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Chen Meng ( born 15 January 1994 in Qingdao) is a female Chinese table tennis player. Career. In 2007 and 2008, Chen Meng won the championship playing in both singles and in doubles in Asian Championship. She won 7 medals in 2008, 2009, and 2011.  Australian Open. In 2010, Chen took part in the Australian Open where she beat Kasumi Ishikawa, but lost to Zhu Yuling.  In the U21-competion, she reached the semifinals. By 2012, she won her first goldmedal by the adults at the Qatar Open, while winning gold at the Kuwait Open in the doubles.  At the World Tour Grand Finals she beat Ai Fukuhara in the quarterfinals while losing 3:4 against Ding Ning in the semifinals.  World Championship. Her first World Championships she played in 2013, where she in the round of 16 lost to Li Xiaoxia, but won bronze in the doubles. At the Asian Championships Chen won bronze in the singles and in the mixed category, in the team event she won gold, and in the doubles, too. 2014 Chen became World Champion with the team and wo gold at the Asian Games in the singles category.  In the doubles she won gold, too. At the World Championships 2015 she only took part in the mixed category, where she lost in the round of 32. At the Grand Finals she came to the final, where she lost for her second time against Ding Ning. At the World Championships 2016 she won gold with the team and became Vice Asian Champion in the singles.  In 2017, Meng won gold in the singles and doubles at the Qatar Open.  Asian Championship. She became Vice Asian Champion in the Asian Championships, but eventually lost to Miu Hirano in the singles game.  In the doubles, she won silver together with Zhu Yuling. At the Grand Finals she won gold in the singles and doubles. Therefore she became for the first time number one.
William Wilfred Campbell (1 June 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. He is one of the Confederation Poets, a group of poets born during Canada's Confederation (in 1860s). By the end of the 19th century, he was thought as the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada." William Wilfred Campbell Poetry Festival. William Wilfred Campbell Poetry Festival is an Arts festival founded and directed by Paul Kastner in 2014 in Wiarton, Ontario. This festival is held every year in his respect.
Van Horne House is a historical building in Somerset County, New Jersey. It was built in 1750. It was called Phil's Hill because it was owned by Philip Van Horne. The house was the headquarters for two American generals, Benjamin Lincoln in 1777 and William Alexander in (1778-79). It was also used as headquarters by the Heritage Trail Association starting in 2000. It was to the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 2002.
Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber (11 April 1918 – 11 April 2018) was a French politician and journalist. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He was born in Paris, France. Schreiber died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.
Brij Bhushan Kabra (1937 – 12 April 2018) was an Indian musician. He popularized the guitar as an instrument in Indian classical music. He was born in Jodhpur, British Raj. Kabra became the first Indian musician to play "raga" on the guitar, performed publicly, and recorded the successful album "Call of the Valley" (1967) with "bansuri" player Hariprasad Chaurasia and "santoor" player Shivkumar Sharma in 1960. Kabra died on 12 April 2018 in Ahmedabad, India of multiple organ failure at age 81.
Patrick Francis McManus (August 25, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American humor writer. He was born in Sandpoint, Idaho. He wrote about the outdoors. He was a humor columnist for "Outdoor Life", "Field &amp; Stream", and other magazines, his columns and stories have been collected in several books, beginning with "A Fine and Pleasant Misery" (1978) up through "The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories" (2012). McManus died in Spokane, Washington on April 11, 2018 at the age of 84.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (first name generally given as Irv, Irve or Irving; born August 22, 1950) is an American lawyer and former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. From 2001 to 2005, Libby held the offices of Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States. After a failed appeal, President Bush commuted Libby's sentence of 30 months in federal prison, leaving the other parts of his sentence intact. As a result of his conviction in "United States v. Libby", Libby's license to practice law was suspended until being reinstated in 2016. President President Donald Trump pardoned Libby on April 13, 2018.
