Gardner was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He studied at Harvard College. He is married to Ellen Winner. They have a son, Benjamin.
Gardner has written hundreds of research articles and thirty books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, as outlined in his 1983 book "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences".
Wilhelm von Schoen
Wilhelm Eduard Freiherr von Schoen (June 3, 1851 in Worms - April 24, 1933 in Berchtesgaden) was a German diplomat and politician.
Von Schoen was ambassador in Saint Petersburg and Paris. He handed the declaration of war to the French in 1914.
From 1907 to 1910 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Von Schoen wrote several non-fiction books, among others about World War I.
He died in the German Alps at the age of 81.
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg (November 29, 1856 in Hohenfinow (nowadays in Brandenburg) - January 1, 1921 in the same place) was a German independent politician. He was Reich Chancellor ("Reichskanzler") of the German Empire during the greatest part of World War I.
Von Bethmann Holweg studied law at the University of Strasbourg, Leipzig University and the Humboldt-University of Berlin. He started working in the civil service of Prussia in 1882. He became president of the Province of Brandenburg in 1899. He was twice Minister of the Interior: of Prussia from 1905 to 1907, and of the German Empire from 1907 to 1909. He was also Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1907 to 1909.
He became Reich Chancellor in July 1909, succeeding Bernhard von Bülow. Before the war he tried in vain to improve relations with the United Kingdom. During the war he unsuccessfully opposed the launching of the U-boat warfare without any restrictions in March 1917. Because of peace efforts of the Reichstag he resigned in July 1917, and was succeeded by Georg Michaelis.
After the war he wrote his memoirs. Von Bethmann Hollweg died of pneumonia at the age of 64.
Arrondissements of the Savoie department
There are 3 arrondissements in the Savoie department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into "arrondissements", which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.
If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.
Arrondissements are further divided into communes.
The arrondissements of the Savoie are:
Since its creation in 1860, the Savoie department has had few changes:
Carman, Manitoba
Carman is a town in the Pembina Valley Region of southern Manitoba. As of 2011 about 3,000 people lived there.
Michel Aoun
Michel Aoun (, ; born 18 February 1935) is a Lebanese politician. He is the 17th and current President of Lebanon. He was elected president on 31 October 2016 on the 46th electoral session of the Lebanese parliament, breaking a 29-month deadlock. He is a Maronite Christian and the founder of the Free Patriotic Movement.
Jesús Mosterín
Jesús Mosterín (1941 – 4 October 2017) was a Spanish philosopher and a thinker of broad spectrum, often at the frontier between science and philosophy. He was born in Bilbao, Spain. His works are based off Bertrand Russell’s "History of Western Philosophy", whose foreword he composed, Some of the books of the series are devoted, for example, to Archaic thought, Aristotle and the philosophy of India.
Chittani Ramachandra Hegde
Chittani Ramachandra Hegde (1 January 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Indian artist. He was one of the most popular Yakshagana artiste from Honnavara, Uttara Kannada, Karnataka (his birthplace). He was awarded with Padma Shri award in 2012. His career lasted until his death in 2017. Hegde was the first artist performing Yakshagana, to receive Padmashri award and he dedicated the award to "Yakshagana".
Hegde died of a stroke complicated by pneumonia at a hospital in Mumbai, India on 3 October 2017 at the age of 84.
Davoud Ahmadinejad
Davoud Ahmadinejad (13 March 1950 – 4 October 2017) was an Iranian politician and older brother of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Parvin Ahmadinejad. He was born in Aradan, Iran.
After the election of his brother as president in 2005, he was appointed as the head of the Presidential Inspection Commission.
In 2013, Ahmadinejad ran for President of Iran in the presidential election in 2013, but withdrew before the election was held.
On 4 October 2017, Ahmadinejad died in Tehran of a heart attack at the age of 67.
Arrondissement of Albertville
The arrondissement of Albertville is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Savoie "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Albertville.
When the Savoie department was created in 1860, the "arrondissement" of Albertville was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Albertville is bordered to the north by the Haute-Savoie department, to the east by Italy, to the south by the "arrondissement" of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and to the west by the "arrondissement" of Chambéry.
It is in the north of the department and is the largest "arrondissement" with an area of , and the second in population, with 111,839 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements".
In the "arrondissement" of Albertville, there are 5 cantons:
The "arrondissement" of Albertville has 74 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Vanaheimr
In Norse mythology, Vanaheimr (Old Norse for "home of the Vanir") is one of the Nine Worlds and home of the Vanir. The Vanir are the gods of fertility, wisdom, and the ability to see the future.
Vanaheimr is described in the "Poetic Edda"; which was put together in the 13th century from earlier stories. The "Prose Edda" and "Heimskringla" were bot written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In the "Poetic Edda" and the "Prose Edda", Vanaheimr is said to be the location where the Van god Njörðr was raised. In Norse cosmology, Vanaheimr is considered one of the Nine Worlds.
Álfheimr
Alfheim is a place in Norse mythology. It is the home of the Light Elves.
Bradford Bishop
William Bradford Bishop Jr. (born August 1, 1936) is a former United States Foreign Service officer. He has been a fugitive from justice since allegedly killing five members of his family in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the FBI placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
His last posting, which began in 1974, was at State Department Headquarters in Washington, D.C. as an Assistant Chief in the Division of Special Activities and Commercial Treaties.
Bishop was born in Pasadena, California. He studied at UCLA and at Yale University.
In 1976, after getting upset for not getting a work promotion, Bishop bought a sledgehammer and a shovel and murdered his wife and three children as they slept at their home in Bethesda, Maryland. With the bodies loaded into the station wagon, Bishop allegedly drove , about a six-hour drive, to a densely wooded swamp off North Carolina Highway 94, about south of Columbia, North Carolina. He would later burn the bodies and bury them in near the swamp.
Bishop has been spotted several placed in Europe by former State Department employees in Italy, Stockholm and in Switzerland.
In 2011, it was believed that Bishop died in Hong Kong and later in France, these proved to be false. In 2014, the FBI exhumed the body of an Alabama man who was killed in a road accident in 1981, believing he was Bishop. After DNA of the man was tested it was revealed the dead man was not Bishop and that he remains alive.