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The November 2008 Carolinas tornado outbreak was a natural disaster in the United States on November 15, 2008. Synopsis. On November 14, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a warning for severe weather during the early hours of November 15. A tornado watch was issued at 12:25 a.m. ET. The first tornado report was in South Carolina, with seven more tornadoes hitting North Carolina. The final tornado was reported at 4:36 a.m. ET and the tornado watch expired at 8:00 a.m. ET. 2 fatalities were reported, including a 11-year-old boy, and six others were injured.
The I-94 derecho was a wind storm that occurred on July 19, 1983, with Minnesota and Wisconsin in its axis. Synopsis. North Dakota. It began as a storm system in Montana and hit North Dakota at 7 a.m. CDT. Minot reported winds up to 70 mph. Minnesota. The storm then moved into Minnesota. Winds up to 100 mph were recorded at the Alexandria Airport. It arrived in Minneapolis at 4 p.m. CDT and left 250,000 people without power. Wisconsin. The derecho then moved into Wisconsin. A meteorologist working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison saw the derecho's approach. Windows were blown out at the campus. Illinois. The derecho moved into Illinois at 9 p.m. CDT. Chicago had winds gusting to 70 mph and dropped 14°F (from 83°F at 9:30 p.m. to 68°F at 9:50 p.m.). The storm died in northwestern Indiana at midnight on July 20.
Carol Bellamy (born January 14, 1942) is the chair of the Board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). She was Director of the Peace Corps, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and President and CEO of World Learning. After three terms in the New York State Senate, she was the first woman to be elected as President of the New York City Council, a position she held until her unsuccessful bid for Mayor of New York in 1985. She was the second to last person to hold this position. In Japan, she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2006.
Havre ( ) is the county seat and largest city in Hill County, Montana, in the United States. Havre is nicknamed the crown jewel of the Hi-Line. It is said to be named after the city of Le Havre in France.  As of the 2020 census the population was 9,362. Havre was incorporated in 1893. It was founded mainly as a railroad service center for the Great Northern Railway. A buffalo jump, named the Too Close for Comfort Site, is just outside of town. The Milk River is also nearby.
Miles City is a city in and the county seat of Custer County, Montana, United States. The population was 8,354 at the 2020 census. Miles City is at an altitude of 2369 feet (722 m). It is here the Tongue River flows into the Yellowstone River. "The aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn brought the U.S. military into Eastern Montana in force, and they established a Fort named after the sole survivor of the incident, the horse of Captain Myles Keogh. Fort Keogh, like many other forts in Montana, brought with it the formation of a small trading town nearby. This town named itself Miles City after Colonel N.A. Miles, the Commanding Officer at the fort. Construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad through Miles City in 1882 combined with the opening of Eastern Montana for livestock speculation brought more commerce and more people from the East and the South seeking economic opportunity. The newly built railroad provided ranching operations proximity to the slaughter houses of Chicago, which meant it was cheaper for them to ship the cattle and thus making Miles City more profitable.  The Milwaukee Railroad arrived in Miles City in 1907, and the town became a division point for the line which increased railroad traffic and commerce. This resulted in more jobs, making railroad work in Miles City the most available next to service industry jobs. Many of the African American families in Miles City held jobs within these two fields. Like most of the migrants to the Montana Territory during the turn of the century. The ranching and farming operations that remained all over the outskirts and beyond into the eastern Montana plains continued to bring their livestock and produce in for transportation by rail until the mid-1910's. The drought that began in 1917 led Miles City and many other Montana towns into a state of severe economic depression a full decade before that of the national Great Depression of the 1930's.  The drought affected agricultural jobs, reduced the number of new settlers, and forced ranchers and farmers to seek work in the city."
