David Starkey CBE FSA (born 3 January 1945) is a British historian. He is also a presenter on television and radio. His main topic is the British Royal Family.
Starkey was born in Kendal, Westmorland. He studied at Kendal Grammar School and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he gained a PhD. In the early 1970s he moved to London, where he became a teacher.
Starkey's television work includes: "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", "Monarchy by David Starkey", "The Tudors", "" and "The Churchills".
Starkey lives in Highgate, London and Kent. He is an atheist. He is openly gay and lived with his partner James Brown. James Brown died in 2015.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates has taught at Princeton University since 1978.
Oates was born in Lockport, New York. She was raised Catholic. When she was 14 she started writing. Oates graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in English in 1960.
In 1960 Oates' first novel, "With Shuddering Fall", was published by The Vanguard Press. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Oates wrote several books, mostly mystery novels, under the pen names "Rosamond Smith" and "Lauren Kelly". In 2011 a book Oates wrote about her life called "A Widow’s Story" was published.
Hey (band)
Hey is a Polish rock band. It was started by Piotr Banach and Kasia Nosowska in 1991. Their first album, "Fire", was released in February 1991.
American and British English spelling differences
American English and British English spell some words differently.
One difference is that some words that have 'er' at the end in the US have 're' at the end in the UK. Some examples of this are:
Another difference is that some words with 'or' at the end in the US have 'our' at the end in the UK. Some examples of this are:
Another difference is words that have one 'l' in the US, but two in the UK.
Another difference is the use of '-ize' or '-ization' in American English and '-ise' or '-isation' in British English. Some examples of this are:
Club foot
A club foot or clubfoot, also called congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV), is a birth defect. In about half of children born with club foot both feet are affected.
Amal Nasser el-Din
Amal Nasser el-Din (; born 31 July 1928) is an Israeli Druze writer and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1977 and 1988.
Nasser el-Din was born in Daliyat al-Karmel, Mandatory Palestine.
Die Form
Die Form is a French electronic band. Philippe Fichot started Die Form in 1977. Their first album "Die Puppe" was released in 1982.
Killarney
Killarney is a big town in County Kerry in Ireland. The town name is an Anglicisation of the Irish words "Cill Airne". These words mean "the church of the sloe tree".
Killarney is in the centre of County Kerry. It is on the north east side of a lake called Lough Leane. County Kerry is on the south west coast of Ireland. It is next to the Atlantic Ocean.
Killarney is the main town in the Killarney National Park. People stay in the town to visit the tourist attractions in the area. There are many hotels and tourist shops in Killarney. It is also on the popular tourist circuit called the Ring of Kerry. The route passes spectacular mountain and coastal scenery and many historic and cultural sites.
County Kilkenny
County Kilkenny is a county in Ireland. It is in the historical province of Leinster.
Cebreros
Cebreros is a small city in Castile-Leon, Spain. It has the population of 3,223. Former Prime Minister of Spain, Adolfo Suárez, was born here in 1932.
Ávila Cathedral
The Cathedral of Ávila is a Romanesque and Gothic church. It is in Ávila. It is just south of Old Castile, Spain. It also has a cemetery. It was built in 1475.
The Cathedral of Ávila was one of 100 finalists for the 12 Treasures of Spain in 2007.
Ávila, Spain
Ávila is a town in Castile and León. It is the capital of the Province of Ávila. 58,245 live here as of 2010.
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (April 30, 1912 – December 15, 1995) was a Spanish politician and general. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Spain under Adolfo Suárez. He served from 23 September 1976 through 26 February 1981. He was also Spain's first Minister of Defense from 1977 to 1979.
Mellado died in a road accident in Torremocha del Campo, Spain, aged 83.
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil (July 23, 1910 – November 6, 1994) was a conservative Spanish politician. He was the deputy and interim prime minister of Spain during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s.
He had earlier been a general in the Spanish Civil War and under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo, Grandee of Spain (; 14 April 1926 – 3 May 2008) was a Spanish politician. He was the prime minister during the end of Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain.
He died of cardiac arrest at his home in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, aged 82.
Prime Minister of Spain
The President of the Government of Spain, (), is the head of Government of Spain. The office was created by the Constitution of 1978. The current Prime Minister is Pedro Sánchez. The first politician to carry the office of Prime Minister was Adolfo Suárez.
There are four living former Spanish Prime Ministers:
The most recent Prime Minister to die was Adolfo Suárez (served 1976–1981) on 23 March 2014, aged 81.
José María Aznar
José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004.
The Railway Man
The Railway Man is a 2013 British-Australian drama war movie. It is about a British officer who is captured by the Japanese during World War II, held prisoner, used as slave labour and tortured. He has psychological trauma from his experiences. Colin Firth plays Eric Lomax. Nicole Kidman plays Patti Lomax.
Reviews of the movie were mixed to positive. It was released December 2013 in Australia. It was released April 2014 in the United States.
Democratic and Social Centre (Spain)
Democratic and Social Centre (in Spanish: "Centro Democrático y Social", CDyS or CDS) was a centrist, social liberal political party in Spain. It was founded in 1982 by former prime minister Adolfo Suárez. In 2006, most of its remaining members merged into the People's Party.
L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire
The L'Isle-Verte nursing home fire happened on January 23, 2014 at the Résidence du Havre nursing home in the town of L'Isle-Verte, Quebec at approximately 12:35 a.m.
An overnight worker talked to police and told Québecor Média that he was "95% sure" the fire was caused by a cigarette that was lit by a resident who refused to be let outside to smoke less than an hour earlier. He also said that the black smoke that was billowing from above the cracked open door of room 206 on the man's second-floor room. When the worker tried to help, he had "began to suffocate" and needed to leave. On his way out, he was able to rescue a man who had broken his leg by jumping from his balcony. In the fire, an estimated 32 people were killed and 15 people were injured.
Fire safety experts as well as groups such as the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, Ontario Retirement Communities Association, l'Association Québécoise de Défense des Personnes Retraitées et Préretraitées and the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs have called for more strict fire safety measures including required sprinkler installation. As of 2014, 54% of Québec's private homes for the elderly have no sprinklers. The Québec health minister Réjean Hébert suggested that the requirements be more strengthened to put sprinklers into homes for semi-autonomous elderly.
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