Rajtoral committed suicide by hanging himself his apartment in Gaziantep, Turkey on 23 April 2017. He was 31.
Carole Hersee
Carole Hersee is a person known for being the "Test Card Girl" on BBC.
Popular Republican Union (2007)
The Popular Republican Union (French: "Union Populaire Républicaine", UPR) is a French political party. It was formed in 2007 by François Asselineau.
The party is nationalistic, and is very critical of the European Union. They are against federalism and the Americanisation of France.
Asselineau qualified to run in the 2017 French presidential election on 23 April 2017. He received almost 1% of the national vote, with 332,588 votes.
GERB
GERB (which stands for Граждани за Европейско Развитие на България, "Grazhdani za Evropeysko Razvitie na Bŭlgaria," meaning Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria. The word герб/gerb also means "coat of arms" in Bulgarian) is a political party in Bulgaria. The party leader is Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
The party supports Bulgaria's membership in the European Union. They are also called a liberal conservative and populist party. The party has been an important force in Bulgarian politics since it's creation in 2006. Their best performance was in the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received around 40% of the national vote and won 117 out of 240 seats. Their most recent performance was in the 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received 33% of the national vote and won 95 out of 240 seats.
Volya (Bulgarian political party)
Volya (Bulgarian: "Воля" meaning "Will"; previously known as Dnes and the Liberal Alliance) is a political party in Bulgaria. It was founded on 15 July 2007 by businessman Veselin Mareshki. The name "Volya" was adapted on 28 November 2016.
The party is seen as having a pro-Russian stance, and is also Eurosceptic (meaning they are critical of the European Union). It is also nationalistic and populist.
Their best performance in the parliamentary election was in 2017, where they received around 4% of the national vote and won 12 out of 240 seats.
Giannino Castiglioni
Giannino "Gio" Castiglioni (4 August 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor. His style was representational. Castiglioni was born in Milan and studied at the Accademia di Brera. He finished his studies there in 1906. From the early 1900s he primarily lived and worked in Lierna, a town on Lake Como. In 1951, he designed the master plan, the square, and several individual buildings in Lierna.
In his early career, Castiglione worked mainly as a painter. His later works were sculptures.
List of Pictish kings
This list includes Pictish kings since 312, kings have ruled the Picts since around 800 BC but the monarchs listed here are the kings and queens who have ruled the whole of Pictland or claimed to have ruled the whole of Pictland.
Caradoc
Caradoc was a knight of the Round Table. He was raised as the son of Caradoc the Elder, the king of Nates. His mother had an affair with a sorcerer named Eliavres who was his real father. During a beheading game, he chopped off his opponents head. The corpse replaced the head and explained that he was Caradoc’s biological father. Humiliated, he took his father and locked him in a tower. While attempting to escape, the wizard made a serpent wrap itself around his son's arm. A witch persuaded Eliaures, who was a magician, to make the snake attach itself to Caradoc's arm, sucking his blood. His friend Cador saved his life by putting his sister Guimer in a vat of milk and Caradoc in a vat of sour wine. This got the snake to cross from one vat to the other, giving Cador the chance to kill it with his sword. The attack caused Caradoc’s arm to “shrivel away”, and he became known as Breifbras (little-arm). Later in life he married Guignier. Due to Caradoc’s mother’s infidelity, he was very paranoid and made his wife go through a chastity test while they were both in Camelot. She passed the test and the two were given the city of Cirencester as a reward.
Cecilia Alvear
Cecilia Alvear (November 5, 1939 – April 21, 2017) was a Ecuadorian-American journalist in television news. She was the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She was known as a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burbank, California. In 1995 and 1996, Alvear was Editor at Large of "Si", a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the U.S.
Alvear died of breast cancer on April 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 77.
Chris Bearde
Chris Bearde (18 June 1936 – 23 April 2017) was an Australian comedy writer, producer and director. He was best known for his work as a writer on the 1960s hit "Laugh-In" and for co-writing and producing TV specials for Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Sonny Bono, Cher, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Andy Williams, Michael Jackson, The Osmonds, Dinah Shore, Diana Ross, and Lucille Ball. He also created the format for the original "The Gong Show". He also created "That's My Mama" and "Sherman Oaks".
Bearde died suddenly at his home in Westlake Village, California from a heart attack on 23 April 2017 at the age of 80.
Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature. Dreyfus was known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".
Dreyfus was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and is a recipient of the Harbison Prize for Outstanding Teaching at UC Berkeley. Erasmus University awarded Dreyfus an honorary doctorate "for his brilliant and highly influential work in the field of artificial intelligence, and for his equally outstanding contributions to the analysis and interpretation of twentieth century continental philosophy".
William Hjortsberg
William "Gatz" Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was known for writing the screenplay of the movie "Legend". His novel "Falling Angel" was the basis for the movie "Angel Heart" (1987).
Hjortsberg died on April 22, 2017 in Livingston, Montana from pancreatic cancer, aged 76.
John Sparrow David Thompson
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was the 4th Prime Minister of Canada. He served from November 24, 1892 until his death from a heart attack on December 12, 1894.
Chriet Titulaer
Chriet Titulaer (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017) was a Dutch astronomer, former television presenter and popular science and technology writer. He lived in Houten, Utrecht province. He was born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg province.
In 1983 Titulaer began his own television production company "Chriet Titulaer Producties BV" and did much work for Teleac and the TROS. He presented popular science programmes such as "Wondere Wereld" (Miraculous World) and television courses such as "Moderne Sterrenkunde" (Modern Astronomy) and "Nederland en het Weer" (The Netherlands and the Weather).
Titulaer made a remarkable appearance on Dutch television because of his beard and Limburgian accent.
Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan
Michael Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan (11 June 1949 – 23 April 2017) was a British diplomat and crossbench life peer.
Lord Williams was the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon. He was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008.