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The flag of Iceland has a white-fimbriated red Nordic cross on a blue field. The flag was designed by Matthías Þórðarson ( Matthias Thordarson) in 1906. The white was supposed to represent snow and ice, while the red represented the fire and lava of Icelandic volcanoes. The blue could have represented either the blue of the mountains, the Atlantic Ocean, or both. The flag colors have no official meaning now, however. The flag gained full recognition from Denmark on December 1st 1918, and became the sole official flag in 1944, after Iceland gained independence.
Hashem Asad Allah (Arabic:هاشم أسد الله)(Born 15 December 1985) is a Kuwaiti actor, producer and presenter at Alrai TV. Background. In 2005, he started his career as a presenter in Alrai TV. He is an actor but he best known as a presenter because he has anchored several shows in Kuwait’s Alrai TV channel over the past 13 years.
Tumi Robe Nirobe () was a Bengali television soap opera which aired on Bengali General Entertainment Channel Zee Bangla. The show telecasted Monday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Plot. The plot revolves around the love story of two special people, Jheel (Shweta Bhattacharya) and Sanju (Shubhankar Saha). They are both deaf and mute. Jheel is the lead dancer of a group called Taal. This dance group is again special because all the performers of this group are deaf and mute. Jheel has a sister Dighi who is also deaf and mute. These two orphan sisters are trying to live their lives against all odds. In the course of time Jheel and Sanju meet through Sanju's father (Arjun Chakraborty). How Jheel and Sanju develop the most special relationship is the story of "Tumi Robe Nirobe".
Rannaghor is a Popular cookery show which airs on Zee Bangla. It is hosted by Sudipa Mukherjee. Sometimes in the special episodes, it had also been hosted by film personalities, such as Sonali Chowdhury and Manali Dey. It is the third longest-running Indian television series. Rules. Everyday a person is invited to the show who prepares a certain item. Guest appearances. Many eminent figures of Bengal including Raja Narayan Deb, Srabanti Chatterjee, Tanusree Chakraborty, Usha Uthup Koel Mallick Dev and others have appeared in the show..
On January 13, 2018, a false ballistic missile alert was issued by the Emergency Alert System and Commercial Mobile Alert System over television, radio, and cellphones in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The alert said that there was an incoming ballistic missile threat to Hawaii, advised residents to seek shelter, and said "this is not a drill".  The message was sent at 8:07 a.m. HST. 38 minutes later a second message was sent describing the first as a "false alarm". State officials later blamed a button pushed in error during a shift change at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for the false first message. Governor David Ige publicly said he was sorry for the false alert. The United States Federal Communications Commission and the Hawaii House of Representatives announced investigations into the incident.
Doodhnath Singh (17 October 1936 – 12 January 2018) was an Indian Hindi language writer, critic, playwright, editor and poet. He was born in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. Singh did his masters in Hindi from the University of Allahabad. He served as an assistant professor there till 1994. In 2014, the Government of Uttar Pradesh honoured him with their Bharat Bharti Samman. Some of Singh's well known works were "Sapaat Chehre Wala Aadmi", "Aakhri Kalaam", "Nishkaasan," "Bhai Ka Shok Geet", "Dharmakshetra-Kurukshetra" and "Surang se Lautate Huye". He also authored three collections of poems, "Ek Aur Bhi Aadmi Hai", "Agli Shatabdi Ke Naam" and "Yuva Khusboo". He was also a literary critic. Singh died on 12 January 2018 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh of prostate cancer at the age of 81.
Yılmaz Onay (April 20, 1937 – January 9, 2018) was a Turkish author, artist, theatre director, playwright and translator. He was born in Gaziantep, Turkey. He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published. As a director, he staged most of Brecht’s works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. He was known for staging a known play "Fear and Misery of the Third Reich" written by Brecht. Onay died in Gaziantep of stomach cancer on January 9, 2018 at the age of 80.
Stephane Gauger (August 30, 1969 – January 11, 2018) was a Vietnamese-born American movie director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City. He was raised in Orange County, California. He was best known for his movies "Owl and the Sparrow", "Saigon Electric" and "Chinatown Squad".  Gauger was a nominee of the Breakthrough Director Award at the 2007 Gotham Awards and the John Cassavetes Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards (for his work with "Owl and the Sparrow" (2007)).  On January 11, 2018, Gauger died of a stroke in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at the age of 48.
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French movie director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. He was born in Paris, France. He is known for his work in the musical epic "Les Uns et les Autres" (1981). He also directed "C'était un rendez-vous". He won two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Movie and for Original Screenplay. In 1993, he was the President of the Jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.
Tschiertschen is a village in the municipality of Tschiertschen-Praden of the district of Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The formerly independent municipality merged with Praden to form Tschiertschen-Praden on January 1, 2009.
