Gemma Collis-McCann (1992 - ) was a UK paralympic wheelchair fencer in 2012 and 2016. She is vice-chair of the IWAS International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation's Wheelchair Fencing Athletes' Council. She is in the GB team to compete in Tokyo in 2021.

Stanley "Stan"/ "Mac" McCormick (5 July 1923 – July 1999) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and coached in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Lancashire, and at club level for Broughton Rangers/Belle Vue Rangers, Huddersfield (World War II guest), St. Helens (Heritage № 680) and Warrington (Heritage № 554), with whom he won the 1953–54 Challenge Cup, as a wing, i.e. number 2 or 5. and coached at club level for St. Helens and Salford. McCormick is a St Helens R.F.C. Hall of Fame inductee.

Deutsche Welle (German: [ˈdɔɪ̯.t͡ʃə ˈvɛ.lə] (); "German Wave" in German) or DW is a German public state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 30 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in English, German, Urdu, Hindi, Spanish, Bengali, and Arabic. The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, meaning that content is intended to be independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own center for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and promote understanding between peoples. DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It is headquartered in Bonn, where its radio programmes are produced. However, television broadcasts are produced almost entirely in Berlin. Both locations create content for DW's news website. It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. As of 2019, around 1,500 employees and 1,500 freelancers from 60 countries work for Deutsche Welle in its offices in Bonn and Berlin. The Director-General of DW is Peter Limbourg.

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Christopher John Ellis Fiddes (born Northampton 13 November 1934) is an English artist, muralist, designer of stained glass and book illustrator. He is also an expert art historian. He has enjoyed a long career as an artist, with prodigious output and driven by a strong belief in the value of traditional drawing and painting techniques that he feels have been largely lost in Post- Modern art movements and the 21st Century commercial art world. Fiddes studied art at Northampton Art School from 1950-54 and then gained an Art Teacher's Diploma at Leicester University. He did two years' National Service in the Northamptonshire Regiment of the British Army and spent time in Hong Kong. In 1957 he started teaching art at a Catholic boys' secondary school and then, in 1972, he became Head of Art at Northampton High School. In 1962 he co-founded the Northampton Civic Society with the historian Sir Gyles Isham and local architects and archivists, with the aim of preserving historic buildings from redevelopment. In 1965 he bought a listed house in the village of Cogenhoe and over the next 10 years restored it. His occupation of that house, which is now a listed building, is celebrated with a plaque. In 1972 he travelled to Northern Ireland as an artist to create a record of The Troubles. His dramatic and graphic paintings were based on sketches he made from close-up observation on both sides of the line. He was commissioned regularly by the author and publisher J. L. Carr to illustrate several of the small books of poetry that Carr published under the imprint of The Quince Tree Press. Northampton Museum & Art Gallery are hosting Fiddes' first retrospective exhibition [10 July - 17 October 2021] to mark its re-opening after extensive remodelling. The museum is permanent home to 21 oil paintings by Fiddes as well as a few preparatory sketches. In their collection, and in this show, is one of his earliest paintings, ‘Kowloon Riots’. This was painted in 1956 in response to the quelling of the riots that Fiddes witnessed while on his National Service in Kowloon, Hong Kong and it was shown at the RBA at the time.

Barwaha is a municipality and sub-district in Khargone district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The Barwaha city is divided into 18 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Barwaha Municipality has population of 39,973 of which 20,940 are males while 19,033 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Literacy rate of Barwaha is 87.27% higher than state average of 69.32%. In Barwaha, Male literacy is around 92.73% while female literacy rate is 81.23%. Barwaha Municipality has total administration over 5,133 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorized to build roads within Municipality limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction. The city is situated on the banks of the Narmada River. It has got the largest CISF training campus in India. The city is surrounded by hundreds of very small villages and so is the main market area for those villages. On every Tuesday people from all these villages come to purchase their weekly required materials, whereas on Friday most of the shops remain closed. is well connected to Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat through various state highways and rail route. Barwah is famous for cotton production and cotton ginning factories. Two things are very famous here: Lime of Barwah and Chivda(चिवड़ा) of Barwah. It is also an important industrial city with several calcium,ginning,agro,bag,textile industries.One alcohol and beer factory is also here. The city has 4 industrial area: North Industrial Area – Indore Road South Industrial Area – Narmada Road West Industrial Area – Dhamnod Road North-east Industrial Area – Hoshangabad Road

The COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland is part of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus reached the country in late February 2020 and within three weeks, cases had been confirmed in all counties. The pandemic affected many aspects of society. The government shut all schools, colleges, childcare facilities and cultural institutions on 12 March 2020. All large gatherings were cancelled, including St Patrick's Day festivities two years running. On 24 March 2020, almost all businesses, venues and amenities were shut, and on 27 March, the first stay-at-home order banned all non-essential travel and contact with other people. The elderly and those with certain illnesses were told to cocoon. People were made to keep apart in public. The Oireachtas passed an emergency act giving the state power to detain people, restrict travel and keep people in their homes to control the virus's spread. Further emergency law passed the following week. The Garda Síochána were given power to enforce the lockdown, which was repeatedly extended until late May. The Republic's first lockdown was the longest in Europe, especially for hospitality and retail. It caused a severe recession and an unprecedented rise in unemployment. A Pandemic Unemployment Payment and a Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme were set up. School exams were cancelled. The Health Service Executive (HSE) launched a recruitment campaign, asking all current and former healthcare workers to "be on call for Ireland". By mid-April, the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) reported that the pandemic's growth rate had been driven "as low as it needs to be", and the curve had flattened. Daily cases and deaths dropped to low levels by June and restrictions were gradually lifted, while schools remained closed for summer break. Public houses remained shut, the longest such closure in Europe. In August, a three-week regional lockdown was imposed in three counties following a spike in cases linked to meat processing plants. Schools re-opened in September. This was followed by a surge in cases, and in October another statewide lockdown was imposed, excluding schools. In early December, Ireland's infection rate was the lowest in the European Union, and restrictions were eased. There was another surge in late December, and on 24 December (Christmas Eve), another statewide lockdown was imposed. This was soon tightened to include schools, and was one of the strictest in the world. On St Stephen's Day, the first shipment of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine arrived, and vaccinations began on 29 December. In February 2021, the government imposed testing and quarantine rules on all incoming travellers for the first time. Serious cases fell sharply, and schools re-opened in March. By 28 June 2021, the Department of Health had confirmed 271,589 cases and 4,989 deaths. More than 90% of those who have died were aged over 65, and 93% had underlying conditions or lived in care homes with a median age of death at 82 years old. As of 28 June 2021, 4,000,000 total vaccine doses had been administered in Ireland (approximately 2,300,000 1st dose and 1,200,000 2nd dose as of 17 June).