The 2016 London mayoral election was held on 5 May 2016 to elect the next Mayor of London. It was the fifth London mayoral election. The sitting mayor of London Boris Johnson did not stand for re-election. The Conservative Party candidate was Zac Goldsmith and the Labour Party candidate was Sadiq Khan. In the election, Khan was elected mayor.
The election election used the supplementary vote system, which is where the voters choose a first and a second choice of candidates. After two rounds Khan was elected as Mayor.
Jimmy Boyd
Jimmy Boyd (January 9, 1939 – March 7, 2009) was an American musician and actor. He became known for his performance and recording of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
He was born James Boyd in McComb, Mississippi. He died from cancer, age seventy, in Santa Monica, California.
West Point, Mississippi
West Point is a city in Clay County, Mississippi. It is in the eastern part of the state near the Alabama border. There were 11,307 people living in West Point at the 2010 U.S. census.
Tupelo, Mississippi
Tupelo is a city in northeastern Mississippi. It is close to the Alabama state line. At the 2010 U.S. census, 34,546 people lived in Tupelo. The city is famous because Elvis Presley was born there. In 1936, a strong tornado struck the area.
Seal of Mississippi
The Mississippi State Seal was adopted in 1798, back when Mississippi was a U.S. territory, the Mississippi territory. When it became a state in 1817, it was declared the state seal.
The central part of the seal has an eagle centered inside it. The wings of the eagle are spread out, and its head held high. Stars and stripes adorn its chest. The outer circle of this seal carries the words "The Great Seal of the State of Mississippi".
This seal was adopted on 19 January 1818. In July of 2014, the seal was slightly changed when the state government added the words "In God We Trust" to the bottom. The state government said that it did this to protect "religious freedom".
Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle is an English journalist.
Liddle was born in Abbey Wood, London to a train driver. He was brought up in Nunthorpe from the age of eight. At 16 he was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. He stayed a member for about a year.
Liddle met Rachel Royce at the BBC in 1993. In January 2004 Liddle married her in Malaysia.
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, CBE (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979), born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a novelist from Dominica. She is best known for her novel "Wide Sargasso Sea".
Rhys was born to a Welsh father and a white Creole mother. In 1907 Rhys left her Caribbean island home to live in England with her aunt. In 1919 Rhys married. In 1927 her first collection of short stories "The Left Bank and Other Stories" was published by Jonathan Cape (London). Her first novel was published in 1928. That year she moved to London. She married her agent in 1934.
Rhys died alone in a nursing home in Devon in 1979, just before her 87th birthday.
Limit of a sequence
In mathematics, a sequence is an ordered set of mathematical objects (most notably a list of numbers). In some cases, the sequence tends towards a limit, in which case the limit is denoted using the symbol formula_1 (as in formula_2), and the sequence is said to be convergent, otherwise it is divergent.
In a convergent sequence, the absolute difference between the value of the current term and the limit, formula_3, will decrease towards 0, as the sequence progresses.
We call formula_4 the limit of the sequence formula_5 if the following condition holds:
In other words, for every measure of distance formula_10, we can find an infinite number of terms of the sequence that are closer than formula_10 to the limit. We say that the sequence formula_5 converges to or tends to the limit formula_4, which we write as formula_14 or formula_15. The limit can be also shown to be unique.
If a sequence converges to a limit, then it is convergent; otherwise it is divergent.
The Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea is famous for formulating paradoxes that involve limiting processes.
Leucippus, Democritus, Antiphon, Eudoxus and Archimedes developed the method of exhaustion, which uses an infinite sequence of approximations to determine an area or a volume. Archimedes succeeded in summing what is now called a geometric series.
Newton dealt with series in his works on "Analysis with infinite series" (written in 1669, circulated in manuscript, published in 1711), "Method of fluxions and infinite series" (written in 1671, published in English translation in 1736, Latin original published much later) and "Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum" (written in 1693, published in 1704 as an Appendix to his "Optiks"). In the latter work, Newton considers the binomial expansion of ("x"+"o"), which he then linearizes by "taking the limits" as "o" tends to 0.
In the 18th century, mathematicians like Euler succeeded in summing some "divergent" series by stopping at the right moment; they did not much care whether a limit existed, as long as it could be calculated. At the end of the century, Lagrange in his "Théorie des fonctions analytiques" (1797) opined that the lack of rigour precluded further development in calculus. Gauss in his etude of hypergeometric series (1813) for the first time rigorously investigated under which conditions a series converged to a limit.
The modern definition of a limit (for any ε there exists an index "N" so that ...) was given by Bernhard Bolzano ("Der binomische Lehrsatz", Prague 1816, little noticed at the time), and by Karl Weierstraß in the 1870s.
Acholi people
Acholi (also Acoli) is a Luo Nilotic ethnic group from Northern Uganda. About 1.2 million Acholi people live in Uganda. Acholi people speak Acholi.
Wendy Barrie
Marguerite Wendy Jenkins (also Wendy Barrie; 18 April 1912 – 2 February 1978) was a British-born American actress who worked in British and American movies. She played Pamela Starr in "Women in War" (1940). She also played Ann Patterson in "Submarine Alert".
Barrie was born in Hong Kong. She died following a stroke in Englewood, New Jersey.
David Michel
David Michel (born 1975) is a French producer and head of Marathon Media. He created many famous series like: Totally Spies!, Martin Mystery and The Amazing Spiez!.
Since 1999, David Michel has produced several long-running animated series along with Vincent Chalvon-Demersay (CEO, Marathon Media) : Totally Spies, Martin Mystery, Team Galaxy, Monster Buster Club, The Amazing Spiez!. In 2009, David produces a first animated feature film, "Totally Spies, The Movie" based on the international T.V hit "Totally Spies" sold in over 130 countries, and the most sold French T.V series internationally.
DWith a €5.8 Million budget, this movie is produced by Marathon Media, Studio 37 (the movie subsidiary of European cell phone operator Orange), Mikado (Italy) and distributed around the world. The French theatrical release is scheduled was July 22 2009. In 2013 David Michel is stepping down as CEO but still working a Marathon Media.
Sam Kelly
Samuel Kelly (born Roger Michael Kelly) (19 December 1943 – 14 June 2014) was an English actor. He appeared in movies, television, radio and theatre. He was best known for his roles as Captain Hans Geering in "'Allo 'Allo" and as Ted Liversidge in "Barbara".
Kelly had Cancer of unknown primary origin. He was admitted to a hospice on 13 June 2014. He died early the next morning, aged 70.
Grace Metalious
Grace Metalious (September 8, 1924 – February 25, 1964) was an American author. She was best known for her controversial novel "Peyton Place", which was made into a soap opera in the 1960s. She also wrote several other novels.
Metalious was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. She died from cirrhosis of the liver, age 39, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Frankie Valli