Paddington 2 is a 1998 live-action animated comedy movie. It was directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby. It is based on the stories of the character Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond. It is the sequel to the 1995 movie "Paddington". The movie was released in cinemas and IMAX with very good reviews and it has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, it failed at the box office. It was released during the holiday season on December 4. The movie stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Tom Conti, Ben Miller, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Noah Taylor and Hugh Grant with Eileen Atkins in live-action roles. Plot. A few years after the first film, Henry Brown gets injured, trying to fix a nearby well and breaks his arm and leg in the fall. Because of this comment, the family tried to prevent not being in poverty. When the police threatened to send them away to boarding school, they decide to journey to Mississippi. During the landing, Paddington is separated from the family and ends up, taking refuge in the nearby animal hotel, guarded by a pitbull. paddington find himself in a room full of animals, led by the nearby wise mountain goat. The family finds Paddington missing an attempt to find him, but they are arrested by the police and place to jail. Phibs and spoon, to dimwitted talking squirrel, agreed to help Paddington reunite with the family and help keep their animal hotel at business. The family is put on trial and committed to a 35 year in jail, but after the family breakdown crying that I’ll never see Paddington or Henry Brown again, the judge tearfully decides to let them go, claiming that he had a bear cub as a pet once. paddington is chased by the pitbull and jumps off the bridge, where he uses a nearby to stay a flow. He nearly escapes, falling down the river waterfall, and we night with Ferdinand to come, which has now marched to
Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He is known for his roles in "Nathan Barley", "Criminal Justice", "The Hour", and "London Spy". In movies, he starred in "" (2006), "I'm Not There" (2007), "Bright Star" (2009), "Brideshead Revisited" (2008), "Cloud Atlas" (2012), "The Lobster" (2015), "Suffragette" (2015), and "The Danish Girl" (2015). Whishaw played Q in the James Bond movies "Skyfall" (2012) and "Spectre" (2015). He voiced Paddington Bear in "Paddington" (2014) and "Paddington 2" (2017).
Delma is a luxury watch company based in Lengnau, Switzerland, founded by the brothers Adolf and Albert Gilomen in 1924. History. The Gilomen brothers originally registered four brands: Thuya, Midland, Delma and Gil. Thuya served as the company’s name, and the other brands were used for watch models. The Delma brand name first appeared on watches in 1933. It was established as the company’s name in 1966 with the company take over by Ulrich Wüthrich and Fritz Fankhauser. In 1996 Ulrich Wüthrich's son-in-law, Fred Leibundgut, entered the company and took over as President and CEO.  Marketing. In 2016, Delma entered a partnership with the IMOCA 60 as Official Timer of the Transat New York to Vendée.
The Amaravati River is the longest tributary of Kaveri River. This river flows through the districts of Karur and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu state. The long Amaravati River begins at the Kerala/Tamil Nadu border at the bottom of Manjampatti Valley. This river irrigates over of agricultural lands in Tiruppur and Karur districts. The Amaravathi Dam has 4 Megawatts of electricity generating capacity installed.
Arani River is a 108 km long river) in India. It flows through the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.The Arani river rises at Sadasivakonda in Chittoor district. It flows through to join the southwest tip of the Pulicat Lake in Minjur Block, Tiruvallur district. Then flows into the Bay of Bengal. It has a drainage area of about 1535 km2 with over one half lying in Andhra Pradesh.
Zoran Krasić ("Зоран Красић"; 11 March 1956 – 12 April 2018) was a Serbian politician. He served several terms in the parliaments of Yugoslavia and Serbia as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party. He was Serbia's Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications from 1998 to 2000. Krasić died on 12 April 2018, after a short illness in Belgrade at the age of 62.
