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Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1975) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for playing Door in the series Neverwhere, Kate in the movie A Knight's Tale, Cat MacKenzie in the drama series Lip Service and Lydia Rodarte-Quayle in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul.

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1975 births
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Scottish movie actors
Scottish television actors
Scottish voice actors
Actors from Glasgow
Tor Erling Staff (22 February 1933 – 22 July 2018) was a Norwegian lawyer. Staff was born in Oslo. Staff started working for barrister Olaf Trampe Kindt. From 1967, he worked as a barrister in Oslo and at the Supreme Court.

Staff died in Oslo on 22 July 2018 at the age of 85.

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2018 deaths
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Roh Hoe-chan (, 31 August 1956 – 23 July 2018) was a South Korean politician. He was born in Busan. He was a member of the 17th, 19th, and 20th National Assembly from 2004 to 2008, 2012 to 2013 and again from 2016 until his death in 2018. A progressive, Roh was a member of the Justice Party from 2012 until his death.

Roh killed himself by jumping off his apartment on 23 July 2018 in Seoul at the age of 61.

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Jesse Lon Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights, Todd Alquist in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, and Ed Blumquist in the second season of the FX anthology series Fargo. He has also appeared in movies such as Like Mike (2002), Observe and Report (2009), Battleship (2012), The Master (2012), Black Mass (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017). In 2017, he starred in the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister".

Plemons was born in Dallas, Texas. He is engaged to actress Kirsten Dunst. They have a son.

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Point Pleasant is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 18,392.

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Boroughs in New Jersey
Ocean County, New Jersey
The 19th South Korean presidential election was held on 9 May 2017. The election was called after the impeachment and dismissal of President Park Geun-hye. The election was held in a single round on a first-past-the-post basis.

The election was originally scheduled to be held on 20 December 2017, but was moved earlier after the decision of the Constitutional Court on 10 March 2017 to uphold the parliament's impeachment of Park Geun-hye.

Opinion polling before April showed the Democratic Party's candidate, Moon Jae-in, runner-up in the 2012 election, as the front-runner and would later go on to win the election.

Candidates

Polling

Results

Notes

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Presidential elections
Hong Jun-pyo (born 5 December 1954), also spelled as Hong Joon-pyo, is a South Korean politician. He was the presidential nominee of the Liberty Korea Party in the 2017 South Korean presidential election. 

Hong is often seen similar to U.S. President Donald Trump and has been nicknamed "Hong Trump" due to his campaigning style. He was the Chairperson of the Liberty Korea Party from July 2017 to June 2018.

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1954 births
Living people
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Yoo Seong-min (유승민, born 7 January 1958), also known as Yoo Seung-min, is a South Korean economist and politician. Yoo is a member of the Korean National Assembly and was the Bareun Party's presidential nominee in the 2017 South Korean presidential election.

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Sim Sang-jung (born 20 February 1959) is a South Korean politician. She was one of the five major presidential candidates in the 2017 South Korean presidential election. She ran as the Justice Party's nominee.

She is a member of the 20th National Assembly and the leader of the Justice Party.

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Living people
South Korean politicians
Korean feminists
LGBT rights activists
The Litterbug is a 1961 animated short subject produced by Walt Disney Productions and featuring Donald Duck.
It was the last Donald Duck short produced.

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Animated movies
Short movies
Disney movies
Donald Duck
Salimatou Fatty (born 2 February 1994) is a Gambian educator and gender advocate. She is currently a Global Partnership for Education  Youth Advocate and a Youth ambassador for international organizations including A World at School. She also serves as CEO of a Girls Education Foundation.

Personal life 
Fatty was born in Kerewan village in the North Bank Division of the Gambia in 1994 to Aja Fatoumatta Jarra Ceesay and Alhajie Saikou Fatty. She is the seventh of her mother's nine children.  She attended Oustass Keita Dara, where she learned to practise her religion, Islam.

Awards 
Fatty received the “African Leadership Award” in 2016 for her work in girls' education. She was also included in the list of the 2017 100 most influential young Africans across the continent.

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Lalgudi taluk is a taluk of Tiruchirapalli district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Lalgudi.

Tiruchirapalli district
The British Transport Commission, later British Railways, used engine power output to categorise its new main line diesel locomotive fleet following the 1955 modernisation plan. These categories were from Type 1 to Type 5 and are listed below.