The flag of Eswatini, (Also known as Swaziland) was adopted on October 6, 1968. Appearance. It has a horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) and the yellow-edged red (triple width) with the large black and white Nguni shield covering two spears and the staff decorated with the feather tassels called "injobo" (tassels-bunches of feathers of the widowbird and the lourie) all centered horizontally of the red band.
Spanky Manikan (March 22, 1942 – January 14, 2018) was a Filipino actor for theater, movie and television. He was born in Manila.  Manikan was known for his roles as Orly in "Himala" (1981) and as NAVA in the 1986 movie "Behind Enemy Lines", co-starring David Carradine. He won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Himala" in 1982. At the time of his death, Manikan was starring as Mr. Jang in the drama series "My Love from the Star". Manikan died of lung cancer on January 14, 2018 in Manila at the age of 75.
The flag of Namibia was adopted on 21 March 1990 upon independence from South Africa. It was designed by Frederick Brownell. Appearance. It has a white-edged red diagonal band radiating from the lower hoist-side corner. The upper triangle is blue, charged with a gold sun with 12 triangular rays and the lower triangle is green.
Mohammed Hamid Hazzaz named also Hamid El-Hazzaz (30 November 1945 – 13 January 2018) was a Moroccan football goalkeeper. He also played for MAS Fez. Hazzaz died on 13 January 2018 at the age of 72.
Jeraldine Saunders (born Geraldine Loretta Glynn; September 3, 1923 – February 26, 2019) was an American television writer, columnist, model and lecturer. She was born in Los Angeles. Saunders was best known as the creator of "The Love Boat", an ABC Television series. She was the columnist of Omarr’s Astrological Forecast, a nationally syndicated horoscope column. Saunders was involved in a homicide investigation in 1968, when she discovered her fiance, actor Albert Dekker dead in his Hollywood home. The death was ruled to be accidental.  Saunders died from complications of kidney stone surgery on February 26, 2019 in Los Angeles, aged 95.
Albert Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American character actor and politician. He was best known for his roles in "Dr. Cyclops", "The Killers", "Kiss Me Deadly", and "The Wild Bunch". He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1945 through 1947 as a Democrat. Dekker was found dead at his home in Hollywood, California by his fiancée Jeraldine Saunders on May 5, 1968. He was 62 years old. He was naked, kneeling in the bathtub, with a noose tightly wrapped around his neck and looped around the shower curtain rod. His death was ruled to be an accidental case of erotic asphyxiation. Dekker has a star, in the motion picture category, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6620 Hollywood Boulevard.
Stephen David Wyatt Milligan (12 May 1948 – 7 February 1994) was a British Conservative politician and journalist. He was elected to serve as being a Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh in 1992.  Milligan was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jonathan Aitken, Minister of State for Defence, and was regarded as a "rising star" of the Conservative Party. Milligan was found dead in his house in Chiswick, London, in February 1994, apparently self-strangled by the use of an electrical cord during an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.
William Howard Taft High School is a public 4–year high school in the Norwood Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Taft allows students from Norwood Park, Edison Park, Jefferson Park, Forest Glen and O'Hare to attend.  Taft is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. The school is perhaps most famous as the high school attended by Jim Jacobs, the writer of "Grease". Jacobs used Taft as an inspiration in writing the musical.  Since 2014, Taft High School has been considered a "wall-to-wall" IB school as part of the International Baccalaureate foundation. Taft high school has offered the International Baccalaureate program since 2001.
Mark Rankin Herring (born September 25, 1961) is an American lawyer. He was the 47th Attorney General of Virginia from 2014 to 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Senate of Virginia since a 2006 special election. He represented the 33rd district, made up of parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties. In December 2018, Herring announced his plans to run for Governor of Virginia in the 2021 election. However; later decided to run for re-election as State Attorney General. He lost his re-election campaign in November 2021 to Republican Jason Miyares. In the wake of Ralph Northam's controversy over blackface pictures appearing on his yearbook page, Herring admitted to also wearing blackface. Herring, like Northam, resisted calls to resign.
Steven Peter Devereux Smith (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian cricketer. He is a former captain of the Australian national team. , Smith is the top-ranked Test batsman in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. On 30 December 2017 he reached a Test batting rating of 947, the second-highest of all time only behind Don Bradman's 961. He is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world. He plays for New South Wales and Sydney Sixers in domestic cricket. Although he was initially selected for Australia as a right-arm leg spinner, Smith now plays primarily as a batsman. After a few tests in 2010 and 2011, he has been a regular player in the Australian team since 2013, and took over captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015. Since then he has primarily batted at number 4. Awards he has won include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015, 2017; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One Day International Player of the Year: 2015. He was named by "Wisden" as one of their Cricketers of the Year for 2015. In 2014, Martin Crowe described Smith as one of the young "Fab Four" of Test Cricket along with Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli. In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa. Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from all international and domestic cricket for one year, and will not be considered for a leadership role for another year after that. Early life. Smith was born in Sydney to an Australian father, Peter, who has a degree in chemistry and works with pigments and waxes, and an English mother, Gillian. Suspension. In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa. Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from international cricket for 12 months, and will not be considered for a leadership role for 12 months after that.
