009. The couple had one son, and Lee was also the stepmother of Kim's two sons from his first marriage. She was born in Seoul during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Lee died of liver cancer on 10 June 2019 in Seoul. She was 96.
Erich Iltgen (10 July 1940 – 10 June 2019) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the president of the Landtag of Saxony, the state parliament of Saxony, from 1990 to 2009. He was born in Cologne. Iltgen died on 10 June 2019, at the age of 78.
Juhani Jorma Kalervo "Juuso" Wahlsten (13 January 1938 – 9 June 2019) was a Finnish professional ice hockey player. He was born in Helsinki. He played in the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. He played for KalPa, Ilves, HJK and TPS. He also represented Finland at three Winter Olympics (1960, 1964, 1968). He was added to the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1986. Wahlsten died on 9 June 2019 in Turku. He was 81.
William Dale Wittliff (January 21, 1940 – June 9, 2019), sometimes credited as Bill Wittliff, was an American screenwriter, author and photographer. He was born in Taft, Texas. He wrote many screenplays, including for the movies "Raggedy Man" (1981), "Barbarosa" (1982), "Legends of the Fall" (1994), "The Perfect Storm" (2000), and the miniseries "Lonesome Dove". Wittliff died of a heart attack in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2019. He was 79.
Gabriele Grunewald ("née" Anderson; June 25, 1986 – June 11, 2019) was an American professional middle-distance runner. She was born in Perham, Minnesota. She competed in distances from 800 to 5000 meters. She represented the United States at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships and finished in tenth place. She was the national champion in the 3000 meters at the 2014 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Grunewald was first diagnosed with a rare form of salivary gland cancer in 2009. In 2016, the cancer spread to her liver and a six inch tumor was removed. On June 10, 2019, it was announced that Grunewald had entered end of life care in Minneapolis due to the disease. She died the next day at the age of 32.
Sinistrophobia is a fear of objects to the left side of bodies or left-handed people. The word sinistrophobia is derived from the Latin word sinistro (meaning left) and the Greek word phobia (meaning fear). Person(s) diagnosed with sinistrophobia often suffer an irrational fear of any object located to the left of a body, objects or person(s) to their left and those who use their left hand, symptoms can include but are not limited to, shortness of breath, sweating, nausea, dry-mouth, shaking, irregular heartbeat or any of the common symptoms associated with a panic attack. Those suffering from sinistrophobia may also refuse to use their left hand, touch another persons left hand or any objects located to their left.
The 2019 NBA Finals was a championship series in the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2018–19 season. Both teams played in a "best-of-seven" series (one team has to win at least four games). This series began on May 30th and ended on June 13th, with the Raptors winning 4-2. The Toronto Raptors won against the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors. Kawhi Leonard was named the Finals MVP for the second time in his career, after 2014. Both teams had won their conference finals (the Raptors play in the Eastern Conference and the Warriors play in the Western Conference), meaning that they had to face off. This was the first time the Raptors won an NBA Finals and also the first time a Canadian team, and a team outside the United States overall, had won the Finals. The Warriors played in the NBA Finals again. It was their fifth straight time playing in the Finals, and their last until 2022. This was the first time that the Raptors had ever played in the NBA Finals, just 23 years after they joined the league in 1996. This was the first Finals since 2010 not to include LeBron James who played in the last eight Finals. Of which, he made four each with the Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers. Victory parade. On 17 June, the Raptors held a parade in Toronto to celebrate them winning. It began at Princes' Gates in Exhibition Place and ended at Nathan Phillips Square next to the Toronto City Hall. Over two million people came to watch the parade. Because of this, the parade was the largest public gathering in Canadian history. However, because there were so many people, the parade was slowed down by three hours.
