Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy movie directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland. It is a sequel to the 1987 movie Lethal Weapon and the second movie in the Lethal Weapon series.
Eldon George
Eldon Thomas George (May 10, 1931 – November 29, 2018) was a Canadian fossil collector and amateur geologist. He was born in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. He made many important discoveries on the shores of the Minas Basin and the Bay of Fundy in the 1940s.
George found the world's smallest dinosaur tracks in 1984 near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. His other finds include many fossilized amphibian and dinosaur prints that were displayed, along with the world's smallest dinosaur tracks, at his Parrsboro Rock and Mineral Shop and Museum.
One of them is a 17-inch (45-cm) track that may have been made by a primitive, two-legged, crocodile-like creature that was nearly 20 feet (6 m) long. George's other discoveries include a fossilized insect with three pairs of wings and a tiny horseshoe crab that supplies a missing link in evolutionary history.
George died on November 29, 2018 in Parrsboro at the age of 87.
Robert Morris (artist)
Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was thought of as one of the most well known theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd. He made important works to the development of performance art, minimalism, land art, the Process Art movement and installation art.
In 2013 as part of the October Files, MIT Press published a volume on Morris, examining his work and influence, edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson.
Morris was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He studied at the University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, Reed College and at Hunter College. Morris died on November 28, 2018 in Kingston, New York from pneumonia at the age of 87.
Donald Judd
Donald Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist. He worked with minimalism. In his work, Judd worked with autonomy and space that objects created by it. He was also known for his works alongside sculptor Robert Morris.
When the National Endowment for the Arts supported his work, Northern Kentucky University hired Judd to build his notable aluminium sculpture that was opened in the middle of the school's campus in 1976. Another commission, "Untitled" (1984), a three-part sculpture out of concrete with steel reinforcements, was installed at Laumeier Sculpture Park.
Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, but raised in Marfa, Texas. He studied at College of William and Mary, Columbia University School of General Studies and at the Art Students League of New York. Judd died on February 12, 1994 in Manhattan, New York from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 65.
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay and Ray counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 11,084 at the 2010 census. It is located about northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri.
Marfa, Texas
Marfa is a city in far West Texas, located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park. It is the county seat of Presidio County, and its population as of the 2010 United States Census was 1,981.
Viktor Matviyenko
Viktor Antonovych Matviyenko (9 November 1948 – 29 November 2018) was a Ukrainian footballer and manager. He was born in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. Matviyenko won the bronze medalist in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He played for Dynamo Kyiv and the USSR national team. He managed Torpedo Zaporizhya.
Matviyenko died in Kiev on 29 November 2018 at the age of 70.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 9 August 1962), commonly referred to by her initials AKK, is a German CDU politician. She was the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2018 to 2021. She was chief minister of Saarland from 2011 to 2018, making her the first woman to lead the government of Saarland and the fourth woman to head a German state government.
From February to December 2018, she was general secretary of the CDU.
She was elected CDU party leader on 7 December 2018 following Angela Merkel's retirement from that role.
On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation as Chairwoman of the CDU.
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was a Member of the European Parliament 1989 to 1994, a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2009, and as the chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2000 to 2002.
In 2018 he announced his candidacy in the CDU leadership election in December 2018. He lost the election to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In February 2020, he announced his second candidacy for the party's 2021 leadership election. He lost the race on 16 January 2021 after losing to Armin Laschet in the second round.
In March 2020, Merz was tested positive for COVID-19 during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
2018 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election
The 2018 Christian Democratic Union leadership election was held in Hamburg on 7 December 2018. This is after Angela Merkel's decision in October 2018 not to stand for party leader at the 2018 party conference following the party's bad performance in the 2018 Hessian state election and low numbers in national polls.
On 29 October 2018, both the CDU's General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn announced their candidacy in the election. This was followed by Merkel's arch-rival Friedrich Merz announced his bid on 30 October 2018.
Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected leader by winning 45.05% of the vote. Merz won 39.24% of the vote and Spahn won 15.72% of the vote.
Jens Spahn
Jens Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician. He is the Federal Minister of Health since March 2018. He is a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag as a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
In October 2018, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her retirement for the CDU party leadership. Spahn announced his intention to stand for election as her successor in December 2018.
Andrea Nahles
Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a German politician. She was the Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 to June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 to June 2019.
Nahles was a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. She is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010.
Jörg Meuthen
Jörg Hubert Meuthen (; born 29 June 1961) is a German economist and politician. He is the Federal spokesman for Alternative for Germany (AfD) since July 2015.
Meuthen is professor for political economy and finance at the Academy of Kehl.
Alexander Gauland
Alexander Eberhardt Gauland (born 20 February 1941) is a German politician, journalist and lawyer. He is the Leader of the German political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and Co Leader of the party since December 2017.
He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and is its federal spokesman and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg.
Christian Lindner
Christian Wolfgang Lindner (born 7 January 1979) is a German politician. He is a member of the Bundestag and leader of the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP).
Katja Kipping
Katja Kipping (born 18 January 1978) is a German politician. She was the Chairperson of The Left and a member of the Bundestag (German Parliament).
On 10 May 2014 she was reelected, along with Bernd Riexinger, as chairperson of The Left by a national party conference.