She was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 11, 2014, to the position of the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services after Kathleen Sebelius resigned. Burwell's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2014 by a vote of 78-17.
Simone Veil
Simone Veil, DBE (; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French lawyer and politician. She served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France.
She was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion D'Honneur in 2012.
She was of Jewish descent and survived the Holocaust.
Veil died in Paris on 30 June 2017, aged 89.
United States Deputy Attorney General
The United States Deputy Attorney General is the second highest ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. The Deputy Attorney General manages the day-to-day activities of the Department of Justice. It may act as Attorney General during the absence of the Attorney General. President of the United States appoints the Deputy Attorney General with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The Office of the Deputy Attorney General was created in 1950.
Pteraspid
Pteraspids were early agnathan vertebrates. They lived from later Silurian to the end of the Devonian. Fossils are found in Europe and North America.
The whole group has the head and front of the body armoured. Delicate, finger-like parts of the plates were at the edges of the mouth. This suggests they were filter feeders taking plankton from the water column.
List of Prime Ministers of India
The Prime Minister of India, is the head of government of India, chief adviser to the President of India, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament. The Prime Minister leads the executive branch of the Government of India.
Since the Independence of India, India has had fifteen prime ministers. The first was Jawaharlal Nehru of the Indian National Congress party.
The current prime minister is Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janta Party. He was sworn in on 30 May 2019.
Prugiasco
Prugiasco is a village and former municipality in the district of Vallemaggia in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
On 4 April 2004 the former municipalities of Prugiasco, Castro, Corzoneso, Dongio, Largario, Leontica, Lottigna, Marolta and Ponto Valentino merged into the new municipality of Acquarossa.
Niederried bei Interlaken
Niederried bei Interlaken is a municipality in the administrative district of Interlaken-Oberhasli in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Jens, Switzerland
Jens is a municipality in the administrative district Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Niederried bei Kallnach
Niederried bei Kallnach is a former municipality in the administrative district of Seeland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of Niederried bei Kallnach merged into the municipality of Kallnach.
Vindhyas
The Vindhyas are a mountain range in west-central India.
The highest point of the Vindhyas is the Sad-bhawna Shikhar ("Goodwill Peak").
Niederstocken
Niederstocken is a former municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Niederstocken, Höfen and Oberstocken merged into the new municipality of Stocken-Höfen.
Nods, Switzerland
Nods is a municipality of the administrative district of Jura bernois in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Noflen
Noflen is a former municipality of the Swiss canton of Berne. It is in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district. On 1 January 2018 the former municipalities of Gelterfingen, Mühledorf and Noflen merged into the municipality of Kirchdorf.
Antiarchi
The Antiarchi is an order of heavily armored placoderms. The antiarchs were the second-most successful group of placoderms (after the arthrodires) in terms of numbers of species and range of environments.
The front part of their bodies were heavily armoured. The rear parts were sometimes scaled, sometimes naked. The pectoral fins were modified. In primitive forms, such as "Yunnanolepis", the limbs were thick and short, while in advanced forms, such as "Bothriolepis", the limbs were long and had elbow-like joints. Probably they helped the fish pull themselves across the substrate, or allow their owners to bury themselves into the substrate.
Sally Beauman
Sally Beauman (25 July 1944 – 7 July 2016) was an English journalist and writer. She was the author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels. She was known for re-writing William Shakespeare plays. She was known for writing the 1987 novel "Destiny". She also wrote "Rebecca's Tale" and "The Landscape of Love".
Beauman died of pneumonia on 7 July 2016 at a London hospital in her sleep, aged 71.
Robert E. Cooper, Sr.
Robert E. Cooper, Sr. (October 14, 1920 July 11, 2016) was an American judge. He was a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1974 until his retirement in 1990. Cooper was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was a former chairman of the Tennessee Judicial Council. He has served on the Sixth Judicial Circuit (1953–1960) and Tennessee Court of Appeals (1960–1974).
Cooper, Sr. died in Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 11, 2016, aged 95.
Odette Krempin
Princess Odette Maniema Krempin (October 30, 1973) is an Congolese entrepreneur. She was a former honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Frankfurt am Main. She was a member of the Kuba Kingdom. She was born in Maniema, Zaire.
Krempin disappeared in 2014 while being sought for questioning by Belgian police in the Duferco corruption scandal.
Racine, Wisconsin
Racine ( ) or ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River. Racine is centrally located between Milwaukee and Chicago. As of the 2013 U.S. census, the city had a population of 78,199,
Oberbalm
Oberbalm is a municipality in the administrative district of Bern-Mittelland in the canton of Berne in Switzerland.
Green Party (Norway)
The Green party (Norwegian: Miljøpartiet de Grønne) is a green political party in Norway.
They gained one representative in the "Storting" (the Norwegian Parliament) in the 2013 election.
The representative, Rasmus Hansson, was also the spokesperson of the party.
Motion of no confidence
A motion of no confidence, is a vote on whether a group of people still has confidence in a government or leader. This is mainly a statement or vote which states that a person in a superior position, be it government, managerial, etc., is no longer deemed fit to hold that position.
The first motion of no confidence occurred in March 1782 when, following news of the British defeat at Yorktown in the American Revolutionary War the previous October, the Parliament of Great Britain voted that they "can no longer repose confidence in the present ministers". In modern times, passage of a motion of no confidence is relatively rare in two-party democracies. Party discipline is usually enough to allow a majority party to defeat a motion of no confidence.
There are variations of this in different countries. For example, in Germany, Spain, and Israel, a vote of no confidence requires that the opposition, on the same ballot, propose a candidate of their own whom they want to be appointed as successor by the respective head of state. A motion of no confidence in some countries can be proposed in the government collectively or by any individual member, including the Prime Minister. In Spain it is presented by the Prime Minister after consultation.
Sometimes a party proposes a confidence vote even though it is not likely to pass. The no confidence vote may pressure the government. Or when the government proposes the vote it can embarrass critics who do not vote against the government.
Angela Eagle