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Julio Londoño Paredes (born 10 July 1938) is a retired Colombian Army Lieutenant Colonel, writer and politician. He was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He has worked under the administrations of six presidents from 1983 to 2010: Belisario Betancur, Virgilio Barco Vargas, César Gaviria, Ernesto Samper, Andrés Pastrana Arango and Álvaro Uribe. Londoño Paredes was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1990. He also was the Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States from 1990 to 1994 and to the United Nations from 1994 to 1998. Londoño Paredes also was an Ambassador to Panama from 1983 to 1986 and to Cuba from 1998 until 2010.
Peter Hintze (25 April 1950 – 26 November 2016) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 until his death in 2016. From 2013 until 2016, Hintze was one of the six Vice Presidents of the Bundestag. He had previously been federal chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU from 1990 to 1992 and general secretary of the CDU from 1992 to 1998. He was also Vice President of the Centrist Democrat International.
Mateus Lucena dos Santos (30 August 1994 – 28 November 2016), commonly known as Caramelo, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played for Chapecoense on loan from São Paulo FC as a right back. Caramelo was one of the victims when LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 crashed on 28 November 2016.
René Vignal (12 August 1926 – 21 November 2016) was a French footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Toulouse, RC Paris and Béziers at club level as well as the France national team.
Van Zandt Jarvis Williams (February 27, 1934 – November 28, 2016) was an American actor. He played Kenny Madison in both Warner Bros. television detective series Bourbon Street Beat (1959–1960) and its sequel, Surfside 6 (1960–1962). He teamed up with with Bruce Lee as his partner Kato, in the television series The Green Hornet during 1966–1967.
Casino Monte-Carlo, officially called Casino de Monte-Carlo, is a gambling and entertainment place located in Monaco. The Casino de Monte-Carlo is owned and operated by the "Société des bains de mer de Monaco".  History. The idea of opening a gambling casino in Monaco came from Princess Carolina, the wife of Prince Florestan. The company's money was supposed to save the House of Grimaldi from bankruptcy. In 1921, the first Women’s Olympiad was held at the casino gardens.
Giovanna Amati (born 20 July 1959) is a former professional racing driver from Italy. She is the most recent female driver to have entered the Formula One World Championship. Amati was born in Rome on 20 July 1959, to actress Anna Maria Pancani and theatre-owner Giovanni Amati. As of 2022, Amati is the last female driver who has attempted to qualify a Formula One car. Following her retirement from motor sport, Amati worked briefly as a sport commentator.
Strecker's chorus frog ("Pseudacris streckeri") is a frog. It lives in the United States. It lives in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, Texas, and Louisiana. Scientists think it might also live in Utah. This is the largest frog is the genus "Pseudacris". The adult can be 48 mm long from nose to rear end. The skin of the back may be brown, gray, or green. It has a dark stripe from its eyes to its body. It has dark spots on its back and a white belly. The skin where the back legs meet the body is orange-yellow in color. This frog looks for food at night. During the day, it digs in the ground and hides under soil or wet leaves. Most frogs dig with their back legs, but this frog digs with its front legs. This frog is not in danger of dying out but there are fewer of them than there were. This is because human beings build things in the places where the frog lives and cut down trees for wood. However, a subspecies of this frog, "Pseudacris streckeri illinoiensis", is endangered.
Joseph Henry Delaney (25 July 1945 – 16 August 2022) was a British writer. He was known for his dark fantasy series "Spook's". Delaney was born in Preston, Lancashire. Delaney died on 16 August 2022 at the age of 77.
Niccolò Ghedini (22 December 1959 – 17 August 2022) was an Italian lawyer and politician. He was known as the lawyer of the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Ghedini was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2013. He also was a Senator from 2006 until his death. Ghedini was born in Padua, Italy. Ghedini died on 17 August 2022 at a hospital in Milan, Italy from leukemia at the age of 62.
