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Gido Kokars (16 August 1921 – 10 March 2017) was a Latvian conductor. He was the twin brother of Imants Kokars, who was also a renowned conductor. He was born in Gulbene, Latvia. His career began in 1951.

Career
In 1951, he graduated from a music school in Cesis. In 1956, he conducted at the Latvian Conservatory choir conducting class. During the period from 1951 to 1958, he was the Riga Pedagogical Institute music teacher. He conducted at the Institute of the mixed choir "Daina". Later, Kokars conducted Riga radiorūpnīca (RRR) men's choir "Auseklis" folk choir "Daile", Bauska District Teachers Choir "Daina", chamber choir "Ave Sol" (was it an artist and director). Several Latvian Song and Dance Festival conductor.

Death
Kokars died on 10 March 2017 in Riga, Latvia, aged 95.

References

1921 births
2017 deaths
Latvian writers
Twin people
Latvian educators
Latvian conductors
András Kovács (20 June 1925 – 11 March 2017) was a Hungarian movie director and screenwriter. He directed 30 movies between 1961 and 1996.

Career
His 1968 movie The Lost Generation was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1978 movie A ménesgazda was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.

His 1981 movie Temporary Paradise won the Silver Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1985 movie The Red Countess was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.

Kovács was also a member of the jury at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival in 1967 and the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

Death
Kovács died in Budapest, Hungary on 11 March 2017, aged 91.

References

Other websites

1925 births
2017 deaths
Hungarian movie directors
Hungarian screenwriters
Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017, Ojibwe) was a Canadian author and journalist. He was best known for his 2012 novel Indian Horse, which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013 and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads.

Wagamese died on march 10, 2017 at the age of either 61 or 62 in Kamloops, British Columbia.

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1955 births
2017 deaths
Canadian novelists
Canadian journalists
Canadian poets
Writers from British Columbia
Aníbal Ruiz Leites (30 December 1942 – 10 March 2017) was an Uruguayan association football coach.

Career
His last club charging was Universidad San Martín in Peru. His best coaching highlights were included winning the Supercopa Sudamericana with Olimpia Asunción in 1991 and leading the Paraguayan national football team to the 2006 World Cup. 

He was well known for his defensive and ordered style of coaching that led him to the South American Coach of the Year award in 2005. He is commonly known by his nickname, Maño.

Death
On March 10, 2017, while serving as assistant manager to lead manager José Cardozo at Puebla, Ruiz collapsed on the pitch of the Luis "Pirata" Fuente Stadium in Veracruz while the team was warming up. Ruiz later died as a result of a heart attack on the way to a local hospital.

References

Other websites
Profile on the FIFA World Cup web site 

1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Uruguayan footballers
Uruguayan football managers
Tommy John is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. His 288 career victories rank as the seventh highest total among left-handed pitchers in Major League histor.

1943 births
American baseball players
Cleveland Indians players
New York Yankees players
Chicago White Sox players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Oakland Athletics players
Anthony "Tony" Haygarth (4 February 1945 – 10 March 2017) was an English television, movie and theatre actor. He was known for his roles in Chicken Run and Fakers. In 2008, he played Alfred Doolittle in the Old Vic's Production of Pygmalion. In November 2008 he joined the cast of Emmerdale as Mick Naylor. 

Haygarth died from Alzheimer's disease on 10 March 2017 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, aged 72.

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1945 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
English movie actors
English television actors
English voice actors
Actors from Liverpool
John Henry George Forgham (14 May 1941 – 10 March 2017) was an English actor. He was best known for playing businessman Frank Laslett in the ITV series Footballers' Wives. He was also known for his movie role as Frank in The Italian Job. 

Forgeham died from internal bleeding and suffered from a broken collarbone after falling at his home in Worthing, East Sussex on 10 March 2017, aged 75.

References

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1941 births
2017 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
English movie actors
English television actors
Actors from Worcestershire
Chippis is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website 
 

Municipalities in Sierre
Grimentz is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Grimentz, Ayer, Chandolin, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Villages in Valais
Former municipalities of Valais
Grône is a municipality in the district Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities in Sierre
Icogne is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities in Sierre
[[File:The emblem of the Music School Kosta Manojlovic, Zemun.jpg|thumb|The emblem of the school.]]

The Music School Kosta Manojlovic is one of the largest schools in Serbia. It is located at 9 Nemanjina street in Zemun.
All music and ballet schools of Serbia , Retrieved 12 March 2017 Students and professors of this school have achieved outstanding successes at many competitions in Serbia and abroad. These places the school at the very top of the music education in Serbia.

 History 
The school started its work on 1 September 1939, as a separate department of the Music School “Stanković” in Belgrade, in a three-room apartment in Svetosavska Street. In 1949 the school received the status of a regular six-year, gratuitous schools, and since 1954 bears the name of Kosta Manojlović., the famous Serbian composer, musicologist, founder and first rector of the Faculty of Music  in Belgrade.

