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The 2012 Russian presidential election was a presidential election. It occurred on 4 March 2012 in the Russian Federation. The election was for an extended term of six years.

Incumbent president, Dmitry Medvedev, decided not to run for a second term.

Vladimir Putin, from United Russia, easily won the election. He received 64% of the vote.

Results

Aftermath
Aftermath 

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe gave an overall positive review of the election, but they did notice some issues. They found that Putin was given more airtime than other candidates. There were also some cases of carousel voting (which is a type of electoral fraud where supporters drive to multiple polling stations and vote multiple times). 
Ruža Tomašić, a OSCE observer from Croatia, noted that there were no violations at the five polling stations she observed.
A few days after the election, 15,000–20,000 people protested in Moscow against the results. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not recognize the results.

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The Jidai Matsuri is a traditional Japanese festival held every year on October 22 in Kyoto, Japan. It is enjoyed by people of all ages, participating in its historic reenactment parade, dressed in historic costumes representing different periods of Japanese history.
This festival started when the Japanese capital of Kyoto moved to Tokyo in 1868. This involved the movement of the Emperor of Japan and his family.
The Jidai Matsuri begins early in the morning with small shrines brought out of the Kyoto Imperial Palace so people can pay their respects. The five-hour parade starts in the afternoon, with 2000 performers dressed as samurai, military figures, and common people from the Meiji era.

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Meknès or Meknes, Moroccan Amazigh : ⴰⵎⴽⵏⴰⵙ  - Ameknas, Arab: مكناس  - Mknas, is a city in the north of Morocco. About 632,000 people were living in this city in 2014.

Meknès is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco. The city dates from the 11th century. It lies north of the Middle Atlas.

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Flurlingen is a municipality of the district of Andelfingen in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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Freienstein-Teufen is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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

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Glattfelden is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Gossau is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Alain Defossé (11 February 1957 – 14 May 2017) was a French novelist and translator. He was born in Nantes, France.

His first novel,  Les fourmis d’Anvers, was published in 1991. He also translated several books from English into French. For example, he translated Crazy Cock by Henry Miller in 1990. He also translated American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis in 1993. 

In 2006, he translated The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. Two years later, in 2008, he translated Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Other novelists whose work he translated are Irvine Welsh and Joseph Connolly.

Defossé died on 14 May 2017 in Paris of lung cancer at the age of 60.

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Dilbagh Singh Athwal (12 October 1928 – 14 May 2017) was an Indian geneticist, plant breeder and agriculturist. He was known to have been a  pioneering scientist in the research in plant breeding. He was well known as Father of Wheat Revolution, he was important in developing ‘PV 18’ in 1966 and the most popular amber grained wheat variety ‘Kalyansona’ in 1967. In 1967, he joined International Rice Research Institute's management team and ultimately served as the Institute’s first deputy director general.

Athwal was a former professor and the Head of the Department of Plant Breeding at Punjab Agricultural University and an associate of Norman Borlaug, the renowned biologist and Nobel Laureate, with whom he has collaborated for the introduction of high-yielding dwarf varieties of Wheat. 

Athwal died at his Princeton, New Jersey home on 14 May 2017 from complications of liver failure at the age of 88.

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Bruce Hill (July 9, 1949 – May 14, 2017) was an American former stock car racing driver. He was born Topeka, Kansas. He competed in the Winston Cup Series, ARCA, and in the NASCAR West Series. He also competed in late model races around his hometown of Topeka later in life. 

Hill died in 2017 due to complications from esophageal cancer at his Topeka home at the age of 67.

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Nasser Givehchi (, November 12, 1932 – May 15, 2017) was an Iranian wrestler. He won the silver medal in the Featherweight division of Freestyle wrestling in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he managed to get to sixth place in the 62 kg division. 

Givehchi ranked fifth at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships in Tokyo. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo Givehchi managed to win the bronze medal of the 62 kg division.

Givehchi died in Tehran, Iran on May 15, 2017 at the age of 86.

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Jean-Yves Le Drian (); born 30 June 1947) is a French politician. He is a member of the French Socialist Party. He served as the Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs under President François Hollande and was nominated by Emmanuel Macron to serve as Foreign Minister in the Philippe cabinet.

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Hywel Rhodri Morgan (29 September 1939 – 17 May 2017) was a Welsh Labour politician. He was the First Minister of Wales and the Leader of Welsh Labour from 2000 to 2009. He was also the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011 and the Member of Parliament for Cardiff West from 1987 to 2001.

Morgan died on 17 May 2017 after collapsing at his Wenvoe, Wales home from a suspected heart attack at the age of 77.

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Bernard Bosson (25 February 1948 – 16 May 2017) was a French politician and lawyer. He served as Minister of Transport, Minister of Tourism, and Minister of Public Works under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur from 1993 to 1995. He was a member of the 12th French National Assembly, representing Haute-Savoie as a member of the Union for French Democracy. He was also the mayor of Annecy. 

Bosson died in hospital in Lyon, France on 16 May 2017 from a long-illness, aged 69.

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Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (; December 3, 1934 – May 17, 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions. He was awarded twice for the Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin. He was born in Ventsy-Zarya, Azov-Black Sea Krai.

Gorbatko died of stomach cancer at his home in Moscow on May 17, 2017 at the age of 82.

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Roxcy O'Neal Bolton (June 3, 1926 – May 17, 2017) was an American feminist and civil and women's rights activist. She was born in Duck Hill, Mississippi. In 1966, Bolton helped form Florida's National Organization for Women, serving as charter president of the Miami Chapter and National Vice President in 1969. In 1969, she successfully challenged the practice that many store restaurants had of keeping a separate "men only" section. She founded Women in Distress, a shelter for homeless women.

In 1972, she encouraged President Richard Nixon to issue a proclamation honoring Women's Equality Day, which he did. In 1974, she founded the nation's first Rape Treatment Center in Miami, later renamed the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center in 1993.

Bolton died on the morning of May 17, 2017 at her Coral Gables, Florida home from cardiac arrest at the age of 90.

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Tziporah Malka "Tzipi" Livni, Hebrew: ציפורה מלכה "ציפי" לבני , (born July 8, 1958 in Tel Aviv)  is a former Israeli politician. She was political leader of HaTnu'a ("The Movement").

Livni served both in the army and in the Mossad. Afterwards she studied law at Bar-Ilan University and worked as a lawyer.

From 1999 to 2012 and 2013 to 2019 she was a Member of Knesset.

In the 2000s she was a minister, including the jobs of justice and foreign minister. During the Second Netanyahu Government (2009-2013) she was leading the parliamentarian opposition. In 2013 she joined the Third Netanyahu Government by becoming justice minister. In 2014 the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused her and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid of trying to bring down his cabinet. They were sent away, which resulted in the downfall of his cabinet.
Originally she was a HaLikud politician, but in 2005 she joined Kadima. In 2012 she founded HaTnu'a. In the 2015 elections HaTnu'a formed one list with HaAvoda (Israeli Labor Party) and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement"), called HaMahaneh HaTziyoni ("The Zionist Union"). In the 20th Knesset she was leading this list with (former) HaAvoda leader Yitzhak Herzog.

Livni is in favour of the two-state solution, besides the State of Israel an independent State of Palestine. As a minister she spoke frequently with Palestinian politicians to achieve this goal.

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The red-tailed black shark is a freshwater fish in the carp family, Cyprinidae. Its scientific name is Epalzeorhynchos bicolor. It is not actually a shark, just so-called in its popular name.

It is endemic to Thailand. It is critically endangered.  It is common in aquariums, where its deep black body and vivid red or orange tail are prized. The red-tailed black sharks seen in aquariums today are all bred in captivity.

It is omnivorous.

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Budalur block is a revenue block in the Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It has 50 panchayat villages.

Population
The total population of the revenue block is 26,874 according to 2011 Census of India.

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The Emoji Movie is a 2017 animated family comedy adventure movie from Sony Pictures. It is about little faces used to text with called, "emojis." Emojis are part of United States pop culture. The movie is about 3 emojis going on an epic adventure in a smartphone to save them from deletion.

Plot
Gene is a “meh” emoji in the phone of a teen named Alex. He is the son of two other “meh” emojis, Mel and Mary Meh. Gene is not like other emojis because he has more than just one emotion. Alex decides to send Gene to a girl he likes, Addie McCallister, but Gene panics. This results in Alex sending an emoji with a weird face to Addie and Gene wrecking his workplace in the phone. Gene is threatened with deletion by a powerful Emoji called Smiler but is rescued by another Emoji called Hi-5 who tells Gene that he can be fixed if they find a hacker.
In the human world, Alex has started to think that his phone is broken. Back in the phone, Hi-5 and Gene visit another app and meet another emoji, a hacked called Jailbreak who wants to go to the cloud. The three emojis are chased by Smiler’s robots from app to app. During the adventure they also find out Jailbreak is actually a princess. A relationship starts to form between Gene and Jailbreak. 

