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The painting shows Kralj, his wife, and his child.
They are leaving his studio after work.
The painting is an example of the New Objectivity style of art in Slovenia.
There are two special things about the painting.
First, the painting shows the artist's personal life.
Kralj did not usually use his personal life as a subject for paintings.
In this painting, there is no emotional or sentimental part element.
This is usual in paintings of the New Objectivity style.
They showed concrete people and objects without their qualities or symbolism.
Second, the painting shows a sculpture in the part of the picture that is nearest to and in front of the viewer.
The sculpture is a finished work.
It is a sculpture of his wife and child.
Slovenian expressionism
Kralj went to Vienna in 1913 to study sculpture.
In 1915 he stopped his studies because of the war.
In 1919 he returned from the war and went to study in Prague for two years.
From 1920-1923, Kralj was in the center of the Slovenian expressionism movement.
Expressionism explores philosophical themes.
Kralj left the expressionism movement and was soon in the center of the Slovenian "new reality" movement.
The "new reality" style uses designs of everyday life.
Three works by France Kralj
Moderna Galerija, Projekt DCA
https://museums.si/sl/author/details/7/france-kralj
France Kralj (September 26, 1895 — February 2, 1960) was an artist.
He was important in Slovenian expressionism and in the later new reality style.
In the 1950s, he started making monotype prints.
France Kralj was born in Zagorica in Dobrepolje, Slovenia.
His mother was Margareti (born Sever) and his father was Janezu Kralj.
His brother Tone was born in 1900 and another brother Ignacij (Igo) in 1906.
SloveniaKralj went to elementary school in Dobrepolje from 1901 to 1907.
He went to an art and craft school in Ljubljana,  in 1907.
Then he studied wood and stone sculpture in Ljubljana until 1912.
From 1912 to 1913 he was an assistant in the workshop of Aloysius Podlogarja in Celovcu.
In 1913 Kralj studied sculpture in Vienna, Austria.
In 1915 he stopped his studies because of the start of World War I.  In 1919 he studied in Prague, Czech Republic for two years.
For many years he was a professor at the Ljubljana Secondary Technical School.
In 1933 his autobiography Moja pot (My way) was published.
In 1937 he won a prize at the world exhibition in Paris for his sculpture Zrebe (Foal).
From 1920-1923, Kralj was in the center of Slovenian expressionism.
Then he left the philosophical themes for designs of everyday life in the style of the "new reality".
The Božidar Jakac Gallery opened a permanent collection of Kralj's work in 1983.
It has paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures.
The collection has some works in the expressionist style, the new realities style, and many abstract monotypes of farmers, animals, and landscapes.
Kraj's painting "Družinski portret" or "Family Portrait" is an example of the New Objectivity art style in Slovenia.
Franz Kralj
Canola refers to both an edible oil (canola oil) and a type of rapeseed.
The plant is a cultivar of Brassica napus, Brassica rapa or Brassica juncea.
They are well known for their seeds, from which the canola cooking oil is made.
The oil is widely used for preparing food, It has very little saturated fat and a lot of polyunsaturated fats.
Besides cooking, there are also other ways to use canola oil.
One of these is to produce biodiesel fuel for cars and trucks.
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Solomon Airlines is the flag carrier airline of the Solomon Islands.
It started in 1962.
1960s establishments in Oceania
The 2016 California Democratic primary was held on June 7 in the U.S. state of California.
The primary was nonpartisan, meaning the candidates were not divided based on their political party.
Hillary Clinton won the primary with 53.07% of the popular vote.
Other primaries/caucuses occurred on the same day.
Those states included Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North and South Dakota.
In 2015, Hillary Clinton dominated the polls.
It slowly become a close call between Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
The most recent poll before the primary, which was conducted by Fox News from April 18-21, 2016, said that Clinton had 48% of the vote compared to 46% for Sanders.
The sample size was 623 people with a 4% margin of error.
2016 California elections
Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920 – November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist, comedian and screenwriter.
He was best known for his work with MGM, Walter Lantz, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons in the 1950s through the 1980s and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.
He became known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices."
He is also known for being the original voice of Ludwig Von Drake from 1961 until his death in 1986.
Yemanzhelinsk (Russian: Еманжели́нск) is a town and administrative centre in the Yemanzhelinsky District in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
It is located near the Kazakhstan border, and is on the eastern slopes of the Southern Ural Mountains.
Yemanzhelinsk was founded in 1770 by the Cossacks.
The population was 30,216 at the 2010 census.
Yemanzhelinsk was founded in 1770 as a Cossack village and  was named Yemanzhelinskaya () since 1866.
It became a coal mining settlement in the early 1930s, and was granted town status on September 25, 1951.
The chelyabinsk meteor landed close to Yemanzhelinsk.
Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, Chelyabinskaya oblast) is a province (an oblast) in Russia.
It is around the Ural Mountains, on the border between Europe and Asia.
As of 2020, the population is 3,466,960.
2,829,899 Russians (83.8%);
180,913 Tatars (5.4%);
162,513 Bashkirs (4.8%);
50,081 Ukrainians (1.5%);
35,297 Kazakhs (1.00%);
18,687 Germans (0.5%);
13,035 Belarusians (0.4%);
12,147 Mordvins (0.2%);
9,311 Armenians (0.3%);
65,190 others (1.6);
99,144 could not declare an ethnicity
Ray Fisher (born September 8, 1987) is an American movie, television and stage actor.
He is best known for his roles in the comedy The Good, the Bad and the Confused.
Ray played Muhammad Ali in Will Power's Fetch Clay Make Man in 2013.
He is mainly known for playing Victor Stone / Cyborg in the DC Extended Universe such as in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and in the upcoming Justice League.
Sometime in 2020, Fisher will be in a Cyborg movie.
Martin Gray (born Mieczysław Grajewski; 27 April 1922 – 25 April 2016) was a Polish Holocaust survivor.
He emigrated to the West, and has published books in French about his experiences during World War II in which his family was killed in Poland.
Gray's first book, For Those I Loved (Au nom de tous les miens), became a bestseller.
He moved to Belgium in 2001.
On 25 April 2016, he was found dead in his swimming pool at his home in Ciney, Belgium.
He died of a suspected heart attack.
Martin Gray official Website
A Biography of Martin Gray
Harris Llewellyn Wofford, Jr. (April 9, 1926 – January 21, 2019) was an American politician.
He was a member of the Democratic Party who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1995.
He introduced Obama in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center before Obama's speech on race in America, A More Perfect Union.
In 1948, Wofford married Clare Lindgren and they later had three children.
She died in 1996.
In 2016, Wofford announced that he would marry Matthew Charlton, his companion of many years.
Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award
Peace Corps biography of Harris Wofford
Trailer for upcoming documentary on Harris Wofford
Jory Prum (January 31, 1975 – April 22, 2016), also known as Jory K. Prum, was an American audio engineer.
He was best known for his work in movie and video games.
He was the owner of a recording studio located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He worked many games but most famously The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Brütal Legend.
Manuel de la Torre (6 October 1921 – 24 April 2016) was a Spanish-born American golf teacher.
He was thought as being one of golf's top teachers.
His career includes playing on tour, head golf professional at Milwaukee Country Club one of America's most famous golf clubs, and a career of teaching both tour professional and amateur golfers.
Among the tour professionals he has taught are Masters champion Tommy Aaron, U.S. Women's Open champion Carol Mann, du Maurier Classic champion Martha Nause and Women's British Open champion Sherri Steinhauer.
He was the first member of the PGA to be awarded their Teacher of the Year Award in 1986.
He was one of only several golf instructors to be inducted into both the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame as well as the PGA Hall of Fame.
De la Torre won many golf tournaments, including the Wisconsin State Open five times and the Wisconsin PGA Professional Championship five times.
He was elected to the Wisconsin Golf Hall of Fame in 1975.
In 1999 he was inducted into the Northwestern University Athletic Hall of Fame.
Fallout 4 is an action role-playing video game which was created by Bethesda Game Studios and released by Bethesda Softworks.
It is the fifth video game in the Fallout series and was released around the world on November 10, 2015 for Microsoft Windows as well as the consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The game is set in the year 2287, in the city of Boston.
It is played after a fictional nuclear war destroys the world in 2077.
Fallout 4 was officially announced in June 2015.
It was generally given good ratings by critics.
The Microsoft Windows version of the game sold 1.2 million copies.
Fallout (series)
The Samaritans is a charity in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
They are a support group for those at risk of suicide.
The Samaritans, was founded on November 5, 1953 by Chad Varah, a vicar.
He started as a man "willing to listen".
His approach was considered controversial at the time. "
Everyone thought suicidal people were mad," he said. "
But they just needed to be listened to."
Today there are over 21,000 volunteers in 201 locations.
Varah retired from the Samaritans in 1986.
A large amount of Samaritans' work is a telephone hotline, which is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
They also offer a drop-in service for face-to-face discussion.
Samaritans also offer confidential Email support.
The Samaritans volunteers are trained in counselling skills, so they do not judge people.
Confidentiality
Samaritans have a strict code of confidentiality, even after the death of a caller.
Unless the caller gives consent to pass on information, it will be broken only in rare circumstances.
International reach
Amanullah Khan (24 August 1934 – 26 April 2016) was a Pakistani activist and writer.
He was born in Astore.
He was the founding leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.
It was a pro-independence militant activist group in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.
He was the co-founder of the Kashmir Independent Committee in 1963.
He was elected Secretary General of JK Plebiscite Front (PF) in 1965.
He Co-founded the JK National Liberation Front (NLF) with Maqbool Bhat.
Profile at JKLF web site
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front at the South Asia Terrorism Portal
Pakistan: Activities of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
The Lego Batman Movie (seen as The LEGO Batman Movie) is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated superhero comedy movie.
It is directed by Chris McKay and produced by Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
The movie is written by Seth Grahame-Smith.
It is a spin-off of the 2014 movie The Lego Movie.
It is based on the DC Comics character Batman.
It will star Will Arnett as Batman, Ralph Fiennes as Alfred, Michael Cera as Robin, Rosario Dawson as Batgirl, Zach Galifianakis as The Joker, and Mariah Carey as the Mayor of Gotham City.
Will Arnett as Batman / Bruce Wayne
Zach Galifianakis as Joker
Michael Cera as Dick Grayson / Robin
Rosario Dawson as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl
Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth
Héctor Elizondo as Commissioner James Gordon
Jenny Slate as Dr. Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn
Mariah Carey as Mayor McCaskill
Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent / Two-Face
Conan O'Brien as Edward Nygma / The Riddler
Jason Mantzoukas as Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
Doug Benson as Bane
Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle / Catwoman
Kate Micucci as Basil Karlo / Clayface
Riki Lindhome as Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy
Channing Tatum as Clark Kent / Superman
Jonah Hill as Hal Jordan / Green Lantern
Adam DeVine as Barry Allen / The Flash
Eddie Izzard as Lord Voldemort
Seth Green as King Kong
Jemaine Clement as Sauron
Ellie Kemper as Phyllis
Chris Hardwick as Television reporter
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the movie has an approval rating of 97% based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10.
On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to on reviews, the movie has a score of 75 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Animated Batman movies
Klaus Siebert (29 April 1955 – 24 April 2016) was a German biathlete and biathlon coach.
Hed raced for East Germany.
Siebert won a silver medal at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York on the relay with the East German relay team.
In the Biathlon World Championships, Siebert has two gold medals with the East German relay team in 1978 and 1979, and a bronze medal from 1977.
He also has three individual medals gold medal from the 20 km in 1978 and two bronzes from the 10 km in 1975 and 1978.
Lucy Muthoni Kibaki (1940 – 26 April 2016) was a Kenyan socialite and philanthropist.
She was the wife of former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki.
They were married in 1962.
She was the First Lady of Kenya from 2002 to 2013.
Kibaki was known for supporting disadvantaged and disabled people.
She chaired the Organization of the 40 African First Ladies Against HIV/Aids.
African philanthropists
Bronchospasm or a bronchial spasm is a sudden tightening of the muscles in the walls of the bronchioles.
It is caused by the release (degranulation) of substances from mast cells or basophils because of anaphylatoxins.
It causes difficulty in breathing which can be very mild to severe.
Bronchospasms can be caused by asthma, chronic bronchitis and anaphylaxis.
Some of the things that can cause bronchospasms are: consuming foods, taking medicines, allergic responses to insects, and hormone levels, particularly in women.
Mei Baojiu () (29 March, 1934 – 25 April, 2016) was a Chinese contemporary Peking opera artist.
He was also a performer of the Dan role type in Peking Opera and Kunqu opera.
He was the leader of Mei Lanfang Peking Opera troupe in Beijing Peking Opera Theatre.
Mei’s regular performances of opera include Farewell My Concubine, Guifei Intoxicated (貴妃醉酒), Lady General Mu Takes Command (穆桂英挂帅), The story of Yang Guifei (太真外传), Luo Shen (洛神), and Xi Shi (西施).
On 31 March 2016, Mei was hospitalized in Beijing because of bronchospasm.
He died on 25 April 2016, at the age of 82.
Asian opera singers
Malick Sidibé (born 1935 or 1936 – April 14, 2016) was a Malian photographer.
He was known for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako.
During his life, Sidibé gained an international fame and was considered, along with Seydou Keïta, Mali's most famous photographer.
His work has been the subject of a number of publications and been exhibited throughout Europe, and in the United States.
Formed at Corinthians, after a loan at São Caetano he was sold to Coritiba in 2011, winning the Campeonato Paranaense in both of his seasons.
He also won Série A twice at Cruzeiro, being voted the best player of each season, and joined Al-Ahli for €15 million in 2014.
The muriquis, or woolly spider monkeys, are the genus Brachyteles.
There are two species, the southern (B. arachnoides) and northern muriqui (B. hypoxanthus) muriquis.
The name "muriqui" comes from a native Tupi word meaning 'largest monkey'.
They are the two largest New World monkeys.
The northern muriqui is one of the most endangered monkeys in the world.
They are seen only in some forests in Brazil.
Muriquis live in groups from four to 43.
They do not fight about their territory.
They mostly eat leaves.
They sometimes eat fruit and flowers in the rainy season, as well as bark, bamboo, ferns, nectar, pollen, and seeds.
Conservation of the Muriqui from Brazil
Southern muriqui at ARKive
Northern muriqui at ARKive
Primate Info Net Brachyteles Factsheet
Southern Muriqui Home Page  - Pró- Muriqui Association
A Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon) is a member of the family and genus of large salamanders.
The salamanders may grow up to  long, and are found in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Apart from their large size, they are like the mole salamander family (Ambystomatidae).
Most salamanders are silent but the Pacific giant salamander can make noise.
The adults can live on land or in water.
The genus has four species: Cope's giant salamander (D. copei), the Idaho giant salamander (D. aterrimus), the coastal giant salamander (D. tenebrosus), and the California giant salamander (D. ensatus).
Tree of Life: Dicamptodontidae
Dicamptodon at CalPhotos
The azure kingfisher (Alcedo azurea) is a small kingfisher (), in the river kingfisher family, Alcedinidae.
It lives in parts of Australia and Tasmania, as well as New Guinea and some nearby islands, and out to North Maluku and Romang.
It is named for the azure color on its back.
Its feet are red with only two front toes.
White spots between the eyes and beak may help it scare predators.
The azure kingfisher lives at the side of bodies of water such as creeks, lakes, swamps, tidal estuaries and mangroves.
It can dive quickly from a perch above water.
It feeds on freshwater crayfish and small fish.
It builds its nest in a chamber up to 1 meter long in a creek bank.
5–7 white, round eggs.
Its call is a high-pitched, 'pseet-pseet'.
Morcombe, Michael K. (2000): Field Guide to Australian Birds.
Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield, Australia.
ISBN 1-876282-10-X
Slater, Peter; Slater, Pat & Slater, Raoul (1989): The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds (Revised Edition).
Weldon, Sydney, Chicago.
ISBN 0-947116-99-0
Pizzey, Graham (1980): A field guide to the birds of Australia.
Collins, Sydney.
ISBN 0-00-219201-2
Schodde R. & Mason I.J. (1976): Infra-specific variation in Alcedo azurea Latham (Alcedinidae).
Emu 76(1): 161–166.
Woodall, Peter: (2001): 77.
Azure Kingfisher.
In: del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew & Sargatal, Jordi (editors): Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 6 (Mousebirds to Hornbills): 237, plate 19.
ISBN 84-87334-30-X
Austin Dillon (born April 27, 1990) is a professional NASCAR driver.
He currently drives the No.
3 Chevrolet Camaro for Richard Childress Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.
In addition, he also drives the No.
10 Camaro for Kaulig Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
Kasey Kahne (born April 10, 1980) is a retired American professional NASCAR driver.
After retiring from NASCAR, Kahne has stayed active as a race team owner and part time driver in the World of Outlaws series with his team Kasey Kahne Racing.
NASCAR Career
From 2011 until 2017, Kahne drove the #5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet SS for Hendrick Motorsports.
In 2018, Kahne left Hendrick Motorsports and signed up to drive for Leavine Family Racing.
During the 2018 season Kahne started to become ill during races.
Due to the long length of the races, he started to suffer from dehydration.
Kahne's doctors told him he should not continue to race, so he decided to retire from racing in NASCAR.
The 2016 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A will be the 60th season of the Série A, the top-level of professional football in Brazil.
Corinthians come in as the defending champions having won the title in the 2015 season.
Number of teams by state
Foreign players
Note: The match was interropted in 46 minutes, due to heavy fog in Chapecó.
The confrontation was resmued in June 23rd, in 3:00 p.m.
Rubén Mendoza Ayala (2 February 1961 – 16 April 2016) was a Mexican politician.
He was a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution.
He served as Deputy of the LVII and LIX Legislatures of the Mexican Congress.
He served from 2014 until his death in 2016.
He represented the State of Mexico.
Ayala was born in Tlalnepantla de Baz, Mexico.
Ayala died of cardiac arrest on 16 April 2016 in Ciudad del Carmen, aged 55.
Petr Nečas (born 19 November 1964) is a Czech former politician.
He served as 9th Prime Minister of Czech Republic and leader of the Civic Democratic Party from 2010 to 2013.
He was former Ministry of Defence (21 December 2012 – 19 March 2013) and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (4 September 2006 – 8 May 2009).
Jan Fischer (born January 2, 1951) is a Czech politician.
He was Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from May 2009 to June 2010.
He was also President of the European Council from May 8, 2009 to June 30, 2009.
Later he was Minister of Finance from July 2013 to January 2014.
In 2013 Fischer ran in the presidential election.
In the first round of the election, held in January 2013, he placed third with 16.35% of the vote (841,437 votes).
Cyril Edel Leonoff (February 22, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was a Canadian civil engineer, historian and author.
He was the founding president of the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia.
Bridges of Light: Otto Landauer of Leonard Frank Photos, 1945-1980 (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1997)
A Dedicated Team:  Klohn Leonoff Consulting Engineers 1951-1991 (Bi-Tech Publishers, Richmond, 1994)
An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895-1944 (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1990)
"The Sylvesters of British Columbia", The Scribe Volume 4 (The Jewish Historical Society of BC, Vancouver, 1980)
Pioneers, Pedlars and Prayer Shawls: The Jewish Communities in British Columbia and the Yukon (Sono Nis Press, Victoria, 1978)
The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia
Avril K. Henry (5 April 1935 – 20 April 2016) was an English activist.
She wanted the legalization of assisted suicide by euthanasia.
She was a retired professor of English medieval culture at the University of Exeter.
Henry committed suicide by euthanasia at her home in Brampford Speke, Devon on 20 April 2016, aged 81.
She illegally bought a euthanasia kit online before her death.
Some of her works
Biblia Pauperum.
Scolar, Aldershot, 1987. (
Editor)
The Eton Roundels: Eton College MS 177 'Figurae Bibliorum' A Colour Facsimile With Transcription, Translation and Commentary
The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and Mapuche people of Araucanía region, of modern Chile.
This conflict began at Reynogüelén in 1536, near the confluence of the Ñuble and Itata rivers.
It was between an expedition of Diego de Almagro and a large, well organized group of Mapuche soldiers.
Since 1609, each governor of Chile held "Parlamentos" with Mapuche chiefs.
At these, they discussed maintenance of a treaty between both parties.
Violations of the treaty were frequent.
In 1881, these finally ended, with a process known as the Pacification of Araucanía.
Serindígena.org - Maps
Maps of battles of Arauco War
Vincent Matthew Darius, OP (6 September 1955 – 26 April 2016) was Grenadian Roman Catholic official.
He was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada from 2002 until his death in 2016.
He was born in the village of Crochu.
He was ordained on 28 June 1987.
Bishop Vincent Darius, Catholic Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada
Rinuncie e Nomine, 10.07.2002 (B0362), Press Office of the Holy See (in Italian)
Bishop Vincent Matthew Darius, O.P. †, Hierarchy of the Catholic Church (Catholic-Hierarchy.org)
Coat of arms (of the Bishop), Catholic Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada
Death of Bishop Vincent Darius OP, NOW Grenada, 26 April
Caribbean Bishops meet , Catholic News (Trinidad and Tobago), 10 April (front page)
Harry Wu (February 8, 1937 – April 26, 2016; ) was a Chinese-born American human rights activist.
Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps.
He was a resident and citizen of the United States.
In 1992, he founded the Laogai Research Foundation.
Among Wu's supporters was the AFL-CIO.
In 1990, Senators Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) invited Wu to testify before the Senate on the laogai.
In November 2008, Wu opened the Laogai Museum in Washington, D.C.. He called it the first ever United States museum to talk about human rights in China.
The Laogai Research Foundation
Carlos Altamirano Orrego (December 18, 1922 – May 19, 2019) was a Chilean lawyer.
He was one of the most influential politicians of Chilean socialism.
He was the general secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party (PS).
He served from 1971 through 1979.
He was deputy from 1961 to 1965 and senator from 1965 to 1973.
He escaped after Pinochet's coup d'état on September 11, 1973.
He lived as a refugee in Cuba.
As a young man he was an athlete, winning medals in the high jump event at the 1946 and 1947 South American Championships in Athletics.
He returned to Chile after the end of Pinochet's dictatorship in 1993.
Dialéctica de una Derrota (1977)
Después de Todo ("After Everything")
Chilean historians
Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes  (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean politician.
He was born in Rengo.
Jarpa served as a member of the cabinet during the government of Augusto Pinochet.
He served as Minister of the Interior from 1983 through 1985.
Before becoming minister, Jarpa was a Member of the Senate from May 1973 through September 1973 and again from 1990 through 1994.
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
Regulation 261/2004 is a regulation by the European Commission providing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding, flight cancellations, or long delays of flights.
Chub is a common fish name.
It is used for  a number of ray-finned fish in several families and genera.
In Europe, the term "chub" usually refers to the European chub (Squalius cephalus).
William Clyde "Chase" Elliott II (born November 28, 1995) is a professional NASCAR driver.
In 2016, he replaced Jeff Gordon as the driver of the #24 car for Hendrick Motorsports.
He is the son of NASCAR hall of famer Bill Elliott.
He won the 2014 NASCAR XFINITY Series Championship.
Tropical Storm Erika in August 2015 was a very damaging and deadly tropical cyclone.
The storm struck the Leeward Islands on August 27.
More than USD$500 million in damage was caused by the storm.
Resulting from Erika's impact over the northeast Caribbean, the name Erika was retired in April 2016.
The name was replaced with Elsa for 2021.
Erika became the second storm name that was retired.
Allison was the first one.
2015 in North America
2010s in Florida
Virisila Buadromo (born 1972) is a human rights activist from Fiji.
In 2008, she received the International Women of Courage Award.
In 2001, she became the Executive Director of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement.
This organization helps women by changing laws and policies.
After the Fiji government changed in December 2006, Buadromo had difficulty with the new government.
Buadromo made the program larger by starting the Emerging Leaders Forum, a program for young women.
the Emerging Leaders Forum is a one-year program.
It works with Fiji’s family law.
Women Have Wings Courage Award, Oxfam, 2012.
International Women of Courage Award, U.S State Department, 2008.
V. T. Thomas (6 June 1929 – 27 April 2016) also known as Toms, was an Indian cartoonist.
He was born in  from Kuttanad, India.
He was as the creator of the cartoon characters Boban and Molly.
He joined Malayala Manaorama, a popular daily in Kerala, in 1961.
Toms died in Kerala, India on April 27, 2016, aged 86.
Bobanum Moliyum Cartoons
Cartoon window
Managing Intellectual Property
Igor Fesunenko (January 28, 1933 – April 28, 2016) was a Soviet and Russian journalist and writer.
He was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
He was born in Orenburg.
From 1975 to 1979, he worked in Portugal.
He then worked as a political columnist and host of such programs as  Today in the World,   The Camera Looks Into the World,  International Panorama, Vremya.
In the early 1990s, he worked in Italy.
He returned to Moscow in the late 1990s.
Igor Fesunenko interview
Mustafizur Rahman () is a Bangladeshi international cricketer.
He is a Left-arm fast-mediumand a left-handed batsman.
He was born in Satkhira, Khulna in Bangladesh.
Mustafizur Rahman from ESPNcricinfo
Mustafizur Rahman from CricketArchive
Jenny Diski FRSL (née Simmonds; 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016) was an English writer.
She was known for her works Nothing Natural and Rainforest.
Diski was born in London.
She lived with author Doris Lessing for four years after being abused by her parents.
Diski studied at University College London.
She worked as a teacher during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Diski was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; the collections Don't and A View from the Bed.
She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions.
In June 2014, Diski was told that she had at three years to live.
In September 2014, she revealed that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
She died on 28 April 2016 in London from the disease, aged 68.
Barry Howard (9 July 1937 – 28 April 2016) was an English actor.
He was best known for his role as Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in the first seven series of the long-running BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!.
He left the show and was replaced by Julian Dalrymple-Sykes, played by Ben Aris.
He was also known for his roles in Terry and June, You Rang, M'Lord?,
The House of Windsor and Dad.
He starred in a BBC TV comedy series in 1973 called The Gordon Peters Show.
He is known for his roles in Hi-de-Hi!,
Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?,
Grace & Favour, One Foot in the Grave as Ronnie, Never the Twain, Little Britain, Keeping Up Appearances and HBO's Tales from the Crypt.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series.
He was created by Ian Fleming.
His mission is world domination.
He was born in Poland.
He is known for having a scar on his eye, for wearing his grey suit and for having a pet cat.
Blofeld is head of the global criminal organization SPECTRE and is commonly referred to as Number 1.
Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and You Only Live Twice.
He was famously played by Donald Pleasence in You Only Live Twice (1967) and by Christoph Waltz in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
Some of Blofeld's characteristics have become popular as a supervillain in fiction and media.
It includes the parodies Dr. Claw (and his pet, M.A.D. Cat) from the Inspector Gadget animated series (1983–86), and Dr. Evil (and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth) from the Austin Powers movie series (1997–2002).
Bond villains
René Hausman (21 February 1936 – 28 April 2016) was a Belgian comic book writer and artist.
He was best known for his dark fairy-tales and drawings.
He was born in Verviers, Belgium.
His best known work is Laïyna.
In 1995, he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Durbuy.
He created more than 500 drawings for the magazine.
His drawings are about animals and local folklore.
It earned him the nickname "Bard of the Ardennes".
Biography at Comiclopedia
Biography at Dupuis
Chen Zhongshi (; 3 August 1942 – 29 April 2016) was a Chinese author.
He started writing in 1965.
His best known work is White Deer Plain which was published in 1993.
He won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997.
In 1966, Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party.
He was interested in writing and soon began to work on a writing career.
In 1979, he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association.
Renato Tirso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino jurist.
He was the 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
He served as chief from 2010 until his resignation in 2012.
Corona was born on October 15, 1948 in the Santa Ana area of Manila.
He studied at Ateneo de Manila University, at Harvard University and at the University of Santo Tomas.
He served as an Associate Justice after being appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 9, 2002.
He was appointed as Chief Justice on May 12, 2010 after the retirement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno.
On December 12, 2011, he was impeached by the House of Representatives.
On May 29, 2012, he was found guilty by the Senate of violating some laws of the Constitution of the Philippines.
Corona died on April 29, 2016 at The Medical City in Pasig due to complications of a heart attack, aged 67.
He suffered from kidney disease.
Was Corona Honest?:
An Interactive Properties Map of Chief Justice Renato Corona's Asset Declarations  on Rappler.com
Special Coverage of the Corona Trial on Rappler.com
Justice Renato C. Corona (Official Supreme Court Webpage)
Corona is next SC chief, www.mb.com.ph 12 May 2010
The Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
The Punggol LRT Line is the third line of the LRT system in Singapore.
Its first phase comprises a 10.3 km line with 15 stations.
Construction began in June 2000 by a consortium comprising SembCorp Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corporation, at a cost of S$354 million.
Construction of the first phase was completed in June 2004, and underwent testing by the Land Transport Authority.
The system was handed over to SBS Transit on 1 December 2004, who conducted more trial runs and staff training before the opening of the East Loop on 29 January 2005.
The West Loop opened on 29 June 2014.
29 January 2005: Line opened on East Loop except Oasis and Damai
15 November 2007: Oasis (PE6) Opened.
20 June 2011: Damai (PE7) Opened.
East Loop become bidirectional whole day.
29 June 2014: West Loop opened between Nibong (PW5) and Soo Teck (PW7), in unidirectional manner.
29 February 2016: Sam Kee (PW1) opened.
There are 15 Stations on this line, in the future we will have North Loop (PN) in the future.
The 'PE' means Punggol LRT East Loop.
East Loop (PE)
On 31 October 2012, LTA announced that by 2016, Sengkang and Punggol LRT systems will be upgraded to a two-car system for the 41 existing train cars, allowing double the number of passengers to board at any one time.
Each train car can take up to 105 passengers.
16 more train-cars will also be procured.
This will bring the total fleet size to 57 train-cars.
Hence, there is also the need to modify the signalling and communication system.
Trains operating on the line are Mitsubishi Crystal Movers (C810) manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
These trains operate from the Sengkang Depot which serves maintenance and train overhaul facilities for trains along the Sengkang and Punggol LRT lines.
Doomsday is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
He is a Superman villain.
Doomsday was first shown in 1992.
He made his first full appearance in Superman: The Man of Steel that same year.
The character was created by writer-artist Dan Jurgens, who wanted to create a villain who could be a physical challenge for Superman.
IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Doomsday as #46.
He is best known as the character who "killed" Superman.
The character appears in the 2016 movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, voiced and performed by Robin Atkin Downes through motion-capture.
Bras Basah MRT Station (CC2) is an MRT Station in Singapore.
It is along the Circle MRT Line.
Previous: Dhoby Ghaut (CC1/NS24/NE6)Next: Esplanade (CC3)
Pasir Ris MRT station (EW1/CR5) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West line in Pasir Ris, Singapore.
The station serves as a terminus for the East West MRT Line.
It was the first station to be fitted with platform screen doors.
This station opened on 16 December 1989, and it was one of the last to open along the East West MRT line.
On 1 November 2009, platform screen doors were installed along with Jurong East as part of a trial programme.
The Pasir Ris rail accident was a train accident that occurred on 22 March 2016, at the track switch on the East West MRT Line.
A C151 train ran into two SMRT Trains trainee track workers at around 60 km/h, which resulted in their deaths.
The two deceased workers were working on a track signalling issue at that time as part of a team of 15 track personnel.
This incident was "the worst train accident" in Singapore MRT's history.
SMRT Trains and one SMRT management staff were charged for violating the Workplace Safety and Health Act that led to this accident, and were fined $400,000 and $55,000 respectively.
The SMRT engineer who led the track team at the scene of the accident was dismissed from SMRT Trains and charged with negligence causing death under the Penal Code.
