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Amaro Rodríguez Felipe y Tejera Machado (3 May 1678, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife - 4 October 1747, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife), more popularly known as Amaro Pargo, was a famous Spanish corsair.  He was noted for his commercial activities and for his frequent religious donations and aid to the poor. In his role as a privateer, he dominated the route between Cadiz and the Caribbean, on several occasions attacking ships belonging to enemies of the Spanish Crown (mainly England and Holland), earning recognition in his time as a hero and coming to be regarded as "the Spanish equivalent of Francis Drake". Because of his service to the Spanish Crown and country, he was declared a Caballero hijodalgo in 1725 and obtained certification of nobility and royal arms in 1727. He felt a considerable devotion for Sister Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, even financing his funeral and his grave. He made several donations with the aim of improving the lives of the poorest of Tenerife, especially for the improvement of the living conditions of the inmates of the prison of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. His figure has been wrapped in a halo of romanticism that has related to piracy, hidden treasures and illicit romances. Different authors have taken advantage of this mysticism that surrounds his figure to elaborate his novels. In addition, the video game company Ubisoft sent a study on Amaro Pargo, emphasizing its physiognomy, facing its possible appearance in the video game .
Haridra Nadhi is the largest temple tank in India, may be in the World. It is in Mannargudi, Thiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu. This temple tank belongs to Sethubhava Swami mutt having Sri Venugopala Swami Temple at its centre. The area of the temple tank is . The Rajagopalaswamy temple is a Vaishnavite temple of the main god Rajagopalaswamy (Krishna). The tank is also called the sister of river Kaveri and is sacred to Vaishnavates.
Chandra Theertham is the temple tank of Karaikal Ammayar Temple, Nithyakalyana Perumal Temple and the Karaikal Kailasanathar Temple. The Karaikal float festival (Theppam) is celebrated in this temple tank. The belief of the Karaikal people is if we bath once in this temple tank, all the bone related diseases and fractures will get cured. The Chandra Theertham is cleaned for long time. The work got completed in the year 2010.
Stefano Zappalà (6 February 1941 – 15 April 2018) was an Italian politician. He was born in Aci Bonaccorsi, Italy. He was a Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He is a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a member of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia. Zappalà died from respiratory failure in Latina, aged 77.
Methoxyflurane (brand name: Penthrox) is an Australian liquid analgesic (a painkiller) which turns into a gas when it is exposed to the air. It is breathed in through a special inhaler which is known in some places as the "Big Green Whistle". It makes a slight whistling noise when the patient breathes through it. The patient takes the medicine themselves in the presence of someone trained in its use. It can make them feel sick (nausea) or cause them to be sick (vomit). It also causes dizziness.
Paolo Taviani (; November 8, 1931 – 29 February 2024) and Vittorio Taviani (; September 20, 1929 – April 15, 2018), both known as the Taviani brothers, were Italian movie directors and screenwriters. They were brothers who always worked together, each directing alternate scenes. They were born in San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy. At the Cannes Film Festival, the Taviani brothers won the "Palme d'Or" for "Padre padrone" in 1977 and "Grand Prix du Jury" for "La notte di San Lorenzo" ("The Night of the Shooting Stars", 1982).  In 2012 they reached again the top prize in a major festival, winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with "Caesar Must Die". Vittorio Taviani died on April 15, 2018 in Rome of heart disease at the age of 88. Paolo Taviani died after a short illness in Rome, on 29 February 2024, at the age of 92.
Jon Michelet (14 July 1944 – 14 April 2018) was a Norwegian novelist. He was born in Moss, Norway. He was well known for his action-thriller novel "Orion's Belt" (1977). He was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian far-left daily "Klassekampen" from 1997 to 2002. Michelet died of kidney cancer on 14 April 2018 in Oslo at the age of 73.
"For a general discussion of mental capacity, see Intelligence" Mental capacity in law is a term used to describe a person's ability to make decisions for themselves and to understand what those decisions will mean for them. Sometimes, people who are unwell, such as those with illnesses which affect their memory (Alzheimer's disease or Dementia), those with learning difficulties, or who have mental health problems, may find themselves in a position where their ability to make decisions for themselves is questioned. This may be because they do not understand that what they are doing is not good for them; they do not realise that it might make them ill or get them into trouble. People can also lack capacity if they are unable to communicate in any way; for example, if they're in a coma or if they have severe brain damage. In this case, it may be necessary for someone else, such as an advocate or a Judge to make decisions for them by making a court order. In some countries, like the United Kingdom, laws exist which tell those working with people whose capacity might be in doubt, what they must do and how to decide if someone is capable of making their own decisions. In the UK, this law is called the Mental Capacity Act (2005). It lists 5 rules which must be used as a guide; in simple terms, they are: This law also allows people who have capacity, to pick someone else to make their decisions for them, in the case that they can't do it themselves. Supposing a person is unable to make decisions for themselves, what happens then? In the UK (and many other countries) there is a legal framework to make sure no-one takes advantage of the said person. It often consists of a physician or psychiatrist dealing with the person in question, a solicitor representing the person, and a solicitor representing the "public interest" (the state). Meetings are held at agreed times, say once every three months. The purpose is to make sure that decisions taken are in the person's interest.
Judith Kennedy (October 25, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was an American politician and businesswoman. She was a member of the Democratic Party until 2015. In 2011, Kennedy was elected Mayor of Newburgh, New York, serving in the office until her death in 2018. She was born in Salmon, Idaho. In the 1990s, she worked for Hewlett-Packard. Kennedy died under hospice care of ovarian cancer on April 15, 2018 in Newburgh at the age of 73.
Newburgh is a city located in Orange County, New York, United States, north of New York City, and south of Albany, on the Hudson River. It is the location of Washington's Headquarters. Interstate 84 goes very close to the city. There is a long history of racism in Newburgh and the Hudson Valley. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was rioting in Newburgh because the police killed a black person.
The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony ( "") was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963. It was located in the south of contemporary Yemen. It consisted of the port of Aden and its surroundings (an area of ). Before 1937, Aden had been governed as part of British India. Under the Government of India Act 1935 the territory was detached from British India, and was made a separate colony of the United Kingdom; this separation took effect on 1 April 1937. On 18 January 1963, the colony was reconstituted as the State of Aden (Arabic: ولاية عدن "Wilāyat ʿAdan") within the new Federation of South Arabia. The federation in turn became the People's Republic of South Yemen on 30 November 1967, marking the end of British rule. The hinterland of the Colony of Aden was separately governed as the Aden Protectorate.
Alfred Mason Gray Jr. (June 22, 1928 – March 20, 2024) was a United States Marine Corps general. He served as the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1987 to 1991. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1991 after 41 years of service. General Gray was promoted to general and became Commandant of the Marine Corps on July 1, 1987. His appointment as Commandant of the Marine Corps was recommended by Jim Webb, then Secretary of the Navy. Gray died at his home in Alexandria, Virginia on March 20, 2024, at the age of 95.
Ivan Gerald Mauger (4 October 1939 – 16 April 2018) was a New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six World Championships (Finals). Mauger rode for several British teams – Wimbledon Dons, Newcastle Diamonds, Belle Vue Aces, Exeter Falcons, and the Hull Vikings. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. Mauger died on 16 April 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia at the age of 78.
Big Timber is a city in, and the county seat of Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,650 at the 2020 census. It became the county seat in 1895. The Boulder River joins the Yellowstone River at Big Timber.
Bourbonnais, Illinois is a village located within Kankakee County. The population was 18,164 people as of 2020. Bourbonnais has a total area of , all land. The town expanded in the 1800s, when John Jacob Astor founded fur trade companies in Bourbonnais. Since 2002, it has become home of the summertime training camp of the Chicago Bears.
Robert Randolph "Randy" Neugebauer (born December 24, 1949) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for , having served from 2003 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. According to a 2011 survey by the "National Journal", Neugebauer was "the most conservative" member of the House. On September 17, 2015, Neugebauer announced he would not seek reelection to an eighth term in the 2016 elections. As of April 2018, Neugebauer was the only person under consideration to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Trump Administration.
John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is an English actor, comedian, political commentator, producer, television host and writer. In 2014, Oliver began hosting the HBO series "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver". Oliver's work in "Last Week Tonight" has become very popular. His work has had a large impact on American culture and politics, which has been called the "John Oliver Effect". In 2019, he was the voice of Zazu in the 2019 drama-live action remake "The Lion King". Early life and education. Oliver was born on 23 April 1977 in Erdington, Birmingham, to Carole and Jim Oliver. His father was a school headmaster and social worker, and his mother was a music teacher. Both of his parents are originally from Liverpool, Merseyside. His uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver. His father's great-grandfather, William Boyd Carpenter was the Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria. Oliver learned to play the viola as a child. Since childhood, he has been a fan of Liverpool FC, noting in interviews that "my mum's family are from Knotty Ash and my dad's family are from the Wirral, so supporting Liverpool was very much not a choice". Oliver learned in Bedford at the Mark Rutherford School. After secondary school, he studied at Christ's College, Cambridge. While he was a student there in the mid-to-late 1990s, Oliver was a part of the Cambridge Footlights, the university's club for theatre run by students of Cambridge University. David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade were also in the club. In 1997, he became the club's vice president. In 1998, Oliver graduated from Christ's College with a degree in English.
Christopher Anton Rea ( ; born 4 March 1951) is a British rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known in the United States for the 1978 hit song "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" that reached No. 12 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979. The book "Guinness Rockopedia" described him as a "gravel-voiced guitar stalwart". The "British Hit Singles &amp; Albums" stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)". In 2000, Rea was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Since his cancer diagnosis, he underwent multiple surgeries and was diagnosed with diabetes. In 2016, he suffered a stroke, which left him slurred speech and impaired movements.
Karen Vilhelmi Karapetyan (born 14 August 1964) is an Armenian politician. He became the Prime Minister of Armenia in 2016 after the resignation of Hovik Abrahamyan.  On 23 April 2018, Karapetyan became acting Prime Minister following the resignation of Serzh Sargsyan. In May 2018, Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister. Education. Karapetyan earned a PhD in economics in 1989.
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a French/British agent during the Second World War. Her role was known as Special Operations Executive (SOE). She was twice parachuted into France to help the French resistance activity against German forces (the Wehrmacht). During her second mission, Szabo was caught by the Germans. She was interrogated, and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was treated harshly. Like most other prisoners, she had to perform hard work in freezing cold conditions with few clothes. She was shot near the end of the war. After her death, she was awarded the George Cross, the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance. Szabo's father was British, and her mother was French. Early life. Violette Szabo was born Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell in Paris on 26 June 1921. Her father was a taxi-driver and car salesman, and her mother was a dressmaker. During her childhood, Violette lived in both France and England at different times. She could speak both languages well. When the Second World War broke out, she was working at "Le Bon Marché", a Brixton department store. Szabo married Étienne Szabo in 1940. He was a Hungarian non-commissioned officer in the French Foreign Legion. Violette was 19, Étienne was 31. After her marriage, Violette became a switchboard operator for the General Post Office in central London, working throughout the blitz. Bored by the job, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on 11 September 1941. Szabo found within weeks that she was pregnant, so she left the ATS to return to London for the birth. Violette sent her baby to childminders while she worked at the South Morden aircraft factory where her father was stationed. Then she was told of her husband's death in action. Étienne had died on 24 October 1942 at the beginning of the Second Battle of El
Ankita Lokhande is an Indian television and Bollywood actress. She made her acting debut in 2009 with Zee TV's soap opera Drama . Her appearance in the popular show has made her one of the highest-paid actress in the world of Indian Television. She also participated in celebrity dance reality show on Sony Entertainment Television (India).
Harold Everett Greer (June 26, 1936 – April 14, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He played for the Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1958 through 1973. Greer was a guard and a 10-time NBA All-Star. He was named to the All-NBA Second Team seven times. He was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team and he had his uniform number retired by the 76ers. Greer died of a short-illness in Phoenix, Arizona on April 14, 2018 at the age of 81.
Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County. Huntington is the second largest city in West Virginia, with a population of 46,842 at the 2020 census. It is one of the central cities of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, this had a population of 376,155.
Gerald Weil Nachman (January 13, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American journalist and author. He was born in Oakland, California. Nachman was a television writer for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was a columnist for the "New York Daily News" and writer for the "San Francisco Chronicle". Nachman died April 14, 2018 in San Francisco, California of frontotemporal dementia at the age of 80.
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist. He developed the internationally influential "systemic functional linguistic" model of language. His grammatical works go by the name of "systemic functional grammar" ("SFG"). Halliday described himself as a "generalist", meaning that he has tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point", and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language". He was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea in 1994. Halliday died in Sydney of natural causes on 15 April 2018 at the age of 93.