Dame Adeline Genée (born Anina Kirstina Margarete Petra Jensen; 6 January 1878  – 23 April 1970) was a Danish-British ballet dancer. Anina Kirstina Margarete Petra Jensen was born in Hinnerup north of Aarhus, Denmark. Her uncle, Alexandre Genée, gave her dancing lessons from the age of three. In 1895, she was the principal dancer of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. In 1896, she danced with the Berlin Royal Opera Ballet and the Munich Opera Ballet.
Anna Maria Hall (6 January 1800 – 30 January 1881) was an Irish novelist. She published as "Mrs. S. C. Hall". She was born as Anna Maria Fielding in Dublin, but left Ireland for England at the age of 15. At that time, published her first original work, Sketches of Irish character, in 1828. Her first work was well received, Anna Maria Hall was married to the writer Samuel Carter Hall from 1824.
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon ("née" Losch; November 15, 1903 – December 24, 1975), known professionally as Tilly Losch. She was an Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress, and painter who lived and worked for most of her life in the United States and United Kingdom. She was born in Vienna to a Jewish family and studied ballet from childhood at the Vienna Opera. In 1927, she took part in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Salzburg Festival, for which she also created the choreography.  Losch died from cancer in New York on December 24, 1975.
Shatter cones are features of rocks. They only form in the bedrock beneath meteorite impact craters or underground nuclear explosions.  They show the rock has been subjected to a shock with pressures in the range of .
A pharyngeal consonant is a sound made with the back of your tongue against the pharynx. Epiglottal consonants are a type of pharyngeal consonant. They are made with the aryepiglottic folds against the pharynx. English has no pharyngeal consonants. A pharyngeal consonant is: Voiced pharyngeal fricative, Voiced epiglottal tap.
A glottal consonant is a sound made using only the . English has three glottal consonants, [h], as in hat, [ʔ], as in uh-oh, and [ɦ], as in uh-huh. The International Phonetic Alphabet has symbols for three glottal consonants: [h] and [ɦ] often are not true fricatives, and are more similar to voiceless vowels.
The Gajal live in Turkey-East Thrace, and are Sunni Muslims, once originated from Moldavia, at the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812). The Gajal believe they are descendants of the Pechenegs and Cumans, and are a Muslim Branch of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Gagauz from Moldova.
Chief John Big Tree (born Isaac Johnny John, June 2, 1877 – July 6, 1967) was a member of the Seneca nation and an actor. His acting career was from 1915 to 1950. He played Native Americans and chiefs of Native Americans in films. He played in many Western movies.  References.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (known by it's acronym, CBI) is the investigating agency of India. It operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. It was originally set up in 1965 to investigate bribery and governmental corruption. It also receives expanded jurisdiction to investigate breaches of central laws enforceable by the Government of India, multi-state organised crime, or international cases.  The agency has been known to investigate several economic crimes, special crimes, cases of corruption and other cases. CBI is India's officially designated single point of contact for liaison with the Interpol. The headquarters of CBI is located in CGO Complex, near Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India. Organisation. The CBI is headed by a director. The director must be an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer with a rank of Director General of Police. Other ranks in the CBI which may be staffed by the IRS (Indian Revenue Service) officer and the IPS are:-  Inspector, Sub-Inspector, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Head constable, Constable are non-gazetted officers. They are recruited through SSC or through deputation from Police, Income Tax Department and Customs Department. Criticism. Corruption. In 2013, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (and later Chief Justice of India) R. M. Lodha criticized the CBI for being a "caged parrot speaking in its master's voice". This is due to its too much political interference ignoring of which party comes to be in power. Because of the CBI's political overtones, it has been exposed by former officials such as Joginder Singh and B. R. Lall (director and joint director, respectively) as engaging in nepotism, wrongful prosecution and corruption. In Lall's book, "Who Owns CBI", he details how investigations are manipulated and derailed. Corruption within the organisation has been revealed in information obtained under the RTI Act, and RTI activist Krishnanand Tripathi has alleged harassment from the CBI to save itself from exposure via RTI. The states that have withdrawn consent to the CBI have
Michaela Huber (born 19 May 1969) is an Austrian taekwondo athlete. She competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where taekwondo was a demonstration sport, in the middleweight event. At the European Taekwondo Championships she became European Champion in 1984 and won bronze medals in 1982, 1986 and 1988.