The trio make it to the cloud where Jailbreak is about to reprogram Gene. Just then, one of Smiler’s robot sneaks into the cloud and captures Gene. Hi-5 and Jailbreak chase after them on a Twitter bird.
As Smiler is abour to delete Gene, Gene’s parents arrive, and Mel reveals he also has more than one emotion. Jailbreak and Hi-5 arrive and stop Smiler’s robot, which falls on top of Smiler. In the human world, Alex is preparing to do a factory reset, which will destroy the emoji world. Just before the reset, Gene has himself texted to Addie. This stops Alex from doing the reset and stops the emoji world from being destroyed. He finally speaks with Addie, who likes Gene’s face-changing powers. Gene learns to accepts himself and all the emojis throw a party except Smiler, who is sent to a club for unpopular emojis as shown in the end credits.
Reviews
This movie received extremely bad reviews from critics. They did not like the plot of the movie, because they think the movie was lazily created and simply designed for advertising product placement of apps like Candy Crush Saga, Just Dance and Dropbox. They also stated that The Emoji Movie lacks originality and is too similar to other, better movies like Wreck-It Ralph and The Lego Movie. With a rating of 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it is the worst reviewed animated movie of 2017.

Music
The music for the Emoji Movie was composed by Patrick Doyle.

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Spaichingen is a town of the district of Tuttlingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 31 December 2018, it has about 13,000 people lived there.

Geography 
Spaichingen lies on the Prim at the foot of the Dreifaltigkeitsberg (Holy Trinity Mountain). It is  northwest of Tuttlingen, and  southeast of Rottweil. It has an elevation of  above sea level.

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Greifensee is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Geisingen is a town in Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the Danube River,  southwest of Tuttlingen, and  southeast of Villingen-Schwenningen.

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Grüningen is a municipality of the district Hinwil in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

In 1976, Grüningen got the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.

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Cities in Switzerland
Brooks County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 7,076 people lived there. The county seat is Falfurrias. The county is named for James Abijah Brooks, a Texas Ranger and politician.

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Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 38,095 people lived there. The county seat is Brownwood. It is named for Henry Stevenson Brown, a commander at the Battle of Velasco.

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Tom Green County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 120,003 people lived there. The county seat is San Angelo. The county was created in 1874.

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Live Oak County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 11,335 people lived there. The county seat is George West. The county was named for the groves of live oak in its borders.

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Uvalde County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 24,564 people lived there. The county seat is Uvalde.  It is named for Juan de Ugalde, the Spanish governor of Coahuila.

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Grimes County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 29,268 people lived there. The county seat is Anderson. It is named for Jesse Grimes, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

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Hagenbuch is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Outi Marjatta Ojala (28 June 1946 – 16 May 2017) was a Finnish politician of the Left Alliance. She served as a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1991 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2007, and as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 to 1999. She was President of the Nordic Council in 2002.

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Anil Madhav Dave (6 July 1956 – 18 May 2017) was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician and the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change (Independent Charge) in the Narendra Modi ministry from July 2016 until his death. He was born in Badnagar, Madhya Pradesh.

Dave died on 18 May 2017 from cardiac arrest caused by pneumonia at a hospital in New Delhi at the age of 60

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Reema Lagoo (21 June 1958 – 18 May 2017) was an Indian theater and screen actress. She was known for her work  in Hindi and Marathi cinema. She began her acting career in the Marathi theatre. She was born in Bombay, Bombay State (now in Maharashtra). 

Lagoo starred in Rihaee (1988). She then starred in the blockbuster movie Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) as Salman Khan's mother and then in Saajan (1991). She starred in action drama and crime thriller Gumrah (1993) as Sridevi's mother , Jai Kishen (1994) as Akshay Kumar's mother and Rangeela (1995) as Urmila Matondkar's mother. 

Her Gumrah (1993) was seventh-highest grosser of the year at the box office, Jai Kishen (1994) was a commercial success (declared 'semihit'). Rangeela (1995) was highest grosser of the year at the box office. 

Lagoo died on 18 May 2017 at a hospital in Mumbai, India from cardiac arrest, aged 58.

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Daniele Piombi (14 July 1932 – 18 May 2017) was an Italian television and radio presenter and television writer. He was born in San Pietro in Casale, Italy. He was known for having been the creator, organizer and presenter of the Premio Regia Televisiva, informally known as "Oscar TV", an award ceremony established in 1960 which rewards the best programs, directors and presenters of the Italian television.

Piombi died at a hospital in Milan, Italy from complications of respiratory arrest on 18 May 2017 at the age of 84.

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Respiratory arrest is the cessation of breathing due to failure of the lungs to function effectively. Apnea is the stopping of breathing. Prolonged apnea refers to a patient who has stopped breathing for a long period of time. If the heart muscle contraction is intact, the condition is known as respiratory arrest. Lack of oxygen to the brain causes loss of consciousness. Brain injury is likely if respiratory arrest goes untreated for more than three minutes, and death is almost certain if left untreated for more than five minutes.

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Nawshirwan Mustafa (22 December 1944 – 19 March 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician. He served as the General Coordinator (رێکخەری گشتی / rêkxerî giştî) of the Movement for Change () from 2009 until his death in 2017. He served as the leader of the official opposition in the Kurdistan Region. He was born in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Mistafa died in Sulaymaniyah due to lung cancer on 19 May 2017 at the age of 72.

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Salvador Vilar Braamcamp Sobral (born 28 December 1989) is a Portuguese singer and activist. He won the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest for Portugal with the song "Amar pelos dois", written by his sister Luísa Sobral. He gave Portugal its first ever win in the contest since the country's debut in 1964, ending the longest winless run by a country in Eurovision history (53 years). 

Under the current voting system, the highest scoring winner is him winning the contest in Kiev, Ukraine, with 758 points, with both the maximum points from the jury and the public vote being attributed to him.

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Thiruvidaimarudur is a panchayat town in Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. The popular Mahalingeshwar Temple is located here.

Population
The population of the town is 14,786 according to the census 2011.

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Ammapettai is a panchayat town in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. This town is the headquarters of Ammapettai revenue block.

Population
The population of the town according to 2011 census is 14,572.

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Thirunageswaram is a panchayat town in Kumbakonam taluk, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. It is a famous for its two temples namely the Nagannatha Swami Temple and the Vaishnavite Oppiliappan Temple.

Population
As of 2011 Census the population of the town is 15,082.

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Ya'akov Litzman, Hebrew: יעקב ליצמן ,  (born September 2, 1948 in Germany) is an Israeli rabbi and politician of Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet ("United Torah Judaism", shortened UTJ). He is political leader of Agudat Yisrael ("Union of Israel"), one of the two branches of UTJ. He belongs to the  Hasidism movement of Haredi Judaism.

Shortly after his birth Litzman migrated to the United States, followed by a migration to Israel when he was a teenager.

In 1999 he was elected to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. In 2015 he was appointed deputy health minister in the Fourth Netanyahu Government. Later that year he became the health minister, so he was included in the government coalition of ruling parties. In November 2017 he again became deputy health minister because he didn't agree that the government allowed repair activities on the national railway infrastructure on the Shabbat. Since May 17, 2020 he has been minister of construction in the Fifth Netanyahu Government.
In early April 2020, Litzman was diagnosed with COVID-19.

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Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (born 17 July 1924) is a Dutch computer scientist. He is known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.

In 1982 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1997 he co-authored Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution with Brooks.

Blaauw was born in The Hague. He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1946.

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 Gerrit Blaauw , unsung heroes in Dutch computing history.
 DIESREDE BLAAUW: BESCHRIJVEN EN BEGRIJPEN  26 November 1976 (in Dutch)

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Harry Leslie Smith  (25 February 1923 – 28 November 2018) was a British writer and political commentator. He served in the RAF during the Second World War, later moving to Canada.

Biography 
After retiring, Smith began writing his memoirs and about the social history of Great Britain, during his youth and in the 21st century. He has written five books about Britain during the Great Depression, the Second World War, and postwar austerity. 

Smith writes for The Guardian newspaper, The New Statesman, The Daily Mirror, International Business Times and the Morning Star, and has made a number of public appearances in the UK (including the 2014 Labour Party conference and during the 2015 General Election and the 2016 EU Referendum) and Canada (in his 2015 Stand up For Progress National Tour).

On 20 November 2018 Smith was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering from pneumonia after having a fall at his home. He died a week later on 28 November in Belleville, Ontario at the age of 95.

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

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Hausen am Albis is a municipality of the district Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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The Brenta is an important river in northeastern Italy. It begins near the Caldonazzo and Levico lakes in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and flows for more than  into the Adriatic Sea to the south of the city of Venice.

Geography
The Brenta river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately . Its average yearly discharge is  at Bassano del Grappa in the Vicenza province.

The Brenta, together with the Piave river, formed the Venetian Lagoon.
Course
The Brenta river starts between the Caldonazzo and Levico lakes, two small lakes in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region, in the comune of Caldonazzo, Trento province, at an elevation of about . From here, the river flows through the Valsugana, the valley that goes from Bassano del Grappa to Trento, first to the east and later to the south. In this part, the Brenta is joined by its main left tributary, the Cismon stream, in the comune Cismon del Grappa, province of Vicenza (the Bacchiglione river is larger but it joins the Brenta near the mouth).

After the comune of Bassano del Grappa, the river flows through the Pianura Padana (the "Valley of the Po river"). Finally, it flows into the Adriatic Sea, near the comune of Chioggia in the Metropolitan City of Venice. Near the mouth, Brenta is joined in the locality "Ca' Pasqua" by the Bacchiglione river.

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Richard "Rich" Buckler (February 6, 1949 – May 19, 2017) was an American comic book artist and penciller. He was best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four in the mid-1970s and for creating the character Deathlok in Astonishing Tales #25. Buckler drew virtually every major character at Marvel and DC, often as a cover artist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Buckler died on May 20, 2017 of cancer at the age of 68.

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 and archive of Buckler Comic Art  official site. Archived on December 19, 2013.

Rich Buckler interview at Fantastic Four Headquarters 
Rich Buckler  at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
Rich Buckler at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
"Astonishing Tales 25 and the Birth of Deathlok, with insights from Rich Buckler!"  at GiantSizeMarvel.com

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Albert Bouvet (28 February 1930 – 20 May 2017) was a French professional cyclist.  He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in 1998. His name is also associated with Paris–Roubaix, as an organiser and discoverer of new sections of pavé. He was born in Mellé, Ille-et-Vilaine.

Bouvet died on 20 May 2017 in Paris at the age of 87.

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Syed Abdullah Khalid (1942 – 20 May 2017) was a Bangladeshi sculptor. He was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Khalid has also worked on paintings.He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2017.

Khalid has exhibited solo three times since and he was awarded first prize in the Second National Sculpture Exhibition organized by the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in 1983. At various times he was nominated Judge by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy for national level exhibitions. He was a Professor at the Sculpture Department, Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka until his death.

Khalid died on 20 May 2017 at a hospital in Dhaka from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 75.

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  Liberation War Sculptures:Portraits in courage (Takir Hossain, December 19, 2010)

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Wayne Harrison Walker (September 30, 1936 – May 19, 2017) was an American professional football player and sports broadcaster. He was born in Boise, Idaho.

Walker played fifteen seasons with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, as a linebacker and placekicker from 1958 through 1972. Walker played in 200 regular season games, the second most for a defensive player at the time. He played in three Pro Bowls and was thrice selected as a first-team All-NFL player. 

After the 1972 season, he retired as a player and was a sports broadcaster for CBS and the sports director for KPIX-TV in San Francisco from 1974 to 1994. Walker was a weekend sportscaster during the off-season during his later years as a Detroit Lion.

In December 1999, Walker was ninth on the Sports Illustrated list of greatest sports figures from Idaho.
Walker was diagnosed with throat cancer in June 2007 and lost  after chemotherapy and radiation treatment. In 2015, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He died on May 19, 2017, from complications from the disease in Boise at the age of 80.

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Thomas Charles Lasorda (September 22, 1927 – January 7, 2021) was a Major League Baseball player. He had a long career in sports management.

In 2009, he marked his sixth decade in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest discontinuous (he played one season with the Kansas City Athletics) tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by two seasons. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.

Lasorda came out of retirement to manage the United States team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He led the Americans to the gold medal, beating heavily favored Cuba, which had won the gold medals at the two previous Olympics.

With the death of Red Schoendienst on June 6, 2018, Lasorda was the oldest living Hall-of-Famer.
In November 2020, Lasorda was hospitalized for having a heart attack and was discharged the next month. On January 7, 2021, Lasorda went to cardiac arrest at his home in Fullerton, California and died a few hours later, aged 93.

