A TV version of the book was made with David Jason playing the part of Rincewind, and Christopher Lee playing the part of Death.
Nancy Tuckerman
Nancy Ludlow Tuckerman (December 24, 1928 – August 1, 2018) was an American secretary. She was born in Manhattan, New York.
Tuckerman was the White House Social Secretary during the Kennedy administration from early 1963 until Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn-in in November 1963. After the Kennedy assassination, she remained the personal secretary to Jackie Kennedy until Kennedy's death in 1994.
Tuckerman died on August 1, 2018 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Salisbury, Connecticut, aged 89.
Robert Dugard
Robert “Bob” Dugard (3 July 1942 – 5 August 2018) was an English motorcycle speedway rider and promoter. He was born Hove, East Sussex. Dugard rode with Eastbourne Eagles, Wimbledon Dons, and West Ham Hammers. He was the owner of Arlington Stadium.
Dugard died on 5 August 2018 in Hove from lung cancer, aged 76.
2.0 (movie)
2.0 is an Indian science fiction movie written and directed by S. Shankar, co-written by B. Jeyamohan, and produced by Subaskaran Allirajah. The movie serves as a spiritual successor to the 2010 Tamil movie "Enthiran," and features Rajinikanth reprising the roles of Dr. Vaseegaran and Chitti, alongside Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson. With an estimated budget of 570 crore it is the most expensive Indian movie made to date.
The movie is being shot in Tamil and additional dubbed releases in 13 other languages. The movie is scheduled to be released theatrically on 29 November 2018. This film received positive reviews.
Joël Robuchon
Joël Robuchon (, 7 April 1945 – 6 August 2018) was a French chef and restaurateur. He was born in Poitiers, France. Robuchon was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989. He was awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976. He published many cookbooks. He also hosted culinary television shows in France.
Robuchon owned a dozen restaurants called: L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon in Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City. He had a total of 32 "Michelin Guide" stars among them, the most of any chef in the world.
Robuchon died from pancreatic cancer on 6 August, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland, aged 73.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (also known as Godzilla II: King of the Monsters in some markets) is an American monster movie. It was directed and co-written by Michael Dougherty. It is a sequel to "Godzilla" (2014). It is the 35th movie in the "Godzilla" franchise. It stars Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Ken Watanabe, and Zhang Ziyi.
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" was released in the United States on May 31, 2019, in 2D, 3D, Dolby Cinema and IMAX.
KFUO
KFUO (850 AM) is a Christian radio station in St. Louis County, Missouri. It can be heard locally on the radio, and it also streams online. It is the longest-running Christian radio station in the United States. The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) owns and runs the station. It broadcasts talk programs about the Bible, theology, and society. It also plays Lutheran sacred music. The station broadcasts four Lutheran church services on the weekends.
KFUO's studios are in the LCMS headquarters in Kirkwood, Missouri. The transmitter is located at Concordia Seminary in Clayton.
KFUO broadcasts on the same frequency as KOA (AM) in Denver, Colorado. KOA is a clear-channel station. Because of this, KFUO must stop at night. The station's website plays sacred music when the 850 AM signal is off the air.
On February 19, 1923, Richard Kretzschmar said that there should be a Lutheran radio station. This happened at a meeting of the Board of Control of Concordia Seminary. Then they raised money from students and other Lutheran organizations. Then they started a "radio committee" to oversee the project.
Soon afterwards, construction for the station began at the seminary. At this time, it was located in St. Louis. The control room and studio for the station were located in the attic of one of the seminary buildings. The license to broadcast was issued on October 25, 1924. The station went on air for the first time the next day. It broadcast a speech about the laying of the cornerstone for the new seminary being constructed in Clayton. The station was formally dedicated and began regular broadcasting on December 14, 1924. In 1927, the station moved to the new campus of Concordia Seminary in Clayton.
At first, KFUO had to share frequences with other stations. The FCC approved the station to move to 830 kHz on July 1, 1940. By September 1941, the FCC reassigned the station to 850 kHz, where it has remained to this day. It also received a "limited time" license because this was the same frequency as KOA in Denver. KFUO can only operate between 80.5 and 102.5 hours per week. The exact hours depend on the times of sunrise and sunset in Denver.
The LCMS started the FM station KFUO-FM at 99.1 MHz in 1948. At first, the FM station broadcast the same thing as the AM station. In 1975, KFUO-FM switched to broadcasting classical music. In March 2010 the FM station was sold to Gateway Creative Broadcasting. On July 7, 2010 of that year it switched to a Contemporary Christian format.
In 1997, the FCC said that the LCMS's radio stations had violated the FCC's Equal Employment Opportunity requirements. The FCC said that KFUO and KFUO-FM did not hire enough minorities, women, and non-Lutherans. The LCMS lost an appeal within the FCC, and then appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That court found, in Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. FCC (1998), that the FCC's requirements were unconstitutional.
KFUO began streaming its broadcast on the station's web site, kfuo.org, in 1998. In 2004, KFUO started its HD radio station, the first in Missouri.
In 2008, there was a controversy about the theological talk show, "Issues, Etc.". The program was removed from the station on March 18. The producer and host were also fired. Three weeks later, the management of KFUO announced that "Issues, Etc." was canceled because the station did not have enough money for it. The station did not make its financial information public. About 75 people had a peaceful protest outside the LCMS International Center to question the station's motives. More than 7,000 people signed a petition online to ask for the program to be returned. The program started again on another local Christian radio station on June 30, 2008. On March 13, 2012, the program returned to KFUO. The company that now produces it, Lutheran Public Radio, now pays KFUO for airtime.
The studios of KFUO were moved to the LCMS International Center, the LCMS's headquarters in Kirkwood, Missouri, on June 24, 2013. The transmitter is still located at Concordia Seminary.
Kris Kobach
Kris William Kobach (born March 26, 1966) is an American politician. He was the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas from 2011 to 2019. He served as Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party from 2007 to 2009.
Kobach was the Republican candidate for Governor of Kansas after beating incumbent Governor Jeff Colyer in the primaries by 345 votes. He lost to Democrat Laura Kelly in the general election.
On July 8, 2019, Kobach launched his 2020 campaign for the United States Senate seat of retiring Senator Pat Roberts. He lost the Republican nomination to U.S. Representative Roger Marshall in August 2020.
Kobach was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied at Harvard University, University of Oxford, and at Howard University School of Law. He served on the Overland Park City Council. Kobach was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
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