Lisbeth Larsen (born 29 December 1956) is a Danish athlete who competed in taekwondo.  She won a bronze medal at the 1983 Taekwondo World Championships, and at the 1984 European Taekwondo Championships in the –52 kg category.  She was a member of Fredericia Taekwondo klub.
"Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt", BWV 18 is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. The title means "Just as the rain and snow fall from heaven" in English. It was written for the Sexagesima Sunday. Bach probably wrote the cantata in 1713, when he was working in Weimar. He used the cantata again when he worked as the "Thomaskantor" in Leipzig. Structure. The first version of the cantata was written for SATB choir and soloists, four violas, a bassoon, and basso continuo. The instrumentation was unusual at that time. Bach added two recorders when he worked in Leipzig. The cantata has five movements:
Sigismund Graf von Schrattenbach (28 February 1698 – 16 December 1771) was Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1753 to 1771. Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart worked for him.  Life. He was born in Graz, Styria. He studied theology in Rome. He became a priest in 1723. He was a canon in Salzburg in 1731. He was chosen to be Archbishop of Salzburg in 1753. He employed Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Michael Haydn as musicians. He died in Salzburg. Michael Haydn performed his Requiem for the funeral service.
FC Lusitanos was an Andorran football club from Andorra la Vella. The clubwas founded in 1999 and dissolved in 2020. Lusitanos won their first Primera Divisió title in 2011–12 and the second the following season. The club's name, crest and kit showed its Portuguese identity. The club's final season was the 2019-2020 season in the Segona Divisió.  History. Futbol Club Lusitanos was founded in 1999. The club played for the first time in the Primera Divisió in 2000–01, after winning the Second Division championship. In 2001–02 they won its first title, the Copa Constitució. Lusitanos played their first European matches in the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League against the Macedonian club FK Rabotnički. In the following season's tournament, they were beaten at the same stage by Croatian club Varaždin, 6–1 on aggregate. After the 2011-12 season they played in thethe 2012–13 UEFA Champions League. They were beaten by Maltese champions Valletta 9–1 in the first qualifying round. They won their second league title in 2013. The team played in the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League versus EB/Streymur of the Faroe Islands. They were knocked out by 7–3. After finishing fourth in the regular season FC Lusitanos the 2013–14 season ended without international qualificationLeague. They also lost the 2014 Copa Constitució final against Sant Julià. 2014–15 FC Lusitanos became runners-up of the regular league and this qualified the club to the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League. There they played versus West Ham United in the first qualifying round. They lost 0–4. The supporters are mainly Portuguese immigrants in Andorra or Andorran people of Portuguese origin.
The Temminck's sunbird or Temminck's hummingbird ("Aethopyga temminckii") is a species of bird. It is found in up to 1800 m altitude in Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia and southwestern Thailand in humid tropical mountain forests. The common name of this bird and the Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch aristocrat and zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.
