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Jump! Boys 
Lee Chih-Kai was one of seven young players on the gymnastic team in Gong Jheng Elementary School of Luo-Dong Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. Jump! Boys is the documentary movie about the training processes and the life stories of the gymnastic team.11 The movie was directed by Taiwanese director, Lin Yu-Hsien and premiered in 2005. Because of Jump! Boys, Taiwanese people started to show the interest in Lee Chih-Kai and Taiwanese Gymnastics.
Jump! Men 
Because Lee Chih-Kai announced that his career goal was entering the Olympics at the end of Jump! Boys,12 the director, Lin Yu-Hsien, decided to make a follow-up movie Jump! Men with Lee Chih-Kai's casting in the main role. The movie started shooting in 2015 and recorded Lee's training process and several competitions. Lee's frustration in the 2016 Rio Olympic games was also included in the movie. Jump! Men ended with Lee winning the gold medal in the pommel horse event in the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade.13 The movie was published in October 2017.

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Bagnères-de-Luchon (), also called Luchon, is a commune and spa town in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of southwest France.

Communes in Haute-Garonne
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Itasca County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 45,014 people lived there. The county seat is Grand Rapids.

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Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 9,989 people lived there. The county seat is Jackson.

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Grand Rapids is a city in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It is the county seat of Itasca County.

Cities in Minnesota
County seats in Minnesota
Kanabec County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 16,032 people lived there. The county seat is Mora.

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Kandiyohi County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 43,732 people lived there. The county seat is Willmar.

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Kittson County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 4,207 people lived there. The county seat is Hallock. It is on the border with Canada.

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Rock County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 9,704 people lived there. The county seat is Luverne.

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Lac qui Parle County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 6,719 people lived there. The county seat is Madison.

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Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 10,905 people lived there. The county seat is Two Harbors.

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Koochiching County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 12,062 people lived there. The county seat is International Falls.

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Lake of the Woods County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 3,763 people lived there. The county seat is Baudette.

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Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 5,640 people lived there. The county seat is Ivanhoe.

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Lyon County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 25,269 people lived there. The county seat is Marshall.

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Mahnomen County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 5,411 people lived there. The county seat is Mahnomen.

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was a Japanese naval officer who became the first Japanese prisoner of war of World War II captured by US forces.

1918 births
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Marshall County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2020, 9,040 people lived there. The county seat is Warren.

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BLS AG is a Swiss train company. It was founded in 2006.

Other websites 

 BLS AG official website 

2006 establishments in Switzerland
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Oberwil is a municipality in Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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More4 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Channel 4 Television Corporation. It was launched in 2005. Despite the advertising communication that it would, the latter of, be free-to-air on satellite television, More4 was not free-to-air on Sky and was encrypted under Sky's NDS until 2008 when it became free-to-air and no longer need to have a package to the encrypted under NDS. It joined the BBC's and ITV's new satelite platform, Freesat, on the same day (6 May 2008).

British television channels
2005 establishments in the United Kingdom
Sky Replay (formerly Sky2) is a British entertainment television channel that launched in 1997 and, later 2002. It comes from the original broadcast which broadcast on analogue platforms for a year from 1996. Sky2 Broadcast from 7:00 PM to 6:00 AM nightly, timesharing with another new channel, Fox Kids (now Disney XD), before extending its hours to 10:00 PM. Another broadcasting was The Death of Princess, which was aired at 5:00 Am, before closing on 31 July 1997. The programmes included Road Wars, Party Wars, and the simulcast of Sky Sports. The current channel began broadcasting (as Sky One Mix) in December 2002. Sky2 became a 1-hour timeshift of Sky One on 10 May 2010, showing programmes one-hour later or the channel ceased as a standard channel. On 9 August 2010, Sky Two ceased a 1-hour timeshift of Sky One and replaced back to its standalone programming not shown on Sky One (some Sky One programmes are often broadcast on Sky2).

British television channels
British Sky Broadcasting
Blaine Higgs (born March 1, 1954) is a Canadian politician. He is the 34th and current Premier of New Brunswick since 2018 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party since 2016.

Higgs was first elected to the legislature in the 2010 provincial election and was Minister of Finance from 2010 to 2014 in the government of David Alward.

Life and career
Blaine Higgs was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick. He completed graduation from the University of New Brunswick as an engineer. He worked for 33 years for a company named Irving Oil where he rose to the rank of a senior executive. His works include overseeing oil transportation across eastern Canada and New England. He retired from Irving Oil in 2010.

