Frederick Andermann (September 26, 1930 – June 16, 2019) was a Canadian neurologist. He is most noted for his research of epilepsy. He was Professor and Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at McGill University. He helped describe Andermann syndrome, a very rare neurodegenerative genetic disorder, with his wife Eva. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006. After his death, Andermann was called one of Canada's most distinguished neurologists by McGill.
Andermann was born in what is now present-day Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He moved to Canada in 1950. He married his wife Eva in 1963. Andermann died on June 16, 2019 in Montreal, Quebec. He was 88.
Roger Marshall
Roger Wayne Marshall (born August 9, 1960) is an American politician and obstetrician. Marshall is the junior United States Senator from Kansas since 2021. He was the U.S. Representative for . He was elected in 2016. Marshall is a Republican. In August 2020, he became the Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat being left empty by Pat Roberts' retirement. He would go on to defeat Barbara Bollier in the November 2020 election.
Marshall was born in El Dorado, Kansas. He was in the United States Army Reserve for seven years, and he reached the rank of captain.
Marshall ran against Tim Huelskamp in the Republican Party primary election for in the United States House of Representatives. Marshall had support from many of Kansas's agricultural groups. They were mad at Huelskamp for losing his seat on the House Agriculture Committee. This was the first time in 100 years that a Kansan was not on that committee.
Marshall won 56% of the vote. Huelskamp won only 44%. The district is very Republican. No Democrat ran. In the general election, Marshall easily won.
On September 7, 2019, Marshall announced he would give up his House seat and run for the Senate seat being left empty by four-term fellow Republican Pat Roberts.
On August 4, 2020, Marshall won the Republican primary. He will face Democratic State Senator Barbara Bollier in the general election. In November 2020, he won the election defeating Bollier.
Marshall is against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Marshall voted for the American Health Care Act of 2017. This bill would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care Act.
Marshall is anti-abortion.
Marshall lives in Great Bend, Kansas, and he practices medicine there.
Kansas's 1st congressional district, 2016
Gunther Kress
Gunther Rolf Kress (03 March 1940 – 20 June 2019) was an Australian semiotician working at a British University. Kress was born in Germany and trained as a linguist in Australia. He was Professor of Semiotics and Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Kress named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2012.
Kress died in Rome on 20 June 2019 of heart failure. He was 79.
Primary election
A primary election is an election in which people in a political party can choose their party's candidate for a future general election.
They are used in many places in the world. It started in the United States during the progressive movement. People tried to take the power of picking a candidate away from party leaders.
There are two general types of primary elections:
State legislature (United States)
A state legislature in the United States is the legislature of any of the 50 U.S. states.
Every state legislature (except Nebraska's) is bicameral. This means that they have an upper house and a lower house. They are similar to the United States Congress in what they look like.
State legislatures do similar things as the U.S. Congress does, only for each state.
State legislatures have the power to ratify an amendment of the United States Constitution.
The first American legislature was created in 1619 by the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Pavel Chihaia
Pavel Chihaia (23 April 1922 – 18 June 2019) was a Romanian novelist. He was born in Corabia. His first novel, "Blocada" ("The Blockade"), was published in 1947. The novel was released before communist rule in Romania, and was part of an anti-communist organisation. In 1978, he left Romania to live in German city of Munich.
Chihaia died on 18 June 2019 in Munich, at the age of 97.
Kansas Legislature
The Kansas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is a bicameral legislature. It has the lower Kansas House of Representatives and the upper Kansas Senate. There are 125 state representatives and 40 state senators. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, senators for four-year terms.
They have a session every year.
ISO 3166-2:US
ISO 3166-2:US is the part for the United States in ISO 3166-2. This is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). They decide the codes for the names of the subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in I 3166-1.
Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA).
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There are other areas that were given their own country codes in ISO 3166-1.
Max Kay
Max Kay (1936 – 5 June 2019) was a Scottish-born Australian entertainer and businessman. He started his career in Scotland and toured internationally as the manager of Andy Stewart. He lived in Perth, Western Australia from the 1960s onward. He performed as an entertainer in Perth. He also served as a councillor for the City of Perth. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2003 for services to entertainment.
Kay died of pneumonia caused by cancer on 5 June 2019, at the age of 82.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Amado Carrillo Fuentes (; December 17, 1956 – July 4, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord who seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo.
Green Lantern (movie)
Green Lantern is a 2011 American superhero movie based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins, with Martin Campbell directing a script by Greg Berlanti and comic book writers Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim, which was subsequently rewritten by Michael Goldenberg. The movie tells the story of Hal Jordan, a test pilot who is selected to become the first human member of the Green Lantern Corps. Hal is given a ring that grants him superpowers, and must confront Parallax, who threatens to upset the balance of power in the universe.
P. Ramlee
Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan
Hisamuddin of Selangor
Putra of Perlis
Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu
Ja’afar of Negeri Sembilan
Salahuddin of Selangor
Sirajuddin of Perlis
Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
Muhammad V of Kelantan
Sultan Muhammad V (; born 6 October 1969) has been the Sultan of Kelantan since September 2010. He was the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia from December 2016 to his abdication in January 2019.
Abdullah of Pahang
Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah (Jawi: السلطان عبدالله رعاية
الدين المصطفى بالله شاه الحاج ابن المرحوم سلطان حاج احمد شاه المستعين بالله) (born 30 July 1959) is the 16th "Yang di-Pertuan Agong" (head of state) of Malaysia and the sixth Sultan of Pahang. He was made Sultan on 15 January 2019, replacing his father, Sultan Ahmad Shah on 11 January.
On 24 January 2019, days after his accession to the throne of Pahang, he was elected as the 16th "Yang di-Pertuan Agong" of Malaysia. He was sworn in on 31 January.
He was also a member of the FIFA Council from 2015 to 2019.
Jericho (2006 TV series)