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Saint Xavier University (SXU) is a four-year, coeducational institution of higher learning located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The current president is Laurie M. Joyner.

Saint Xavier's  main campus is located in City of Chicago in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the corner of 103rd Street and Central Park Avenue. The university's main campus is made up of several buildings.

It was founded in 1846.

Saint Xavier also has a campus located in Orland Park. In September 2015, Saint Xavier University opened their third campus with technology that allows its students improved educational capabilities. It had a full simulation center for advanced nursing careers as well as numerous huddle spaces and an auditorium.

Saint Xavier University has one of the most diverse undergraduate student bodies in Chicago, and qualified as a Hispanic-serving institution in 2015.

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 Official athletics website
 About SXU 
 National League for Nursing - Centers of Excellence 
 Visual Arts Center at Saint Xavier University 
 Conference for Mercy Higher Education
 Online programs 

1846 establishments in the United States
Colleges and universities in Chicago
1840s establishments in Illinois
Judith McGrath (21 April 1947 – 21 October 2017) was an Australian actress. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She was best known for her television soap roles as Colleen Powell in Prisoner (1979–1984) on Network Ten, Bernice Hudson in A Country Practice on Network Seven between 1992 and 1993 and Von Ryan in the medical drama All Saints (1998–2009) on Network Seven.

McGrath died on 21 October 2017 at a hospice in Sydney from lung cancer at the age of 70.

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1947 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from aortic aneurysm
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian stage actors
Actors from Brisbane
Emilio D'Amore (26 November 1915 – 21 October 2017) was an Italian writer, journalist, and politician. He was born in Montefalcione, Italy. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948 as a representative of the Monarchist National Party. D'Amore joined the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (PDIUM) and won reelection in 1953. He served a final term in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1968, again as a member of the PDIUM.

D'Amore died in Avellino, Italy on 21 October 2017 of congestive heart failure at the age of 101.

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Deaths from congestive heart failure
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Italian centenarians
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, formerly Bellevue Hospital Center and  Bellevue Hospital, is the oldest public hospital in the United States. It was founded on March 31, 1736. It is on First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is also home to FDNY EMS Station 08, formerly NYC*EMS Station 13.

The hospital handles nearly 460,000 non-emergency outpatient clinic visits, nearly 106,000 emergency visits and some 30,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. The hospital currently occupies a 25-story patient care facility with an ICU, digital radiology communication and an outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and an in-house staff of about 5,500.

Bellevue was renamed in November 2015 as a reflection of its parent organization's rebranding.

In 2014 Bellevue was ranked 40th overall in the New York metro area and 29th in New York City by US News and World Report.
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Maidstone West railway station is one of three railway stations which serve Maidstone in Kent. It is on the Medway Valley Line.

Related pages
Maidstone Barracks railway station
Maidstone East railway station

Other websites 
Train times and station information for Maidstone West railway station from National Rail

Railway stations in Kent
Hastein (his name is also recorded as Anstign, Haesten, Hæsten, Hæstenn,  Hæsting and Alsting) was a Viking chieftain. He lived in the late 9th century. He is famous for his attacks on cities in England, Spain, France, and Italy.

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The arrondissement of Riom is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Puy-de-Dôme département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Riom.

History
When the Puy-de-Dôme department was created in 1790, the arrondissement of Riom was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Riom is the most northern of the arrondissements of the department and borders to the north with the Allier department, to the east with the arrondissement of Thiers, to the southeast with the arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand, to the south with the arrondissement of Issoire, and to the west with the Creuse department.

The arrondissement of Riom is the largest arrondissement of the department, with an area of , and the second in population with 121,158 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

Composition
Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Riom there are 10 cantons:

