Anupriya Kapoor is an Indian television Actress from Delhi. She known for her role as Taani Bannerjee in Tere Liye.
The Boring Company
The Boring Company is a tunnel boring company founded by Elon Musk, who earlier started SpaceX. It aims to reduce traffic congestion in urban areas. It is involved in the building of the Hyperloop in Los Angeles.
Elon Musk complained via Twitter about Los Angeles traffic and the same day, December 17, 2016, founded the company. It built a short test tunnel in Los Angeles.
To raise money for the expensive project, Elon Musk started selling merchandise - first caps and then flamethrowers (branded as 'Not a flamethrower' to thwart customs) and then fire extinguishers to go with. The company website is written in a lighthearted tone, for example describing the fire extinguishers as 'overpriced'.
Flag of Jamaica
The flag of Jamaica was created in 1962 in anticipation of its independence day in August 6. It was agreed by the deciding committee that the flag should include the colours black, yellow, and green. It is currently the only country flag without red, white or blue.
It has a gold diagonal cross divides the field into four triangles of green (top and bottom) and black (hoist-side and fly-side).
Flag of Guatemala
The flag of Guatemala was created in 1871.
It has a vertical band of light blue (hoist-side and fly-side) and white, with the national emblem centered on the white band.
Munich RE
Munich Re Group or Munich Reinsurance Company () is a reinsurance company based in Munich, Germany.
The co-founder and Europe CEO is Mark Dennis.
In 2021, the company had EUR 589 million of profit.
My Hero Academia
The story follows Izuku Midoriya, a boy born without superpowers in a world where most people have them, but who still dreams of becoming a superhero himself. He is found by the world's greatest hero, who shares his powers with Izuku after seeing his bravery and value and enrolls him in a high school for heroes in training. The manga was adapted into an anime series; the first season was from April 3 to June 26, 2016. The second season was from April 1 to September 30, 2017. The third season was from April 7 to September 29, 2018. The fourth season is set to start on October 12, 2019. A movie also came out in 2018.
In a world where people with superpowers known as "Quirks" are the standard, Izuku Midoriya is a regular middle school student who has dreams of one day becoming a Hero but is bullied by his classmates for not having a Quirk. After being the only one to try and save his childhood bully Katsuki Bakugo from a Villain, the world's greatest Hero All Might gives him his own quirk called "One For All". The story follows Izuku's entrance into U.A. High School, a school that trains the next generation of Super Heroes.
All For One is the primary villain of "My Hero Academia" and the leader of the League of Villains, along with Tomura Shigaraki.
Originally Japan's most powerful villain and All Might's nemesis, he was defeated by All Might. His true motives are unclear and his true identity unknown, and his current goal is to raise Shigaraki to become his eventual successor, but was once again defeated by All Might in a rematch, which lead to the retirement of All Might.
On October 29, 2015, the series' official Twitter announced that "My Hero Academia" would receive an anime adaptation produced by Studio Bones, currently ongoing. A third season was announced in the 44th issue of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" magazine of 2017. A video game based on the anime, "My Hero Academia: Battle for All", was announced in November 2015. The game was made by Dimps and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console, where it released in Japan on May 19, 2016. A second video game for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows will be released in 2018, titled "My Hero Academia: One's Justice". An anime film was announced in December 2017, and will feature an original story.
Chen Dixiu
Chen Dixiu (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) was a Chinese revolutionary from Anhui. He was the founder of the Communist Party of China. In 1902 he studied in Japan and later became the first General Secretary of the Party from 1921 to 1927.
Kim Yong-il
Kim Yong-il (born 2 May 1944) was the Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from April 2007 to 7 June 2010. Kim Yong-il was elected Premier of the state at the fifth session of the Workers' Party of Korea National Congress in April 2007 replacing Pak Pong-ju. On June 7 2010 Choe Yong-rim was elected by the National Assembly as his successor.
Omar Aggad
Omar A. Aggad (20 April 1927 – 1 February 2018) was a Saudi-born Palestinian businessman. He was the founder of Aggad Investment Company (AICO), and the founder and former chairman of Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC).
Aggad died on 1 February 2018 in Toronto at the age of 90.
Workers' Party of Korea
Workers' Party of Korea is the current ruling party in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The party has ruled in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since its inception in 1949.
The Workers' Party of Korea was established on June 30, 1949 by Kim Il-sung as its leader. The Communist Party of Korea was established on April 25, 1925, based in Seoul. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Korea was Kim Yong-bom. On 30 June 1949, the Workers' Party of Korea was formed based on the merger between the Communist Party of Korea and the new Democratic Party of Korea.
Joseph Polchinski
Joseph Polchinski (May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He was born in White Plains, New York. Polchinski wrote the two-volume textbook "String Theory", published in 1998. Among his many contributions to theoretical physics, D-branes are the best known. In 2008 he won the Dirac Medal for his work in superstring theory. He won the 2017 Fundamental Physics Prize.
Polchinski died on February 2, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 63.
Michael Harner
Michael James Harner (April 27, 1929 – February 3, 2018) was an American anthropologist, educator and author. He founded The Foundation for Shamanic Studies and the New Age practice of "Core Shamanism". His 1980 book, "The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing," was important in the development of "Core Shamanism" as a path of personal development for new age adherents of neoshamanism. He was born in Washington, D.C..
Harner died on February 3, 2018 at the age of 88.
Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten
Dirk Bernard Joseph (Dick) Schouten (25 January 1923 – 3 February 2018) was a Dutch economist. He served as Professor of General Economics and Economic History at Tilburg University. He was known for his work about macroeconomic modelling.
Schouten was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975.
Schouten died on 3 February 2018 in The Hague at the age of 95.
Margot Duhalde
Margot Duhalde (12 December 1920 – 5 February 2018) was a Chilean pilot. She served with the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in World War II.
After the war, she flew war planes for the French Air Force. She was France's first female combat pilot. In 1947 she returned to Chile, however the national airline LAN did not hire women as pilots at that time. Instead, she took a job as a private pilot for a businessman until 1949. Later she opened her own flying school and worked as a flight instructor and as an air traffic controller in the air force.
In 1946 Duhalde was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Alan Baker (mathematician)
Alan Baker, FRS (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician. He was known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular ideas from transcendental number theory. He was born in London. He worked at the University of Cambridge. In 1970, Baker won the Fields Medal.