Julia Kristeva (; ; born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emeritus at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more than 30 books, including "Powers of Horror", "Tales of Love", "Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia", "Proust and the Sense of Time", and the trilogy "Female Genius", she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation. Kristeva became influential in international critical analysis, cultural studies and feminism after publishing her first book, "Semeiotikè", in 1969. She has published a large amount of academic work including books and essays which address intertextuality, the semiotic, and abjection, in the fields of linguistics, literary theory and criticism, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, political and cultural analysis, art and art history. She is important in structuralist and poststructuralist thought. Kristeva is also the founder of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize committee. Life. Kristeva was born in Sliven, Bulgaria. Her parents were Christian. Her father was a church accountant. Kristeva and her sister attended a Francophone school run by Dominican nuns. Kristeva learned about the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. Kristeva went on to study at the University of Sofia. While a postgraduate there she got a research fellowship that let her move to France in December 1965, when she was 24. She continued her education at several French universities, studying under Lucien Goldmann and Roland Barthes, among other scholars. On August 2, 1967, Kristeva married the novelist Philippe Sollers, "né" Philippe Joyaux. Kristeva taught at Columbia University in the early 1970s. She is still a Visiting Professor. She has also
Linda F. Collins-Smith (December 31, 1961 – June 4, 2019) was an American businesswoman and politician. She was a Republican member of the Arkansas Senate from 2015 through 2019 and before was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. She was born in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Assassination. On June 4, 2019, a decomposing body was found in a blanket outside Collins-Smith's home in Pocahontas, with stab wounds. On June 6, police announced the body was Collins-Smith. They did not confirm a cause of death.
Jonathan Nichols (November 14, 1965 – June 5, 2019) was an American politician. He was born in Norman, Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 2001 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was an attorney and became Assistant District Attorney. On June 5, 2019, Nichols was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound at his home in Norman. The exact cause and manner of death are under investigation.
Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal (January 14, 1944 – June 10, 2019) was an American blues and zydeco guitarist and singer-songwriter. He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana.  In the late 1960s, he recorded his own instrumentals, including "Cat Scream" and "Monkey in a Sack", for the La Louisiane record label. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, he also toured internationally with Buckwheat Zydeco and with Rockin' Dopsie. He founded the Cowboy Stew Blues Revue with C. C. Adcock. In 1999, he released the album "The Buck Starts Here". Sinegal died on June 9, 2019 at his home in Lafayette from problems caused by an illness, aged 75.
Wang Jun (; April 11, 1941 – June 10, 2019) was a Chinese business executive. He was Chairman of the Poly Group. He also was Chairman of the state-owned China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) and held the rank of a government minister. He retired in 2006. He was born in Hunan. Wang died on June 10, 2019, at the age of 78.
Son Myung-soon (Hangul:손명순, Hanja:孫命順) (also transliterated as Sohn Myung Soon) (29 January 1929 – 7 March 2024) was a South Korean socialite. She was the widow of South Korean President Kim Young-sam. She was the first lady when Kim Young-sam was in office, from 1993 to 1998.  Son Myung-soon died on 7 March 2024 in Seoul, South Korea from COVID-19 at the age of 95.
Valeria Valeri (born Valeria Tulli; 8 December 1921 – 11 June 2019) was an Italian actress. She was born in Rome. She appeared in theatre, movies, television and also dubbed in Italian. She is known for her roles in the movies "Adriana Lecouvreur" (1955), "Lo scippo" (1965), "Seasons of Our Love" (1966) and "Catherine and I" (1980). She later appeared in the series "Un medico in famiglia". Valeri died on 11 June 2019 in Rome, at the age of 97.
Gavin Ron Robertson (born 28 May 1966) is an Australian former cricketer. He was born in St Leonards, New South Wales. He was a right-handed off-break bowler and a lower-order batsman. He played for the Australia national team, including four Test matches in 1998. He also played for New South Wales and Tasmania. He later became a musician and a sports panellist. In May 2019, it was announced that Robertson has brain cancer.
Pontyberem is a village located in Carmarthenshire, Wales. In the 2011 Census the population of the village was 2,768 people.  Notable people from Pontyberem include Jonny Clayton and Dorothy Squires.