 Aigueperse (6301)
 Cébazat (6307) (partly)
 Châtel-Guyon (6309) (partly)
 Gerzat (6317) (partly)
 Maringues (6320) (partly)
 Orcines (6323) (partly)
 Riom (6325)
 Saint-Éloy-les-Mines (6326)
 Saint-Georges-de-Mons (6327)
 Saint-Ours (6328) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Riom has 155 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Aigueperse (63001)
 Les Ancizes-Comps (63004)
 Ars-les-Favets (63011)
 Artonne (63012)
 Aubiat (63013)
 Ayat-sur-Sioule (63025)
 Bas-et-Lezat (63030)
 Beaumont-lès-Randan (63033)
 Beauregard-Vendon (63035)
 Biollet (63041)
 Blot-l'Église (63043)
 Bourg-Lastic (63048)
 Briffons (63053)
 Bromont-Lamothe (63055)
 Bussières (63060)
 Bussières-et-Pruns (63061)
 Buxières-sous-Montaigut (63062)
 La Celle (63064)
 La Cellette (63067)
 Chambaron-sur-Morge (63244)
 Champs (63082)
 Chanat-la-Mouteyre (63083)
 Chapdes-Beaufort (63085)
 Chappes (63089)
 Chaptuzat (63090)
 Charbonnières-les-Varennes (63092)
 Charbonnières-les-Vieilles (63093)
 Charensat (63094)
 Châteauneuf-les-Bains (63100)
 Château-sur-Cher (63101)
 Châtel-Guyon (63103)
 Chavaroux (63107)
 Le Cheix (63108)
 Cisternes-la-Forêt (63110)
 Clerlande (63112)
 Combrailles (63115)
 Combronde (63116)
 Condat-en-Combraille (63118)
 La Crouzille (63130)
 Davayat (63135)
 Durmignat (63140)
 Effiat (63143)
 Ennezat (63148)
 Entraigues (63149)
 Enval (63150)
Enval (63150)
 Espinasse (63152)
 Fernoël (63159)
 Giat (63165)
 Gimeaux (63167)
 La Goutelle (63170)
 Gouttières (63171)
 Herment (63175)
 Jozerand (63181)
 Landogne (63186)
 Lapeyrouse (63187)
 Lastic (63191)
 Limons (63196)
 Lisseuil (63197)
 Loubeyrat (63198)
 Lussat (63200)
 Luzillat (63201)
 Malauzat (63203)
 Malintrat (63204)
 Manzat (63206)
 Marcillat (63208)
 Maringues (63210)
 Marsat (63212)
 Les Martres-d'Artière (63213)
 Martres-sur-Morge (63215)
 Menat (63223)
 Ménétrol (63224)
 Messeix (63225)
 Miremont (63228)
 Mons (63232)
 Montaigut (63233)
 Montcel (63235)
 Montel-de-Gelat (63237)
 Montfermy (63238)
 Montpensier (63240)
 Moureuille (63243)
 Mozac (63245)
 Neuf-Église (63251)
 Pessat-Villeneuve (63278)
 Pionsat (63281)
 Pontaumur (63283)
 Pontgibaud (63285)
 Pouzol (63286)
 Prompsat (63288)
 Prondines (63289)
 Pulvérières (63290)
 Puy-Saint-Gulmier (63292)
 Le Quartier (63293)
 Queuille (63294)
 Randan (63295)
 Riom (63300)
 Roche-d'Agoux (63304)
 Saint-Agoulin (63311)
Saint-André-le-Coq (63317)
 Saint-Angel (63318)
 Saint-Avit (63320)
 Saint-Beauzire (63322)
 Saint-Bonnet-près-Riom (63327)
 Saint-Clément-de-Régnat (63332)
 Saint-Denis-Combarnazat (63333)
 Sainte-Christine (63329)
 Saint-Éloy-les-Mines (63338)
 Saint-Étienne-des-Champs (63339)
 Saint-Gal-sur-Sioule (63344)
 Saint-Genès-du-Retz (63347)
 Saint-Georges-de-Mons (63349)
 Saint-Germain-près-Herment (63351)
 Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne (63354)
 Saint-Hilaire (63360)
 Saint-Hilaire-la-Croix (63358)
 Saint-Hilaire-les-Monges (63359)
 Saint-Ignat (63362)
 Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur (63363)
 Saint-Julien-la-Geneste (63369)
 Saint-Laure (63372)
 Saint-Maigner (63373)
 Saint-Maurice-près-Pionsat (63377)
 Saint-Myon (63379)
 Saint-Ours (63381)
 Saint-Pardoux (63382)
 Saint-Pierre-le-Chastel (63385)
 Saint-Priest-Bramefant (63387)
 Saint-Priest-des-Champs (63388)
 Saint-Quintin-sur-Sioule (63390)
 Saint-Rémy-de-Blot (63391)
 Saint-Sulpice (63399)
 Saint-Sylvestre-Pragoulin (63400)
 Sardon (63406)
 Sauret-Besserve (63408)
Sauvagnat (63410)
 Savennes (63416)
 Sayat (63417)
 Servant (63419)
 Surat (63424)
 Teilhède (63427)
 Teilhet (63428)
 Thuret (63432)
 Tortebesse (63433)
 Tralaigues (63436)
 Varennes-sur-Morge (63443)
 Vensat (63446)
 Vergheas (63447)
 Verneugheol (63450)
 Villeneuve-les-Cerfs (63459)
 Villosanges (63460)
 Virlet (63462)
 Vitrac (63464)
 Voingt (63467)
 Volvic (63470)
 Youx (63471)
 Yssac-la-Tourette (63473)
Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was an English stage, television and movie actress. 

Leach won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for 84, Charing Cross Road and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her roles in the movies That'll Be the Day (1973) and A Room with a View (1986). 

She appeared in several TV mini-series' including Germinal (1970), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Charmer (1987), The Buccaneers (1995) and Berkeley Square (1998) and had a recurring role on the sitcom My Family (2003-07).

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1935 births
2017 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
Martin Eric Ain (Martin Stricker; July 18, 1967 – October 21, 2017) was an American-born Swiss bass guitarist and songwriter. He was born in the United States. He was best known for being the former bassist of the influential extreme metal band Celtic Frost. He used the stage name Martin Eric Ain throughout his career in Celtic Frost. 

