Natasha Abigail Taylor (born 14 December 1969), known professionally as Natascha McElhone (), is an English actress. She was in "Ronin" (1998), "The Truman Show" (1998) and "Solaris" (2002).
Life (Culture Club album)
Life is an album by Culture Club. It was released in 2018. It was their sixth album together (apart from several Greatest Hits albums.)
'God and Love' 'Human Zoo', 'Let Somebody Love You', 'What Does Sorry Mean?', 'Runaway Train', 'Resting Bitch Face', 'Different Man', 'Oil and Water', 'More than Silence', and 'Life'
David Khakhaleishvili
David Khakhaleishvili (, 28 February 1971 – 11 January 2021) was a Georgian heavyweight judoka, mixed martial artist and Olympic gold medalist. He was born in Kutaisi, Georgia. He won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He was not able to qualify for the 1996 Summer Olympics because of his weight.
Khakhaleishvili died of heart disease on 11 January 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia at the age of 49.
History of Liberia
Liberia is a country in West Africa. White Americans made the American Colonization Society and bought the land in 1822. They didn't want black people who were not slaves to be in the United States. So they took some of them to Liberia. At the start of the American Civil War (in the 1860s) about 12,000 freed slaves lived there.
The name of the country means "Land of the Free" in Latin. Liberia gained its independence on July 26, 1847. Joseph Jenkins Roberts was the first president of Liberia. European states were quick to recognize Liberia as a state, but it took the US until 1862 to do so. Many of the black people who were sent to Liberia were missionaries. Its official language today is English because of this history.
In the 1990s and in the early 2000s, two civil wars badly affected the country.
The country's constitution is similar to that of the United States. In the 2017 elections, George Weah became the twenty-fifth President of Liberia. The President before Weah was Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first African female president.
Wayne Radford
Wayne Radford (May 29, 1956 – January 11, 2021) was an American professional basketball player. He played the guard position. Raford was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He won the NCAA Division I championships in 1976. From 1978 to 1979, Radford played for the Indiana Pacers.
Radford died on January 11, 2021 at the age of 64.
Jessie Cave
Jessica Alice Cave Lloyd (born 5 May 1987) is an English actress, comedian and cartoonist. She played Lavender Brown in the "Harry Potter" movie series. She is also known for her shows in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Shefali Chowdhury
Shefali Chowdhury (born 20 June 1988) is a Welsh actress. She played Parvati Patil in the "Harry Potter" movie series, except for "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (2004).
Chowdhury was born in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales. Her parents were from Bangladesh. Chowdhury's career began in 2005.
Second impeachment of Donald Trump
Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was impeached for a second time by the United States House of Representatives on January 13, 2021. This made Trump the only president to be impeached twice. After the impeachment, a trial happened in the United States Senate. It happened after his presidency ended. The Senate voted that Trump was not guilty, with only 57 guilty votes. Over two thirds (67) votes were needed for Trump to be found guilty.
After the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters on January 6, 2021, many government officials said that Trump had told them to do it. Because of this, Members of Congress from both the Democratic Party wanted to remove Trump from his office as President of the United States. Most Republicans still support the President.
Firstly, they wanted Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to be used by Vice President Mike Pence, which would remove office from Trump immediately. If he didn't do this, they said they would impeach him in the House of Representatives and convict him in the Senate instead. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment was also talked about.
As of January 8, Democrats planned to push for an impeachment resolution on January 11. By late January 9, it was said that Pence had not ruled out that he might use the 25th Amendment. On January 11, an Article of Impeachment saying that Trump caused the "lawless action at the Capitol" began in the United States House of Representatives.
On January 13, the House voted to impeach Trump.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius".
Eggers is also the founder of "McSweeney's", a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch.
Amnon Rubinstein
Amnon Rubinstein (, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. He was a member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002. He was born in Tel Aviv. Rubinstein was a member and leader of the Shinui party. He was a member of the Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin cabinets.
Rubinstein was Minister of Communications from 1984 to 1987. He was Minister of Science, Technology and Space in 1992. From 1992 to 1993, he was Minister of National Infrastructures, Energy and Resources. From 1993 to 1996, Rubinstein was Minister of Education, Culture and Sport.
In 2006, Rubinstein won the Israel Prize, for law.
Nina Wiener
Nina Wiener Avidar (born 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli activist. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt. In 1977, she founded the ISAF - International Fund for Education.
The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem. It was founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as "The Palestine Post". In 1950, it changed its name to "The Jerusalem Post". The newspaper is published in English and also printed a French edition.
Slash-and-burn
Slash-and-burn is a technique that has been used for thousands of years. Usually at the start of the dry season, a plot of land is cleared of its vegetation. Very often, this is done manually, for example using machetes. This can take a long time, clearing a hectare can take up to 120 hours of work. If the land is to be used for crops that last more than two years, the roots need to be cleared as well. Usually this is not done for annual plants. The plants cleared are left to dry, often for weeks. When they are dry enough, they are burnt. The ash that is created makes the soil fertile. Weeds, and other pests have also been eliminated, so the field can be used for agriculture. After three to five years, the extra fertility is gone, and the farmer usually moves ot another field (or again uses slash-and-burn).
While the technique is very simple, it also has problems: Often, fires created get out of control, and more land is burned than necessary. That way, a territory the size of Belgium burned down in a fire, created in 1989, in the state of Roraima in Brazil. In general, there are few large fires in the rainforest. the climate is very wet, and rivers block the fires. In southeast Asia, between May and October, many people have health problems because of the clouds of smoke. During that time, slash-and-burn operations happen in Indonesia. These fires are responsible for the clouds.
Millions of people use slash-and-burn agriculture, often as a way of subsistence farming. For this reason, the practice cannot be outlawed. Some steps can be taken ot lessen the impact on the ecosystem:
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