The School Day is celebrated on December 4. It is the day of birth of Kosta Manojlovic''.
Education 
1. Pre-school education (which includes musical nursery, musical kindergarten and the preparatory preschool program)
2. Elementary music education (six years for the piano, the violin, the cello, the guitar, the accordion and the flute; four years for the clarinet, the oboe, the saxophone, the trumpet, the horn, the trombone and the double bass; two years for solo singing)
3. Secondary music education (two courses: vocal-instrumental and music production with sound processing)
Teaching classes are organized in three separate locations – the main (parent) school, in the class for visually impaired children “Veljko Ramadanović” and elementary school “Lazar Savatić”. With around a thousand students and 145 teachers and non-teaching staff, the school is one of the largest in Serbia. Today, there are seven courses established in the school: the piano, string instruments, wind instruments, solo singing, the accordion, the guitar and a course for music production and audio recording. Around 3,000 students have completed elementary education and around 650 students secondary education so far.

Related pages 
 Audio engineer

References

Other websites
Other websites  

  The official website of the Music School Kosta Manojlovic, Zemun, Retrieved 12 March 2017 
 Music school Kosta Manojlovic, Zemun – School for tallented children, Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Gala Concert of Music School "Kosta Manojlovic", Retrieved 12 March 2017
 List of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia , Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Music School Kosta Manojlović: Concerts   played at School Day , Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Woodwind and Brass Instruments concert, Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Orchestra of the secondary Music School “Kosta Manojlovic” in Zemun (Serbia) , Retrieved 12 March 2017

Music schools
Buildings and structures in Serbia
Sirinai Mandar is a book of short stories written by Nilkamal Brahma. 
There are 10 stories in the book. All the stories are written in Bodo language. It was first published in 1985.

References

1985 books
Short story collections
Artificial leather is a substance used as a replacement for real leather. It is used where the properties or the look of real leather are desired, but real leather is too expensive, unsuitable, or not feasible for ethical reasons. Compared with real leather, artificial leathers are much cheaper to produce. Water resistance is another advantage of many artificial leathers. They are often used for upholstery and fashion and other purposes.

What it is made of 

Usually, there are two components: A kind of textile, and some kind of plastic (such as PVC).  Real leather is produced from the skin of animals.
Problems 
Artificial leather might look like it is better for the environment, since no animals need to be killed to make it. The problem with artificial leather is different: When the item of clothing is no longer used, it is thrown away.  Many plastics take a long time to decay. That way, the plastic part may get into the sea, where animals such as birds and fish eat it. The chemicals used to make artificial leather are toxic, and can lead to pollution.

References 

Synthetic materials
Catharina Anna Petronella Antonia (Kitty) Courbois (13 July 1937 – 11 March 2017) was a Dutch actress. In 2010 she was awarded the Medal of Merit. She was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Courbois died on 11 March 2017 in Amsterdam from a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 79.

Movies
 A Gangstergirl (1966)
 Mariken van Nieumeghen (1974)
 Vrijdag (1980)
 Leedvermaak (1988)
 Seventh Heaven (1993)
 Belle van Zuylen – Madame de Charrière (1993)
 Last Call (1995)
 Scratches in the Table (1998)
 De Held (2016)

References

Other websites

1937 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Dutch movie actors
Dutch television actors
People from Nijmegen
Murray Hone Ball ONZM (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist. He became known for his Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero (the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine), Bruce the Barbarian, All the King's Comrades (also in Punch) and the long-running Footrot Flats comic series. 

In 2002 Ball became an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist.

Ball was born in Feilding, New Zealand. He studied at Parktown Boys' High School. Ball died on 12 March 2017 in Gisborne, New Zealand from complications of dementia, aged 78.

References

Other websites
 Murray Ball: The man behind Footrot Flats  biography
Footrot Flats by Murray Ball, a Facebook fan-site with a huge photographic catelogue of many Footrot Flats or Murray Ball items / merchandise

1939 births
2017 deaths
Cartoonists
Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Disease-related deaths in New Zealand
Deaths from dementia
People from North Island
Shifa Gardi (Kurdish:Şîfa Gerdî, Arabic:شفاء كردي)(July 1, 1986 - February 25, 2017) also known as Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, was a Kurdish journalist for the Kurdish Rudaw Media Network in Iraq.  She died in a roadside bomb explosion while reporting on the Iraqi advance into Mosul. When she died, Gardi was speaking to Shiite commander Hashd al-Shaabi beside a huge hole where ISIS militants dumped the bodies of people they killed.  Al-Shaabi's feet caught in a wire, which made the bomb explode.   Gardi, commander al-Shaabi, and four fighters were killed. Gardi's cameraman Younis Mustafa and seven fighters were wounded.
Ranja Jamal, a Rudaw journalist who is embedded with the Iraqi army was with Gardi when she died.  He said she was looking for the deep hole called "Mosul’s Valley of Death", or Al Khafsa, where ISIS threw hundreds of people. The hole is in a valley south of the Mosul near a village called Al Athba. According to the Islamic State's doctrine, Muslims who oppose the group or fighters who leave the group cannot be buried in Muslim cemeteries.  Al Athba is 20 kilometers south of Mosul and five kilometers from the main Baghdad-Mosul road. Gardi had information about the valley but she was not able to find it. On her way back, she met a Popular Mobilization Forces or Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi group, and they took her to the place.