Type 1
Up to 1,000 bhp
Class 14
Class 15
Class 16
Class 17
Class 20

Type 2
From 1,001 bhp to 1,499 bhp
Class 21
Class 22
Class 23
Class 24
Class 25
Class 26
Class 27
Class 28
Class 29
Class 30/31

Type 3
From 1,500 bhp to 1,999 bhp
Class 33
Class 35
Class 37

Type 4
From 2,000 bhp to 2,999 bhp
Class 40
Class 41
Class 42
Class 43
Class 44
Class 45
Class 46
Class 47
Class 48
Class 50
Class 52
Class 53
Class 57

Type 5
From 3,000 bhp
Class 55
Class 56
Class 58
Class 59
Class 60
Class 66
Class 67
Class 68
Class 70

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British Rail Power Classifications
Kurukshetra () is a city in the state of Haryana, India. It is also known as Dharmakshetra ("Holy Place"). It is also known as the "Land of Bhagwad Gita".

According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is a region named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas. This is place where Mahabharata war was fought. Also the Bhagavad Gita was explained there during the war when Lord Krishna found Arjuna in a difficult situation.

Before 1947, Thanesar was the name of the tehsil headquarters and the town. Thanesar or Sthaneswar is a historical town next to newly created Kurukshetra city. Thanesar derives its name from the word "Sthaneshwar", which means "Place of God".
In most ancient Hindu texts, Kurukshetra is not a city but a region ("kshetra" meaning "region" in Sanskrit). The boundaries of Kurukshetra lies to the central and western parts of state of Haryana and southern Punjab. Thus according to the Taittiriya Aranyaka 5.1.1., the Kurukshetra region is south of Turghna (Srughna/Sugh in Sirhind, Punjab), north of Khandava (Delhi and Mewat region), east of Maru (desert) and west of Parin.

History 

It is written in Puranas that Kurukshetra is named after King Kuru of the Bharata Dynasty, ancestor of Pandavas and Kauravas.
The Vamana Purana tells how King Kuru came to settle here. He chose this land at the banks of Sarasvati River which dried up before 1900 BCE for embedding spirituality with eight virtues: austerity (Tapas (Sanskrit)), truth (Satya), forgiveness (Kshama), kindness (daya), purity (Shuddha), charity (Daana), Yajna and Brahmacharya. Lord Vishnu was impressed with the act of King Kuru and blessed him. God gave him two boons: one that this land forever will be known as a Holy Land and the other that anyone dying on this land will go to heaven. The land of Kurukshetra was between two rivers — the Sarasvati and the Drishadvati.
This land has been known as Uttarvedi, Brahmavedi, Dharamkshetra and Kurukshetra at different periods. When King Kuru came on this land it was called Uttarvedi. Over the period this land has been ruled by many empires. The Bharata Dynasty came and settled here.
By the archaeological grounds it has been proved that Ashoka the Great made Kurukshetra a centre of learning for people from all over the world. It reached the peak of its progress during the reign of King Harsha, during which Chinese scholar Xuanzang visited Thanesar.

Places of interest

Hindu Religious Sites
Brahma Sarovar: Every year lakhs of people come to take a holy bath at Brahma Sarovar on the occasion of "Somavati Amavasya" (Sacred No-Moon Day that happens on a Monday) and on solar eclipse believing that a bath in holy sarovar frees all sins and cycle of birth-death.
 Sannihit Sarovar: This sarovar is believed to be the meeting point of seven sacred Saraswatis. The sarovar, according to popular belief, contains sacred water. Bathing in the waters of the tank on the day of Amavasya (night of complete darkness) or on the day of an eclipse give blessings equal to performing the ashvamedh yajna.
 Jyotisar: The famous site where Bhagavad Gita was delivered to Arjuna under the tree. The tree of that time is the witness to Gita.
 Srikrishna Museum has some historical artifacts and paintings represent the Mahabharata war.
 Kurukshetra Panorama and Science Centre: A panorama represent the Mahabharata war with scientific explanations justifying every episode in the war.
Jyotisar Light and Sound Show: A newly built tourist attraction which shows some aspects of Geeta Saar using lights and sound.
 Dharohar Museum: A museum to know the tradition and culture of Haryana; in Kurukshetra University.
Bhishma Kund at Naraktari: The place where Arjuna shot an arrow towards the earth to satisfy Bhishma Pitamah's thirst.

Other Religious/Historical Sites 

 Sheikh Chilli's Tomb: This monument is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India. It was built during the Mughal era in memory of Sufi Saint Sheikh Chehli, believed to be the spiritual teacher of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh. However, this is an wrong belief, since the Prince's main 'Murshid' or 'Sheikh' (Spiritual Guide) is historically known to have been Hazrat Sheikh Mian Mir Sahib, of Lahore, although Sheikh Chehli might have been an additional/minor guide. There is another theory that the site of the supposed 'makbara' or tomb was one of the meditative 'Chillas' or sites of Hazrat Mian Mir Sahib, who might have visited the area during his journeys from place to place.

48 Kos Parikrama
48 Kos Parikrama 

Kurukshetra has great importance as a Hindu pilgrimage. There are several pilgrimages around the city of kurukshetra and a complete parikrama means to visit all these pilgrimages. 48 kos parikrama is a Hindi phrase meaning 48 miles circle around the holy city of Kurukshetra.

Educational Institutes 
 Kurukshetra University: one of the India's leading universities, established in 1956
 University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University
 National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra: Established as the Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra in 1963. It is an Institute of National Importance and one of the top most engineering colleges in the country.
 National Institute of Design, Kurukshetra: The institute offers courses in industrial design, visual communication and textile and apparel design.

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Cities in Haryana
The Sykes–Picot Agreement /ˈsaɪks piˈkoʊ/, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement concluded between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. The main aim of the British and French was to agree on who should get which sphere of influence in Ottoman territories in Southwest Asia. In this way, they wanted to limit competition between each other after the First World War and secure strategically important territories for themselves. The line separating their respective zones of influence was called the Sykes-Picot line. The Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy consented to the agreement, receiving a territorial advantage in return. The agreement was named after the two diplomats who negotiated it: the British diplomat Mark Sykes and the French diplomat François Georges-Picot. They negotiated for five weeks, from the 23rd of November 1915 to the 3rd of January 1916, before agreeing on a memorandum
. The agreement itself was concluded on the 9th and 16th of May 1916, when the British and French governments accepted and signed (ratified) the memorandum.
When the Russian revolutionaries made the agreement public in 1917 after the Bolshevik Revolution, which caused embarassment among the British and French and growing distrust among the Arabs. More than hundred years later, this agreement is still mentioned in the current conflicts and disputes in the respective regions of the Middle East.

Historical context 
The Ottoman Empire, under the lead of the CUP, entered the war in autumn 1914 on the side of the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and initially also Italy) and was therefore opposed to the Triple Entente (United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire). The Sykes–Picot Agreement was concluded with the British and French expecting victory against the Central Powers and thus the demise of the Ottoman Empire.
British and French interests in the Middle East 
As scholars have argued, the Sykes-Picot agreement was signed with the aim to further the colonial and strategic interests of the British and French in the region and settle their rivalry, rather than to create viable states after the war.

The main interest of the British was to secure their access to the Mediterranean Sea and thus the route to India, as well as access to the Iraqi oil fields. At the beginning of the twentieth century, oil replaced coal as the most important resource, being the lighter raw material. This lead to an increasing dependence on oil that was inaccessible on British soil.

The French were interested in securing access to the Mediterranean through the port of Tyre in Lebanon as well as getting their longstanding claims to Mount Lebanon and Damascus validated.
Russian and Italian agreement 
For the Sykes-Picot agreement to pass, Britain and France needed to satisfy the Russians. In exchange for the Russian Empire’s approval of the treaty, the Russian Foreign minister Serkey Saznov and the French ambassador Maurice Paléologue concluded the Saznov-Paléologue Agreement in May 1916. They mutually agreed that the Russian Empire would get Western Armenia in addition to the already earlier attributed Constantinople and the Turkish Straits. The Kingdom of Italy also knew about the agreement and was convinced by being promised Southern Anatolia in the St-Jean-de-Maurienne agreement in 1917.

The Saznov-Paléologue agreement, the St-Jean-de-Maurienne agreement, the Balfour Declaration (between the British and the Zionists) and the Sykes-Picot agreement (with a handful of others concerning the expected partition of the Ottoman Empire) are often referred to as "The Secret Treaties".
The Hussein-McMahon correspondence 
Prior to starting negotiations with the French, the British had already discussed the future of Greater Syria with Sharif Hussein, the Emir of Mecca, in 1915. In what is known as the Hussein-McMahon correspondence, the British promised the Arabs an independent state in the area of Greater Syria. In return, Sharif Hussein would incite an Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Regional division 
Geographically, the agreement primarily focused on the provinces outside of the Arabian Peninsula. A line separated a zone A (under indirect French rule) from a zone B (under indirect British rule). Zone A included the major inland cities of Syria as well as the Iraqi city of Mosul, zone B stretched from Iraq to the Sinai borders of Egypt. A blue zone along the Eastern Mediterranean coastline (and parts of what is today Turkey) was supposed to be placed under direct French rule. The United Kingdom was supposed to have direct control over the Iraqi provinces of Basra and Baghdad (the red zone), as well as parts of what is Israel today, ensuring British access to the Mediterranean Sea. Palestine was supposed to be placed under international administration.
The Arab state that McMahon had promised to Sharif Hussein was now supposed to be under indirect British and French control. This has led historians to call the Sykes-Picot agreement "a startling piece of double-dealing" by the British and an "outrageous example of imperial perfidy".

