Since 2016 he has been defense minister in the Fourth Netanyahu Government.
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland was a title given to the rulers during the Great Interregnum from 1649-1659 after the execution of Charles I and the installation of Oliver Cromwell. There were 2 lord protectors, Oliver and his son Richard who ruled as lord protector for under a year (1658-1659)
Following Richard Cromwell's resignation of May 25th 1659 he was succeeded by the Council of State who ruled the country until May 28th 1660 when king Charles II took back power and was restored as the monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Dübendorf
Dübendorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
It is a suburb of Zürich with a population of about 26,000 (2014). It is the fourth largest city in the canton, after Zürich, Winterthur and Uster.
Dübendorf, Dübelstein, Geeren, Gfenn, Gockhausen, Hermikon and Stettbach.
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist.
He was born in 1787 in a place called Bavaria. When he was 11 years old he had no father and no mother. Because of that, he had to work to survive. He worked making glass objects for a man called Philipp Anton Weichelsberger.
One day, in 1801, the place where Fraunhofer was working fell down and was destroyed. Fraunhofer was inside when this happened. Luckily, some people found him in the middle of the bits of the house and saved him. The prince of Bavaria was with these people and he decided to help Fraunhofer.
The prince decided to give Fraunhofer money and books to study. He studied for five years and one day he was invited to work for a man called Joseph Utzschneider. This man had a company that made glass lenses to be used in scientific instruments. And this company had a secret laboratory in a monastery called Benediktbeuern. In this laboratory people were trying to discover how to make better glass lenses. Glass lenses at that time was a very complicated technology. After three years, Fraunhofer was one of the directors of this company. And after eight years he was a partner of the owner.
Fraunhofer died very sick in 1826, probably because of the time he worked as a child.
During his time in Benediktbeuern, Fraunhofer made experiments with glass. He discovered very important things about light. One day Fraunhofer was playing with a piece of glass called a "prism" and a telescope in a room full of sun light. When he used the telescope to look at the glass he discovered that he could see all colours of the rainbow. But there were black lines between the colours. Fraunhofer never discovered what the black lines were; he suggested they might be boundaries between different colors. Many years later, scientists discovered that these black spectral lines existed because some materials that exist in the sun and in the sky can absorb parts of the light. Today scientists use a similar technique to discover what chemicals are in stars and planets. The scientists who tried to find out what was happening call this part of science "spectroscopy".
Nick Galifianakis (politician)
Nick Galifianakis (born July 22, 1928) is an American attorney and politician. He was the former Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina. He served as a representative from 1967 through 1973.
Galifianakis was born in Durham, North Carolina. He studied at Duke University, and was an assistant professor at this university.
Galifianakis is the uncle of comedian Zach Galifianakis.
Arthur Ravenel Jr.
Arthur Ravenel Jr. (born March 29, 1927) is an American businessman and a Republican politician. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina's 1st congressional district. He served from 1987 through 1995.
Ravenel Jr. decided not to run for re-election in 1994, to run for Governor instead, but lost in the Republican primaries to David Beasley.
In 2005, Ravenel Jr. suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome. The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, near the Cooper River, is named after him.
Ravenel is a member of Moultrie Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and is a supporter of the Confederate flag being flown at the South Carolina statehouse. He made controversy at a rally for the flag in 2000 when he referred to the NAACP as the “National Association for Retarded People”. Ravenel upset even more people after he apologized to mentally handicapped people for comparing them to the NAACP.
Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, United States, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge is named after former U.S. representative Arthur Ravenel Jr..
The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two old cantilever truss bridges. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. It was built using the design-build method and was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.
William E. Dannemeyer
William Edwin Dannemeyer (September 22, 1929 – July 9, 2019) was a conservative American politician, activist, and author. He was known for his criticism of homosexuality. He was the honorary national chairman of "Citizens For a Better America". He served as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993.
Dannemeyer died of dementia in Thousand Palms, California on July 9, 2019, aged 89.
Esteban Edward Torres
Esteban Edward Torres (born January 27, 1930) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Miami, Arizona. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 34th congressional district. He served as a member of the California Transportation Commission from 1997 to 2007.
Imke Courtois
Imke Courtois (born 14 March 1988) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Standard Fémina de Liège and the Belgium women's national football team.
Imke is often asked if she is Thibaut Courtois' sister. As a joke she started a company called 'Niet de zus van' () and said: "for once and for all: no, Thibaut is not my brother."
Ron Packard
Ronald Charleston "Ron" Packard, D.M.D. (born January 19, 1931) is a retired Republican politician from California. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001.
In 1982, Packard lost the Republican primary for the United States House of Representatives in a crowded field of candidates to Johnnie Crean by 92 votes. After Crean faced controversy, such as laying about being endorsed by then-President Ronald Reagan, Packard ran as a write-in candidate. He won the election in 1982 beating Crean. Packard won the election by 11,000 votes to become the first independent write-in candidate to defeat candidates of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Al McCandless
Alfred Alfonso "Al" McCandless (July 23, 1927 – August 9, 2017) was a Republican politician from California. He was born in Brawley, California on July 23, 1927. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1951. Before becoming a representative, he was an automobile and truck dealer from 1953 through 1975.
McCandless was on the Riverside County board of supervisors from 1972 through 1982. He was in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1983 through January 3, 1995.
McCandless died at his home in La Quinta, California on August 9, 2017 at the age of 90.
Cornelius Edward Gallagher
Cornelius Edward "Neil" Gallagher (March 2, 1921 – October 17, 2018) was an American Democratic Party politician. He represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 through 1973.