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Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 8 October 2018) was an Italian movie actor. He has appeared in over 140 movies from 1954 until his retirement in 2016. He was born in Fabriano, Italy. Venantini was known for "No Sun in Venice" (1957), "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965), "Le Grand Restaurant" (1966), "Erotissimo" (1969), "The Priest's Wife" (1971), "Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye" (1973), "Black Emanuelle" (1975), "The Concorde Affair" (1979), "Cannibal Ferox" (1981), and "Le bon roi Dagobert" (1984). Venantini died on 8 October 2018 in Viterbo, Italy from heart surgery complications at the age of 88.
Sebastian Kurz (born 27 August 1986) is a former Austrian politician. He held the post of Chancellor of Austria twice, from 2017 to 2019, and in 2020 and 2021. Before, he was chancellor from 18 December 2017 to 28 May 2019. He was the world's youngest chancellor.  Career. He was Austria's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration from 2013 to 2017. He became Europe's youngest Foreign Minister at the age of 27. In May 2017 he became the chairman of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).  Following the 2017 legislative election, the ÖVP led by Kurz secured the most seats in the National Council, leaving it in a position to lead the next government. As Chancellor he led the federal government consisting of a coalition of the ÖVP and FPÖ parties since December 18, 2017. He was removed from office on 28 May 2019 by President Alexander Van der Bellen following a political scandal known as the Ibiza affair. However, he returned to power in 2020 following a snap election. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted his government agendas. His response to the pandemic included lockdowns and curfews. Many of his government officials resigned. An investigation into the Ibiza affair and a corruption inquiry led to Kurz resigning. Alexander Schallenberg, minister for foreign affairs, replaced him as chancellor on 11 October 2021.
British food or British cuisine is the traditional food and drink popular with the people of the United Kingdom. Some of the most popular dishes include fish and chips, Yorkshire pudding, sausage roll, among others. There are many differences between the traditional food and drink in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and in the numerous regions of England. There are also many differences in the food and drink found in different classes of society.
A person's next of kin (NOK) is that person's closest living blood relative or relatives. Some countries, such as the United States, have a legal definition of "next of kin". In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, "next of kin" may have no legal definition and may not necessarily refer to blood relatives at all. In some legal systems, rights regarding inheritance (which imply a decision-making capacity such as in a medical emergency in which no clear will or instructions have been given, and the person has no spouse) flow to the closest relative (regardless of the age, with a representative appointed if a minor), usually a child, a parent or a sibling. However, there are people without any close adult relatives and, in such a case, decision-making power often flows to a niece or nephew, first cousin, aunt or uncle, or grandparent. For example, if a person dies intestate, the laws of some jurisdictions require distribution of the estate to the deceased's spouse or children. However, if there are none of them, the estate can often be distributed to the next closest group of living relatives, whether they are parents, grandparents, first cousins, aunts and uncles, or second cousins in extreme cases. If a person dies intestate with no identifiable next of kin, the person's estate generally escheats (i.e., legally reverts) to the government. In cases of medical emergency, if a person is incapable (because of age or mental infirmity, or they are unconscious) of making decisions for themselves and they have no spouse or children, the next of kin may participate in medical decisions made by medical personnel, subject to the specific laws of the jurisdiction. The inability of persons who are not in a legal marriage to make decisions with respect to the care of a live-in partner has resulted in many jurisdictions giving live-in partners rights equivalent to a spouse in such situations, even though most jurisdictions still do not require non-spouses to be made beneficiaries of estates (it is improper in most jurisdictions to disinherit a spouse). The inability of same-sex partners to have rights with respect to a partner's medical care
Letter case is the difference between uppercase or capital letters and digits and lowercase or small letters and digits for certain writing systems. The name comes from letters on a printing press, where uppercase letters were stored on top of the lowercase letters in a drawer. Their formal names are "majuscule" and "minuscule" in the same order. Writing systems that have letter case include the Latin alphabet, the Greek alphabet and the Cyrillic alphabet. When the first alphabets were made, they only had uppercase letters. Overtime, especially during the Middle Ages, lowercase letters were made to write more quickly. Other than Greek and Latin, European languages made no clear differences between capital and lowercase letters until the year 1300. Different languages have different rules for when to capitalize or not to capitalize letters. For example, German always capitalizes nouns, while English only capitalizes proper nouns, so while German would write "the automobile" as "das Auto", English would not do the same. However, nearly all languages with letter case capitalize the first letter of the first word of every sentence.
The 2016 United States presidential election in Hawaii was held on 8 November 2016. It was part of the 2016 United States presidential election, in which all other states plus the District of Columbia voted. In the presidential election, Hillary Clinton easily defeated Donald Trump and received 3 electoral votes. Presidential. Polling. Below is a table with the polling results in Hawaii. Hawaii has voted Democrat in the general election since 1988. Results.  Turnout was 58.4%. Primaries and caucuses. Democratic. The Democratic caucus occurred on 26 March 2016. Republican. The Republican primary occurred on 8 March 2016.