Conflicting promises and consequences 
Following the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian revolutionaries (Bolsheviks) released a series of secret documents. Among these publications was the Sykes–Picot Agreement. The publication of the Sykes-Picot agreement made visible the conflicting promises the British had made concerning the Ottoman territory to the French, Sharif Hussein and the Arabs and the Zionists (in the Balfour Declaration).
The Sykes-Picot line after the War 
The agreement is often accused of having "drawn lines in the sand", i.e. artificially dividing the Middle East without regard to ethnic or cultural factors. In fact the agreement was never (fully) implemented. It was in the San Remo Conference (1920) and Treaty of Lausanne (1923) that the lines were definitely drawn and decided who was going to govern (directly and indirectly) which parts of the partitioned Ottoman Empire, with Turkey wanting to rule areas that the French had initially hoped to govern. Although the agreement was indeed not implemented in its original form, the British and French were able to secure strategically important lands. The Arabs on the other hand did not see the establishment of an independent Arab kingdom as promised and felt betrayed.
Modern politics 
The year 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the Sykes–Picot Agreement, which was heavily debated given its frequent mention by ISIS (ISIS released a video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot" in 2014). ISIS claimed that in order to create a unified Islamic State, it intended to reverse the effects of the Sykes–Picot Agreement.

Related pages 
 Balfour Declaration 1917
 Treaty of Lausanne, July 1923

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Boudry District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It has a population of  (as of ). The district capital is the town of Boudry.

Municipalities 
The district has the following municipalities:

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La Chaux-de-Fonds District is one of the six districts of the largely French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
La Chaux-de-Fonds has three municipalities:

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Le Locle District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is the town of Le Locle. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
The district has the following municipalities:

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Neuchâtel District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is the town of Neuchâtel. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
The district has nine municipalities:

Mergers 
 On 1 January 1966 the municipality of Landeron-Combes changed its name to Le Landeron.
 On 1 January 2009, Marin-Epagnier and Thielle-Wavre merged to form the new municipality of La Tène.

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Val-de-Ruz District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, consisting of the region of Val de Ruz and the surrounding Jura Mountains. The district capital is the town of Cernier. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
Val-de-Ruz has the following municipalities:

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Typhoon Lekima was a severe Western Pacific tropical cyclone in October 2013. Lekima was an unusual Category 5 super typhoon.

At her peak, Lekima had winds of .

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Val-de-Travers District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is Val-de-Travers. It has a population of  (as of ).

It is famous for its watch industry. It is also famous for being the historical birthplace of absinthe which is now once again being distilled in the region.

Municipalities 
The district has three municipalities:

Merger 
 On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers.

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Cressier is a municipality of the district of Neuchâtel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Cressier can mean:
 Cressier, Fribourg, a municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
 Cressier, Neuchâtel, a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Lignières is a municipality of the district of Neuchâtel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Lignières may refer to:

in Switzerland:
Lignières, Neuchâtel

in France:
Lignières, Aube
Lignières, Cher
Lignières, Loir-et-Cher
Lignières, Somme

Other 
in France:
 Lignières-Châtelain, in the Somme department
 Lignières-de-Touraine, in the Indre-et-Loire department
 Lignières-en-Vimeu, in the Somme department
 Lignières-la-Carelle, in the Sarthe department
 Lignières-Orgères, in the Mayenne department
 Lignières-Sonneville, in the Charente department
 Lignières-sur-Aire, in the Meuse department
Abtwil can mean:
 Abtwil, Aargau, Switzerland
 Abtwil, a village in the municipality of Gaiserwald, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Meyrin () is a municipality of the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The main site of the CERN, a European particle physics laboratory is in Meyrin.

Meyrin was originally a small agricultural village until the 1950s, when construction of CERN began just to the north. It is now a commuter town dominated with apartment high-rises, and many of its residents work at CERN or in central Geneva.

Geneva International Airport is in Meyrin.

The municipality is on the right bank of the Rhone river.