Bhavani River is a major river in Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the second longest river in Tamil Nadu. This river is a major tributary of the Kaveri River. Bhavani river originates(starts) from Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats. Bhavani enters the Silent Valley National Park in Kerala. It flows back towards Tamil Nadu. The Bhavani is a long perennial(everlasting) river. The river drains an area of spread over Tamil Nadu (87%), Kerala (9%) and Karnataka (4%). About 90 per cent of the river's water is used for agriculture irrigation. Bhavanisagar dam is located on the Bhavani river in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India. The dam is one of the largest earthen dams in the world. The dam is long and high. The full reservoir level is . The dam has a capacity of . Kodiveri dam is also located on the Bhavani River near Gobichettipalayam in Western Tamil Nadu.
Bambar is a river flowing in the Sivagangai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Upper Gundar is a river flowing in the Sivagangai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Valavaikkal is a river flowing in the Tiruvarur district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Vettar is a river flowing in Tiruvarur district, Thanjavur district and Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Vettar River is a tributary of the river Kaveri. This river reaches the sea near the Karaikal port nearby Nagore.
Veera Chozhan is a river flowing in the Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Irena Wiśniewska-Santor ( ; born 9 December 1934), known professionally as Irena Santor, is a Polish singer, musical performer and actress. Her career started in 1950. She is one of the largest number of awards in Poland. She was first known as a member of the folk group Mazowsze.
is a Shōjo manga. It was written by Yuki Midorikawa. It was shown in the "LaLa DX" magazine in July 2002. After, in July 2003, the manga was recreated as tankōbon short stories. The manga is about a girl called Hotaru and her friend Gin. Gin is a young man that wears a mask. They met when Hotaru was six in a forest. Hotaru learnt that if she touched Gin, he would disappear forever. Hotaru comes back every summer so that she can spend time with Gin. Many people think that "Hotarubi no Mori e" was a starting point for another book that was also written by Yuki Midorikawa. That was called "Natsume's Book of Friends". An anime movie that had the same name as the manga was created. It was 44 minutes and it was released in 2011. It was made in a studio called Brain's Base. The director of the movie was Takahiro Omori. The main voice actors of the movie were Ayane Sakura and Kōki Uchiyama. Some of the music in the movie was made by Makoto Yoshimori. Many people enjoyed the movie and many people were big fans for a long time after the movie was released. The movie came out on 17 September 2011. It was showed at the Scotland Loves Animation festival, the Leeds International Film Festival, Anime Expo, and the 66th Mainichi Film Awards. The movie came out on blu-ray and DVD in Japan. This was on 22 February 2012. An extra story that was called also came out. This came out in a special version of the manga. The special manga and the blu-ray were on number 13 of the Oricon list. People that reviewed the movie said that the movie was very good. They said that it was a beautiful and simple movie. They compared the movie to movies by Hayao Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai. Story. The original manga and movie have the same story. A six-year-old girl called Hotaru Takegawa gets lost in a forest. Many "yam
Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., (born 22 March 1930) is an American philosopher and Catholic theologian. Bracken work is devoted to a synthesis of revealed religion and Christian trinitarian doctrines with a revised process theology.  Bracken introduced a field theoretic approach to process metaphysics.
Roger Thomas Forster (1 March 1933 – 17 January 2024) was an English theologian. He was the leader of Ichthus Christian Fellowship, a neocharismatic Evangelical Christian Church that forms part of the British New Church Movement. He was thought to be "one of the finest minds in the Evangelical constituency."  He died at his home in Forest Hill, London on the 17 January 2024, at the age of 90.
John Samuel Mbiti (30 November 1931 – 5 October 2019) was a Kenyan-born Christian religious philosopher and writer. He was an ordained Anglican priest, and a canon. Mbiti is an Emeritus professor at the University of Bern and parish minister to the town of Burgdorf, Switzerland. Mbiti died at a nursing home in Burgdorf, Switzerland on 5 October 2019 at the age of 87.
Jürgen Moltmann (8 April 1926 – 3 June 2024) was a German Reformed theologian. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen. Moltmann worked in a number of areas of Christian theology, including systematic theology, eschatology, ecclesiology, political theology, Christology, pneumatology, and the theology of creation. He was the recipient of the 2000 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and was also selected to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1984–85. Moltmann died on 3 June 2024 in Tübingen, Germany at the age of 98.