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires were a series of fires in California. The fires started on October 8 and 9 across Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Lake and Butte counties in the state. There were seventeen separate wildfires burning across California. Over 5,700 houses and businesses were severely damaged or destroyed in the fires. The Tubbs fire was the most expensive of the fires. It caused over $1 billion USD in damage. Other fires included the Atlas fire and Nuns fire.
The 2017-18 NHL season is the 101st season of operation (100th season of play) of the National Hockey League. The 31 teams are playing an 82-game regular season. The regular season began on October 4, 2017 and ended on April 7, 2018. The Stanley Cup playoffs began a few days after and the Stanley Cup finals was held between Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights which ended with the Washington Capitals winning their first Stanley cup in their franchise history. The Vegas Golden Knights joined the league for this season and became the first team to win the first three games of their history. They now have five wins and one loss making them the first team to do this since the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL's first season. The two-time defending Stanley Cup and Eastern Conference champions are the Pittsburgh Penguins while Penguins' player Sidney Crosby is the two-time defending Conn Smythe Trophy winner. The Nashville Predators are the defending Western Conference champions. The Washington Capitals are the two-time defending Presidents' Trophy winners. Edmonton Oilers player Connor McDavid is the defending winner of the Hart Memorial and Art Ross Trophies. Standings. Tie Breakers:&lt;br&gt; 1. Fewer number of games played.&lt;br&gt; 2. Greater Regulation + OT Wins (ROW)&lt;br&gt; 3. Greatest number of points earned in head-to-head play (If teams played an unequal # of head-to-head games, the result of the first game on the home ice of the team with the extra home game is discarded.)&lt;br&gt; 4. Greater Goal differential
The arrondissement of Issoire is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Puy-de-Dôme "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Issoire. History. When the Puy-de-Dôme department was created in 1790, the "arrondissement" of Issoire was part of that original department. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Issoire is in the southwest of the department and borders to the north with the "arrondissement" of Clermont-Ferrand, to the east with the "arrondissement" of Ambert, to the southeast with the Haute-Loire department, to the south with the Cantal department, and to the west and northwest with the "arrondissement" of Riom. The "arrondissement" of Issoire is the second largest "arrondissement" of the department, with an area of . It has a population of 62,931 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km². Composition. Cantons. After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements". In the "arrondissement" of Issoire there are 5 cantons: Communes. The "arrondissement" of Issoire has 135 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes): The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a major fire in October 1991 in west-central California. The fire began on Saturday, October 19, 1991 on the hillsides of northern Oakland and southern Berkeley. The official name of this wildfire was "Tunnel fire". Twenty-five people died in this wildfire. Another 150 were injured. The fire caused $1.5 billion in damage. More than 2,800 houses and 437 apartments and condominiums were severely damaged or destroyed by the fire. History. The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a big fire that started from a small fire that was not put out well. The small fire was on a hill near a road. The big fire happened on October 19 and 20, 1991. It burned many houses and trees in Oakland, California and Berkeley, California. The wind made the fire move fast and far. Many people died or got hurt in the fire. Many people also lost their homes and things in the fire
The UEFA 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament was held from 4 September 2016 and 14 November 2017 and was used to determine which European teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Robert Lewandowski was the top scorer, with 16 goals. First round. The first round consisted of 9 groups made up of 6 teams each. The winners of each group directly qualified for the world cup, while the best runners-up moved on to the second round. The draw occurred on 25 July 2015 in Saint Petersburg. Second round. The best runners-up from the first round qualified for the second round. The draw occurred on 17 October 2017 in Zurich. The teams who win these matches will finally qualify for the world cup.
Brent Briscoe (May 21, 1961 – October 18, 2017) was an American actor and screenwriter. He was born in Moberly, Missouri. He was known for working with Billy Bob Thornton on "Sling Blade". He also worked with Mark Fauser, who was his college roommate. He appeared in the 2017 television series "Twin Peaks" as Detective Dave Macklay. He wrote the screenplay for "Waking Up in Reno". Briscoe died in Los Angeles, California on October 18, 2017 from complications of a fall at the age of 56.
Zapolyarny (Russian: Заполя́рный) is a town in the Pechengsky District of northern Murmansk Oblast. It is about 103 kilometers (64 miles) away from the administrative centre of Murmansk. In 2010, the population was 15,825 people. The area was owned by Finland between 1920 and 1944. The town was founded in 1956 as Zhdanovsk. Zapolyarny is the closest settlement to the Koshka Yavr air base.