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Edward Te Rangihiwinui "Hiwi" Tauroa (1927 – 11 December 2018) was a  Māori rugby union player, school principal, and civil servant. He was born in Hawera, New Zealand. He was the principal of Wesley College from 1968, before becoming the principal of Tuakau College in 1974.

Tauroa was originally best known for his rugby career, and played for the New Zealand national rugby union team, the "All Blacks," from 1951 to 1954. He became coach of the Counties Rugby Union in the 1970s.

In 1979, he was appointed New Zealand's Race Relations Commissioner. He also was chairman of Te Māngai Pāho and the New Zealand Sports Foundation. Tauroa was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1994.

Taurua died on 11 December 2018 in Hokianga, New Zealand aged 91.

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Mary Louise McDonald (born 1 May 1969) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. In June 2020, she became Leader of the Opposition. She is the Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2018 and Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Central since the 2011 general election. She was Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin from 2009 to 2018 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Dublin from 2004 to 2009.

On 10 February 2018, McDonald replaced longtime party leader Gerry Adams after a special election in Dublin.

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Iraj Danaeifard (11 March 1951 – 12 December 2018) was an Iranian football player. He played most of his club career for Taj (currently Esteghlal) and his international career for Iran. He was born in Tehran.

Danaeifard died on 12 December 2018 in Shiraz from a heart attack, aged 67.

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  National Team Statistics
 Interview with Irankicks.com 
 Tulsa Roughnecks stats

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Ferenc Kósa (21 November 1937 – 12 December 2018) was a Hungarian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. He directed thirteen movies between 1961 and 1988. He won the award for Best Director at the 1967 Cannes Film Festival for the movie Ten Thousand Days. He also directed The Upthrown Stone (1969).

Kósa died on 12 December 2018 in Budapest at the age of 81.

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Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet stories are often short, user-generated, ghost stories meant to scare readers. They include gruesome tales of murder, suicide, and otherworldly occurrences. 

According to Time magazine, the genre had its peak audience in 2010 when it was covered by The New York Times.

Famous creepypastas include Slender Man, "Jeff the Killer", Candle Cove and "Ted the Caver".

After two 12-year-olds committed stabbings in the name of Slender Man, some creepypasta administrators told their viewers that these stories have a fine line between reality and fiction.

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Horror
Jean-Robert de Cavel (born September 12, 1961, died December 23, 2022) is a French-American celebrity chef He was Chef de cuisine at The Maisonette from 1993-2002, Executive chef at Jean-Robert at Pigall's from 2002-2009, and now works at Jean-Robert's Table, Le Bar a Boeuf and French Crust Cafe. His career is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Roubaix, France.

In 2003 de Cavel and his wife Annette founded the de Cavel Family SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Foundation following the death of their first child, Tatiana. De Cavel has four times been a semifinalist for the James Beard Best Chef in the Great Lakes Region, in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2013.

De Cavel was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leiomyosarcoma in May 2018.

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 The de Cavel Family SIDS Foundation

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American chefs
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Leiomyosarcoma, also referred to as LMS,  is a malignant (cancerous) smooth muscle tumor. It is a benign tumor originating from the same tissue called leiomyoma. It has been believed that leiomyosarcomas do not arise from leiomyomas.

About 1 in 100,000 people gets diagnosed with LMS each year. Leiomyosarcoma is one of the more common types of soft-tissue sarcoma, representing 10 percent to 20 percent of new cases. Leiomyosarcomas can be very unpredictable. They can remain dormant for long periods of time and recur after years. The cancer is aggressive and hardly responds to chemotherapy treatments.

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Sedalia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is in the west-central area of the state. It is the county seat of Pettis County, Missouri.

Sedalia is where the Missouri State Fair takes place every year.

At the 2010 census, 21,387 people lived in the city.

Cities in Missouri
County seats in Missouri
Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is an American politician. He was the United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. 

Before the Senate, he was in the United States House of Representatives, representing .

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 Senator Mark Udall official U.S. Senate site (archived)
 Mark Udall for Colorado 

1950 births
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United States senators from New Mexico
United States representatives from New Mexico
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Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Newar (; ; endonym: Newa:; , Prachalit Script: 𑐣𑐾𑐰𑐵𑑅), or Nepami, are the historical inhabitants of the Nepal Mandala which consists of Nepa Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilization.

