President Charles R. Middleton was inaugurated in 2002, and retired in 2015. The current president, Dr. Ali Malekzadeh, started in 2015.
Trevor Baxter
Trevor Baxter (18 November 1932 – 16 July 2017) was a British actor and playwright. He was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was best known for playing Professor George Litefoot in "Doctor Who". He was born in London.
Baxter also appeared in "Adam Adamant Lives!", "Z-Cars", "Maelstrom", "Thriller", "The New Avengers", "Jack the Ripper", (1988) "The Barchester Chronicles" (1982) and "Doctors".
Baxter died on 16 July 2017 in London at the age of 84.
Nexhmije Hoxha
Nexhmije Hoxha (; February 8, 1921 – February 25, 2020) was the widow of Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha.
Hoxha was born Nexhmije Xhuglini in Bitolj. She studied at the Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute in Tirana. After World War II she married prime minister and Communist Party leader Enver Hoxha.
After her husband died in 1985, Nexhmije Hoxha was elected Chairwoman of the Democratic Front. She was forced to resign as chairwoman of the Democratic Front in December 1990, and was replaced by Prime Minister Adil Çarçani. She was arrested and sentenced to prison for misuse of Albanian government funds during her husband's regime, but later released.
Hoxha died on February 25, 2020 at her home in Tirana, Albania at the age of 99.
Patty Jenkins
Patricia Lea "Patty" Jenkins (born July 24, 1971) is an American movie director and screenwriter. She is known for directing "Monster" (2003) and "Wonder Woman" (2017) and will direct the sequel "Wonder Woman 1984" (2019).
In 2011, Jenkins received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the pilot of "The Killing".
Jenkins was born July 24, 1971 at an air force base in Victorville, California. Her father was William T. Jenkins, an Air Force captain and fighter pilot who earned a Silver Star in the Vietnam War. Her mother was Emily Roth, who worked in San Francisco as an environmental scientist. She has an older sister, Elaine Roth. She lived in Lawrence, Kansas from when she was in kindergarten through her junior year of high school.
In 2007, Jenkins married Sam Sheridan. Sheridan is a former firefighter, and he is the author of the book "A Fighter's Heart". Jenkins and Sheridan have a son. They live in Santa Monica, California.
2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup
The 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 14th CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament. It featured teams from North and Central America, along with some Caribbean teams. The tournament was played between 7–26 July 2017. It was hosted by the United States.
Mexico were the defending champions.
There will be no third-placed match in this tournament.
Canada men's national soccer team
Canada national soccer team is the national soccer team of Canada.
Caps and goals updated as of January 15, 2020. Bold notes player is still active with the national team.
Curaçao national football team
The Curaçao national football team is the football team that represents Curaçao. This is not to be confused with the Territory of Curaçao national football team, which existed until 1954 when Curaçao merged into the Netherlands Antilles national football team. The Netherlands Antilles dissolved into different countries on 10 October 2010. The Curaçao national football team is seen as the official successor of the Netherlands Antilles national team.
The team's first match as a new country was played on 18 August 2011 against the Dominican Republic.
Rebus
A rebus is a picture, letter, number, or symbol that is used to represent a different word that has a similar pronunciation. In English, if a person was writing the sentence "I see you tonight" in a text message, the person might write "⊙ L C U 2nite", in which the symbol "⊙", which is a picture of an eye, represents the word "I" because it sounds the same, "L" stands for the contracted "will" as in "I'll", the letter "C" represents the word "see", the letter "U" represents the word "you", the number "2" represents the word "to", and the word "nite" is represents the word "night".
Raymond Sackler
Raymond Sackler (February 16, 1920 – July 17, 2017) was an American physician, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Sackler and his brothers Arthur and Mortimer. They worked together and independently, careers as psychiatric researchers and practitioners, business leaders, and philanthropists.
Sackler was known for being closely associated with the now global reach of Purdue Pharma, LLP in the United States, Canada and Mundipharma, Ltd. in Europe, Asia and Africa. Sackler and his wife Beverly established the "Raymond and Beverly Sackler Medical Research Centre at the University of Cambridge", School of Clinical Medicine (UK).
Sackler was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at New York University. He married Beverly Sackler in 1944. Sackler died on July 17, 2017 of pneumonia at his home in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of 97.
Bagale Thapa
Bagale Thapa or Bagalya Thapa () is a prominent Kshatriya clan within Khas Thapa. Bagale Thapa belong to Atreya Gotra and Suryavansha (solar) dynasty in Hinduism. They trace their ancestry to legendary Khas King Kalu Thapa since Saka Era 1111 or Vikram Samvat 1246. Bagale Thapa were powerful family while living at Jumla as per Gorkha Rajbanshawali, the Royal Genealogy of Gorkha Kingdom.
Bada Kaji Amar Singh Thapa belonged to this clan. Prime Minister Bhimsen Thapa, the grandson of Kaji Birbhadra Thapa, also belonged to this clan. His niece Lalit Tripura Sundari and nephew Mathabarsingh Thapa went on to become Queen and Prime Minister of Nepal respectively. War commander Ujir Singh Thapa, General Ranabir Singh Thapa and Colonel Bakhtawar Singh Thapa also belonged to this clan being family members of PM Bhimsen Thapa.
With Full Force
With Full Force is a German heavy metal and punk music festival held every year since 1994. In 2013, the festival attracted 30,000 attendees. In 2017, the festival took place at the Ferropolis near Gräfenhainichen. This is the first time since 1998 that the festival will not be held in Löbnitz.
Many popular artists have performed here. These include Slayer, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Motörhead, Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Arkona, In Flames, Slipknot, etc.
2017 Ecuadorian general election
2017 general elections were held in Ecuador on 19 February 2017 alongside a referendum on tax havens.
Voters elected a new President and National Assembly.
Incumbent President Rafael Correa of the PAIS Alliance was not eligible for re-election, having served two terms. In the first round of the presidential elections, PAIS Alliance candidate Lenín Moreno received 39% of the vote. Although he was more than 10% ahead of his nearest rival, Guillermo Lasso of the Creating Opportunities party, Moreno was just short of the 40% threshold required to avoid a run-off.
As a result, a second round was held on 2 April. In the second round Moreno was elected president with 51.16% of the vote.
Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 in Berlin - June 24, 1922 in Berlin) was a German businessman, writer and politician.
Rathenau was of Jewish descent. He was a member of the social liberal German Democratic Party (Deutsche Demokratische Partei, shortened DDP).
From February 1, 1922, until his death the same year, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He was a victim of a political assassination. He was murdered by an ultranationalist and antisemitic organization called Organisation Consul. He died at the age of 54.
Massacres at the concentration camp at Botn
Massacres happened at the concentration camp at Botn - in Norway's Nordland county, during World War Two.
According to the Yugoslav War Crimes Commission, 73 prisoners were executed by shots from small arms, on 26 November 1942.