Schortens is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has 12 districts: Schortens, Heidmühle, Grafschaft, Accum, Sillenstede, Schoost, Roffhausen, Middelsfähr, Addernhausen, Oestringfelde, Ostiem and Upjever.
Cyril Beavon
Cyril Beavon (27 September 1937 – 22 December 2017) was an English footballer. He played in the Football League for Oxford United.
Beavon died on 22 December 2017 at the age of 80.
Gotthard Base Tunnel
The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT; , , ) is a railway tunnel in Switzerland. With a route length of , it is the longest tunnel in the world. The link consists of two single-track tunnels connecting Erstfeld (Uri) with Bodio (Ticino) and passing below Sedrun (Graubünden). The main purpose of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is to increase local transport capacity through the Alpine barrier, especially for freight, notably on the Rotterdam–Basel–Genoa corridor, and more specifically to shift freight volumes from trucks to freight trains. This both significantly reduces the danger of fatal road crashes involving trucks, and reduces the environmental damage caused by heavy trucks. The tunnel provides a faster connection between the canton of Ticino and the rest of Switzerland, as well as between northern and southern Europe, cutting the Basel/Zurich–Lugano–Milan journey time for passenger trains by 1 hour (and from Lucerne to Bellinzona by 45 minutes). After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted the NRLA project in a 1992 referendum, first preparatory and exploratory work began in 1996. The official start of construction began on 4 November 1999 at Amsteg. As of 1998, the total projected cost of the project was CHF 6.323 billion; as of December 2015, the final cost is projected as CHF 9.560 billion.
Mike Rutherford
Mike Rutherford (born October 2, 1950) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is known as the bassist and guitarist of Genesis. He also had success with his band Mike and the Mechanics.
Trans, Switzerland
Trans is a village in the municipality of Tomils of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. In 2009 Trans joined Feldis/Veulden, Scheid and Tumegl/Tomils to become the municipality of Tomils.
Steve Hackett
Stephen Richard "Steve" Hackett is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the guitarist of Genesis from 1971 to 1977.
Goran Višnjić
Goran Višnjić (born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor. He was born in Šibenik, Croatia.
Višnjić has appeared in American and British movies and television productions. He is best known in the United States for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač on the NBC television series "ER". He plays Garcia Flynn on Timeless, also on NBC.
Morschwiller-le-Bas
Morschwiller-le-Bas is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. In 2014, 3,621 people lived there.
TUI Group
TUI Group () is a multinational travel and tourism company headquartered in Hannover, Germany. It is the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world and owns travel agencies, hotels, airlines, cruise ships and retail stores. The company was founded in 1923.
The company is jointly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Putumayo Department
Putumayo Department is a department in southwwest Colombia, bordering Ecuador and Peru. The capital is Mocoa.
Jerry Kindall
Gerald Donald Kindall (May 27, 1935 – December 24, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kindall played second base in the major leagues from 1956 to 1965 for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins. He was the former baseball coach of the NCAA's Arizona Wildcats.
Kindall died on December 24, 2017 of a stroke in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 82.
Diana Athill
Diana Athill OBE (21 December 1917 – 23 January 2019) was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist. She was born in Norfolk, England. She worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd. She retired from Deutsch in 1993 at the age of 75, after more than 50 years in publishing.
Athill was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
In 2008, she won the Costa Book Award for her memoir "Somewhere Towards The End", a book about old age.
Athill died on 23 January 2019 at the age of 101.
Stephanie Cole
Patricia Stephanie Cole, OBE (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, radio and movie actress.
Cole is known for high-profile television roles in shows such as "Tenko" (1981–85), "Open All Hours" (1982–85), "A Bit of a Do" (1989), "Waiting for God" (1990–94), "Keeping Mum" (1997–98), "Doc Martin" (2004–09), "Still Open All Hours" (2013–present) "Man Down" (2014-present) and as Sylvia Goodwin in ITV soap opera "Coronation Street" (2011–13).
In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Olympiacos S.C.
Olympiacos S.C. is the men's volleyball team of the major Greek multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1926 and has won two CEV Cups, a record 30 Greek Volley League Championships, a record 16 Greek Cups, 2 Greek Super Cups, a record 6 Greek League Cups and a record 14 Doubles. Olympiacos is ranked among the top European volleyball clubs. From the early 1990s to the mid 2000s they played in 11 European Final Fours and reached six European Finals.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (; born 3 October 1938), better known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, politician and public administrator. He is the 66th President of Peru serving from 2016 until his resignation in 2018. He previously served as Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006.
Kuczynski was a presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential election, placing third. Kuczynski went on to stand in the 2016 election, where he narrowly defeated Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. He was sworn in as President on July 28, 2016.
On 15 December 2017, the Congress of Peru began impeachment proceedings against Kuczynski, after he was accused of lying about receiving payments from a scandal-hit Brazilian construction firm in the mid-2000s. However on 21 December 2017 the Peruvian congress lacked the majority of votes needed to impeach Kuczynski.
After further scandals and facing a second impeachment vote, Kuczynski resigned the presidency on 21 March 2018 following the release of videos showing alleged acts of vote buying, presenting his resignation to the Council of Ministers.
On April 10, 2019, he was arrested along with his secretary Gloria Kisic Wagner and his ex-driver José Luis Bernaola for an alleged crime of money laundering in the Odebrecht case. In turn, he authorized the Prosecutor's Office to search for 48 hours the homes linked to their surroundings in search of documents related to that case.
Aden
Aden ( "") is a port city in Yemen. It is at the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden). About 800,000 people live there. Aden was controlled by the British Empire from 1839 to 1967.
2019 Cricket World Cup
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is going to be held in England and Wales. This tournament is going to be a league tournament in the group stage, while it is going to be a knockout after the group matches. The top four teams from each group will qualify for the quarter finals.
The Schedule for the quarter finals will be as follows :
Where A and B are the group names of the teams. And 1,2,3,4 are the positions of teams after the league matches. It is expected that 16 teams will participate in this tournament. Eight teams will participate as permanent members who are already qualified and the others as associate members, who will play the qualifier matches.
The date and venue of the matches are yet to be declared but will soon be decided in the coming year.
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