Luis Racionero i Grau (January 15, 1940 – March 8, 2020) was a Spanish essayist. He studied engineering and economics at the University of Barcelona and urban studies at the University of California Berkeley.
He was director of Spain's national library and of the Spanish College ("Colegio de España") in Paris. He worked with newspapers including "El País", "La Vanguardia" and Mundo Deportivo. He wrote both in Catalan and in Spanish.
In 1999 he won the Fernando Lara Novel Award for his then-unpublished work "La sonrisa de la Gioconda".
Launch status check
A launch status check, also known as a "go/no go poll", is a numbers of checks in which rocket operators are asked if systems are ready before a launch can continue. The Launch director states if a mission is go for launch. The check makes sure that the aspects of the mission are ok and ready to be used, so that the chance of an emergency is less likely to happen.
Tau neutrino
The tau neutrino or tauon neutrino is a subatomic elementary particle with no net electric charge. Together with the tau, it is the third generation of leptons, hence the name tau neutrino.
University of Munich
Munich University is a public university in Germany.
INSEAD
INSEAD ("Institut européen d'administration des affaires") is an European higher studies establishment. The school is in 3 places, in Fontainebleau, France, in Abu Dhabi and in Singapore.
INSEAD is specialist in the fields of economics, social sciences and management.
Kaharoa eruption
The Kaharoa eruption was a volcanic eruption in about 1314. Ash came from Mount Tarawera, and was widely distributed across the eastern and northern North Island. This layer is an important marker for archaeological studies because it approximately corresponds to the beginning of the human occupation of New Zealand.
Brett Dean
Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland. In 1981 he was a prize winner in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Dean was Artistic Director of the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne until June 2010 when his brother, Paul, got the job.
On 5 March 2020, it was confirmed that Dean was hospitalized in Adelaide with the COVID-19 illness.
Masoumeh Ebtekar
Masoumeh Ebtekar (; born Masoumeh, Niloufar Ebtekar; 21 September 1960) is an Iranian politician, journalist and scientist. She was born in Tehran.
From 2007 to 2013, Ebtekar was a member of the Tehran City Council. She was Vice President of the Department of Environment from 1997 to 2005 and again from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, she became Vice President for Women and Family Affairs.
During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Iran, Ebtekar had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in March.
Iraj Harirchi
Iraj Harirchi Tabrizi (; born 1966) is an Iranian politician and physician. He is the Deputy Minister of Health and Medical Education since February 2019.
During the coronavirus pandemic in Iran, on 25 February, Harirchi announced that he had been diagnosed with COVID-19, and had self-quarantined. At the press conference, Harirchi was coughing and sweating.
Reza Rahmani
Reza Rahmani (; born 1966) is an Iranian politician. He was born in Tabriz, Iran. Rahmani was a Member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly from 2004 to 2016. In 2018, he became Minister of Industry, Mines and Business.
On 4 March 2020, during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Rahmani had been infected with coronavirus disease 2019.
Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani
Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani (‎; 1 December 1952 – 9 March 2020) was an Iranian physician and reformist politician. From 1984 to 2000, he represented Sabzevar in the Iranian Parliament. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran's State Welfare Organization. Rahchamani was born in Sabzevar, Iran.
Rahchamani died as a result of the coronavirus on 9 March 2020 in Tehran, aged 67.
Mehdi Karroubi
Mehdi Karroubi (, born 26 September 1937) is an Iranian Shia cleric and reformist politician. He led the National Trust Party.
After the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests, Karroubi was put under house arrest in February 2011.
He was the speaker of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.
List of speakers of the Parliament of Iran
This article lists the speakers of the Parliament of Iran, from the Persian Constitutional Revolution to present.
Traditionally, after a new term of the parliament is started and the new speaker is not elected yet, by default the eldest member of the parliament becomes the temporary speaker also known as the "Aging Speaker" (). The second-eldest member becomes his/her deputy. The two youngest members or Baby of the House take office as temporary secretaire.
Ali Larijani
Ali Larijani (, ; born 3 June 1957) is an Iranian conservative politician, philosopher and former military officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been Speaker of the Parliament of Iran since 2008.
Ida Vitale
Ida Vitale (born November 2, 1923) is a Uruguayan writer. In 2018, she was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. Vitale fled to Mexico City in 1973 for political asylum after a military junta took power in Uruguay. She played an important role in the Uruguayan art movement known as the 'Generation of 45'.
José Manuel Caballero
José Manuel Caballero Bonald (November 11, 1926 – May 9, 2021) was a Spanish novelist, lecturer and poet. He was born in Jerez, Spain. Between 1944 and 1948, he began nautical studies in Cádiz, and he wrote his first poems.
Around 1954 he was Secretary and later as Deputy Editor of the "Papeles de Son Armadans" magazine. In 1971 he began working for the Lexicography Seminar of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he stayed until 1975. He worked as a Contemporary Spanish Literature Professor at the Centre for Hispanic Studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1978.
In 2012, he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize for his achievements in Spanish literature.
Caballero died in Madrid on May 9, 2021 at the age of 94.
Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Barcelona.
In 1974, he started a column in the magazine "Por Favor". He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, "Un día volveré" ("One Day I'll Come Back") and "Ronda del Guinardó", followed by the collection of short stories, "Teniente Bravo".
Marsé died at a hospital in Barcelona on 18 July 2020 from heart failure, aged 87.
Miguel de Cervantes Prize
The Miguel de Cervantes Prize () is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language.
The list of winners is available at the official "Premio 'Miguel Cervantes"' website.
Antonio Gamoneda
Antonio Gamoneda Lobón (born 30 May 1931) is a Spanish poet. He won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2006.
In 1992, "Libro del frío" ("Book of the cold") was published, making him one of the most important poets in Spanish.
In 2005, he was award the inaugural European Prize for Literature. In 2006, he was awarded the Reina Sofia Award, and the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor in Spanish literature.
Jorge Edwards
Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Sebastian Piñera presidency. In 2008 his novel "La Casa de Dostoievsky" won the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, worth $200,000. In 1999, he was honored with the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
Álvaro Mutis