Antonio Toledo Corro (1 April 1919 – 6 July 2018) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Toledo Corro was born in Escuinapa de Hidalgo. He served as mayor of Mazatlan from 1959 to 1962. He was Secretary of the Agrarian Reform of Mexico during the term of President José López Portillo, a personal friend, from 1978 to 1980. Toledo was Governor of Sinaloa from 1981 to 1986. Toledo Corro died in Mazatlan on 6 July 2018 from a cerebral infarction complicated by pneumonia at the age of 99.
Thomas Michael Hardiman (born July 8, 1965) is an American Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush. He began active service on April 2, 2007 and serves in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a United States District Judge. In 2017, Hardiman was a finalist to replaced Antonin Scalia as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but Neil M. Gorsuch was nominated by President Donald Trump instead. The next year, following Justice Anthony Kennedy announcing his retirement from the Supreme Court, Hardiman was once again considered a front-runner to fill the vacant seat.
Amritlal Vegad (3 October 1928 – 6 July 2018) was an Indian writer and poet. He was born in Madhapar, India. He wrote in Gujarati and Hindi from Jabalpur. Amritlal Vegad was awarded in 2004 with Sahitya Akademi Award for his travelogue – "Saundaryani Nadi Narmada" and also Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sahitya Award &amp; Rashtrapati Award for his various works. He was best known for his novel "Narmada-ki-pari-krama" written in Hindi language and "Saundaryani Nadi Narmada" (travelogue) &amp; "Parikramā Narmadā maiyānī" in Gujarati language. Vegad died on 6 July 2018 from respiratory failure at the age of 89.
Alan John Gilzean (22 October 1938 – 8 July 2018) was a Scottish professional football player. He was active in the 1960s and 1970s. He played for Dundee and Tottenham Hotspur. He also appeared in 22 international games for Scotland.  His son Ian also became a professional football player. Gilzean died on 8 July 2018, having been diagnosed with brain cancer a few weeks earlier, aged 79.
Mundakkal Mathew Jacob (9 August 1927 – 8 July 2018), popularly known as M. M. Jacob, was an Indian politician. He worked in Indian National Congress. He was appointed Governor of Meghalaya in 1995 and again in 2000 for a second term. He also discharged the function of the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh as well for some time in 1996. Jacob died in 8 July 2018 in Meghalaya, India from cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 90.
Frank Vernon Ramsey, Jr. (July 13, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) NBA career with the Boston Celtics. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA during the 1970–1971 season. He was born in Corydon, Kentucky. Ramsey died on July 8, 2018 in Madisonville, Kentucky from cardiac arrest complicated by an aneurysm surgery at the age of 86.
Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American actor, director, internet personality, screenwriter, rapper, professional wrestler, and minor boxer. He is currently signed to WWE and competes for them part-time on the Raw brand. He is a former one-time WWE United States Champion. Paul became famous through his videos shared on former internet video service Vine. Paul's television and movie work includes guest appearances on "" and "Weird Loners", and appearances in movies "The Thinning" and "The Space Between Us". On January 1st, 2018, Paul uploaded a vlog to his YouTube channel depicting the recently deceased corpse of a man who had committed suicide by hanging in Aokigahara, Japan. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.  On April 2, 2022, Paul made his in-ring debut for WWE. He teamed with The Miz to defeat Rey and Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania 38. On November 4, 2023 at Crown Jewel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Paul defeated Rey Mysterio to become the WWE United States Champion.
Westlake is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland. The population was 34,228 at the 2020 census. The area now known as the city of Westlake was first settled on October 10, 1810. At the time, it was part of Dover Township. Dover Village was renamed Westlake in 1940.
The Taste of Chicago (known locally as The Taste) is the world's largest food festival. It is held for five days in July in Chicago, Illinois in Grant Park. Many food vendors come to show and sell their products. The event is the largest festival in Chicago. Non-food-related events include live music on multiple stages. Musical acts can be local artists or nationally known artists like Carlos Santana, Moby, Kenny Rogers or Robert Plant.
