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Sir Antony Sher (14 June 1949 – 2 December 2021) was a South African-born British Drama Desk Award-winning actor, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and theatre director. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He has won two Laurence Olivier Award. He was known for his stage work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2017, Prince Charles said that Sher as his favourite actor.  Sher and his partner Gregory Doran became one of the first gay couples to enter into a civil partnership in the United Kingdom. In September 2021, Sher was diagnosed with a terminal illness. He died of cancer three months later in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire on 2 December 2021, aged 72.
The Chester Bridge is a bridge connecting Missouri's Route 51 with Illinois Route 150 across the Mississippi River between Perryville, Missouri and Chester, Illinois. It is the only motor-traffic bridge spanning the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. History. The Chester Bridge is a two-lane traffic bridge. Construction began in 1941 and was finished in 1942 at a cost of $1.385 million (1942 dollars). The bridge was destroyed by a severe thunderstorm on July 29, 1944, and reconstructed 2 years later. The bridge serves about 6,400 vehicles per day. Inspections in 2020 showed the bridge to be in poor condition. The Missouri Department of Transportation plans to replace the bridge by 2028.
Chesters Bridge is a Roman bridge over the River North Tyne at Chollerford, Northumberland, England. In 2016, public access to Chesters Bridge's remnants was stopped because of flood damage.
Monolith Films Sp. z o.o. is the independent media-entertainment company based in Warsaw, Poland, that deals with production and distribution of movies. Established in 1998, the company currently is the official distributor of movies produced and distributed by DreamWorks SKG, Lions Gate Entertainment, Summit Entertainment, STX and Ghibli in Poland, and in the past, among others 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. and Buena Vista. The company is the owner of the following divisions: Monolith Video (DVD/Blu-ray distributor), Cineman (VOD service) and Victonex, which run Kino Atlantic in Warsaw, and formerly Monolith Plus, that dealt with distribution of art movies. Since September 2013, Monolith has been implementing the "Kino Klasa" program aimed at promoting cinema culture among the youngest Poles. As part of the project, movie screenings for teachers are organized and educational materials related to selected movies are created.
Mestizo Americans are people in the United States whose racial and/or ethnic identity is mestizo, a mixed ancestry of Spanish and Native American from Latin America.
Joseph 'Jup' Weber (15 June 1950 – 8 October 2021) was a Luxembourgian politician. He founded the Greens in 1983. He was a Member of the European Parliament between 1994 until 1999. Weber was born in Luxembourg City. Weber died on 8 October 2021 in Luxembourg City at the age of 71.
José Luis Martín C. Gascón () also known as Chito Gascon () (26 May 1964 – 9 October 2021) was a Filipino lawyer, politician and human-rights activist. He was born in Manila, Philippines. In 2015, he was nominated by President Benigno Aquino III as the Chair of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines. Gascon died on 9 October 2021 at a hospital in Manila from COVID-19, aged 57.
Myriam P. Sarachik (August 8, 1933 – October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist. She was a Professor of Physics at The City College of New York. Her works focused on the low temperature condensed matter physics. In 2008 she was elected to the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Phasmahyla cruzi is a frog that lives in Brazil. Scientists have only seen it in one place: Rio das Pedras Reserve in southeastern Brazil. Scientists are not sure whether it belongs in the family Phyllomedisidae or the family Hylidae, subfamily Phyllomedusinae. Name. The frog is named after Carlos Alberto Gonçalves da Cruz, a Brazilian amphibian scientist. Scientists say people should call it Mangaratiba tree frog in English. Appearance. The adult male frog is long from nose to rear end and the only adult female frog the scientists found was long. It has a short nose and big eyes that stick out of its head. Its ear disk is large, but a piece of skin covers part of it. There are disks on its toes for climbing. There is no webbed skin on any of its feet. The frog's skin is green in color with purple spots. The belly is light in color. The iris of its eyes is silver-gray in color. Older tadpoles can be long, with the tail. Home. People have found these frogs in streams with sand on the bottom. These places were always 200 meters above sea level or higher. This frog can only live in forests in which the branches come together like a roof. Scientists say this frog is not in danger of dying out because it lives in such a large place.
