The first tower was planned by the Yongle Emperor of the Ming family of rulers in the early 1400s. It was built under his grandson the Xuande Emperor as part of his work on the Great Bao'en Temple between 1428 and 1431. It was 30meters (97feet) high and had 9 floors. The top of the tower had a golden pineapple. This first porcelain tower was destroyed by the Taipings in 1856.
After Deng Xiaoping's Opening Up Policy made China richer, a successful businessman named Wang Jianlin gave Nanjing 1,000,000,000 in 2010 to rebuild the Porcelain Tower. The copy and the park around it opened in December 2015.
Pierre Duchesne
Pierre Duchesne (born February 27, 1940) is a Canadian statesman. He was the 28th lieutenant-governor of Quebec. He represents the crown.
Gudenå
Gudenå (pronounced "Goo-den-o") is the longest river in Denmark. It is 149 kilometers long. The river starts at a spring called "Tinnet Krat" and flows through Jutland.
Pasig River
The Pasig River is a river that passes through the capital of the Philippines, Manila. It is named after the city Pasig. It has a drainage basin that is bigger than 4,000 square kilometers, but is only 25 kilometers long. It is very polluted.
Chi Cygni
Chi Cygni is a Mira variable star located in the Cygnus constellation. It is 737 times larger than the Sun. Chi Cygni is a red giant star that is about to end its life.
Ambareesh
Malavalli Huchche Gowda Amarnath (29 May 1952 – 24 November 2018) known by his screen name Ambareesh, was an Indian actor and politician. He was known for his Bollywood movie roles in "Naagarahaavu" and in "Paduvaaralli Pandavaru". He was known as "Mandayada Gandu" (English: Man of Mandya). He was born in Doddarasinakere, Karnataka.
In his political career, Ambareesh, a member of the Indian National Congress, was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1998 and retired in 2009. He also was India's Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 2006 to 2007 when Manmohan Singh was Prime Minister.
Ambareesh died on 24 November 2018 at a Bangalore hospital from a heart attack at the age of 66.
Věra Růžičková
Věra Růžičková (10 August 1928 – 24 November 2018) was a Czech gymnast. She competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. She was born in Brno. She won a gold medal as a member of the Czech squad in the team competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Růžičková died in Prague on 24 November 2018 from breast cancer at the age of 90.
Eddie Reeves
Edward Benton "Eddie" Reeves (November 17, 1939 – November 18, 2018) is an American songwriter, recording artist, music publisher, artist manager, record company executive, and author. He was born in Austin, Texas, but raised in Amarillo, Texas. He was known for writing "All I Ever Need Is You", which has been covered by Ray Charles, Sonny & Cher, Ray Sanders, Andre Hazes, Tom Jones, Sammi Smith, Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed and Kenny Rogers & Dottie West. Reeves was nominated for three Grammy Awards.
Reeves died in Houston from a stroke on November 18, 2018 one day after his 79th birthday.
Randolph L. Braham
Randolph Louis Braham (December 20, 1922 – November 25, 2018) was an American historian and political scientist. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
He was the author or editor of over 60 books and co-authored or written chapters to 50 others and published a large number of scholarly articles. His works dealt with the Holocaust in Hungary and 20th-century Hungarian history, as well as history in post-World War II politics in Hungary.
Braham died on November 25, 2018 in New York City at the age of 95.
Willie Naulls
William Dean Naulls (October 7, 1934 – November 22, 2018) was an American basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association from 1956 to 1966. He was born in Dallas, Texas, but was raised in Los Angeles, California. He played for the St. Louis Hawks, New York Knicks, Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celtics.
Naulls died on November 22, 2018 in Laguna Niguel, California from respiratory failure at the age of 84.
Laguna Niguel, California
Laguna Niguel is a suburban city in Orange County, California in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 62,979.
Laguna Niguel has a median household income 31 percent above the Orange County average and nearly double the U.S. average. It is known for its mild coastal climate and very low crime rate.
C. K. Jaffer Sharief
Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief (3 November 1933 – 25 November 2018) was an Indian politician. He was one of the senior most Indian National Congress leaders. He was the Railways Minister of the Government of India from 1991 until 1995 when P. V. Narasimha Rao was Prime Minister. He was a member of Lok Sabha from 1971 to 1996 and again from 1998 to 2004.
Sharief died at the age of 85 in Bengaluru from a heart attack on November 25, 2018.
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Pamulaparti Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June 1921 – 23 December 2004) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He was the 9th Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996. He was born in Vangara, Hyderabad State, British India (now in Telangana, India).
Rao died of a heart attack at a hospital in New Delhi on 23 December 2004 at the age of 83.
I. K. Gujral
Inder Kumar Gujral (4 December 1919 – 30 November 2012) was an Indian politician. He was the 12th Prime Minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998. Gujral was the third Prime Minister to be from the Rajya Sabha.
Gujral died on 30 November 2012 from a lung infection at a Gurgaon hospital at the age of 92.
Gurgaon
Gurugram, formerly named Gurgaon, is a city in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is near the Delhi-Haryana border, about southwest of the national capital New Delhi and south of Chandigarh, the state capital. It is one of the major satellite cities of Delhi and is part of the National Capital Region of India. , Gurugram had a population of 876,900.
Gulzarilal Nanda
Gulzari Lal Nanda (4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998) was an Indian politician and economist. He was the caretaker Prime Minister of India for two short periods following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (, , 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician. He was the 2nd Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party.
Shastri died on 11 January 1966 in Tashkent, Soviet Union from a heart attack at the age of 61. Many people believed that there was a conspiracy to his death and that he was murdered.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Devdas Gandhi (born 22 April 1945) is an Indian politician. He was the 22nd Governor of West Bengal from 2004 to 2009. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the United Progressive Alliance nominee for Vice President of India in the 2017 elections and lost with 244 votes against NDA candidate Venkaiah Naidu, who got 516 votes.
Rajmohan Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi (born 7 August 1935) is an Indian politician, writer, historian and researcher. He is the research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. He is also a scholar in residence at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
Gandhi was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1990 to 1992.
Arun Manilal Gandhi