Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill (born 1957) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist. He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures "Blood: The Stuff of Life", his 2007 novel "The Book of Negroes" and his 2001 memoir "Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada". Hill was born in Newmarket, Ontario.
Hill served as chair of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Snowdrop
The snowdrop is Galanthus, a genus of small herbaceous plants. There are about 20 species in this genus. They have two swordlike leaves and a small white bell-like drooping flower.
Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a website that has web pages from the past. It is a time machine of the internet.
The Internet Archive started the Wayback Machine in October 2001.
Ishq Subhan Allah
Ishq Subhan Allah is an Indian television series that premiered on 14 March 2018 and Telecasts Monday To Friday at 10:00 P.M. And airs on Zee TV. The series is being developed and written by Danish Javed and produced by Creative Eyes Limited and broadcastes on Zee TV. The series stars Eisha Singh and Adnan Khan in lead roles.
Luyana language
Luyana, also called Luyi, is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken mostly in Zambia.
The language is taught in primary schools and secondary schools.
The language uses the Latin alphabet. It was made in 2011.
Johnny Sauter
Jonathan Joseph "Johnny" Sauter is an American racecar driver. He currently drives in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 98 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing. Sauter won the 2016 Camping World Truck Series championship.
Sauter gained national attention in 2001, when he won the ASA national Tour championship, when he won ten races. That same year, he ran a partial NASCAR Busch Series schedule for Richard Childress Racing. The following year, he ran a full season and earned his first win at Chicagoland Speedway. Sauter was also involved in one of the biggest crashes in NASCAR history, a thirty-plus car accident at Talladega Superspeedway. In 2003, Sauter split time between RCR and the Curb Agajanian team, driving 15 races for Curb and the other 19 for RCR. He also raced in his first five Winston Cup Series races with Morgan-McClure Motorsports.
In between the 2003 and 2004 seasons, Sauter signed with RCR to run the full Cup schedule and also with Brewco Motorsports to run the full Busch Series schedule. He joined teammates Kevin Harvick and Robby Gordon and crew chief Kevin Hamlin at RCR. Sauter ran the full Busch schedule, performing well on short tracks. However, he was released after thirteen Cup races.
After moving from ThorSport Racing to GMS Racing before 2016, Sauter won the 2016 Truck championship. During the 2017 season, he was the first driver to test a standard engine for the Truck Series.
On the day of the last race of 2017, Sauter said that he would return to GMS in 2018.
Sauter is married with kids. He was born and raised in Necedah, Wisconsin and is a lifelong Catholic.
Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary (since 2001) of Dow Chemical Company. It currently employs more than 2,400 people. Union Carbide produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers before reaching consumers. Some are high-volume commodities and others are specialty products meeting the needs of smaller markets. Markets served include paints and coatings, packaging, wire and cable, household products, personal care, pharmaceuticals, automotive, textiles, agriculture, and oil and gas. The company is a former component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Union Carbide was 50.9% stakeholder in Union Carbide India Limited, the company responsible for the Bhopal disaster.
Founded in 1917 as the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, from a merger with National Carbon Company, the company's researchers developed an economical way to make ethylene from natural gas liquids, such as ethane and propane, giving birth to the modern petrochemical industry. Before divesting them, the chemical giant owned consumer products Eveready and Energizer batteries, Glad bags and wraps, Simoniz car wax, and Prestone antifreeze. The company divested other businesses before being acquired by Dow Chemical on February 6, 2001, including electronic chemicals, polyurethane intermediates, industrial gases and carbon products.
Lozi people
The Lozi people are a group of people mainly from western Zambia. They speak the Silozi language.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (born 17 November 1952) is a South African politician. He is the 5th and current President of South Africa since the resignation of Jacob Zuma on 14 February 2018.
Ramaphosa was an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman. Ramaphosa served as Deputy President of South Africa under Zuma from 2014 to 2018. He was elected as President of the African National Congress (ANC) at the ANC National Conference in Nasrec, South of Johannesburg in December 2017.
On February 10, 2020, Ramaphosa became Chairperson of the African Union.
Débora Pérez Volpin
Débora Pérez Volpin (30 December 1967 – 6 February 2018) was an Argentine politician, journalist and television host. She was born in Buenos Aires. She was known as the presenter of the news Todo Noticias from 1996 until 2017 and the program " Arriba argentinos " from 2005 to 2017.
In 2017 she entered politics and was elected legislator of the City of Buenos Aires on the front Evolution of Martín Lousteau.
Pérez Volpin died of cardiopulmonary arrest in Buenos Aires on 6 February 2018 at the age of 50.
Martin van der Borgh
Martin van der Borgh (28 October 1934 – 12 February 2018) was a Dutch cyclist. Van der Borgh was born in Koningsbosch, Netherlands. Van der Borgh was active between 1954 and 1964. He won the Ronde van Limburg (1954), Tour du Nord (1961) and individual stages of the Tour de France (1960) and Tour de Luxembourg (1958, 1963). He also won the bronze medal in the road race at the 1954 UCI Road World Championships.
Van der Borgh died on 12 February 2018 in Brunssum, Netherlands of a stroke at the age of 83.
Sadako Ogata
Ogata died on 22 October 2019 in Tokyo at the age of 92; her death was announced on 29 October.
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Thorvald Stoltenberg (8 July 1931 – 13 July 2018) was a Norwegian politician. His ancestors stem from Tønsberg. He was the Minister of Defence (1979–81) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987–1989 and 1990–1993) in two Labour governments.
Stoltenberg's son, Jens, was the 27th Prime Minister and is the Secretary General of NATO.
From 1989 to 1990 he was appointed Norwegian Ambassador to the UN. In 1990 he became the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but served only one year before rejoining the Norwegian government.
Stoltenberg died on 13 July 2018 at the age of 87 after a short illness.
Morgan Tsvangirai
Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (; 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician. He was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was President of the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and a key figure in the opposition to former President Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai died on 14 February 2018 at a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa from colorectal cancer at the age of 65.
Tito Francona
John Patsy Francona (November 4, 1933 – February 13, 2018) was a Major League Baseball player. As a child, he was nicknamed "Tito" by his father. His son, Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona. He was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.
Francona played for the Baltimore Orioles (1956–1957), Chicago White Sox (1958), Detroit Tigers (1958), Cleveland Indians (1959–1964), St. Louis Cardinals (1965–1966), Philadelphia Phillies (1967), Atlanta Braves (1967–1969), Oakland Athletics (1969–1970) and for the Milwaukee Brewers (1970).
Francona died at his home in New Brighton, Pennsylvania of natural causes on February 13, 2018 at the age of 84.
Antoni Krauze