Eugene H. Peterson (November 6, 1932 – October 22, 2018) was an American-born clergyman, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner "The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language" (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), a paraphrase of the Bible. Peterson, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died on October 22, 2018 in Lakeside, Montana from congestive heart failure at the age of 85.
John Shelby "Jack" Spong (June 16, 1931 – September 12, 2021) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark, New Jersey. He was a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author. In September 2016, Spong suffered a stroke. He died on September 12, 2021 at his home in Richmond, Virginia at the age of 90.
Joy Laville (September 8, 1923 – April 13, 2018) was an English-Mexican artist. Her art career began and mostly developed in Mexico when she came to the country to take art classes in San Miguel de Allende.  Works. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad including the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno. In 2012, she received the Bellas Artes Medal for her life’s work. Laville was born on September 8, 1923, in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. She died in Jiutepec, Mexico on April 13, 2018 of a heart attack at the age of 94.
Isabella Biagini (19 December 1943 – 14 April 2018) was an Italian actress and showgirl. She was born in Rome. She was known for her roles in "Love Italian Style", "Il clan dei due Borsalini", and for "The Future Is Woman". Biagini died of complications from a stroke in Rome on 14 April 2018 at the age of 74.
Jean-Claude Malgoire (25 November 1940 – 14 April 2018) was a French conductor. He was born in Avignon, France. His early musical career was as an oboist. In 1966, he founded La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy. In 2002, he won the Handel Music Prize. Malgoire died on 14 April 2018 in Paris of stomach cancer at the age of 77.
Warfarin (sometimes sold as Coumadin) is a powerful water-soluble compound. It prevents blood from clotting. It does that by reducing the production of factors by the liver that promote clotting. It is called an "anticoagulant agent". It is a powerful rat poison. In concentrated form, it causes bleeding of internal organs which leads to death. It is also used, in very low doses, to prevent thrombosis in humans. This is the local coagulation or clotting of the blood in the circulatory system. In such cases, it makes heart attacks, strokes, and pulmonary embolism less likely. The degree of anticoagulation is monitored by blood tests.  A form of rat poison, similar to this one, is used in the novel "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" to kill multiple people, such as in the arena, and in the book's finale, where Coriolanus poisons the schoolmaster with rat poison from behind a friends bar.
On 14 April 2018, beginning at 04:00 Syrian time (UTC+3), the United States, France, and the United Kingdom carried out a series of military strikes, with manned aircraft and ship-based missiles, against multiple government sites in Syria against the Bashar al-Assad regime. The three acting powers did so in response to the use of chemical weapons against people in Douma in eastern Ghouta on 7 April, which they think was done by the Syrian government. Syria denied involvement in the Douma attacks and called the airstrikes a violation of international law. President Donald Trump of the United States, Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom and President Emmanuel Macron of France ordered the strikes.
The Vestals or Vestal Virgins were a group of priestesses of the Roman goddess Vesta, in Ancient Rome.  The Vestals were a part of the College of Pontiffs ("Collegium Pontificum"). They were responsible for looking after the "sacred fire" of Vesta, which was not allowed to go out. Unlike most other women in Roman society, the Vestals were forbidden to marry or bear children, and took a vow of chastity when they joined the priesthood, which lasted for a minimum of 30 years. They were daughters chosen before puberty from a number of suitable candidates, from two living parents who both had to be free-born residents (not slaves or freed slaves) of Rome. Before the 3rd century BC, candidates for Vestal priesthoods had to be of patrician birth. Membership was opened to plebeians in the 3rd century BC. They retired when their term of service ended after 30 years. Vestals who retired, typically in their late 30's to early 40s, were allowed to marry, but were often too old to bear children. Vestal Virgins who broke their vow of chastity, were ritually killed by being buried alive.