Newar people have developed a division of labor and a sophisticated urban civilization not seen elsewhere in the Himalayan foothills.  Newar people have continued their age-old traditions and practices and pride themselves as the true custodians of the religion, culture and civilization of Nepal.  They are the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and its surrounding areas in Nepal and the creators of its historic heritage and civilisation. Newars form a linguistic and cultural community of primarily Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman ethnicities following Hinduism and Buddhism with Nepal Bhasa as their common language.
The Kathmandu Valley and surrounding territories constituted the former Newar kingdom of the Nepal Mandala. Unlike other common-origin ethnic or caste groups of Nepal, the Newar people are regarded as an example of a nation community with a relic identity, derived from an ethnically-diverse, previously-existing polity. Newar civilization within it consists of various strands of ethnic, racial, caste and religious heterogeneity, as they are the descendants of the diverse group of people that have lived in Nepal Mandala since prehistoric times.

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A gong is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument. It is a bowl-shaped, circular metal disc which a person hits with a mallet or thick padded stick. 

Gongs produce two distinct types of sound. A gong with a flat surface gives a "crash" rather than a tuned note. In Indonesian gamelan ensembles, some gongs are made to give a beat note in the range from about 1 to 5 Hz. The use of the term "gong" for both these types of instrument is common. 

Percussion instruments
The Kathmandu Valley (, ), historically known as Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations of South Asia and the broader Asian continent, and has at least 130 important monuments, including several pilgrimage sites for Hindus and Buddhists. There are seven World Heritage Sites within the valley.

Historically, the valley and adjoining areas made up a confederation known as the Nepal Mandala. Until the 15th century, Khwopa was its capital, when two other capitals, Kathmandu and Yala, were established. After the annexation of the valley by the Gorkha Kingdom, and subsequent conversion of the Valley as the capital of their empire, the designation of "Nepal" was extended to all the lands they had conquered.

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 Theravada

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Tower 42, previously known as the NatWest tower or National Westminster Tower is a skyscraper in the City of London, England. From the top, the design of the building is made to resemble the NatWest logo.

It was constructed between 1971 and 1980, first occupied in 1980 and opened on 11 June 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. When completed it became the tallest building in the United Kingdom and remained the tallest in the city of London for 30 years until the completion of Heron Tower in December 2009.

The cost to build it was £72 million (£283 million today). The building today has grade A office spaces, a restaurant on the 24th floor and a champagne and seafood bar on the 42nd floor.

Tenants

Current tenants of the building include:
Adjusting Services International Limited - ASi
 Avaya Technologies
 Boston Technologies, Inc.
 CEBS Secretariat
 City Osteopath Clinics
 Corporate Communications (Europe)
 Coriolis
 Crazy Domains
  (Lawyers)
 CSJ Capital Partners LLP
 Daewoo Securities (Europe)
 Davis & Co, Solicitors
 EUKOR Car Carriers Inc
 European Banking Authority
 Front Capital Systems
 GPQS
 Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner, Solicitors
 Hong Kong Airlines
 Knight Piésold
 Kofax
 Majedie Investments
 Meditor Capital Management
 Momenta Consulting
 Natexis Banques Populaires
 Regus
 RMG Networks
 Oanda
 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Legal Services
 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
 Piraeus Bank
 Private Dining 24
 Project Brokers
 R G A (UK)
 City Social (restaurant)
 Samsung
 System Access (Europe)
 Taylor Vinters
 The Walpole Group
 Tower Trading Group
 Tower 42 Property & Estate Management
 Tullett Prebon Information
 Vertigo 42
 ViewSonic

Design
Design

In June 2012, a Capix LED multi-media lighting system was installed around levels 39 to 45. This replaced the previous high-energy floodlighting at the top of the building.

The top of the tower is made to resemble the NatWest logo of three chevrons in a hexagonal arrangement.

There are four sections known as the core, leaf 1, leaf 2 and leaf 3.

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Yigal Bashan (September 11, 1950  December 9, 2018) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actor. He was awarded the ACUM Prize for Life Achievement in 2016. 

Bashan was a member of the pop trio "Kmo Tzoanim" (Hebrew: "Like Gypsies") that appeared on the "Hopa Hey" Israeli children's television show.

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The United States ten-dollar bill ($10) is a denomination of U.S. currency.