Life
Life 

Gardi was born a refugee in 1986 in the town of Urmia Zêwe, Iran. In 2006, she graduated from Computer Technical Institute.  In 2013, she graduated from the media department at Salahaddin University. In 2006, she started her career in media and worked as a teacher. From 2007 to 2010 she worked as a journalist. Gerdi was with the Rûdaw Media Group from its beginning.  At the beginning of the Mosul offensive she started a program titled “Focus Mosul”. Gerdi followed the events of the war by going to the front as a war correspondent.  Gerdi once brought a rabbit back to her office, because it was malnourished.
The President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, sent his condolences.  Mesud Tek, the General Secretary Socialist Party of Kurdistan in Turkey also sent condolences. Marie-Claude Bibeau, the Canadian Minister for international development, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk, and Falah Mustafa, head of Department of Foreign Relations of Kurdistan Regional Government all expressed their condolences.

Other websites 
 List of news articles written by Gerdi from Rojname Kurdish News.

References  

Kurdish writers
Iranian journalists
1986 births
2017 deaths
Rádio BandNews FM is a Brazilian all news radio network. It first started in 20 March 2005. It is owned by Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação.

The network started broadcasting at exactly midnight in 20 March 2005, after at 23:59, Rádio Cidade said goodbye to its listeners after 25 years and played the last top 3 songs. The first on-air journalist was Carlos Nascimento.

Currently, it serves ten cities: Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Vitoria, Joao Pessoa and Salvador. The first 4 cities carry the network's de facto flagship stations.

Campinas and Ribeirao Preto (in 106.7 FM and 96.7 FM) stopped carrying BandNews FM programming in 2014. They are now branded as Band FM.
BandNews FM is well known for its slogan Em 20 minutos, tudo pode mudar (In 20 minutes, everything can happen), which refers to how the news is updated every 20 minutes. This format (that allows listeners to tune in at any time of the day to get the leading stories of the moment) is inspired by 1010 WINS, America's most well-known news station.

From 6:00 to 23:00, on these news blocks, 6 minutes of them being given to each individual affiliate for providing local stories, read by a local announcer. Normally there's a local-only news programme from 9:00 to 11:00. Overnights feature live national announcers, broadcast by all affiliates.

The network also broadcasts selected Brazilian football matches, alongside Bandeirantes and CBN, two likewise-formatted radio networks.
Frequencies 
 96.9 MHz (São Paulo)
 90.3 MHz (Rio de Janeiro)
 89.5 MHz (Belo Horizonte)
 90.5 MHz (Brasília)
 96.3 MHz (Curitiba)
 99.1 MHz (Salvador)
 99.3 MHz (Porto Alegre)
 101.7 MHz (Fortaleza)
 103.3 MHz (João Pessoa)
 90.1 MHz (Vitória)

Brazilian culture
Radio
2005 establishments in South America
2000s establishments in Brazil
Expelliarmus is a defense spell used in the Harry Potter book and film series. It is used to disarm your opponent and is a rather simple spell to use. Harry Potter uses it when dueling Lord Voldemort in The Goblet Fire.

Harry Potter
Stephen Nicol (born 11 December 1961) is a Scottish former footballer. He played as a full-back. He played for Ayr United, Liverpool, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers and the Scotland national team. He was best known for his time at Liverpool. He won many honours with the Reds, including five league titles and a European Cup (1984). He now works for ESPN.

Nicol was born in Troon, South Ayrshire. He is married to Eleanor and has two children.

References

Other websites
 Steve Nicol at LiverpoolFC.com

1961 births
Living people
Association football defenders
Association football full-backs
Liverpool F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Scottish footballers
South Ayrshire
Rádio Trânsito (currently known as Rádio Trânsito Caçula de Pneus) is a radio station in São Paulo, broadcasting in 92.1 FM since 12/2/2007, specializing in providing traffic and transit news of the capital and metropolitan region to its listeners.

The program of the station consists of live traffic information throughout São Paulo metropolitan area with information on alternative routes and where to avoid, as well as music between 22:00 and 6:00 (sometimes more on holidays and weekends). The listeners can collaborate with information on the transit through SMS, social networks and through a portal of voice over the telephone. The radio also has a partnership with the traffic app Waze.

