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Raheem Kassam (born 1 August 1986 in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom) is a British activist, author, and former editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London. Kassam was a candidate in the November 2016 UKIP leadership election, but dropped out of the race in October 2016. Biography. Raheem Kassam was born on 1 August 1986 in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. His parents were from Tanzania. They were of Gujarati origin. He was raised a Ismaili Muslim, but stopped believing in the faith many years ago. He is now an atheist, and was influenced by Christopher Hitchens. He studied politics at the University of Westminster in London. He was a national board member of the Conservative Future youth-movement. He was director of a campus anti-extremism group called Student Rights. He was against the London School of Economics accepting money from Gaddafi's Libya. His idols are Michael Gove, Margaret Thatcher, and Barry Goldwater. He worked at a Lehman Brothers call center, and later managed electoral campaigns in the UK and United States. He and others tried to create a British-version of the Tea Party movement. He and James Delingpole created Breitbart News London. Kassam left Breitbart in May 2018. In 2016, he said that Donald Trump would be a better president than Hillary Clinton. Kassam joined Nigel Farage in meeting Trump after the presidential election. In 2018, he claimed that London had become "a shithole" since the election of Sadiq Khan. UKIP leadership election. Kassam's campaign slogan was "Make UKIP Great Again." His activity online gave him negative attention. He viciously insulted multiple politicians, including First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon, UKIP leadership candidate Suzanne Evans, and Labour MP Angela Eagle. He called the Scottish National Party a "National Socialist party." He later apologised. He called for a referendum on the right of women in the UK to wear the niqāb, claimed that US presidential candidate Donald Trump does not hold anti-Muslim views, and questioned the claims of sexual assault made against Trump.
Martin Joseph "Marty" Walsh (born April 10, 1967) is an American politician. Walsh was the 29th United States Secretary of Labor from March 23, 2021 to March 11, 2023. He was the 54th Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 2014 until 2021. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1997 until 2014 and representing the Thirteenth Suffolk district. On January 7, 2021 then President-elect Joe Biden nominated Walsh to be United States Secretary of Labor under his administration. The nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 22, 2021, by a vote of 68–29. On February 7, 2023, it was reported that Walsh would leave the Biden Cabinet to become head of the NHLPA, the NHL players' union. In February 2024, President Biden nominated Walsh to serve as a governor of the United States Postal Service. However, Biden withdrew his nomination in November 2024, after several Republican senators slowed down his nomination confirmation.
Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro III (July 24, 1929 – October 20, 2019) was an American attorney and politician. He was Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1967 to 1971. He was the brother of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and son of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., who served from 1947 to 1959. D'Alesandro III died at his home in Baltimore from stroke-related problems on October 20, 2019 at the age of 90.
Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born March 10, 1950) is an American Democratic politician. She is the 50th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland serving from 2016 to 2019. She is Baltimore's third consecutive female mayor. In April 2019, Pugh announced she was taking a leave of absence to recover from pneumonia. The announcement came at the same time when a scandal over a "self-dealing" book-sales arrangement of Pugh's books in exchange for contracts with the city were made public. On May 2, 2019, Pugh resigned as Mayor of Baltimore amid the book scandal. On February 27, 2020, Pugh was sentenced to 3 years in prison to be followed by 3 years of probation.
Kenneth Allen Gibson (May 15, 1932 – March 29, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician. He was elected in 1970 as the 34th Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He was the first African American elected mayor of any major Northeastern United States city. He served from 1970 to 1986. Gibson died on March 29, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey at the age of 86.
Ras Jua Baraka (born April 9, 1970) is an American politician. He is the 40th and current Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He was a member of the Municipal Council of Newark. His father was poet Amiri Baraka. On February 19, 2024, Baraka announced that he would run for Governor of New Jersey in the 2025 election.
Somnath Chatterjee (25 July 1929 – 13 August 2018) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for most of his life. He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha (House of the People) from 2004 to 2009. Chatterjee died on 13 August 2018 from a heart attack in a private hospital in Kolkata, aged 89.