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The Ellen Show is a television sitcom created by and starring Ellen DeGeneres. It was broadcast in 2001 and 2002 on CBS. It was the second sitcom that DeGeneres's made. The first one was called Ellen, and was shown on ABC from 1994 to 1998. It was canceled after 13 episodes because it did not have strong ratings.

After coming out as a lesbian on her first sitcom, DeGeneres's character on The Ellen Show, Ellen Richmond, was also a lesbian.

The Ellen Show also starred Cloris Leachman, Martin Mull, Kerri Kenney, Jim Gaffigan, and Emily Rutherfurd. The show was created by Carol Leifer and Mitchell Hurwitz, who co-wrote the pilot episode. The first title of the show was Ellen Again. the hsow as anncoued In January 2001 with Texas Local News
Plot 
After her internet company Homelearn.com goes bankrupt, Ellen Richmond decides to move back to the town she is from to live with her eccentric mother, Dot, and wikt:disorganized sister, Catherine. At home, Ellen meets the guy who was her senior prom date, named Rusty. They think they can continue their romantic relationship where they left off. Ellen also meets her silly high school teacher, Mr. Munn. Though she is a long ways apart from the people who love her, Ellen gets used to a very different way of life. Ellen takes a job as a guidance counselor at the high school she went to.

Cast

Main 

 Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Richmond
 Jim Gaffigan as Rusty Carnouk
 Emily Rutherfurd as Catherine Richmond
 Martin Mull as Ed Munn
 Kerri Kenney as Pam
 Cloris Leachman as Dot Richmond
 Diane Delano as Bunny Hoppstetter

Guest stars
Guest stars 

 Jennifer Irwin as Meg (episode: "Pilot")
 Regan Burns as Officer "B" Arthur (episodes: "Walden Pond", "Joe"")
 John Francis Daley as Erik (episode: "Walden Pond")
 Susan Yeagley as Waitress (episode: "Chain Reaction")
 Marissa Jaret Winokur as Tina (episode: "Vanity Hair")
 Tom Poston as Joe (episode: "Joe")
 Betty White as Mrs. Gibson (episode: "Missing the Bus")
 Dakota Fanning as Young Ellen (episode: "Missing the Bus")
 Mary Tyler Moore as Aunt Mary (episode: "Ellen's First Christmess")
 Ed Asner as Santa Claus (episode: "Ellen's First Christmess")
 John Ritter as Percy Moss (episode: "Gathering Moss")
 Maureen McCormick as Rita Carter (episode: "Shallow Gal")
 Kaley Cuoco as Vanessa Carter (episode: "Shallow Gal")

Episodes 
The Ellen Show made 18 episodes, but was canceled part-way through its season. The final 5 episodes were never broadcast, but are available on DVD.

Home media 
The whole series was put on Region 1 DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on July 11, 2006.
In 2014, Mill Creek Entertainment bought the rights to the series. They re-made the full series on February 4, 2014.

The company Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, in partnership with CBS Home Entertainment, owns the international rights. The full series was released in Region 4 (Australia) as a 2 DVD set on February 1, 2017 by a company called Umbrella Entertainment.

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Gringo is a Spanish and Portuguese term used mostly in Latin America to denote foreigners, specially people from the United States, Canada, and UK. 

In Brazil, the term is used to refer to any foreigner, regardless of their ethnicity or nationality, even when it comes to other Latin-Americans.

Etymology
The most supported theory is that the term originates from the word griego ('Greek'), used in the same way as the English phrase it's all Greek to me. Some theories assert that the term originated in the Mexican-American War, when American troops sang a song which began with "Green grows..." such as "Green Grow the Rushes, O", "Green Grow the Lilacs", among others.

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Anthony David Hawthorn Smith (born 13 March 1967) is an Australian politician. He was the 30th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 10 August 2015 until 23 November 2021. He has been a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives since 2001. He represents the Division of Casey, Victoria.

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Personal website 
 The Hon Tony Smith MP, Official Parliament website biography, retrieved August 2015

1967 births
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Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives
Politicians from Melbourne
Ian McCahon Sinclair (born 10 June 1929) is an Australian politician. H was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He was a government minister under six different prime ministers. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives from March to November 1998.

Sinclair was born in Sydney, New South Wales. 

In January 2001, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).