Name changes 
 12/2/2007-30/6/2016: Rádio SulAmérica Trânsito
 30/6/2016-?: Rádio Trânsito
 Since ?: Rádio Trânsito Caçula de Pneus

Radio stations
Chilcote is a village and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. Until 1897 it was in Derbyshire. The parish had a population of 108 according to the 2001 census.

Villages in Leicestershire
BandNews TV is the first Brazilian 24-hour rolling news channel, owned by Grupo Bandeirantes. Its headquarters and newsroom are located in Sao Paulo. It was the second news channel launched in the Brazilian cable/satellite market.

BandNews TV is popular with people who may not have time to watch, or wait for, lengthy news reports. The channel broadcasts live and updated 15-minute news wheels throughout most hours of the day. In these reports there are 12 minutes of news and 3 minutes for other news-based segments, such as sports, fashion and cinema. It also broadcasts Jornal da Band Monday-Saturday nights at 8:30, right after the original broadcast on Band. BandNews is the third most watched Brazilian news channel and it was also the first Brazilian HD news network.
Presenters 
 Adriane Galisteu (Face a Face)
 Caroline Nogueira
 Débora Alfano
 Eduardo Barão (BandNews no Meio do Dia)
 Fabiana Panachão
 Fernando Moreira
 Isabela Tacaki
 Luiza Zanchetta
 Marcelo Favalli
 Nelson Gomes
 Paula Valdez
 Rafael Colombo (Jornal BandNews: 1ª Edição)
 Roberta Russo
 Vanessa Cochi
 Antonio Lavareda
 José Simão
 Marina Machado
 Mônica Bergamo
 Paloma Tocci (Jornal da Band)
 Ricardo Boechat (Jornal da Band)
 Salomão Schvartzman
 Sérgio Waib

Type of newscasts 
Since the channel's launch, every single newscast is aired directly from the newsroom, which has a circle table for anchors to speak to the camera.

Programming

Live news bulletins 
 BandNews no Meio do Dia
 Jornal BandNews: 1ª Edição
 Jornal BandNews: 2ª Edição
 Manhã BandNews
 Madrugada BandNews
 Tarde BandNews
 Expresso BandNews
 Fim de Semana BandNews
 Jornal BandNews: Edição da Noite
Magazines (can be recorded) 
 Jornal da Band
 Jornal da Noite
 Canal Livre
 Jornal Terraviva
 Conexão com The New York Times
 Face a Face
 Giro Business
 Salomão Dois Pontos
 Ponto a Ponto
 Feiras $ Negocios
 Capital Natural

News tickers 
 2011-2016: It was divided in 3 blocks: First is a small, long, oval, dark blue bar, which shows the news headlines; Second is a white bar, shows running news headlines; Third is (from left to right): Ibovespa updates, today's date, BandNews logo, the current time, Dollar updates.
 2016-?: The ticker is smaller. It has a small red box and a large blue box connecting to each other for news headlines the anchor speaks. Stick with them is a small white bar, providing short news. The time and date can now be seen at the upper left of the screen, and the logo is on upper right.

Television channels in South America
Direct reduced iron is created when iron ore is burned in a bloomery. Direct reduced iron is also called sponge iron. Direct reduction is removing the oxygen from the ore. Gas and Coal are both used to burn iron. Using Direct Reduction to costs less than using blast furnaces. Direct Reduction is used more than blast furnaces. The country that makes the most Direct reduced iron is India.

Problems 
Direct reduced iron gets rust very easily. Direct reduced iron can light on fire easily. Direct reduced iron contains waste, which has to be removed before it can be turned into steel. Only a small amount of Direct reduced iron can be made at a time.

History 
Ancient Egyptians used direct reduced iron because it was easier to work with. Direct reduced iron can be made at a lower temperature.

Uses 
Direct reduced iron is not useful on its own. Before it is used, Direct reduced iron is beaten with hammers and folded many times to make Wrought Iron. The Wrought Iron is burned to make steel.
Iron
"After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704).

Other websites
Text of the poem

18th-century British poems
1790s works
Kleve (Low Rhenish: Kleef or Cleves in English) is the capital of the Kleve Rural District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It had about 52,000 people in 2021.

It was also the capital of the Duchy of Cleves (disestablished in 1795).

Kleve lies on the south bank of the Rhine river and borders the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

Partly on Kleve territory lies the Klever Reichswald, an ancient forest dating from the Middle Ages.

Related pages 
 Bimmen, a hamlet of Kleve

Other websites 
  

Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Kleve (district)
United Torah Judaism (Hebrew  Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet, : יהדות התורה המאוחדת)  (shortened UTJ) is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is conservative, and Ashkenazic Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox).

Political leaders are Ya'akov Litzman (Agudat Yisrael) and Moshe Gafni (Degel HaTorah).

Yahadut HaTorah was founded in 1992. It is an alliance of two parties: Agudat Yisrael (meaning Union of Israel, belonging to the Hasidism movement) and Degel HaTorah (meaning Banner of the Torah, belonging to the Misnagdim movement).

Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 7 (/).

Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government and the Netanyahu-Gantz Government.

Other websites 
 Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet on the Knesset Website

1992 establishments in Israel
Judaism in Israel
Political parties in Israel
A sports bra is a bra that is used to support female breasts when doing exercise. They are sturdier than typical bras. They keep the breasts from moving as much.

Other websites

Sports clothing
Swimwear
The RMS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian ocean liner. It sank in the Saint Lawrence River after an accident with the Norwegian ship SS Storstad on 29 May 1914. Of the 1,477 people on the Empress, 1,012 died.

The ship was launched in 1906. It had just begun its 96th voyage when it sank.

The Empress of Ireland left Quebec City for Liverpool at 4:30 pm local time.

The wreck of the Empress of Ireland lies in 130 feet of water. This makes it easy to access for most divers. Many artifacts from the wreck have been retrieved.

References

1914
May events
Ships of Canada
École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole is a renowned graduate agricultural school in France. It is in a campus of the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (Southern France).
It trains teacher in Agronomy. ENSFEA also offers bachelor's degree, Master’s and PhDs.

History 

École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole was founded as École nationale de formation agronomique in 1963. The new name has been implemented in 2016.

Research labs 
Research activities at ENSFEA relate to the following topics:
 Rural Dynamics Laboratory
 Biological Evolution and Diversity Research Laboratory
 Economics, Policies and social systems Laboratory
 Education Sciences Laboratory

References

Further reading 

 Official website

Technical colleges and universities in Toulouse
1963 establishments in Europe
1960s establishments in France
"Chained to the Rhythm" is a 2017 disco and dancehall song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. Skip Marley, the grandson of Jamaican singer Bob Marley, raps in the song. It is taken from Perry's fifth studio album, Witness, and is the ninth track on the album. It is about partying and being aware of things in society.

The song hit #1 in Mexico and Hungary. It also hit the top five in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. In the United States, the song entered at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. On April 27, 2017, the song was certified platinum in the United States for sales and streams equal to one million copies.

Production and composition
For her fifth studio album, Perry said she wanted to make purposeful pop music. She had gotten depressed when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016 and was not in the mood to "write a club banger."
Music video 
The video for the song is set in a carnival-type land called Oblivia and shows Perry riding amusement park rides.  It was released on February 21, 2017.

References

Katy Perry songs
2017 songs
Horst Paul August Ehmke (4 February 1927 – 12 March 2017) was a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Federal Minister of Justice (1969), Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs (1969–1972) and Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Post (1972–1974).

Ehmke died on 12 March 2017 in Bonn at the age of 90.

References

Other websites

 Interview about the play Democracy 2005, on Broadway about Willy Brandt

1927 births
2017 deaths
German academics
German lawyers
Government ministers of Germany
People from former German territories
People from Gdańsk
Politicians of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Sir Probyn Ellsworth Inniss MBE (18 November 1936 – 12 March 2017) was the Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1975 to 1980. Following the separation of Anguilla, he served as the Governor of Saint Christopher and Nevis from 1980 to 1981.

References

1936 births
2017 deaths
Saint Kitts and Nevis politicians
Governors
Adib Boroumand (or Adīb Borūmand) (; 11 June 1924 – 13 March 2017) was an Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer. He was the head of the leadership council and chairman of central council of the National Front of Iran. He is known as the national poet of Iran.

He was born on 11 June 1924 in Gaz, Borkhar County, Isfahan, Persia (present-day Iran). He received a B.A. in Judicial Law from the University of Tehran, and since then he had been lived in Tehran.

Boroumand died on 13 March 2017 in Tehran at the age of 92.

References

1924 births
2017 deaths
Politicians from Isfahan
Iranian poets
Iranian lawyers
Writers from Isfahan
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (April 29, 1965 – March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short filmmaker, and former radio show host.

Early life
Rosenthal was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated at Tufts University. She married Jason Brian Rosenthal. They had three children.

Career
She was best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the movie project The Beckoning of Lovely. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017.

She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ and to the TED conference.

Death
Rosenthal died in Chicago, Illinois from ovarian cancer on March 13, 2017, aged 51.

References

Other websites
Other websites
 

1965 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from ovarian cancer
Cancer deaths in Chicago
American children's writers
American novelists
Writers from Chicago
Movie directors from Chicago
Kasugafuji Akihiro (February 20, 1966 – March 9, 2017) born as Shoki Iwanaga, was a sumo wrestler and coach. He was born in Oshika, Miyagi, Japan.

Akihiro was an active wrestler in professional sumo from 1981 until 1996, reaching a highest rank of maegashira 1. After his retirement he re-established the Kasugayama stable in 1997 and trained his own wrestlers. He left the Japan Sumo Association in 2012 after an expenses scandal, and was involved with a legal dispute in 2013 with his successor as head of Kasugayama stable which was not resolved until shortly before his death in 2017. 

Akihiro died in Oshika, Japan from suspected heart failure on March 9, 2017, aged 51.

References

1966 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Anna Tramontano (14 July 1957, Naples – March 2017) was an Italian computational biologist and Chair Professor of Biochemistry at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 2011 to 2014 she was a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC). 

She was an Associate Editor for the journal Bioinformatics from 2005 until 2016 editing papers in the area of structural bioinformatics.

Tramontano died in March 2017 in Rome, Italy at the age of 59. Her death was announced on 10 March 2017.

References

Other websites
 

1957 births
2017 deaths
Italian biologists
Italian educators
People from Naples
Ed Whitlock (March 6, 1931 – March 13, 2017) was an English-born Canadian long-distance runner. He is the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003.

Early life
Whitlock was born in a suburb of London, England, and later moved to Canada. He wanted to study for an engineering career. He graduated from Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, England.

Running  career
Whitlock, who ran as a teenager and took up the sport again in his forties, first became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than 3 hours in 2000, at the age of 69, with a time of 2:52:47.
He later extended this record, running a time of 2:58:40 at the age of 74. At 73, he set a world record in the marathon for men 70 to 74, running a 2:54:48, when he was 73, and his fastest time after turning 70. According to an article in The New York Times, if age-graded, this time would be equivalent to a 20-year-old running 2:03:57 and which would have been the fastest marathon ever run in 2010. For an explanation of age-graded tables, see masters athletics. At the time of his death, Whitlock he was still the only person over 70 to run a marathon in less than three hours.

Record
At age 85, he became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than four hours at 3 hours, 56 minutes 34 seconds at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October, 2016.

Death
Whitlock died of prostate cancer on March 13, 2017 in Milton, Ontario, aged 86.

References
References

Other websites
 , "Michael McGowan" (film director), 2001 The prime of the ancient marathoner
 Mike Tymn,Running Times, April 2004, Age Group Ace
 RunnersWeb, September 27, 2004, Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon
  , "Amby Burfoot", 2005, Runners World interview
 , "Marc Bloom", New York Times, February 2005, At73, Marathoner runs as if he has stopped the clock
  , "Lawrence Hill", Walrus magazine, April 2005, Marathon man

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Long-distance runners
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"Titanium" is a song performed by French DJ David Guetta.  It features vocals from Australian singer Sia.  The song reached number one in the UK, the top five in Canada, and the top ten in the US, where it was certified double-Platinum for sales and shipments of over two million copies.  It finished at number 24 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 of 2012.  It is the first song on Guetta's album, Nothing but the Beat.

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Jacques Bermon Webster Jr (born April 30, 1991), known by his professional name Travis Scott, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. His stage name comes from the first name of his uncle and the real first name of Kid Cudi.

In 2012, Scott signed his first major-label deal with Epic Records. In November of the same year, Scott signed a deal with Kanye West's GOOD Music, as part of its production wing Very GOOD Beats. In April 2013, Scott signed a record deal with T.I.'s Grand Hustle imprint. Scott's first full-length project, the mixtape Owl Pharaoh, was self-released in 2013. It was followed with a second mixtape, Days Before Rodeo, in August 2014. His first studio album, Rodeo (2015), was led by the hit single "Antidote". His second album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016), became his first number one album on the Billboard 200. The following year, Scott released a collaborative album with Quavo titled Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho, under the group name Huncho Jack.
In 2018, his highly anticipated Astroworld was released to widespread sucess by critics. It produced his first Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Sicko Mode". In late 2019, Scott's record label Cactus Jack Records released the compilation album JackBoys. It became the first number one album on the Billboard 200 of the 2020s. As of 2020, Scott has sold over 45 million certified records in the US alone. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won a Billboard Music Award.

On November 5, 2021, he took part in the Astroworld Festival crowd crush where 8 people were killed during his performance.

Discography

Studio albums
 Rodeo (2015)
 Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016)
 Astroworld (2018)
 Utopia (2023)

Collaborative albums
 Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho  (2017)
 JackBoys  (2019)

Mixtapes
 Owl Pharaoh (2013)
 Days Before Rodeo (2014)

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21st-century American rappers
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Rappers from Texas
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American hip hop record producers
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Yisrael Beiteinu, Hebrew: ישראל ביתנו , meaning Israel Our Home, is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is right-wing conservative, nationalist, populist, secular, and Zionist. Its focus is especially Jews originating from the former Soviet Union.

Political leader is Avigdor Lieberman.

Yisrael Beiteinu was founded by Lieberman in 1999. 

Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 7 (/).

Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government and the Bennett-Lapid Government.

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The Eisenkammer Pirna was a place in Germany where iron was refined. It existed from 1472 to 1686.
Iron
El Cerro Mutún is a place where iron is mined in Bolivia. It contains about 40 billion tons of iron ore. This is about 5% of the world’s iron ore.

Iron
The PlayStation Eye is a camera created by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The PlayStation Move uses the Playstation Eye to track movements.

PlayStation
Video game technology
Meretz, Hebrew: מרצ , meaning Vigour, is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is left-wing social democratic, green, secular, and Zionist. 

Political leader is Nitzan Horowitz

Meretz was founded in 1992 as a result of a merger of three parties: Ratz, Mapam and Shinui.

From the previous election results, in March 2020, the number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 3 (/). In the most recent election, held on 23 March 2021 for the 24th Knesset, the party obtained six seats, pending the final count outcome of surplus vote sharing with the Labor party.

Participating in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

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The Civil Marriage Act (full title: "An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes") was legislation legalizing same-sex marriage across Canada. At the time the bill became law, same-sex marriage had already been legalized by court decisions in all Canadian provinces except Alberta and Prince Edward Island, as well as in the territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

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Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin; 29 October 1934 in Giessen, Germany – 13 March 2017 in Berleburg) was the head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

In July 2003, he underwent surgery for treatment of prostate cancer. He had undergone treatment for skin cancer.

Prince Richard died on the evening of March 13th, 2017 at castle of Berleburg in Germany from a suspected heart attack. Prince Richard's death was sudden.  He was 82.

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Eligio “Kika” de la Garza, II (September 22, 1927March 13, 2017) was an American politician. He served as the Democratic representative for the 15th congressional district of Texas from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1997. 

De la Garza died on March 13, 2017 in McAllen, Texas from kidney failure, aged 89.

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Chokecherries (Prunus virginiana), also known as the bitter-berry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry, are shrubs or small trees that are native to The United States, Canada, and some parts of Mexico. They grow to be around 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in).

Description 
Chokecherry classifies as a suckering shrub or a tree. They grow quite tall, around 1 – 6 meters.

Their leaves are oval with coarse, sharp edges. The flowers grow about 38.1–76.2 cm (15–30 in) long in late spring (well after chokecherry leaves appear).

The fruits are about 1 cm (3⁄8 in) across.  They range in color from bright red to black.  They have a very astringent taste, both somewhat sour and somewhat bitter. The fruits are sweetest when they are very ripe "berries" (actually drupes). These are dark in color.
Characteristics 
Chokecherries are very high in antioxidants, sharing this trait with chokeberries. This does contribute to confusion between the two. The wild chokeberry is often considered a weed, since it hosts the tent caterpillar. This caterpillar eats tree leaves, robbing trees of energy and heightening the chance that they die. Often people enjoy the cultivars of the plant,  such as "Canada Red" and "Schubert". Both have purple leaves when mature and "Goertz", another cultivar, has a palatable taste in it's fruit. The chokecherry is closely related to the well-known black cherry of eastern North America. The name chokecherry is also used for the related Manchurian cherry, or Amur chokeberry.
Food use 
For many Native American tribes, chokecherries are very important and are part of pemmican, an Indian staple food. The bark of the root is used to ward off or treat colds, fevers and stomach maladies by Indians. It's also used in a ceremonial smoking mix known as kinnikinnick. The chokecherry fruit can be eaten when fully ripe, but if not, the fruit contains a toxin. It can also be used to make jam or syrup, with the use of sugar. The Plains Indians pound up the whole fruit in a mortar, from which they make cakes.

The stone of the fruit is poisonous. Chokecherry is toxic to most animals with segmented stomachs, especially after the leaves have wilted. This action produces cyanide, which is very toxic to most living things. It also makes the plant sweet, making farmer's lives harder by keeping their cows away from it. However, birds and game animals eat the berries when they're ripe. It's also used to craft wine in the Western United States.
Ecology 
The plant hosts many types of moths and butterflies.

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Symsyn is a simple syntax programming language and real time multitasking runtime environment.

History
Named for its SIMple SYNtax, Symsyn is based on Free Pascal, which is based on Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth and named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

Language
Symsyn has a simple syntax and short learning curve.  It provides access to functionality found in more sophisticated languages, such as the free version of the Pascal programming language, Free Pascal.  The language's primitives, or basics, are Pascal procedures which, in some cases, access the Free Pascal Run Time Library.
These primitives provide the normal testing, arithmetic, move, and string handling capabilities as well as the following additions:
 Inter program synchronization and data passing.
 Bit manipulation, or changing.
 DES encryption instructions.
 Re assignable instruction opcodes, or lower level codes to inhibit reverse engineering, or determination of source code from compiled code.

It is extensible, in that it can be extended.  Algorithms can be added to the collection of primitives. Many programs can be written in SymSyn. Like most programming languages, SymSyn can say hello to the world.

