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Early Modern English (EModE or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language in the 16th century from the Tudor period to the Restoration when both the written and the spoken English language begins to be familiar to English speakers today, or speakers of Modern English. This is when the King James Bible was written and William Shakespeare wrote his plays. What sets Early Modern English apart from Middle English is the Great Vowel Shift, when all long vowel sounds changed to their current sounds. Before and after the accession of James I to the English throne in 1603, the English standard began to influence the spoken and written Middle Scots of Scotland.
Kuroko's Basketball, known in Japan as , is a Japanese sports manga series created by Tadatoshi Fujimaki. It was published in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" from December 2008 to September 2014. An anime television series based on this manga was produced by Production I.G. It began airing in 2012. A second season of the anime began airing in October 2013 and a third season began airing in January 2015. An anime movie based on "Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game" manga premiered in Japan on March 18, 2017. "Kuroko's Basketball" was the third highest selling manga series of 2013. In 2013, around 8,761,081 copies of this manga were sold.
Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (August 8, 1926December 31, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist. He toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle. The 1980s and beyond saw a slowing down of Urbie Green's recording career. Both albums recorded by him during this period are live, straight jazz works; "Just Friends", and "Sea Jam Blues". In 1995 he was elected into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Green died in Hellertown, Pennsylvania from congestive heart failure on December 31, 2018, aged 92.
Warren Francisco Plunkett (August 4, 1920 – December 30, 2018) was a former American football player and judge. He played as a blocking back on one season with the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League in 1942. He played college football at the University of Minnesota. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Plunkett died of complications from pneumonia in Austin, Minnesota on December 30, 2018 at the age of 98.
Carlos Sánchez (1935 – 29 December 2018) was a Colombian actor. He was known for playing Juan Valdez for over thirty years, from 1969 to 2006. He was originally a coffee farmer from Antioquia, Colombia.  Sánchez in Medellín on 29 December 2018 from a respiratory tract infection, aged 83.
Mãe Stella de Oxóssi (born Maria Stella de Azevedo Santos, also known as "Odé Kayodê", 2 May 1925 – 27 December 2018) was a Brazilian priest and writer. She was the fifth "iyalorixá" (chief priestess) of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, a Candomblé "terreiro" in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (where she was born). Stella was trained as a public health nurse. She became the iyalorixá of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá in 1976.She was known for writing on the beliefs and practices of Candomblé for the general public, rather than practitioners.  Stella died of a stroke on 27 December 2018 in Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil, aged 93.
Merton Dick Van Orden (February 24, 1921 – December 9, 2018) was an American rear admiral in the United States Navy. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He was born in Austin, Texas. He was Chief of Naval Research from 1973 to his retirement in 1975.  Van Orden died of prostate cancer in Arlington, Virginia on December 9, 2018, aged 97.
Leo John Dulacki (December 29, 1918 – January 4, 2019) was an American lieutenant general in the Marine Corps. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He served in the Corps during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. During his 32 years of active service Dulacki held several important intelligence assignments in Moscow and Helsinki. He finished his career as Director of Personnel/Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower at Headquarters Marine Corps.  Dulacki died on January 4, 2019, at his retirement home in Sun City West, Arizona, at the age of 100, 6 days after his birthday.
Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist. Sandler was best known for being the cause of the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972.  She has been called "the Godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times. Sandler died on January 5, 2019 Washington, D.C. at the age of 90.
Khosro (Hosrov) Sheikh Harandi (11 September 1950 – 8 January 2019) was an Iranian chess International Master. He was a repeated Champion of Iran, he was a member of the national team in five Chess Olympiads. He also represented Iran at first board in 19th World Student Team Chess Championship at Graz 1972 (+6 –3 =3).  Harandi died on 8 January 2019 in Tehran at the age of 68.
Father Óscar González-Quevedo Bruzón (December 15, 1930 – January 9, 2019) was a Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest. He was an investigator in the field of parapsychology. He was born in Madrid. González-Quevedo died on January 9, 2019 from heart disease in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, aged 88.
Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov () (7 May 1930 – 9 January 2019) was a Russian Communist politician. He was the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR between 15 March 1990 and 22 August 1991. Lukyanov died in Moscow on 9 January 2019, at the age of 88, after suffering from a serious illness.
Vice is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama movie written and directed by Adam McKay. The movie stars Christian Bale as Dick Cheney, with Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Tyler Perry, Alison Pill, and Jesse Plemons in supporting roles.  The movie is about Cheney in his desire to become the most powerful Vice President in America's history. "Vice" was released in the United States on December 25, 2018, by Annapurna Pictures.
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan (; ; – 9 December 1970) was a Soviet aircraft designer. In partnership with Mikhail Gurevich he designed many of the famous Mikoyan-Gurevich military aircraft.