Bradford is a census-designated place (CDP) and historic district in Westerly and Hopkinton in Washington County, Rhode Island. The population was 1,457 at the 2020 United States Census. The Bradford Village Historic District was listed in 1996 as a 224 acre area. It includes 150 contributing buildings plus one site.
Fireglow Games is a Russian, and later Cypriot company that develops and publishes computer games. The most known for series of strategic games Sudden Strike. History. The company was founded in 1999 by the former employees of the studio "Our Games LLC", a famous game "Confrontation". The first project of the studio was the game of Sudden Strike, the world publisher was performed by the German distributor CDV Software Entertainment, in Russia and the CIS was published under the familiar Russian players with the name of "Confrontation 3". In 2002-2003, the company moved from St. Petersburg to Cyprus. In 2004, the studio stopped to work with the Russian publisher Russobit-M, which owns the rights to the localized name Confrontation. All the next Sudden Strike games were published under the original name. In 2006, the company was reorganized. As a result, several companies created a single holding: FireGlow Casual Games and Fireglow Online Games was making computer games, Fireglow Games Publishing was releasing products in the United States and Western Europe. The latest game of the company is Sudden Strike 3: The Last Stand, published in 2009.
Hope Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) and village in Hopkinton in western Rhode Island. The 2020 United States Census showed 1,612 people living in Hope Valley. The central section of Hope Valley was listed on the United States' National Register of Historic Places in late 2004 as Hope Valley Historic District. This 183-acre historic district has 137 contributing properties.
Sudden Strike is a computer game about World War II. The game was developed by Russian company Fireglow and published by CDV software of Germany. The games focus on tactics without traditional real-time strategy resource gathering and base development. "Sudden Strike" had a commercial success, with global sales of roughly 800,000 units by 2002. Gameplay. The main story features three campaigns (Soviets, Germans, and Allied forces). "Sudden Strike Forever". "Sudden Strike Forever" was an official add-on to Sudden Strike which shows more historically correct units and equipment. New terrains are also provided. The expansion also improved the game engine, balanced the damage of certain units, and added a map and scenario editor. The add-on includes 4 scenarios for each of the campaigns for the Germans, the American, the British and the Soviets. Other units which are added into the add-on includes, but not limited to the Universal Carrier for the British. The supply system has also been tweaked with artillery crews automatically resupplying themselves with ammo crates nearby instead of relying on supply trucks to do the job. The supply trucks would still be needed to repair damages inflicted on these artillery units, however. Reception. Sales. In Germany "Sudden Strike" became 1 place on Media Control's sales chart for September 2000. It also awarded by The Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD) for sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The committee noted that "Sudden Strike" had become an "absolute hit". Publisher CDV Software reported that "Sudden Strike" sold 292,000 units into stores and foreign publishers during 2000, and that sell-through was "running very positively".  The title became popular in France, where it was the first game published by Focus Home Interactive. It sold 60,000 units at full price and reached #1 on GfK's charts for the French market, and remained there for multiple weeks. Global sell-through of "Sudden Strike" reached roughly 600,000 units by the end of 2001, and around 800,000 units by the end of
The Estado Novo, also known as the Second Portuguese Republic, was a corporatist regime in Portugal from 1933 to 1974 until Carnation Revolution. It evolved from the "Ditadura Nacional" that was formed after the "coup d'état" of 28 May 1926 against the democratic First Portuguese Republic. The Estado Novo was conservativee and autocratic, it was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, who was President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 until 1968 due to illnesses. The Estado Novo was one of the longest-surviving authoritarian regimes in Europe, it was conservative, corporatist, and nationalist and traditionalist. Estado Novo had very colonialist foreign policies, with colonies oversea like Angola, Mozambique, and other Portuguese territories. During this period, Portugal tried to expand its empire, using the Portuguese Colonial War to combat self-determination and independence of colonies. After four decades of dictatorship, on 25 April 1974, the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, a military coup organized by Portuguese military officers of the Armed Forces Movement overthrew the Estado Novo regime. Economy. From 1950 until Salazar's death in 1970, Portugal saw its GDP per capita increase at an annual average rate of 5.7 per cent. By the fall of the Estado Novo in 1974, Portugal had the lowest per capita income in Western Europe and the highest rate of preventable deaths and infant mortality rate in Europe.
Monica Lee Gradischek (born 15 December 1971 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and voice actress. She graduated from New York University (NYU) on 1994. Gradischek has work in animation, commercials, and video games as well as performing arts. She starred in the Lifetime Television reality series "Off The Leash" in October 2006. She also played the role of Darlene in the Cartoon Network series "Squirrel Boy".
Narragansett is a town in southeastern Washington County, Rhode Island. The 2020 United States Census reported 14,532 people living in the town. The town is informally called "Gansett". Narragansett is next to Narragansett Bay. It is close to Jamestown and Kingston. Narragansett history. In 1888, Narragansett was separated from the town of South Kingstown. Thirteen years later, Narragansett was incorporated into its own town. On September 21, 1938, a strong and violent hurricane ran over western New England. The winds of the hurricane were 121 miles hour. Floods from East Haven to Narragansett were seen and over 130 photographs were taken. Other hurricanes in the Narragansett-Point Judith regional area of Rhode Island include Hurricane Carol in August 1954, Hurricane Bob on August 19, 1991, Tropical Storm Hanna of September 6 into 7, 2008 and Hurricane Henri from August 22–23, 2021. The last two were tropical storms when they moved across New England.
Curious George is an platform-adventure video game, based on cartoon of the same name. Developed by Monkey Bar Games and published by Namco. The game features 13 linear levels, which closely follow the plot of the movie. And each levels also that player can collect all bananas, and cutscence from the first movie.
Raymond Thomas Odierno (8 September 1954 – 8 October 2021) was an American four-star general of the United States Army. He was the 38th chief of staff of the Army. Odierno commanded United States Joint Forces Command from October 2010 until its disestablishment in August 2011. He was the Commanding General, United States Forces – Iraq from September 2008 through September 2010. Odierno died on 8 October 2021, from cancer at the age of 67.
Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu CON (was born 4 August 1960) is a Nigerian business magnet and philanthropist. He is the current chairman of the Nigerian Bank of Industry (BOI). As of July 7, 2020, Forbes estimated Abdul Samad's has a net worth of $3.2 billion. In January 2023, Abdul Samad Rabiu becomes the 4th richest man in Africa.. Education. Rabiu attended Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Career. Rabiu began his career by establishing BUA International Limited in 1988 for main aim of commodity trading(local domestic production). Philanthropy. Rabiu uses the BUA Foundation for his philanthropic activities, he constructed 7,000-square-meter paediatric ward at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and the construction of the Centre for Islamic Studies at Bayero University Kano.
The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by English writer E.R. Eddison. First published in 1922, the book describes the long war between King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland.  It is set in an imaginary world that appears medieval and reminiscent of Norse sagas. The work is slightly related to Eddison's later Zimiamvian Trilogy, and collectively they are sometimes called the Zimiamvian series. The book was illustrated by Keith Henderson, who also illustrated books by Geoffrey Chaucer and W.H. Hudson. The work is described as fantasy because it is not an attempt to imagine the future (as does much science fiction) but instead presents an imagined world, rather as does "The Lord of the Rings".
Bank of Industry Limited (abbreviated as 'BOI') is the oldest Development Finance Institution (DFI) currently operating in Nigeria. It is owned and managed by the Ministry of Finance. History. Bank of Industry Limited began it operations in 1959 as the Investment Corporation of Nigeria (ICON) Limited. Later, ICON Limited was reconstituted change to Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (NIDB) Limited under the directives of the World Bank. Branches. The Bank of Industry has a numerous branches network across Nigeria with 24 branches, a headquarters in Lagos State, Nigeria and a corporate office in Abuja. The branches are:
Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan (; 17 August 1939 – 9 October 2021) (NI(m), HI(m), SI(m), SBt), best known as Feroze Khan, was a Pakistani four-star air officer in the Pakistan Air Force. He was the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1994 until retiring in 1997. He was born in Bombay, India. Khan died on 9 October 2021 at a hospital in Islamabad from a heart attack, aged 82.
Gautrain is an express suburban rail network in Gauteng, South Africa, which links Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sandton and O.R. Tambo International Airport. The Gautrain network has 10 stations and a total length of 80 kilometers. It takes 15 minutes to travel from Sandton to O.R. Tambo International Airport and 35 minutes from Pretoria to Johannesburg on the Gautrain. Bus and minibus services are available to transport passengers to and from all stations, but not the O.R. Tambo International Airport Station.  The purpose of Gautrain is to provide a faster service for passengers, than the regular and slower Metrorail Gauteng suburban rail which also links most of the same places. Some stations of Gautrain are interchange stations with the Metrorail Gauteng stations. Another purpose of Gautrain is to reduce traffic congestion between Johannesburg and Pretoria and their metropolitan areas.
Petr Fiala (born 1 September 1964) is a Czech politician, political scientist and university professor. In 2021, he became the 13th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic. He has been leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) since 2014. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2013.  From 2012 to 2013 Fiala was Minister of Education, Youth and Sports.
Alexander Georg Nicolas Christoph Wolfgang Tassilo Schallenberg (born 20 June 1969) is an Austrian jurist and politician. Schallenberg became the Chancellor of Austria in 2021. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 until 2021. After Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's resignation on 9 October 2021, Schallenberg was named by Kurz as his pick to replace him as chanellor. He was sworn in on 11 October 2021. Schallenberg announced his resignation on 2 December 2021, after less than two months in office. He then became the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2025, Schallenberg became the acting Chancellor of Austria.
Wigwam is a Finnish progressive rock band formed in 1968. Background. Wigwam was founded after the split of Blues Section. It was founded by Ronnie Österberg. He formed the band as a trio, but soon brought in British expatriate singer/songwriter Jim Pembroke (also in Blues Section) and organist Jukka Gustavson. A year later, Pekka Pohjola joined on bass.  Their best known album was "Nuclear Nightclub".
The mottled leaf frog ("Phasmahyla exilis") is a frog that lives in Brazil. People have seen it between 200 and 900 meters above sea level. This frog can change color to hide from animals that want to eat it. It can do this by changing its red and orange spots. This frog lives in forests that have never been cut down and forests that are growing back but cannot live in places that are not forests. The female frog lays eggs on leaves over streams. When the eggs hatch, the tadpoles fall into the stream below. Scientists do not believe this frog is in danger of dying out because the place where it lives is not in danger even though, there are some tree farms and people take some wood to use. Scientists think this frog can make useful chemicals in its skin. But they do not think anyone catches this frog to take the chemicals.
Milton County, Georgia was a county in the U.S. state of Georgia that existed between 1857 and 1931. The county's capital was Alpharetta. In 1931, Milton County was merged with Fulton County in order to save it from bankruptcy during the Great Depression. Campbell County, located 50 miles to the south, suffered the same fate. During the 2000s, residents of northern Fulton county expressed their desire to recreate Milton County, out of both economical and social reasons. A bill was brought to the Georgia state legislature, however it was rejected because Georgia's constitution prohibits the creation of more than 159 counties in the state.
United Bank Limited (UBL) (یونائیٹڈ بینک لمیٹڈ) is a Pakistani multinational commercial bank which is a subsidiary of British company Bestway Group. It is in Karachi, Pakistan. History. United Bank Limited was established and managed under the leadership of Agha Hasan Abedi. United Bank Limited was nationalized by Pakistan Government of Pakistan on 1974.