Harold Douglas Harvey (March 13, 1930 – January 13, 2018) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). He worked in the National League (NL) from 1962 through 1992. He was born in South Gate, California but was raised in San Diego, California. Harvey umpired five World Series and six All-Star Games. His career total of 4,673 games ranked third in major league history at the time of his retirement. He was the ninth umpire to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. On January 13, 2018, Harvey died at the age of 87. He was under hospice care in Visalia, California. He had been suffering from esophageal cancer.
Bennie Jean Porter (December 8, 1922 – January 13, 2018) was an American actress. She was born in Cisco, Texas. She was known for her roles in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1938) and "One Million B.C." (1940). Porter was active throughout the 1940s. She appeared in almost 30 movies with MGM stars like Esther Williams, Mickey Rooney and the comedy duo Abbott &amp; Costello. In the 1950s, Porter appeared mainly in television series such as "The Red Skelton Show", "Sea Hunt", and "77 Sunset Strip". She retired from acting in 1961. Porter died in Canoga Park, California of natural causes, at the age of 95.
Engels is a city located in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1747. It's a port connected with Saratov over Volga River with a bridge. It was previously known as "Pokrovskaya sloboda" (until 1916), "Pokrovsk" (until 1931-1933). Twin cities. Engels is a sister city of
Saratov Oblast (, "Saratovskaya oblast") is a administrative division of Russia.  Geography. Saratov Oblast is located in southeast of European Russia, in northern part of Lower Volga region and borders are: Demographics. In terms of people, population of this oblast: 2,521,892 (2010). Ethnic composition (2010): Religion. A 2012 survey showed these are the major religions in the oblast:
Nina Turner (born December 7, 1967) is an American progressive politician. Turner, a Democrat, served as a member of the Ohio State Senate from 2008 to 2014, and was elected to be the chamber’s Minority Whip in the 129th General Assembly.  Works. Turner has been seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party. She endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and became an active supporter for him.  Turner is President of the Sanders-affiliated group Our Revolution in 2017, taking over from former Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver. After Marcia Fudge was selected as Biden's nomination for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Turner filed paperwork to run for in the special election for Ohio's 11th congressional district. She lost the election to Shontel Brown. In January 2022, she said she would run against Brown in the Democratic primary for that same district's 2022 election cycle. She lost to Brown again in the May primary.
James Allen Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American columnist, progressive political activist, and author. From 1983 to 1991, he served as elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture during the Governships of Mark White and Bill Clements. He was born in Denison, Texas. Hightower had endorsed Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in 2016, actively campaigning for the Democratic candidate.
Doreen Isabelle Tracey (April 13, 1943 – January 10, 2018) was an American performer and actress. She was known for appearing on the original "Mickey Mouse Club" television show from 1955 to 1958. She was born in London, England. Tracey died of pneumonia complicated from cancer on January 10, 2018 in Thousand Oaks, California, at the age of 74.
Cyrille Regis, MBE (9 February 1958 – 14 January 2018) was an English international footballer. He played as a forward. His professional playing career lasted 19 years, where he made 614 league appearances and scored 158 league goals, most notably at West Bromwich Albion and Coventry City. He also won five caps for the England national team. Regis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. Regis died of cardiac arrest on 14 January 2018 at the age of 59.
Northerly Island is a man-made peninsula along Chicago's lakefront.  The site of the Adler Planetarium, Northerly Island connects to the mainland through a narrow isthmus along Solidarity Drive made-up by Neoclassical sculptures of Kościuszko, Havliček and Copernicus. With the demolition of Meigs Field Airport, it is now a part of the Museum Campus and has been made into parkland.  A semi-temporary concert venue, the Huntington Bank Pavilion occupies part of the site of the former airport.
Birobidzhan (; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן) is a town in Russia. It is the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, located on the Trans-Siberian railway, it is close to the Chinese border. As of 2019, 73,129 people lived there.
Ray Anthony (born January 20, 1922) is an American retired bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. From 1953 to 1954 Anthony was the musical director of the television series "TV's Top Tunes", and he also appeared as himself in the 1955 movie "Daddy Long Legs". In 1957, Anthony and his orchestra recorded the music score for the movie "This Could Be The Night", with vocals performed by Julie Wilson. Anthony's compositions include "Thunderbird", "The Bunny Hop", "Trumpet Boogie", "Big Band Boogie", and "Mr. Anthony's Boogie". Anthony was a close friend of the late Hugh Hefner and appeared in many episodes of "The Girls Next Door".