"Glory to the Brave People" is the national anthem of Venezuela. A President of Venezuela, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, made it the country's national anthem on May 25, 1881. A while before that, lyrics and music were made for it. The words of the song were written by a journalist named Vicente Salias in 1810, and the melody for his words was later composed by a musician named Juan José Landaeta. It is said, however, that the melody has been known since 1840 as "The Venezuelan Marseillaise", in reference the French national anthem. Some recent investigations have suggested that the real author of the anthem was Andrés Bello, and not Salias, to whom it was originally credited, and the music was composed by another musician named Lino Gallardo. However, this theory has yet to be proven, and lacks any real recognition among the general Venezuelan population, historians, or otherwise. Venezuela also has a flag anthem, titled "Himno a la Bandera de Venezuela". Usage. The Venezuelan national anthem is played every day on radio and television broadcasts at 12:00 am, 6:00 am and 12:00 pm (either the full version or the chorus, first stanza and chorus) on all national TV networks. On radio broadcasts, the state anthem is played after the national anthem, which is also the case in state TV stations.  In most occasions, only the chorus, first stanza and the chorus are played or even the chorus itself. Sometimes the chorus is played twice in the beginning, and once in the rest of the anthem. In formal events (if the anthem will be played by either a military band, concert band or orchestra) the format is: Chorus (2x), First verse and Chorus (2x), with the optional introduction. If played in full the chorus is sung twice, with or without the introductiory notes.
A yellow hypergiant is a huge hypergiant star. It starts off a mass of about 20–60 solar masses, but it soon loses about half that mass (because they are very unstable). It has a spectral class from A to K.  They are amongst the most luminous stars, with absolute magnitude (MV) around −9. They are very rare: only 15 are known in the Milky Way and six of those are in a single cluster.  They are sometimes referred to as 'cool hypergiants' in comparison to O- and B-type stars, and sometimes as 'warm hypergiants' in comparison to red supergiants. Yellow hypergiants have evolved off the main sequence and have little hydrogen left in their centres.
A gnat is any tiny fly in the suborder Nematocera.  "Gnat" is a loose descriptive category rather than a technical term. They can be both biting and non-biting. The biting ones are often called midges. Often they fly in large numbers, called clouds, in damp places like the Scottish Highlands.  One interesting group are the eye-gnats. the Smithsonian Institution describes them as “non-biting flies, no bigger than a few grains of salt, ... attracted to fluids secreted by your eyes”.
Rosie and Jim (sometimes written as Rosie &amp; Jim) is a British children's television programme 'produced by Ragdoll Productions. It was aired on ITV from 1990 to the year 2000. The programme continued to be intermittently repeated on CITV until August 2004. Rosie and Jim are two ragdolls who live aboard a narrowboat coincidentally named the Ragdoll, which is from Birmingham. They sit with a concertina on their lap, and come alive when no one is looking, to explore the world that they pass by on their canal. They learn to experience things by following Ragdoll's owner on adventures and secretly join in with them. Usually, they end up causing trouble but they never get caught because no one ever sees them (ever).
CLS (originally Continuous Linked Settlement) is a specialist US financial institution that provides settlement services to its members in the foreign exchange market (FX). Although the forex market is decentralised and has no central exchange or clearing facility, firms that chose to use CLS to settle their FX transactions can mitigate the settlement risk associated with their trades. CLS does this through the operation of a payment versus payment (PvP) settlement service which mitigates settlement risk for the FX transactions of its settlement members and their customers (third parties). The service started operating in 2002 as an Edge Act Corporation, a limited purpose bank regulated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since it began operations in 2002, CLS has rapidly become the market-standard for foreign exchange settlement. As a result, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) officially designated CLS a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility in July 2012. The single day record for gross-value settlement, set on 19 March 2008, stands at US$10.3 trillion, for 1,113,464 payment instructions. The single day record for gross-volume settlement, set on 28 May 2013, is 1,992,652. In 2002 CLS was launched with 39 Members and seven currencies. As of November 2015 CLS settles 18 Currencies, has 74 Shareholders, 64 Settlement Members and over 9,000 active Third Party participants. Members include:
The Clearing House Association, L.L.C. is a New York-headquartered trade group and the nation's first and oldest banking association representing some of the world's largest commercial banks. It is a nonpartisan organization that advocates on regulatory, legislative, and legal public policy issues on behalf of its owner banks before policymakers, courts of law, and standards setters around the globe. The Clearing House seeks a level playing field among similarly situated market participants, in which a legal and regulatory framework promotes systemic stability, economic growth, and a safe and sound banking system. Unique among trades for its sole focus on large-scale commercial banking and payments issues, the Association and its Owner Banks form strong consensus positions on issues vital to the banking industry that are technically detailed and research- and data-driven. Members include:
Milow is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Districts. Milow has six districts ("Ortsteil"):
Gianfranco Petris (30 August 1936 – 1 July 2018) was an Italian football player. He was born in Budoia, Italy. Petris played for Treviso, Triestina, Fiorentina, Lazio and Polisportiva Trani. He made his debut for Italy in 1958 and earned 4 caps, scoring 1 goal. Petris died on 1 July 2018 in Trepalle, Italy at the age of 81.
Firuz Mustafayev Rajab oglu (; 18 October 1933 – 7 July 2018), also spelled as Feyruz Mustafayev was an Azerbaijani politician. He was born in Baku. Mustafayev served as acting Prime Minister of Azerbaijan. His terms lasted from April 7 to May 18, when he was replaced by Rahim Huseynov. Mustafayev died on 7 July 2018 at the age of 84.
Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American actor, pop singer, movie producer, and author. He starred in more than 40 movies. He was born in New York City. Hunter was known for her roles in "Damn Yankees", "Sweet Kill", and "Grease 2". His famous song was "Young Love". Hunter was gay. From 1983 to 2018, Hunter was in a partnership with Allan Glaser. Hunter died on July 8, 2018 from cardiac arrest complicated by thrombosis in Santa Barbara, California, aged 86.
Stuart Oliver Knussen CBE (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a Scottish composer and conductor. He was born in Glasgow. He was awarded CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours. Knussen was principal guest conductor of The Hague's Het Residentie Orkest (Residentie Orchestra) between 1992 and 1996, the Aldeburgh Festival's co-artistic director between 1983 and 1998 and the London Sinfonietta's music director between 1998 and 2002 – and became that ensemble's conductor laureate. In 2005 Knussen was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival. Knussen died on 8 July 2018 in Snape, Suffolk, aged 66.
Hans Günter Winkler (24 July 1926 – 9 July 2018) was a German show jumping rider. He was born in Barmen, today part of Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. He won four Olympic gold medals: two in 1956, one in 1960, and one in 1964. Winkler died on 9 July 2018 in Warendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia from cardiac arrest at the age of 91.
Edward Jack Peter Westwick (born 27 June 1987) is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his role as Chuck Bass on The CW's teen television drama series "Gossip Girl" (2007–2012). In November 2017, two women accused Westwick of raping them and another accused him of sexually assaulting her. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated the allegations. On August 23, 2024, Westwick married Indian actress Amy Jackson.
Raymond Michael Kethledge (born December 11, 1966) is an American judge. He is the United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a former law clerk for Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kethledge is on President Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court justices.
The Linth (pronounced "lint") is a Swiss river that starts near the village of Linthal in the mountains of the canton of Glarus, and flows into the Obersee section of Lake Zurich. It is about long. The textile industry of the canton of Glarus he started because it could use the water power of the Linth. Today, the river drives the Linth–Limmern power stations in its upper reaches. The river and its upper valley are the boundary between the mountain ranges of the Glarus Alps, to its east and south, and the Schwyzer Alps, to its west.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system. It was established after the G20 London summit in April 2009 as a successor to the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). The Board includes all G20 major economies, FSF members, and the European Commission. Hosted and funded by the Bank for International Settlements, the board is based in London, United Kingdom. Members include: The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is an international organisation in the financial sector. It monitors the global funancial system, and make recommendation on how it can be improved. It was established at the G20 summit in London, in April 2009. The idea at the summit was to improve a solution that existed already, the Financial Stability Forum (FSF). The Financial Stability board is organised as an association: All G20 states, all participants of the FSF and the European Commission are members of this association. The board is hosted and funded by the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.
Richard Bruce Hunter (July 6, 1939 – July 6, 2018) was an American competition swimmer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He represented the United States at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Hunter swam in the men's 100-meter freestyle, advanced to the finals, and finished fourth overall with a time of 55.6 seconds. Death. Hunter died on his 79th birthday on July 6, 2018 in Boston.
Erica Yohn (October 1, 1928 – January 27, 2019) was an American actress. Yohn had many small parts in movies, such as "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", and television shows, such as "Rhoda", "ER", "Murphy Brown", "Quantum Leap" and "Kojak". She had recurring roles on "The Famous Teddy Z", "State of Grace", "Beverly Hills, 90210", and "Picket Fences". She voiced Fievel and Tanya Mousekewitz's mother in "An American Tail" and its sequels. Yohn died on January 27, 2019 in North Hollywood, California at the age of 90. Personal life. Yohn was married to actor Tom Rosqui, who died in 1991, aged 62, from cancer.
The 2017 New Zealand general election took place on Saturday 23 September 2017 to elect the membership of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament along with the Prime Minister of New Zealand. The last parliament was elected on 20 September 2014 and officially ended on 22 August 2017. Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand's third female Prime Minister, and Winston Peters again became Deputy Prime Minister, a role he had first held in 1996–98. This ended nine years under the National Party Government. Ardern became Prime Minister after the Labour Party agreed to create a coalition with Peters's New Zealand First party, thus making him Deputy Prime Minister. Their shared votes were larger than that of English, thus defeating him. About. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives under New Zealand's mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting system, a system in which 71 members were elected from single-member electorates and 49 members were elected from closed party lists. Around 3.57 million people were registered to vote in the election, with 2.63 million (79.8%) turning out. Advance voting proved popular, with 1.24 million votes cast before election day, more than the previous two elections combined. Candidates. The centre-right National Party, led by Prime Minister Bill English, had governed since 2008 in a minority government. It was the first election for English as incumbent Prime Minister, having replaced John Key on 12 December 2016 and the first since 1975 where both major parties had leadership changes. The main opposition parties to the National government were Labour (the official opposition), led by Jacinda Ardern, the Green Party, and New Zealand First.
Winston Raymond Peters (born 11 April 1945) is a New Zealand politician who is the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2023. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2017 to 2020. He serves under a coalition government alongside Jacinda Ardern upon the 2017 election.  Peters led the populist New Zealand First party since 1993. He was a Member of Parliament from 2011 to 2020, having served from 1979 to 1981 and 1984 to 2008. Peters was not in Parliament between 2020 and 2023. But, was re-elected in the 2023 general election, where his New Zealand First Party won 8 seats. Peters will be co-deputy prime minister from the swearing in of the 54th Parliament of New Zealand to the 31st of May 2025.
David Breen Seymour (born 24 June 1983) is a New Zealand politician. He is the Epsom electorate MP, and leader of ACT New Zealand. Seymour worked in public policy in Canada.  In November 2015, Seymour was named the Trans Tasman 2015 Politician Of The Year. Seymour appeared on the seventh series of Dancing with the Stars.
Marama Kahu Fox is a New Zealand politician. She was elected to the New Zealand parliament at the 2014 general election as a representative of the Māori Party.  Following her election to parliament, she was named Māori Party co-leader alongside Te Ururoa Flavell, replacing party founder Tariana Turia. In the 2017 general election, Fox lost her seat and her party won no seats in the election.