ThereWillBeDeaths7
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I'll take Jayapataki Swami
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On 15/05/2024 at 20:05, ThereWillBeDeaths7 said:It looks like it will be a political experiment: PVV (Wilders), VVD, NSC and BBB have finished their talks for a coalition; their factions in parliament are reading the agreement as we speak and can suggest amendments, after that we'll probably get a government again... But who exactly that will be, is still the question.
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News flash in the Netherlands: Dick Schoof (67) is the intended candidate of the incoming coalition to become prime minister. He has been secretary-general of the Ministry of Justice and Security since 2020.
Schoof hasn't been active in politics up until this point and is not a member of a political party, but has been a longtime civil servant. In the last decade, he was National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, 2013-2018 and Director-General of the General Intelligence and Security Service, 2018-2020.
In the coming weeks, he'll select people for his cabinet (of course working together with the coalition leaders), the new cabinet is expected to be sworn in in the first week of July.
A case of "I've heard the name, know the face, he usually doesn't come across as an idiot but I don't know what I can expect from him as a prime minister".
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28/05/2024
88 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone
86 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
80 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
62 Owl City — Fireflies
61 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
55 Cee Lo Green — Forget You -6
24 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) +4
22 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes
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27/05/24
92 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone
83 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
76 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
64 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
58 Cee Lo Green — Forget You -6
57 Owl City — Fireflies
42 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) +4
33 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes
09 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It
06 Taio Cruz — Dynamite
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26/05/2024
84 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone
81 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
76 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
65 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
56 Cee Lo Green — Forget You -3
47 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) +4
47 Owl City — Fireflies
46 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes
27 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It
19 Taio Cruz — Dynamite -3
08 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag
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Thanks for hosting this game @diego! Zhu Rongji please.
The (eventual) end of this game will mean there are no living former state leaders born in the 1920's.
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2 hours ago, drol said:Thabo Mbeki has been hospitalised for a week.
Still doing better than at the start of 2024 when he was dead.
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24/05/2024
85 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone
73 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
72 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
57 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
53 Cee Lo Green — Forget You
48 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) +4
46 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes -1
46 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag -4
39 Owl City — Fireflies
30 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It
26 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight -1
25 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder
24 Taio Cruz — Dynamite
07 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You
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6 hours ago, Sly Ronnie said:Who are the best-known Dutch Olympians? The only one I know of is Fanny Blankers-Koen who won 4 gold medals in 1948.
Mind you, Femke Bol may end up being well-known by the end of the summer!
Fanny Blankers-Koen was indeed a very notable Dutch olympian. The recently deceased Sjoukje Dijkstra (gold and silver medals in 1960 and 1964 figure skating) was also quite notable.
Due to recency bias, I know loads of olympians from the last couple of decades, not that much from before. I've made a short list below of notable Dutch olympians for the summer and winter olympics before 2000, sorted by their year of debut and which games they took part in. Most of them won at least one gold medal in their respective sports, and took part in individual sports.
Summer Olympics
- Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918-2004) 1936, 1948, 1952
Track and field athlete who won four gold medals in the 1948 games; her being a mother and 30 years old earned her the nickname "The Flying Housewife".
- Erica Terpstra (1943) 1960, 1964
Swimmer who won a silver and a bronze medal at the 1964 games in Japan. Later became a politician: a member of the house of representatives from 1977 onwards, and state secretary between 1994-1998. She later presented a travel programme, Erica op Reis.
- Anton Geesink (1934-2010) 1964
Judoka who won the final in the open weight competition in 1964, the first year in which judo was an Olympic sport.
- Ada Kok (1947) 1964, 1968
Swimmer who won two silver medals in 1964, and a gold medal in 1968. She was internationally known as one of the best in the butterfly stroke.
- Joop Zoetemelk (1946) 1968
Racing cyclist who won gold in 1968, later in his career would win the 1980 Tour de France.
- Anky van Grunsven (1968) 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012
Equestrian who competed in the dressage in all six games between 1992 and 2012, winning three gold medals, five silver ones and one bronze medal. Anky is the most famous equestrian in our country, and her two winning horses (Bonfire and Salinero) even got statues in her village after they passed away.
Winter Olympics
- Sjoukje Dijkstra (1942-2024) 1960, 1964
Figure skater who won a silver medal in 1960 and a gold medal in 1964. She was the first Dutch athlete to win a Winter Olympics gold medal.
- Yvonne van Gennip (1964) 1984, 1988, 1992
Speed skater who won three gold medals in 1988, after injuring her foot and needing surgery less than two months before the games.
- Marianne Timmer (1974) 1998, 2002, 2006
Speed skater who won three gold medals, the first two in 1998 and the last one in 2006.
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9 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:
What?! Do you mean to tell me that you have not heard of the highly notable and exciting names brought to us on a daily basis by diego?
Bastiaan Poortenar?!! THE Bastiaan Poortenar. Only competed and lost once, doesn't get more notable than that!He even misspelled it as the link clearly shows his name as "Bastiaan Poortenaar".
On a completely unrelated note, as a Dutchman I never heard of him either before I opened this thread.
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23/05/24
83 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone
71 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
70 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
54 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
53 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World) +2
51 Cee Lo Green — Forget You
44 Jessie J ft. B. O .B — Price Tag
39 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It
38 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes
37 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight
35 Owl City — Fireflies
25 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder
23 Taio Cruz — Dynamite
18 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You +2
15 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me
14 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out -6
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5/22/2024
87 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone
70 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
67 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
52 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
52 Cee Lo Green — Forget You
46 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It
44 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight
40 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World)
38 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes
38 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag
33 Owl City — Fireflies
28 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out -3
26 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder
24 Taio Cruz — Dynamite
23 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You +4
21 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me -3
13 Iyaz — Replay
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1 hour ago, The Old Crem said:Looks like the PVV will lead the next dutch Government.
It looks like it will be a political experiment: PVV (Wilders), VVD, NSC and BBB have finished their talks for a coalition; their factions in parliament are reading the agreement as we speak and can suggest amendments, after that we'll probably get a government again... But who exactly that will be, is still the question.
All four party leaders have said they will stay in parliament, while former coalition talks moderator Ronald Plasterk (66) has been rumoured to become Prime Minister. He is a member of the Labour party (PvdA) but has steered to the right of his party in columns during the last couple of years. If he becomes PM, he'll probably have to leave the PvdA.
Other people who might join the cabinet at the moment are Fleur Agema (PVV), Mona Keijzer (BBB) and Sophie Hermans (VVD).
Doesn't look like the cabinet will be filled with the brightest bunch of political talent in the Netherlands, but we're gonna have to wait and see.
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Ofcourse, we don't know what has occured and the investigation is still ongoing, but the way in which this had been handled by the EBU could at the least be called very poor.
A cancelled performance on friday, not a single clear statement by the organisation for half a day, resulting in endless speculation about Joost Klein and what might have happened.
As a dutchman, I could ofcourse be seen as partial; I like Europapa as it is a happy, nostalgic and emotional song, as well as totally different than all of our post-Duncan Laurence entries. I am however trying to look impartially at the whole affair.
If the alleged threatening of a member of the organisation has indeed occured, it would be quite bad and measures should be taken. But until the police has investigated the allegations and concluded there's at least any truth to it all, any action and / or punishment against the Dutch entry would be quite bluntly, a disgrace.