Han Zheng (Chinese: 韩正; born 22 April 1954) is a Chinese politician serving as the current Vice President of the People's Republic of China since 2023. He previously served as Senior Vice Premier of the State Council from 2018 to 2023. He has also been Leader of the Central Leading Group on Hong Kong and Macau Affairs since April 2018. From 2017 to 2022, he served as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Han served as Deputy Party Secretary and Mayor of Shanghai between 2003 and 2012. In November 2012, he was promoted to become the Party Secretary of Shanghai, the top political post in the city, and also gained a seat on the CCP Politburo. On March 10 2023, Han Zheng who left the politburo standing committee in 2022, became the vice president of China.
Wang Yi (Chinese: 王毅; 8 October 1953) is a Chinese politician. In 2023 he became foreign minister, again. He serves as a State Councillor of People's Republic of China since 2018.
Vital Kamerhe (born 4 March 1959) is a Congolese politician. He is the leader of the Union for the Congolese Nation ("Union pour la Nation Congolaise", UNC), an opposition political party. He was President of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2006 to 2009.  After resigning as President of the National Assembly, he went into opposition and founded the UNC. He was a candidate in the 2011 presidential election. On April 8, 2020, Vital Kamerhe, chief of staff and main political ally of the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Félix Tshisekedi, was placed in pre-trial detention in the Kinshasa central prison. He was heard during the investigation into the 100-day work. On June 20, 2020, Vital Kamerhe, was sentenced to "20 years of forced labor" and 10 years of ineligibility and inability to access public office for embezzlement, aggravated corruption and money laundering, the court announced. of high instance of Kinshasa-Gombe. His co-defendant, businessman Samih Jammal, faces the same penalties and an expulsion order after their executions. The court also orders the confiscation of the accounts and properties of family members of Vital Kamerhe. On July 24, 2020, the appeal trial of Vital Kamerhe, the chief of staff of Félix Tshisekedi, sentenced to 20 years in prison in June 2020, for embezzlement begins. But just opened, the appeal trial was postponed to August 7, 2020 for procedural reasons. On April 23, 2024, Vital Kamerhe was chosen as the “Sacred Union” candidate for president of the Assembly. On May 22, Vital Kamerhe was elected president of the National Assembly.
The prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (, , ), is Congo's head of government. The current prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Judith Suminwa Tuluka since 12 June 2024. The position of prime minister was already present in the first government after independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the first prime minister Patrice Emery Lumumba.  The position was restored in 1977, as the title of "First State Commissioner" which, in reality, was weak in comparison to the pre-war office of Prime Minister. The office became vacant in 1997.
The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (, , ), is the head of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The constitutional mandate of the current president, Joseph Kabila, was due to expire on 20 December 2016 but was extended by him until the end of 2017. He was replaced by Félix Tshisekedi in 2019. Article 72 of the Congolese constitution states that the President must be a natural-born citizen – or more accurately: – of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and at least 30 years of age. Additionally, the President must be free of any legal constraints on their civil and political rights.
Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (born 13 June 1963) is a Congolese politician. He is the leader of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, the oldest and largest opposition party of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  On December 30, 2018 he was elected the President of the DRC. From 2021 to 2022, he was the 19th Chairperson of the African Union.
Laurent-Désiré Kabila (November 27, 1927 – January 16, 2001), or simply Laurent Kabila ( ), was a Congolese revolutionary and politician. He was the third President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 17, 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko. He was assassinated by one of his bodyguards on January 16, 2001, aged 73. He was replaced as president eight days later by his son Joseph.
Pascal Lissouba (November 15, 1931 – August 24, 2020) was a Congolese politician. He was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo from August 31, 1992 to October 15, 1997. He was overthrown by the current President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the 1997 civil war. Lissouba died on August 24, 2020 in Perpignan, France from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease at the age of 88.
Clément Mouamba (13 November 1943 – 29 October 2021) was a Congolese politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 2016 until 2021. Before he was Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993. In May 2021, Clément Mouamba and his government resigned. Mouamba died on 29 October 2021 in Paris, France from COVID-19 at the age of 77.
is a Japanese "seinen" manga created by Kou Fumizuki. It was published from 1998 to 2005 in Hakusensha's "Young Animal". It is a love story between two childhood friends who have not seen each other in years. "Ai Yori Aoshi" anime was directed by Masami Shimoda. It was written by Kenichi Kanemaki and animated by J.C.Staff. The series was made into an anime in 2002. A sequel, , set two years later started running in 2003. The anime was released in North America by Geneon. The manga was released in English by Tokyopop. Four visual novels were also released for the PlayStation 2, and for Windows 98. Ai Yori Aoshi did well with its English manga release. Book one ranked number 45 on the top 50 Manga's sold of that month. With around 3,329 books sold, the series was at number 18 of 100 with Volume 6. It then soon fell out of the top 100 list for the other releases. The last volume ended at number 66 out of 100 on the sales list.
