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An octobass, also known as an octuple bass, is a musical instrument. It is a giant bass with three strings. It is played with a bow like a double bass. Handles attached to the side of the octobass can press down on the strings when pulled. It has the deepest sound of any string instrument. There are only seven octobass in the world and they are mostly in museums. The only full working octobass is the one in the Montreal symphony orchestra, making it the only orchestra in the world to have an octobass.
Nana Mansinh Chudasama (17 June 1933 – 23 December 2018) was an Indian jurist and politician. He was the Mayor and Sheriff of Mumbai from 1989 to 1990. He was the founder of the NGO Giants International which has over 500 branches in India and branches across the world including the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Mauritius and Ukraine. He died 23 December 2018, in Mumbai at the age of 86 after a brief illness.
Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician. He was a known in the field of harmonic analysis. He was professor of Mathematics at Princeton University from 1963 until his death in 2018. His honors include the Steele Prize (1984 and 2002), the Schock Prize in Mathematics (1993), the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1999), and the National Medal of Science (2001). In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
is a manga created in 1977 by Leiji Matsumoto. Many anime movies and television series were created based on this manga. It is set in a high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds and emotions into mechanical bodies. By doing so they achieve practical immortality. The manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1978. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1981. Matsumoto was inspired to create "Galaxy Express 999" by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel "Night on the Galactic Railroad" by Kenji Miyazawa. The movie "Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy" was released in 1998.
, in short GTO, is a Japanese shōnen manga series. It was created by Tooru Fujisawa. It was originally published in "Weekly Shōnen Magazine" from May 1997 to April 2002. The story focuses on 22-year-old Eikichi Onizuka. He becomes a teacher at a private middle school, Holy Forest Academy, in Tokyo, Japan. "Shonan Junai Gumi" (lit. "Shōnan True Love Group") and "Bad Company" are other manga series by Tooru Fujisawa. They focus on the life of Onizuka before he became a teacher in "Great Teacher Onizuka". A twelve-episode Japanese television drama running from July to September 1998 was created based on this manga. A live-action film directed by Masayuki Suzuki and released in December 1999 was also created based on this manga. A 43-episode anime television series based on this manga aired in Japan by Fuji Television and Animax from June 1999 to September 2000. Both the anime and manga have been licensed in North America by Tokyopop. A second live action series aired in Japan during 2012, and two more in 2014. It won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen category.
Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (or just Michelle Yeoh; born 6 August 1962) is a Chinese Malaysian actress of Chinese ancestry. She became famous by having a number of roles in 1990s Hong Kong action movies. She is best known for her role as Wai Lin in "Tomorrow Never Dies". Also, she played as Yu Shu Lien in the 2000 movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Her role in the 2022 movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once", won her a Golden Globe Award a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Actress. She is the first Asian to win the Oscar for Best Actress. Career. Yeoh won the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant at age 20 in 1983. She also represented Malaysia at the Queen of the Pacific 1983 beauty pageant. The pageant was held in Australia. She won. Yeoh started her career acting in martial arts and action movies. She did her own stunts.  Yeoh played the family matriarch Eleanor Young in "Crazy Rich Asians" in 2018. She was a member of the jury at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999. Yeow was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She was criticized for supporting Prime Minister Najib Razak and the Barisan Nasional coalition before the 2013 election.
is a Japanese manga series by Mizuho Kusanagi. It is published in Hakusensha's "shōjo" manga magazine "Hana to Yume" from August 2009. An anime television series based on this manga was created by Pierrot. It aired between October 7, 2014 and March 24, 2015. Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video rights in North America. The first opening theme is an song by Kunihiko Ryo, called . The first ending theme is by Vistlip. The second opening theme is "Akatsuki no Hana", by Cyntia. The second ending theme is "Akatsuki", by Akiko Shikata. The first OVA was released on September 18, 2015, the second OVA was released on August 19, 2016 and the third OVA was released on December 20, 2016.
Majene Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Majene. The population of Majene Regency was 150,939 at the 2010 Census. Administration. The regency has eight districts ().
Mamasa Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Mamasa. The population was 139,962 in the 2010 Census. The Toraja are the most common ethnic group.  Sumarorong Airport. The airport opened in 2012 with a 700-meter runway in 2012. The airport closed in 2016. Administration. The regency has seventeen districts ().
Mamuju Regency () is a regency in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It is on the island Sulawesi. The capital is Mamuju. Mamuju is also the capital of West Sulawesi. The population of the regency was 336,879 at the 2010 Census. Administration. The regency has eleven districts ().
Mamuju is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi.  Education. Education in Mamuju extends up to SMA III (Year 12) and people from surrounding areas (especially the area of Kalumpang) travel to Mamuju for schooling. Students must travel to larger towns like Makassar for higher education. Agriculture. Agriculture in this area includes jackfruit, rambutan, durian, rice, and bananas. Demographics. Most people in Mamuju are Muslim. There are many mosques. However, some Christians and Buddhists also live here. Culture. There is a sandeq race every August from Mamuju to Makassar. Sister cities. Mamuju has two sister cities:
Adeel Alam (born March 28, 1986), better known by his ring name Mustafa Ali, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in WWE, where he worked from 2016 to 2023. Right now he is working on the independent circuit and also appears for TNA Wrestling (where he is a former X Division Champion) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Ali is the first WWE wrestler of Pakistani descent. Professional wrestling career. Independent Circuit (2003-2016). Alam has wrestled in many wrestling promotion. During his first six years he wrestled while wearing a mask. He wrestled during the day and work night shifts as a police officer. WWE. 205 Live (2016-2018). On June 25, 2016, after Brazilian wrestler Zumbi was not able to participate in the WWE Cruiserweight Classic due to visa issues, WWE announced that Mustafa Ali would replace him. On July 20, he was eliminated from the tournament in the first round after losing to Lince Dorado. He appeared on the October 26 episode of NXT, where he and Dorado teaming with each other and entered Dusty Rohdes Tag Team Classic. But in the first round they were defeated by Kota Ibushi and TJ Perkins.
On December 24, 2018, a helicopter carrying Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo, the newly elected Governor of the Mexican state of Puebla, and her husband, Senator and former Governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, crashed on a hill in Coronango near the city of Puebla. Five people on board the helicopter were killed in the crash: Alonso, Moreno, the two pilots, Captain Roberto Coppe Obregón and Captain Marco Antonio Pavera Romero, and Héctor Baltazar Mendoza, an assistant to the senator. Alonso was 10 days into her term as governor. Its destination was the Helipuerto Radio Capital in Mexico City. It crashed on 24 December at 14:50 local time (20:50 GMT), just ten minutes after takeoff from a heliport in Puebla. The crash site is in the Santa María Coronango. Mexico had sought the aid of the United States National Transportation Safety Board, but the NTSB could not support the investigation due to the government shutdown underway.
Jozef Adamec (26 February 1942 – 24 December 2018) was a Slovak football forward and manager. He played mostly for Spartak Trnava (1959–61, 1963–64, 1966–76). He was member of Dukla Prague (1961–63), he spent one year with Slovan Bratislava (1964–65) and at the end of career played for lower-division Austrian club Slovan Wien (1977–80).
Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, living in Linz am Rhein, Germany. An anarchist, he was a critic of the National Reorganization Process dictatorship (1976–1983). He also founded the Department of Human Rights in the School of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Buenos Aires. He worked at the newspapers "Noticias Gráficas", "Clarin" and "Esquel", a local newspaper in the Patagonian town of Esquel. In 1958 he founded "La Chispa" ("The Spark"). Bayer died on 24 December 2018 in Buenos Aires, at the age of 91.
Martha Érika Alonso Hidalgo (; 17 December 1973 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. She was a member of the National Action Party (PAN). Alonso Hidalgo was the first woman Governor of Puebla. She was Governor for ten days, from 14 December to 24 December 2018. Her husband was Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, who was the governor of Puebla from 2011 to 2017. On 24 December 2018, both Alonso Hidalgo and her husband Valle Rosas were killed in a helicopter crash near Santa María Coronango, Puebla, aged 45.
Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of the National Action Party (PAN). He was the Governor of Puebla from February 2011 through January 2017. Moreno Valle also was a Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla and as a Senator. Personal life. He was married to Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, who was the first woman Governor of Puebla from 17 December to 24 December 2018. On 24 December 2018, a helicopter carrying Moreno Valle and his wife crashed in a field near the town of Santa María Coronango, where they both died.
William David Baillie (28 May 1934 – 25 December 2018) was a New Zealand runner. He represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he placed sixth in the 5000 m.  He also competed at the 1954, 1958, 1962, and 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand. In 2001, Baillie was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to athletics. Baillie died in Auckland on 25 December 2018, aged 84.
Lawrence Eisenberg (December 21, 1919 – December 25, 2018) was an American biomedical engineer and science fiction writer. He is best known for his short story "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?," published in Harlan Ellison's anthology "Dangerous Visions".  His stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as "Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century", "The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F", and "Great Science Fiction By the World's Great Scientists". He was also known for the limericks he posts in the comments sections of various articles in "The New York Times". Eisenberg died in Lincoln, Massachusetts on December 25, 2018 from acute myeloid leukemia, aged 99.
Sulagitti Narasamma (Kannada: ಸೂಲಗಿತ್ತಿ ನರಸಮ್ಮ; 1920 – 25 December, 2018) was an Indian midwife. She was from the Pavagada village, in Tumkur district of Karnataka state. She performed more than 15,000 traditional deliveries over a 70-year period of service with no medical facilities and no medical cost.  Her medical services were directed towards poor people in Karnataka. Her work was honored with the National Citizen's award of India in 2012 and the country’s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2018. Narasamma died at a hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on 25 December 2018 at the age of 98 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Baldur Ragnarsson (25 August 1930 – 25 December 2018) was an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland. His best known work was "La lingvo serena". He was in charge of the World Esperanto Association's literary contest from 1975 to 1985. He was president of the organizing committee for the 1977 World Esperanto Congress at Reykjavík and vice-president of the World Esperanto Association. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature following the death of William Auld in 2006. Ragnarsson died on 25 December 2018 in Reykjavík at the age of 88.
Gurren Lagann, also known as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, is a Japanese mecha anime television series. It was animated by Gainax and co-produced by Aniplex and Konami. It ran for 27 episodes on Japan's TV Tokyo between April 1, 2007, and September 30, 2007. It was directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi. It was written by veteran playwright Kazuki Nakashima. "Gurren Lagann" takes place in a fictional future where Earth is ruled by the Spiral King, Lordgenome. Lordgenome forces people to live under the surface of the earth. The plot focuses on two teenagers, Simon and Kamina. They live in a village under the earth surface and wish to go to the surface. Using a mecha known as Lagann, Simon and Kamina reach the surface. There they and other humans start fighting against Lordgenome's forces. In North America, at first it was announced to be licensed by ADV Films in 2007, the license was transferred to Bandai Entertainment in 2008. The license was again transferred to Aniplex of America in 2013. In the United Kingdom, it was licensed by Manga Entertainment in 2007, then transferred to Beez Entertainment in 2008. The license was again transferred to Anime Limited in 2013. The Sci Fi Channel got the broadcasting rights of "Gurren Lagann" and began airing the anime on July 28, 2008. The anime won several awards at the Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Animation Kobe and Japan Media Arts Festivals. A manga based on this was published by ASCII Media Works between 2007 and 2013. Bandai Entertainment licensed the manga and released it in English in North America. A series of four light novels was published by Shogakukan between 2007 and 2008. A Nintendo DS video game was released in October 2007. Two animated film versions were produced. The first premiered in Japanese theaters on September 6, 2008, and the second premiered on April 25, 2009.
Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (; ; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He was best known for his work on the "Astérix" series and also drew other comics such as "Oumpah-pah", also in collaboration with René Goscinny. Uderzo died on 24 March 2020 of a heart attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, aged 92.
Lata Mangeshkar () (born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and music director. She won many titles. Reputation. She is one of the best-known playback singers in India. She has recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi movies and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages. Early Life. Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and Konkani musician and his wife Shevanti in Indore. Death. Mangeshkar died on 6 February 2022, from multiple organ failure after contracting COVID-19 and undergoing 28 days of treatment at the Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India. The Government of India announced a two-day national mourning and that the National Flag will fly at half-mast from February 6 to 7 throughout India in her respect.
Ruthie Tompson (July 22, 1910 – October 10, 2021) was an American animator. She was best known for her work on animated features at The Walt Disney Company. She was born in Portland, Maine. Her best known works were in "Sleeping Beauty", "Pinocchio", "Dumbo" and "Fantasia". Tompson retired in 1975 after working for The Walt Disney Company for almost 40 years. In July 2020, Tompson turned 110. She died on October 10, 2021 at her home in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 111.
Sonali Bendre (born 1 January 1975) is an Indian actress, model, television personality and author. She was born in Mumbai. Her best known roles were in "Diljale" (1996), "Bhai" (1997), "Qahar" (1997), "Major Saab" (1998), "Sarfarosh" (1999), "Hum Saath Saath Hain" (1999), "Kadhalar Dhinam" (1998) and its Hindi bilingual "Dil Hi Dil Mein" (1999) and "Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai" (2000). In July 2018, Bendre was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and was undergoing treatment in New York City.
Herbert Kretzmer, OBE (5 October 1925 – 14 October 2020) was a South African-born English journalist and lyricist. He was best known as the lyricist for the English-language musical adaptation of "Les Misérables" as well as for his long-time writing works with the French singer Charles Aznavour. He was nominated for Best Original Song at the 85th Academy Awards and the 70th Golden Globe Awards for the song "Suddenly" from the 2012 movie version of "Les Misérables". Kretzmer died on 14 October 2020 in London from Parkinson's disease-related problems at the age of 95.