The People's Party (also known as the Populist Party) was a left-wing political party in the United States. The party wanted direct election of senators, government ownership of the railroads, telegraph and telephone systems, price support for farmers, a graduated income tax, unilimited silver coinage, an 8-hour work day and more propositions and referendums. The party was formed in 1891 after a series of conferences involving the leaders of a few agrarian organizations. The Populists were very popular among farmers in the southwest and Great Plains. The party nominated James B. Weaver as their presidential candidate for the 1892 election, and he would later receive 8.5% of the popular vote and win 5 states. In the 1896 presidential election, the party nominated Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan, who supported many of the Populist ideas. To separate themselves from the Democrats, they nominated Thomas E. Watson as their vice-presidential candidate, instead of Democrat pick Arthur Sewall. During this election, the populist party slowly began to merge into the Democratic party. Bryan would later lose the presidency to Republican William McKinley. Although the Populist party nominated candidates in the next three presidential elections, their support heavily dropped as many began to support the Democrats or Republicans, or follow Eugene V. Debs to his new Socialist Party. The party also had success in the House of Representatives elections. In 1890 they won 8 seats, in 1892 they won 11 seats, in 1894 they won 9 seats, in 1896 they won 22 seats, in 1898 they won 6 seats and finally, in 1900 they won 5 seats. The party disbanded in 1908. The last known activity of the official Populist party was in 1913.
The People's Party was a political party in the United States. The party was created by individuals from the Peace and Freedom Party, Human Rights Party, Liberty Union Party and a few more. Their goal was to present an anti-war platform for the upcoming election. The party ran in the 1972 and 1976 presidential elections. The party did not get more than 0.10% of the popular vote in both elections. In the 1972 election, the party nominated pediatrician Benjamin Spock. Julius Hobson was his vice-presidential running mate. He supported universal health care, removing American troops from other countries (see non-interventionism) and the legalization of abortion and Marijuana. He received 0.10% of the popular vote, or 78,759 votes. In the 1976 election, the party nominated Margaret Wright, and Benjamin Spock ran as her vice-presidential running mate. In the end, she received 0.06% of the vote, or 49,013 votes. After the elections, the party wanted to become a coalition, but many of the founding parties dissolved, so the People's Party disbanded as well.
The 2018 CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) tournament was held from 8 October 2015 to 10 October 2017 and was used to determine which South American teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Ten teams participated in the tournament. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) was the top scorer with 10 goals. Results. Table. Peru moved on to the inter-confederation play-offs, which is a tournament between 4th and 5th placed teams from other international world cup qualification tournaments.
Eva Fodor Nolding (November 9, 1919 – December 10, 2017), known professionally as Eva Todor was a Hungarian-born Brazilian actress. She was born in Budapest, Hungary. She emigrated to Brazil in 1929. Todor was best known for her television roles in "Roque Santeiro", "Locomotivas", "Partido Alto", "Olho no Olho", "O Cravo e a Rosa", "América", "India A Love Story", "Salve Jorge" and in "As Brasileiras". Her movie roles include "Os Dois Ladrões", "Xuxa Abracadabra" and "Meu Nome Não É Johnny". Todor died in Rio de Janeiro on December 10, 2017 of pneumonia while suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease at the age of 98.
Isabella Helen Karle (née Lugoski; December 2, 1921 – October 3, 2017) was an American scientist. She was instrumental in developing techniques to remove plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide. She worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. For her scientific work, Karle has received the Garvan–Olin Medal, Gregori Aminoff Prize, Bower Award, National Medal of Science, and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award (which is the Navy's highest form of recognition to civilian employees). Karle was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at the University of Michigan. In 1942, she married Jerome Karle, a Nobel Prize winner. They had three children. Karle died on October 3, 2017 at a hospice in Alexandria, Virginia of brain cancer at the age of 95.
Jerome Karle (Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. During World War II, he and his wife Isabella Karle worked on the Manhattan Project. With Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques. Karle was a former president of both the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) (1972) and the IUCr (1981-1984), as well as a co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on direct methods. Among the many additional honors he received for his work, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976 and the American Philosophical Society in 1990. Karle died of liver cancer at the Leewood Healthcare Center in Annandale, Virginia on June 6, 2013 at the age of 94.