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1929 births
Living people
Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives
Politicians from Sydney
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop (née Setright; born 19 October 1942) is an Australian politician and political commentator. She was a member of  federal parliament for almost 30 years. Bishop is a member of the Liberal Party. She was a minister in the Howard Government from 1996 to 2001 and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015.

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Living people
Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives
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Politicians from Sydney
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975, which made him Leader of the Opposition during that tenure. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.

Snedden was born in West Perth, Western Australia. He studied at Highgate State School, Perth Boys' School and at Perth Technical College. Snedden was in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. In 1950, he married Joy Forsyth. They had four children together. 

On 27 June 1987, Snedden died at his home in Ruschcutters Bay, New South Wales, near Sydney of a heart attack while having sex with his son's ex-girlfriend. He was 60 years old.

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Speakers of the Australian House of Representatives
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Gordon Glen Denton Scholes AO (7 June 1931 – 9 December 2018) was an Australian politician. He was in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993, representing the Labor Party. 

Scholes was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1975 to 1976, and then a minister in the Hawke Government from 1983 to 1987. He was Minister for Defence from 193 to 1984.

He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Scholes died on 9 December 2018 in Geelong, Victoria, aged 87.

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Politicians from Melbourne
Pentti Uolevi Tiusanen (6 March 1949 – 8 December 2018) was a Finnish politician. He was born in Kotka, Finland. He was a member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Left Alliance. He was elected to Finnish Parliament in 1995. He left office in 2011.

Tiusanen died on 8 December 2018 from stomach cancer in Helsinki, aged 69.

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Home page 

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James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons Jr. (September 28, 1927 – December 12, 2018) was an American admiral in the United States Navy. He was Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1985 to 1987. He was born in New Jersey. Lyons was known for writing a column about Seth Rich, a murdered lobbyist, that was retracted by The Washington Times. Lyons claimed Hillary Clinton was responsible for the killing.

Lyons died on December 12, 2018 from respiratory failure in Warrenton, Virginia at the age of 91.

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William Alfred Newsom III (February 15, 1934 – December 12, 2018) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was an administrator of the Getty family trust. He was the father of California governor Gavin Newsom.

In 1975, Jerry Brown appointed Newsom to the Superior Court bench in Auburn (Placer County) and later to the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco, where he was until 1995.

Newsom died on December 12, 2018, at his home, in San Francisco, California, aged 84.

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Seán Garland (7 March 1934 – 13 December 2018) was an Irish politician. He was born in Dublin. He was a member of the Workers' Party. He was General-Secretary of the Party from 1977 to 1990. Garland was the Workers' Party representative at the National Forum on Europe. In 2000, he was elected President of the Workers' Party.

Garland died on 13 December 2018 in Dublin at the age of 84.

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BBC article: what is a superdollar?
BBC article: Leader of 'Official IRA' in forgery plot

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Noah Klieger (; July 31, 1925 – December 13, 2018) was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator. He was born in Strasbourg, France. As a journalist, he worked for L'Équipe.

During the Holocaust Klieger survived the concentration camps Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, and Ravensbruck. After World War II, he worked as a sports journalist in Israel. He was the president of the basketball club Maccabi Tel Aviv and chairman of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA)'s media council. 

In 2010 Noah Klieger was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, and 2015 he was inducted into FIBA Hall of Fame for his contributions to international basketball.

In 2012 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honour (Legion d'Honneur), France's award for civilian merit. 

Klieger died on December 13, 2018 in Ramat Gan, Israel, from complications of heart disease, aged 92.

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1925 births
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Israeli Jews
Sports commentators
Holocaust survivors
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Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American jazz singer and actress. Her career began in 1950 and she retired in 2011. She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Wilson won three Grammy Awards for her recordings. She was known as "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Her best known works were "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am", "I Wanna Be With You", and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)".

Wilson died from kidney cancer on December 13, 2018, at her home in Pioneertown, California at the age of 81.

References

Other websites

 
 [ Billboard Chart History for Nancy Wilson]
 
 NEA Jazz Masters: Nancy Wilson – Biography and Interview

Grammy Award winners
1937 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from kidney cancer
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American jazz singers
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American R&B singers
American pop singers
American soul singers
American movie actors
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Pioneertown, California, is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of San Bernardino's High Desert in California, United States. , Pioneertown had a population of 350.

In July 2006, parts of Pioneertown were burned in the Sawtooth Complex fire, which also burned into Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley.

