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Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. In June 2020, she became Leader of the Opposition. She is the Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018 and Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central since the 2011 general election. She was Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin from 2004 to 2009. On 10 February 2018, McDonald replaced longtime party leader Gerry Adams after a special election in Dublin.
Iraj Danaeifard (11 March 1951 – 12 December 2018) was an Iranian football player. He played most of his club career for Taj (currently Esteghlal) and his international career for Iran. He was born in Tehran. Danaeifard died on 12 December 2018 in Shiraz from a heart attack, aged 67.
Ferenc Kósa (21 November 1937 – 12 December 2018) was a Hungarian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He directed thirteen movies between 1961 and 1988. He won the award for Best Director at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for the movie "Ten Thousand Days". He also directed "The Upthrown Stone" (1969). Kósa died on 12 December 2018 in Budapest at the age of 81.
Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet stories are often short, user-generated, ghost stories meant to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences.  According to "Time" magazine, the genre had its peak audience in 2010 when it was covered by "The New York Times." Famous creepypastas include Slender Man, "Jeff the Killer", "Candle Cove" and "Ted the Caver". After two 12-year-olds committed stabbings in the name of Slender Man, some creepypasta administrators told their viewers that these stories have a fine line between reality and fiction.
Jean-Robert de Cavel (born September 12, 1961, died December 23, 2022) is a French-American celebrity chef He was Chef de cuisine at The Maisonette from 1993-2002, Executive chef at Jean-Robert at Pigall's from 2002-2009, and now works at Jean-Robert's Table, Le Bar a Boeuf and French Crust Cafe. His career is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Roubaix, France. In 2003 de Cavel and his wife Annette founded the de Cavel Family SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Foundation following the death of their first child, Tatiana. De Cavel has four times been a semifinalist for the James Beard Best Chef in the Great Lakes Region, in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013. De Cavel was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leiomyosarcoma in May 2018.
Leiomyosarcoma, also referred to as LMS, is a malignant (cancerous) smooth muscle tumor. It is a benign tumor originating from the same tissue called leiomyoma. It has been believed that leiomyosarcomas do not arise from leiomyomas. About 1 in 100,000 people gets diagnosed with LMS each year. Leiomyosarcoma is one of the more common types of soft-tissue sarcoma, representing 10 percent to 20 percent of new cases. Leiomyosarcomas can be very unpredictable. They can remain dormant for long periods of time and recur after years. The cancer is aggressive and hardly responds to chemotherapy treatments.
Sedalia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is in the west-central area of the state. It is the county seat of Pettis County, Missouri. Sedalia is where the Missouri State Fair takes place every year. At the 2020 census, 21,725 people lived in the city.
Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is an American politician. He was the United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party.  Before the Senate, he was in the United States House of Representatives, representing .
Newar (; ; endonym: Newa:; , Prachalit Script: 𑐣𑐾𑐰𑐵𑑅), or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Nepal Mandala which consists of Nepa Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilization. Newar people have developed a division of labor and a sophisticated urban civilization not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills. Newar people have continued their age-old traditions and practices and pride themselves as the true custodians of the religion, culture and civilization of Nepal. They are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation. Newars form a linguistic and cultural community of primarily Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ethnicities following Hinduism and Buddhism with Nepal Bhasa as their common language.  The Kathmandu Valley and surrounding territories constituted the former Newar kingdom of the Nepal Mandala. Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups of Nepal, the Newar people are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relic identity, derived from an ethnically-diverse, previously-existing polity. Newar civilization within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the descendants of the diverse group of people that have lived in Nepal Mandala since prehistoric times.
A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument. It is a bowl-shaped, circular metal disc which a person hits with a mallet or thick padded stick.  Gongs produce two distinct types of sound. A gong with a flat surface gives a "crash" rather than a tuned note. In Indonesian gamelan ensembles, some gongs are made to give a beat note in the range from about 1 to 5 Hz. The use of the term "gong" for both these types of instrument is common.
The Kathmandu Valley (, ), historically known as Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations of South Asia and the broader Asian continent, and has at least 130 important monuments, including several pilgrimage sites for Hindus and Buddhists. The valley comprises of 3 districts that are Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Lalitpur, all having the combined population of about 5 million people. There are seven World Heritage Sites within the valley. Historically, the valley and adjoining areas made up a confederation known as the Nepal Mandala. Until the 15th century, Khwopa was its capital, when two other capitals, Kathmandu and Yala, were established. After the annexation of the valley by the Gorkha Kingdom, and subsequent conversion of the Valley as the capital of their empire, the designation of "Nepal" was extended to all the lands they had conquered.