Arch Rivals is an American basketball arcade game from Midway Games. The game was released by Midway in 1989. It was billed by Midway as "A Basket Brawl". It has two-on-two full court basketball games in which players are allowed to punch other players and steal the ball from them. "Arch Rivals" allows players to select from a variety of fictional teams. But arcade operators can change the team names to reflect real ones. Home versions of the game were put out for the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear and Nintendo Entertainment System. The game was considered a precursor to the popular arcade basketball game "NBA Jam". Basketball games generally follow standard rules: a full basketball game has four quarters with four minutes each. Both teams have two players each. A player can call for his teammate to pass him the ball or shoot it. The difference between "Arch Rivals" and other basketball game titles is the ability to punch an opponent without any penalty and steal the ball away. The referee will only call shot clock violations. Also in "Arch Rivals" are hazards, such as candy wrappers and soda cans thrown onto the floor. If a ball handler steps on these, he falls on the floor. He then allows his opponent to steal the ball from him. Players. There are eight players, each with a unique talent. They are: Presentation. If a basket is scored (for two or three points), several random scenes may be played. One is the coach yelling at his own players. Another has players from the other team being disgusted. Two scenes have cheerleaders saying: "Yay team!" or "Go team go!"
OpenVPN is a Virtual private network protocol that is open-source. This means the source code is openly available for anyone to access and develop. It creates secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. An active community has formed around the OpenVPN project, which has kept it up-to-date and provided regular security audits to ensure it’s viability. It is particularly known for its security and privacy as well as its adjustability. OpenVPN typically works on any port and has five encryption algorithms to such as SSL, IPSec or SSH. AES 256-bit encryption is the best security and privacy as it is essentially unbreakable. A TCP 443 port will make a connection similar to an https connection. It is essentially a secure connection which can help prevent website blocking and bypass censorship. For greater speed, it is recommended to use UDP ports, using the default, Blowfish-128 cipher. This isn’t the absolute highest level of security, but for most people, it will suffice and will operate significantly faster than AES 256 on TCP.
Landing craft are small or medium sized boats made to land at a beach. They help military troops move from their transport ships to the beach, when they cannot use a port. They are also used to deliver supplies and vehicles for troops. To get onto a beach, the landing craft has to be flat-bottomed. The lack of a proper keel makes them uncomfortable in rough seas. World War II had many invasions from the sea including Operation Overlord. Landing craft were less used in earlier and later wars.
Virginia McLaurin (March 12, 1909 – November 14, 2022) is an American supercentenarian and community volunteer Born in South Carolina, she lived in Washington, D.C., before passing away in Olney, Maryland.  Her husband died in 1939 after a bar fight. She volunteers forty hours a week as a Senior Corps volunteer with the United Planning Organization's Foster Grandparents Program at the Roots Public Charter School. In 2013, McLaurin received a volunteer community service award from Mayor Vincent C. Gray in recognition of her voluntary work. She gained national attention after a visit to the White House on February 18, 2016 to celebrate Black History Month, after which a video of her dancing with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama went viral on social media.  She celebrated her 108th birthday with the Harlem Globetrotters. In March 2016, McLaurin received the President's Volunteer Service Award for her work of daily service to schoolchildren in the nation's capital. McLaurin died at her home in Olney, Maryland, on November 14, 2022, at the claimed age of 113 years, 247 days.
Thomas V. "Mike" Miller Jr. (December 3, 1942 – January 15, 2021) was an American politician. He was born in Clinton, Maryland.  Miller Jr. was the president of the Maryland Senate from 1987 until 2020. He was a state senator representing the 27th District, first elected in 1975. He is a Democrat. From 1971 to 1975, he was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates. In July 2018, Miller was diagnosed with prostate cancer and the disease advanced in December 2018. He died from the disease on January 15, 2021 at the age of 78.
Charles Thomas Munger (January 1, 1924 – November 28, 2023) was an American investor, businessman and philanthropist. He was vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway alongside Warren Buffett. He was chairman of Wesco Financial Corporation from 1984 through 2011. He was also chairman of the Daily Journal Corporation and a director of Costco Wholesale Corporation. Munger was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924. As a teenager he worked at Buffett &amp; Son, a grocery store owned by Warren Buffett's grandfather. Munger enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he studied mathematics but dropped out a few days after his 19th birthday in 1943 to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a meteorologist, promoting to second lieutenant. He later studied meteorology at the California Institute of Technology but did not graduate. Through the G.I. Bill Munger entered Harvard Law School, graduating "magna cum laude" with a J.D. in 1948.  After moving to California, he worked at a law firm before setting up his own firm. He later quit law and began to develop real estate. He got his start as an investor in the early 1960s and is mostly known for his association with Buffett.  In his 50s, after a failed eye cataract surgery that made his left eye blind, Munger had his left eye removed because of severe pain. In September 2023, Munger had an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion according to "Forbes". Munger died at a hospital in Santa Barbara, California on November 28, 2023, at the age of 99.