Ain died on October 21, 2017 following a heart attack in Zürich, Switzerland, aged 50.

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Other websites
Interview with Martin Eric Ain , Broward-Palm Beach New Times, 2006-10-19
"Metal Israel Exclusive Kinda Interview with Martin Eric Ain"

1967 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American bass guitarists
American songwriters
Swiss musicians
Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer. She had used several literary pseudonyms. She was best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom), beginning with The Many-Colored Land and Galactic Milieu Series books. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.

May was married to author T. E. Dikty from 1953 until his death in 1991.

In August 2015, she was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.

May died on October 17, 2017 in Mercer Island, Washington at the age of 86.

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1931 births
2017 deaths
American science fiction writers
American children's writers
American novelists
Writers from Chicago
Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States located on an island of the same name in the southern portion of Lake Washington. Mercer Island is in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, with Seattle located to its west and Bellevue located to its east.

Mercer Island is connected to the mainland on either side via bridges carrying Interstate 90.

he population was 22,699 at the 2010 census.  The population was 22,720 at 2013 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. This makes Mercer Island the most populated island in a lake within the United States.

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 Mercer Island Reporter Local newspaper

Cities in Washington (state)
Islands of the United States
Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 until 2021. In 2023, he unsuccessfully ran for President of the Czech Republic, losing to General Petr Pavel.

Babiš, the second richest man in the Czech Republic, is a former CEO and sole owner of the Agrofert group with a net worth of about $4.04 billion according to Bloomberg.

Political career
Babiš served as Finance Minister of the Czech Republic and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the economy from January 2014 to May 2017 until he was fired by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka due to rumors of financial irregularities. Babiš has led ANO 2011 party since 2012 when he founded it as a protest movement against established politics. He has been Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 2013.
Scandals
Babiš has been under investigation since December 2015 due to allegations that an anonymous company he controlled unlawfully received subsidies from the European Union. In September 2017, his parliamentary immunity was stripped after police request in connection with the case and Babiš was formally charged on 9 October 2017.

Prime Minister
Babiš was elected Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his victory in the 2017 legislative election when his party won 78 seats winning the majority party in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.

References

Other websites

 
 Official blog
 Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic website
 Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic website
 Curriculum Vitae on Government website
 Curriculum Vitae on ANO 2011 website

1954 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
Czech businesspeople
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and a novel. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.

Awards
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

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Other websites
 "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year", Joel Lovell, The New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2013
2014 George Saunders interview with Jon Niccum, Kansas City Star
10 Free Stories by George Saunders Available on the Web
1958 births
Living people
American novelists
American children's writers
Educators from Texas
American essayists
Writers from Texas
Writers from Chicago
Educators from Chicago
Journalists from Chicago
Journalists from Texas
People from Amarillo, Texas
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist.
The Kübler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief, is a theory about the feelings of people who are dying.  The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

The five stages came from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' 1969 book On Death and Dying.

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Other websites
 On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Psychology
Death
A Japanophile is someone with Japanophilia, or someone with a strong interest in or love of Japanese people, culture, and history. This term even has a Japanese equivalent, shinnichi (kanji:親日, hiragana: しんにち) which literally translates to "pro-Japanese". Aguante Viral.

Japanese culture
Area code 710 is the area code used by the United States Government. It is part of the North American Numbering Plan.