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Fouchères may refer to the following communes of France:

 Fouchères, Aube, in the Aube department
 Fouchères, Yonne, in the Yonne department
 Fouchères-aux-Bois, in the Meuse department
Slighting is the deliberate damage of an important building. In the Middle Ages, castles were slighted during war. Rich and powerful people built and owned castles, and were proud of them. A king or queen could use slighting as a way to punish people who rebelled against them. Sometimes the owner feared they would lose the castle in an attack, and broke parts of the castle so that it would not be useful to other people. Occasionally, a king or queen might order someone to dismantle their own castle if they did not get permission to build it.

Castles were sometimes repaired after they were slighted, while others were abandoned. Many famous castles like Corfe or Kenilworth are ruins because they were slighted during the English Civil War.

Fortification
MAN SE is a German mechanical engineering company and parent company of the MAN Group. It is a subsidiary of automaker Volkswagen. MAN SE is based in Munich.  Its primary output is for the automotive industry, particularly heavy trucks.  Further activities include the production of diesel engines for various applications, including boats. The company also builds turbomachinery.

British licence
In the 1950s, the North British Locomotive Company of Scotland held a licence to build diesel engines of MAN design.  These engines were used in some British Railways diesel locomotives, such as the Class 21.

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Ronald Houston Griffith (March 16, 1936 – July 18, 2018) was an American general in the United States Army. He was Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army (VCSA) from 1995 to 1997. He was born in LaFayette, Georgia. He fought in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. 

Griffith died on July 18, 2018 in Lexington, Virginia at the age of 82.

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LaFayette ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Walker County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020, the city's population was 6,888. It was founded as Chattooga.

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 catwalkchatt.com The website for the Walker County Messenger, the county newspaper since 1877.
 WQCH Radio 

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Harry Gulkin (November 14, 1927 – July 23, 2018) was a Canadian director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He produced Lies My Father Told Me, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay, and won a Golden Globe for best foreign movie.

From 1983 to 1987, Gulkin was director of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts. 

Gulkin died in Montreal on July 23, 2018 from pneumonia, aged 90.

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Khalid Salleh (29 February 1948 – 23 July 2018) was a Malaysian actor and poet. He was born in Kajang, Selangor. He was known for his roles in Penghujung Malam, Azizah The Legend, Jogho, Kaki Bakar, Buai Laju-Laju, and Hanyut. 

Salleh died on 23 July 2018 in Kuala Lumpur from respiratory failure at the age of 70.

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The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unidentified    serial killer. It was active in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in the 1930s. The killings were defined by the cut-off pieces of twelve known victims and the disposal of their remains in the poor neighborhood of Kingsbury Run.

The official number of murders caused by the Cleveland Torso Murderer is thirteen, although recent research has shown there could have been as many as twenty. The twelve known victims were killed between 1935 and 1938. 

Most victims had their heads cut off, and sometimes other limbs were cut off as well. In some cases, the men were castrated too.

Most of the victims were homeless or sex workers.

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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 14 or 15, 1947), known as "the Black Dahlia", was an American woman who was found murdered in a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime. Her corpse was chopped into pieces and severed at the waist.

Short's unsolved murder and the details surrounding it have had caused many theories and public speculation. It is one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County.

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The Axeman of New Orleans was an American serial killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 1918 to October 1919. The killer was never identified, and the murders remain unsolved.

The victims usually were attacked with an axe, which often belonged to the victims themselves. In most cases, a panel on a back door of a home was removed by a chisel, which were both left on the floor near the door, followed by an attack on one or more of the residents with either an axe or straight razor.

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Vice interview of Miriam C. Davis about the Axeman murders
Prairie Ghosts: The Axeman of New Orleans 
1919: A serial killer had New Orleans on edge Times-Picayune

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1919 in the United States
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20th century in New Orleans

Unidentified serial killers
Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida with an elevation of  above sea level. The hill is located in Walton County, near the town of Lakewood, Florida.

Geography of Florida
Hills of the United States
Parks in the United States
The body of Elisa Lam, also known by her Cantonese name, Lam Ho Yi (; April 30, 1991 – February 2013), a Canadian student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her body was discovered from a water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on February 19, 2013. She had been reported missing at the beginning of the month. 

Maintenance workers at the hotel discovered the body when investigating guest complaints of problems with the water supply.

The circumstances of Lam's death, once she was found, also raised questions, especially in light of the Cecil's history in relation to other notable deaths and murders. Her body was naked with most of her clothes and personal effects floating in the water near her.

The autopsy showed that her death was by accident.