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"Pioneertown, USA: The Definitive History of Pioneertown, CA.. Where the Old West Lives Again!" MARCH of 2o18 / Paperback / 3o8 Pages  "PIONEERTOWN, USA"

Unincorporated communities in California
Settlements in San Bernardino County, California
Sheshan is the name for a pair of hills in Songjiang District in Shanghai, China. These two hills are West Sheshan, which is 97 meters high, and East Sheshan, which is 100.8 meters high.

The Chinese name is Shéshān (佘山). Shé (佘) is the name of a Chinese family, and shān (山) is a word that can mean "mountain", "mountains", "hill", or "hills". Some people say that the hills' name used to be Shéshān (蛇山), meaning "Snake Hill", but that the Chinese character was changed because people don't like snakes.

The hills are part of a forest park that is 64.08 square kilometers big. The park is open from 8  to 4:30 .

The top of the West Hill has Our Lady of Sheshan Catholic Church and the Sheshan Observatory. The East Hill has an amusement park.

Sheshan Station is a Shanghai Subway station on Line 9.

Hills of Asia
Shanghai

Geography of the People's Republic of China
The Verzetskruis 1940–1945 (Dutch: Cross of Resistance 1940–1945) is the second highest military medal in the Netherlands given for bravery. It was awarded to members of the Dutch resistance. They were civilians who fought the Nazi occupation of their country during the Second World War. 

Military honors
1946 establishments in the Netherlands
SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a SAM Colombia Boeing 727-46 that crashed on May 19, 1993, killing all 132 on board, including several Panamanian dentists on their way to a convention. The crew reported over the Abejorral NDB beacon at FL160, approaching Medellín. The flight was then cleared to descend to FL120. The 727 had actually not yet reached the beacon, and descended into mountainous terrain. The flight struck Mount Paramo Frontino at 12,300 feet. Thunderstorm activity in the area made ADF navigation more difficult and the Medellín VOR/DME had been attacked by terrorists and was unserviceable.

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 ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-46 HK-2422X Medellín 

Aviation accidents and incidents in the 1990s
20th century in Colombia
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1993 disasters
Montsoreau () is a town in France. Only 500 people live in there. It is in the east end of the region of Pays de la Loire, which is in the nortwestern France. The Chateau de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art is in the town. Montsoreau is both listed part of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site, and among the most beautiful villages of France.

History 
The main witness of the first settlement is the dolmen of the Pierrelée, which probably dates from the 3rd millennium BC. Montsoreau is located on the borders of the territories of the Gallic tribes of Pictones, Turones and Andecavi. Coins, shards and fragments of Gallo-Roman tiles, were found in Montsoreau, especially on the edge of the plateau, above the town.

Montsoreau was identified under the name Restis (rope or fish net) at the end of classical antiquity as a port on the Loire at the confluence of the Loire and the Vienne. It kept this name until the end of the eleventh century.
The name Montsoreau (Mount Soreau) come from a rocky promontory  in the riverbed of the Loire and surrounded by water. There has been three major buildings on this promontory, a Gallo-Roman temple or administrative building, a fortified castle, and a Renaissance palace.

The first fortified castle was built by the count of Blois at the end of the tenth century, immediatly taken by The Count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra, took the fortress in 1001 and incorporated it to Anjou. Fulk, who was one of the first great builders of Medieval castles, modified it, and the fortress remained under the control of Anjou, never taken, during more than 150 years.
In 1152, Guillaume IV de Montsoreau sided with Geoffroy Plantagenet against his brother Henry II Plantagenet, future king of England and husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Henri II besieged the castle and took it at the end of August 1152 despite the care taken at its fortification. This was the one and only storming of the medieval fortress of Montsoreau between Fulk and Jean II de Chambes in 1450. 

At the end of the Hundred Years War, Charles VII and Louis XI installed royal power in Chinon. They encouraged or ordered their lords to build new buildings or redevelop old fortresses. Thus began the construction of buildings in a new style in France, giving birth to Renaissance architecture, with the renowned "Châteaux of the Loire Valley".
In 1572, four days after Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre (24 August) in Paris, Jean de Chambes started the "St. Bartolomew Angevine". He almost eliminated the Reformed Church both in Saumur and Angers.
After the French Revolution, the exploitation of a building stone, the Tuffeau stone, brutally passed its population of 600 inhabitants to more than 1000, maintained during the first half of the nineteenth century.