Job Joël André Matip (born 8 August 1991) is a German-born professional footballer. Most recently he played for Premier League club Liverpool and the Cameroon national team. He plays as a centre back. Career. Club. Matip was born in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. He started his professional career with Schalke 04 in 2009. He was part of the Schalke side that won the DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup in 2011. He made 258 competitive appearances and scored 23 goals for Schalke before moving to Liverpool on a free transfer in 2016. He won the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool, playing the full 90 minutes in the final in 2019. In the same game, he also assisted Divock Origi's goal in the 87th minute that saw Liverpool defeat Tottenham Hotspur 2–0. International. Matip was born and raised in Germany but chose to represent his father's birth country, Cameroon, at international level. He played for them at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and the FIFA World Cups of 2010 and 2014. He chose not to play for Cameroon at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. "Cameroon score listed first, score column indicates score after each Matip goal" Honours. Schalke 04 Liverpool Individual
Matthew Ryan Phillippe (born September 10, 1974) is an American actor. He played Billy Douglas in the soap opera "One Life to Live". He later became famous in the late 1990s with starring roles in the movies "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997), "54" (1998) and "Cruel Intentions" (1999). After 2000, he appeared in many movies, including "Gosford Park" (2001), "Crash" (2004), "Flags of Our Fathers" (2006), "Breach" (2007), "Stop-Loss" (2008), "MacGruber" (2010), "The Bang-Bang Club" (2010) and "The Lincoln Lawyer" (2011). He starred as Bob Lee Swagger in the lead role of the USA Network thriller drama "Shooter" (2016–2018). Phillippe was born in New Castle, Delaware. He was married to actress Reese Witherspoon from 1999 until their divorce in 2007. The couple have two children. He also has a daughter from a relationship with actress Alexis Knapp.
Dorrel Norman Elvert "Whitey" Herzog (November 9, 1931 – April 15, 2024) was an American baseball player and manager. He was born in New Athens, Illinois. He played as an outfielder and left-handed batter. He played for the Washington Senators (1956–58), Kansas City Athletics (1958–60), Baltimore Orioles (1961–62) and Detroit Tigers (1963). He later managed Texas Rangers (1973), California Angels (1974), Kansas City Athletics (1975–79) and St. Louis Cardinals (1980–90). He won the 1982 World Series during his time with the Cardinals. In 2010, Herzog was added to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Herzog died in St. Louis, Missouri on April 15, 2024, at the age of 92.
Lone Star is an unincorporated area in Douglas County, in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is southwest of Lawrence.  History. The first people came in 1854. These people were mostly people who wanted slavery in Kansas. By 1860, many of these people left when Kansas was going to be an anti-slavery state. Lone Star Lake is close to Lone Star. The Civilian Conservation Corps built it in the 1930s.
Stull is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. It was created in 1857. It is about 7 miles west of Lawrence, and it's about 10 miles east of Topeka. The Stull Cemetery. The Stull Cemetery has rumors that it is haunted. These rumors involve Satan, the occult, and that the cemetery is a way to get into Hell.
Beginning with Pixar's second film "A Bug's Life", all subsequent Pixar feature films, except "Coco", have been shown in theaters along with a Pixar-created original short film, known as a "short." Other Pixar shorts, released only on home media, were created to showcase what Pixar has technologically in their works. Other work. The Pixar Co-op Program, a part of the Pixar University professional development program, allows their animators to use Pixar resources to produce independent films. Some of their Co-op work includes:
Clinton is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Kansas, United States. It is on a peninsula in Clinton Lake.  History. Clinton was created in 1854. At that time, the town's name was Bloomington. In less than 8 months, there were 530 people living in the town. The people in Bloomington were very anti-slavery. They helped slaves run away using the Underground Railroad. In 1857, half of the town moved. The half that was left changed their name to Winchester. The town became incorporated on February 20, 1857, and they changed their name to Clinton. It is named after Clinton, Illinois. The post office in Clinton closed in 1927.
Tompall &amp; the Glaser Brothers was an American country music group composed of three brothers: Chuck Glaser (February 27, 1936 – June 10, 2019), Jim (December 16, 1937 – April 6, 2019), and Tompall Glaser (September 3, 1933 – August 13, 2013).  The Glaser Brothers started singing together at country fairs. In 1957 the group got their big break when they appeared on the "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Show" and attracted the attention of several well known country stars, including Marty Robbins.
Thomas Paul "Tompall" Glaser (September 3, 1933 – August 12, 2013) was an American outlaw country music artist. He recorded as a solo artist and with his brothers Chuck and Jim in the trio Tompall &amp; the Glaser Brothers. Glaser's highest-charting solo single was Shel Silverstein's "Put Another Log on the Fire", which peaked at No. 21 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles. Glaser died August 13, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 79, after a long illness.