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The Hobbit trilogy (2012-2014)
Since we've got a list with actors from the Lord of the Rings trilogy who passed away, below is a similar list for Peter Jackson's the Hobbit trilogy:
Sir Christopher Lee CBE CStJ (1922-2015) Saruman the White
Richard Whiteside (1968-2015) Butterbur Sr.; additional roles
Merv Smith (1933-2018) Tosser Grubb (extended edition)
Ray Henwood (1937-2019) Old Fisherman
Sir Ian Holm CBE (1931-2020) Old Bilbo
Peter Vere-Jones (1939-2021) Mirkwood Spiders (voice)
Sir Anthony Sher KBE (1949-2021) Thráin II (extended edition)
Barry Humphries AC CBE (1934-2023) The Great Goblin
Compared to the LotR movies which ended eleven years before, there are quite a lot of deaths in the cast of the Hobbit; these were however mostly the older actors. The ten oldest members of cast for the Hobbit trilogy (whose age I could find):
Sir Ian McKellen CH CBE (b. 1939) Gandalf the Grey
Sir Billy Connolly CBE (b. 1942) Dáin II Ironfoot
Sylvester McCoy (b. 1943) Radagast the Brown
Joan Dawe (b. 1944) Hobbit; Laketown Refugee
Jeffrey Thomas (b. 1945) Thrór
John Callen (b. 1946) Óin
Ken Stott (b. 1954) Balin
Kiran Shah (b. 1956) Goblin Scribe
Stephen Fry (b. 1957) Master of Lake-town
Mark Hadlow ONZM (b. 1957) Dori / Bert the Troll-
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9/5/24
56 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé — Telephone46 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris — We Found Love
45 Adele — Someone Like You
31 Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg — California Gurls
26 Tinie Tempah — Pass Out
26 Cee Lo Green — Forget You
24 B.O.B ft. Hayley Williams — Airplanes
24 Iyaz — Replay
24 Scouting For Girls — This Ain't A Love Song
24 Bruno Mars — Grenade
24 Jessie J ft. B.O.B — Price Tag
24 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande — Read All About It
24 Owl City — Fireflies +2
24 B.O.B ft. Bruno Mars — Nothin' On You +2
23 Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup — We No Speak Americano
23 Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks — Heart Skips A Beat
23 Kesha — We R Who We R
22 One Direction — What Makes You Beautiful
22 David Guetta ft. Chris Willis — Gettin' Over You
22 Taio Cruz — Dynamite
22 The Black Eyed Peas — The Time (Dirty Bit)
22 Bruno Mars — Just The Way You Are
22 Tinie Tempah — Written In The Stars
21 Rihanna — Only Girl (In The World)
21 Roll Deep — Green Light
21 Example — Changed The Way You Kiss Me
21 DJ Fresh ft. Sian Evans — Louder
21 The Wanted — Glad You Came
21 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta — Club Can't Handle Me
21 Olly Murs — Dance With Me Tonight
20 Usher ft. Will.I.Am — OMG
20 Diana Vickers — Once
20 Roll Deep — Good Times
20 Little Mix — Cannonball
20 The Wanted — All Time Low
20 Alexandra Burke ft. Laza Morgan — Start Without You
20 Rihanna ft. Drake — What's My Name
20 Nicole Scherzinger — Don't Hold Your Breath
20 Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer — Give Me Everything
20 Jason Derulo — Don't Wanna Go Home
20 Nero — Promises
20 Wretch 32 ft. Josh Kumra — Don't Go
20 Example — Stay Awake
20 Pixie Lott — All About Tonight
16 Dizzee Rascal — Dirtee Disco
16 LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock — Party Rock Anthem
15 Olly Murs — Please Don't Let Me Go -2
15 Jason Derulo — In My Head -2
15 JLS ft. Dev — She Makes Me Wanna -2
14 Bruno Mars — The Lazy Song
11 Ne-Yo — Beautiful Monster
08 Cheryl Cole — Promise This
06 Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull - On The Floor
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17 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:Here are the living actors who are 70 or older:
Norman Forsey (b. 1937) Gaffer Gamgee
David Weatherley (b. 1939) Barliman Butterbur
Sir Ian McKellen CBE (b. 1939) Gandalf
John Rhys-Davies (b. 1944) Gimli
Bruce Spence (b. 1945) Mouth of Sauron
John Bach (b. 1946) Madril
John Noble (b. 1948) Denethor, Steward of Gondor
Brad Dourif (b. 1950) Gríma Wormtongue
Bruce Phillips (b. 1951) Grimbold
Paul Norell (b. 1952) King of the Dead
Nathaniel Lees (b. 1952) UglukI've found some additional actors who portrayed minor characters in the trilogy:
Michael Elsworth (b. 1932, IMDb) Gondorian Archivist / Cirdan the Shipwright
Peter Corrigan (b. 1950, IMDb) Otho Sackville
Peter McKenzie (1943–2023?, IMDb) Elendil
- He married Deirdre Tarrant CNZM (b. 1946, wiki) in 1971 (McKenzie is named as Peter Leo McKenzie). Their son is Bret McKenzie (b. 1976, wiki), who portrayed an elf in Rivendell / Figwit in the original trilogy.
- I've found a possible match: an obituary from the New Zealand Herald for Peter Leo McKenzie, who passed away on September 9, 2023 in Melbourne "in his eightieth year". One commenter below references his role as Elendil and states "We enjoyed time together on Lord Of The Rings".
Edit: there's a Find A Grave page for him, is birthdate is given as August 10, 1943.
Bruce Allpress (1930–2020, IMDb) Aldor; an elderly man from Rohan. He accidentaly fires his bow at the start of the Battle of Helm's Deep before the command is given, resulting in the first fatality of the battle.
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56 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:
Other than Sir Ian Holm and Sir Christopher Lee I’m guessing nobody else from The Hobbit trilogy is dead?Barry Humphries performed motion capture for and voiced the Goblin King in An Unexpected Journey (2012).
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Noooo
he was a great actor. I first saw him as King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings trilogy where he had a great on screen presence. RIP Bernard Hill.
Theoden's speech at 0:55.
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5/3/2024
52 Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Murder On The Dancefloor
37 Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse — Valerie
31 Kylie Minogue — Love At First Sight -6
28 Gorillaz — Feel Good Inc. +4
14 Coldplay — In My Place
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On what used to be Queen's Day (30 April), Princess Beatrix released four hedgehogs on her home grounds, Drakensteyn Castle. She looks her age (86) but seems to have no trouble walking through the forest. Mentally seems to be all there as well.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6YWB6eNPrz/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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1. Jimmy Carter
2. Sven-Gorän Eriksson
3. José Mujica
4. Steve McMichael
5. Frank Caprio
6. Ethel Kennedy
7. Noam Chomsky
8. Jim Lovell
9. Rob Burrow
10. Alberto Fujimori
11. Esther Rantzen
12. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
13. Pope Francis
14. Gene Hackman
15. Kitty Dukakis
16. King Charles III
17. Mike Peters
18. Sophie Kinsella
19. Joanne Woodward
20. James Whale
21. Tippi Hedren
Sub: Roberta Flack, Linda Nolan, Mitch McConnell
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Same here, José Mujica as my third sub please.
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I also love his move to Sauber, hopefully they'll be able to challenge the top teams from 2026 on. Hülkenberg getting on the podium after all those years could become a reality!
- Sainz would be the most likely candidate for the second seat, I'd say both Bottas and Zhou are gone after next year.
Until this news I was sure Bearman would come in at Haas at the cost of Magnussen, after Nico's departure I'd say Kevin is safe for next year. The Schumacher/Mazepin combo has surely shown the team management that they need one experienced driver to develop the car instead of wrecking it every second race.
Re: Newey, I got the feeling he'll be joining Aston Martin; but anything could happen right now.
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MMMDP 2024
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Congrats drol, a well deserved victory! Bringing down an immortal seemed like a Herculean task but for you it was super easy, barely an inconvenience!