James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr. (September 28, 1927 – December 12, 2018) was an American admiral in the United States Navy. He was Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987. He was born in New Jersey. Lyons was known for writing a column about Seth Rich, a murdered lobbyist, that was retracted by "The Washington Times". Lyons claimed Hillary Clinton was responsible for the killing.
Lyons died on December 12, 2018 from respiratory failure in Warrenton, Virginia at the age of 91.
William Newsom
William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was an administrator of the Getty family trust. He was the father of California governor Gavin Newsom.
In 1975, Jerry Brown appointed Newsom to the Superior Court bench in Auburn (Placer County) and later to the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco, where he was until 1995.
Newsom died on December 12, 2018, at his home, in San Francisco, California, aged 84.
Seán Garland
Seán Garland (7 March 1934 – 13 December 2018) was an Irish politician. He was born in Dublin. He was a member of the Workers' Party. He was General-Secretary of the Party from 1977 to 1990. Garland was the Workers' Party representative at the National Forum on Europe. In 2000, he was elected President of the Workers' Party.
Garland died on 13 December 2018 in Dublin at the age of 84.
Noah Klieger
Noah Klieger (; July 31, 1925 – December 13, 2018) was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. He was born in Strasbourg, France. As a journalist, he worked for "L'Équipe".
During the Holocaust Klieger survived the concentration camps Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, and Ravensbruck. After World War II, he worked as a sports journalist in Israel. He was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA)'s media council.
In 2010 Noah Klieger was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, and 2015 he was inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame for his contributions to international basketball.
In 2012 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honour (Legion d'Honneur), France's award for civilian merit.
Klieger died on December 13, 2018 in Ramat Gan, Israel, from complications of heart disease, aged 92.
Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American jazz singer and actress. Her career began in 1950 and she retired in 2011. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Wilson won three Grammy Awards for her recordings. She was known as "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Her best known works were "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", "I Wanna Be With You", and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".
Wilson died from kidney cancer on December 13, 2018, at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.
Pioneertown, California
Pioneertown, California, is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of San Bernardino's High Desert in California, United States. , Pioneertown had a population of 350.
In July 2006, parts of Pioneertown were burned in the Sawtooth Complex fire, which also burned into Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley.
Sheshan
Sheshan is the name for a pair of hills in Songjiang District in Shanghai, China. These two hills are West Sheshan, which is 97 meters high, and East Sheshan, which is 100.8 meters high.
The Chinese name is "Shéshān" (佘山). "Shé" (佘) is the name of a Chinese family, and "shān" (山) is a word that can mean "mountain", "mountains", "hill", or "hills". Some people say that the hills' name used to be "Shéshān" (蛇山), meaning "Snake Hill", but that the Chinese character was changed because people don't like snakes.
The hills are part of a forest park that is 64.08 square kilometers big. The park is open from 8 to 4:30 .
The top of the West Hill has Our Lady of Sheshan Catholic Church and the Sheshan Observatory. The East Hill has an amusement park.
Sheshan Station is a Shanghai Subway station on Line 9.
Dutch Cross of Resistance
The Verzetskruis 1940–1945 (Dutch: "Cross of Resistance 1940–1945") is the second highest military medal in the Netherlands given for bravery. It was awarded to members of the Dutch resistance. They were civilians who fought the Nazi occupation of their country during the Second World War.
SAM Colombia Flight 501
SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a SAM Colombia Boeing 727-46 that crashed on May 19, 1993, killing all 132 on board, including several Panamanian dentists on their way to a convention. The crew reported over the Abejorral NDB beacon at FL160, approaching Medellín. The flight was then cleared to descend to FL120. The 727 had actually not yet reached the beacon, and descended into mountainous terrain. The flight struck Mount Paramo Frontino at 12,300 feet. Thunderstorm activity in the area made ADF navigation more difficult and the Medellín VOR/DME had been attacked by terrorists and was unserviceable.
Montsoreau
Montsoreau () is a historical and cultural town in Europe situated in France. Only 500 people live in it, and over 100 thousand people live in the bigger Saumur. It is in the east end of the region of Pays de la Loire, which is in the nortwestern France. It is the home of the Chateau de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, recently opened by the french contemporary art collector Philippe Méaille.
Montsoreau is both listed part of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site, and among the most beautiful villages of France.
The main witness of the first settlement is the , which probably dates from the 3rd millennium BC. Montsoreau is located on the borders of the territories of the Gallic tribes of Pictones, Turones and Andecavi. Coins, shards and fragments of Gallo-Roman tiles, were found in Montsoreau, especially on the edge of the plateau, above the town.
Montsoreau was identified under the name "Restis" (rope or fish net) at the end of classical antiquity as a port on the Loire at the confluence of the Loire and the Vienne. It kept this name until the end of the eleventh century.
The name "Montsoreau" (Mount Soreau) come from a rocky promontory situated in the riverbed of the Loire and surrounded by water. There has been three major buildings on this promontory, a Gallo-Roman temple or administrative building, a fortified castle, and a Renaissance palace.
The first fortified castle was built by the count of Blois at the end of the tenth century, immediatly taken by The Count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra, took the fortress in 1001 and incorporated it to Anjou. Fulk, who was one of the first great builders of Medieval castles, modified it, and the fortress remained under the control of Anjou, never taken, during more than 150 years.
In 1152, Guillaume IV de Montsoreau sided with Geoffroy Plantagenet against his brother Henry II Plantagenet, future king of England and husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henri II besieged the castle and took it at the end of August 1152 despite the care taken at its fortification. This was the one and only storming of the medieval fortress of Montsoreau between Fulk and Jean II de Chambes in 1450.
At the end of the Hundred Years War, Charles VII and Louis XI installed royal power in Chinon. They encouraged or ordered their lords to build new buildings or redevelop old fortresses. Thus began the construction of buildings in a new style in France, giving birth to Renaissance architecture, with the renowned "Châteaux of the Loire Valley".