Walker served as a chief of staff for Martin Luther King, Jr.. In 1958,Walker became an early board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He helped found a Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) chapter in 1958. As executive director of the SCLC from 1960 to 1964.
Walker died on January 23, 2018, at his home in Chester, Virginia. He was 88.
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer. He has been described as the "father of South African jazz." Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and "Bring Him Back Home".
Masekela died in Johannesburg on 23 January 2018 from prostate cancer, aged 78.
Naomi Parker
Naomi Parker Fraley (August 26, 1921 – January 20, 2018) was an American war worker and waitress. She is thought to be the likely model for the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster. She was unaware that the poster had become famous and in the interim Geraldine Hoff Doyle was credited as the model. The poster is erroneously referred to as the Rosie the Riveter poster, having become associated with the cultural icon in the 1980s. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Parker died in Longview, Washington on January 20, 2018 at the age of 96.
We Can Do It!
"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale. It actively became popular in the 1980s feminist movement.
The poster was very little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter" (modeled by Naomi Parker) after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker.
The image made the cover of the "Smithsonian" magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999.
Simon Shelton
Simon Shelton (13 January 1966 – 17 January 2018), also known as Simon Barnes, was a British actor. He was best known for playing Dark Knight in the "Incredible Games", and Tinky Winky in the BBC children's show "Teletubbies".
Shelton was born on 13 January 1966 in Shepherd's Bush, London.
Shelton played Dark Knight in "Incredible Games" from 1994 to 1995. Simon played Tinky Winky in the BBC children's show "Teletubbies". He replaced the original actor Dave Thompson who was asked to leave the show in July 1997.
Shelton was married to Emma Robbins, had three children, and lived in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He was the uncle of "The Inbetweeners" actress Emily Atack.
He died on 17 January 2018.
Roveena
Roveena is a Canadian singer and recording artist based in Toronto. Roveena is a member of the Canadian Songwriters Association
Roveena graduated from University of Waterloo where she studied piano and composition. Roveena started her music career in 2010, when she began posting song covers on YouTube including the Etta James classic "At Last", and was invited to perform live on CITY TV Breakfast Television. Roveena was also invited to sing the national anthem at various Toronto Blue Jays and NFL games. In 2012, Roveena made it to the Top 10 on the singing competition show TVI’s Superstar.
In 2016, she collaborated with Lymphoma Cancer Canada and became a Brand Ambassador of the organization.
Gordon the Big Engine
Gordon the Big Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic tender locomotive in "The Railway Series" books by Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and is one of the central characters in the television series "Thomas and Friends", which is based on the books. He is painted blue and carries the number 4. Gordon views himself as the most important engine because he is the biggest and he pulls the Express.
His first appearance in the Railway Series was in Book 1, "The Three Railway Engines". The eighth book in the series was dedicated to him, as was the thirty-first.
Toby the Tram Engine
Toby the Tram Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic tram engine in The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher; he also appears in the spin-off television series "Thomas & Friends". Toby, a tram engine with cowcatchers and sideplates, carries the North Western Railway running number seven and works on the same Ffarquhar branch line as Thomas the Tank Engine.
Toby first appeared in the seventh book in The Railway Series, "Toby the Tram Engine" in 1952, and appeared in several subsequent books. The second book focused on Toby was the sixth of Christopher Awdry's books, "Toby, Trucks and Trouble".
Amiibo
An amiibo (in Japanese: アミーボ) is an action figure of a Nintendo character. These action figures can be used in some video games on the Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch.
Camila Cabello
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao (born March 3, 1997), known simply as Camila Cabello, is a Cuban Mexican American singer and songwriter. Camila's dad is from Mexico and her mum is Cuban. She began her career in 2013 as a contestant on the American version of "The X Factor". She was eliminated from the show but was brought back with four other girl contestants to create the group Fifth Harmony. That group finished in third place.
She launched a solo career in December 2016, leading to successful songs like "Crying in the Club" and "Havana", which became her first number-one song in the US. Havanna was number 1 in the UK for four weeks and it still is in the charts. Her debut solo album, "Camila", also topped the charts the same week as "Havana" did, making her only the third artist to have their first album and a single at the top of the charts at the same time. She has a younger sister.
Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao was born on March 3, 1997, in Cojimar, Cuba. When she was six, she moved to Miami, Florida, with her Cuban mother and Mexican father.
On December 18, 2016, Cabello announced that she was leaving Fifth Harmony.
Cabello released several singles throughout 2017. Her most successful, "Havana", with rapper Young Thug, was released in August of that year, as the lead single from her first solo album. The song topped charts in Canada, Australia, and the UK. After spending seven weeks at number two in the US, the song reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the week ending January 27, 2018.
Her debut solo album, "Camila", was released on January 12, 2018. It entered at the top of the "Billboard" 200 album chart in the US with over 119,000 combined streams and copies sold. With this, she became only the third artist in history to have their first number-one album and first number-one single in the same week. Only Beyoncé and Britney Spears have done this before in 2003 and 1999, respectively.
Swisscom
Swisscom AG is the main telecommunications provider in Switzerland. The headquarters are located at Worblaufen near Bern.
Flag of Eritrea
The flag of Eritrea has a red isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side pointed toward the fly-side and then divided into two right triangles. The upper triangle is green and the lower triangle is blue with an Emblem (1952-1962) in gold (a vertical olive branch encircled by an olive wreath) centered on the hoist side of the triangle.
Jozias van Aartsen
Jozias Johannes van Aartsen (born December 25, 1947 in The Hague) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
He was acting mayor of Amsterdam from December 2017 till July 2018.
Previously Van Aartsen was mayor of The Hague, acting queen's commissioner of the Province of Drenthe, a foreign affairs and agricultural minister, an MP, and also VVD political and parliamentary leader.
He started his career as a civil servant.
Jozias van Aartsen is married with three children.
Flag of Comoros
The flag of Comoros was created in 2002.