Ross-shire () is a historic county in the Scottish Highlands. The county borders Sutherland, Cromartyshire, Inverness-shire and an exclave of Nairnshire. It includes most of Ross as well as Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
Dingwall is the traditional county town.
Chakdara
Chakdara (Urdu and ) is a town in Lower Dir District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Ota Filip
Ota Filip (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018) was a Czech novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech.
During the communist era government of Czechoslovakia his works were banned or censored by the authorities, and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in 1968, he was sentenced for his dissident activities, and incarcerated between 1969–1971.
After he was released from political prison, he moved to Germany in 1974.
Asif Ali Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari (; ) is a Pakistani politician who was the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008-2013 and the former co-chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party.
He became famous after he married Benazir Bhutto in 1987, daughter of the former prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. His wife became prime minister in 1988. He returned from self-exile from Dubai when his wife was assassinated in 2007. As new Co-chairperson he became president after his party won the 2008 general elections. He passed the 18th amendment to constitutionally reduce his powers and allied with the U.S in the war in Afghanistan.
Zardari was born on 26 July 1955 in Karachi, Sindh.
Li Boguang
Li Boguang (; October 1968 – 26 February 2018) was a Chinese legal scholar and human rights activist. He was the director of the Quimin Research Institute in Beijing. Li supported farmers seeking compensation for confiscated farmland. He was arrested in 2004 following his involvement in the Tangshan protest.
Li died on 26 February 2018 of liver cancer on 26 February 2018 at the age of 49. His death has raised questions as to whether the Chinese government was responsible for his death. His death has been compared to Liu Xiaobo.
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
Coraopolis is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,677 at the 2010 census.
It is a small community located to the west of Pittsburgh, along the Ohio River and to the east of the Pittsburgh International Airport. The American Bridge Company is headquartered in Coraopolis.
Flag of Maldives
The flag of Maldives was created in July 1965.
It has a green rectangle centered on a red field; charged with a white crescent facing the fly-side.
Flag of Cambodia
The national flag of Cambodia (Khmer: "Tung-Cheat", "National flag") was created in 1993.
It has three horizontal bands of blue, red (double width) and blue, with a depiction of Angkor Wat in white centered on the red band.
Flag of Myanmar
The current flag of Myanmar (also known as Burma) was adopted on 21 October 2010 to replace the former flag in use since 1974.
It has a horizontal bands of yellow, green and red; charged with a large white five-pointed star at the centre.
Flag of East Timor
The flag of East Timor () was created in 2002.
It has a red field with the black isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side bearing a white five-pointed star in the center superimposed on the larger yellow triangle, also based on the hoist-side, that extends to the center of the flag.
Flag of Papua New Guinea
The flag of Papua New Guinea was created in 1971.
It has divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.
Flag of Tonga
The flag of Tonga was created in 1875.
It has a red field with the white rectangle on the upper hoist-side corner bearing the red Cross in the center.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by "The Guardian" newspaper. The first of these reports were published in June 2013. The reports were about the United States and British global surveillance programs. They were based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for these reports. Greenwald has written several best-selling books, including, "No Place to Hide".
Greenwald's work on the Snowden story was featured in the documentary, "Citizenfour", which won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Greenwald appeared on-stage with director Laura Poitras and Snowden's girlfriend, Lindsey Mills, when the Oscar was given. In the 2016 Oliver Stone feature film "Snowden", Greenwald was played by actor Zachary Quinto.
Before the Snowden file disclosures, Greenwald was widely considered one of the most influential opinion columnists in the United States. After working as a constitutional attorney for ten years, he began blogging on national security issues before becoming a "Salon" contributor in 2007 and then moving to "The Guardian" in 2012. He currently writes for and co-edits "The Intercept", which he founded in 2013 with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.
Jean-Guy Hamelin
Jean-Guy Hamelin (October 8, 1925 – March 1, 2018) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Saint-Sévérin-de-Proulxville, Quebec.
Hamelin was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1949 in Trois-Rivières, Québec and was named first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rouyn-Noranda, Canada on November 29, 1973. He retired on November 30, 2001, succeeded by Dorylas Moreau and named Bishop Emeritus.
Hamelin died on March 1, 2018, aged 92 in Rouyn-Noranda.
Joseph Bagobiri
Joseph Danlami Bagobiri (8 November 1957 – 27 February 2018) was a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1983, Bagobiri served as bishop of Kafanchan from 1995 until his death in 2018.
Bagobiri died on 27 February 2018 at the age of 61.
Luckau
Luckau (Lower Sorbian: "Łuków") is a town in Brandenburg, Germany.
Mittenwalde
Mittenwalde is a town in Brandenburg, Germany.
Hubbard, Ohio
Hubbard is a city in the U.S state of Ohio.
Streetsboro, Ohio
Streetsboro is a city in Ohio in the United States.
Billy Herrington
Billy Herrington (July 14, 1969 – March 3, 2018) was an American pornographic movie actor and bodybuilder. He was born in North Babylon, New York. Herrington was best known for his work in gay pornography. He was bisexual. He was known for his role in "HotMen CoolBoyz" (2000). Occasionally, Herrington performed striptease acts at gay clubs in the United States.
On March 3, 2018, Herrington was killed in a car accident in California at the age of 48.
North Babylon, New York
North Babylon is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in Suffolk County, on the south shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 17,509 at the 2010 census. It is a suburban middle class community located within the Town of Babylon.
Newport, Oregon
Newport is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It was made a city in 1882, though the name dates back to the establishment of a post office in 1868. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 9,989; while as of 2013, it had an estimated population of 10,117.
Kenneth Gärdestad
John Charles Kenneth Gärdestad (9 May 1948 – 3 March 2018) was a Swedish lyricist. He was known for writing lyrics for the songs of his brother, Ted Gärdestad. He was head architect at Kunskapsskolan. He designed several of their schools in Sweden and abroad.
Gärdestad won Melodifestivalen 1979 as a songwriter for the song "Satellit" performed by his brother the singer. He was born in Sollentuna, Sweden.
Gärdestad died on 3 March 2018, in Stockholm of pneumonia caused by influenza while suffering from skin cancer and lymphoma at the age of 69.
Tommy DeVito (musician)