The Vogelkop bowerbird ("Amblyornis inornata"), also known as the Vogelkop gardener bowerbird, is a medium-sized, bowerbird of the mountains of the Vogelkop Peninsula at Western New Guinea, Indonesia. The birds are about 21–35 cm in length, with the females being slightly smaller. The species is known for their mating method. Males are seen, in order to mate, to build a nest with decorations. The more attractive the nest, the most likely it will attract a mate.
Eiza González Reyna (; born 30 January 1990) is a Mexican actress and singer. She became famous for her role as Dolores "Lola" Valente in the Mexican musical telenovela "Lola...Érase una vez" (2007–2008).  González gained further fame in the American horror series ' (2014–2016). She is also known for her roles as Monica "Darling" Castello in the action crime movie "Baby Driver" (2017) and as Nyssiana in the cyberpunk action movie ' (2019). Recently she was in the Guy Ritchie movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).
Polistes carnifex, also known as the executioner wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus "Polistes" and is labeled as having the most painful sting out of all discovered insect species.  The wasp is native to Central and South America. It is a very large yellow and brown paper wasp that creates small colonies which build nests under the eaves of buildings or suspended from branches.
"Him &amp; I" is a song recorded by American rapper G-Eazy and singer Halsey.
is a Japanese manga series. It was written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma KondouIt. It was published in "Shōnen Ace" since 2008. Tokyopop got the licensing rights to distribute the manga in English. It released the first 5 volumes of the manga before the company shut down its North American Publishing division in 2011. Viz Media announced that it had licensed the series for English language release in North America on July 7, 2013. It released the first volume on February 11, 2014; new volumes were released every two months after that. An anime based on this manga aired between April and July 2011. The content from first 21 chapters were used in the anime. The anime is licensed by Funimation and aired on Adult Swim's Toonami block on May 26, 2012. It finished its run on August 11, 2012.
She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 black and white comedy-drama movie. It was written, directed and edited by Spike Lee. Lee also acts in the movie. Plot. Nola Darling is a young and attractive woman from Brooklyn. She is in relationships with three men: the polite and well-meaning Jamie Overstreet, the self-obsessed model Greer Childs and the immature Mars Blackmon. Though Nola is attracted to the best in each of them, she refuses to commit to any of them. Instead, she likes her personal freedom. Her carefree, sexual lifestyle comes to an end when the three men meet and talk about Nola. Greer justifies Nola's arrogant behavior by saying she doesn't see the three as individuals. She sees the three as a group. Jamie and Mars become unhappy over how little Nola cares for all three men. Jamie realizes that Greer and Mars are too scared of losing Nola to force her to choose one of them. Jamie tells Nola she must choose a single lover. Nola asks Jamie to come to her apartment to have casual sex. Jamie rapes Nola. He mockingly asks her if he's as good sexually as Greer or Mars. Nola has a "no-sex" agreement. Jamie rejects it at first. Then he agrees. Themes. Nola realizes the freedom to have many sex partners that men have usually enjoyed. "A woman (or, at least Nola) can be a sexual being, doesn't belong to a man and perhaps shouldn't even wish for such a thing". Release. Box office. "She's Gotta Have It" opened in one theater on August 8, 1986. It made $28,743 on its opening weekend. The movie took in $7,137,503 in the United States. Critical reception. The movie was well-liked by critics and audiences. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie at 90% based on the reviews of 31 critics. The Metacritic rated the movie at 79/100. Home media. The movie was released in VHS format. In 2008 it was released on DVD in Region 1 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Television series. A television series based on the movie got started on Netflix in 2017. Director Spike Lee directed the first season.
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist and a retired professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He studies abnormal, social, and personality psychology. He is interested in the psychology of religious and ideological belief. His views are generally described as conservative.  Peterson criticises political correctness, Marxism, and postmodernism. He said, "Most of the global warming posturing is a masquerade for anti-capitalists to have a go at the Western patriarchy. That’s partly whthe climate change thing for me is a contentious issue because you can’t trust the players." However, he believes climate change to be an issue.
Sir Robert de Zouche Hall, GCMG (27 April 1904 – 19 March 1995) was an English colonial governor. He served in Sierra Leone and Tanganyika. He moved from the United Kingdom to New Zealand in 1973. He settled in Gisborne.
Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is six miles (10 km) northwest of Boston. The population was 46,308 at the 2020 census.