2018 Current Events Study Guide
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Leftist populist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to by initials AMLO) has won the Mexican presidential election.
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To add to that, Mexico City elected it's first female and first Jewish mayor: Claudia Sheinbaum. She's also a member of AMLO's party, Morena.Ironhorse wrote: ↑Sun Jul 01, 2018 10:28 pm Leftist populist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to by initials AMLO) has won the Mexican presidential election.
https://www.ft.com/content/367c00ce-7c8 ... daf11b720d
https://jezebel.com/mexico-city-will-el ... 1827276490
One bit of trivia about AMLO, he was the runner up for Mexico's presidency in both 2006 and 2012.
Also, you better accept AMLO as a response if you ask about him, TPTB!
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Not to be confused with the guy who recorded "Stepping Out" (1982). Or the shoeless member of the Black Sox.badgerfellow wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:23 pm Joe Jackson has passed away: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/entertai ... index.html
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Also not to be confused with J. J. Jackson, whose single "But It's Alright" hit the charts in both 1966 and 1969 and was later covered by Huey Lewis and the News.Blue Lion wrote: ↑Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:45 amNot to be confused with the guy who recorded "Stepping Out" (1982). Or the shoeless member of the Black Sox.badgerfellow wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:23 pm Joe Jackson has passed away: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/entertai ... index.html
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Scott Pruitt has resigned as head of the EPA
Acting replacement is Andrew Wheeler
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN1JV2UH
Acting replacement is Andrew Wheeler
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN1JV2UH
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Travis Pastrana: 3/3 (cars/buses/fountain)
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To expand on that... https://jalopnik.com/travis-pastrana-la ... 1827433656
Over 400 feet of total jumps have been completed by Travis Pastrana [Sunday] in Las Vegas: one jump over 52 cars, one jump over 16 buses, and one jump over the fountain in front of Caesars Palace hotel and casino—breaking three of legendary daredevil Evel Knievel’s most insane records.
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Actor Tab Hunter died at age 86. He is known for playing Danny Forrester in Leon Uris's Battle Cry and Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees. He also had a Billboard #1 hit, "Young Love" (1957). Later in his career, Hunter appeared opposite Divine in two of John Waters' films. J.J. Abrams' company is producing a film, Tab & Tony, about Hunter's clandestine relationship with Anthony Perkins during the 1950s.
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Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid to play for Juventus, a club based in Turin, Italy. Ronaldo leaves as Real Madrid's all-time leading goal scorer. He has won the Ballon d'Or award--given to the best player in the world--five times, four with Real Madrid.
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Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid to play for Juventus, a club based in Turin, Italy. Ronaldo leaves as Real Madrid's all-time leading goal scorer. He has won the Ballon d'Or award--given to the best player in the world--five times, four with Real Madrid.
http://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-trans ... r-transfer
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I'd make the flash card but not yet add it to rotation.
Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to replace Anthony Kennedy on SCOTUS
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44775078
Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated to replace Anthony Kennedy on SCOTUS
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44775078
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Thanks to his new album Scorpion, Drake has 7 of the songs in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, including the number one "Nice for What". This beats the Beatles 1964 record of 5 of the top 10, but their 5 held positions 1-5, a feat which has not been repeated since.
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I wouldn't expect J! to ask anything harder than spotting you Richardson and Tepper (along with -sold NFL team-) to come up with Panthers. The last NFL team to be sold was the Bills after Ralph Wilson's estate unloaded it in 2014.The sale of the Carolina Panthers from founder Jerry Richardson to new owner David Tepper is complete, the team announced on Monday.
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Go Tepper!Volante wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 11:39 pm https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foot ... SKBN1K005C
I wouldn't expect J! to ask anything harder than spotting you Richardson and Tepper (along with -sold NFL team-) to come up with Panthers. The last NFL team to be sold was the Bills after Ralph Wilson's estate unloaded it in 2014.The sale of the Carolina Panthers from founder Jerry Richardson to new owner David Tepper is complete, the team announced on Monday.
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I wonder if they just got tired of all the jokes about the one-legged waitress named Eileen.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:55 am IHOP is flipping the P and changing its name to IHOb with the announcement of the new name coming on June 11th.
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Better than my brother-in-law....Volante wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 11:34 am https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44559261Koko the gorilla, who is said to have been able to communicate by using more than 1,000 hand signs, has died in California at the age of 46.
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The gorilla...could understand 2,000 words of spoken English.
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Turned out to be some New Coke gimmick anyway and it's back to IHOP.John Boy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:45 pmI wonder if they just got tired of all the jokes about the one-legged waitress named Eileen.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:55 am IHOP is flipping the P and changing its name to IHOb with the announcement of the new name coming on June 11th.
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Those burgers were pretty good though.Volante wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 6:39 pmTurned out to be some New Coke gimmick anyway and it's back to IHOP.John Boy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:45 pmI wonder if they just got tired of all the jokes about the one-legged waitress named Eileen.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:55 am IHOP is flipping the P and changing its name to IHOb with the announcement of the new name coming on June 11th.
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Finally, Reuters. I knew you wouldn't embed the Instagram photo.
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Rapper Cardi B has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, with her rapper husband Offset
The parents named the child Kulture Kiari Cephus
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It’s not coming home.
Croatia (population: ~4 million) is the second-smallest country to reach a FIFA World Cup final (only Uruguay is smaller).
Croatia (population: ~4 million) is the second-smallest country to reach a FIFA World Cup final (only Uruguay is smaller).
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J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith and featuring private detective Cormoran Strike:
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Silkworm
Career of Evil
Coming September 2018: Lethal White
TV series based on the first three books: Strike in the UK and C.B. Strike in the U.S. airing on Cinemax
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Following up on the above post for Croatia making the finals: Zagreb is last alphabetically for capitals and the kind of thing J! likes.
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Silkworm
Career of Evil
Coming September 2018: Lethal White
TV series based on the first three books: Strike in the UK and C.B. Strike in the U.S. airing on Cinemax
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Following up on the above post for Croatia making the finals: Zagreb is last alphabetically for capitals and the kind of thing J! likes.
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Is this guy looking for a third clue appearance?
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 WHAT'S THE SCORE? $400: John Isner 70, Nicolas Mahut 68 in the 5th set of the longest match in the history of this sport
#7119, aired 2015-07-23 TODAY'S TENNIS STARS $1200: (I'm John Isner.) In June 2010 I won what was to that time the longest match in history--over 11 hours--in this Grand Slam tournament
22-22 in the 5th set (against South African Kevin Anderson) with Nadal & Djokovic still to come. I figure if I post about it then the first match will finally end.
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#7544, aired 2017-06-01 WHAT'S THE SCORE? $400: John Isner 70, Nicolas Mahut 68 in the 5th set of the longest match in the history of this sport
#7119, aired 2015-07-23 TODAY'S TENNIS STARS $1200: (I'm John Isner.) In June 2010 I won what was to that time the longest match in history--over 11 hours--in this Grand Slam tournament
22-22 in the 5th set (against South African Kevin Anderson) with Nadal & Djokovic still to come. I figure if I post about it then the first match will finally end.