Fahim Saleh

Fahim Saleh

Fahim Saleh (1986 – July 15, 2020) was a Bangladeshi web developer who developed Pathao.  

Biography

The 33 year old, who was the son of Bangladeshi immigrants in USA, created his first company while still in high school.

He went on to co-found the ride company Pathao, which was popular in Bangladesh and Nepal, in 2015.

He also helped found Nigerian motorbike taxi app Gokada, but the company faced a setback after authorities in Lagos banned motorbike taxis earlier this year. Both companies have paid tribute to the entrepreneur. Gokada described Saleh as "a great leader, inspiration and positive light for all of us" in its tweet

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahim_Saleh

Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi

Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "human computer".  Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. 

Born to Kannadiga parents   Devi was a precocious child and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education. 

Shakuntala Devi wrote a number of books in her later years, including novels as well as texts about mathematics, puzzles, and astrology. She wrote the book The World of Homosexuals, which is considered the first study of homosexuality in India.  She treated homosexuality in a positive light and is considered a pioneer in the field

Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, Karnataka.  Her father rebelled against becoming a temple priest  and instead joined a circus where he worked as a trapeze artist, lion tamer, tightrope walker, and magician.  He discovered his daughter's ability to memorise numbers while teaching her a card trick when she was about three years old. Her father left the circus and took her on road shows that displayed her ability at calculation.  She did this without any formal education.  At the age of six, she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore. 

In 1944, Shakuntala Devi moved to London with her father. 

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi

Maurice Roeves

Maurice Roeves

Maurice Roëves (/ˈroʊ.iːvz/; 19 March 1937 – 15 July 2020) was a British film and television actor, born in Sunderland, and then brought up in Glasgow.

His television roles included The Sweeney (1975), Danger UXB (1979), The Nightmare Man (1981), the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani, Days of Our Lives (1986), North and South (1985), Tutti Frutti (1987), Rab C. Nesbitt (1990), The New Statesman (1990), Spender (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1993), the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair (1998), EastEnders (2003), A Touch of Frost (2003) and Skins (2008). 

He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough. 

In 2006 he appeared in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters, portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster. 

He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland's drama River City. He appeared as a retired police superintendent in episode 3, 'Sorrow's Child', of TV drama, Southcliffe.

His film roles included Ulysses, Oh! What a Lovely War, A Day at the Beach, The Eagle Has Landed, Hidden Agenda, a major role as Colonel Munro in the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans, Judge Dredd (1995), The Acid House and Beautiful Creatures. 

In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas's film Solid Air. 

In 2014, he stated that he had moved to Nottinghamshire with his wife, Vanessa Rawlings-Jackson, and they spent part of the year at a condo in Santa Fe, New Mexico. On 15 July 2020, it was announced that Roëves had died at the age of 83, after a period of ill health

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ro%C3%ABves

Paula Tilbrook

Paula Tilbrook

Paula Tilbrook (16 January 1930 – 1 December 2019) was an English actress who played Betty Eagleton in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 1994 to 2015. In April 2015, it was announced that Tilbrook would be retiring and her final scenes as Betty aired on 25 May.  She had played the role of Betty for 21 years. 

She briefly reprised her role in Emmerdale on Christmas Day 2015, when Betty appeared via Skype to speak to the villagers. On 1 January 2016, she made an appearance on The Big Quiz 2016 Corrie V Emmerdale appearing in a scene with actor Mark Charnock who played Marlon Dingle). 

In 1977, Tilbrook made an appearance as Estelle Plimpton in Coronation Street, and followed this by appearances as Olive Taylor-Brown in the same show in 1978 and 1980, and Vivian Barford from 1991 to 1993. In 1979 she appeared in Tales of the Unexpected. In 1988, Tilbrook played Flo Capp in the sitcom Andy Capp. She appeared as dog-lover Mrs Tattersall in Open All Hours and played three roles in Last of the Summer Wine. Her other credits include Crown Court Brookside and two episodes of the BBC's Play for Today. Tilbrook's film credits include Yanks and Alan Bennett's A Private Function. 

Tilbrook died on 1 December 2019 at age 89, but her death was not announced by her family until July 2020. 

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Tilbrook

Nick Cannon

Nick Cannon

Nicholas Scott Cannon (born October 8, 1980)  is an American actor, comedian, rapper, director, writer, producer, and television host. On television, Cannon began as a teenager on All That before going on to host The Nick Cannon Show, Wild 'N Out, America's Got Talent, Lip Sync Battle Shorties and The Masked Singer. He acted in the films Drumline, Love Don't Cost a Thing and Roll Bounce.

As a rapper he released his debut self-titled album in 2003 with the single "Gigolo", a collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2007 he played the role of the fictional footballer TJ Harper in the film Goal II: Living the Dream. In 2006, Cannon recorded the singles "Dime Piece" and "My Wife" for the planned album Stages, which was never released.

Cannon married American singer Mariah Carey in 2008. The couple separated and filed for divorce in December 2014. The divorce was finalized in 2016, and they co-parent their children.

Cannon was born on October 8, 1980 in San Diego, California. Cannon was largely raised by his paternal grandfather, whom both he and his biological father called "dad". As a child, Cannon grew up in Lincoln Park's Bay Vista Housing Projects, which is a gang-ridden section of Southeast San Diego. While in his teenage years, he was affiliated with the "Lincoln Park Bloods" street gang, but stated that he left behind his affiliations after losing a close friend.  In 1998, he graduated from Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley, where he was president of the African Student Coalition and participated in track and field.  Cannon received his first break doing stand-up comedy on his father's local cable access program

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cannon

Love Island Australia

Love Island Australia

Love Island Australia is an Australian dating reality show based on the British series Love Island. The series is presented by Sophie Monk  and narrated by Eoghan McDermott.  The series began airing on 9Go! and 9Now on 27 May 2018.  The series also airs in the United Kingdom on ITVBe and in the Republic of Ireland on Virgin Media Two (formerly 3e), and is available in New Zealand on TVNZ OnDemand.

The second season of Love Island Australia premiered Monday, 7 October 2019 on the Nine Network and 9Now,  with production being relocated to a villa in Fiji. 

Love Island involves a group of contestants, referred to as Islanders, living in isolation from the outside world in a villa, and constantly under video surveillance. They are allowed to use their phones for the sole reason of receiving texts from producers, alerting them of upcoming dates and activities. To survive in the villa the Islanders must be coupled up with another Islander, whether it be for love, friendship or money, as the overall winning couple receives $50,000. On the first day, the Islanders couple up for the first time based on first impressions, but over the duration of the series, they are forced to "re-couple" where they can choose to remain in their current couple or swap and change. It is common for Islanders to strategically chose their partner not based on love but as a pact for the two to stay on the island as long as possible, waiting for their ideal match.

Any Islander who remains single after the coupling is eliminated and dumped from the island. Islanders can also be eliminated via public vote, as during the series the public vote through the Love Island app available on smartphones for their favourite couple, or who they think is the most compatible. Couples who receive the fewest votes risk being eliminated. Often a twist has occurred where it has been up to the Islanders to vote one of their own off the island. During the final week, the public vote for which couple they want to win the series and therefore take home $50,000.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Island_Australia

سرت

سرت

سِرت مدينة ليبية ساحلية تطل على البحر الأبيض المتوسط. تقع في منتصف الساحل الليبي بين طرابلس وبنغازي. تبعد عن العاصمة طرابلس 450 كلم شرقا. تجمع في طقسها بين الاعتدال البحري والطقس الصحراوي. بلغ عدد سكانها في 2012 نحو 79,000 نسمة.

تطل مدينة سرت على الخليج المتفرع من البحر الأبيض المتوسط الذي عرف باسمها، خليج سرت الذي كان يعرف باسم "خليج السدرة" والذي شهد ابان الحرب الباردة مواجهات بين ليبيا وأميركا وقد أطلق على المدينة ابان فترة حكم القذافي اسم "الرِباط الأمامي" بعد هذه المواجهات، وسمّي خليج سرت وقتها للسبب ذاته باسم "خليج التحدي". وتعد مدينة سرت من المدن المهمة قديما، وكانت محطة مهمة على طريق القوافل بين برقة وطرابلس وبين أفريقيا.

اتخذ منها معمر القذافي مقر تواجده الأخير في 1 سبتمبر 2011 بعد فقدانه السيطرة على طرابلس خلال ثورة 17 فبراير وفيها قتل في 20 أكتوبر 2011

يطلق اسم سرت على المنطقة الممتدة على البحر الأبيض المتوسط بين العقيلة شرقا وبويرات الحسون غربا، بهذه المنطقة نشأت عدة مستوطنات فينيقية عرفت أحدها باسم "ايفورانتا ماكوماديس" ويبدو أنها أستوُطِنَتْ أثناء وعقب تلك الحقبة لوجود مقابر بها تعود إلى القرن الرابع الميلادي. وخلال حكم الفاطميون أسسوا في القرن العاشر عشر الميلادي مدينة عرفت باسم "سرت"، وهي تقع الآن إلى الشرق من مدينة سرت الحالية وتعرف الآن باسم المْديّنة وتحتوي على متحف صغير بالقرب من آثار المدينة الفاطمية يضم بعض القطع الإسلامية.

مراجع

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AA