710
Government of the United States
Major Deities  
Hadad (or Adad) - storm and rain god
Enlil (or Ashur) - god of air, head of the Assyrian and Sumerian pantheon
Anu (or An) -  god of heaven and the sky, lord of constellations, and father of the gods
Dagon (or Dagan) - god of fertility
Enki (or Ea) - god of the Abzu, crafts, water, intelligence, mischief and creation and divine ruler of the Earth and its humans
Ereshkigal - goddess of Irkalla, the Underworld
Inanna (later known as Ishtar)  - goddess of fertility, love, and war
Marduk - patron deity of Babylon who eventually became regarded as the head of the Babylonian pantheon
Nabu - god of wisdom and writing
Nanshe - goddess of prophecy, fertility and fish
Nergal - god of plague, war, and the sun in its destructive capacity; later husband of Ereshkigal
Ninhursag (or Mami, Belet-Ili, Ki, Ninmah, Nintu, or Aruru) - earth and mother goddess
Ninlil - goddess of the air; consort of Enlil
Ninurta - champion of the gods, the epitome of youthful vigor, and god of agriculture
Shamash (or Utu) - god of the sun, arbiter of justice and patron of travelers
Sin (or Nanna) - god of the moon
Tammuz (or Dumuzid) - god of food and vegetation
Minor deities
This is only some of them. There are thousands. This is in Alphabetic order.
Abu - a minor god of vegetation
Ama-arhus - Akkadian fertility goddess; later merged into Ninhursag
Amasagnul - Akkadian fertility goddess
Amurru - god of the Amorite people
An - a goddess, possibly the female principle of Anu
Arah - the goddess of fate.
Asaruludu or Namshub - a protective deity
Ashnan - goddess of grain 
Aya - a mother goddess and consort of Shamash
Azimua - a minor Sumerian goddess
Bau - dog-headed patron goddess of Lagash
Belet-Seri - recorder of the dead entering the underworld
Birdu - an underworld god; consort of Manungal and later syncretized with Nergal
Bunene - divine charioteer of Shamash
Damgalnuna - mother of Marduk
Damu - god of vegetation and rebirth; possibly a local offshoot of Dumuzi
Emesh - god of vegetation, created to take responsibility on earth for woods, fields, sheep folds, and stables
Enbilulu - god of rivers, canals, irrigation and farming
Endursaga - a herald god
Enkimdu - god of farming, canals and ditches
Enmesarra - an underworld god of the law, equated with Nergal
Ennugi - attendant and throne-bearer of Enlil
Enshag - a minor deity born to relieve the illness of Enki
Enten - god of vegetation, created to take responsibility on earth for the fertility of ewes, goats, cows, donkeys, birds
Erra - Akkadian god of mayhem and pestilence
Gaga - a minor deity featured in the Enûma Eliš
Gatumdag - a fertility goddess and tutelary mother goddess of Lagash
Geshtinanna - Sumerian goddess of wine and cold seasons, sister to man 
Geshtu-E - minor god of intelligence
Gibil or Gerra - god of fire
Gugalanna - the Great Bull of Heaven, the constellation Taurus and the first husband of Ereshkigal
Gunara - a minor god of uncertain status
Hahanu - a minor god of uncertain status
Hani - an attendant of the storm god Adad
Hayasum - a minor god of uncertain status
Hegir-Nuna - a daughter of the goddess Bau
Hendursaga -  god of law
Ilabrat - attendant and minister of state to Anu
Ishum - brother of Shamash and attendant of Erra
Isimud - two-faced messenger of Enki
Ištaran - god of the city of Der (Sumer)
Kabta - obscure god “Lofty one of heaven”
Kakka - attendant and minister of state to both Anu and Anshar
Kingu - consort of Tiamat; killed by Marduk, who used his blood to create mankind
Kubaba - tutelary goddess of the city of Carchemish
Kulla - god of bricks and building
Kus (god) - god of herdsmen
Lahar - god of cattle
Lugal-Irra - possibly a minor variation of Erra
Lulal - the younger son of Inanna; patron god of Bad-tibira
Mamitu - Sumerian goddess of fate
Manungal - an underworld goddess; consort of Birdu
Mandanu -god of divine judgment
Muati - obscure Sumerian god who became syncretized with Nabu
Mushdamma - god of buildings and foundations
Nammu - a creation goddess
Nanaya - goddess personifying voluptuousness and sensuality
Nazi - a minor deity born to relieve the illness of Enki
Negun - a minor goddess of uncertain status
Neti - a minor underworld god; the chief gatekeeper of the netherworld and the servant of Ereshkigal
Nibhaz - god of the Avim
Nidaba - goddess of writing, learning and the harvest
Namtar - minister of Ereshkigal
Nin-Ildu - god of carpenters
Nin-imma - goddess of the female sex organs
Ninazu - god of the underworld and healing
Nindub - god associated with the city Lagash
Ningal - goddess of reeds and consort of Nanna (Sin)
Ningikuga - goddess of reeds and marshes
Ningirama - god of magic and protector against snakes
Ningishzida - god of the vegetation and underworld
Ninkarnunna - god of barbers
Ninkasi - goddess of beer
Ninkilim - "Lord Rodent" god of vermin
Ninkurra - minor mother goddess
Ninmena - Sumerian mother goddess who became syncretized with Ninhursag
Ninsar - goddess of plants
Ninshubur - Sumerian messenger goddess and second-in-command to Inanna, later adapted by the Akkadians as the male god Papsukkal
Ninsun - "Lady Wild Cow"; mother of Gilgamesh
Ninsutu - a minor deity born to relieve the illness of Enki
Nintinugga - Babylonian goddess of healing
Nintulla - a minor deity born to relieve the illness of Enki
Nu Mus Da - patron god of the lost city of Kazallu
Nunbarsegunu - goddess of barley
Nusku - god of light and fire
Pabilsaĝ - tutelary god of the city of Isin
Pap-nigin-gara - Akkadian and Babylonian god of war, syncretized with Ninurta
Pazuzu - son of Hanbi, and king of the demons of the wind
Sarpanit - mother goddess and consort of Marduk
The Sebitti - a group of minor war gods
Shakka - patron god of herdsmen
Shala - goddess of war and grain
Shara - minor god of war and a son of Inanna
Sharra Itu - Sumerian fertility goddess
Shul-pa-e - astral and fertility god associated with the planet Jupiter
Shul-utula - personal deity to Entemena, king of the city of Eninnu
Shullat - minor god and attendant of Shamash
Shulmanu - god of the underworld, fertility and war
Shulsaga - astral goddess
Sirara - goddess of the Persian Gulf
Siris - god of beer
Siris - god of beer
Sirsir - god of mariners and boatmen
Sirtir - goddess of sheep
Sumugan - god of the river plains
Tashmetum - consort of Nabu
Tishpak - tutelary god of the city of Eshnunna
Tutu - tutelary god of the city of Borsippa
Ua-Ildak - goddess responsible for pastures and poplar trees
Ukur - a god of the underworld
Uttu - goddess of weaving and clothing
Wer - a storm god linked to Adad
Zaqar - messenger of Sin who relays communication through dreams and nightmares
Primordial beings
Abzu - the Ocean Below, the name for fresh water from underground aquifers; depicted as a deity only in the Babylonian creation epic Enûma Eliš
Anshar - god of the sky and male principle
Kishar - goddess of the earth and female principle
Kur - the first dragon, born of Abzu and Ma.  Also Kur-gal, or Ki-gal the underworld
Lahamu - first-born daughter of Abzu and Tiamat
Lahmu - first-born son of Abzu and Tiamat; a protective and beneficent deity
Ma -primordial goddess of the earth
Mummu - god of crafts and technical skill
Tiamat - primordial goddess of the ocean
Demigods and Heroes
Adapa - a hero who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality
The Apkallu - seven demigods created by the god Enki to give civilization to mankind
Gilgamesh - hero and king of Uruk; central character in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Enkidu - hero and companion of Gilgamesh
Enmerkar - the legendary builder of the city of Uruk
Lugalbanda - second king of Uruk, who ruled for 1,200 years
Utnapishtim - hero who survived a great flood and was granted immortality; character in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Spirits and demons
Alû, demon of night
Asag - monstrous demon whose presence makes fish boil alive in the rivers
Asakku, evil demon(s)
The edimmu - ghosts of those who were not buried properly
Gallû, underworld demon
Hanbi or Hanpa - father of Pazuzu
Humbaba - guardian of the Cedar Forest
Lamashtu - a malevolent being who menaced women during childbirth
Lilû, wandering demon
Mukīl rēš lemutti demon of headaches
Pazuzu - king of the demons of the wind; he also represented the southwestern wind, the bearer of storms and drought
Rabisu - an evil vampiric spirit
Šulak the bathroom demon, “lurker” in the bathroom
Zu - divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds

Legendary beasts
Battle Bison beast - one of the creatures slain by Ninurta

The eleven mythical monsters created by Tiāmat in the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš:
Bašmu, “Venomous Snake”
 Ušumgallu, “Great Dragon”
 Mušmaḫḫū, “Exalted Serpent”
 Mušḫuššu, “Furious Snake”
 Laḫmu, the “Hairy One”
 Ugallu, the “Big Weather-Beast”
 Uridimmu, “Mad Lion”
 Girtablullû, “Scorpion-Man”
 Umū dabrūtu, “Violent Storms”
 Kulullû, “Fish-Man”
 Kusarikku, “Bull-Man”

Mesopotamian
Stan Kowalski (May 13, 1926 – October 20, 2017) was an American professional wrestler. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was one half of the tag team Murder Incorporated with partner Tiny Mills in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1960 to 1975.

Career 
Kowalski turned to professional wrestling, debuting as Buddy Marco for a NWA promotion run by Tony Stecher.

In 1970, he went to New York to wrestle in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) as Krippler Karl Kovacs. In Pennsylvania, Kowalski and Bruno Sammartino set a record attendance and gate of $86,000.

Personal life 
Kowalski died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on October 20, 2017 in Minneapolis at the age of 91.

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Other websites
The Biography of Minnesotan Wrestler Stan Kowalski

1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Minnesota
American wrestlers
Sportspeople from Minneapolis
Richard John "Dick" Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American retired professional wrestler who was best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.

Beyer was born in New York City. He studied at Syracuse University. 

eyer began as a "babyface" wrestler in the mid-1950s. His career as a "masked" wrestler, The Destroyer, began in 1962 in Los Angeles. He used the “figure-four-leg-lock” on his way to the Worldwide Wrestling Associates (WWA) championship on July 27, 1962.

Beyer went into semi-retirement in 1984. From 1984-95, Beyer taught physical education in the Akron, New York Central School District, where he also coached football, wrestling and swimming.

On November 4, 2017, it was announced that Beyer would be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, by the Japanese government for "a lifetime spent promoting goodwill and bi-cultural exchanges between Japan and the United States".

Beyer died on March 7, 2019 in Akron, New York, aged 88.

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Juan Kachmanian (April 6, 1930 – January 9, 2020), better known as Pampero Firpo, was an Argentine-American professional wrestler of Armenian descent.

Career
An early pioneer of hardcore wrestling, Kachmanian usually wrestled as a heel, although he would go on to have a run as a face after being fireballed by The Sheik. Other notable feuds in his career would include Nick Bockwinkel, Alberto Madril and Apollo Jalisco.

Titles
Among the titles he held in his career were the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version), the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version), the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship, as well as being the inaugural holder of the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship.
Moves
Using the bear hug and the El Garfio as his signature moves, Kachmanian popularized the drawn-out catchphrase 'ohhh yeah!' which would later become associated with Randy Savage. He retired in 1986 and then worked for the United States Postal Service in San Jose, California.

Death
Firpo died on January 9, 2020 in San Jose, California at the age of 89.

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 Online World of Wrestling profile 

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William Anderson "Bill" Mercer (born February 13, 1926) is an American sportscaster, educator and author. He was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 2002, he was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Mercer's best-known work in the field of exhibition wrestling was when he provided play-by-play announcing for the internationally acclaimed World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW,) based in Dallas, from 1982-87.

Mercer is best known as a play-by-play radio announcer for baseball, football, basketball and wrestling.  He was also a news  reporter for Dallas, Texas, television station KRLD, covering the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963.  He and fellow reporters George Phenix, Wes Wise and Bob Huffaker wrote, When the News Went Live, about their experiences during that time.
In his 60-year career, Mercer provided play-by-play broadcasting for several minor league teams: First, the Muskogee Giants of the Class C Western Association, then the Dallas Rangers (Triple A baseball) from 1959–64, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs (Texas League baseball) from 1965 to 1971.  He then moved up to broadcast for major league baseball's Texas Rangers (major league baseball) in 1972 (with Don Drysdale) and Chicago White Sox in 1974.

Mercer has retired to Durham, North Carolina after a long residence in Richardson, Texas.

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The rail bus train can be found in many different countries, they are known as the pacer or the cooker trains in the United Kingdom due to the loud noises and how hot the air was in the trains.

They were made to respond to the outcry for more trains than buses, while saving money with a cheap design. They used the bodywork and engine of a bus and placed them on a train chassis.

Trains
The M1917 Browning machine gun is a .30-06 Springfield machine gun created by John Browning. It was used in World War I and in World War II. It is a heavy machine gun that weighed around 100 pounds with the tripod and 42 pounds without it.

It is a water-cooled machine gun, which allowed it to fire for a long period of time without it overheating. The water-cooling tank made it much heavier. During World War II, M1917 was mostly replaced by the M1919 because it was lighter and let soldiers move more quickly, but the M1917 was still used often.

Heavy machine guns
"El Siglo de Oro," literally "the century of gold," was the Golden Age of Spain. It was a period of flowering in Spanish art and literature. It happened at about the same time that the Spanish Habsburg dynasty ruled the country. El Siglo de Oro does not have precise dates and is generally considered to have lasted more than a century. It began no earlier than 1492, with the end of Reconquista (Reconquest), Christopher Columbus's first sea voyage to the New World, and the publication of Gramática de la lengua castellana by Antonio de Navarre. Politically, it ended no later than 1659, with the Pyrenees Treaty, which was ratified between France and Hapsburg Spain. The last great writer of the period, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, died in 1681, and his death is generally considered the end of El Siglo de Oro in art and literature.

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Diorite ( /ˈdaɪ.əˌraɪt/) is an melted rock that has cooled made mostly of the silicate minerals (materials made of silicon and oxygen). Diorite is in between that of basalt and granite. Diorite is usually grey to dark-grey in color, but it can also be black or bluish-grey, and often has a greenish cast. It is distinguished from gabbro (basalt) because the materials in diorite has more sodium and less calcium. Diorite may have small amounts of quartz, microcline, and olivine. Tiny amounts of muscovite may also be found.  If there is a lot of quartz it makes the rock type quartz-diorite (>5% quartz) or tonalite (>20% quartz).

Diorite has an often speckled, texture of coarse grain size.
Diorites may be associated with either granite or basalt intrusions, into which they may merge. Diorite results from the partial melting of a rock above the area where two tectonic plates merge under each other. It is commonly produced in volcanic arcs, and in cordilleran mountain building, such as in the Andes Mountains, as large batholiths. The extrusive volcanic equivalent rock type is andesite.

Occurrence

Diorite is a relatively rare rock; source localities include Leicestershire (one name for microdiorite—markfieldite—exists due to the rock's being found in the village of Markfield) and Aberdeenshire, UK; Guernsey; Sondrio, Italy; Thuringia and Saxony in Germany; Finland; Romania; Northeastern Turkey; central Sweden; the Darrans range of New Zealand; the Andes Mountains.

An orbicular variety found in Corsica is called corsite.

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Hugo van der Goes (about 1435 – 1482) was a famous painter of the late 15th century He was probably born in Ghent, Belgium. He painted altarpieces and portraits. He painted his masterpiece, the Portinari Tryptich for a church in Florence. The painting shows the Adoration of the Shepherds, a story from the Gospel of Luke about the shepherds who visited the baby Jesus on the night he was born. The painting influenced other artists of the Italian Renaissance because of its realistic style. 

