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The flag of Maldives was created in July 1965. Appearance. It has a green rectangle centered on a red field; charged with a white crescent facing the fly-side.
The national flag of Cambodia (Khmer: "Tung-Cheat", "National flag") was created in 1993. Appearance. It has three horizontal bands of blue, red (double width) and blue, with a depiction of Angkor Wat in white centered on the red band.
The current flag of Myanmar (also known as Burma) was adopted on 21 October 2010 to replace the former flag in use since 1974. Appearance. It has a horizontal bands of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre.
The flag of East Timor () was created in 2002. Appearance. It has a red field with the black isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side bearing a white five-pointed star in the center superimposed on the larger yellow triangle, also based on the hoist-side, that extends to the center of the flag.
The flag of Papua New Guinea was created in 1971. Appearance. It has divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
The flag of Tonga was created in 1875. Appearance. It has a red field with the white rectangle on the upper hoist-side corner bearing the red Cross in the center.
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by "The Guardian" newspaper. The first of these reports were published in June 2013. The reports were about the United States and British global surveillance programs. They were based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for these reports. Greenwald has written several best-selling books, including, "No Place to Hide". Greenwald's work on the Snowden story was featured in the documentary, "Citizenfour", which won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Greenwald appeared on-stage with director Laura Poitras and Snowden's girlfriend, Lindsey Mills, when the Oscar was given. In the 2016 Oliver Stone feature film "Snowden", Greenwald was played by actor Zachary Quinto. Before the Snowden file disclosures, Greenwald was widely considered one of the most influential opinion columnists in the United States. After working as a constitutional attorney for ten years, he began blogging on national security issues before becoming a "Salon" contributor in 2007 and then moving to "The Guardian" in 2012. He currently writes for and co-edits "The Intercept", which he founded in 2013 with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.
Jean-Guy Hamelin (October 8, 1925 – March 1, 2018) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Saint-Sévérin-de-Proulxville, Quebec. Hamelin was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1949 in Trois-Rivières, Québec and was named first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rouyn-Noranda, Canada on November 29, 1973. He retired on November 30, 2001, succeeded by Dorylas Moreau and named Bishop Emeritus. Hamelin died on March 1, 2018, aged 92 in Rouyn-Noranda.
Joseph Danlami Bagobiri (8 November 1957 – 27 February 2018) was a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1983, Bagobiri served as bishop of Kafanchan from 1995 until his death in 2018. Bagobiri died on 27 February 2018 at the age of 61.
Billy Herrington (July 14, 1969 – March 3, 2018) was an American pornographic movie actor and bodybuilder. He was born in North Babylon, New York. Herrington was best known for his work in gay pornography. He was bisexual. He was known for his role in "HotMen CoolBoyz" (2000). Occasionally, Herrington performed striptease acts at gay clubs in the United States. On March 3, 2018, Herrington was killed in a car accident in California at the age of 48.
John Charles Kenneth Gärdestad (9 May 1948 – 3 March 2018) was a Swedish lyricist. He was known for writing lyrics for the songs of his brother, Ted Gärdestad. He was head architect at Kunskapsskolan. He designed several of their schools in Sweden and abroad.  Gärdestad won Melodifestivalen 1979 as a songwriter for the song "Satellit" performed by his brother the singer. He was born in Sollentuna, Sweden. Gärdestad died on 3 March 2018, in Stockholm of pneumonia caused by influenza while suffering from skin cancer and lymphoma at the age of 69.
Tommy DeVito (June 19, 1928 – September 21, 2020) was an American musician. He was best known as a founding member, singer, and lead guitarist of the rock band The Four Seasons. DeVito died on September 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada from COVID-19 at the age of 92.
The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s.  Since 1970, they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. In 1960, the band known as the Four Lovers evolved into the Four Seasons, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, songwriter Bob Gaudio (formerly of the Royal Teens) on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on electric bass and bass vocals. The Four Seasons were one of only two American bands (the other being the Beach Boys) to enjoy major chart success before, during, and after the British Invasion.
Pakistan sent people to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It is the first time Pakistan is competing at the Winter Paralympics. The team has only one person, para-alpine skier Insha Asfar. Team. It is the first time Pakistan is competing at the Winter Paralympics. The team has only one person, 17 year old female para-alpine skier Insha Asfar. Schedule and results. The first event on the para-alpine program is the downhill. It starts on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March. The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go. The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.
Arabinda Muduli (1 September 1961 – 1 March 2018) was an Indian Odia musician and singer-songwriter. Muduli was born in Khanati, Khordha District, Odisha, India. He was the student of Bhikari Bal. He sang just bhajans and turned down offers to sing commercial movie songs. Muduli died of cardiac arrest in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 1 March 2018 at the age of 56. Muduli was awarded the "Swar Srikshetra", at the lion gate of Jagannath temple, by the Governor of Odisha in 2014. He was also honored with a Certificate of appreciation, Mumbai Odia Mahasangh in 2013.
Maria Antonieta de Farias Portocarrero (August 23, 1922 – March 3, 2018), known professionally as Tônia Carrero, was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. She was known for her movie role in "Tico-Tico no Fubá" and for her television roles in "Água Viva" and in "Louco Amor". She was awarded with Prêmio Saci. Carrero died in Rio de Janeiro on March 3, 2018 of post-surgery cardiac arrest at the age of 95.
Davide Astori (7 January 1987 – 4 March 2018) was an Italian professional footballer. He played as a central defender. He was born in San Giovanni Bianco, Italy. Astori started his senior career with Milan, spending loan spells with Pizzighettone and Cremonese. In 2008 Cagliari signed him. He played youth football for Pontisola. He made his international debut for Italy in 2011 and represented his country 14 times, scoring one goal. Astori died in a hotel room in Udine, Italy of a heart attack on 4 March 2018 at the age of 31. "Score and result list Italy's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Astori goal."
Wolfhart Westendorf (18 September 1924 – 23 February 2018) was a Polish-born German Egyptologist. Westendorf was born in Świebodzin, Poland. He was a co-author of the "Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter", the most well published study of the subject of ancient Egyptian medicine done in any language. He had also published many other books on Egyptology and the ancient Egyptian language. Westendorf died in Berlin on 23 February 2018 at the age of 93.
The flag of Kiribati was created in July 1979. Appearance. It has a horizontal bands of red and blue with the gold frigatebird ("Fregata minor", in Gilbertese: "te eitei") flying over a gold rising sun ("otintaai"), with seventeen rays centered on the upper half and three white wavy horizontal stripes on the lower half.
The Flag of Fiji was created on October 1970. The history of Fiij dates back to ancient times. There are many theories of how the Fijian race came into existence. Around 1500 BC, Fiji was settled by Melaneasion sea farers. According to native oral legends Fijians were also descendants of a nomadic tribe from Tanzania. Appearance. It has a light Blue Ensign with the coat of arms centered on the outer half of the light blue field.
The flag of Palau was created in 1981. Appearance. It is a light blue field, it is the large yellow disk shifted slightly to the hoist-side of center.
Michel Camdessus (born 1 May 1933) is a French economist and administrator. He was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 16 January 1987 to 14 February 2000. Camdessus is also a member of the Fondation Chirac's board of directors, ever since the foundation was launched in 2008 by former French president Jacques Chirac.
Jacques de Larosière de Champfeu (born 12 November 1929 in Paris) is a French central banker. Larosière was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 17 June 1978 to 15 January 1987, and Governor of the Banque de France from 1987 to 1993.
Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo (born 18 March 1949) is a Spanish politician. He served as Minister of the Economy of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of the conservative People's Party (PP). He was also First Deputy Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004. He became Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and served from 2004 to 2007. Rato was arrested on 16 April 2015 for alleged fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. His name appeared in the Panama Papers. On 23 February 2017, Rato was found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to 4 ½ years' imprisonment.
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (29 May 1912 – 2 January 1994) was a French lawyer. He was the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s fourth managing director and chairman of the executive board, serving from 1963 to 1973. Schweitzer was commissioned as a lieutenant in the French Army after the outbreak of World War II. When France fell in 1940, he joined the French Resistance. Schweitzer died on 2 January 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of 81.
Per Jacobsson (5 February 1894 – 5 May 1963) was a Swedish economist. He was managing director of the International Monetary Fund from 21 November 1956 until his death in 1963. Jacobsson's daughter Moyra, an artist, married Roger Bannister, the British Olympic athlete and medical doctor who was the first person to run the four-minute mile.
Ivar Rooth (2 November 1888 – 27 February 1972) was a Swedish lawyer and economist. He served as Governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1929 to 1948 and as the second Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1951 to 1956. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bank of International Settlements.  Rooth died in Sweden on 27 February 1972 at the age of 83.
H. Wayne Norman Jr. (November 3, 1955 – , 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 35 in Harford and Cecil counties serving from 2014 until his death in 2018. Norman was appointed to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2008 until 2014. Norman died in Annapolis, Maryland between March 2 and March 4, 2018 of a suspected heart attack at the age of 62.
Westmount is a suburb on the Island of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is an enclave of the city of Montreal, with a population of 19,931 as of the Canada 2011 Census. Westmount was home of the Montreal Arena, the third arena in history to be built specifically for hockey.  The 2016 census found that 51.3% of residents spoke English, and 21.3% spoke French, as their main language.
Donald Knuth, born January 10, 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is an American computer scientist who wrote a set of 5 books (6th in progress) called "The Art of Computer Programming".
The flag of Nauru was created in 1968. Appearance. The flag of Nauru is a dark blue field with the thin yellow horizontal stripe across in the center and a large white twelve-pointed star on the bottom of the stripe and near the hoist-side. The blue background represents the ocean surrounding Nauru, the yellow line is symbolic of the equator, and the white 12-pointed star symbolizes the 12 tribes of the people of Nauru.  It began its use on January 31, 1968, after the independence and creation of the country of Nauru.
Prince Gustaf Adolf (22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince, 2nd in line of succession to the Swedish throne after his father. Born in Stockholm, he was the eldest son of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught. Prince Gustaf Adolf was the father of the current king, Carl XVI Gustaf. The prince was killed on 26 January 1947 in an airplane crash at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark.
France uses Central European Time (CET) (UTC+01:00) during the winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST) (UTC+02:00) in the summer. French territories observe different time zones: France observes daylight saving time (DST) starting at 02:00 local time on the last Sunday in March and ends at 03:00 local time on the last Sunday in October. Saint Pierre and Miquelon is the only French territory that uses DST and follows the schedule as Canada and the United States, starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November.
Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian conservative politician. He was the Deputy Prime Minister from 2018 to 2019 and again since 2022. He also was the Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 through 5 September 2019. Salvini is also the Federal Secretary of Lega Nord since December 2013 and Us with Salvini since December 2014. He has been a Senator in the Italian Senate since March 2018. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North-West Italy constituency from 2004 to 2018. Salvini is nicknamed by his supporters "The Captain" ("Il Capitano"). Salvini attended the University of Milan. He served on the Milan City Council from 1993 to 2012. Salvini was first elected to the European Parliament in 2004.
Tomas Aguon Camacho (September 18, 1933 – March 5, 2018) was a Northern Mariana Islander religious figure. He was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chalan Kanoa in the Northern Mariana Islands. He served as bishop from 1984 until his retirement in 2010. He was born in Chalan Kanoa, Saipan. Camacho died in Saipan on March 5, 2018 of sepsis, aged 84.
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American movie director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work on "Call Me by Your Name" (2017), Ivory won awards from the Academy Awards, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Writers Guild of America, the Critics' Choice Awards and the Scripter Awards, among others.  For winning the Oscar and BAFTA, Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both award shows.
Jacqueline Vaudecrane (22 November 1913 – 27 February 2018) was a French figure skater. She was born in Paris. She finished first at the French Figure Skating Championships in 1937 and 1938. Vaudecrane became a successful coach. Vaudecrane died in Paris on 27 February 2018 at the age of 104.
Luigi Di Maio (; born 6 July 1986) is an Italian politician. He served as Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies. He was also the leader of the Five Star Movement, the anti-establishment party founded by Beppe Grillo between 2017 and 2020. He ran for Prime Minister of Italy in the 2018 general election. In September 2017, Di Maio was elected the Prime Minister candidate and Political Head of the M5S, with more than 82% of votes. Between 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy. On 5 September 2019, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte appointed him to be Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (born January 22, 1959 in Calarcá, Quindío), most known under the "nom de guerre" Timoleón Jiménez and the nickname Timochenko or Timochenco, is a Colombian guerrilla leader and politician. He is the former leader of the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.  Jiménez took over the FARC leadership in November 2011 from Alfonso Cano after the leader was killed by the Colombian army. In 2017, he was hospitalized for a blood clot in the brain. On March 1, 2018, he suffered a heart attack and underwent heart surgery.
The German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Rechtliche Zusammenarbeit e.V. or IRZ) was set up in 1992 on the initiative of the German Federal Minister of Justice, Dr. Klaus Kinkel, as a registered non-profit association. Its headquarters are in Bonn, with an additional office in Berlin. Tasks. The IRZ works with institutions involved in legal and judicial reform in almost 30 partner states. This cooperation covers the states of Eastern and Southeast Europe, the MENA region and the South Caucasus, central Asia and Vietnam. Within the framework of providing advice on legislation, the IRZ organises expert discussions, helps with the development of draft legislation and promotes the continued training and education of law professionals from all kinds of disciplines. To this end, seminars, workshops and conferences are organised in the relevant partner states. The main focus here is on national legal reforms and German and European law. Working visits, work placements and job shadowing are also made available in Germany for training and education purposes, allowing a direct, practice-oriented exchange of experiences with German experts. The IRZ also does everything it can to support law students by working with universities, providing supplementary studies, seminars and lectures.  The IRZ is supported and assisted by its members and the board of trustees. These include personalities from the worlds of politics, business, management, academia and legal associations and companies. The IRZ can also rely on support from numerous other experienced experts from a wide variety of specialist areas of the law. This means that the IRZ can guarantee specialist expert advice and non-bureaucratic, fast, flexible and coordinated support over the long term for its partner states. Objectives. Together with its partners, the IRZ develops and consolidates: Contracting authority. The IRZ is commissioned by the German Federal Government and is therefore primarily financed by the budget of the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection and by project funding from the German Federal Foreign Office. The IRZ also carries out projects as part of the European Union Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations.
Hans Lippershey (1570 – buried 29 September 1619), was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is known as the first person to build a telescope, although this is not clear who built the telescope.  How to spell the name. English speakers spell "Lippershey." German and Dutch speakers spell "Lipperhey."
Sunan Abu Dawood () is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections). It was collected by Abu Dawood. Sunnis regard this collection as fourth in strength of their six major hadith collections. Details. Abu Dawud collected 500,000 hadith, but included only 4,800 in this collection. It took Abu Dawood 20 years to collect the hadiths.
The flag of the Solomon Islands was created in 1977. Appearance. It is a thin yellow narrow diagonal stripe divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner: the upper triangle is blue with five white five-pointed stars arranged in an "X" pattern and the lower triangle is green.
The flag of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) was created in 30 November 1978. The blue field represents the Pacific Ocean, while the four stars represent the states in the federation: Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae and Yap. Appearance. It has a light blue field with four white five-pointed stars arranged in the diamond pattern in the center.
The current flag of Tuvalu was instated when the country became independent in 1978, after the separation from the Gilbert Islands in 1976. It was adopted on 11 April 1997. Appearance. It has a light Blue Ensign with the Map of the Island of nine yellow five-pointed stars on the outer half of the flag.
The flag of Vanuatu was created in 1980. Appearance. It has a horizontal bands of red and green with the black isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side bearing the golden boar's tusk encircling two crossed namele fern fronds in the center and the golden pall, a thin yellow narrow horizontal stripe that splits in the shape of the horizontal "Y", centered over the partition lines and was fimbriated in black against the red and the green bands while the two points of the "Y" faces on each corner and encloses the triangle on the hoist-side.
Sir William Hepburn McAlpine, 6th Baronet (12 January 1936 – 4 March 2018) was a British businessman. He was director of the construction company Sir Robert McAlpine. British Rail Class 60 60008 of EWS was named in his honour. McAlpine became involved in a plan to save the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway and became its chairman. McAlpine died on 4 March 2018 at the age of 81.
Trevor Graham Baylis (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor. He was best known for the wind-up radio. He invented it in response to the need to communicate information about AIDS to the people of Africa. Baylis was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours. In March 2010, Baylis stated that he was sexually abused at age 5 by a Church of England curate. Baylis died on 5 March 2018 in London of natural causes at the age of 80.
Trumbull County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. 201,977 people lived there in the 2020 census. The county seat is Warren, which developed industry along the Mahoning River. Trumbull County is part of the Youngstown-Warren OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Kjerstin Dellert (4 November 1925 – 5 March 2018) was a Swedish opera singer and theater manager. Dellert made her opera debut at Stora teatern (the old Gothenburg Opera stage) in Gothenburg in the 1950s.  Dellert was the Director of the Ulriksdal Palace Theatre Confidencen. Since the mid-1990s she has been retired from the stage, officially retired from the Swedish Royal Opera since 1979. Dellert died on 5 March 2018 in Stockholm of respiratory failure, aged 92.
Uriel "Uri" Lubrani (October 7, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an Israeli diplomat and military official. In 1964, he joined the diplomatic corps of the Foreign Ministry. He was appointed ambassador to Uganda and non-resident ambassador to Burundi and Rwanda, serving until 1967. From 1967 to 1971, he was ambassador to Ethiopia. From 1973 to 1978, he was head of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Iran, with the rank of ambassador. Lubrani died on March 5, 2018 from natural causes in Tel Aviv at the age of 91.