Unió Esportiva Santa Coloma, short UE Santa Coloma, is a football club from Andorra . The club is from Santa Coloma in the parish of Andorra la Vella. They currently plays in Primera Divisió. History. UE Santa Coloma was founded on 23 September 1986. In 1996 the club started aa football academy. During few seasons the club was farm team for many Andorran teams including FC Santa Coloma. The first football team was refounded in 2006 by joining the Andorran football league Segona Divisió 2007. The team plays in the Primera Divisió after winning the Segona Divisió in the 2007–08 season. The club made its first matches in European competition in the UEFA Europa League after finishing second in the league in the 2009–10 season. In 2013 the team won his first trophy in the Copa Constitució. 2016 they won the cup versus UE Engordany. One year later they won the cup versus their local rival FC Santa Coloma. Colours and badge. The club colours are yellow and black. Support. The club's nickname is "Esquirols" (Squirrels) due to the number of the animals that live around the town of Santa Coloma. Club rivalries. The local rival of UE Santa Coloma is FC Santa Coloma. "Runners-up (2):" 2009–10, 2013–14 Winners (3): 2013, 2016, 2017 "Runners-up (2):" 2010, 2011 Winners (1): 2016 "Runners-up (1):" 2013 Winners (1): 2007–08 Current squad. "As of 9 January 2022"
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) is a law enforcement agency and economic intelligence agency in India. It is responsible for carring out economic laws and fighting economic crime in India. It is part of the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government Of India. ED is consisting of officers from the Indian Revenue Service, Indian Police Service and the Indian Administrative Service as well as promoted officers from its own cadre.  History. The origin of this Directorate goes back to 1 May 1956, when an ‘Enforcement Unit’ was formed, in Department of Economic Affairs. It was created for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947. In the year 1957, this unit was renamed as ‘Enforcement Directorate’.  Objective. The main objective of the Enforcement Directorate is the enforcement of three key acts of the Government of India namely, the Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 (FEMA), the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) and The Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (FEOA). The ED's (Enforcement Directorate) official website enlists its other objectives which are primarily linked to checking money laundering in India. Criticism. In July 2022, according to data shared by the Union government in Parliament, only 23 people have been convicted in 5,422 cases registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the 17 years after the law was passed. Because of such, conviction rate of less than 0.5%. The cases by ED have gone up six times in Modi's second term. It led to accusations by opposition parties. They stated that ED is being misused by the BJP for their political ends.
Absolutely Live is the first live studio album by American hard rock band The Doors. It was released on 20 July, 1970 through Elektra Records and is a double album featuring songs recorded in 1969 and 1970. Track listing. Songwriters and LP side total lengths are taken from the original 1970 Elektra Records album (individual song timings are not listed) and may differ from other sources.
Gazetted officers include all the Indian Police Service officers. They are Class I officers of the cadre and all State Police Services officers of and above the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police. All are arranged in a hierarchical order. Ranks of law enforcement in India. The ranks, posts and designations of all police officers vary from state to state as law and order is a state matter. But, generally the following pattern is observed:
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (née Romanus; 28 June 1695 – 1 May 1760) was a German poet and writer. Life. Romanus was born in Leipzig. Her father, Franz Konrad Romanus, was the mayor of Leipzig. She married Heinrich Levin von Könitz in 1711. They had a daughter in 1712. Her husband died a few years later. She remarried to Captain Georg Friedrich von Ziegler in 1715. They had a daughter. They moved to Sweden during the Great Northern War. Her husband and two daughters died in the late 1710s. She returned to Leipzig in 1722. She started writing poems. Johann Christoph Gottsched encouraged her to write poems. She wrote libretti for cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. She got a diploma from the University of Wittemberg as the Imperial Poet laureate on 17 October 1733. She married Wolf Balthasar Adolf von Steinwehr in 1741. After this marriage, she stopped publishing poems. She died in Frankfurt an der Oder.
