Christopher Anton Rea ( ; born 4 March 1951) is a British rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for the 1978 hit song "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" that reached No. 12 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979.
The book "Guinness Rockopedia" described him as a "gravel-voiced guitar stalwart". The "British Hit Singles & Albums" stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)".
In 2000, Rea was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Since his cancer diagnosis, he underwent multiple surgeries and was diagnosed with diabetes. In 2016, he suffered a stroke, which left him slurred speech and impaired movements.
Karen Karapetyan
Karen Vilhelmi Karapetyan (born 14 August 1964) is an Armenian politician. He became the Prime Minister of Armenia in 2016 after the resignation of Hovik Abrahamyan.
On 23 April 2018, Karapetyan became acting Prime Minister following the resignation of Serzh Sargsyan. In May 2018, Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister.
Karapetyan earned a PhD in economics in 1989.
Violette Szabo
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – February 1945) was a French/British agent during the Second World War. Her role was known as Special Operations Executive (SOE). She was twice parachuted into France to help the French resistance activity against German forces (the Wehrmacht).
During her second mission, Szabo was caught by the Germans. She was interrogated, and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was treated harshly. Like most other prisoners, she had to perfom hard work in freezing cold conditions with few clothes. She was shot near the end of the war. After her death, she was awarded the George Cross, the Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance.
Szabo's father was British, and her mother was French.
Violette Szabo was born Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell in Paris on 26 June 1921. Her father was a taxi-driver and car salesman, and her mother was a dressmaker. During her childhood, Violette lived in both France and England at different times. She could speak both languages well. When the Second World War broke out, she was working at "Le Bon Marché", a Brixton department store.
Szabo married Étienne Szabo in 1940. He was a Hungarian non-commissioned officer in the French Foreign Legion. Violette was 19, Étienne was 31.
After her marriage, Violette became a switchboard operator for the General Post Office in central London, working throughout the blitz. Bored by the job, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) on 11 September 1941. Szabo found within weeks that she was pregnant, so she left the ATS to return to London for the birth.
Violette sent her baby to childminders while she worked at the South Morden aircraft factory where her father was stationed. Then she was told of her husband's death in action. Étienne had died on 24 October 1942 at the beginning of the Second Battle of El Alamein; he had never seen his daughter. It was Étienne's death that made Violette accept an offer to train as a field agent in the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). It was her best way to fight the enemy.
Szabo was sent to the SOE "finishing school" at Beaulieu, Hampshire, where she learnt escape and evasion, uniform recognition, communications and cryptography. She had training in weaponry. The final stage in training was parachute jumping. On her first attempt, Szabo badly sprained her ankle and was sent home to recover (it was this ankle that was to fail her later in France). She was able to take the parachuting course again and passed with a second class in February 1944.
In 2012 Max Hastings wrote that Szabo was "adored by the men and women of SOE both for her courage and endless infectious Cockney laughter", while Leo Marks remembered her as "A dark-haired slip of mischief...She had a Cockney accent which added to her impishness".
Szabo was only the second woman to be awarded the George Cross. Both Violette and Étienne Szabo were awarded the French Croix de Guerre for their bravery in the field. On 17 December 1947 their five-year-old daughter Tania received the George Cross from King George VI on behalf of her late mother. Violette and Étienne Szabo are believed to be the most decorated married couple of World War II.
Upper Arlington, Ohio
Upper Arlington is a city in Ohio in the United States.
Charleston (dance)
The Charleston is a dance, which was became popular in the 1920s. It is named after the city of Charleston, South Carolina. A song called The Charleston, composed in 1923 made it popular. This song was part of the Broadway musical Running Wild. In Europe, Josephine Baker made the Charleston popular, starting in 1925. Charleston is associated with Flappers who danced it in Speakeasy bars, to mock themselves about the prohibition of alcohol, which was in force in the US, in the 1920s. For this reason, dancing Charleston was seen as provocative.
Divi filius
Divi filius is a Latin phrase meaning "son of a god". It was used by the Roman Emperor Augustus, the grand-nephew and adopted son of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Ankita Lokhande
Ankita Lokhande is an Indian television and Bollywood actress.
She made her acting debut in 2009 with Zee TV's soap opera Drama . Her appearance in the popular show has made her one of the highest-paid actress in the world of Indian Television.
She also participated in celebrity dance reality show on Sony Entertainment Television (India).
Hal Greer
Harold Everett Greer (June 26, 1936 – April 14, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He played for the Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1958 through 1973.
Greer was a guard and a 10-time NBA All-Star. He was named to the All-NBA Second Team seven times. He was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team and he had his uniform number retired by the 76ers.
Greer died of a short-illness in Phoenix, Arizona on April 14, 2018 at the age of 81.
Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County.
As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 365,419. Huntington is the second largest city in West Virginia, with a population of 49,138 at the 2010 census.
Gerald Nachman
Gerald Weil Nachman (January 13, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American journalist and author. He was born in Oakland, California.
Nachman was a television writer for the "San Jose Mercury News". He was a columnist for the "New York Daily News" and writer for the "San Francisco Chronicle".
Nachman died April 14, 2018 in San Francisco, California of frontotemporal dementia at the age of 80.
Michael Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist. He developed the internationally influential "systemic functional linguistic" model of language. His grammatical works go by the name of "systemic functional grammar" ("SFG").
Halliday described himself as a "generalist", meaning that he has tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point", and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language".
Halliday died in Sydney of natural causes on 15 April 2018 at the age of 93.
Jacques Tixier
Jacques Tixier (1 January 1925 – 3 April 2018) was a French archaeologist and prehistorian. He was known for his work on prehistory in Qatar, Lebanon, and North Africa. He led the first French archaeological mission to Qatar in 1976. He helped discover Al Khor Island that year. He also discovered an archaeological site in Shagra.
Tixier died in Paris on 3 April 2018 at the age of 93.