Halberstadt Cl.II was an aircraft of the German Air Force in World War I. On October 25, 1918 a Halberstadt of Reconnaissance Flight 279 was captured
Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program "Coast to Coast AM". He also created and hosted its companion show "Dreamland". Bell died on April 13, 2018, at age 72, at his home in Pahrump, Nevada of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Franciszek Maksymilian Pieczka (18 January 1928 – 23 September 2022) was a Polish actor. He first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for "The Scar".  He also starred in "Konopielka" (1982), "Axiliad" (1986), "The Mother of Kings" (1987), "Memories of a River" (1990), "Syzyfowe prace" (1998), "Quo Vadis" (2001) and "Jasminum" (2006). On 11 November 2017, he was awarded the highest Polish state decoration, the Order of the White Eagle. Pieczka died on 23 September 2022, at the age of 94.
List of rivers of West Bengal state, located in Eastern India. List. The major rivers of West Bengal state include:
Adi Ganga, also known as Gobindapur Creek, Surman’s Nullah and Tolly’s Nullah, was the main tributary (branch river) of the Hooghly River from the 15th to 17th century. But at present this river had dried up. The Adi Ganga now flows by Tollygunge and Kudghat, Alipore, Bansdroni, Naktala, Garia, Boral, Mahamayatala, Narendrapur, Rajpur, Harinavi, Kodalia, Changaripota (now Shubhashgram), then to Mahinagar and Baruipur (earlier Atisara village), and reaches Jaynagar and Majilpur. At last Adi Ganga flows into the Bay of Bengal.
Burhi Gandak River is a tributary of the Ganges. The Burhi (“Old”) Gandak flows parallel to and east of the Gandak River in an old channel. The Budhi Gandak originates (starts) from Chautarwa Chaur near Bisambharpur in the district of West Champaran in Bihar. It at first flows through the East Champaran district. After flowing for a distance of about , the river takes a south-turn where two rivers - the Dubhara and the Tour join it. The total length of the river is . The drainage area of the river is . Tributaries. The main tributaries of the Burhi Gandak are - Masan, Balor, Pandai, Sikta, Tilawe, Tiur, Dhanauti, Kohra, Anjankote and Danda.
Maggie Celine Louise De Block (born 28 April 1962) is a Belgian politician. She is a member of the Flemish liberal party Open Vld. She is the Minister of Social Affairs and Health since 2014 serving under the Charles Michel government. Critics have said that she does not set the right example as Health Minister due to her obesity and contracting type two diabetes, and she has answered that "I know I'm not a model but you have to see what's inside, not the packaging."
Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme, née Beck-Friis (14 March 1931 – 18 October 2018) was a Swedish psychologist and civil servant. She was a former chairperson of UNICEF. She studied to be a child psychologist. She is the widow of late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. She was the chairwoman of the Swedish UNICEF Committee from November 1986 until her death in 2018, in which role she has campaigned against the sexual exploitation of children and was a member of the Organisation of African Unity committee of investigation into the Rwandan genocide which reported its findings in 2000. She was worldwide chairwoman of UNICEF in 1990–91. Olof Palme was shot and killed on 28 February 1986. Lisbet Palme was also injured in the shooting by a shot that grazed her back. Palme died in Stockholm on 18 October 2018 at the age of 87.
On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time. Christer Pettersson was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, he was acquitted. Pettersson died in late-September 2004. The case remains unsolved and has given rise to a number of conspiracy theories. On February 18 2020 the Swedish chief prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Krister Petersson, announced that a likely assassin had been identified. They will announce more information before summer 2020. He also announced that if they cannot prosecute the suspect then they will end the investigation. Hours after the assassination, Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson was sworn-in as the new Swedish Prime Minister.
Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera () (Barcelona, 5 August 1946) is a Spanish politician. He is a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party and Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. He was Minister of Health and Director of the Presidency for the Governments of Jordi Pujol. In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism said he was one of the many politicians mentioned in the "Paradise Papers" allegations.