Robert Charles O'Brien (born June 18, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician. He has worked privately and with the United States government. He was the 28th United States National Security Advisor from September 18, 2019 to January 20, 2021. He also is an ambassador with the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. He is a partner at Larson O'Brien LLP, a Los Angeles-based boutique law firm.
In November 2020, O'Brien was seen as a possible candidate for president in the 2024 election.
Peggy Webber
Peggy Webber (born September 15, 1925) was an American actress. Her screen debut came in the 1946 movie "Her Adventurous Night". Other notable roles include Mrs. Alice Rice in the 1952 movie "Submarine Command" and Miss Dennerly in "The Wrong Man", directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Virginia Patton
Virginia Ann Patton (born June 25, 1925) is an American retired businesswoman and actress. She was cast in her most well-known role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). In 1949, Patton retired from acting. Her last role as in "The Lucky Stiff" (1949).
Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission abbreviated as SUPARCO is the national space agency of Pakistan. It was founded in 1961. Its headquarters are based in Karachi.
It is responsible for the nation's public and civil space programme and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
Rex Downing
Rex Haddon Downing (born April 25, 1925) is a retired American actor. He started his career as a child actor in 1935. He retired in 1948 and made a small comeback in 2007. Downing was born in San Francisco, California. His best known role was a Young Heathcliff in the 1939 William Wyler movie "Wuthering Heights" (1939).
Downing had a major role in the B-Movie serial "Mandrake the Magician" (1939; serial) and played the younger version of Tyrone Power's character in "Blood and Sand" (1941).
Kaïs Saïed
Kaïs Saïed () (born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian jurist, politician and professor of constitutional law. Saïed is the 6th and current President of Tunisia since October 2019. He successfully ran as an Independent candidate for President in the 2019 election.
Saïed is a Professor at the Université de Tunis. He was the Secretary-General of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law between 1990 and 1995 and has been the vice president of the organization since 1995.
Saïed received 620,711 votes in the first round of the 2019 election, coming in first place and moved on to face businessman Nabil Karoui in the second round. He defeated Karoui in the October run-off election winning 72.7% of the vote.
The regime being semi-presidential, Kaïs Saïd has a week after his inauguration to charge the party that came first in the legislative elections to form a government. The latter then has one month to obtain the confidence of the Assembly of People's Representatives.
From a practical point of view, he refuses to lodge in the presidential palace of Carthage, preferring his villa to Mnihla, located in the governorate of Ariana.
On October 30, he appointed diplomat Tarek Bettaïeb as head of the presidential cabinet, General Mohamed Salah Hamdi as national security advisor, while Tarek Hannachi led the protocol. Abderraouf Bettaïeb is minister-advisor to the President of the Republic, Rachida Ennaifer in charge of communication, while Nadia Akacha is responsible for legal affairs.
On November 15, 2019, he appointed Habib Jemli, Ennahdha's candidate, for the post of head of government and charged him with forming a government.
2019 Tunisian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Tunisia on 15 September 2019. No candidate received a majority of the vote in the first round, so a runoff was held on 13 October.
Before the death of incumbent president Beji Caid Essebsi on 25 July, the elections had been planned for 17 and 24 November. However, as a result of Essebsi's death, the elections were brought forward in order to ensure that a new president would take office within 90 days, as required by the constitution.
The elections were the second direct vote for the presidency since the 2011 revolution.
Kaïs Saïed and Nabil Karoui were the two candidates who made it to the run off. In the run-off, Saïed won the election in a landslide victory.
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, or Pasifika, are the peoples of the Pacific Islands. It is a demographic term for the people that lived on one of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.
May Britt
May Britt (born Maybritt Wilkens; 22 March 1934) is a Swedish actress who had a brief career in the 1950s in Italy and later in the United States. She retired from the screen while she was married to Sammy Davis Jr. from 1960 to 1968.
After the divorce, Britt resumed working with sporadic TV guest appearances, the last in 1988. Since then she retired and mainly involved in painting. She currently resides in California.
In Italy she has also worked as a model for the high fashion designer Vincenzo Ferdinandi. She was born in Lidingö, Sweden.
William Foege
William Herbert Foege M.D., M.P.H.
(; born March 12, 1936) is an American epidemiologist. He is seen as the person responsible for "the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Rozanne Lejeanne Ridgway (born August 22, 1935) is an American diplomat. She has worked for 32 years with the U.S. State Department, holding several posts. She was Ambassador to Finland and to East Germany, and finished her career as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.
She was president of the Atlantic Council from 1989 to 1996, and currently the chairwoman of the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation.
In 1998, Ridgway was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was the Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. She was born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou. Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René, King of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
Margaret was important in the Wars of the Roses. At times, she personally led the House of Lancaster into battle. Her husband had several nervous breakdowns. They were seen as insanity, so Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the House of York headed by Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York. This started a civil conflict that lasted for more than thirty years. This conflict caused the deaths of thousands of men. One of those who died was her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471.
Margaret was taken prisoner by the Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king. She died in France at the age of 52.
Margaret was born on 23 March 1430 at Pont-à-Mousson in Lorraine. Margaret was the second daughter of René, King of Naples and of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. She had five brothers and four sisters, as well as three half-siblings from her father's relationships with mistresses. Her father, popularly known as "Good King René", was duke of Anjou and titular king of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem; he has been described as "a man of many crowns but no kingdoms". Margaret was baptised at Toul in Lorraine. She spent her early years at the castle at Tarascon on the River Rhône in Provence and in the old royal palace at Capua, near Naples in the Kingdom of Sicily. Her mother took care of her education and may have arranged for her to have lessons with the scholar Antoine de la Sale, who taught her brothers. In childhood Margaret was known as "la petite créature".