Tower 42 is the third-tallest skyscraper in the City of London and the eighth tallest in Greater London. Its original name was the National Westminster Tower, having been built to house the National Westminster Bank's international division. Seen from above, the shape of the tower resembles that of the NatWest logo (three chevrons in a hexagonal arrangement). The tower, designed by Richard Seifert and engineered by Pell Frischmann, is located at 25 Old Broad Street. It was built by John Mowlem &amp; Co between 1971 and 1980, first occupied in 1980, and formally opened on 11 June 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. The construction cost was £72 million (approximately £ today). It is high, which made it the tallest building in the United Kingdom until the topping out of One Canada Square at Canary Wharf in 1990. It held the status of tallest building in the City of London for 30 years, until it was surpassed by the Heron Tower in December 2009. Design. In June 2012, a Capix LED multi-media lighting system was installed around levels 39 to 45. This replaced the previous high-energy floodlighting at the top of the building. The top of the tower is made to resemble the NatWest logo of three chevrons in a hexagonal arrangement. There are four sections known as the core, leaf 1, leaf 2 and leaf 3.
Yigal Bashan (September 11, 1950 December 9, 2018) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor. He was awarded the ACUM Prize for Life Achievement in 2016.  Bashan was a member of the pop trio "Kmo Tzoanim" (Hebrew: "Like Gypsies") that appeared on the "Hopa Hey" Israeli children's television show.
The Ellen Show is a television sitcom created by and starring Ellen DeGeneres. It was broadcast in 2001 and 2002 on CBS. It was the second sitcom that DeGeneres's made. The first one was called "Ellen", and was shown on ABC from 1994 to 1998. It was canceled after 13 episodes because it did not have strong ratings. After coming out as a lesbian on her first sitcom, DeGeneres's character on "The Ellen Show", Ellen Richmond, was also a lesbian. "The Ellen Show" also starred Cloris Leachman, Martin Mull, Kerri Kenney, Jim Gaffigan, and Emily Rutherfurd. The show was created by Carol Leifer and Mitchell Hurwitz, who co-wrote the pilot episode. The first title of the show was "Ellen Again". the hsow as anncoued In January 2001 with Texas Local News Plot. After her internet company Homelearn.com goes bankrupt, Ellen Richmond decides to move back to the town she is from to live with her eccentric mother, Dot, and wikt:disorganized sister, Catherine. At home, Ellen meets the guy who was her senior prom date, named Rusty. They think they can continue their romantic relationship where they left off. Ellen also meets her silly high school teacher, Mr. Munn. Though she is a long ways apart from the people who love her, Ellen gets used to a very different way of life. Ellen takes a job as a guidance counselor at the high school she went to. Episodes. "The Ellen Show" made 18 episodes, but was canceled part-way through its season. The final 5 episodes were never broadcast, but are available on DVD. Home media. The whole series was put on Region 1 DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on July 11, 2006. In 2014, Mill Creek Entertainment bought the rights to the series. They re-made the full series on February 4, 2014. The company Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, in partnership with CBS Home Entertainment, owns the international rights. The full series was released in Region 4 (Australia) as a 2 DVD set on February 1, 2017 by a company called Umbrella Entertainment.
Gringo is a Spanish and Portuguese term used mostly in Latin America to denote foreigners, specially people from the United States, Canada, and UK.  In Brazil, the term is used to refer to any foreigner, regardless of their ethnicity or nationality, even when it comes to other Latin-Americans. Etymology. The most supported theory is that the term originates from the word "griego" ('Greek'), used in the same way as the English phrase "it's all Greek to me". Some theories assert that the term originated in the Mexican-American War, when American troops sang a song which began with "Green grows..." such as "Green Grow the Rushes, O", "Green Grow the Lilacs", among others.
Ian McCahon Sinclair (born 10 June 1929) is an Australian politician. H was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He was a government minister under six different prime ministers. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from March to November 1998. Sinclair was born in Sydney, New South Wales.  In January 2001, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975, which made him Leader of the Opposition during that tenure. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983. Snedden was born in West Perth, Western Australia. He studied at Highgate State School, Perth Boys' School and at Perth Technical College. Snedden was in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. In 1950, he married Joy Forsyth. They had four children together.  On 27 June 1987, Snedden died at his home in Ruschcutters Bay, New South Wales, near Sydney of a heart attack while having sex with his son's ex-girlfriend. He was 60 years old.
Gordon Glen Denton Scholes AO (7 June 1931 – 9 December 2018) was an Australian politician. He was in the House of Representatives for the seat of Corio from 1967 to 1993, representing the Labor Party.  Scholes was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1976, and then a minister in the Hawke Government from 1983 to 1987. He was Minister for Defence from 1983 to 1984. He later served several other ministerial positions in the Hawke Government.  He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Scholes died on 9 December 2018 in Geelong, Victoria, aged 87.
Pentti Uolevi Tiusanen (6 March 1949 – 8 December 2018) was a Finnish politician. He was born in Kotka, Finland. He was a member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Left Alliance. He was elected to Finnish Parliament in 1995. He left office in 2011. Tiusanen died on 8 December 2018 from stomach cancer in Helsinki, aged 69.
James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr. (September 28, 1927 – December 12, 2018) was an American admiral in the United States Navy. He was Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987. He was born in New Jersey. Lyons was known for writing a column about Seth Rich, a murdered lobbyist, that was retracted by "The Washington Times". Lyons claimed Hillary Clinton was responsible for the killing. Lyons died on December 12, 2018 from respiratory failure in Warrenton, Virginia at the age of 91.
William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was an administrator of the Getty family trust. He was the father of California governor Gavin Newsom. In 1975, Jerry Brown appointed Newsom to the Superior Court bench in Auburn (Placer County) and later to the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco, where he was until 1995. Newsom died on December 12, 2018, at his home, in San Francisco, California from ulcerative colitis, aged 84.
Seán Garland (7 March 1934 – 13 December 2018) was an Irish politician. He was born in Dublin. He was a member of the Workers' Party. He was General-Secretary of the Party from 1977 to 1990. Garland was the Workers' Party representative at the National Forum on Europe. In 2000, he was elected President of the Workers' Party. Garland died on 13 December 2018 in Dublin at the age of 84.
Noah Klieger (; July 31, 1925 – December 13, 2018) was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. He was born in Strasbourg, France. As a journalist, he worked for "L'Équipe". During the Holocaust Klieger survived the concentration camps Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, and Ravensbruck. After World War II, he worked as a sports journalist in Israel. He was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA)'s media council.  In 2010 Noah Klieger was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, and 2015 he was inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame for his contributions to international basketball. In 2012 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honour (Legion d'Honneur), France's award for civilian merit.  Klieger died on December 13, 2018 in Ramat Gan, Israel, from complications of heart disease, aged 92.
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American jazz singer and actress. Her career began in 1950 and she retired in 2011. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Wilson won three Grammy Awards for her recordings. She was known as "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Her best known works were "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", "I Wanna Be With You", and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". Wilson died from kidney cancer on December 13, 2018, at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
Pioneertown, California, is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of San Bernardino's High Desert in California, United States. , Pioneertown had a population of 350. In July 2006, parts of Pioneertown were burned in the Sawtooth Complex fire, which also burned into Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley.
Sheshan is the name for a pair of hills in Songjiang District in Shanghai, China. These two hills are West Sheshan, which is 97 meters high, and East Sheshan, which is 100.8 meters high. The Chinese name is "Shéshān" (佘山). "Shé" (佘) is the name of a Chinese family, and "shān" (山) is a word that can mean "mountain", "mountains", "hill", or "hills". Some people say that the hills' name used to be "Shéshān" (蛇山), meaning "Snake Hill", but that the Chinese character was changed because people don't like snakes. The hills are part of a forest park that is 64.08 square kilometers big. The park is open from 8 to 4:30 . The top of the West Hill has Our Lady of Sheshan Catholic Church and the Sheshan Observatory. The East Hill has an amusement park. Sheshan Station is a Shanghai Subway station on Line 9.