Karl Hurm (December 29, 1930 – June 8, 2019) was a German contemporary painter. He was born in Haigerloch, Germany. He worked at the Haigerloch (Germany) from 1998 until his death in 2019. Hurm's paintings begun in the 1970s to a certain style; they are often referred to as "naïve art". Hurm died on June 8, 2019 at a hospital in Balingen, Germany at the age of 88.
Domenico De Simone (31 May 1926 – 11 June 2019) was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Communist Party (PCI). He served as a Senator from 1976 to 1979. He was then elected to the Chamber of Deputies, serving from 1979 to 1983. De Simone was born in Torremaggiore and was the town's mayor between 1960 and 1976. De Simone died on 11 June 2019 in Torremaggiore, at the age of 93.
Noel Lloyd (December 1946 – 7 June 2019) was a Welsh academic. He started his academic career at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Aberystwyth University in 1974 and became Professor of Mathematics. He served as vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University from 2004 to 2011. After his retirement, he was elected to the Learned Society of Wales. Lloyd died on 7 June 2019, at the age of 72.
Podar Education Network is a network of private, co-educational schools in India. It is managed by the Podar Education Trust, with its head office in Mumbai. The organization has over 110 schools across India, making it one of the largest private education networks in India. The network prepares students for the Central Board for Secondary Education, Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, Secondary School Certificate, IGCSE and International Baccalaureate examinations across the country. Locations. The schools are located in following cities of India. Gujarat.  List of Podar World School in Gujarat:   List of Podar International School in Gujarat : Maharashtra. Mumbai
Damian Watcyn Lewis (born 11 February 1971) is an English actor and movie producer.  Lewis played U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers", U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series "Homeland", King Henry VIII in the BBC Two serial "Wolf Hall" and currently plays Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime series "Billions" (2016–present).  For his role in "Homeland", he has earned a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.  Lewis has also appeared in movies such as "Stormbreaker" (2005), "The Baker" (2007), "Will" (2011), "Your Highness" (2011), "The Sweeney" (2012), "Queen of the Desert" (2015), "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (2019). Lewis was born in St John's Wood, London. He was married to actress Helen McCrory from 2007 until her death from cancer in 2021. The couple had two children. Lewis is a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.
Velvel Pasternak (October 1, 1933 – June 11, 2019) was a Canadian-born American musicologist, conductor, arranger, producer and publisher. He was born in Toronto, Ontario to immigrant parents from Poland. Pasternak studied at Juilliard School and Columbia University, and specialized in Jewish music. In 1981, "The New York Times Times" called him "largest publisher of Jewish music." He was the founder of Tara Publications. He was responsible for publishing 26 recordings and over 150 books of Jewish music starting in 1971. Pasternak died in New York City on June 11, 2019, at the age of 85.
Philomena Lynott (22 October 1930 – 12 June 2019) was an Irish author and businesswoman. She was the mother of Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott. She was known for her autobiography "My Boy". It documented the relationship between her and her son. She was the proprietor of the Clifton Grange Hotel, Whalley Range, Manchester. Lynott criticised the US Republican Party for using Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town" as a promotional song. Lynott died on 12 June 2019, after suffering from lung cancer, aged 88.
Billy McKee (; 12 November 1921 – 11 June 2019) was an Irish republican. He was a founding member and leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). McKee became the first OC of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade.  On 15 April 1971 McKee, along with Proinsias MacAirt, was arrested by the British Army when found in possession of a hand gun. He was charged and convicted for possession of the weapon and imprisoned in Crumlin Road Prison. McKee was released on 4 September 1974 and resumed his position as OC of the Belfast Brigade. McKee died on 11 June 2019, aged 97. His funeral took place on 15 June 2019 in west Belfast.
The I Marine Expeditionary Force is a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) of the United States Marine Corps. Three units made up most of the Force. They are the 1st Marine Division, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and 1st Marine Logistics Group. It is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. I Marine Expeditionary Force is the largest of the three MEFs in the Marine Corps. The Force is commonly called the "Warfighting MEF" as it is constantly involved in major wars around the world. Lt. Gen. Joseph Osterman currently commands the Force. His deputy is Brig. Gen. Rick Uribe.
Steven Charles Watkins Jr. (born September 18, 1976) is an American veteran, politician and businessman. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas' . He is a Republican. In July 2020, Watkins was charged with voter fraud by Shawnee County District Attorney. In August 2020, he lost his re-election primary campaign to Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner.