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Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (11May 1871 – 3 May 1949) was a Spanish fashion designer who opened his couture house in 1906 and continued until 1946. Biography. In 1897, he met Henriette Negrin in Paris, whom he married a few years later and whose role as a full-fledged collaborator was highlighted in an exhibition at the Musée du Palais Fortuny in Venice. Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo died in his Venetian palace in 1949 and was buried in the Verano Cemetery in Rome. Works. In 1907, Fortuny created her most spectacular dress: the "Delphos Dress" in pleated silk, made famous by the theatrical legends of the time, Isadora Duncan and Sarah Bernhardt. Designed in a revolutionary form, inspired by the clothes of ancient Greece, the long dress was both simple and wide, artistic and functional; the hems were adorned with colored Venetian glass beads, with a decorative but also functional function. In 2012, the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York City mounted an exhibition of his work.  His clients include Élisabeth, Countess Greffulhe and her daughter Élaine Greffulhe, Eleonora Duse, Ellen Terry and Oona O'Neill. In Paris, he owned from 1912 a shop 2 bis rue de Marignan, transferred in 1922 67 rue Pierre-Charron. In London, he opened a boutique in 1912 at 29 Maddox Street (en) and Bond Street.
Isabella II (; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904), also known as the Queen of Sad Mischance and the Traditional Queen, was queen regnant of Spain from 1833 till 1868 till she was exiled and fled to France where she died. She would be succeeded by her son. Biography. Names. Though her name is often anglicised to "Isabella" this is incorrect. Isabel is recognised as the Spanish for "Elizabeth". And Isabella is a corruption of the name Isabel.
Adolfo Nicolás Pachón (29 April 1936 – 20 May 2020) was a Spanish priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the thirtieth Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 2008 to 2016. He was born in Villamuriel de Cerrato, Spain. Nicolás Pachón died on 20 May 2020 at a hospital in Tokyo from a long-illness, aged 84.
Salah Stétié () (28 September 1929 – 19 May 2020) was a Lebanese writer, diplomat, translator and poet. He wrote in the French language. He also worked in many diplomatic positions for Lebanon in countries such as Morocco and France. Stetie chose to write in French because he believed that the Arabic language was outdated. He was born in Beirut.  Stétié died in Paris on 19 May 2020 at the age of 90.
Home (Not to be confused with House or Home (institution) 2015 computer animated movie from 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Animation and was releasd on March 27, 2015 in the United States. It was released a week early in Austraila, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Spain, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Russia and Ukraine on March 19, 2015 and Estonia, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia and Norway on March 20, 2015. After a simple-minded alien race called the Boov conquer the Earth, they relocate the planet's human population—all except for a little girl named Tip (Rihanna), who's managed to hide from the aliens. When Tip meets a fugitive Boov called Oh (Jim Parsons), there's mutual distrust. However, Oh is not like his comrades; he craves friendship and fun. As their distrust fades, the pair set out together to find Tip's mother, but, unbeknown to them, the Gorg—enemy of the Boov—are en route.
Robert Clinton Smith (born March 30, 1941) is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district from 1985 to 1990 and the state of New Hampshire in the United States Senate from 1990 to 2003. Smith unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for President in 2000 election. He later ran as an Independent. Smith ran for re-election in 2002 but lost the Republican primary to Congressman John E. Sununu, who won the general election.  After his defeat he moved to Florida and briefly ran for the Senate from there both in 2004 and 2010. However, he dropped out early due to poor polling numbers.  He later returned to New Hampshire, where he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2014 Senate election, but lost in the Republican primary by former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Scott Brown. In 2016, he worked for the presidential campaign of Ted Cruz.
Miss Universe 2009 was a beauty pageant, the 56th Miss Universe. In it, outgoing Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela crowned eighteen-year-old Stefanía Fernández as Miss Universe 2009. It was followed by the Miss Universe 2010 pageant, and preceded by the Miss Universe 2008 pageant. Details. Date &amp; Venue. Miss Universe 2009, occurred on August 23, 2008, in Nassau, Bahamas. Top 4 Contenders. There were at first 84 contenders, but Jewel Silver withdrew due to dehydration. Thus there were 83 contestants at the final. Ultimately, Stefania Fernandez of Venezuela won, and Ada de la Cruz of the Dominican Republic was the runner-up. Third was Marigona Dragusha of Kosovo. And Rachael Finch, of Australia, finished fourth. Notes. Stefanía´s young age. Stefanía was just eighteen upon the time of her crowning. Since 2009, there has been no Miss Universe younger than her at the time of their crowning. Crowning by a Compatriot. Stefanía was from Venezuela, like Dayana Mendoza, making this the first Miss Universe pageant where the Miss Universe was crowned by a compatriot. For this, Stefanía earned a Guiness Record.
Hamlin, originally named "Hamline," is a town in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States, along the Mud River. The population was recorded as 1,039 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County.
Gunnar Berge (born 29 August 1940) is a Norwegian politician. He has been a member of the Labour Party. Berge was born in Etne, Hordaland.  Berge represented Rogaland in the Norwegian Parliament from 1969 to 1993. He was Minister of Finance from 1986 to 1989, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development from 1992 to 1997. He was also member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1997 to 2002, as leader from 2000 to 2002.
Berit Reiss-Andersen (born 11 July 1954) is a Norwegian lawyer, author and politician. She is a member of the Norwegian Labour Party. She is chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2017. She is also a board member of the Nobel Foundation. Before, she was state secretary for the Minister of Justice and Police from 1996 to 1997 and as President of the Norwegian Bar Association from 2008 to 2012.
Erin Michael O'Toole (born January 22, 1973) is a Canadian former politician. He was the leader of the Conservative Party and the Leader of the Official Opposition from August 24, 2020 until February 2, 2022. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada representing the electoral area of Durham from 2012 until 2023.  O'Toole was Minister of Veterans Affairs in 2015. In 2017, O'Toole ran in the 2017 Conservative leadership race to replace Stephen Harper, where he finished third. From 2017 until 2020, O'Toole was the Official Opposition Critic for Foreign Affairs.  In January 2020, O'Toole announced his candidacy for the 2020 Conservative leadership election. On August 24, he won the election. He beat Peter MacKay and became the leader of the party. During the 2021 Canadian federal election, the Conservative Party won 119 seats (the same as in 2019), however still did not win the majority seats needed to form a government. On February 2, 2022, O'Toole was removed as leader in a vote by Conservative MPs. By secret ballot, O'Toole was removed as leader by a margin of 73 votes to 45.
Donald "Donn" Trenner (March 10, 1927 – May 16, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. In the 1960s, Trenner worked as a studio musician, and led "The Steve Allen Show" house band. From 1966 to 1978, he was married to actress B. J. Ward. From 1990 until her death in 2005, he was married to Marycarmen Jones. They had one daughter. Trenner died on May 16, 2020 at the age of 93.
Soulatgé is a commune. It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
Betty Jean Ward (born September 12, 1944), professionally known as B. J. Ward, is an American actress and singer. She is the creator and star of "Stand-Up Opera". She was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She toured with the Groundlings for a short while before starting her voice over career on Hanna-Barbera's "Jana of the Jungle" in 1978. From 1966 to 1978, she was married to pianist Donn Trenner. Later, she was married to director Gordon Hunt from 1995 until his death in 2016. They had a daughter.
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language. He was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF).  He received the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the 1977 ACM Turing Award.
Elena Delle Donne (born September 5, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Delle Donne played a successful college basketball career for the Delaware Blue Hens from 2009 to 2013. She was drafted by the Chicago Sky with the 2nd overall pick of the 2013 WNBA Draft, and led the Sky to the 2014 WNBA Finals. She would later be traded to the Washington Mystics and lead them to their first WNBA Championship in franchise history in 2019. Delle Donne has won two WNBA Most Valuable Player Awards (2015, 2019).
Tréville is a commune. It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
Wintrust Arena at McCormick Square, also known as DePaul Arena or McCormick Place Events Center, is a 10,387-seat sports venue in Chicago's Near South Side community area that opened in 2017.  It is the current home court for the men's and women's basketball teams of DePaul University. It is also an events center for McCormick Place. It also is the home of the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Matthew Louis Gaetz II (; born May 7, 1982) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the U.S. representative for from 2017 to 2024. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is known as a strict Trump supporter.  He has been seen as a strong supporter of far-right politics as well as an ally of president-reelect Donald Trump. In 2020, Gaetz was accused of sex trafficking and having sexual relationships with minors. In October 2023, Gaetz filed a motion to vacate which led to the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. In November 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Gaetz to serve as United States attorney general. Gaetz resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives shortly after his nomination. However after controversy regarding sexual abuse and sex trafficking accusations, Gaetz withdrew his nomination on November 21, 2024. Early life. Matthew Louis Gaetz II was born on May 7, 1982, in Hollywood, Florida, to Victoria ( Quertermous) and Don Gaetz, a politician. He was raised near Fort Walton Beach. He graduated from Florida State University in 2003 and from the William &amp; Mary Law School in 2007. He became a lawyer in 2008. Gaetz worked at the law firm Keefe, Anchors &amp; Gordon (now AnchorsGordon) in Fort Walton Beach. In October 2021, the Florida bar banned Gaetz from practicing law because of unpaid fees. He was allowed to become a lawyer again after the $265 fee was paid. Florida House of Representatives. In March 2010, Gaetz ran in the special election in the 4th district for the Florida Senate. He won with 43 percent of the vote. In the special general election, Gaetz beat Democratic nominee Jan Fernald with 66 percent of the vote. He ran for re-election and won in 2010 (for a full term), then in 2012 and 2014. Gaetz supported the death penalty during his time in the state senate
Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama movie directed by Jean Negulesco and based on the 1940 play of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris. It stars Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally and was distributed by Warner Bros.. It was nominated for 12 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1949. Awards. The movie is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
The Bangweulu Wetlands are a wetland area in north-eastern Zambia. Overview. Bangweulu, which means "where the water sky meets the sky", is found mostly within Zambia's Northern Province and known by the Ramsar Convention as one of the world's most important wetlands. The region has flood-plains, seasonally flooded grasslands, woodlands, andswamps, fed by rivers near it. Animals and plants. The ecosystem has "Cyperus papyrus", floating grasses, miombo woodland, and reeds that support a lot of crocodiles, fish, and water birds. Some mammals in the Bangweulu Wetlands are buffalo, zebra, elephants, hippopotamus, hyenas, jackals, lechwe, sable antelope, and sitatunga. Millions of straw-coloured fruit bats go to Bangweulu's Mushitu swamp forest, in Kasanka National Park. In 2016, African Parks partnered with Fondation Segré to help 600 animals, including hartebeest, impala, and puku, into the wetlands. Bangweulu has been called a "Important Bird Area" by BirdLife International. The wetlands are home to more than 400 bird species, including cormorants, ducks, egrets, Geese, herons, ibises, pygmy goose, and waders. Other animals found in Bangweulu include the great white pelican, saddle-billed stork, spoonbill, and wattled crane. Human–wildlife conflict. Bangweulu holds several villages, and around 50,000–90,000 people depend on the wetlands, resulting in human–wildlife conflict. The ecosystem could be damaged by habitat burning for farming, overfishing, and poaching. 75 poachers were arrested in 2010, and 115 were arrested in 2011. The use of mosquito nets for fishing has lessened fish populations in Bangweulu and Zambia.
Lluís Juste de Nin (1945 – 21 May 2020) was a Spanish illustrator, cartoonist, and fashion designer.  He was creative director for the Spanish fashion label Armand Basi. His work was first published in the 1960s. His political cartoons were used to criticize Francisco Franco. He signed his works as "El Zurdo". For many years, he was engaged in creating illustrations for articles by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán in "Mundo Obrero". Juste de Nin died on 21 May 2020 in Barcelona of cancer at the age of 75.
Surapong Tovichakchaikul (May 1, 1953 – May 20, 2020) was a Thai politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand from 2011 to 2014. He was born in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. He was a member of the Pheu Thai Party. Surapong died on 20 May 2020 of liver cancer at a hospital in Bangkok, aged 67.
Head of the Virgin (also known as La Tête de Vierge or La Testa della Vergine) is a 18th-century portrait painted in oil by Giambattista Pittoni, made around 1730, during the Rococo in Venice, Italy,  exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Many people Think Head of the Virgin's eyes glance is mysterious, as at the time it was not portrayed with a low gaze. Description. The remote pictorial touch, the delicate palette, are typical Pittoni characteristics. The work is the detail of the great painting that can be found in the National Gallery in London titled «The Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Spirit». The painting could be a cover created for sale by Pittoni or a preparatory sketch ("The Croquis") for the altarpiece as for the similar work from Berlin. Interpretation. The closed eyes that look down, for the time, a unique and rare representation of the Madonna, which is also repeated in the Pittoni The Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Ghost of the London National Gallery museum.  It is possible that Pittoni looks for further mystical strength in it, exasperating the interpretation of the critic Alexander Nagel on Leonardo da Vinci's "Head of a Woman" in which "the eyes do not focus on any outward object, and they give the impression that they will remain where they are: they see through the filter of an inner state, rather than receive immediate impressions from the outside world. It is the attitude of being suspended in a state of mind beyond specific thoughtunaware, even, of its own body...here an inner life is suggested by a new order of pictorial effects, without recourse to action or narrative."
Patrick Fain Dye (November 6, 1939 – June 1, 2020) was an American football player, coach, writer and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at East Carolina University (1974–1979), the University of Wyoming (1980), and Auburn University (1981–1992). He was the Athletic Director at Auburn from 1981 to 1991. From 1961 to 1962, he played for the Edmonton Eskimos. He was added into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2005. On November 19, 2005 the playing field in the stadium at Auburn University was named 'Pat Dye Field' in his honor. Dye was born in Blythe, Georgia. He studied at the University of Georgia. Dye wrote two autobiographies and a children's book. He lived in Auburn, Alabama. On May 21, 2020 Dye was hospitalized in Atlanta for kidney-related problems. He was later diagnosed with COVID-19. He died under hospice care of liver failure and kidney failure in Auburn on June 1, 2020 at the age of 80.
Margaret Maughan (19 June 1928May 2020) was a British competitive archer, dartcher and bowls competitor. She was Britain's first gold medalist at the Paralympic Games, and won four gold and two silver medals at the Games. She lit the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in London at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She was born in Lancashire, England. She competed in the 1960, 1972, 1976 and 1980 games.  At first, Maughan worked as a science teacher. Maughan was paralyzed from the waist down and left unable to walk by a road accident in Malawi in 1959. Maughan died in May 2020 of problems caused by her spinal cord injury, aged 91.
Per aspera ad astra (or the alternative Ad astra per aspera) is a Latin phrase that means "through suffering to the stars". The phrase is one of the many Latin phrases that use the expression "ad astra", meaning "to the stars". Uses. Various organizations and groups use this expression and its variants. Educational and research institutions. South Africa. Worcester Primary School RSA
Kirby Robert Morrow (August 28, 1973 – November 18, 2020) was a Canadian actor, writer and comedian. Morrow was born in Jasper, Alberta. He was known as the voice of Miroku from "InuYasha", Van Fanel from the Ocean dub of "Escaflowne", Cyclops from "X-Men Evolution", Jay from "Class of the Titans", Teru Mikami from "Death Note", Goku from Ocean's dub of "Dragon Ball Z" and Cole from "Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu".
