Full Name: James Barry Munnik Hertzog
Profession: Prime Minister of South Africa
Biography: Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. Throughout his life he encouraged the development of Afrikaner culture and was determined to protect Afrikaners from British influence.
Born: April 3, 1866
Birthplace: Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa Star Sign: Aries
Died: November 21, 1942 (aged 76)
Historical Events 1910-04-27 Louis Botha and J.
Political parties have expressed concern over polling-day hitches on Tuesday that have caused significant delays to the results, with one party calling for a halt to the ballot counting. Weah and Boakai are expected to top the first round of voting, according to analysts, though former Coca-Cola executive Alexander Cummings is considered to have eaten into their support with an innovative campaign strategy. The only county with more than 30 percent of votes counted -- Bong county -- showed Boakai and Weah neck-and-neck with a slight advantage on Weah's side.
“There are a lot of pictures I never published because they’re for me, [they’re] something personal, something I’m attached to,” Alix Dejean tells TIME.
The Haitian-born photographer, who has been a fixture in New York City’s music scene for more decades than he wants you to know, began photographing the Jackson family in the mid-1970s, at a time when the Jacksonmania was in full swing and when Michael Jackson was starting his solo career.
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What if, each time you had a question about your health, you could ask an actual doctor instead of tumbling down a Google rabbit hole? For many people in the U.S., the costs and delays associated with routine medical care make that idea unfathomable. “People have really struggled in this country to even imagine what an abundance of access to medical care could and should look like,” says machine-learning researcher Neal Khosla.
Netflix has given the green light to a new “Squid Game” slot machine — the streamer’s first consumer-products licensing deal in the casino and gambling industry. The slot game is based on one of Netflix’s most popular shows of all time, the South Korean survival drama “Squid Game.” Built by gaming company Light & Wonder, it will integrate several iconic (and deadly) games from the show such as Red Light, Green Light; Tug of War; and the Glass Tile.
During halftime at a Brooklyn Nets game in December, a cluster of 20- and 30-something women made a beeline for the court. John Legend and Chrissy Teigen were there, sitting in prime seats, but the couple wasn’t their target. These women were hoping to take a picture with Ally Love, the team’s in-arena host. Love, one of Peloton’s most popular instructors, flashed a smile at the group and made a gesture suggesting they could huddle in the stands as she introduced a breakdancing team.
Democratic nations,” wrote the ever prescient Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America, long ago in 1840, “will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful should be useful.” What would Tocqueville have thought of today’s assaults on the fabric of America’s public culture?
The Republican leadership in Congress means to sever all links between American government and American culture. It wants the Federal Government to give no support at all to music, theater, ballet, opera, film, intelligent television, literature, history, archaeology, museum work, architectural conservation and the visual arts.
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