David S. LaForce (born August 10, 1959) is an artist, noted for his artwork in fantasy role-playing games.

Along with Jeff Dee, Erol Otus, Jim Roslof, David C. Sutherland III and David A. Trampier, LaForce is recognized as one of the first-generation artists for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the seminal role-playing game (RPG).

LaForce came to the notice of Kevin Blume in 1979, after he helped TSR move from a two-story house to their new offices in a former hotel and was initially given a job in their shipping department. Shortly after being hired, David Sutherland, the head of TSR's Art Department, found out that LaForce liked to draw and asked him to submit some sample pictures. Two of the three samples were bought for the Dungeon Master's Guide and LaForce was hired by the Art Department, where he stayed until 1998. His first assignment was C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan and he also provided many internal illustrations for many of the first D&D manuals, such as Deities & Demigods.

There were several people called "David" at TSR and LaForce was given the nickname "Diesel" by his editor Mike Carr, after Carr noticed that LaForce was signing his artwork with his initials "DSL" and slurred those letters into the word "Diesel". The nickname caught on and even LaForce's wife calls him Diesel.

David (Hebrew: דָּוִד, דָּוִיד, Modern David Tiberian Dāwîḏ; ISO 259-3 Dawid; Strong's Daveed; beloved; Arabic: داوود‎ or داود‎ Dāwūd) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, an ancestor of Jesus. David is seen as a major Prophet in Islamic traditions. His life is conventionally dated to c. 1040–970 BC, his reign over Judah c. 1010–1003 BC,^{[citation needed]} and his reign over the United Kingdom of Israel c. 1003–970 BC.^{[citation needed]} The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan stele records "House of David", which some take as confirmation of the existence in the mid-9th century BC of a Judean royal dynasty called the "House of David".

David is very important to Jewish, Christian and Islamic doctrine and culture. In Judaism, David, or David HaMelekh, is the King of Israel, and the Jewish people. Jewish tradition maintains that a direct descendant of David will be the Messiah. In Islam, he is known as Dawud, considered to be a prophet and the king of a nation. He is depicted as a righteous king, though not without faults, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician, and poet, traditionally credited for composing many of the psalms contained in the Book of Psalms.

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.

As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.

Fabrice Luchini (born 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor.

Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement. When he was 13, his mother apprenticed him to a hairdresser in a trendy parlor on Avenue Matignon, where he would take the name of the hairdresser's son, Fabrice, in place of his real name, Robert. At the same time he developed a great interest for literature (Balzac, Flaubert, Proust). His passion for soul music (James Brown) made him a regular of discothèques. This is where he met Philippe Labro, who gave him his first role in Tout peut arriver in 1969. He then studied acting under Jean-Laurent Cochet. However, it was his collaboration with Éric Rohmer that would make him popular for Le Genou de Claire in 1970, in which he played a small role as an adolescent. He appeared in Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois, and Les Nuits de la pleine lune, and in films directed by Nagisa Oshima, Pierre Zucca, Claude Lelouch, Cedric Klapisch, Édouard Molinaro.

David Pujadas (French pronunciation: [da.vid py.ʒa.das], Spanish: [puˈxaðas]) was born in Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain, on December 2, 1964, to a Spanish father and a French mother.

A former news broadcaster for TF1's LCI, he now is an anchorman on France 2's weeknight newscast, Le Journal de 20 Heures, at 8:00 CET in Metropolitan France. He has anchored these newscasts since September 2001, when he replaced Claude Sérillon, on orders from Olivier Mazerolle, the new France 2 news director.

The newscasts Pujadas presents are repeated in Canada on TV5 Monde weeknights at 6:30 North American Eastern Time,[3] and in Australia on SBS at 9:20 weekday mornings.

In Metropolitan France, the audience for France 2's flagship evening newscast, at 20%, is less than the 26% audience share garnered by Laurence Ferrari's TF1 evening newscast

David Pujadas has gone to the middle East for interviews of the Iranian and Syrian Presidents.

Graduate of the University of Aix-Marseille and the Institut d'études politiques (IEP), David Pujadas entered Paris's Centre for Journalist Training (CFJ) in 1988.