Jacques Tixier (1 January 1925 – 3 April 2018) was a French archaeologist and prehistorian. He was known for his work on prehistory in Qatar, Lebanon, and North Africa. He led the first French archaeological mission to Qatar in 1976. He helped discover Al Khor Island that year. He also discovered an archaeological site in Shagra. Tixier died in Paris on 3 April 2018 at the age of 93.
Waqar Ahmad Shah (6 July 1943 – 15 April 2018) was an Indian politician. He was born in Qazipura North Bahraich, India. He served in the Legislative Assembly of India for multiple districts from 1993 to 2017. He served as a cabinet minister under the administrations of Presidents A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Pranab Mukherjee. Shah died of bladder cancer on 15 April 2018 at a hospital in Lucknow, India at the age of 74.
Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018) was an American actor, comedian and magician. He is best known for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984–92 television series "Night Court". He was also known for his role as Richie Tozier in the 1990 Stephen King miniseries "It". Anderson also starred as Harry 'The Hat' Gittes in "Cheers" and played the title character in "Dave's World". He was born in Newport, Rhode Island. In late January 2018, Anderson suffered several strokes which declined his health and later suffered from influenza. On April 16, 2018, Anderson died in his sleep of a stroke caused by influenza at his home in Asheville at the age of 65. He was 65 years old.
Jaime Fernando Nicolás Thorne León (11 September 1943 – 5 April 2018) was a Peruvian politician. He served as the Minister of Defense under the administration of President Alan García Pérez, from September 2010 to July 2011. Thorne León died in Lima, Peru of brain cancer on 5 April 2018 at the age of 74.
Zee TV is an Indian cable and satellite television channel. It is owned and operated by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The media entertainment company is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It broadcasts programming in Hindi.  The channel is also available in various nations of Southeast Asia, Europe, and North Asia. A part of the Essel Group, it started to broadcast on 2 October 1992. It is the first Hindi Language cable television service in India. Zee TV HD was launched on 15 August 2011 along with Zee Cinema HD, Zee Studio HD. It changed its logo on 15 October 2017, along with all the other channels owned by its parent company.
Antonio Bernocchi was an Italian industrialist, who built up a successful textile factory at Legnano, a city in the Lombardy region of northern Italy. Bernocchi will rebuild the Milano Scala twice: first after the First World War and then after the Second World War, as it was destroyed due to bombings. Bernocchi, an art lover, will also be involved in the reconstruction of the Academy and the Pinacoteca di Brera, which were also damaged during the bombings of the Second World War. For this task, he will entrust the responsibility to Piero Portaluppi and Gualtiero Galmanini. Life. Bernocchi was born on 17 January 1859 at Castellanza in the province of Varese, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He was one of three sons of Rodolfo Bernocchi and Angela Colombo. Bernocchi attended the Scuola Tecnica of Busto Arsizio, but did not complete his education. By the age of fifteen he was working for his father in a small workshop for bleaching textiles at Legnano. In 1898 the family started a textile factory at Legnano. The business became very successful, which was successful and grew substantially. Factories were opened at Nerviano, Cerro Maggiore and Angera. Bernocchi became mayor of Legnano and a member of the Italian Senate. Bernocchi made several charitable donations. After the Italian defeat at Caporetto in World War I, he donated to a new charity for war veterans, La Patria Riconoscente. The charity was later called the Opera Nazionale Combattenti. He gave funds for the establishment or expansion of schools and hospitals in Legnano, where two schools are named after him. He was a benefactor of La Scala in Milan. His biggest donation was five million lire to the city of Milan for the construction of the Palazzo dell'Arte, home of the Triennale exhibition, in the Parco Sempione. The pavilion, also known as Palazzo Bernocchi, was designed by Giovanni Muzio and built between 1931 and 1933. Bernocchi's brothers, Andrea and Michele, also contributed to the construction of the pavillion. The Coppa Bernocchi, a bicycle race held at Legnano since 1919, is dedicated to Bernocchi.
Karl-Heinz von Hassel (8 February 1939 – 19 April 2016) was a German actor. He acted in more than 100 movies and television shows between 1960 and 2012. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He trained for a business career and also took acting lessons. From 1960 he acted in plays in several theaters. From 1966 he appeared regularly on television. He later had important roles in movies directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Hassel was a tall man who often acted as a police officer. Hassel died after a short illness on 19 April 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. He was 77 years old.