Van der Goes became mentally ill on a visit to Cologne, Germany  in 1481. On his way home, he tried to kill himself. His friends took him to a monastery in Belgium to recover from his illness, but he died in Auderghem a few weeks later.

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Parenthesomes or  septal pore caps  are special parts of the cells of fungi. In many cases they look like parentheses. Their function  has not yet been studied fully. They do not always look the same, and their appearance is useful for differentiating between different species of fungi

Cell biology
Changqing Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Hefei, Anhui, China.

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A Different World was an American sitcom. The series was of the Hillman College, a fictional African American college in Virginia. The show aired on NBC.

The show was aired from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993.

There were many actors on the show, like Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Marisa Tomei, Loretta Devine, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Jada Pinkett.

The show looked at strong topics, like epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, the Equal Rights Amendment, race and class relations.

In season 2, it came to the attention of Bill Cosby and the producers that the show wasn't truly looking at a historically black college. That's when Debbie Allen was hired as the chief creative force to revamp the series.

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Anya Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996) is an American-Argentine-British actress. She starred as Casey Cooke in the 2017 film Split, and will reprise her role in the film's 2019 sequel, Glass. In 2020, she starred in the film The New Mutants.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

Other websites
 Anya Taylor-Joy at the Internet Movie Database
 Anya Taylor-Joy on Twitter

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Jeanne Brousse (maiden name: Maurier; April 12, 1921 – October 19, 2017) was a French resistance member. She was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. 

Jeanne Brousse was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. In 1973 she was awarded the title of a Righteous Among The Nations. In 1981, Brousse was one of the founding members of the French chapter of the association of the Righteous Among The Nations. In 1987, she joined the French Yad Vashem committee, of which she remained the Vice President for several years.

In 2005, Jeanne Brousse was awarded the Legion of Honour.

Brousse died on 19 October 2017 in Annecy, France at the age of 96.

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Walter Lassally (18 December 1926 – 23 October 2017) was a German-born British-Greek cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1964 for the movie Zorba the Greek. He was born in Berlin. He moved to England in 1939. He was closely worked with the Free cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s.

Lassally died on October 23, 2017 at a hospital in Crete, Greece from complications of surgery at the age of 90.

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 Walter Lassally telling his life story at Web of Stories (video)

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George Redburn Young (6 November 194622 October 2017) was a Scottish-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member of the 1960s Australian rock band the Easybeats, and with bandmate Harry Vanda he was a co-writer of the international hits "Friday on My Mind" and "Love Is in the Air", the latter recorded by John Paul Young (no relation). Vanda & Young were also the producers of some work by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, formed by his younger brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

Young died on 22 October 2017 in Australia, aged 70. His brother, Malcolm, died a few weeks later on November 18, 2017.

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 Albert Music: Easybeats Facts 

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Alberto Nelson Sanchez (July 10, 1936 – October 22, 2017), known professionally as Al Hurricane, was an American singer-songwriter. He was dubbed "The Godfather" of New Mexico music. He released more than thirty albums, and was best known for his works to New Mexico’s unique style of Spanish music.

His signature look, which included an eye-patch, was due to an automobile accident that occurred during the 1960s.

Sanchez died of complications from prostate cancer on October 22, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the age of 81.

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Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is best known for playing Whitley Marion Gilbert in the 1987-93 sitcom A Different World. She also played Erica in K.C. Undercover.

For her work, Guy was nominated for and won 4 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series from 1990 to 1993.

Guy was born in Boston, but raised in Atlanta.

Sources differ on Guy's birthdate. Some sources say she was born in 1962. Other sources mention 1964.

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Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and movie director and producer. His career lasted for fifty years. In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the movie Tom Jones.  He also directed The Loved One, during which he worked with established stars including John Gielgud, Rod Steiger and Robert Morse.

He helped pay for the escape of a Wormwood Scrubs prison-imprisoned spy and double agent George Blake in 1966.

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 BFI: Tony Richardson
 

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The Al-Qaryatayn massacre was a massacre of 128 civilians in the Syrian city of Al-Qaryatayn between its capture by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 1 October 2017, and its recapture by the Syrian army in 21 October 2017. The victims were indiscriminately executed for being accused of cooperating with the Syrian government.

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Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British Labour politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover between 1970 and 2019.

Personal life
Skinner was born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire. He studied at Ruskin College. He married Mary Parker in 1960, however the two separated in 1989. They had three children.

Political career
Skinner was known for his left-wing views. He was a part of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. He was a member of Labour's National Executive Committee for thirty years, and was the chairman of the Committee in 1988–89. He was one of the longest serving members of the House of Commons and the longest continuously-serving Labour MP. He was a supporter of Brexit.

In 2020, Skinner was named Honorary President of the Socialist Campaign Group.
Suspensions
Skinner was suspended from parliament at least ten times for calling MPs inappropriate names. He was nicknamed the "Beast of Bolsover" because of his inappropriate comments over the years. Some of the times he was suspended was:
 In 1981, accusing speaker of the House of Commons George Thomas of attending an event to raise funds for the Conservative Party.
 Twice in 1984, once for calling David Owen a "pompous sod", and the second time for saying that Margaret Thatcher would "bribe judges".
 In 1992, after calling Minister John Gummer as "a little squirt of a Minister" and "a slimy wart on Margaret Thatcher's nose".
 In 1995, he accused the Major government of a "crooked deal" to sell off Britain's coal mines.
 In 2005, he said of Conservatives in the 1980s "The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of 'Boy George' and the rest of the Tories".
 In 2016, because he called Prime Minister David Cameron as "dodgy Dave" because of his taxes.

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Other websites
 This much I know, Skinner runs down some matters of importance to him, hosted by The Guardian

 Giving George Osborne a line of wit in December 2005
 Junction 29A in December 2004
 Heart bypass in March 2003

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Melissa Marie Benoist (born October 4, 1988 in Houston, Texas) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying Kara Danvers / Supergirl in the superhero television series, Supergirl.She also portrays Marley Rose in Glee

Filmography

Film

Television

Notes

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 Melissa Benoist on Twitter

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Paul Joseph Weitz (July 25, 1932 – October 23, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and former NASA astronaut.

Weitz flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first manned Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle Challenger flights.

Weitz died on October 23, 2017 in Flagstaff, Arizona from myelodysplastic syndrome at the age of 85.

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Astronautix biography of Paul J. Weitz
Spacefacts biography of Paul J. Weitz
Weitz at Spaceacts 
Weitz at Encyclopedia of Science

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Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D. (born November 22, 1942), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut.

Bluford was the first African American in space. Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of Colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8.

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Other websites

Guion "Guy" Bluford Penn State African American Chronicles profile and interview
 Guy Bluford interviewed on Conversations from Penn State

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Dhanteras (Hindi: धनतेरस), also known as Dhanatrayodashi () or Dhanvantari Trayodashi, is the first day of the festival of Diwali in India and the festival of Tihar in Nepal.

Dhanteras is celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha ("dark fortnight" in the moon's cycle) in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Ashwin. Dhanvantari, who is also worshipped on Dhanteras, is the god of Ayurveda who brought and shared the wisdom of Ayurveda for the betterment of mankind and to bring relief from the suffering of disease with Ayurvedic remedies.

The Indian ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy), announced its decision to observe Dhanteras as the “National Ayurveda Day.” This day was first observed on October 28, 2016.

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Grottaglie is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, Apulia, in southern Italy.

Geography 

Grottaglie is in the Salento peninsula, a whole rock of Limestone dividing Adriatic Sea from Ionian Sea. The countryside around the city has many large and deep ravines.

History 
The name Grottaglie comes from the Latin Cryptae Aliae, meaning "many ravines". People lived here since the paleolithic Age. The fief of Grottaglie was given by the Norman overlords to the Archdiocese of Taranto in the 11th century. In the 14th century the church gave the fief a walls and a castle.

Since the 15th-17th centuries the jurisdiction over Grottaglie fief was split between the ecclesiastic administration (civil law) and the lay feudal lords (criminal law, Cicinelli-Caracciolo family). Fights between these two competing authorities and revolts by the heavily-taxed population were common until the end of feudalism (1806).
Main sights 
 The massive Castello Episcopio (13th century) castle.
 The main church, also known as Chiesa Matrice, dating back to 1379.
 The city's oratory, known as Purgatory Oratory.
 Palazzo Cicinelli, a massive building on the main square later redecoreted to the current fashion during the Baroque period. The palazzo was the seat of the Duke of Grottaglie also Prince of Cursi and Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, hence the residence of the feudal lords of the town on the grant of Bohemo.
 Palazzo Urselli, which maintains the original Renaissance (pre-Baroque) façade, with a massive 15th century gate and a decorated internal courtyard.
 Palazzo Maggiulli-Cometa, whose structure is similar to Palazzo Urselli’s.
 Palazzo De Felice, an 18th Century palace, and ancestral home of the De Felice's family.
 Monastero di Francesco di Paola, representing the greatest Baroque monument in the city. It has a splendid cloistered-court inside.
Culture 
Folkloristic and religious events include the commemoration-day of Ciro di Alessandria d'Egitto and Easter-period when the Medieval-rooted confraternal religious orders perform their processions during the days of the Holy Week (Easter rituals include Procession and pilgrimage of confrères called “Bubble-Bubble” through the streets of town).

Other events include:
 The exhibition “Ceramica nel Quartiere delle Ceramiche”
 The Mediterranean ceramics contest, theatrical and musical events
 Promotion of dessert grapes, months of July–August–September
 Exhibition-contest about ceramic crib scene during the months of December and January
 “Musica Mundi” – international festival of ethnic music in July.

Economy 
Grapes and ceramics are two main elements of the local economy.

Alenia Composite is a factory of Alenia group making parts for the Boeing 787.

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Towns in Apulia
Settlements in Taranto