Grand Duke Jean abdicated on 7 October 2000. He was succeeded on the throne by his son Henri. Grand Duke Jean lived at Fischbach Castle.
Jean died at a hospital in Luxembourg City on 23 April 2019 from a lung infection at the age of 98.
2014 North American polar vortex
The 2014 North American polar vortex was a weather system that caused extremely cold weather through Canada and the United States. Freezing temperatures went all the way down to Nashville, Tennessee. Several cities broke records: Chicago O'Hare International Airport set a record on 6 January with a temperature of , beating the record in 1884 and 1988. There were also power failures throughout Canada and United States. One in Newfoundland on 5 January took out the power of 190,000 customers. Almost 24,000 people lost electricity across Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton ordered all schools closed down due to weather. Across Indiana, over fifty of the state's ninety-two counties ordered roads closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles, mostly north of Indianapolis.
Several people were killed because of the extreme weather all across North America.
Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is a British philosopher. He went to Clifton College. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote "The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy".
Strange Days (movie)
Strange Days is a cyberpunk thriller movie. It was released on October 13, 1995. The story is about celebrations for the new millennium in Los Angeles, in December 1999. The area is a dangerous war zone. The movie is also about coverups, murders and deception. Ralph Fiennes plays Lenny, Angela Bassett plays Mace and Juliette Lewis plays Faith. Its run time was 145 minutes.
The reviews of the movie were positive. The movie, however, did not make much money at the box office.
Marcia Griffiths
Marcia Griffiths (born November 23, 1949) is a Jamaican singer. She had "Electric Boogie" (also called the "Electric Slide") in the late 1980s as a hit single. Griffiths began her singing career in 1964. She usually performs reggae music. She was in a duet named Bob and Marcia.
Griffiths was born in Kingston.
Liz Jones
Elizabeth Ann "Liz" Jones (born 5 September 1958) is a British journalist. She is known for writing for the Daily Mail. In 2014 Jones became a contestant on "Celebrity Big Brother (UK)". She was one of the contestants nominated for the first eviction.
In April 1999 Jones became the editor of "Marie Claire" magazine. She was sacked two years later.
She became anorexic when she was 11 years old. She is deaf. She married Nirpal Singh Dhaliwa in 2002. In 2007 she divorced him.
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St. Edmund Hall is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded as a hall for undergraduate students sometime prior to 1317. There is no record of the date it was founded, but it likely existed as a hall in the early 13th Century. Because the other Oxford colleges did not begin to admit undergraduates until the 16th Century, it claims to be the oldest academic society for undergraduates at any university. The Hall became a full college of the University in 1957.
St John's College, Oxford
St. John's College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas White. White was a rich merchant from London.
Soldiers of Christ, Arise
Soldiers of Christ, Arise is an English hymn from the 18th century. The words were written by Charles Wesley (1707–1788), and came from a poem called "The Whole Armour of God, Ephesians VI" in 1747.
Robert Zulj
Robert Zulj (born 5 February 1992) is an Austrian football player. He plays for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.
He also played in the Austrian Under-18 and Under-19 national team. At the moment he plays in the Under-21 national team. In January 2014 he went from SV Ried to FC Red Bull Salzburg.
Thomas White (merchant)
Sir Thomas White (1492–12 February 1567) was an English cloth merchant, civic leader and founder of St John's College, Oxford.
Thomas White was born in Reading, Berkshire. He was the son of William White, a clothier of Reading, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Henry Kibblewhite. At age 12 he became an apprentice to a London merchant. In time he became a prosperous clothier. In 1546 he served as of London. In 1553 he was Lord Mayor of London. Thomas White became Sir Thomas White when he was knighted by Queen Mary II of England the same year. Sir Thomas founded St John's College, Oxford in 1555. He died on 12 February 1567 at Oxford University. Sir Thomas was buried in the chapel of St. John's College, Oxford.
The Sir Thomas White Loan Charity was started in 1542 and it still exists. It gives interest-free loans to new businesses in Leicestershire and Rutland. There are several memorials to Sir Thomas White in England and he is memorialized on Leicester's .
Sir Thomas first married a woman named Avice. She died on 26 February 1558. He married secondly Joan, daughter of John Lake. She was the widow of Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Thomas White did not have any children by either wife.
Simon Hoggart
Simon David Hoggart (26 May 1946 – 5 January 2014) was an English journalist and broadcaster.
He was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, the son of Richard Hoggart and elder brother of Paul Hoggart.
Hoggart wrote opinions about politics for "The Guardian". He also wrote opinions about wine for "The Spectator". Until 2006, he presented "The News Quiz" on Radio 4. His journalism sketches have been published in a series of books.
Hoggart died from pancreatic cancer on 5 January 2014. He was aged 67.
Mustafa Ben Halim
Mustafa Ahmed Ben Halim (; born 29 January 1921) is an Libyan politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Libya from 12 April 1954 to 25 May 1957.
Ben Halim is the last surviving of the Kingdom of Libya's premiers. He is the only one of them who survived the removal of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
He was also Foreign and Transport minister, and Libyan ambassador to France.
Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon (‎; 9 April 1921 – 6 November 2015) was an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel between 1978 and 1983. He was the first Israeli president to be born in Jerusalem and not Russia.
In 2005, he was voted the 108th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website "Ynet". This poll was done to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.
Abdelmalek Benhabyles
Abdelmalek Benhabyles (27 April 1921 – 28 December 2018) was an Algerian politician. He was born in Chevreuil. He was a chairman of the Constitutional Council (President of Algeria) from 11 January 1992 until 14 January 1992.
In his later political career, he was the country's ambassador to Japan, Tunisia, Switzerland and the Vatican.
Benhabyles died in Algiers, Algeria on 28 December 2018 at the age of 97.
Port Talbot
Port Talbot is a town and community in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales. It is located 7 miles (11 km) to the east of Swansea across the Swansea Bay.
In 2011, the town had a population of 37,276.
The town is best known for Port Talbot Steelworks, one of the biggest steelworks in the world. However, for many years, the steelworks has been under threat of closure.
Arguably Port Talbot's most famous son is actor, director and film producer Sir Anthony Hopkins, who was born in the Margam suburb of the town.
PSR B1257+12 B
PSR B1257+12 B is an extrasolar planet in the constellation of Virgo. It is around 980 light years away from Earth. It was the first planet ever discovered outside of the Solar System. It is over four times bigger than Earth. It orbits the pulsar PSR B1257+12, going around it approximately every 66 days at a distance of 0.36 AU.
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves (born in 1959 in Toronto) is a Canadian painter of magic and surreal events.