Eppelsheim is a village ("Ortsgemeinde") in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography. Eppelsheim lies on a high plateau in the Rhenish Hesse wine region. Politics. Municipal council. The village has a council that governs it. The council has 16 members. These members are elected by the people of the village. In the 2014 election, 9 members of the FWG and 7 of the SPD were elected. The honorary mayor is Ute Klenk-Kaufmann. Coat of arms. The village’s arms has two halves. They are divided vertically. On the left is a crowned lion. It is standing on its hind legs and facing left. The right half has a green branch with two green apples. Culture. Museums. Deinotherium at the town hall. The "Dinotherium-Museum" in Eppelsheim holds fossil remains of mammals from deposits about ten million years old from the prehistoric Rhine near Eppelsheim. These deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid deinotherium. Paleontological discoveries. Besides the dinotherium fossils, the femur of a "Paidopithex rhenanus" was found in the area in the 19th century. This was a now-extinct catarrhine primate. In 2017, researchers reported finding teeth of an ape dating to about 9.7 million years ago. The teeth seem to belong to a kind of ape similar to Lucy ("Australopithecus afarensis"), but that animal first appeared in Africa more than 4 million years later.
Women's History Month is an annual event to celebrate the contributions of women to history. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, together with International Women's Day on March 8. In Canada it is celebrated during October , together with the celebration of Persons Day on October 18. Women's History Month serves as a celebration of the achievements, perseverance, and strength of women throughout history! This month-long event provides an opportunity to educate society about the countless contributions that women have made in a variety of fields globally.
Richard Arvin Overton (May 11, 1906 – December 27, 2018) was an American supercentenarian. He was the oldest verified surviving American World War II veteran, as well as the oldest American man. In 2013 he was honored by President Barack Obama. On that same Memorial Day, Overton met with Texas Governor Rick Perry. He was born in Bastrop County, Texas. Overton served in the South Pacific from 1940 through 1945, including stops in Hawaii, Guam, Palau and Iwo Jima. He left the U.S. Army in October 1945. During an NBA game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Memphis Grizzlies on March 24, 2017, Overton was honored during a half-time break. He lived in Austin, Texas. When he was 82 years old, his wife, Wilma, died in 1988. On May 11, 2016, Overton became a supercentenarian. Overton died in Austin on December 27, 2018 from complications of pneumonia at the age of 112.
Gavin Miles McInnes (born July 17, 1970) is a Canadian writer, far-right political commentator, polemicist, actor, and comedian. He is the co-founder of Vice Media and "Vice Magazine" and host of "Get Off My Lawn", formerly on Conservative Review Television. He is a contributor to "Taki's Magazine" and a former contributor to The Rebel Media, and was a frequent guest on television programs on Fox News and TheBlaze. McInnes was a leading figure in the hipster subculture while at Vice, being labelled as the "godfather" of hipsterdom. After leaving the company in 2008, he became increasingly known for his far-right political views. He is the founder of the Proud Boys, a chauvinist men's group considered to be a "general hate" organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Early life. McInnes was born Gavin Miles McInnes in Hitchin, England on July 17, 1970 to Scottish parents James and Loraine McInnes. His family migrated to Canada when McInnes was 4 years old. He attended Ottawa's Earl of March Secondary School. As a teenager, McInnes played in the Ottawa punk band "Anal Chinook". As an adult, McInnes emigrated to the United States from Canada.
Tityos or Tityus was a giant from Greek mythology. Tityos was the son of Elara and Zeus. However, at birth, since Tityos grew so big, Elara womb could not hold him longer and Elara died at birth. His surrogate mother was Gaia. Hera tasked him to rape Leto which caused Tityos to be hunted by Apollo and Artemis for attempting to rape their mother Leto when she was going through Panopeus on her way to Pytho. His punishment in Tartarus was to be tortured by two vultures who fed on his liver, which grew back every night.
The arrondissement of Thiers is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Puy-de-Dôme "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Thiers. History. When the Puy-de-Dôme department was created in 1790, the "arrondissement" of Thiers was part of that original department. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Thiers is in the northeast of the department and borders to the north with the Allier department, to the east with the Loire department, to the south with the "arrondissement" of Ambert, to the southwest with the "arrondissement" of Clermont-Ferrand, and to the west and northwest with the "arrondissement" of Riom. The "arrondissement" of Thiers is the smallest "arrondissement" of the department, with an area of . It has a population of 57,956 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km². Composition. Cantons. After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements". In the "arrondissement" of Thiers there are 4 cantons: Communes. The "arrondissement" of Thiers has 44 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes): The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Sir Michael Hardie Boys (6 October 1931 – 29 December 2023) was a New Zealand jurist and was the country's 17th Governor-General, from 1996 to 2001. In 2004, he stated his opposition to New Zealand becoming a republic, stating in an interview: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Hardie Boys was born in 1931 in Wellington. His father was the Hon. Reginald Hardie Boys (1903–1970), a judge of the Supreme Court. After his schooling at Hataitai School and Wellington College, Hardie Boys gained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Victoria University College in 1954. Hardie Boys married Mary Zohrab in 1957. They had two sons and two daughters. Hardie Boys died on 29 December 2023 in Waikanae, New Zealand at the age of 92.