Clute is a city in, Brazoria County, Texas. As of the 2020 United States Census, 10,604 people lived in the city. Geography. Clute has a total area of 5.69 square miles.
Liu He (; born 25 January 1952) is a Chinese economist and politician. He is a current member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, and a Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China.  Career. Liu is the Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the deputy party group secretary of the NDRC, and the director of the General Office serving the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China, headed by Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. He was named vice-premier on 19 March 2018 and will be heading the Financial Stability and Development Commission.
Abakan (; Khakas: or ) is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia. As of the 2021 census, 189,963 people lived there.
Islam is the second-largest and fastest-growing religion in Europe. Most Muslim communities in Europe formed recently, but certain areas on the Balkans have a long Muslim history. Islam entered southern Europe through the invading "Moors" of North Africa in the 8th–10th centuries. Many kingdoms and duchies in Spain, Portugal, Southern Italy and Malta have existed for centuries. After a series of conflicts and wars known as the Reconquista, these areas became Christian. Islam expanded into the Caucasus through the Muslim conquest of Persia in the 7th century. The Ottoman Empire expanded into southeastern Europe; it conquered large parts of the Byzantine Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries. Later, the power of the Ottoman empire faded, and it lost most of its territories in Europe. It collapsed in 1922. The countries of the Balkans still have large populations of native Muslims. Many of these Muslims have become secular. The term "Muslim Europe" is used for the Muslim-majority countries of Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Transcontinental countries, such as Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have large Muslim populations, as does Russia in the North Caucasus. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, large numbers of Muslims immigrated to Western Europe. By 2010, an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe (6%), including an estimated 19 million in the EU (3.8%). They are projected to be 8% by 2030. They are often the subject of intense discussion and political controversy created by events such as terrorist attacks, the cartoons affair in Denmark, debates over Islamic dress, and ongoing support for populist right-wing parties that view Muslims as a threat to European culture. Such events have also fueled growing debate regarding the topic of Islamophobia, attitudes toward Muslims and the populist right. The country where most Muslims live in western Europe today is France, where they account for 12.5% of the population. In the European Union, Bulgaria probably has the largest Muslim population, about 15 % of Bulgarians said they were Muslims.
The Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta was a right-wing political party in Alberta, Canada. The party was created in 1999 as the Alberta First Party. In 2004, the party changed their name to the Separation Party of Alberta. In 2018, the party was renamed the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta. In the 2019 general election, the Freedom Conservative Party received 0.5% of the popular vote. Derek Fildebrandt resigned as leader of the Freedom Conservative Party on April 30, 2019. In April 2020, the party agreed to merge with the Wexit Alberta to create the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta. It became official in July 2020.
The Wildrose Party was a conservative political party in Alberta, Canada. The party was the official opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta after the 2012 and 2015 elections. The party merged into the newly-created United Conservative Party in 2017.
Zenzizenzizenzic is the eighth power of a number. Robert Recorde in "The Whetstone of Witte", published in 1557. Although his spelling had the last letter of the word as k. This word is not used any more in math except as a curiosity. The Oxford English Dictionary has only one citation for it. It survives because it is unusual. The root word, is the Italian "censo", meaning squared. Zenzizenzizenzic is from a time when there was no easy way of writing the powers of numbers except as squares and cubes. The fourth power was represented by the square of a square. Zenzizenzic is a condensed form of the Italian censo di censo, used by Leonardo of Pisa in his famous book "Liber Abaci" of 1202. The eighth power is by extension zenzizenzizenzic. Similarly the sixth power would be zenzicube, the square of a cube. Zenzizenzizenzic has more Z's than any other word in English.
Almyra is a town in the US state of Arkansas. In 2020 it had a population of 256 people.
Bethel Heights was a city in the US state of Arkansas. In 2020, it became part of Springdale.
Clearwater County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, 8,734 people lived there. The county seat is Orofino. Founded in 1911, the county was named after the Clearwater River. The county is home to North Fork of the Clearwater River, and a small part of the South Fork and the main Clearwater. It is in the county are the Dworshak Reservoir, Dworshak State Park, Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, and the Dworshak Dam, third highest in the U.S. The modest Bald Mountain ski area is between Orofino and Pierce.