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2013 deaths
Deaths by drowning
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The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to Joseph Augustus Zarelli, a four-year-old murder victim, whose naked, abused body was found in a cardboard box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly known as  "America's Unknown Child." In December 2022, the boy was publicly identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli.

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1953 births
1957 deaths
American murder victims
Unexplained deaths
People from Philadelphia
The Keddie Murders an unsolved American murder of 4 people that happened in Keddie, California. The murders took place in Cabin 28 of the Keddie Resort during the late evening of April 11, 1981, or early the following morning.  

The victims were Glenna Sue Sharp (née Davis), known as Sue (age 36), her son John (age 15), and his friend, Dana Wingate (age 17). 

At some time after the crime was discovered, Sue's daughter, Tina (age 12), was reported missing.  Her skull and several other bones were recovered in 1984 in Camp Eighteen, California, which is in Butte County.

The case still remains unsolved. In 2004, Cabin 28 was demolished.

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1980s in California
April events
Deaths by blade weapons
Mass murder in California
Mass murder in the 1980s

Unsolved murders in the United States
Ken Rex McElroy (June 1, 1934 – July 10, 1981) was an American non-convicted murderer from Skidmore, Missouri. He was known as "the town bully". His unsolved killing became the focus of international attention. 

McElroy was accused of dozens of felonies, including assault, child molestation, statutory rape, arson, hog and cattle rustling, and burglary.

He was indicted 21 times but escaped conviction each time, except for the last. In 1981, McElroy was convicted of shooting and seriously injuring the town's 70-year-old grocer, Ernest "Bo" Bowenkamp. 

On July 10, 1981, McElroy was shot to death in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore's main street. He was struck by bullets from at least two different firearms, in front of a crowd of people estimated as between 30 and 46. To date, no one has been charged in connection with McElroy's death.

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1934 births
1981 deaths
American murder victims
Deaths by firearm in the United States
People from Missouri
Brian Douglas Wells (November 15, 1956 – August 28, 2003) was an American man who died after a homemade neck-bomb exploded while being involved in a plot involving a bank robbery in Erie, Pennsylvania. Before his death, Wells was a pizza delivery man who, shortly before his death, made a delivery stop outside of Erie.

Investigated by a task force led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was described as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI". The Wells story was the subject of significant attention in the mass media. The question of whether Wells was a victim or a mastermind behind the robbery plot is debated.
In a July 2007 indictment, federal prosecutors said that Wells had been involved in the planning of the botched bank robbery. Two of his alleged co-conspirators, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes, were indicted. In 2008, U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin sentenced Barnes to 45 years in federal prison. Two years later, Diehl-Armstrong was also found guilty and, in 2011, was sentenced to life in prison, where she died from cancer in 2017.

Other websites
 The 30 Strangest Deaths in History
  (Newspaper articles, audio clips)
 
  Website created by Brian's brother; contains reproductions of the nine page letter, along with photos of the cane gun and collar bomb.
 
 Collarbomber FBI Profile August 27, 2004 press release from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania FBI website.
 

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Notable people with the surname
 Alexander Skumin (1748–1775), statesman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
 Andrew N. Skumin  (1909–1984), the Colonel of Justice, WWII Veteran, an officer of KGB, Chairman of the Military Tribunal of the Internal Internal Troops of the Volga Military District
 Anna Skumina (1730–1772)
 Anthony Skumin (1899–1965), WWI Veteran US Army
 Edward A Skumin (1898–1935), WWI Veteran US Army
 Ivan Skumin (?–1566)
 Janusz Skumin (1570–1642), Polish nobleman and politician
 Jerzy Skumin (1596–1656), religious leader and statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 John Skumin Sr (1935–2014) was a graduate of Berkshire Community College with an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice. He served in the Massachusetts National Guard.
 Józef Skumin (1716–1790), knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
 Katarzyna Eugenia Skumina (1610–1648), Polish noble lady
Ludwik Skumin (1748–1808), Field Lithuanian Hetman, Grand Treasurer of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He received the Russian Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky and of St. Andrew
 Theodore Skumin (1538–1618), Royal nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 
 Victor A. Skumin (born 1948), Russian scientist, philosopher and writer
 V. L. Skumin
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 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
 Victor Skumin

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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka since 1970's while Colombo is the financial capital.

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Gloria Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) was an American woman dubbed "the Toxic Lady" by the media when several hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. She was from Riverside, California.

Ramirez had been admitted to the ER while suffering from late-stage cervical cancer. While treating Ramirez, several hospital workers fainted and others experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and muscle spasms.