Mousa Dembele (born 16 July 1987) is a Belgian former professional football player. He was a winger. He made over 400 league appearances over an 18-year career. Source: Source: Honours. AZ Tottenham Hotspur Belgium
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane (born 6 June 1980) is a South African politician. He is a former member of parliament and the previously leader of the official opposition, the Democratic Alliance (DA). Maimane was born on 6 June 1980 in the Leratong Hospital in Krugersdorp. Maimane stepped down as DA leader and leader of the opposition in parliament in October 2019. John Steenhuisen was elected to both positions.
The fediverse is many social media and internet software that can talk with each other. Federated social media allow people on different social media to like, follow, and comment on each other's profiles. Similar to e-mail, the fediverse is not owned by one person or company. Any person or company can make social media instances on the fediverse. And similar to email, these instances can connect and talk with each other. For example, Mastodon gGmbH has the fediverse instance “mastodon.social”, and Gmail has the email address “gmail.com”. A person on “mastodon.social” has the fediverse identity “@ username @mastodon.social”, and a person on “gmail.com” has the email address “ username @gmail.com”. But a “gmail.com” user can send an email to someone who uses a different email provider, like “hotmail.com”. Similarly, a “mastodon.social” user can comment on a post by someone who uses a different fediverse instance, like “mozilla.social”. Federated networking services. Different fediverse software have different kinds of content. Some are for images, while others are for videos. Fediverse software have multiple instances. Some fediverse software, like Mastodon, have hundreds of instances that can connect with each other. Usually, people can use federated social media software by opening one of the software's instances in their web browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge...), by using phone apps, or by using a web app.
Coker is a town in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States. It was incorporated in 1999. At the 2020 census, the population was 904. It is part of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography. Coker is located at (33.246283, -87.679221). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
Masera is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont. Masera is about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Verbania. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,483 and has an area of . Masera borders the following municipalities: Crevoladossola, Domodossola, Druogno, Montecrestese, Santa Maria Maggiore, Trontano.
Goma is a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the capital of the North Kivu province. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. History: the Battle of Goma happened in January 2025.
Globish is an attempt at creating a subset of the English language for use as the international language for commerce. It has 1500 words, simple grammar rules, no humor, and no Anglo-cultural references. It was inspired by Charles Kay Ogden's BE 850. It has a word base based on real observation of non-natives' conversations in English. The selection of 1500 words is slightly different from the VOA Special English and the SPOTLIGHT Specialized English word choices, but still quite similar. There is however a different list from a Japanese website on Globish. And the Globish Text Scanner allows some 500 more words.
Wes Wise (November 25, 1928 – December 9, 2022) was an American politician and sports journalist. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was, from 1971 to 1976, a three-term Mayor of Dallas, Texas. During his two terms as mayor of Dallas, Wise guided Dallas from under the cloud of the assassination and at the same time saved the Texas School Book Depository from imminent destruction, preserving it for further research into the president's murder. Wise died on December 9, 2022, at the age of 94.
Adlene Harrison (November 19, 1923 – February 19, 2022) was an American politician. She was born in Dallas, Texas. Harrison was acting Mayor of Dallas in 1976. She was the city's first Jewish mayor, and its first female mayor.  Career. Harrison, a Democratic city councilwoman since 1973, replaced Wes Wise as mayor when he resigned to run for the United States Congress. She served until the election of a new mayor, Robert Folsom, at the end of the year. Harrison died on February 19, 2022 in Dallas at the age of 98.
Michael Scott Rawlings (born August 25, 1954) is an American businessman and politician. He was the 61st Mayor of Dallas. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He won the 2011 election. He was re-elected in 2015. Rawlings was CEO of Pizza Hut from 1997 to 2002 and was also a former chief executive of the Tracy-Locke ad agency.
