Dame Cheryll Beatrice Sotheran (1945 – 30 December 2017) was a New Zealand museum professional. She was the founding Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and was thanked with the successful completion of the museum, considered the largest international museum project of the 1990s. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand.
In the 1999 New Year Honours Sotheran was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to museum administration. Sotheran resigned from Te Papa for health reasons in 2002.
In 2013, Sotheran suffered a stroke. She died in Auckland on 30 December 2017 from an unknown long-illness and stroke-related complications, aged 72.
Flag of Egypt
The flag of Egypt (Egyptian Arabic: علم مصر) has three equal horizontal bands of red, white, and black with the national emblem (a gold Eagle of Saladin facing the hoist side with a shield superimposed on its chest above a scroll bearing the name of the country in Arabic) centered in the white band.
John Clarke (satirist)
John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand-born Australian comedian, writer, and satirist. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He lived in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly well known actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print.
In 1982, he was nominated for an AFI award for co-writing the acclaimed Paul Cox movie "Lonely Hearts".
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Clarke featured in several movies, including "Never Say Die", "Death in Brunswick", alongside another New Zealand actor, Sam Neill, and "Blood Oath".
Clarke was also known for his mock interviews for "A Current Affair" until 1997, satirising a range of figures including Paul Keating, Alexander Downer, George Bush, and Alan Bond. After a break, the pair reappeared on ABC TV's "The 7.30 Report" in a similar format.
Clarke died while walking in the Grampians National Park in the Australian state of Victoria on 9 April 2017. He was 68. His cause of death was a heart attack.
J. Richard Clarke
John Richard Clarke (born April 4, 1927) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1976. He has been a member of the church's presiding bishopric and a member of the Presidency of the Seventy.
Clarke was born in Rexburg, Idaho.
Clarke served as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative in Idaho. He also returned to South Africa as the president of the church's South Africa Cape Town Mission.
From 1998 to 2001, Clarke was president of the church's Laie Hawaii Temple.
John Clarke (actor)
John Clarke (April 14, 1932 – October 16, 2019) was an American actor.
Clarke was known for his role as Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the program in 1965, until he retired early in 2004 because of health concerns. Clarke was replaced in the role by John Ingle, who left the program in 2006.
His daughter was actress Melinda Clarke, who started out on "Days of our Lives".
In 2005, Clarke received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award.
Clarke died of pneumonia-related problems in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2019 at the age of 88.
Zimmersheim
Zimmersheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department. In 2014, 1,066 people lived there.
Tessa Jowell
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell ("née" Palmer 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was an English Labour Party politician.
Jowell was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007.
Jowell member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games.
In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 election for Mayor of London, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates.
In September 2017, Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Jowell died on 12 May 2018 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the disease at the age of 70.
June Brown
June Muriel Brown, MBE (born 16 February 1927) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Dot Cotton in the long-running BBC soap opera, "EastEnders", a part she played from 1985 to 1993, and again from 1997 to 2020.
Mark E. Smith
Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group The Fall. Smith formed The Fall in 1976 after attending a Sex Pistols gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in June that year.
Smith died on 24 January 2018 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester of lung and kidney cancer at the age of 60.
Makoto Shinkai
, born as , is a Japanese movie director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. He directed the highest-earning anime movie "Your Name".
Shinkai was born in Nagano Prefecture. He went to Chuo University where he studied Japanese literature. He was a part of the literature club there and he drew picture books there. He said that he liked creating because he had read manga, novels and had watched anime when he was young. After finishing university in 1994, he got a job at Falcom. It is a video game company. He worked there for 5 years by making video clips.
In 1999, Shinkai released "She and Her Cat". It is a five-minute short movie that is black and white. It won many awards. It won the grand prize at the 12th DoGA CG Animation contest (2000). The short movie is about the life of a cat. It is from the cat's point of view. Shinkai quit his job at Falcom after winning the prize. He began making a new movie about a girl in space, which was called "Voices of a Distant Star". After, he released his first full movie. It was called "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" and was released in Japan on November 20, 2004. His next movie was called "5 Centimeters per Second" and was released on 3 March 2007. It consists of three short films called "Cherry Blossom", "Cosmonaut", and "5 Centimeters Per Second".
In 2009, he started to work on his next movie. Shinkai said that the movie he was making would be his longest movie that he made and said the story was a "lively" animated movie that would have adventure, action, and romance. He revealed that his next movie would be called "Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below". The movie was released on 7 May 2011. His next movie, "The Garden of Words", was released on 31 May 2013. On 26 August 2016, he released "Your Name", which was praised by audiences. It became the highest-grossing anime movie. Shinkai directed the 2019 anime movie "Weathering With You".
PM md. 63
The Pistol Mitralieră model 1963 (abbreviated PM md. 63) is an Romanian assault rifle based on the Soviet AKM, and chambered in the 7.62×39mm cartridge. It is exported as the AIM.
The Pistol Mitralieră model 1965 (abbreviated PM md. 65) is the underfolding-stock version of the PM md. 63, and is exported as the AIMS.