The Peanuts Movie is a 2015 computer-animated comedy movie made by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. It was released on September 6, 2015 in the United States. It follows Charlie Brown and Snoopy in the movie. The Peanuts Movie was Blue Sky's final G-rated movie. The CGI animation of the movie resembles hand-drawn. This makes The Peanuts Movie the only Peanuts movie in CGI. Voice cast (alphabetical). Additional voices were provided by: Christopher Campbell, Holly Dorff, Tessa Netting, Kelly Michelle Mills, Al Nelson, Randall Thom, Randy Trager, Gabriela Yates Whittle, Gia Bravos, Nikolas Bravos, Kori Elmore, Ava Kramer, Ava Leslie, Frances Bella Kayser, Terrence D. Weller II, Marley Pearson, Aramé Scott, Ileanna Bravos, Nicole Wedel, Clayton Drier, Theodore Finn Kayser, Sam Lavagino, Jaiden A.M. Mathews, Nigel Pope, Dylan Naber, Eden Vietro and Allen Zyler.
Iran has participated at the Summer and Winter Youth Olympic Games in every edition since the inaugural 2010 Games and 2012 Games. Medals by sports. Winter. No medals won.
The Military World Games is a multi-sport event for military sportspeople, organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). The Games have been held since 1995, although championships for separate sports had been held for some years. Editions. Cadet Games. Source:
Paige Hauschild (born August 17, 1999) is an American water polo player. She was part of the gold medal-winning American team at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest. She participated at the 2016 FINA Women’s Water Polo World Youth Championships, 2018 FINA World Cup, and 2019 Pan American Games. She played for University of Southern California's women's water polo team for the 2018 NCAA Champion season.
Interval arithmetic is a specific type of computer arithmetic for (mathematical) intervals. It is mainly used for the automated detection of errors. There is a value, which isn't known exactly, but which can be given by an interval: the value is known to be inside the interval. There's a function to calculate the error. This function should be given the unknown value, but instead can only be given the interval. The result is a function which will map intervals. Interval arithmetic can be used to treat rounding errors, or to treat insecurities with measurements: Each measurement has a certain error, which cannot be determined exactly. Definition. For real intervals (interval of real numbers), interval arithmetic is defined as follows: formula_4 where formula_5 Applications. Interval arithmetic is mainly used in the field of validated numerics. It is also used in other technical areas. Implementations. Since the birth of interval arithmetic, many experts have made interval arithmetic programs. The most famous works are INTLAB (made with MATLAB), arb, JuliaIntervals, and kv. Community. There are several international conferences about interval arithmetic. One of the most largest meeting is the International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Validated Numerics (usually abbreviated as SCAN). There are also SWIM (Small Workshop on Interval Methods), PPAM (International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics), and REC (International Workshop on Reliable Engineering Computing).
Faysal Ahmed is a Somali-American actor from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1985. He was raised in Yemen in his childhood and at the age of 14 his family settled in USA. He is most known for his role in the 2013 movie "Captain Phillips", where he played Najee.
Rabie Ablak, or Rabie Al-Ablak (born 1987), is a Moroccan journalist. He is a part of the Hirak Rif Movement. He has been on hunger strike to protest his detention and inhumane treatment. Some of his hunger strikes lasted more than 40 days; he was taken to hospital several times for treatment. The total of his hunger strikes are more than 284 days. Career. He was a writer for the electronic newspaper Badil, founded by Hamid El Mahdaoui, in the town of Al Hoceima, where he had a part in the Popular Rif movement along with Nasser Zafzafi. Rabie was arrested on 28 May 2017, in the town of Al Hoceïma.  According to Amnesty International, he was tortured.  He was sentenced to five years' of prison in Tangier II prison. On 6 September 2019, he began a new hunger strike.