Thomas J. "Tom" Murphy Jr. (born August 15, 1944) is an American politician. He was a Democratic politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was in state government in two terms, from 1979 to 1982 representing the 17th district, and from 1983 to 1993 representing the 20th district.  From January 1994 until January 2006 he served as Mayor of Pittsburgh.
William Mark Peduto (born October 30, 1964) is an American politician. He was the 60th Mayor of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Before being mayor, he was a member of the Pittsburgh City Council from 2002 until 2014. In the 2013 election, Peduto won the mayoral election by winning 84% of the vote. After being elected Mayor to succeed the outgoing Luke Ravenstahl, Peduto was inaugurated in January 2014. In the 2017 election, he was re-elected to a second term as Mayor, winning 96% of the vote.
James Henry Neidhart (February 8, 1955 – August 13, 2018) was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Under this ring name, he was a two-time WWF Tag Team Champion with Bret Hart in The Hart Foundation. He was a main wrestler for WWF events including, Survivor Series 1989 and In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede. Neidhart was born in Tampa, Florida. He and his wife, Elizabeth Hart (daughter of Stu Hart), had three children. The couple's daughter, Natalie, is a professional wrestler with the ring name "Natalya" and is signed with WWE. On August 13, 2018, Neidhart died of a head injury after falling due to a possible seizure at his home in Land O' Lakes, Florida. He was 63. At the time of his death, he had early on-set Alzheimer's disease.
Sonic &amp; Sega All Stars Racing is a video game made by Sumo Digital and published by Sega. The game was released on February 23, 2010 in North America. The game was released in Europe on February 26, 2010, except the United Kingdom. The game is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, and Wii. It was not released in the United Kingdom for unknown reasons. A Nintendo DS version was planned, but was cancelled for unknown reasons. The Wii version can be played on the Wii U.
Ben Idrissa Dermé (21 January 1982 – 11 September 2016) was a Burkinabé football player. Career. He was born in Abra, Dermé played club football in Burkina Faso, Moldova, and France for Étoile Filante, Sheriff Tiraspol, US Ouagadougou, USC Corte, CA Bastia, ÉF Bastia and AJ Biguglia. He earned three caps for the Burkina Faso national team between 2006 and 2010. Death. Dermé died on 11 September 2016 following a heart attack during a 2016–17 Coupe de France match, aged 34.
Zéphyrin Toé (30 December 1928 − 25 November 2013) was a Burkinabé Roman Catholic bishop. Toé was ordained to the priesthood on 6 April 1958, he was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nouna, Burkina Faso on 5 July 1973, and was later named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dédougou, Burkina Faso on 14 April 2000 and retired on 14 June 2005. Toé died on 25 November 2013 at the age of 84.
Patricia Eloise Benoit (February 21, 1927 – August 6, 2018) was an American actress and movie director. She was known for playing the role of Wally Cox's wife in the 1954 TV series, "Mister Peepers". In 2012, she became known for her directorial work on "Stones in the Sun". Benoit died on August 6, 2018 in Port Chester, New York at the age of 91.
Kazimiera Utrata (5 July 1932 – 12 August 2018) was a Polish actress.  She had appeared in 49 movies and television shows from 1959 until her retirement in 2017. She was known for her roles in "A Woman's Decision" (1975) and in "Ballada o Januszku" (1988). Utrata died on 12 August 2018 in Warsaw from congestive heart failure, aged 86.
Balram Das Tandon (1 November 1927 – 14 August 2018) was an Indian politician. He was the Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2014 until his death in 2018. He was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Punjab. Tandon died on 14 August 2018 in Raipur, Chhattisgarh from bronchopneumonia, aged 90.