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) is a pan-African Multilateral Development Financial Institution which is established by sovereign African states with the main motive to provide remedies to Africa's infrastructure deficit and challenging operating environment. History. Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) was commissioned on December, 2007 by the founding President and Chief Executive Mr Austine Ometoruwa, then Citibank Africa Investment Bank Head and by the founding Chairman Chukwuma Soludo.
First City Monument Bank (FCMB), a member of FCMB Group Plc. It is a financial services holding company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. History. First City Monument Bank was established in 1977 by Oloye Subomi Balogun. It was incorporated as a private limited liability company in April 1982 and granted a banking license in August 1983. Subsidiaries. The subsidiaries of First City Monument Bank are:
Ini Dima-Okojie (born June 24, 1990) is a Nigerian actress and entrepreneur. She left her job in investment banking to enroll in New York Film Academy. Early life and education. In Dima-Okojie hails from Esan North-East LGA, Edo State, Nigeria. She holds bachelor's degree in International Relations from Covenant University, Nigeria. She also earn a degree in acting from the New York Film Academy.
The SIddiquis (kaeabo) are a religious group who claim to descended from of Abu Bakr Siddiq. Etymology. The title "Siddiqui" () is an attributive form of the Arabic word Siddiq (). The name Siddiq means 'the truthful'. It was given to Abu Bakr by Muhammadsaw. History. According to a study, the Siddiquis are descended from a Kayastha record-keeper caste who Islamized at some point.
Abd Allah ibn Saba () was an Arab Jewish religious leader in the 7th-century. His followers were known as Saba'iyya. Ghulat career. Abd Allah ibn Saba is considered the first ghulat (extremist). He was the first one to declare faith in the Imamate of Ali. After Ali’s death, he is said to maintain this idea that "a devil in ʿAli’s appearance had been murdered" and ʿAli had ascended to heaven and that his occultation (rajʿa) was imminent. Saba probably invented the concept of ghayba and return. Heinz Halm records him as a representative of a Ghulat group from the city of Seleucia-Ctesiphon ("al-Madā'in") who came to see ‘Alī in Kūfah. When Saba proclaimed divinity, then ‘Alī denied this angrily and exiled him back to Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Roles in Uthman’s assassination. Tabari and Sayf ibn Umar record Abd Allah ibn Saba from playing any major role in the political events that led to Uthman's killing. He and his followers are said to be the ones who enticed the Egyptians against Uthman on the ground of Ali's special right of succession, and participated in further instigation at later conflicts. Legacy. There is a favorable Shia quote that formed around the figure of Abdullah ibn Saba. The story of Saba has also been used by Shia factions to both attack and defend extreme Shia groups. In an non-authentic Shia source, Abd Allah ibn Saba was cursed by Ja'far al-Sadiq. Criticism. Jews view Saba negatively and historical Jewish sources regarded him as an apostate from Judaism. Sunni Muslims view Saba as a ghulat seeking to corrupt the message of Islam from by introducing proto-Shia beliefs. Since Saba used to hate Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman, Sunni Muslims view him negatively and curse him. Sa'd ibn Abdullah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi reported in al-Maqaalaat wal-Firaq p. 20:
Sarah Jane Hazlegrove (born 17 July 1968) is an English actress, known for portraying the roles of Kathleen "Dixie" Dixon in the BBC One medical drama "Casualty" (2006–2016, 2019), and Bernie Winter in the ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" (2019–present). She has also appeared as Rosie in "Making Out", Rosemary Mason in "Silent Witness", Yvonne Bradley in "London's Burning", and had roles in "Jonathan Creek", "The Bill", "Doctors", "Families", "Lovejoy" and "Holby City".
The Corpus Iuris Civilis (sometimes also called Corpus Juris Civilis) is a collection of laws regarding Roman civil law. It was first compiled in the 6th century, during the reign of Iustinan I. After the fall of the Roman empire it was mostly forgotten. It was re-discovered in the 11th century. During the Middle Ages it was an important source of civil law for most countries in Europe.  The corpus juris civilis has several parts: