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Shih Chun-jen (; 2 December 1923 – 18 June 2017) was a Taiwanese neurosurgeon. He led the Department of Health from 1986 to 1990. Shih was appointed the head surgeon at Tri-Service General Hospital, a medical institution affiliated with the National Defense Medical Center, in 1975. Two years later, he co-founded the Taiwan Neurological Society. He was born in Gosei, Taikō, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan. 

Shih died of a heart attack at a hospital in Taipei on 18 June 2017, aged 93.

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A series of wildfires erupted across central Portugal during the night of 17–18 June 2017, resulting in at least 65 deaths and at least 254 injured people.  

The majority of deaths took place in Pedrógão Grande when a fire swept across a road filled with evacuees. Portuguese officials dispatched more than 1,700 firefighters nationwide to combat the blazes and Prime Minister António Costa declared three days of national mourning.

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The Deseret alphabet () is a writing system invented in the 19th Century in America by the Mormon Church. A group of leaders called the Board of Regents created it. They were from Brigham Young University.

Brigham Young wanted all letters to match sounds, to make reading and writing easier for immigrants. Teachers taught the alphabet in the school system at the time. 

Between 1854 and 1869, books, newspapers, street signs and mail used the new alphabet. Even though the LDS church tried very hard to support the alphabet, it wasn't continued for very long.

History

Creation (1847–1854) 
Church leaders Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball were part of the Board of Regents that made the Deseret alphabet. Other important creators were George D. Watt and William W. Phelps.
Before they decided to use the Deseret alphabet, the Board of Regents thought they would use Pitman style alphabets. On 29 November 1853, they came together to vote. Then, Willard Richards, who was sick when the Board of Regents had talked about which alphabet to use, saw the Pitman style alphabet. He said it looked too much like the English alphabet, and he wanted to start over with something new. His words convinced Brigham Young and the rest of the Board of Regents to make the Deseret alphabet. Less than two months later, the Board of Regents approved the first 38-letter Deseret alphabet.

Alphabet
In the Deseret alphabet, capital letters ("majuscule" or upper case) look the same as the lower case ("minuscule") letters, except the capital letters are larger. In the chart below, the "Glyph" is the letter shape, and next to it is the letter's name, which is how it sounds.

Related pages
International Phonetic Alphabet
Brigham Young

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References

Further reading 
Bigler, David. 1998. Forgotten kingdom: the Mormon theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896.  Spokane: Arthur Clark
Ivins, Stanley S. 1947. The Deseret Alphabet. Utah Humanities Review 1:223-39.
Lynott, Patricia A. 1999. "Communicating Insularity: The Deseret Alphabet of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Education." American Educational History Journal 26 (1):20–26.
Thompson, Roger. 1982. Language planning in frontier America: The case of the Deseret Alphabet. Language Problems and Language Planning 6:45–62.
Wintersteen, Larry Ray. 1970. A History of the Deseret Alphabet. MA thesis, Brigham Young University.
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The Mormon Alphabet Experiment | "From the Stacks" at New-York Historical Society
 M. Scott Reynolds' Deseret alphabet portal
 Joshua Erickson's Deseret alphabet pages
 The Deseret Alphabet at Omniglot
 Deseret Alphabet Translator  Converts standard orthography to Deseret alphabet and vice versa
 Deseret to IPA converter Converts Deseret input to International Phonetic Alphabet

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Mormonism
On 19 June 2017, the driver of a car containing guns rammed the car into a police vehicle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. He was immediately killed by police.

The Champs-Élysées was the site of the an attack in April.

At 3:40 pm Paris local time in Paris a man attempted to ram his vehicle into a police car on the heavily guarded Champs-Élysées.  The car contained an AK47 assault rifle, handguns, and a gas canister. The attacker was killed and the  incident is under investigation as possible terrorism.

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Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She was born in Toronto, Ontario.

She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London. Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time. She married Stephen Freedhoff while an undergraduate, and had two children, Michal Freedhoff and Yoni Freedhoff.

Freedhoff died suddenly of cardiac arrest on 10 June 2017 at the family's cottage in Muskoka, Ontario, aged 77.

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Luis Lusquiños (27 November 1951 – 17 June 2017) was an Argentine politician. He was born in the San Luis Province. He had the highest number of absences in the 2005-2009 period. He was appointed Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during the brief presidency of Adolfo Rodríguez Saá.

Lusquiños died on 17 June 2017 at the age of 65.

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Ivan Dias (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Bandra, a suburb of Bombay.

Dias was Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2006 to 2011, having served as Archbishop of Bombay (1996–2006) and papal diplomat in the Balkans, East Asia, and West Africa. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.

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Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student. He was imprisoned in North Korea from March 2016 to June 2017 after being convicted of "hostile acts" against the country.

Imprisonment
Warmbier, then 21 years old, confessed to stealing a political propaganda poster from a hotel and was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor. The United States made diplomatic efforts to seek Warmbier's release. A U.S. State Department spokesman said Warmbier's harsh sentence was a response to U.S. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear activities. According to his father, Warmbier's confession was forced and he was abducted by the North Korean government for political purposes.
Release
Warmbier fell into a coma in North Korea and was released in June 2017, after nearly 18 months in North Korea. According to North Korean authorities, Warmbier's coma was a result of botulism and a sleeping pill, but U.S. physicians cast doubt on that claim. Warmbier arrived in Cincinnati on June 13 and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for immediate evaluation and treatment. He was diagnosed with "severe neurological injury."

His father believes that he was "terrorized and brutalized".

Death
Warmbier died on June 19, 2017, in Cincinnati, six days after his return to the United States from complications of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by botulism and sepsis. He was also suffering from pneumonia and kidney failure.

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Brian Cant (12 July 1933 – 19 June 2017) was an English actor, television presenter and writer. He was best known for his work in BBC television programmes for children from 1964 until his death in 2017. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. He was best known for presenting Play School and for starring as Brian the Farmer in Dapplewood Farm. On 28 November 2010, he received the special award at the Children's BAFTAs for his work in children's television.

Cant died on 19 June 2017 in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 83.

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Joshua Michael Peck (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom Drake & Josh.  

He began his career as a child actor in the late 90's and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on The Amanda Show. He has since acted in movies such as Mean Creek, Drillbit Taylor, The Wackness, ATM, and Red Dawn, along with voicing Eddie in the Ice Age franchise. 

He also starred as Gerald in a lead role with John Stamos in the series Grandfathered. He also voiced Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also starred in a Netflix comedy, Take the 10, along with Tony Revolori.

In 2023, he appeared in the Christopher Nolan movie Oppenheimer.

Peck is Jewish.

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Savannah Janine "Savvy" Shields (born July 1, 1995) is an American beauty queen and Miss America 2017. She won the Miss America title on September 11, 2016. Before that, she was Miss Arkansas 2016. She was crowned Miss America by Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell.

Shields is the third Miss America from Arkansas.

Before being Miss Arkansas, Shields won the title for Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen in 2009. She represented Arkansas in 2010 at Miss America Outstanding Teen.

Shields worked for eating better and living better.

Shields was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Pablo Alfonso Espinosa of the Monteros Rueda (born 24 December 1941) is an Ecuadorian news anchor and vice-president of news of Ecuavisa in Quito. He holds the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster".

Early life
Espinosa de los Monteros was born on 24 December 1941 in Quito, Ecuador. His parents were from Ibarra.

Career
Espinosa de los Monteros worked for different radio stations in the cities of Ibarra and Guayaquil until 1962. In 1963 he was news director for Radio La Prensa.  He began in Ecuavisa in 1967, the year of its foundation, as the first news anchor of the station.  He was News Director for almost three decades. He hosted the Ecuadorian version of "Who wants to be millionaire" (2001 - 2004 and 2009 - 2011). He received the “Honorato Vázquez” medal from the Ecuadorian government in 1992.

Records
In August 2014, he obtained the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster”.

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Antonio Medellín (15 April 1942 – 18 June 2017) was a Mexican actor. He was known for his roles in the telenovelas Muchachitas and Rubí. In movies, he was known for his role in the 1982 drama Mexican movie Aquel famoso Remington. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. His career lasted from 1962 until his death in 2017.

Medellín died on 18 June 2017 at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 75.

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Pearl Lavinia Carr (2 November 1921 – 16 February 2020) and Edward Victor "Teddy" Johnson (4 September 1919 – 6 June 2018) were an English husband-and-wife team of entertainers, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Carr and Johnson were on British television light entertainment programmes, such as The Winifred Atwell Show as well as Big Night Out and Blackpool Night Out. They represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959 and finished second with the song "Sing, Little Birdie". This peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart.

Carr was born in Exmouth, Devon, while Johnson was born in Surbiton, Surrey. Johnson died on 6 June 2018 at the age of 98. Carr died on 16 February 2020, at the age of 98.

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Eurovision Song Contest details website
 
 

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Alysia Reiner (born July 21, 1970) is an American actress and stage producer. Reiner is best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013–2017) for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast.

Reiner is Jewish.

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Meitei language, officially known as Manipuri language, is the official language, the lingua franca and the most widely spoken language of the Indian state of Manipur. It is developed from the Ancient Meitei language. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.

On 11th May of 2022, Meitei language was supported by Google Translate among 8 newly added Indian languages out of 24 total newly added languages at the same time.

Related pages
 Meitei Wikipedia
 Meitei literature

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Zaporizhzhia (, before 1921 - Oleksandrivsk) is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. In 2001, 817,900 people lived there.

Located on the main waterway of Ukraine - the Dnieper River, at the intersection of transport and communication corridors connecting the south with the capital of Ukraine, western and central regions, Donbass with Kryvyi Rih.

Together with the surrounding settlements it forms the Zaporizhzhia agglomeration. It is one of the largest administrative, industrial and cultural centers of southern Ukraine with advanced engineering, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, chemical and construction industries, a river port and an important transit railway junction. 

According to the Consolidated Scheme of District Planning of Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia occupies an important place in the regional settlement system and performs the functions of regional, international and district centers, each of which has its own zone of inter-village service.
On June 27, 2014, the decision of the Zaporizhzhia City Council adopted the final report of the working group to clarify the founding date of the city and changed the official founding date. The working group concluded that the city was founded in 952 on the basis of the treatise of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus "On the management of the empire", as the first written mention of the settlement on both banks of the Dnieper and the island of Khortytsia.

Name 
Until March 15, 1921, the city was called Alexandrovsk after the Alexander Fortress, founded in 1770. There is no unequivocal opinion in whose honor the fortress was named. The names of Field Marshal General Alexander Golitsyn and Prince Alexander Vyazemsky are mentioned.  

On March 15, 1921, the city was renamed Zaporizhzhia - that is, "located beyond the thresholds."
The name reminds that before the construction of the Dnieper HPP dam in 1932 at the place where the river crosses the rocky southern edge of the Ukrainian Shield, numerous Dnieper rapids, which hinder navigation, ended.

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Tarnobrzeg is a city in southeastern Poland. In 2009, 49,419 people lived there.

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Erzurum is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It is the capital and largest city in Erzurum Province. The 2000 census showed 361,235 people lived there with a Kurdish minority based on the south side. The number of people increased to 367,250 by 2010.

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Thalheim an der Thur is a municipality in Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Trüllikon is a municipality in Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Truttikon is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Villages
Burghof, Gisenhard, Hausen bei Ossingen and Langenmoos.

Gallery

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Haute-Sorne is a municipality in the district of Delémont in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2013, the former municipalities of Bassecourt, Courfaivre, Glovelier, Soulce and Undervelier merged to form the new municipality of Haute-Sorne.

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Clos du Doubs is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Epauvillers, Epiquerez, Montenol, Montmelon, Ocourt, Saint-Ursanne and Seleute merged into the new municipality of Clos du Doubs.

Clos du Doubs is about  west of Delémont.

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Alliance is a city in Ohio in the United States. Most of the city is in Stark County while a small portion is in neighboring Mahoning County. The population was 22,322 as of the 2010 census.

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Castroville is a city in Medina County, Texas, United States.

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Adrian is a city in Oldham County, Texas, United States. It is on the historic U.S. Route 66.

People 
166 people lived there in the 2010 United States Census.

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Pickerington is a city in Fairfield and Franklin, Ohio in the United States. It is a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. 18,291 people lived there in the 2010 United States Census.

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Dry Drayton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. It is about 5 miles (8 kilometres) northwest of Cambridge.

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Glendora is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is  east of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Biesheim is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Biltzheim is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Turbenthal is a municipality in Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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The Köllerbach (Saar) is a river of Saarland, Germany.

Geography of Saarland
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Elias (Eli) Burstein (September 30, 1917 – June 17, 2017) was an American experimental condensed matter physicist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. 

His career in science lasted for 70 years. He was known for his pioneering fundamental research in the optical physics of solids; for writing and editing hundreds of articles and other publications; for bringing together scientists from around the world in international meetings, conferences, and symposia; and for training and mentoring dozens of younger physicists.

Burstein died on June 17, 2017 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania at the age of 99.

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Hans Breder (October 20, 1935 – June 18, 2017) was a German-American artist. His works have been presented in several places in the United States and all over the world. He has shown with the Richard Feigen Gallery (1967-1972), the Mitchell Algus Gallery, and Hachmeister Gallery.

Breder was born in Herford, Germany. He studied at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg in Hamburg. He was married to Barbara Welch from 1984 until his death in 2017. Breder died in Iowa City, Iowa on June 18, 2017, aged 81.

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Tony DiCicco (August 5, 1948 – June 19, 2017) was an American soccer player and coach and TV commentator. He was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

DiCicco was best known as the coach of the United States women's national soccer team from 1994 to 1999, during which time the team won an Olympic gold medal in 1996 and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. He was also coach of the USA team that won the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

DiCicco died on June 19, 2017 from cancer at his home in Wethersfield, Connecticut, aged 68.

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 Tony DiCicco, U.S. Women's National Soccer Coach, World Cup Champion - amherst.edu

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Albert Johnson (November 2, 1974 – June 20, 2017), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was an American rapper. He was known for being the one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep with Havoc. He also appeared in the 2007 drama movie Blackout and Eminem biopic 8 Mile.

Prodigy died of complications from sickle-cell anemia and choking on an egg at a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 20, 2017, aged 42.

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Melanie Anne Safka (better known as Melanie; born February 3, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter. She is best known for hit songs, like "Ruby Tuesday" and "Brand New Key". Another well-known song is about performing at the 1969 Woodstock Festival: "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".

In 1989, Safka won an Emmy Award for writing the lyrics to "The First Time I Loved Forever". It was the theme song to the television series Beauty and the Beast.

One of Safka's songs, "Brand New Key", was banned by some radio stations because the lyrics could be teasing about sex.

Safka was born in the Astoria area of Queens in New York City.

Further reading 
 Melanie: The First Lady of Woodstock (2011); a biography by John Lambo

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The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is the result of a huge volcanic outburst which started at the end of the Triassic period. 

It is the Earth's biggest continental large igneous province, with an area of about 11 million km2. It is mainly of basalt, and formed before the breakup of Pangaea in the Mesozoic Era. It may have caused the end-Triassic extinction event. 

The subsequent breakup of Pangaea created the Atlantic Ocean and provided a legacy of basaltic dikes, sills, and lavas over a vast area around the present central North Atlantic Ocean.

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St. George's is a city in Grenada. It is the capital. Many people come to visit.

Economy
The city grows a lot of cocoa, nutmeg, and mace spice.

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Theodor Bergmann (March 7, 1916 – June 12, 2017) was a German agronomist and writer. He was born in Berlin. Until 1981, he was Professor for international comparisons in agrarian policy at University of Hohenheim. He was born in Berlin and of Jewish descent.

Bergmann died on June 12, 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany at the age of 101.
Works
 50 Jahre KPD (Opposition): December 30, 1928 – December 30, 1978; der Beitrag der KPO zur marxistischen Theorie und zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung. Versuch einer kritischen Würdigung. Hannover 1978  
 Agrarpolitik und Agrarwirtschaft sozialistischer Länder. 2. üb. Aufl. Saarbrücken 1979. 
 Sozialistische Agrarpolitik. Köln 1984. (gemeinsam mit Peter Gey und Wolfgang Quaisser) 
 Die Geschwister Thalheimer. Skizzen ihrer Leben und Politik. Mainz 1993 (mit Wolfgang Haible) 
 Von der Utopie zur Kritik. Friedrich Engels – ein Klassiker nach 100 Jahren. Hamburg 1996 (Hrsg., gemeinsam mit Mario Keßler, Joost Kircz und Gert Schäfer) 
 mit Wolfgang Haible Hg.: Reform, Demokratie, Revolution. Zur Aktualität von Rosa Luxemburg. Supplement zu Sozialismus (Zeitschrift) H. 5, Hamburg 1997 
 Der Widerschein der Russischen Revolution. Ein kritischer Rückblick auf das Jahr 1917 und die Folgen. Hamburg 1997. (Hrsg., gemeinsam mit Wladislaw Hedeler, Mario Keßler und Gert Schäfer)

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Leila Abashidze (; August 1, 1929 – April 8, 2018) was a Georgian actress, director and screenwriter. She was known as Meritorious Artist of Georgia, People's Artist of Georgia.

Abashidze was awarded thr Order of the Red Banner of Labour, as well as of awards of European and Asian movie festivals, also has her own honorary star in front of Rustaveli cinema on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia.

During her career she was widely considered as "Mary Pickford of USSR". She was one of the most popular Georgian and Soviet actresses.

Career
The 1954 movie Dragonfly (1954) made her a popular comedic actress. She has had one of her biggest commercial successes with the drama Meeting Past (1966), for which, in 1968, she was awarded on Leningrad (now: Saint Petersburg) Film Festival as a Best Actress.

She was the writer of Anticipation (1970), Silence of Towers (1978). She is director, writer  and the leading actress of Tbilisi-Paris-Tbilisi (1980).
Death
Abashidze died of a stroke in Tbilisi on 8 April 2018 at the age of 88.

Awards
Meritorious Artist of Georgia (1958)
People's Artist of Georgia (1965)
People's Artist of Chechnya-Ingushetia (1964)
Honors:  Order of the Red Banner (1961) (In Georgian: წითელი დროშის ორდენი, in Russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени)
Best actress at the   St. Petersburg Film festival, 1968.
Prize of 2 world festivals, Tokyo, 1997.

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Emil Wojtaszek (27 August 1927 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish politician. He served as the minister of foreign affairs of the People's Republic of Poland from 1976 to 1980. He was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was born in Kraków, Poland.

Wojtaszek died on 17 June 2017 in Warsaw, aged 89.

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Pompeyo Ezequiel Márquez Millán (28 May 1922 – 21 June 2017) was a Venezuelan politician, journalist and former marxist guerrilla member in the 1960s. He was one of the founders of Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), and part of the opposition to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. 

In the 1980s, he was a member of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado (COPRE). In 1989, he was appointed by Carlos Andrés Pérez as a member of the Presidential Committee for Colombian-Venezuelan Border Issues (COPAF) chaired by Ramón José Velásquez. He was Minister of Borders of the Government of Rafael Caldera.

Márquez died on 21 June 2017 in Caracas, at the age of 95.

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Bernard Lown (June 7, 1921 – February 16, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and anti-nuclear war activist. He was the original developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter, as well as a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Career
Lown developed the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation and the cardioverter for correcting rapid disordered heart rhythms, and introduced a new use for the drug lidocaine to control heartbeat disturbances. Throughout his medical career, Lown focused on two major medical challenges: the problem of sudden cardiac death and the role of psychological stress on the cardiovascular system. His investigations led to many medical break-throughs.  

His work made possible and safe much of modern cardiac surgery, as well as a host of other innovations.
In 1985, Lown accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organization he co-founded with Soviet cardiologist Dr. Yevgeny Chazov, who later was Minister Of Health of the USSR.

Personal life
Lown was born to a Jewish family in Utena, Lithuania, the grandson of rabbis. He was raised in Lewiston, Maine. Lown studied at the University of Maine and at Johns Hopkins University. He was married to Louise Lown. They had three children.

Lown died at his home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts from pneumonia caused by congestive heart failure on February 16, 2021 at the age of 99.

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 Dr. Bernard Lown's Official Website
 The Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation
 A Heart Doctor With an Extra Big Heart
 Prescription for Survival -- interview from the public radio program "Living On Earth"
 The Lost Art of Healing -- interview from the public radio program "Humankind"
 Bernard Lown papers, 1933-2033 (inclusive, 1960-1995 (bulk), HMS c300. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine , Harvard Medical School

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The Vanne is a river in eastern France that flows through the Aube and Yonne departments, in the Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regions. The Vanne is a right tributary of the Yonne river.

Geography
The Vanne river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Pont-sur-Vanne in the Yonne department.

Course
The watershed of the Vanne is in the Aube and Yonne departments. It starts, an altitude of , under the church of the commune of Fontvannes. a small town that is at about  to the west of the city of Troyes, the capital of the Aube department. It then flows to the southwest and gets into the Yonne department.

In Sens. the Vanne joins, by its right side, the Yonne river at an altitude of .
The Vanne flows through the following communes:
 Aube department
 Fontvannes, Bucey-en-Othe, Estissac, Neuville-sur-Vanne, Villemaur-sur-Vanne, Paisy-Cosdon, Saint-Benoist-sur-Vanne, Rigny-le-Ferron and Vulaines.
 Yonne department
 Flacy, Bagneaux, Villeneuve-l'Archevêque, Molinons, Foissy-sur-Vanne, Chigy, Pont-sur-Vanne, Theil-sur-Vanne, Villiers-Louis, Malay-le-Petit, Malay-le-Grand, Maillot and Sens.

Main tributaries 
Most of the tributaries of the Vanne are small streams; the only important tributaries (all of them left tributaries) are:
 Ancre - 15.9 km
 Nosle - 13.4 km
 Cérilly - 15.2 km

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Related pages
 List of rivers of France

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 Banque Hydro - Station H2622010 - La Vanne à Pont-sur-Vanne (Synthèse)  

Rivers of Grand Est
Rivers of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Uetikon am See is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Uitikon is a municipality in the district Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Unterengstringen is a municipality in the district Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Unterstammheim was a municipality of the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019, the former municipalities of Oberstammheim, Unterstammheim and Waltalingen merged into the new municipality of Stammheim.

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Money in the Bank (2017) was a wrestling event watched on pay-per-view and the WWE Network. The event was made by WWE and only had wrestlers from SmackDown. It happened on June 18, 2017 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the eighth Money in the Bank and the first with a Money in the Bank ladder match for women. 

Seven matches were performed at Money in the Bank and one of them was on the pre-show. Baron Corbin won the last match which was the Money in the Bank ladder match. Also, Jinder Mahal beat Randy Orton so he would still hold the WWE Championship and Carmella cheated to win the first Money in the Bank ladder match for women. The event was also interesting because it was Mike Kanellis' first time ever in WWE and Maria Kenellis' first time in WWE since 2010.

Background
Background

Men's Money in the Bank ladder match 
Every Money in the Bank has had a Money in the Bank ladder match which has several wrestlers and you win by climbing a ladder and grabbing the briefcase held above the ring. The winner gets a match for a world championship whenever they want. Since this event only had wrestlers from SmackDown, the winner would not get a match for Raw's world championship which is called the WWE Universal Championship. Instead, the winner would get a match for SmackDown's world championship which is the WWE Championship.

On the May 23 episode of SmackDown, Shane McMahon announced who he chose to be in the Money in the Bank ladder match. He chose A.J. Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn and Baron Corbin. But Kevin Owens was upset by this because he beat A.J. at Backlash and if A.J. is in the match, he should be too. Shane then decided to add Kevin to the match.
Jinder Mahal vs. Randy Orton 
At Backlash, Jinder Mahal beat Randy Orton with help from the Singh Brothers and won his first WWE Championship. On the next episode of SmackDown, Jinder had a celebration but usually when a champion loses their title, they get a rematch at the following PPV. Shane McMahon came down to the ring and it turned out, Randy had asked for a rematch which Shane gave him.
Women's Money in the Bank ladder match 
On the May 23 episode of SmackDown, Charlotte Flair, Natalya, Tamina and Becky Lynch, one by one, asked SmackDown's commissioner, Shane McMahon, for a match against Naomi for her WWE SmackDown Women's Championship. Shane decided to have a fatal 5-way match between the three of them where the winner would face Naomi at Money in the Bank. But before the match, the five starting brawling. So Shane came down to the ring and said he decided to have the first ever women's Money in the Bank ladder match where the winner would get a match for the SmackDown Women's Championship whenever they want.
Matches 
 The Hype Bros (Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley) beat The Colons (Primo Colon and Epico Colon) in a tag team match on the pre-show.
 Carmella (with James Ellsworth) beat Charlotte Flair, Natalya, Tamina and Becky Lynch in a Money in the Bank ladder match for a WWE SmackDown Women's Championship match contract.
 The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) (with Xavier Woods) beat The Usos (champions) by countout in a tag team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship.
 Naomi (champion) beat Lana by submission in a singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship.
 Jinder Mahal (champion) beat Randy Orton in a singles match for the WWE Championship.
 Breezango (Fandango and Tyler Breeze) beat The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor) in a tag team match.
 Baron Corbin beat A.J. Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Dolph Ziggler, Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens in a Money in the Bank ladder match for a WWE Championship match contract.
WWE Money in the Bank
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Burnet County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 49,130 people lived there. The county seat is Burnet.

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Callahan County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 13,708 people lived there. The county seat is Baird.

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Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 28,454 people lived there. The county seat is Linden.

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Chambers County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 46,571 people lived there. The county seat is Anahuac.

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Cherokee County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 50,412 people lived there. The county seat is Rusk.

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Zoltan Sarosy (August 23, 1906 – June 19, 2017) was a Canadian chess master. He was born in Budapest. He won numerous tournaments in his native country, before immigrating to Toronto in the early 1950s.

Sarosy won chess tournaments in several cities in Hungary including Nagykanizsa (1929), Pécs (1932), and Budapest (1934). During World War II he won the Hungarian Master Candidates Tournament at Diosgyor 1943. After the war, following a period in a refugee camp in West Germany, he moved to France in 1948. In 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame.

Sarosy died on June 19, 2017 in Toronto at the age of 110.

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 Berry, Jonathan, "Chess", The Globe and Mail, December 30, 2006, pg. R17
 Berry, J. "Chess", The Globe and Mail, September 16, 2006, pg. R25
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Steffi Martin (later Steffi Walter, 17 September 1962 – 21 June 2017) was an East German luger. He competed during the 1980s. She won gold medals in the women's singles event, first at Sarajevo in 1984 under her maiden name Martin, then became the first woman to repeat as Olympic champion at Calgary in 1988 under her married name Walter.

Martin was born in Schlema, Saxony. She also won two gold medals in the women's singles event at the FIL World Luge Championships (1983, 1985). She also won two silver medals in the women's singles event at the FIL European Luge Championships (1982, 1986).

Martin was overall Luge World Cup champion in women's singles in 1983–84 (shared with fellow East German Bettina Schmidt).

Martin died on 21 June 2017 in Hamburg, Germany from pancreatic cancer, aged 54.

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Sergei Aleksandrovich Mylnikov (, 6 October 1958 – 20 June 2017) was an Russian ice hockey goaltender and coach who competed in the Soviet Hockey League, National Hockey League, and the Swedish Division 2. He was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

He mostly played for Traktor Chelyabinsk (1976–80, 1983–89), and also briefly for SKA Leningrad (1980–82), the Quebec Nordiques (1989–90), and Skedvi/Säter IF (1993–95).  He was a member of the Soviet national team, winning a gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics and at the 1989 and 1990 IIHF World Championships.

Mylnikov died in Moscow from heart failure on 20 June 2017 at the age of 58.

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Mustafa Abdul Qadir Tlass (11 May 1932 – 19 June 2017) was a Syrian senior military officer and politician. He was born in Rastan, French Mandate of Syria. He was Syria's Minister of Defense from 1972 to 2004. He was part of the four-member Regional Command during the Hafez al-Assad era.

He had the rank of colonel general.

Tlass died on 19 June 2017 in Paris, France at the age of 85.

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Abdul Halim Khaddam (   (; 15 September 1932 – 31 March 2020) was a Syrian politician.

Khaddam was Vice President of Syria from 1984 to 2005. He was one of the few Sunni Muslims to make it to the top of the Alawite-dominated Syrian leadership. He was long known as a loyalist of Hafez al-Assad, and held a strong position within the Syrian government until he resigned his positions and fled the country in 2005 in protest against certain policies of Hafez's son and successor, Bashar al-Assad.

He served as interim President of Syria from 10 June 2000 to 17 July 2000 when Hafez al-Assad died in June 2000. He was later replaced by Bashar al-Assad.

Khaddam died on 31 March 2020 in France of a heart attack, aged 87.

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Concetto Antonio "Con" Sciacca (13 June 1947 – 21 June 2017) was an Italian-born Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party and member of the Australian House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996 and again from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland. He was born in Sicily, Italy.

Sciacca died on 21 June 2017 in Brisbane, Australia from liver cancer, aged 70.

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Kaiho Tuomas Albin Gerdt (28 May 1922 – 1 November 2020) was a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. Gerdt, serving as a junior runner officer in the infantry regiment 7, was awarded the Mannerheim Cross on 8 September 1942. At that time he held the rank of a Sergeant. After coming home from the war on 13 November 1944, Gerdt worked as a manager in Oy Wilh. Schauman Ab and as an office manager in Oy Kaukas Ab and Kymmene Oy. He was born in Heinävesi, Finland. 

Gerdt, serving as the chairman of the Mannerheim Cross Knight Foundation, is the last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross.

Gerdt died on 1 November 2020 in Helsinki at the age of 98.

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 Hurmerinta, Ilmari; Viitanen, Jukka: Suomen puolesta, Mannerheim-ristin ritarit 1941-1945. Jyväskylä: Gummerus, 2004.
 Hurmerinta, Ilmari (ed.): Mannerheim-ristin ritarit: Ritarimatrikkeli. Mannerheim Cross Knight Foundation, 2008.

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"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a famous song by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The song is part of the musical, Carousel. It was first released in 1945. A version by Mersey Beat band Gerry and the Pacemakers was recorded in 1963. This cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone" soon became a very popular song with football fans. This is most famous with Liverpool Football Club.

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Anthony Edward Tudor Browne (born 11 September 1946, in Sheffield)  is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, mainly picture books, with nearly forty titles to his name. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2000. From 2009 to 2011 he was Children's Laureate.

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 Anthony Browne index at The Guardian —includes one Gallery (14 pictures)
 Anthony Browne  at Children's Book Illustration —with extensive Gallery

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Alexis Kaufman (born August 9, 1991) is an American professional wrestler. She is currently signed to WWE. She is better known by her ring name Alexa Bliss. Kaufman signed a contract with WWE in May 2013. She trained at the  WWE Performance Center. She first performed as Bliss for WWE NXT. In July 2016 Bliss was moved to WWE SmackDown where she won the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship two times, the first person to win it twice. She moved to Raw in April 2017. She won the WWE Raw Women's Championship later that month. Bliss was the first person to win both the Smackdown and Raw Women's championships.

Kaufman said that watching Trish Stratus and Rey Mysterio got her into wrestling. She is a big fan of Disney, when she was younger her family went to Walt Disney World each year. She also supports her hometown ice hockey team the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kaufman was engaged to another wrestler Matthew Adams, who is best known by his ring name Buddy Murphy.
Championships and accomplishments
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked No. 29 of the top 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2016
 Ranked No. 3 of the top 50 female singles wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2017
 Sports Illustrated
 Ranked No. 6 in the top 10 female singles wrestlers in 2018
 WWE
 WWE Raw Women's Championship (3 times)
 WWE SmackDown Women's Championship (2 times)
 WWE Women's Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Nikki Cross
 Money in the Bank (Women's 2018)
 Second Women's Triple Crown Champion

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