Stewart Edward Hart, (May 3, 1915 – October 16, 2003) was a Canadian football player, amateur wrestler, sailor, professional wrestler, wrestling booker, promoter, coach, philanthropist and trainer. Hart was known for his large wrestling family as many of his children and grandchildren would become famous wrestlers and for training many well known wrestlers. Hart has been called the one of the most important and influencial person in wrestling history. Early life. Hart was born to a poor family in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during World War II. He began wrestling while serving in the RCN. In 1947, he married Helen Louise Smith. Career. In 1947, Hart began his professional wrestling career in New York. He would begin his career with Stampede Wrestling in 1967 until 1984. Hart was best known for founding and handling Stampede Wrestling. He taught many wrestlers through his "The Dungeon" and created a pro-wrestling dynasty. He was the father of Bret and Owen Hart as well as the grandfather of Natalya and David Hart Smith. Many people see Hart as the most important and respected wrestlers of all time. Hart was a trainer as well who trained Chris Jericho, Edge, Christian, Mark Henry, Chris Benoit, Abdullah the Butcher, Smith Hart, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Brian Pillman, Jesse Ventura, Davey Boy Smith, David Hart Smith, Dynamite Kid, Gorilla Monsoon, Jim Neidhart, Junkyard Dog, Ken Shamrock, Lance Storm, Mark Henry, Natalya, Nikolai Volkoff, Roddy Piper and Tyson Kidd. Hart retired in the 1990s after suffering a severe leg injury. Until his retirement, he would be a commentator or trainer in his final years. Family. Hart had twelve children. They were: Smith Hart, Bruce Hart, Keith Hart, Wayne Hart, Dean Hart, Bret Hart, Ross Hart, Diana Hart and Owen Hart. Wrestler Jim Neidhart was his son-in-law and Natalya was his granddaughter. Roddy Piper claimed to have been a cousin to Hart, and Hart's
Santa Clara County is a county in the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,936,259. It is the sixth largest county in California by population. The county seat and largest city is San Jose. Santa Clara County's population in 2020 was larger than the population of thirteen U.S. states and of the District of Columbia. It overlaps with the Santa Clara Valley and Silicon Valley.
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (; born September 26, 1972) is an American politician and businessman. He was the U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. He was elected to congress in 2012. He ran for President of the United States in 2020. O'Rourke unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Texas in the 2022 election. O'Rourke was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Texas Senate race, challenging Republican incumbent Ted Cruz. He lost the general election to Cruz. After the 2018 election, O'Rourke had been seen as a possible candidate for President of the United States in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. Other analysts have seen O'Rourke as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. On March 13, 2019, O'Rourke announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President. He ended his bid on November 1, 2019. In November 2021, he said that he would run for Governor of Texas in the 2022 election. Early life. O'Rourke was born on September 26, 1972 in El Paso, Texas, to Pat Francis O'Rourke and his second wife Melissa Martha O'Rourke (née Williams). He has Irish and Welsh ancestry. His family gave him the nickname in infancy "Beto", a common Spanish nickname for first names ending in "-berto". O'Rourke studied at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1995. During his college years, he formed a band Band. On May 19, 1995, O'Rourke and his friends sneaked under the fence at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) physical plant, and were arrested by the UTEP police for burglary. He stayed in jail overnight and posted bail the following day. He was initially charged with burglary, but UTEP decided not to press charges. O'Rourke was arrested for drunk driving after a car crash on September 27, 1998. The charges were dismissed in October 1999 after he completed a court-recommended DWI program. Early career. In mid-200
Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 439,035. The county seat and largest city is Salinas. Monterey County comprises the Salinas, California, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It borders on the southern part of Monterey Bay, after which it is named. (The northern half of the bay is in Santa Cruz County.) Monterey County is a member of the regional governmental agency: the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments. History. Monterey County was once part of the Rancho Pescadero Mexican land grant. In 1860, businessman David Jacks bought the Rancho, then sold it in 1880 to the Pacific Improvement Company.
Carouge is a municipality in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The municipality is located south of the Rhône and Arve rivers.
The University of Chittagong (Chittagong University, , CU in short) is a public university in Hathazari Upazila, Chittagong District, Bangladesh. This university has a campus of . It is ranked 2nd among the universities in Bangladesh by Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. Chittagong University was founded on 3 December 1965 by Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry in Chittagong City. It has around 22,000 students and 750 faculty members.
Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was the 47th and 54th President of Venezuela, serving from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Acción Democrática, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century. Betancourt, one of Venezuela's most important political figures, led a tumultuous and highly controversial career in Latin American politics. Periods of exile brought Betancourt in contact with various Latin American countries as well as the United States, securing his legacy as one of the most prominent international leaders to emerge from 20th-century Latin America. Scholars credit Betancourt as the Founding Father of modern democratic Venezuela.
Jack Robert Lengyel (born 1935) is an American software executive and former football coach, lacrosse coach, and college athletics administrator. Lengyel was born in Akron, Ohio. Lengyel was the head football coach at the College of Wooster from 1966 to 1970 and at Marshall University from 1971 until 1974, having a college football record of 33–54.  At Marshall, he took over the Thundering Herd football program after the Southern Airways Flight 932 plane crash that killed nearly the entire team in 1970.  Lengyel was the athletic director at California State University, Fresno from 1983 to 1986, at the University of Missouri from 1986 to 1988, and at the United States Naval Academy from 1988 to 2001.  He was the interim athletic director at Temple University in 2002, at Eastern Kentucky University from 2002 to 2003, and at the University of Colorado Boulder from 2004 to 2005. In the 2006 movie "We Are Marshall", is based on the Marshall plane crash and Marshall's 1971 team where he is played by Matthew McConaughey.
Eduard Nikolayevich Uspensky (; 22 December 1937 — 14 August 2018) was a Russian author and screenwriter. He wrote many children's books. He was born in Yegoryevsk, Soviet Union. Among his most beloved characters are a serious but adventurous boy known as Uncle Fyodor from "Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat". He also wrote screenplays, his best known ones were "Gena the Crocodile" and "Plasticine Crow". Uspensky died in Moscow on 14 August 2018 from liver cancer, aged 80.
The Joy of Painting is an American half-hour television show hosted by painter Bob Ross. It ran from January 11, 1983 until May 17, 1994. In each episode, Ross taught viewers of how to draw landscapes through oil painting, completing a painting in each session. During its run, it won three Emmy Awards. In 2015, full episodes of "The Joy of Painting" were added to the official Bob Ross YouTube channel. In June 2016, Netflix added 1991-92 episodes of "The Joy of Painting" under the title "Beauty is Everywhere".
Edward Miner Lamont Jr. (born January 3, 1954) is an American businessman and politician. He is the 89th and current Governor of Connecticut. Before being elected governor, he was a political science professor at Central Connecticut State University. In 2006, he beat incumbent United States Senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary election. However, in the general election, Lamont and Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger lost to Lieberman, who then ran as an independent candidate. In 2010, he ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Connecticut, and lost to Dannel Malloy. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 2018. He defeated Republican Bob Stefanowski in November 2018.
Walter Thomas Maddox (born December 27, 1972) is an American politician. He is the 36th and current Mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama since 2005. From 2001 to present, he was on the Tuscaloosa City Council and was executive director of personnel for Tuscaloosa City Schools. Maddox was a field director for the Alabama Education Association from 1996 to 2001. In 2005 he successfully ran for Mayor of Tuscaloosa and has been re-elected three times. Maddox was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Governor of Alabama.
Mark Peter Begich (; born March 30, 1962) is an American politician. He was a United States Senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 2003 to 2009. Begich is the son of former U.S. Representative Nick Begich Sr.. In the 2008 Senate election, Begich beat Senator Ted Stevens, at the time, the longest-serving Republican member of the Senate. In the 2014 Senate election, Begich lost his bid for reelection by former Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan.  Begich was the Democratic candidate for Governor in the 2018 election, but was defeated by Republican Mike J. Dunleavy.