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Currently, DARPA's mission statement is “to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security.”
A fritter is a fried food. The food is a portion of batter or breading. It is filled with either meat, seafood, vegetables or fruit. In the United Kingdom, fritters can be with fish and chips. There is also a food item, like an apple ring or a slice of potato. In the United States, fritters are small cakes made with a primary ingredient; it is then mixed with an egg and milk batter. The fritters are pan-fried or deep-fried. Corn fritters are made with corn and are generally deep fried. Apple fritters are well known in America; the contemporary apple fritter in America is not like the British one.
Ke Apon Ke Por is a Bengali Drama series that airs on Star Jalsha and Star Jalsha HD at 7:30 PM every day. Pallabi Sharma plays the role of protagonist Joba having garnered tremendous viewer appraisal. Bishwajit Ghosh plays Param, the other half of a well-loved screen-couple. The show comes from Boyhood Productions, one of the leading production houses in Kolkata. Plot. Ke Apon Ke Por focuses on the journey of a girl that started out as a domestic help and went on to establish herself as someone who’s well suited to be the daughter-in-law of the household and a Lawyer by profession. Alternatively, what forms the core of the show is also reflected in the beautiful love story between Joba and the son of the very affluent family, Param.  This story also brings to light the trials of a joint family where sons and daughters try to break away. Joba however, still tries to hold the family together. As parents try to build a family with a lot of love and care, sons and daughters grow up to be selfish and remain concerned only about parents’ money and property. As parents fear divisive tendencies in the family, circumstances get Param and Joba to tie the knot. Siblings rot over possibilities of paternal property going entirely to Joba and Param and eventually seize riches and drive the parents out. Param and Joba toil endlessly to hold pieces of the family together. In the recent past, the story has taken a successful leap as Joba and Param face the bitter-sweet realities of being parents to kids that continue to grow up and grow apart. The show is also simultaneously establishing the position of Itu who happens to resemble Joba in more ways than one. Fate intervenes and Itu gets married to Sarthak, Joba and Param’s Son.
Rozendaal is a village and municipality in the Province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. About 1,500 people were living in the municipality in 2017. Rozendaal lies at the southern edge of the nature reserve of the Veluwe, and consists of heath and forests. The village is just northeast of the city of Arnhem, and borders the village of Velp.
Jean-Louis Koszul (; January 3, 1921 – January 12, 2018) was a French mathematician. He was born in Strasbourg, France. Koszul was best known for studying geometry and discovering the Koszul complex. From 1980 until his death, Koszul was a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Koszul died on January 12, 2018 in Paris at the age of 97.
is a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the younger brother of Emperor Akihito. He is the second son and sixth born child of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun and is third in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne.  Prince Hitachi is mainly known for philanthropic activities and his research on the causes of cancer. Prince Hitachi and his wife Princess Hitachi have their official residence in a palace in large gardens off Komazawadori in Higashi, Shibuya. They have no children.
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (; 6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician and singer-songwriter. She led the rock band The Cranberries for thirteen years before the band took a break starting in 2003, reuniting in 2009. Her first solo album "Are You Listening?" was released in May 2007 and was followed up by "No Baggage" in 2009. She was known for yodeling and for her strong Limerick accent.  O'Riordan appeared as a judge on RTÉ's "The Voice of Ireland" during the 2013/14 season. In April 2014 O'Riordan joined Jetlag (now called D.A.R.K.) and began recording new material.  In May 2017, O'Riordan said that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. O'Riordan, who was drunk, accidentally drowned in her London hotel room on 15 January 2018 at the age of 46.
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23, 1946) is an American politician, civil rights leader and pastor. Rush is the U.S. Representative for . He was first elected in 1992 and took office in 1993. He retired in 2023. The district was located in the South Side of Chicago.  A member of the Democratic Party, Rush is the only politician to have defeated Barack Obama in an election, which he did in the 2000 Democratic primary for Illinois' 1st congressional district. A civil rights activist during the 1960s, Rush became radicalized for a period and founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers. In 1999, Rush ran for Mayor of Chicago, but lost in the Democratic primary to incumbent Richard M. Daley. In 2015, Rush endorsed Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Emanuel's run-off reelection campaign against Jesus "Chuy" Garcia. On January 3, 2022, he announced that he was retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives.
Daniel K. Davis (born September 6, 1941) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , serving since January 1997. Davis is a member of the Democratic Party. Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Progressive Caucus, and Democratic Socialists of America. Davis was one of 31 U.S. Representatives who voted against counting the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.