Montsoreau () is a town in France. Only 500 people live there.  Overview. Montsoreau is located in the east end of the region of Pays de la Loire, in the north western France. The Chateau de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art is in the town. Montsoreau is both listed part of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site, and among the most beautiful villages of France. History. Bronze Age. The main evidence of early settlement is the , which probably dates from the 3rd millennium BC. Montsoreau is located on the borders of the territories of the Gallic tribes of Pictones, Turones and Andecavi. Coins, shards and fragments of Gallo-Roman tiles were found in Montsoreau, especially on the edge of the plateau above the town. Classical antiquity. Montsoreau was identified under the name "Restis" (rope or fish net) at the end of classical antiquity as a port on the Loire at the confluence of the Loire and the Vienne. It kept this name until the end of the eleventh century. The name "Montsoreau" (Mount Soreau) comes from a rocky promontory in the riverbed of the Loire and surrounded by water. There have been three major buildings on this promontory, a Gallo-Roman temple or administrative building, a fortified castle, and a Renaissance palace.  Middle Ages. The first fortified castle was built by the count of Blois at the end of the tenth century, immediately taken by The Count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra, who took the fortress in 1001 and incorporated it to Anjou. Fulk, who was one of the first great builders of castles, modified it, and the fortress remained under the control of Anjou, never taken, for more than 150 years.  In 1152, Guillaume IV de Montsoreau sided with Geoffroy Plantagenet against his brother Henry II Plantagenet, future king of England and husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henri II besieged
The Salesforce tower is a skyscraper in the City of London, England. Its official name is 110 Bishopsgate and was formerly The Heron Tower, which it is still often called. When completed in 2011 it became the third tallest building in the United Kingdom and the tallest in the City of London after Tower 42. The Heron Tower is on Bishopsgate.  Construction lasted from 2007 to 2011. It is owned by Heron International. In 2014 there was naming dispute between Salesforce.com and Heron International. The City of London ruled in favour of it being named 110 Bishopsgate. Construction. In March 2007, it was confirmed that Heron had signed a funding deal with the State General Reserve Fund of Oman to provide the equity for the development. The works were carried out by Skanska and completed in January 2011.
The Château de Montsoreau, or simply Montsoreau, is a residential château (castle) in Montsoreau, France. It is the only château of the Loire Valley to have been built in the Loire riverbed. Philippe Méaille opened the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016. Nowadays, The chateau hold the world's largest collection of Art &amp; Language works. The chateau has been built on the top of the "mount Soreau". This rocky promontory gave its name to the village. On the top of that mount was built a roman temple, a fortress of the counts of Anjou, and a chateau in the Renaissance architectural style. In English one often speaks of the chateau de Montsoreau or Montsoreau. The chateau de Montsoreau was the first of the chateaux of the Loire Valley to be built in the Renaissance architectural style. When the chateau was built, Montsoreau was already a historical village, home of a royal fortified castle. From 1450, when King Charles VII and King Louis XII moved to Chinon and Tours, the Loire Valley became the centre of power of the ancien régime. History. The first fortified castle was built by Odo the First count of Blois in 990. In 1001, it was taken by the count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra ("Fulk the Black"), one of the greatest builders of the middle age, who gave it to Gautier I of Montsoreau. Gautier I belonged to one of the most pre-eminent families of Anjou. Thus, the Castrum Monsorelli became one of the forty fortified castles in Anjou and one of the few to be given the title of lordship at the turn of year 1000. A town developed quickly near the castle. Fulk and Gautier modified the castle, and this one remained impregnable during more than 150 years. In 1152 and 1156 Henry II King of England, besieged
Mesquite is a large city in north-central Texas. It is a part of a much larger group of cities called the Metroplex. Its population in 2020 was 150,108. History. The city was founded on March 14, 1878. It was named after the Mesquite Creek. The city was officially created on December 3, 1887.
Russell Thurlow “Russ” Vought (born March 26, 1976) is an American political aide and government official who has been the 44th Director of the Office of Management and Budget since 2025. He served in this role before from 2020 to 2021 as the 42nd director. He was also the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2018 to 2020. Before this, he was the vice president of Heritage Action for seven years. He also was a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Phil Gramm. In January 2019, Vought became Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget. On March 18, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate him to be the full time Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought became the permanent director on July 22, 2020. He left office in January 2021 after the inauguration of Joe Biden. In 2021, Vought founded the organization the Center for Renewing America, which is focused against critical race theory. He is involved with Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation plan that wants to reshape the federal government.  In November 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Vought to be the Director of the Office of Management and Budget again for his second administration. Vought has been seen as a Christian nationalist who wants the government and society to have some parts of Christianity forced onto them while supporting some parts of separation between church and state. Early life. Vought was born in Illinois. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College and his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School. Vought worked for Heritage Action, the lobbying group of The Heritage Foundation. He was the executive director and budget director of the Republican Study Committee, the policy director for the Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives, and a legislative assistant for U.S. Senator Phil Gramm. First Trump administration. Deputy OMB Director. In April 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Vought to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February
John "Ace" Cannon (May 5, 1934 – December 6, 2018) was an American tenor and saxophonist. He was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He played and toured with Hi Records stablemate Bill Black's Combo, and started a solo career.  His best known song "Tuff" hit #17 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1962, and the follow-up single "Blues (Stay Away from Me)" hit #36 that same year. In April 1965, he released "Ace Cannon Live" (HL 12025). Cannon died at his home on December 6, 2018 in Calhoun City, Mississippi from emphysema at the age of 84.