Mohamed Morsi (, ALA-LC: "Muḥammad Muḥammad Mursī ‘Īsá al-‘Ayyāṭ " ; 8 August 1951 – 17 June 2019) was an Egyptian politician. With the support of the Muslim Brotherhood he became the fifth President of Egypt on 30 June 2012. On 3 July 2012, the Egyptian defense minister Abdul Fatah Khalil Al-Sisi declared that Morsi would no longer be president, after many people who wanted him to resign began protesting.
On 16 May 2015, Morsi was sentenced to death by an Egyptian court for passing state secrets to Qatar. In 2016 a higher court overturned the death penalty, pending another trial.
On 17 June 2019, Morsi reportedly had a heart attack in a Cairo court and later died, aged 67.
Family Business
Family Business is a 1989 crime comedy movie which stars Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick and Sean Connery. The subjects are Mafia activities, manipulation and schemes. The release date of "Family Business" was in December 1989. The movie got extremely negative review by critics. Its box office intake was only barely $12 million.
Boeing C-137 Stratoliner
The Boeing C-137 Stratoliner is a military variant of the Boeing 707 airliner. It is used by the US Air Force for air support, and for transport of the President of the United States and U.S. Federal Government. In this case it is known as Boeing VC-137.
Sikorsky VH-60N White Hawk
The Sikorsky VH-60N White Hawk is a special variant of the UH-60 Blackhawk used for transport of the President of the United States as Marine One.
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris is a 2011 American-Spanish fantasy romantic comedy movie from 2011. The cast include Kathy Bates as Gertrude, Rachel McAdams as Inez and Mimi Kennedy as Helen, Inez' mother. The subject is multiple romantic encounters. This movie was directed by Woody Allen. "Midnight in Paris" was released in May-June 2011 in the United States. It got very positive reviews from critics.
Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet
The Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet is a French and German training aircraft. Its first flight was in October 1973. It is a twin-turbojet, two-seat aircraft built entirely of metal. It is used by the famous aerobatic team of the Patrouille de France.
Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It was first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968.
The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer patients in Uzbekistan in 1955. This was the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. It explores the moral responsibility of those who stood by whilst their fellow citizens were arrested, sent to labor camps, exiled or executed.
Stalin's Great Purge, when millions were unjustly killed, was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union. It was orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1939. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials and the Red Army leadership, and repression of the peasants. There was widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. In Russian historiography the period of the most intense purge, 1937–1938, is called Yezhovshchina (; literally, "the Yezhov regime"), after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.
One of the patients had denounced a man eighteen years before to get the whole apartment they were living in together. He fears that the man, now free, might seek revenge. Others come to realize that their passivity, their failure to resist, makes them as guilty as any other. "You haven't had to do much lying, do you understand?" Shulubin tells the main character, Oleg Kostoglotov, who was in a labor camp. "At least you haven't had to stoop so low – you should appreciate that! You people were arrested, but we were herded into meetings to 'expose' you. They executed people like you, but they made us stand up and applaud the verdicts ... And not just applaud, they made us demand the firing squad, "demand" it!"
Toward the end of the novel, Kostoglotov – who, like Solzhenitsyn, was forced into exile under "Article 58", which dealt with counter-revolutionaries – realizes that the damage done to him, and to Russia, was too great. There will be no healing, no normal life now that Stalin has gone. On the day of his release from the cancer ward, toward the end of the novel, he visits a zoo, seeing in the animals people he knew: "[E]ven supposing Oleg took their side and had the power, he would still not want to break into the cages and liberate them ... [D]eprived of their home surroundings, they had lost the idea of rational freedom. It would only make things harder for them, suddenly to set them free".
Canadair CL-215
The Canadair CL-215 is a Canadian sea plane dedicated to firefighting and air transport. It is a twin-engine aircraft. It is, and it was, used in Canada, France, Greece, Turkey, and USA. Bombardier CL-415 is a modernized variant.
Renault Trafic
The Renault Trafic is a commercial van designed and built by French company Renault from 1981 to present.
Opel and Vauxhall make the same vehicle but with different names, The names are: Opel Vivaro and Vauxhall Vivaro.
Andrew Dice Clay
Andrew Dice Clay (born September 29, 1957) is an American comedian and actor. He performs stand-up comedy. He has acted in many comedy and drama movies, including "Pretty in Pink" and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Clay was born in Brooklyn, New York with the name Andrew Silverstein.
Renault Mascott
The Renault Mascott is a van designed and built by French company Renault from 1999 to 2010. It is also used as a minibus and fire engine. In 2010 it was replaced by Renault Master, third generation.
Get Shorty
Get Shorty is a 1995 crime-comedy movie. Rene Russo plays Karen Flores, John Travolta is Chili Palmer. Also in this movie are Bette Midler as Doris Saffrin, Harvey Keitel as himself and James Gandolfini as Bear. The subject of the movie is Mafia activities, scheming and loan sharks.
This crime comedy was released October 20, 1995 in United States theaters. The reviews were very positive. The budget was $30.25 million. It got back over $115 million in the box office.
Magic realism
Magic realism, or magical realism, is a genre where magical events invade a realistic environment. It is
The surprise effect of magical realism probably stems from the Western reader's separation from mythology. Mythology is a root of magical realism more easily understood by non-Western cultures.
A characteristic of magic realism is the way a novel might start with a mundane, even boring situation. So, in Mikhail Bulgakov's short story "Diaboliad", we find the central character sitting at an office in a typical Soviet organisation:
Gradually things start to go wrong... And before long, the events seem quite unbelievable. Yet, underneath, some accurate truths about Russia in the 1920s are strongly hinted.
The genre has been applied to other art forms, but it is mostly used about fictional literature.
Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29, 1954 – June 11, 1985) was an important figure in a right to die controversy in the United States. She went unconscious after arriving home from a party. She had overdosed on Valium and alcohol. Whether or not she had drugs inside her system is under controversy. She later went into a persistent vegetative state and was in that condition for ten years. She was removed from ventilation in 1976 but did not die until June 1985, when she had pneumonia. Quinlan was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1954. She died in New Jersey.
Right to die
The right to die is the belief that people have the right to end their own lives. Usually, when people talk about the right to die, they are talking about the right of people with terminal illnesses to end their lives.
The right to die is very controversial. Most arguments about the right to die focus on these questions: