Tupolev Tu-114 «Rossiya» (Russian: Tyполев Тy-114 Poccия; NATO reporting name: Cleat) was a Soviet turboprop-powered, long-range airliner designed by Tupolev.
Majene Regency
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.
The regency has eight districts ().
Mamasa Regency
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.
The airport opened in 2012 with a 700-meter runway in 2012. The airport closed in 2016.
The regency has seventeen districts ().
Mamuju Regency
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.
The regency has eleven districts ().
Mamuju (city)
Mamuju is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi.
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 in this area includes jackfruit, rambutan, durian, rice, and bananas.
Most people in Mamuju are Muslim. There are many mosques. However, some Christians and Buddhists also live here.
There is a sandeq race every August from Mamuju to Makassar.
Mamuju has two sister cities:
Achille Beltrame
Achille Beltrame (March 18, 1871 – February 19, 1945) was an Italian painter and illustrator from Arzignano.
Mustafa Ali (wrestler)
Adeel Alam (born March 28, 1986) is an American professional wrestler currently signed WWE and perform in SmackDown brand under in his ring name Mustafa Ali. Ali is first wrestler of Pakistani descent.
Alam wrestle in various wrestling promotion. During his first six years he used a mask. He did it all during the day, while working night shifts as a police officer.
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, Linch Dorado defeat Ali and he was eliminated from tournament. He appeared October 26 episode of NXT, where he and Dorado teaming with each other and entered Dusty Rohdes Tag Team Classic. But in first round they were defeated by Kota Ibushi and TJ Perkins.
2018 Puebla helicopter crash
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.
2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown
At midnight EST on Saturday, December 22, 2018, the Federal government of the United States began a shutdown because neither legislative funding was passed for the upcoming fiscal year or a continuing resolution. It lasted until 25 January 2019, the longest shutdown in history. This was also a response from President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign a bill to keep the government open due to lack of funding for his border wall. The shutdown could cost billions of dollars.
Jozef Adamec
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
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 Erika Alonso Hidalgo
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
Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician. He was a member of 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.
His wife was Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, 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 Alonso Hidalgo crashed in a field near the town of Santa María Coronango, killing him aged 50.
Bill Baillie
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.
Larry Eisenberg
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
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.