The 1911 England–Holland women's fencing competitions were international fencing competition of British fencers against fencers of "Salle De Vos", The Hague the Netherlands who visited London from 16-20 March 1911. The main reason for their visit was competition on 17 March organized as a celebration that fencing master D. Dreese who had been associated with Bertrands Fencing Academy for 20 years. During these four days, the competitions took place at the Bertrands Fencing Academy located at the "Warwick Street" in London, the United Kingdom. Background. While fencing was already practiced by women during the 19th century, fencing was in this era a male-dominated sport. Women's fencing was introduced in 1924 at the Summer Olympics. This fencing competition was one of the earliest international fencing competition in the history of women's fencing; after in 1910 an international meeting took place between England and Belgium where the English team was beaten by the Belgian team. D. Dreese was a Dutch fencing master from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He was a successful fencer winning many prizes and also a successful trainer. By invitation of French fencer Bertrand Marie de Lesseps, who was settled in London, Dreese became a fencing master at the Bertrand’s Fencing Academy in 1881. He became very successful in London and decided later to emigrate to the United Kingdom. Preparations and travel. In December 1910, after the 1910 England–Belgium women's fencing competition negotiations for this competition started between the Dutch "Salle De Vos" and the Bertrands Fencing Academy. The initial plan was to organize the competition in The Hague, the Netherlands in February 1911, including also a friendly women's match with participation of the Belgian team of fencing hall "Verbrugge". The Dutch team went to England by boat. The sea was turbulent during the boat trip. According to the newspaper "De nieuwe courant" everybody of the Dutch team became very seasick. Not everyone had recovered from this before the competition. 16 March. On 16 March a fencing competition took place between the five Dutch fencers of
Molde () is a city and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The city is nicknamed "The City of Roses".
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame (1943 – 18 August 2022), known by the pseudonym Hadrawi, was a Somali poet, philosopher and songwriter. He was thought by many to be the greatest living Somali poet. His works have been compared to that of Shakespeare. His poetry has been translated into many languages. Hadrawi was born in Burco, British Somalia. He was honored with the Prince Claus Award in 2012. Hadrawi died on 18 August 2022 in Hargeisa, Somaliland at the age of 79.
Milton Ramírez Barboza (April 2, 1950 – August 18, 2022) was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball infielder. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1970 to 1971 and the Oakland Athletics in 1979. Ramírez was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Ramírez died on August 18, 2022 in Mayagüez at the age of 72.
The National Investigation Agency (known by its acronym NIA) is the main counter-terrorist task force of India. The agency is empowered to deal with the investigation of terror related crimes across states. They deal those case without special permission from the states under written proclamation from the Home ministry of India. History. The Agency came into existence with the enactment of the National Investigation Agency Act 2008 by the Parliament of India on 31 December 2008. It was passed after the deadly 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai. Such an attack revealed the failure of intelligence and ability to track such activities by existing agencies in India. Hence the government of India understands the need of a specific body to deal with terror related activities in India, thereby establishing the NIA. Locations. It's headquarters is in New Delhi. The NIA also has branches in Hyderabad, Guwahati, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Kolkata, Raipur, Jammu, Chandigarh, Ranchi, Chennai and Imphal. Bill. A bill for the formation of the National Investigation Agency was passed by Parliament in December 2008. As per the bill, NIA has existing jurisdiction. It empowers the Central Agency to probe terror attacks in any part of the country. It covers offences, including challenge to the country's sovereignty and integrity, bomb blasts, hijacking of aircraft and ships, attacks on nuclear installations. The National Investigative Agency Bill and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill on Tuesday, 30 December 2008, became a law as President Pratibha Patil gave her assent to the legislation which was passed in the last session of the parliament. NIA (Amendment) Bill 2019. The NIA (Amendment) Bill 2019 was passed by the parliament on 17 July 2019. The Bill aims to give more teeth to the investigating powers of the NIA. It empowers the NIA to probe terror attacks targeting Indians and Indian interests abroad. The aims of the bill is to primarily empower the anti-terror agency to investigate offences such as human trafficking; circulation of fake currency; manufacture and sale of prohibited arms; and cyber-terrorism.
María Elena Holly (née Santiago; born December 20, 1932) is a Puerto Rican businesswoman. She is the widow of American rock and roll legend Buddy Holly. She owns the rights to his name, image, trademarks, and other property. In 2010, Santiago-Holly co-founded the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation.