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Gaultier ended his ready-to-wear line in 2014 in order to focus on haute couture and his perfume range.
Piers Richard Corbyn (born 10 March 1947) is a British businessman and conspiracy theorist.
He was born in Chippenham.
He is the owner of the business WeatherAction which makes weather forecasts.
It claims to make accurate forecasts up to a year in advance.
He is the older brother of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Jeremy Corbyn: Accidental Hero is a book by British writer W. Stephen Gilbert.
It was published in 2015 by Eyewear Publishing.
The book is an analysis of the rise of long-serving MP Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party.
The book talks about Corbyn's life and career and future as Labour leader.
In 2015, Jeremy Corbyn, the Member of Parliament for Islington North, stood as a candidate in the British Labour Party leadership election.
His campaign that would eventually result in his becoming the leader of the Labour Party.
His campaign was announced in an article for the Islington Tribune on 3 June 2015.
Corbyn promised support for the anti-austerity movement and because he wanted to "give Labour Party members a voice" in the debate.
He was originally seen as an "outsider" in the leadership race.
This means that, though he was a member of the Labour Party, he was not someone people expected to be leader.
Bookmakers had his odds of winning at 200-to-1.
However, following a series of televised and radio debates with the other three candidates – Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall – Corbyn went on to gain the support of six of the fourteen trade unions affiliated with the Labour Party.
This included the UK's two largest trade unions, Unite and UNISON.
He received the highest number of supporting nominations from Constituency Labour Parties, winning over 100 by the end of July.
To become a candidate in the party's election, 35 nominations from Labour MPs are needed.
Commentators in the media widely predicted that Corbyn would struggle to get this many.
However, he managed at a very late stage, to secure enough support, with 36 nominations in total.
Around 12 of the MPs who nominated him actually supported other candidates, but "lent" him their support in order to widen the contest.
Corbyn was reported to say: "We had two minutes to spare, it was easy."
On September 12, 2015, at a special conference held in the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Corbyn was announced to have been elected Leader of the Labour Party.
He won 59.5% of first-preference votes.
Jeremy Corbyn Campaign 2015 (Supporters) Ltd, Companies House
Labour Party website
The Leader of the Labour Party is the leading politician within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom.
Since 4 April 2020, Keir Starmer is leader.
He represents the constituency of Holborn and St Pancras.
The post of Leader of the Labour Party was officially created in 1922.
Before this time, between when Labour MPs were first elected in 1906 and the election in 1922, when substantial gains were made, the post was known as Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Islington North  is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
The seat has been held since 1983 by Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party.
Corbyn has been Leader of the Labour Party and the Leader of the Opposition from September 2015 to April 2020.
Thomas Anthony Watson (born 8 January 1967) is a British Labour Party politician.
He was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in September 2015.
He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East from 2001 through 2019.
He was Minister for Digital Engagement and the Civil Service at the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2009.
On 6 November 2019 Watson announced that he would be standing down both as an MP and as Deputy Leader, and leave office on 12 December 2019, stating that his reasons for standing down were "personal, not political."
The University of North London was a university in London, England, from 1992 to 2002.
It was merged with London Guildhall University to form London Metropolitan University.
Its former campus are now the university's north campus, on Holloway Road and Highbury Grove, Islington.
In 1996, the university celebrated its centenary year.
Internet Archive (University of North London, 17 January 2004)
Michael Joseph O'Halloran (20 August 1933 – 29 November 1999) was a British politician.
He was a member of the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party.
He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North in a by-election in 1969 after the death of MP Gerry Reynolds.
He was secretary of the Constituency Labour Party.
O'Halloran was among the Labour MPs who moved to the new Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981.
In 1983, the SDP chose John Grant, the MP for Islington Central (which was being abolished in boundary changes), to be its candidate in Islington North.
O'Halloran left the SDP to stand as an independent Labour candidate in the 1983 general election.
The official Labour candidate Jeremy Corbyn won while O'Halloran came in fourth with 11% of the vote.
Grant came third with 22% of the vote.
He retired to County Wexford.
He died on 29 November 1999 from a heart attack at the age of 66.
About Michael O'Halloran
Ordinary members of the union are elected to this position by fellow workers or sometimes by appointment of a higher union body.
While working as a representative, they keep their role as an employee of the company.
Plainfield, Ontario
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Plainfield, Indiana, a town in Hendricks County
Plainfield, LaPorte County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
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Plainfield, Ohio
Plainfield, Pennsylvania
Plainfield, Vermont
Plainfield (town), Wisconsin
Plainfield, Wisconsin, a village mostly within the town
Plainfield Township, Kent County, Michigan
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Torrington, New South Wales
Torrington, Queensland
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Black Torrington, a village in Devon
East Torrington, a small village in Lincolnshire
Great Torrington, a market town in north Devon
Little Torrington, a village in Devon
West Torrington, a small village in Lincolnshire
Torrington (UK Parliament constituency), in Devon
A constituency Labour Party (CLP) is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular UK parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales.
The Labour Party in Northern Ireland has, since February 2009, been organised as a single constituency.
For much of the Labour Party's history, especially during the 1980s, CLPs were perceived as the more left wing faction in the Labour Party.
The unions were said to be a more moderate or pragmatic force.
Lost River, Quebec, part of Harrington, Quebec
Lost River, Indiana
Lost River Township, Martin County, Indiana
Lost River, West Virginia
A whip is a person in a political party whose job is to make sure the party's members vote with the party.
This happens in a legislature.
Whips are a party's "enforcers", who talk to each member of the party to make sure that they vote according to the official party policy.
A whip must also make sure that the elected representatives of their party are in attendance when important votes are taken.
The usage comes from the hunting term "whipping in", which means to stop hounds from wandering away from the pack.
New Labour refers to a period in the history of the British Labour Party.
This period was from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, under leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
The name dates from a conference slogan first used by the party in 1994.
This slogan was later seen in a draft manifesto published in 1996, called New Labour, New Life For Britain.
It was presented as the brand of a newly reformed party that had changed Clause IV and supported market economics.
1990s in the United Kingdom
2000s in the United Kingdom
In  Canada:
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Bridgeport, California, in Mono County
Bridgeport, Mariposa County, California
Bridgeport, Nevada County, California
Bridgeport, California, former name of Winslow, California, in Glenn County
Bridgeport, California, former name of Bridgeville, California, in Humboldt County
Greater Bridgeport, the metropolitan area of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Chicago, a neighborhood of Chicago in Illinois
Bridgeport Township, Lawrence County, Illinois
Bridgeport, Indiana
Bridgeport, Kansas
Bridgeport, Kentucky
Bridgeport, Michigan
Bridgeport Charter Township, Michigan
Bridgeport, New York
Bridgeport, Ohio
Bridgeport, Union County, Ohio
Bridgeport, Pennsylvania
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Bridgeport, Washington
Bridgeport, West Virginia
Bridgeport, Wisconsin, town
Bridgeport (community), Wisconsin
Bridgeport is an unincorporated community in Logan Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States.
The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08014.
Anti-austerity actions are different and ongoing.
They continue as of the present day.
The global Occupy movement has arguably been the most noticeable physical enactment of anti-austerity and populist sentiment.
The United Kingdom government deficit reduction programme is a series of reductions in public spending, intended to reduce the government budget deficit and the welfare state in the United Kingdom.
However, the NHS and education were "ringfenced" and protected from spending cuts.
The programme was created in 2010 by the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government.
Its original stated goal was to, "achieve cyclically-adjusted current balance by the end of the rolling, five-year forecast period."
At the June 2010 budget, the end of the forecast period was 2015–16.
However, in 2014 the Treasury extended the proposed austerity period until at least 2018.
An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually against to a nation's decision to start or continue a war.
It does not matter whether the nation has a just cause for war.
The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts.
Many activists distinguish between anti-war movements and peace movements.
Anti-war activists work through protest and other peaceful means to attempt to pressure a government (or governments) to put an end to a particular war or conflict.
Guide to anti-war websites by The Guardian
Essays and speeches from the Antebellum Era peace movement
Non-interventionism or non-intervention is a foreign policy that holds a country should avoid all wars unless it is defending itself from attack.
It promotes neutrality and discourages alliances with other nations, but still encourages diplomacy.
Cayetano Paderanga Jr. (October 9, 1948 – January 29, 2016) was a Filipino economist.
He was Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), an agency of the government of the Philippines responsible for economic development and planning.
He held this position twice, from 1990 to 1992 and from 2010 to 2012.
In his first term, Paderanga served under President Corazon Aquino.
He was a member of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of the Philippines from 1993 to 1999.
He was also executive director for the Philippines in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) from 2001 to 2003.
Paderanga died in Taguig City, Philippines, from complications after heart surgery, on January 29, 2016.
Unilateral disarmament is a policy option, to renounce weapons without seeking equivalent concessions from one's actual or potential rivals.
It was most commonly used in the twentieth century in the context of unilateral nuclear disarmament, a recurrent mission of peace movements in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.
Unilateral disarmament is usually sought in one technical competency, such as weapons of mass destruction.
Non-violent political movements from that of Mahatma Gandhi to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament have recommended unilateral disarmament as a step toward world peace.
Nuclear disarmament groups include the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Action, Greenpeace,  International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Mayors for Peace, Global Zero, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017), and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
In recent years, some U.S. elder statesmen have also advocated nuclear disarmament.
Sam Nunn, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and George Shultz have called upon governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and in various op-ed columns have proposed an ambitious program of urgent steps to that end.
The four have created the Nuclear Security Project to advance this agenda.
Organisations such as Global Zero, an international non-partisan group of 300 world leaders dedicated to achieving nuclear disarmament, have also been established.
Insubordination is when people do not obey an authority.
In the military, for example, insubordination is when a serviceman or servicewoman disobeys the orders of a higher-ranking officer.
In civil life, a person may refuse to obey a law or order that he or she thinks is wrong.
This is called civil disobedience.
The Socialist Campaign Group is a left-wing, democratic socialist group of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
It was formed in December 1982 as an alternative Parliamentary left-wing group to the Tribune Group.
The Campaign Group, as it's commonly known, is often considered on the hard left of the Labour Party and has been very critical of New Labour.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is an activist organisation in England and Wales.
It supports the Palestinian people.
It was founded in 1982 during the build-up to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
It was incorporated in the UK in 2004 as Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ltd.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an pacifist organisation that supports nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom.
It also supports disarmament by other countries and stricter weapons rules through international agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
It also opposes the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.
An abjad is an alphabet in which all its letters are consonants.
Even though vowels can be added in some abjads, they are not needed to write a word correctly.
Abjad are commonly written from right to left (RTL), rather than left to right seen in other writing systems.
Well-known examples of abjads are the Arabic alphabet and the Hebrew alphabet.
Abjads are the first writing systems that were made only to show a word's pronunciation, instead of its meaning, unlike ideographs or ideograms, and they were created before full alphabets,  like the Greek alphabet, which have letters for both consonants and vowels.
The earliest known abjad in the world is the Phoenician alphabet.
Since in Afro-Asiatic languages, the root meaning of a word is found in its consonants, abjads are widely used in those languages.
There are also languages without consonant roots that use abjads, such as Persian and Urdu, which both use the Arabic alphabet.
The Stop the War Coalition (StWC; informally Stop the War) is a British group created on 21 September 2001, shortly after the September 11 attacks.
It was created to campaign against what it believes are unjust wars.
The group has campaigned against the wars that are part of the "War on Terror" of the United States and its allies.
It has campaigned against the war in Afghanistan and the Iraq War.
The demonstration against the Iraq War on 15 February 2003 was organised with Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB).
It is claimed to be the largest public demonstration in British history.
Francis Finlay, CBE (6 August 1926 – 30 January 2016) was an English stage, movie and television actor.
Finlay was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Iago in the 1965 movie version of William Shakespeare's Othello.
He was also known for his role as Jacob Marley in the 1984 movie A Christmas Carol.
He won a BAFTA Award in 1974.
Finlay died on 30 January 2016 at his home in Weybridge, Surrey.
He died from heart failure after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Kington St Michael is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.
It is located about  north of Chippenham.
It is about  west of the A350 which links Chippenham with junction 17 of the M4 motorway; the village is about  southwest of the junction.
Village website.
Pave Lane is a hamlet in Shropshire, a county of England.
The hamlet is in a very rural area and has excellent views of the Shropshire countryside.
It is close to Lilleshall Hall.
As it was located on a toll road between Newport and Wolverhampton, the village had many inns and coach houses.
The road later became the A41.
Settlements in the United Kingdom
Settlements in Shropshire
Castle House School is a preparatory day school for boys and girls in England.
It was first established in 1944, at Chetwynd End, Newport, Shropshire.
The school is owned and operated by the Castle House School Trust Ltd, a registered charity, by up to twelve governors of the Trust.
Newport is a market town and civil parish in the county of Shropshire in England.
It is in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, near to the border with Staffordshire.
It is around 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of Telford and around 12 miles (19 km) west of Stafford, Staffordshire's county town.
Newport town centre has a lot of old buildings and architecture.
The main street has a Norman design with a very wide High Street.
Adams' Grammar School (often abbreviated as AGS) is a selective boys' grammar school in England.
It is located in Newport, Shropshire.
It was founded in 1656 by William Adams, a wealthy member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers (one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London).
It is now one of the country's best-performing schools.
It was rated by the Ofsted as a Grade 1 outstanding school.
was a Japanese diplomat.
He served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania during World War II.
He was best known for helping more than 6,000 Jews leave Lithuania during the Holocaust.
He gave them visas to Japan.
In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among the Nations for his actions.
He was sometimes called the "Japanese Schindler".
Sugihara was born in Yaotsu, Gifu.
He was first married to Klaudia Semionovna Apollonova until their divorce in 1935.
He was later married to Yukiko Sugihara.
Sugihara died on 31 July 1986 at a hospital in Kamakura.
Chiune Sugihara at the Jewish Virtual Library
Chiune Sugihara at Yad Vashem
Admiral Ramón Castro Jijón (15 November 1915 – 1 November 1984) was an Ecuadorian politician.
He was the President of Ecuador from 11 July 1963 to 29 March 1966.
He was appointed commander of the Ecuadorian Navy by Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy.
He later overthrew Arosemena in a military coup.
A union organizer (or union organiser) is a type of trade union official.
In most unions, the organizer's role is to hire groups of workers under the organizing model.
In other unions, the organizer's role is largely that of servicing members and enforcing work rules, similar to the role of a shop steward.
In some unions, organizers may also take on industrial/legal roles such as making representations before Fair Work Australia, tribunals, or courts.
In North America, a union organizer is a union representative who "organizes" or unionizes non-union companies or work sites.
Organizers are mainly there to help non-union workers in forming groups of locals, usually by leading them in their efforts.
A union organizer is either elected or appointed.
Most unions appoint rather than elect their organizers.
National Labor Relations Board
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Hebei (Hanzi: 河北 ; pinyin: Héběi) is a province in China that wraps around the cities of Beijing and Tianjin, two of China's four "municipalities".
The name Hebei means "North of the (Yellow) River" in Chinese.
It was formed in 1928 after the central government dissolved Chihli province.
The old name, Chihli or Zhili, which means "directly administered" referred to its status under the Qing dynasty.
Hebei province borders Liaoning province on the northeast.
On the north it borders Inner Mongolia.
To the west it borders Shanxi province.
It borders the provinces of Henan to the south and Shandong to the southwest.
Shijiazhuang is the capital of the province.
The abbreviated name of Hebei is Ji (冀), since there is another province that also has the syllable "He" (河) in it, Henan (河南).
Due to Hebei completely surrounding Beijing and Tianjin, the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin and the province of Hebei are often lumped together and called Jingjinji, with the "Jing" being Beijing, the "Jin" being Tianjin, and the "Ji" being the abbreviation of Hebei.
Hebei Government website
Drakensberg (derived from Afrikaans Drakensberge, literally: Dragon mountains) is the highest mountain range in Southern Africa.
The highest peak is in Lesotho, where they are called Maloti.
The drakensberg are also known for their many waterfalls, and cave paintings done by the San people.
UKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, which was created in 2000, is an UNESCO World Heritage Site which covers part of the range.
Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
It was designed for education as online learning space.
The name moodle stands for "Module Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment".
Moodle has continued to evolve since 1999 (since 2001 with the current architecture).
It has been translated into over 100 different languages and is accessible in many countries worldwide.
Institutions can add as many Moodle servers as needed without having to pay license fees.
The Open University of the UK currently uses a Moodle installation for their 200,000 users while the UK government uses a Moodle installation for their Civil Service Learning platform serving half a million employees.
Thomas Bibb (May 8, 1783 – September 20, 1839) was the second Governor of Alabama.
He was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1783.
Bibb was president of the Alabama Senate when his brother, Governor William Wyatt Bibb, died in office on July 10, 1820.
The new state constitution specified the president of the senate was next in line as governor.
So he took over the rest of his brother's term of office.
Bibb served as acting Governor from July 25, 1820 to November 25, 1821.
He decided not to run for the governorship again.
Bibb was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1828 and 1829.
He was the director of the Huntsville branch of the Alabama State Bank.
Bibb was married to Parmelia Thompson.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2016.
Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 85, Guatemalan military officer and politician, President (1983–1986), Parkinson's disease.
Paul Pholeros, 62, Australian architect, cancer.
Bob Elliott, 92, American comedian (Bob and Ray) and actor (Get a Life), throat cancer.
Luiz Felipe Lampreia, 74, Brazilian sociologist and diplomat, heart attack.
Joe Alaskey, 63, American voice actor (Looney Tunes, Rugrats, Casper), cancer.
Big Kap, 45, American hip hop DJ (Tunnel), heart attack.
Mark Farren, 33, Irish football player (Derry City), cancer.
Balram Jakhar, 92, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1980–1989), complications from pneumonia.
Alba Solís, 88, Argentine singer and actress, heart failure.
Saulius Sondeckis, 87, Lithuanian violinist and conductor, stroke.
Marlow Cook, 89, American politician, Senator from Kentucky (1968–1974), complications from a heart attack.
Kristine Miller, 90, American actress (I Walk Alone, Jungle Patrol, Too Late for Tears), congestive heart failure. (
Dave Mirra, 41, American BMX rider, suicide by gunshot.
Edgar Mitchell, 85, American astronaut (Apollo 14), sixth person to walk on the moon, complications from kidney cancer.
Axl Rotten, 44, American professional wrestler (Extreme Championship Wrestling), cardiac arrest. (
Edgar Whitcomb, 98, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1969–1973), heart failure.
Maurice White, 74, American singer-songwriter ("September") and musician (Earth, Wind & Fire), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Bill Birchfield, 80, American politician, member of Florida House of Representatives for the 21st district (1971-1974), heart attack.
Ciriaco Cañete, 96, Filipino martial artist, prostate cancer.
Bodil Malmsten, 71, Swedish poet and novelist, cancer.
Robin Chandler Duke, 92, American social advocate and diplomat, Ambassador to Norway (2000–2001), respiratory failure.
Dan Hicks, 74, American singer-songwriter and musician (Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks), throat and liver cancer.
Eddy Wally, 83, Belgian singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
Roger Willemsen, 60, German writer, essayist and TV presenter, pancreatic cancer.
Amelia Bence, 101, Argentine actress (The Gaucho War, A Sangre Fría, Alfonsina), congestive heart failure.
Charles C. Campbell, 68, American army general, heart attack.
Johnny Duncan, 92, American actor (Batman and Robin, Bedtime for Bonzo, Plan 9 from Outer Space), complications from dementia.
Nida Fazli, 78, Indian poet, respiratory failure.
August P. Mardesich, 95, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1950–1963) and Senate (1963–1978), dementia.
Viggo Rivad, 93, Danish photographer, complications from a stroke.
Violette Verdy, 82, French ballerina, heart failure.
André van den Heuvel, 88, Dutch actor (Hamelen, De rode zwaan), two-time winner of the Louis d'Or, complications from a stroke.
Sushil Koirala, 76, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (2014–2015), President of Nepali Congress (since 2010), pneumonia.
Leo Ehlen, 62, Dutch footballer (Roda JC), kidney disease.
Phil Gartside, 63, English businessman and football chairman (Bolton Wanderers), cancer.
Andrew L. Lewis, Jr., 84, American business executive and politician, Secretary of Transportation (1981–1983), complications of pneumonia.
Eliseo Prado, 86, Argentine footballer (national team, Club Atlético River Plate), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Günter Schröter, 88, German football player (Dynamo Dresden, East Germany national football team, SC Dynamo Berlin) and coach (Berliner FC Dynamo), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Kevin Randleman, 44, American mixed martial artist, UFC Heavyweight Champion (1999–2000), pneumonia and heart failure.
Eddie Barry, 96, American ice hockey player (Boston Bruins), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Dominique D'Onofrio, 62, Belgian football coach (Standard de Liège), heart attack.
Robert Frederick Froehlke, 93, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1971–1973), complications from a stroke.
Johnny Lattner, 83, American football player (Notre Dame, Pittsburgh Steelers), lung cancer.
Trifon Ivanov, 50, Bulgarian footballer (national team), heart attack.
O. N. V. Kurup, 84, Indian poet, lyricist and politician, recipient of the Jnanpith Award (2007), respiratory failure.
Slobodan Santrač, 69, Serbian football player (Yugoslavia) and manager, heart attack.
Antonin Scalia, 79, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (since 1986), heart attack.
Bořek Šípek, 66, Czech architect and designer, cancer.
Sir Christopher Zeeman, 91, British mathematician, respiratory failure.
Ali Brownlee, 56, English radio sports broadcaster (Middlesbrough F.C. on BBC Tees), bowel cancer.
Muriel Casals i Couturier, 70, Spanish economist, complications from injuries sustained in a bike accident.
Hein Kröher, 88, German folk singer-songwriter.
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, 87, British politician, MP for Orpington (1962–1970), acute myeloid leukemia.
Wiesław Rudkowski, 69, Polish boxer and Olympic silver medalist (1972), heart attack.
George Gaynes, 98, American actor (Police Academy, Punky Brewster, Tootsie).
Salman Natour, 67, Israeli-born Palestinian author, heart attack.
Hans Posthumus, 68, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord, N.E.C.), cerebral hemorrhage.
Fighton Simukonda, 58, Zambian football player (Nkana Red Devils) and manager (national team), complications from diabetes.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 93, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992–1996), complications from a broken pelvis.
Belinda Nash, 69, American historian, cancer.
Charles Caldwell Ryrie, 90, American theologian, pneumonia.
Robert J. Walker, 87, American sailor, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (1975–1979), complications from pneumonia.
Alexander Gutman, 71, Russian movie director (Journey Back to Youth), heart failure.
Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, 92, Egyptian journalist, renal failure.
Claude Jeancolas, 66, French writer, cancer.
Akbar Kakkattil, 62, Indian writer, lung cancer.
Andrzej Żuławski, 75, Polish movie director (The Devil, That Most Important Thing: Love, On the Silver Globe) and writer, pancreatic cancer.
Abdul Rashid Khan, 107, Indian Hindustani musician, multiple organ failure.
Pantelis Pantelidis, 32, Greek singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
John Reinhardt, 95, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Nigeria (1971—1975), stroke.
Tamerlan Aguzarov, 52, Russian politician, Head of North Ossetia-Alania (since 2015), complications from pneumonia.
Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum), pancreatic cancer.
Harper Lee, 89, American writer (To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman).
Sir William O'Brien, 99, British admiral, Naval Secretary (1964–1966), complications from pneumonia.
Vi Subversa, 80, British musician (Poison Girls), cancer.
Samuel Willenberg, 93, Israeli sculptor and painter, last surviving member of the Treblinka extermination camp revolt, complications from a stroke.
Bruno Zuppiger, 63, Swiss politician, cancer.
Fernando Cardenal, 82, Nicaraguan priest and politician, Minister of Education (1984–1990), heart failure.
Ove Verner Hansen, 83, Danish actor and opera singer, heart attack.
Nando Yosu, 76, Spanish football player and manager (Racing de Santander), Alzheimer's disease.
María Luisa Alcalá, 72, Mexican actress (El Chavo del Ocho, Dr. Cándido Pérez, Esmeralda), heart attack.
Eric Brown, 97, Scottish World War II-test pilot, world record for most aircraft carrier landings performed, pneumonia.
Wesley A. Clark, 88, American computer engineer, created the first minicomputer, complications from heart disease.
Cristiana Corsi, 39, Italian taekwondo martial artist, European champion (2002), cardiac arrest.
Yolande Fox, 87, American beauty queen (Miss America 1951), singer and activist, lung cancer.
Sonny James, 86, American country singer-songwriter ("Young Love").
Cara McCollum, 24, American journalist and beauty queen, Miss New Jersey (2013), traffic collision.
Hans Reffert, 69, German musician, composer and artist, cancer.
Douglas Slocombe, 103, British cinematographer (Indiana Jones, The Lion in Winter, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications from a fall.
Yochanan Sofer, 93, Israeli rabbi, Rebbe of Erlau, pneumonia.
Ramón Castro Ruz, 91, Cuban revolutionary figure and politician, brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro. (
Death announced on this date)
Peter Lustig, 78, German television presenter (Löwenzahn) and author, stomach cancer.
Francisco Rubio Llorente, 85, Spanish judge, President of the Council of State (2004-2012), heart failure.
Donald E. Williams, 74, American astronaut, led mission to Jupiter probe, complications from a stroke.
Ryszard Bender, 84, Polish politician and historian, Senator (2007-2011), stroke.
Adriana Benetti, 96, Italian actress (Four Steps in the Clouds, Teresa Venerdì, Before the Postman), complications from pneumonia.
Rafael Iriondo, 97, Spanish international football player (national team, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad) and manager, respiratory failure.
Peter Kenilorea, 72, Solomon Islands politician, Prime Minister (1978–1981, 1984–1986).
Peter van der Merwe, 74, Dutch footballer (national team), mesothelioma.
Tony Burton, 78, American actor (Rocky, Assault on Precinct 13, The Shining), comedian and boxer, complications from pneumonia.
Jim Clark, 84, British movie editor (The World Is Not Enough, The Killing Fields, Marathon Man), Oscar winner (1985).
François Dupeyron, 65, French movie director and screenwriter (The Officers' Ward), heart attack.
Alfred E. Mann, 90, American entrepreneur (Spectrolab, Heliotek), heart attack.
Andy Bathgate, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Karl Dedecius, 94, Polish-born German translator, Director of the German Institute of Polish Studies (1980-1997).
Don Getty, 82, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta (1985–1992), and football player (Edmonton Eskimos), heart failure.
Eri Klas, 76, Estonian conductor, retired boxer and educator, member of the Estonian Olympic Committee, heart attack.
Rajesh Pillai, 41, Indian movie director (Traffic), liver disease.
Frank Kelly, 77, Irish actor (Father Ted, Emmerdale, Evelyn), heart attack.
George Kennedy, 91, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, The Naked Gun, Airport), Oscar winner (1968), heart disease.
Gil Hill, 84, American police officer and actor (Beverly Hills Cop), pneumonia.
Louise Rennison, 64, British author (Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging), cancer.
Francisco Guillermo Flores (October 17, 1959 – January 30, 2016) was a Salvadoran politician.
He served as President of El Salvador serving from 1999 to 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) replacing Armando Calderón Sol.
He was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador.
At the time of his death, Flores was being investigated for corruption charges.
Flores died on January 30, 2016, at the age of 56.
He died in a hospital in San Salvador from a Cerebral hemorrhage after having surgery to treat it.
Biography and tenure, by CIDOB Foundation (in Spanish)
A councillor is a member of a local government council.
In the United Kingdom all local authorities are overseen by elected councillors.
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, most larger borough, unitary authority or county councils pay their councillors basic allowances and pay for their expenses.
A district health authority was a division of the National Health Service in England and Wales.
It was introduced by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973.
It was created in 1974 and disestablished in 1996.
There were 205 when they were established in 1974, but some were later merged.
In 1979 there were 199.
The district health authority worked alongside a Family Health Services Authority, which was responsible for managing primary care services such as general practice, pharmacy and dentistry.
The districts were reorganised on a number of occasions in the 1990s.
In 1996 new single-tier health authorities replaced districts and areas and the regions were again reorganised.
In 2002, Health Authorities were replaced by Primary Care Trusts.
The National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers (NUTGW) was a trades union in the United Kingdom.
The union was founded as the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union (T&GWU) in 1920.
In 1932, it was joined by the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and renamed itself as the "National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers".
The NUTGW had 118,700 members in 1945, making it the tenth largest union in Britain.
The NUTGW merged into the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union in 1991.
Harringay  (pronounced ) is a housing area in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, in England.
It is centred on the section of Green Lanes running between the New River, where it crosses Green Lanes by Finsbury Park, and Duckett's Common, near Turnpike Lane.
The 2015 Labour Party leadership election was election to choose the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom.
It won by Jeremy Corbyn.
The election was held because Ed Miliband resigned on 8 May 2015, after the party's defeat at the 2015 general election.
Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader, became Acting Leader but announced that she would resign after the leadership election.
Four candidates were successfully nominated to stand in the election: Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Jeremy Corbyn and Liz Kendall.
The voting process began on Friday 14 August 2015 and closed on Thursday 10 September 2015.
The results were announced on Saturday 12 September 2015.
Voting was by Labour Party members and registered supporters.
They voted using the alternative vote system.
When Corbyn entered the election, he was considered unlikely to win.
However, support for him increased quickly.
Opinion polls showed him leading against the other candidates.
This led to warnings from people such as Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Jack Straw, David Miliband, and Alastair Campbell.
Many of them claimed that Corbyn's election as leader would leave the party unable to win elections.
Corbyn won the election in the first round, with 59.5% of the votes.
The Camden New Journal is a free, independent newspaper that covers the London Borough of Camden.
It was created because of a strike in the 1980s supported by campaigning journalist Paul Foot, Holborn and St Pancras MP Frank Dobson and the paper's editor Eric Gordon.
It has a lot of influence in Camden because of its news content, investigations and high number of readers.
It was named Free Newspaper of The Year at the Press Gazette's national industry awards in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2010.
It was nominated in 2002 and 2004.
Annual publication, something published once each year
Literary annual
Annual plant, a plant that lives for a year or less
Annual leave, a set amount of time given off work by an employer
Annual giving
Annual, Morocco, a town in northeastern Morocco
Annuals (band), a musical group
The private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of creating partnerships between the public and private parts of the economy.
It involves paying for public building projects (such as infrastructure) with money from private companies.
It was created by the governments of Australia and the United Kingdom.
It was used there and in Spain.
PFI and its variants have now been used in many countries as part of the wider programme of privatisation and financialisation.
This has been because of an increased need for accountability and efficiency for the spending of public money.
PFI has also been used simply to avoid reporting costs and debt on the balance sheets.
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HM Revenue and Customs or HMRC) is a non-ministerial department of the United Kingdom Government.
It is responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some types of welfare, and the management of other regulations such as the minimum wage.
HMRC was formed when the Inland Revenue and Her Majesty's Customs and Excise were combined.
This happened on 18 April 2005.
The department's logo is the St Edward's Crown enclosed within a circle.
Senegambia was a region of West Africa occupying the area of present day Senegal and Gambia.
Senegambia Confederation, was a loose confederation between Senegal and Gambia.
The term Senegambia was used by the British as early as 1765.
They used it to refer to their settlements on the islands off the coast of present day Senegal.
The modern use of the term Senegambia means the region that includes both Senegal and Gambia.
Senegambian history
There is little known about the early history of the area.
By about 1000 AD the Soninke, Mandinka and Fula peoples had formed settlements along the Gambia River.
The Toucouleur people were settled in east and central Senegal.
Kingdoms such as the Jolof and the Sere settled in the area north of the Gambia River.
The first Europeans, Portuguese sailors, arrived about 1455.
Portugal controlled the area between the Sénégal and Gambia Rivers until the British, Dutch and French moved into the area.
They traded goods such as salt, iron, guns and gunpowder for gold, ivory, ebony and slaves.
Senegambia and the Middle Passage
About 24% of the African slaves brought to America, were from Senegambia.
The Africans from Senegambia were found nearly everywhere in the United States before the American Civil War, both in the North and South.
Senegambia was strongly Muslim.
This means that many African slaves in the US had been exposed to Islam much more than the rest of the Americas.
Because of the need for field workers up to two-thirds of Africans taken captive were men.
In the Senegambia region due to the high demand by buyers, men and boys were taken from all over the region.
Women, however, being in less demand, were taken from the easily accessed coastal areas.
Most of them belonged to the Jolof people and so, unlike the men, they had a common language.
Due to the fear of slaves revolting, men were kept below decks and in chains.
Women were usually kept on deck and were sometimes allowed to move around.
Some historians say that it was the women who organized many of the slave uprisings at sea.
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30) is an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It legalises same-sex marriage in England and Wales.
After the 2010 General Election, in September 2011, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Equalities, Lynne Featherstone, announced they would try to make same-sex marriage legal from March 2012.
The session closed in June 2012 and, in December 2012, the new Minister for Women and Equalities, Maria Miller, announced that the Government would be introducing a law before the next election.
She also said that they were trying to get this done within parliament's current session.
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill was introduced into Parliament on 24 January 2013.
The leaders of the three main political parties in the United Kingdom gave their MPs a free vote.
This means they would not be made to vote in favour or against it; they could vote however they wanted.
Labour Briefing is a monthly political magazine made by members of the British Labour Party.
The magazine was started in 1980 as London Labour Briefing.
Throughout the 1990s, London Labour Briefing lost supporters and influence as New Labour's hold over the Labour Party increased.
This was also because control inside the Labour Party was centralised, and the role played by activists was reduced.
London Labour Briefing was renamed Labour Briefing and was then known as Labour Left Briefing.
In 2008 it was changed back to Labour Briefing on merging with Voice of the Unions.
It supports the Socialist Campaign Group of Members of Parliament, and aims to promote and build the network of local Campaign Groups.
The parliamentary select committees of the United Kingdom are committees formed by members of the British Parliament.
Members can be appointed from the House of Commons (like the Foreign Affairs Select Committee), from the House of Lords (like the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee), or as a "Joint Committee" drawn from both (such as the Joint Committee on Human Rights).
The House of Commons select committees are responsible for overseeing the work of government departments and agencies.
Committees of the House of Lords look at general issues; for example, the constitution is considered by the Constitution Committee, and the economy is considered by the Economic Affairs Committee.
The Department of Social Security (DSS) was a government department in the United Kingdom.
The department was created in 1988.
The Department of Health and Social Security was divided into two departments, one of which was the DSS.
During 2001, the department was largely replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions.
The other responsibilities of the department were assumed by the Treasury and the Ministry of Defence.
The London Regional Select Committee was one of nine regional select committees of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The House of Commons agreed to create the committee on 25 June 2009, after committees for the eight other regions of England were created in November 2008. '
Regional ministers' were appointed by Gordon Brown when he was made Prime Minister in June 2007.
The committee was created on 1 January 2009.
It ceased to exist upon the dissolution of Parliament on 12 April 2010.
The Justice Select Committee is a committee made up of a small number of members of the British House of Commons.
The committee looks at the policy, management and spending of the Ministry of Justice.
It also looks at the work of the Law Officers of the Crown, the Serious Fraud Office, and the Crown Prosecution Service.
It gives reports with opinions and advice.
On February 15, 2003, there was a day of protests across the world.
The protests were to express people's opposition to the imminent invasion of Iraq.
They were held in more than 600 cities.
It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the war took place.
Social movement researchers have described the 15 February protest as "the largest protest event in human history."
Sources vary in their estimations of the number of participants involved.
According to BBC News, between six and eleven million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th.
Other estimates range from eight million to thirty million.
Some of the largest protests took place in Europe.
The protest in Rome involved around three million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history.
Madrid hosted the second largest rally with more than 1.5 million people protesting the invasion of Iraq; Mainland China was the only major region not to see any protests on that day, but small demonstrations, attended mainly by foreign students, were seen later.
Protests in the 21st century
The Iraq Inquiry is a public inquiry into the United Kingdom's role in the Iraq War.
It is also called the Chilcot Inquiry after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot.
The inquiry was announced on 15 June 2009 by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The original announcement was that the inquiry would take place in private.
This decision was later reversed after receiving criticism in the media and the House of Commons.
On 6 July 2016, Sir John Chilcot announced the report's publication, more than seven years after the inquiry was announced.
It referred to as the Chilcot report by the news media, the document stated that Saddam Hussein was not an urgent threat and that the Iraq War was not necessary.
21st century in the United Kingdom
Andrew Murray (born 1958) is a British campaigner and journalist.
He was Chair of the Stop the War Coalition from its formation in 2001 until September 2011, and again from September 2015 after Jeremy Corbyn resigned.
If a parliament consists of both a lower house and an upper house, all-party parliamentary groups can usually include members of both houses.
In the British Parliament, for example, APPGs include members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
The Chagossians (also Îlois or Chagos Islanders) are people who previously lived on the Chagos Islands.
They are of African, Indian and Malay ancestry.
They lived on Diego Garcia, Peros Banhos and the Salomon island chain, as well as other islands.
They were forcibly removed from the islands by the British government in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
This was done at the request of the United States government, so that Diego Garcia could become a military base.
Most Chagossians now live in Mauritius and the United Kingdom.
No Chagossians live in the Chagos Islands anymore, as it is now the site of the military base Camp Justice.
The Chagossians are mostly descended from African people, particularly from Madagascar, Mozambique and Mauritius.
The French brought some to the Chagos islands as slaves from Mauritius in 1786.
Others arrived as fishermen, farmers, and coconut plantation workers during the 19th century.
The Chagossians speak Chagossian Creole, a creole language based on French.
It has words that come from various African and Asian languages.
It is part of the Bourbonnais Creole family.
Chagossian Creole is still spoken by some of their descendants in Mauritius and Seychelles.
Chagossian people living in the UK speak English.
The Chagos Archipelago ( or ) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Bassas de Chagas, and later the Oil Islands) is a group of seven atolls in the Indian Ocean.
The atolls are made up of more than 60 individual islands.