Five workers required hospitalization, one of whom remained in intensive care unit  for two weeks. 

Shortly after arriving at the hospital, Ramirez died from complications related to cancer. This incident was initially thought to be a case of mass hysteria.
The medical staff injected her with diazepam, midazolam, and lorazepam to sedate her. When it became clear that Ramirez was responding poorly to treatment, the staff tried to defibrillate her heart. Many people saw an oily substance covering Ramirez's body. Others noted a fruity, garlic-like odor that they thought was coming from her mouth.

An investigation by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said that Ramirez had been self-injecting dimethyl sulfoxide as a treatment for pain, which converted into dimethyl sulfate, an extremely poisonous agent via a series of chemical reactions in the emergency department. Although the medical sector of Riverside supports this claim, scientists still believe it is not the case.

After several investigations, the most likely cause is that she covered herself in DMSO, or dimethyl sulfoxide, to relieve the pain caused by her cancer.
Two months after Ramirez died, her badly decomposed body was released for an independent autopsy and burial. On April 20, 1994—ten weeks after her death—Ramirez was buried at Olivewood Memorial Park in Riverside.

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Cairo is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,179. The city is the county seat of Grady County.

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 City of Cairo from georgia.gov 

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Lebanon  is the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee, United States.

The population was 26,190 at the 2010 census, 28,608 in 2013 and 32,372 following a special census conducted in 2016.

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Keddie is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 51 at the 2020 census.

Keddie is located at  (40.005901, -120.956899).

Keddie was also the site of the Keddie murders, a notorious quadruple homicide.

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Plumas County, California
Skidmore is a city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 284 at the 2010 Census.  The small farming community has a yearly "Punkin' Show".

On July 10, 1981, Ken McElroy was shot to death, by at least two different guns, while sitting in his truck in front of the pool hall in town. Though dozens of people saw the event, all denied seeing anything that would help identify the shooters. He was known as the "Town Bully" for his abuse towards the citizens of Skidmore.

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Dorothy Brown (born September 4, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician associated with the Democratic Party who served as the clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County from 2000 through 2020.

In April 2018, while under federal investigation, Brown announced her plans to run for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 election. In January 2019, the Chicago Board of Elections rejected her petitions and will not be on the ballot in the February 2019 election.

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Neal Sáles-Griffin (born July 28, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and educator. He co-founded the first coding bootcamp program in 2011 and is the CEO of CodeNow.

Sales-Griffin ran for Mayor of Chicago in 2019.

In 2011, Sales-Griffin and McGee launched Code Academy, the first ever coding bootcamp, offering three-month intensive courses in web development and design. In 2012, Code Academy changed its name to The Starter League to eliminate confusion with a competing New York-based program called Codecademy. It was one of the first tenants of 1871,

In 2016, Sales-Griffin joined CodeNow  as its CEO, a nonprofit coding school that focuses in on high school students in low income areas interested in coding, design and entrepreneurship.

Sales-Griffin was named to Crain’s Chicago Business’s "40 Under 40" in 2013.

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Willie L. Wilson (born June 16, 1948) is an American businessman and politician. He has owned and operated many different McDonald's restaurant franchises and owns Omar Medical Supplies. He worked and lives in Chicago.

He also produces the nationally syndicated gospel music television program Singsation, which won a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award in 2012.

Wilson ran for Mayor of Chicago in the 2015 election, in the 2019 election and in the 2023 election. Wilson announced on June 1, 2015, that he would run as a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He ran as a Democrat.

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Businesspeople from Chicago
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An election happened on February 24, 2015 to elect the Mayor of Chicago. The election was non-partisan and no candidate got a majority.

A runoff election happened between the top two finishers (both Democrats) on April 7, 2015, and Rahm Emanuel won the election and stayed as mayor.

Emanuel was in the election, wanting to win a second term. In the first round, Emanuel got 46% of the vote and Democratic Cook County Commissioner Chuy García received 34%. In the runoff, Emanuel got 55.7% of the vote, winning the election. Garcia got 44.3% of the vote.

The runoff was very rare in the history of Chicago's mayoral races.

Candidates
 Rahm Emanuel, incumbent mayor
 Robert Fioretti, Chicago City Alderman
 Chuy García, Cook County Commissioner and former State Senator
 Willie Wilson, medical supply company executive

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The city of Chicago, Illinois held a non-partisan mayoral election on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Mayor Richard M. Daley, a member of the Democratic Party who had been in office since 1989, did not seek a seventh term as mayor.