The battle of Saumur, is considered as the first act of resistance of World War II in France.
In Montsoreau, Saumur and Gennes, in June 1940, teenage students of the school of cavalry, still under training and with derisory weapons (including an artillery gun from the school museum), heroically engaged an entire German panzer division for nearly three days. And in doing so became a legend in France. – For Honour Alone, Roy Macnab, January 1989.

Geography
Geography

Location 
Montsoreau is at the center of the Loire Valley, in north-western France,  from the Atlantic Ocean, and approximately  from Saumur, Chinon and Bourgueil. It is in southeastern Maine-et-Loire department, about halfway between Paris and Bordeaux. The village is at the crossroad of the three main administrative regions of, Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and of the three departments of Maine-et-Loire, Indre-et-Loire, and Vienne.

Montsoreau is part of the Metropolitan Area of Saumur Val de Loire and share borders with municipalities both in the Maine-et-Loire and Indre-et-Loire departments. These municipalities are: Candes-Saint-Martin, Chouzé-sur-Loire, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, and Turquant.

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The Château de Montsoreau, or simply Montsoreau, is a residential castle in Montsoreau, France. It is the only château of the Loire Valley to have been built in the Loire riverbed.

Philippe Méaille opened the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016. Nowadays, The chateau hold the world's largest collection of Art & Language works.
The chateau has been built on the top of the "mount Soreau". This rocky promontory gave its name to the village. On the top of that mount was built a roman temple, a fortress of the counts of Anjou, and a chateau in the Renaissance architectural style.
In English one often speaks of the chateau de Montsoreau or Montsoreau. The chateau de Montsoreau was the first of the chateaux of the Loire Valley to be built in the Renaissance architectural style. When the chateau was built, Montsoreau was already a historical village, home of a royal fortified castle. From 1450, when King Charles VII and King Louis XII moved to Chinon and Tours, the Loire Valley became the centre of power of the ancien régime.
History 
The first fortified castle was built by Odo the First count of Blois in 990. In 1001, it was taken by the count of Anjou, Fulk Nerra (Fulk the Black), one of the greatest builders of the middle age, who gave it to Gautier I of Montsoreau. Gautier I belonged to one of the most pre-eminent families of Anjou. Thus, the Castrum Monsorelli became one of the forty fortified castles in Anjou and one of the few to be given the title of lordship at the turn of year 1000. A town developed quickly near the castle. Fulk and Gautier modified the castle, and this one remained impregnable during more than 150 years. In 1152 and 1156 Henry II King of England, besieged and took twice, the castle of Montsoreau.
Architecture 
The Château de Montsoreau is said to be the first French Renaissance Building. The building marks the transition from military architecture to palace or chateau. Large windows, numerous chimneys, and the great care that taken to sanitation problems, are some of the characteristics of this new style of building. The castle central dwelling was built directly in the Loire riverbed. Unusually, Two right-angled wings looking like square towers were built a few years later, at a time when round towers were usually built, this odd choice prefigures the corner pavilions of classical architecture. A spiral staircase probably existed before the current Renaissance staircase.

Art

François Rabelais 
In François Rabelais' Pantagruel, Gargantua rewards Ithybole with Montsoreau, after his victory over Picrochole, the king who attacks the kingdom of Grandgousier.
Joseph Mallord William Turner 
In 1832, Joseph Mallord William Turner made an aquarelle depicting the chateau of Montsoreau with the setting of the confluence of the Vienne and the Loire and the collegiate church of Candes-Saint-Martin.

Alexandre Dumas 
The Château de Montsoreau was immortalised by Alexandre Dumas in La Dame de Monsoreau, a novel written between 1845 and 1846. This novel takes as a backdrop the Château de Montsoreau and is part of Alexandre Dumas' trilogy on European wars of religion, between La Reine Margot and Les Quarante-cinqs.

Auguste Rodin 
At the end of nineteenth century, Montsoreau was ruined. Auguste Rodin, passionate about architecture, unexpectedly made a drawing of the chateau as it was when it was built.
Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art 
The Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, in the Loire valley, is a private museum open to the public. The project was started in November 2014, by Philippe Méaille and opened the 8 April 2016. The permanent collection, gathered over the past 25 years by Philippe Méaille, is not only intended to be exhibited at the Château de Montsoreau, but also to be lent to other institutions. His collection is the world's largest collection of works by the radical conceptualists Art & Language. This art movement.

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 Chateau de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art By night

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