Punggol MRT/LRT Station (NE17/PTC) is an MRT and LRT Station in Singapore.
It is an interchange station between North East MRT Line and Punggol LRT Line.
These are connected with MRT/LRT stations around the Punggol area.
The station opened on 20 June 2003.
It is the terminus station along the North East MRT Line.
Waterway Point is located nearby.
Thymus, an immune organ in the body of humans and other vertebrates
Thymus, the genus from which the herb thyme is gotten
Sengkang MRT/LRT Station  is a railway station in Sengkang, north-east Singapore.
It is an interchange station between the North East MRT Line and Sengkang LRT Line.
The station is integrated with Compass One.
18 January 2003: Station opened along Sengkang LRT Line East Loop
20 June 2003: North East Line opened
29 January 2005: Sengkang LRT Line West Loop opened in 1 direction
1 January 2013: Sengkang LRT Line West Loop became full-day 2-directional
Summer school (or summer university) is a school or a program usually sponsored by a school or a school district.
It provides lessons and activities during the summer vacation.
In the United States, high school, college or university students can enroll in summer school for credit.
Generally, this credit is in one of two categories: remediation or advancement.
For remediation, the summer school is used to make up credits lost through absence or failure.
For advancement, the summer school is used to obtain credit for classes to accelerate progress toward a degree or to lessen the load of courses during the regular school year.
Many universities offer short-term summer courses to attract both local and international students, and these programs are often surrounded by social activities.
In the United Kingdom, Lite Regal summer school which is based in Cambridge provides teaching for 13 to 18 year olds for courses on medical preparation, law preparation etc.
Currently last summer and this summer they have students from 50 + nationalities staying and learning courses in Cambridge University.
The superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), also known as the blue wren, is a passerine bird of the family Maluridae.
It is common and familiar across southeastern Australia.
Each pair has a territory, also shows obvious sexual dimorphism.
The male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue throat.
However, non-breeding males, females and juveniles are mostly grey-brown in colour.
Like other fairy-wrens, it has several peculiar behavioural characteristics.
The birds are socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous.
They form pairs between one male and one female, but each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings.
Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display.
The superb fairy-wren can be found in almost any area that has at least a little dense undergrowth for shelter, including grasslands with scattered shrubs, moderately thick forest, woodland, heaths, and domestic gardens.
It has adapted well to the urban environment and is common in suburban Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
The superb fairy-wren eats mostly insects and supplements its diet with seeds.
Fernvale LRT Station  is an LRT station in Singapore.
It is a station along Sengkang LRT Line.
It is on the West Loop.
Fernvale is the only station along the Sengkang LRT Line which uses side platforms.
29 January 2005: Station opened
Previous: Thanggam (SW4)Next: Layar (SW6)
Damai LRT Station is an LRT station in Singapore.
It is along the Punggol LRT Line East Loop.
20 June 2011: Station opened
Previous: Oasis (PE6)Next: Punggol (PTC/NE17)
Kavakci is the Director of Postcolonial Studies Research Center (PAMER) at Uskudar University.
She is also an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations.
Kavakçı is a Hafiz-al Qur'an.
She received her master's degree from Harvard University and her PhD from Howard University.
Kavakçı is currently a professor at George Washington University and Howard University in Washington D.C. She is the mother of two, Fatima Abushanab, 21 and Mariam Kavakci, 20.
Kavakçı is a consultant for U.S. Congress on the Muslim world and a columnist for Turkish conservative daily Yeni Akit newspaper.
She is the author of Headscarf Politics in Turkey: A Postcolonial Reading, and five other books some of which are translated to Arabic and Persian.
She is the editor author of International Relations in the Global Village: Changing Interdependencies.
Her most recent book is The Unnamed Coup at Scarfless Democarcy (Basortusuz Demokrasi’de Adi Konmamis Darbe).
A book on her political life The Day Turkey Stood Still: Merve Kavakci's Walk in to the Turkish Parliament authored by American author Richard Peres was recently released.
Kavakçı is recognized among the World's Most Influential 500 Muslims.
She was recognized among "Women of Excellence" by NAACP and GWU in 2004.
She was awarded the Public Service Award in Tribute and in Recognition of efforts for the advancement of human rights and Muslim Women's empowerment by International Association for Women and Children in 2000.
She was awarded Service to Humanity Award by Haus Der Kulturellen Aktivität und Toleranz in Vienna, Austria in 1999.
She was granted Mother of the Year Award by Capital Platform of Ankara and National Youth Organization in 1999.
Muslim Girl Style
MediaCorp Channel 8 is a television channel in Singapore.
It is owned by MediaCorp.
The Chinese language channel was launched in 1963.
It broadcasts news, dramas and variety shows.
It operates 24 hours a day, every day.
It used to be SBC 8.
The channel shows programs from Singapore, Taiwan and China.
Promiscuity is the practice of having casual sex frequently with different partners.
In cultures where sexual activity happens only in exclusive committed relationships, promiscuity is criticized as a bad activity.
A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous is a one-night stand.
What sexual behavior is considered promiscuous varies between cultures, as does the frequency of promiscuity.
A study published in 2005 found that promiscuous men and women are judged equally harshly.
A recent poll showed that both genders tend to express strong preference for sexually conservative partners.
However, later studies show evidence for a double standard.
Promiscuity is common in many animal species.
Some species have promiscuous mating systems, ranging from polyandry and polygyny to mating systems with no stable relationships.
Many species form stable pair bonds, but still mate with other individuals outside the pair.
The LRT systems are intra-town loops, shuttle services, or both.
The routes may not run in sequence of the stations' alpha-numeric codes.
LRT stations
Irena Stanisława Sendler (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008) was a nurse and social worker in Warsaw, Poland.
During World War II, when Poland was occupied by Nazis, she took about 2,500 Jewish children out of Poland with help from other members of the Żegota (pl) (The Polish Council to Aid Jews).
She was caught, and the Nazis tortured her.
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (born 29 December 1962) was the President of Catalonia.
His party, Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya, CDC) won the elections in 2016.
His status as President is a matter of dispute following Catalonia's declaration of independence from Spain on 27 October 2017.
From the perspective of the Government of Catalonia, he remains Catalan President.
From the perspective of the Government of Spain, he was removed from office by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on 28 October 2017.
Puigdemont did not recognize his removal from office, stating that he will "work to build a free country".
On 30 October 2017, Puigdemont fled to Belgium in a move to avoid action from the Spanish judiciary.
A month later, he was re-elected to the Parliament.
On 2 November, Spanish courts issued an European Arrest Warrant against Puigdemont and four other cabinet members to Belgian authorities.
Two days later, they turned themselves in to the Belgian police.
Hours later, he was released.
On 25 March 2018, while returning to Brussels from a trip to Finland, Puigdemont was stopped near the Danish border with Germany and arrested pursuant to the European warrant that had been reissued against him two days previously.
On 5 April 2018, the Oberlandesgericht in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein ruled that Puigdemont would not be extradited on the charges of rebellion, and released him on bail.
Presidents of the Government of Catalonia
Hurricane Odile was a hurricane (tropical cyclone) that happened in mid-September 2014.
It made landfall in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
On September 15, 2014, Odile damaged several luxury resorts in Cabo San Lucas.
Parts of several hotels collapsed and about 135 people were injured.
Fifteen people were killed in the storm.
At the time of the damage it had wind speeds of 140 miles per hour.
Damage from Odile was 16.6 billion Mexican pesos ($1.22 billion in 2014 US dollars).
The name Odile was later retired.
It was replaced with Odalys for the 2020 Pacific hurricane season.
House of Fortune () is a Singaporean drama television series.
It began its run from 19 January 2016.
There are 20 episodes.
It stars Zhu Houren, Thomas Ong, Kym Ng, Tong Bing Yu, Yao Wenlong, Xiang Yun, Shane Pow, Ya Hui, Bonnie Loo and Sora Ma as the main characters.
The series revolves around a creative director and his wife, who are beset by financial trouble and move in with an elderly relative, with their eye on his bungalow.
With the same goal in mind, his sister and her failed songwriter husband move in too and vie for control of the house.
Zhu Houren as Qian Laoshi
Thomas Ong as Qian Renjie
Kym Ng as Qian Meiling
Tong Bing Yu as Luo Shuping
Yao Wenlong as Wu Guolun
Xiang Yun as Chen Xiulian
Shane Pow as Bai Zhengyu
Ya Hui as Wu Xixi
Bonnie Loo as Qian Ningning
Aden Tan as Wu Jiaming
Sora Ma as Hu Simin
Daren Tan as Bobby
Bukoh Mary as May
Wendy Tseng as Mary
Nico Chua as Helen
Ong Ai Leng as Gao Lishen
Zen Chong as Henry
Anthony Png as Lawrence
Peace & Prosperity (Chinese: 富贵平安) is a Singaporean drama television series.
It began its run from 4 April 2016.
There are 170 episodes.
It stars Xiang Yun, Desmond Tan, Julie Tan, Zhang Wei, Belinda Lee, Tong Bing Yu, Dawn Yeoh, Tracy Lee, Michelle Wong, Terence Cao, Ben Yeo, Jeffrey Xu, Romeo Tan, Shane Pow, Marcus Chin, Lin Meijiao, Yao Wenlong, Ling Xiao, Jayley Woo, Zhu Houren, Priscelia Chan and Seraph Sun as the main characters.
The story revolves around the lives of the Huang family who have been running a TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) clinic for three generations.
The family-run business is searching for its next successor, as the young generation of Huangs are not interested in TCM and have yet to prove themselves capable of running the business.
Xiang Yun as Shen Ping An
Desmond Tan as Hong Yingxiong
Julie Tan as Huang Zihong
Zhang Wei as Huang Datong
Belinda Lee as Huang Ziting
Tong Bing Yu as Huang Zishan
Dawn Yeoh as Huang Zijun
Tracy Lee as Huang Ziyu
Michelle Wong as Huang Zixin
Terence Cao as He Sheng
Romeo Tan as Lan Baojie
Ben Yeo as Bryan Li
Jeffrey Xu as Lu Xiaoqiang
Shane Pow as Huang Zihao
Marcus Chin as Huang Yuanhao
Lin Meijiao as Lin Shuzhi
Yao Wenlong as Xiao Tiantian
Ling Xiao as Xiao Fangfang
Jayley Woo as Megan Yeo
Zhu Houren as Ouyang Yixiu
Priscelia Chan as Ouyang Fengying
Seraph Sun as Xu Cuihua
The Katur dynasty ruled the ancient kingdom of Chitral and parts of the Hindukush region Afghanistan.
The name mehtar or mitar is used for the ruler in ancient Erina language.
The Golden Temple, or Golden Gurudwara is the holiest shrine of Sikhs.
It was built in late 16th century by Sri Guru Arjan Dev ji