The biodiversity of the area has wide range of plants and animals species including several taxonomic endemics. The mammal species reported are 87. These include elephants, lowland gorillas, chimpanzees, hippos, giant pangolins, black colobus, mandrills and leopards. Reptile species reported are 122, and fish species are 165. It also has more than 300 bird species.
Vice-President of the Comoros
Vice-President of the Comoros was a political position in the Comoros. Vice-Presidents were appointed by the President.
From 2002 to 2011, the Presidency and the positions of the two Vice-Presidents were rotated between the three islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli. From 2011 to 2019, there were three Vice-Presidents, one from each of the islands. The positions of Vice-Presidents ended in May 2019.
History of the office holders follows.
Monkaen Kaenkoon
Monkaen Kaenkoon (, birth name : Kittikhun Boonkhamchun) is a singer from the Isan area of Thailand. Known mostly for the Luk Thung and Mor lam styles, he started on stage in 2008 from label GMM Grammy
Eric Verdonk
Eric Franciscus Maria Verdonk (28 May 1959 – 3 April 2020) was a New Zealand rower. He won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the single sculls. He also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics. At the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, he won a bronze medal. He was born in Taihape, Manawatū-Whanganui.
Verdonk died of cancer on 3 April 2020 in Auckland. He was 60.
Banteay Meanchey Province
Banteay Meanchey is a province ("khaet") of Cambodia. The capital city is Serei Saophoan.
"Banteay Meanchey" means "fortress of victory" in Khmer. The Tonlé Sap Biosphere Reserve is in the province. The main rivers are the Mongkol Borei and the Sisophon Rivers.
The province is divided into 7 districts and 2 municipalities:
Siriporn Ampaipong
Siriporn Ampaipong (Alternative spelling: Siriporn Umpaipong; ; , birth name Sirima Amken; ; ; born Monday December 7, 1964) is a "mor lam" and "luk thung" singer from the Isan region of Thailand.
Siriporn Ampaipong was born into a family of "mor lam" singers in Udon Thani Province. Most of her songs are sentimental ballads. She has released eight hit albums between 2001 and 2004, and is regarded as one of Thailand's most popular folk singers.
Battambang Province
Battambang is a province ("khaet") of Cambodia. Its capital and largest city is Battambang.
The Tonlé Sap Biosphere Reserve is in the province. The temples Wat Ek Phnom and Wat Banan are also here. Seventy five percent of the area is jungles and mountains. The area has a tropical climate.
Battambang is divided into 13 districts and one municipality:
Kampong Cham Province
Kampong Cham is a province ("khaet") of Cambodia. Its capital and largest city is also named Kampong Cham.
Kampong Cham was divided into two provinces on 31 December 2013. All land west of the Mekong River remained Kampong Cham. Land east of the river became Tboung Khmum Province.
There are 9 districts and 1 municipality:
Barbara Rütting
Barbara Rütting (born Waltraud Irmgard Goltz; 21 November 1927 – 28 March 2020) was a German actress, politician and author. She appeared in 50 movies between 1952 and 1979. Her notable credits include "Turtledove General Delivery" (1952), "The Last Bridge" (1954), "Canaris" (1954), "The Vulture Wally" (1956), "Town Without Pity" (1961) and "Doctor Sibelius" (1962).
Rütting was also a writer of children's and lifestyle books. She was a supporter for environmental protection and animal rights. She was a member of the parties Alliance 90/The Greens and later V-Partei3. She served in the Landtag of Bavaria from 2003 to 2009.
Rütting was born in Berlin. Both of her marriages to Hans Rütting and Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel ended in divorce. She died in Marktheidenfeld on 28 March 2020, at the age of 92.
Band Geeks
"Band Geeks" is the second part of the fifteenth episode of the second season of "SpongeBob SquarePants". It was first shown on television on September 7, 2001. The episode played the song "Sweet Victory" by David Glen Eisley. In the episode, Squidward tells a lie to his high school enemy, Squilliam Fancyson, that he has a marching band. He gets people from Bikini Bottom to join his band, but they play badly. Squidward quits the band, but SpongeBob gets the band together and practices for a big concert. Squidward thinks the concert will go wrong, but the concert is a success. The episode won the 2002 Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing in Television – Animation.
Squidward gets a call from his old high school enemy, Squilliam Fancyson. Squilliam tells Squidward about his very good life and that he is doing everything Squidward wishes he could do. Squilliam then tells Squidward that his band will be performing at the Bubble Bowl. Squidward gets jealous and lies that he has a marching band and that it will play in the Bubble Bowl instead. After the call, Squidward quickly assembles a marching band with the people of Bikini Bottom.
Squidward has one week to prepare a concert for the Bubble Bowl. The band plays badly through the training. On the first day, Patrick and Sandy get into a fight. On the second day, two flag twirlers are killed when they spin their flags too fast and crash into a blimp. On the third day, Plankton tries to play the harmonica, but the holes are bigger than he is and he gets tired of running to each hole. On the fourth (and last) day, the band plays too loudly, breaking the windows of the building. All of the band then gets into a fight. When class is over, Squidward goes over to the doors and says that he is disappointed in the band for fighting and no longer wants his band to play in the Bubble Bowl. Once Squidward leaves, SpongeBob tells everyone to go through and perform at the Bubble Bowl to make Squidward happy.
On the day of the concert, Squilliam finds Squidward at the Bubble Bowl entrance to see his band play poorly. Squidward says that his band died, but all of the band show up behind Squidward and say they are ready to perform. They enter a dome which takes them to the Bubble Bowl field. Squidward starts conducting with fear that the band will play poorly, but they play successfully. The band performs a song called "Sweet Victory." At the end of the episode, Squilliam faints and Squidward leaps in the air with a cheerful face.
The episode is largely said to be one of the best episodes of the show. Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, said it is one of his favorite episodes. Michael Cavna of "The Washington Post" said that Squidward's artistic traits and roles in the episode "made this a kids' episode that adults can experience on a whole 'nother level." "The Guardian" said the episode is the second best episode of the show, behind the episode "Krusty Krab Training Video". The episode along with another season two episode, "The Secret Box", have the highest rating out of all of the other "SpongeBob SquarePants" on IMDb with a rating of 9.8 out of 10.
After Stephen Hillenburg, creator of "SpongeBob SquarePants", died, a user on Change.org started a petition for the NFL to include the featured music "Sweet Victory" on the halftime of Super Bowl LIII. The petition got 1.1 million signatures on January 11, 2019. On December 18, 2018, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the stadium used for Super Bowl LIII, posted a scene from the episode on their Twitter page. On January 13, Maroon 5 released a video on Twitter that had a SpongeBob SquarePants episode included for a second.