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The Upper Peninsula of Michigan (UP), also known as Upper Michigan, is the northern of the two major peninsulas that make up the U.S. state of Michigan. The peninsula is north by Lake Superior, on the east by the St. Marys River, on the southeast by Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and on the southwest by Wisconsin. The Upper Peninsula has 29% of the land area of Michigan but just 3% of its total population. Residents are frequently called "Yoopers". The peninsula's largest cities are Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba, Menominee, Houghton, and Iron Mountain. Maple syrup is a highly prized local delicacy.
Cath Kidston Limited was registered with Companies House, on 3 April 1993. In 2009, the company's profits jumped more than 60 percent from £2.9million to £4.6million. Sales rose to £31.3m, compared with £19.3m the year before. This was partly due to new store openings. She sold most of her shares in the company in 2010. She sold them to private equity investors called TA Associates. She kept some shares. She is the company's Creative Director. Collaborations. Kidston has worked with Milletts to design tents (2005-6). She designed mobile phones for Nokia and the Carphone Warehouse in 2006. She worked with Roberts to design radios, from 2005 onwards. In 2008 she worked with Tesco to produce shopping bags made from plastic bottles. The bags were sold to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care. They raised almost £500000. The bags saved about 6000000 plastic bottles from being used as landfill.
Richard Louis Hanna (January 25, 1951 – March 15, 2020) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from New York from 2011 to 2017. He was known for being the second Republican U.S. Representative to support same-sex marriage in the United States. Hanna was known for his bipartisanship. He was against Obamacare and the Patriot Act. Hanna supported Equal Rights Amendment, abortion and supported female Democratic candidates. In December 2015, Hanna announced he would not run for re-election in the 2016 election citing his retirement due to family issues. On August 2, 2016, Hanna became the first sitting Republican member of Congress to say that he would vote for Hillary Clinton for President over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Hanna died on March 15, 2020 under hospice care in New Hartford, New York of cancer, aged 69.
Keith Farrelle Cozart (born August 15, 1995), better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was born in South Side, Chicago and raised in Washington Park. Keef's music first became popular among high school students from Chicago's South Side during his teen years in the early 2010s.  In 2012, Keef's popular street single "I Don't Like" was remixed by rapper Kanye West, reaching the "Billboard" Top 10. His debut album "Finally Rich" was released in December 2012, and featured the successful singles "I Don't Like" and "Love Sosa". Controversies. Grooming allegations. In 2023, Keef, who was then 27, and then 28 years old was accused of grooming porn actress and former rapper Bhad Bhabie, who was then 19, and then 20 years old, due to the seven year age difference in their past relationship, Bhabie then took to Twitter to deny the allegations, claiming that she wasn't groomed since she was already over the age of consent while they dated, and also tweeted that she was confused about why a seven year age difference in a relationship is more controversial between a 20 and a 27 year old then a 30 and a 37 year old, Keef, however, has not spoken on the situation.
Sir Robert Bryson Hall II (born January 22, 1990), known by his professional name Logic, is an American rapper and record producer. He has released seven studio albums and received two Grammy Award nominations. He was born in Rockville, Maryland, to a black father and a white mother. and raised in Gaithersburg. Career. Logic began his musical career in early 2009 releasing "Logic: The Mixtape" and a mixtape titled "Young, Broke &amp; Infamous" in 2010. He signed with Visionary Music Group, before releasing three more mixtapes over three years. His fourth mixtape, "" (2013), made him very popular. He later released his first studio album "Under Pressure" in October 2014. It debuted at number four on the U.S. "Billboard" 200. Logic's second studio album "The Incredible True Story" was released in November 2015. It received mostly positive reviews from critics. Logic's third studio album "Everybody" (2017) was his first to debut at number one in the U.S on the Billboard 200. In the album, Logic released his most popular song, "1-800-273-8255", which reached number three on the "Billboard" Hot 100.  In 2018, Logic along with Sam Smith released a version of Smith's single "Pray".
Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Diplo, is an American disc jockey and record producer. He is the co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer. He is known for his works with the disc jockey Skrillex. Diplo founded and manages record company Mad Decent, as well as co-founding the non-profit organization Heaps Decent. He has worked as a school teacher in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  His 2013 EP, "Revolution", debuted at number 68 on the US "Billboard" 200. The EP’s title track was later featured in a commercial for Hyundai and is featured on the "WWE 2K16" soundtrack. On February 24, 2016, Diplo supported Bernie Sanders as the Democratic presidential nominee. Sanders' ad "It's A Revolution" is soundtracked by Diplo's 2013 track "Revolution".
Tansu Çiller (born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish economist and politician. She was the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996.  Çiller is Turkey's first and only female prime minister. She was the leader of the True Path Party. She was the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 1997.
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister of Turkey in 1974, 1977, 1978–79, and 1999–2002. He was the leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) between 1972 and 1980, and in 1989 he became the leader of the Democratic Left Party (DSP). Personal life. He was born in Istanbul to a middle-class family. Ecevit's father Fahri Ecevit was a professor in Ankara University. His mother, Fatma Nazlı, was among the first women in Turkey to paint professionally. Ecevit said his mother was of Bosniak ancestry and his paternal grandfather was of Kurdish ancestry. He was married to political writer and politician Rahşan Ecevit.
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish: "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı") was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018.  The prime minister was the leader of a political coalition in the Turkish parliament (Meclis) and the leader of the cabinet.  The last holder of the position is Binali Yıldırım who took office on 24 May 2016. The vote to transform the nation to a presidential system in the constitutional referendum of 2017 means the office was removed after the general election of 2018. Prime ministers. List of prime ministers of Turkey
Ahmet Davutoğlu (; born 26 February 1959) is a Turkish politician. He was the Prime Minister of Turkey and leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from August 2014 to May 2016.  Davutoğlu was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014. He was elected as an AKP Member of Parliament for Konya in 2011 and was re-elected as an MP in 2015. He resigned as Prime Minister on 22 May 2016.
Ahmet Mesut Yılmaz (6 November 1947 – 30 October 2020) a Turkish politician. He was the leader of the Motherland Party from 1991 to 2002. Three times, he was the Prime Minister of Turkey. His first two terms lasted just months (in 1991 and 1996), while the third ran from June 1997 to January 1999. Yılmaz died on 30 October 2020 from lung cancer at a hospital in Istanbul at the age of 72.
Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician. He was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was forced by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics. Erbakan was the founder and leader of several prominent Islamic political parties in Turkey from the 1960s to the 2010s. The famous one were the National Order Party (MNP), the National Salvation Party (MSP), the Welfare Party (RP), the Virtue Party (FP), and the Felicity Party (SP).
"Lay Me Down" is a song by English singer Sam Smith. The song was the lead single from Smith's first studio album "In the Lonely Hour" (2014). The song was released in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2013. It was written by Smith, Jimmy Napes and Elviin and produced by Napes and Steve Fitzmaurice. The song was re-released in February 2015 as the sixth single from the album. This time reaching number 8 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 15 on the UK Singles Chart. A third version featuring John Legend was recorded for the British charity telethon Comic Relief. It reached number one in the United Kingdom in March 2015.
"Money on My Mind" is a song by English singer Sam Smith. It is the second single from his debut studio album, "In the Lonely Hour" (2014). The song was released in Italy on 27 December 2013. It was later released in the UK on 12 February 2014 and in Germany on 16 February 2014. The song was released with mixed reviews.
"Stay with Me" is a song by English singer Sam Smith. The song was released through his debut studio album "In the Lonely Hour" (2014). It was released in the United States on 14 April 2014 and in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2014.  "Stay with Me" is a gospel-inspired ballad. The song was written by Smith, James Napier, and William Phillips.  Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne receiving co-writer credits due to the song's similarity to Petty's single "I Won't Back Down".
"Too Good at Goodbyes" is a song by English singer Sam Smith. It was written by James Napier, Tor Hermansen, Mikkel Eriksen and Smith, and produced by Napes, Steve Fitzmaurice and StarGate.  It was released on 8 September 2017 through Capitol Records. It was the lead single from his second studio album, "The Thrill of It All" (2017). The song reached number one in the UK and number four on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
The Thrill of It All is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Sam Smith. It was released on 3 November 2017 through Capitol Records. "Too Good at Goodbyes" was released as the album's lead single on 8 September 2017. It topped the UK Singles Chart and made the top five on the US "Billboard" Hot 100.
"Pray" is a song by English singer-songwriter Sam Smith. It was written by Smith, Larrance Dopson, Darryl Pearson, Timbaland, Jose Valasquez and Jimmy Napes. The song was released on 6 October 2017 through Capitol Records. It was a promotional single from Smith's second studio album, "The Thrill of It All" (2017).  A new version of the song featuring American rapper Logic was released as the third single from "The Thrill of It All" on 29 March 2018.
Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Brown was in the California State Assembly for thirty years, spending 15 years as its speaker and later as the 41st mayor of San Francisco. Brown was the first African American Mayor of San Francisco.  "The San Francisco Chronicle" called Brown "one of San Francisco's most famous mayors" who had "celebrity beyond the city's boundaries."
Sylvester Turner (September 27, 1954 – March 5, 2025) was an American Democratic politician and lawyer. Turner was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 18th district from January 3, 2025 until his death two months later on March 5, 2025. He was the 62nd Mayor of Houston, Texas from 2016 to 2024. Turner was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1989 until 2016. Early life. Turner was born on September 27, 1954, in Houston, Texas, as the sixth of nine children. He studied at the University of Houston, where he was Speaker of the Student Senate. Turner earned a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.  Political career. Turner ran for mayor of Houston in 1991, losing in the runoff election to Bob Lanier. Turner won the 2015 election, defeating Bill King in the runoff by 4,082 votes out of 212,696 votes cast in the closest mayoral election in Houston history by percentage. In 2024, after the death of Sheila Jackson Lee, Turner announced his candidacy to fill her congressional seat and was nominated at the convention to replace her as the Democratic nominee in the November general election. He won the November 2024 general election. Death. In November 2022, Turner said that he had been diagnosed with bone cancer, for which he had surgery and received six weeks of radiation treatment. On the afternoon of March 4, 2025, Turner became sick at his office in Washington, D.C., but after receiving medical attention was able to attend President Donald Trump's address to Congress that evening. He was later reported to have been hospitalized before being discharge to his Washington home, where he died in the early morning of March 5 at the age of 70. He was the first member of the 119th Congress to die in office and the second incumbent representative for Texas's 18th district to die in a one-year period, after Sheila Jackson Lee.
James Matthew Hood (born May 15, 1962) is an American lawyer. He was the 39th Attorney General of Mississippi. He is a Democrat. He was elected in 2003 and left office in 2020.  He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Mississippi in 2019. He lost the election to Tate Reeves.
London Nicole Breed (born August 11, 1974) is an American Democratic politician. She was the 45th Mayor of San Francisco from 2018 to 2025. She used to be supervisor for District 5, and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018. Early life. Breed was raised in San Francisco by her grandmother, Comelia Brown. Along with her grandmother, she lived with her siblings in public housing. In an interview, London talks about remembering being a little girl in her unsafe community. She clearly remembers seeing glass all over the street floors and graffiti on all of the walls. London was a very smart young girl, she loved school and all of her teachers knew she had a bright future ahead of her. In her teen years, Breed attended Galileo High School and soon after, the University of California.  Political career. In 2012, Breed was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She became the president of this board.  Mayoralty. Breed became "acting" mayor after the death of Mayor Ed Lee. She served in this role from December 12, 2017 to January 23, 2018. Breed won the special election for mayor a few months. Her main opponents in the election were Mark Leno and Jane Kim. Breed was the first black woman and second woman to be elected mayor of San Francisco. She was sworn in as mayor on July 11, 2018. During her time as mayor, she has been a supporter of increasing housing in San Francisco, especially during the housing shortage. During her time as mayor, she also had low approval numbers. Some did not like how she handled important issues in the city, including homelessness, crime, and drug addiction. In June 2024, it was reported that 64% of people did not believe Breed should be reelected and she had a 66% disapproval rating. In November 2024, Breed lost her re-election campaign to philanthropist Daniel Lurie.
Megan Christine Barry (née Mueller; born September 22, 1963) is an American businesswoman and politician. Barry was the seventh mayor of the city government of Nashville and Davidson County, its first female mayor. She was mayor from 2015 until March 6, 2018. In 2018, Barry resigned after pleading guilty to felony theft related to an affair with a city employee who had was the head of her security detail. Barry is a member of the Democratic Party.
Clifton David Briley (born January 8, 1964) is an American politician. He was the mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. He was elected in 2015 as vice-mayor and was sworn in as acting mayor after Megan Barry's resignation on March 6, 2018.  Briley won the May 24 special election with 55%. He is the first native of both Nashville and Tennessee since Bill Boner in 1991 to be mayor.
The November 2016 UK Independence Party leadership election was held on 28 November 2016. UKIP members voted for who they want to lead the party. Paul Nuttall easily won the election after receiving 63% of the vote. The election was called for after Diane James resigned as UKIP leader. Candidates. Withdrawn. These candidates left the race before the election.
Samuel A. Massell Jr. (August 26, 1927 – March 13, 2022) was an American businessman and politician. From 1970 to 1974, he was the 53rd Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He is the first Jewish mayor in the city's history. He died on March 13, 2022, at the age of 94.
Keisha Lance Bottoms (born January 18, 1970) is an American politician and lawyer. She was the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 2018 until 2022. She was elected as mayor in 2017, after receiving the most votes in the runoff election (50.4%). In June 2020, Bottoms became one of the final four finalists for Joe Biden's running mate for the 2020 election. In July 2020, she was diagnosed with COVID-19 despite not having any symptoms. On May 6, 2021, Bottoms announced that she would not seek reelection as mayor of Atlanta in the 2021 election. In June 2022, it was announced that President Joe Biden had picked Bottoms to replace Cedric Richmond as the Director of the Office of Public Liaison.
Jenny Anne Durkan (born May 19, 1958) is an American politician. She was elected Mayor of Seattle in 2017, becoming its first female mayor since the 1920s and the city's second openly LGBT elected mayor. Durkan was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, appointed by President Barack Obama, from October 2009 through September 2014.
Maurice A. Ferré (June 23, 1935 – September 19, 2019) was an American politician. He was a six-term Mayor of Miami, from 1973 through 1985. Ferré was the first Puerto Rican-born United States mayor and the first Hispanic Mayor of Miami. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2010 elections for the U.S. Senate seat for Florida vacated by Mel Martínez for the Democratic primary. Ferré died on September 19, 2019 at a Miami hospital from spinal cancer at the age of 84.
Xavier Louis Suárez (born May 21, 1949) is an American politician. He was the first Cuban-born Mayor of Miami. He is currently a Miami-Dade county commissioner. Suárez was first elected Mayor in 1985. He was re-elected in 1987 and again in 1989 for a four-year term. Suarez was highly popular as Mayor of Miami. He became known in the 1990s for refusing to accept Nelson Mandela in Miami due to Mandela's support of Fidel Castro. His son, Francis X. Suarez is Mayor of the City of Miami.
Francis Xavier Suarez (; born October 6, 1977) is an American attorney and politician. He is the 43rd and current Mayor of Miami. He was elected on November 7, 2017 with 86 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2021. Suarez is the first Miami-born mayor. He is a Republican. Suarez is the son of former Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez. Saurez was seen as a possible candidate for U.S. President or running mate choice in the 2024 presidential election following the 2020 election. He briefly ran for president in the 2024 election. Early life. Suarez was born in Miami, Florida. His father, Xavier Suarez, was also mayor of Miami. He graduated from Florida International University (FIU) with a bachelor's degree in finance. He later studied law at the University of Florida. Early political career. Suarez was first elected as City of Miami Commissioner for District 4 in 2009. Suarez made it to the runoff election against Manolo Reyes. The runoff election was on November 17, 2009 and Suarez won with 51.41%. He was reelected unopposed in 2011 and 2015. Mayor of Miami. Suarez was elected mayor in 2017 with 85% of the vote. In February 2019, he wrote an article with former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon about how Miami is defending itself from the effects of climate change. Suarez has been known for his support for cryptocurrency, and takes his mayoral salary in Bitcoin. In June 2020, he was elected by American mayors to serve as the Second Vice President of the United States Conference of Mayors and in June 2021, he was elected as the first vice president of the organization. From June 2022 to June 2023, he was the president of the US Conference of Mayors. During the 2018 gubernatorial election, Suarez voted against Republican nominee and eventual winner Ron DeSantis and instead voted for his Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum. He did vote for DeSantis in the 2022 gubernatorial election. Suarez did not vote
Hatfield is a fairly large town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. It is in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It had a population of 39,201 at the 2011 Census. History. Hatfield is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the most important country house. Aircraft were built from the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed it. Aircraft design and manufacture employed more people there than any other industry. Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London. It has modernist architecture from the period. The University of Hertfordshire is based there. Transportation. Hatfield is 20 miles (30 kilometres) north of London beside the A1(M) motorway and has direct trains to London King's Cross station, Finsbury Park and Moorgate. Commuters who work in London have moved into the area.
Albert "Al" J. Hofstede (September 25, 1940 – September 3, 2016) was an American politician. He was, in two non-consecutive terms, the mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, both times representing the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. His first term, as the 41st mayor, began on January 1, 1974, and ended on December 31, 1975, after he lost for reelection by independent Charles Stenvig. In 1977 Hofstede beat Stenvig to win another term (the 43rd), which ended on December 31, 1979.
Gregory John Stanton (born March 8, 1970) is an American politician. He is the member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 9th district since January 3, 2019. He was Mayor of Phoenix. He won the November 8, 2011 runoff election to replace mayor Phil Gordon.  Stanton was sworn in as 59th Mayor of Phoenix in January 2012 and resigned on May 29, 2018 in order to run for U.S. Congress.
Thomas Mark Barrett (born December 8, 1953) is an American politician. Barrett is the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg since 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was the 44th Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2004 until 2021. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003. Barrett ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 2010, losing in the general election to Republican Scott Walker. Barrett ran for governor in the 2012 recall election and was defeated again by Walker.  On August 25, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his plans to nominate Barrett to be the U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 18, 2021.