Candidates needed to collect 12,500 petition signatures by November 22, 2010 to qualify for a place on the ballot. April 5, 2011 was scheduled to be a runoff election date if no candidate received a majority.

Rahm Emanuel won the race for mayor with more than 55% of the vote. He was inaugurated on May 16, 2011.
Six candidates appeared on the February 22 ballot:
Gery Chico, former chief of staff to mayor Richard M. Daley and former chairman of the City Colleges of Chicago
Miguel del Valle, City Clerk of Chicago and former Illinois State Senator
Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and former U.S. Representative from Illinois's 5th district
Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator from Illinois and former United States Ambassador to New Zealand
Patricia Van Pelt Watkins, non-profit administrator and activist
William "Dock" Walls, community activist, businessman, former aide to Mayor Harold Washington and perennial candidate

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Old Alton Bridge, also known as Goatman's Bridge, is a historic iron through-truss bridge connecting the Texas cities of Denton and Copper Canyon. It was built in 1884.

It originally carried horses and later automobiles over Hickory Creek at a location that once was a popular ford for crossing cattle. The bridge takes its name from the abandoned community of Alton, which between 1850-1856 was the seat of Denton County.

Locally, the bridge is known as "Goatman's Bridge", due to a legendary demonic folk legend of the same name, who is popularly believed to live in the forest surrounding the area.

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Denton is a city in and the county seat of Denton County, Texas, United States. According to 2010 United States Census, there were 113,383 people living there  It is the 27th most populous city in Texas and the 200th city in the United States with the most people.

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Burton Edwin Shotton (October 18, 1884 – July 29, 1962) was an American player, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball. Shotton manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947; 1948–50). He won two National League pennants and was Jackie Robinson's first permanent Major League manager.

Other websites
 Baseball-Reference.com – career managing record and playing statistics

1884 births
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Darjeeling is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is in the Lesser Himalayas at an elevation of . It is famous for its tea industry. It is also known for its views of the Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest mountain, and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Darjeeling is the headquarters of the Darjeeling District in West Bengal. It is a popular tourist destination in India.

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Darjeeling district
1835 establishments
1830s establishments in Asia
19th-century establishments in India
Henry Miller (26 December 1891 – 7 June 1980) was an American writer known for his novels. Many of his novels were partly autobiographical and used a stream of consciousness style. His most famous works are Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn and The Rosy Crucifixion. They are based on his experiences in New York and Paris. They were all banned in the United States until the 1960s because they contained explicit descriptions of sex and obscene language. He also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism and painted watercolors.
Life
Miller was born in New York City. His parents were German-Americans. His father worked as a tailor. Miller always wanted to be writer, but he worked at several different jobs when he was a young man. During World War I he worked as a clerk in the US War Department (now called the Department of Defense). Then he got a job as a reporter on The Washington Post. He quit that job after three days and returned to New York City. In New York he worked for the Western Union telegraph company. In 1917 he married Beatrice Sylvas Wickens, a pianist.
In 1924 he left Beatrice and their child to marry the taxi dancer June Edith Smith. A taxi dancer was a woman who was paid to dance with men in dance halls. He gave up his job at the telegraph company to work full-time as a writer. Miller and June lived in Greenwich Village. They went to Paris in 1928 and stayed for a few months. He separated from June and went back to New York by himself in 1929. She later divorced him in 1934. In 1930 he went back to Paris alone. He found a job as a proofreader for the New York Herald Tribune Paris edition. A proofreader is a kind of copy editor who checks the first printing of a text for errors. He also worked on his novels. His first important novel, Tropic of Cancer, was published in Paris by the Obelisk Press in 1934. Black Spring was published in 1936 and Tropic of Capricorn in 1939. He became a close friend of the writer Anaïs Nin. She helped him get Tropic of Cancer published and wrote the preface to it. Miller stayed in Paris until June 1939.
He spent the next year living on the Greek island of Corfu. On Corfu he was the guest of the writer Lawrence Durrell. Miller described his visit in his travel memoir The Colossus of Maroussi. It was published in 1941. Miller considered it to be his best work. When World War II started, Miller returned to the United States. For several years he lived in Big Sur in California. Big Sur is on the Pacific Ocean near Carmel. Many writers and artists lived there. In Big Sur Miller began work on his novel Sexus, the first part of his trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It was published in 1949 and tells the story of his early life in New York and first two marriages. The other two novels in the trilogy were Plexus published in 1953 and Nexus published in 1959. They continue the story of his second marriage and his years in Paris. In 1963 Miller moved to Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles. He lived there for the rest of his life.