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Jack Henry Harris (November 28, 1918 – March 14, 2017) was an American movie producer. He produced many blockbuster Hollywood movies including The Blob (1958), 4D Man (1959), and Equinox (1970).

Harris died March 14, 2017, at his home in Beverly Hills, California from complications of pneumonia, aged 98.

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Peter Manfred Gruber (28 August 1941 – 7 March 2017) was an Austrian mathematician. He worked in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry. He was born in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Career
From 1971, he was Professor at the University of Linz, and from 1976, at the TU Wien. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Death
Gruber died on 7 March 2017 in Vienna, Austria, aged 75.

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Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is a commune in southwestern France, part of the department of Haute-Garonne in the Occitanie region.

History
In 72 B.C. the Roman General Pompey, while on the way back to Rome after a military campaign in Spain, founded a Roman colony there named Lugdunum Convenarum.

In 1083, the knight Bertrand de l'Isle-Jourdain was named as Bishop of Comminges. He ordered the construction of the cathedral and of the Romanesque cloister. The place became used by pilgrims as a stage on the route to Santiago de Compostela.

Bertrand de l'Isle was canonised and became known as Saint-Bertrand in the 13th century and Lugdunum Convenarum became known as Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges.

Geography
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is on the foothills of the Pyrenees in the Comminges region at  to the southwest of Saint-Gaudens. It is on the border with the Hautes-Pyrénées department.

The commune has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is the southwestern end of Haute-Garonne department and borders 8 other communes, six of them in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.

The Garonne river flows through the northeastern border of the commune; several of its tributaries, all small streams, flow through the commune.

Climate
The climate of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges are known, in French, as Commingeois (women: Commingeoises).

Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges has a population, in 2014, of 243, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

Administration 
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is part of the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens, the Bagnères-de-Luchon canton and of the intercommunality Les Pyrénées Haut-Garonnaises ().
People born at or related to Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
 Bertrand de Comminges (~ 1050–1123), Bishop of Comminges that rebuilt the cathedral; the commune is named after him.
 Bertrand de Got (~ 1264–1314) was bishop of Comminges and later pope with the name of Clement V.
 Pierre de Foix (1386–1464), bishop of Comminges that built the tomb of Saint Bertrand.
 François Bayle (1622-1709), born in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, physician, botanist, professor of Medicine at the old University of Toulouse.
 Nérée Boubée (1806–1862), entomologist, geologist, co-founder of a museum of the Pyrenees in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges together with Victor Cazes.

Events
 Festival international de musique du Comminges (pipe organ and religious music).
Journée de la littérature jeunesse et de l'écrit de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges.
Sites of interest
Some important buildings and places are:
 Ruins of the old city of Lugdunum Convenarum.
 The Notre-Dame of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges cathedral.
 The early Christianity basilica, in the lower town.
 The old Convent of the Olivetans; now the tourism office is here.
 Maison Bridaut; here is the post office.

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 Comminges
 Arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens
 Communes of the Haute-Garonne department

References

Other websites

 Mairie de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges website 
 Website of the cathedral 

Communes in Haute-Garonne
Lens is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Villages
Crans-sur-Sierre, Flanthey, Chelin, Vaas, Les Condémines, Saint-Clément and Valençon.

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Wrexham () is the largest city in north Wales. It is an administrative, commercial, retail and educational centre. 

Wrexham is between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley along the border with England. Historically part of Denbighshire, the then town became part of Clwyd in 1974. Since 1996 it has been the centre of the Wrexham County Borough.

At the 2011 Census, Wrexham had a population of 61,603, the fourth largest urban area in Wales. It became a city in September 2022.

The city has a professional football club, Wrexham AFC, who currently compete in the English football league system. The club gained major international publicity when it was purchased in 2021 by American actor Rob McElhenney and Canadian–American actor Ryan Reynolds. The pair's ownership of the team is the subject of the documentary TV programme Welcome to Wrexham.

It has two train stations, these are Wrexham General and Wrexham Central.

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Ferrosilicon is a combination of iron and silicon. Between 15% and 90% of ferrosilicon is silicon. Ferrosilicon is made by burning sand while there’s iron in the sand. Ferrosilicons that contain the most silicon are made in electric arc furnaces.

Perryite is a rock that is a combination of iron and silicon.

When ferrosilicon is touching water, it may slowly make hydrogen. Ferrosilicon is used by the military to quickly produce hydrogen for balloons. The chemical reaction uses sodium hydroxide, ferrosilicon, and water. The generator is small enough to fit in a truck and needs only a small amount of electric power. The materials are stable and not combustible, and they do not make hydrogen until mixed.

Ferrosilicon is used to get oxygen out of steel. Magnesium is made by combining ferrosilicon with dolomite.

Hydrogen production 
Ferrosilicon is used to make hydrogen in the military.

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