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Kid Vinil, stage name of Antônio Carlos Senefonte (10 March 1955 – 19 May 2017), was a Brazilian singer, radio broadcaster, composer and journalist. He became famous in the Brazilian rock of the 1980s. He was born in Cedral, Brazil.

Vinil was the vocalist of the Brazilian band Magazine, that used to execute the songs Tic Tic Nervoso (composed by Marcos Serra and Antonio Luiz), A Gata Comeu, Sou Boy and Glub Glub No Clube, all three composed by Vinil himself. In the beginning of the 1980s, he had been member of Verminose, a band of the genres punk rock and rockabilly.

Vinil died on 19 May 2017 from cardiac arrest in São Paulo, Brazil at the age of 62.

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Robert Leroy "Bob" Kuzava (May 28, 1923 – May 15, 2017), also known as Sarge Kuzava, was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher for the Cleveland Indians (1946–1947), Chicago White Sox (1949–1950), Washington Senators (1950–1951), New York Yankees (1951–1954), Baltimore Orioles (1954–1955), Philadelphia Phillies (1955), Pittsburgh Pirates (1957) and St. Louis Cardinals (1957). He was born in Wyandotte, Michigan.

In 2003, Kuzava was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame.

Kuzava died on May 15, 2017 at his Wyandotte, Michigan home from natural causes at the age of 93.

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Gunnar Möller (1 July 1928 – 16 May 2017) was a German television and movie actor. He was known for his role as Andreas in I Often Think of Piroschka (1955). His career began in the 1940 movie Our Miss Doctor. He retired in 2005 with the movie Oktoberfest. 

Möller was born in Berlin. He was married to the actress Brigitte Rau until her death in 1979. Möller died on 16 May 2017 at his Frankfurt, Germany home from dementia-related complications at the age of 88.

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Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian movie director and novelist. He was known for being the director of If the Wind Frightens You. His 1963 movie Life and Death in Flanders was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 movie Palaver was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His last movie, De ooggetuige, won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995.

Degelin was born in Diest, Belgium. He died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo, a borough of Leuven, Belgium from pneumonia at the age of 90.

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Victor Dan Găureanu, better known as Dan Găureanu  (15 November 1967 – 20 May 2017) was a Romanian fencer. He was born in Nicolae Bălcescu, Coțușca Romania.

He competed in the sabre events at the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Fencing Championships after he was defeated by Wiradech Kothny, who eventually won the gold medal. 

As part of the Romanian team he earned two bronze medals at the World Championships.

Găureanu died on 20 May 2017 in Bucharest from a suspected case of cardiac arrest at the age of 49.

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Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (Udmurt and ; 25 December 1951 – 20 May 2017) was the President of the Udmurt Republic.  As President, Volkov was the highest official in the Udmurt Republic, the head of the republic's highest executive body, and leader of its two million citizens.

Volkov took office November 3, 2000, for a five-year term after the first presidential elections in the Udmurt Republic took place on October 15, 2000. Befor the elections, Volkov was the speaker of the Udmurtia Republican Legislature.

Volkov died on 20 May 2017 in Berlin, Germany, where he was being treated at a clinic for cancer at the age of 65.

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Enc. Official Site 
Gazprom.ru  Gazprom's delegation visited machine building compainies in Perm region and Udmurtia 
GDF.ru - 'The Mass Media in Udmurtia, Or A Summer Journey to Izhevsk', Alexander Mnatsakanyan 
Udmurt.ru Official President's webpage (Udmurt Republic Press Service) 
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Thomas Everette "Tom" Wright (September 22, 1923 – September 5, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder. He was born in Shelby, North Carolina. Wright played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball (1948–56) for four American League teams. He threw right-handed, batted left-handed, stood  tall and weighed  as an active player.

Wright played for the Boston Red Sox (1948–1951), the St. Louis Browns (1952), the Chicago White Sox (1952–1953) and for the Washington Senators (1954–1956).  Wright retired after the 1957 minor league season.

Wright died on September 5, 2017 in Shelby, North Carolina from stroke complications at the age of 93.

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Chicago White Sox players
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Joy Corning (September 7, 1932 — May 20, 2017) was an American politician and educator. She served as the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from January 1991 through January 15, 1999 during the governorship of Terry Branstad. She was a member of the Republican Party.

Corning entered the 1998 Republican Gubernatorial primary making history as the first woman to run for the Republican nomination to the office of Governor in the state’s history. After an abbreviated gubernatorial campaign, she was forced to drop out due in large part to a lack of financial support.

Corning was born in Bridgewater, Iowa. She graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. Corning died May 20, 2017 from liver disease in Cedar Falls, Iowa at the age of 84.

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Kimberly Kay "Kim" Reynolds (born August 4, 1959) is an American politician. She is the 43rd and current Governor of Iowa since May 24, 2017. Before, she was the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from January 14, 2011 until May 24, 2017. Reynolds also served as the Chair-Elect of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA). She served as a state senator from Osceola from January 11, 2009 through November 12, 2010.

Reynolds assumed the office of Governor of Iowa on May 24, 2017 because Terry Branstad was confirmed as the next United States Ambassador to China. Reynolds is the first woman to hold this office.

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Ernest Godward was born in Marylebone, London on 7 April 1869. He was the son of Henry Robert Godward, a fireman, and his wife, Sarah Ann Pattison. He lived in England, New Zealand and the United States.   He created the spiral hairpin and a type of carburettor called a petrol economiser, which boosted engine performance and reduced fuel consumption. He also invented the Non-slip Egg Beater 
, a new post-hole borer, a new type of hair curler, a burglar-proof window and a hedge trimmer made from bicycle parts.

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Cast
 Prabhu Deva as Detective Rajan Rugam, Shanmugam's youngest son. He and Latika are the next Kung Fu Masters of Tamil Nadu.
 Lakshmi Menon as Reeka Rugam, Rajan's wife and his detective assistant
 Thangar Bachan as Shanmugam Rugam, Latika and Rajan's Kung Fu teacher. He is also the original Kung Fu Master of Tamil Nadu.
 RJ Balaji as Kalian, Bhairavan's fourth accomplice
 Kaal Venkat as Akshiv in a special appearance in the first song of the movie, Yung Mung Sung Title Track
 Uma Padmanabhan as Lakshmi in a special appearance in the first song of the movie, Yung Mung Sung Title Track
 Prabhakar as Bhairavan Rugam, Rajan's older brother and the first Kung Fu Robber
 Chithra Lakshmanan as Sambantham, Bhairavan's second accomplice
 Ashwin Raja as Sung, Bhairavan's third accomplice
Production
Prabhu Deva agreed on terms to work with newcomer Arjun for the comedy movie Yung Mung Sung in January 2017, with Vasan Visual Ventures taking the role of producers. Actors Thangar Bachan and RJ Balaji were also recruited for the movie, with the former signed to feature as the father of Deva's character. The team held talks with Catherine Tresa to play the lead actress. Her unavailability led the team to cast Lakshmi Menon in the role. Prabhu Deva was revealed to be playing a detective who becomes a Kung Fu Master in the movie.

The movie began production on 9 February 2017  following a launch event held in Chennai.

Release
Yung Mung Sung was theatrically released on 2024

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Tamil-language movies
In the context of engineering, automation is when a device or a machine is changed in such a way that it can fulfill the task it was designed for without the need of human interaction. Very often, this means that the machine is fitted with an additional system which takes control of its functions. For example, a centrifugal governor controls a steam engine.

Benefits of automation are that the output of the machine or device are more uniform, and that product quality is improved. A system that is not fully automated needs human interaction is needed: Many of the tasks involved are repetitive and boring. In general, machines are also designed so that humans no longer need to lift heavy weights or do dangerous things. With automation, human intervention is limited  or absent.

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The pancreatic islets or islets of Langerhans are parts of the pancreas. They have cells that make hormones. Some of these cells are beta cells that produce the hormone insulin.

Digestive system
Pakistan has experimented with Daylight Saving Time (DST) a number of times since 2002, shifting local time from UTC+05:00 to UTC+06:00 during various summer periods, having the effect of making Pakistan counter-intuitively half an hour ahead of India during those times, even though India is generally to its east.

 In 2002, DST was observed from the first Sunday in April (April 7) at 00:00 to the first Sunday in October (October 6) at 00:00. The government cabinet decided to do this "in order to make maximum use of daylight and to save energy."
 In 2008, DST began on June 1, and was initially set to run through August 31 to meet the annual shortfall of 4 gigawatts of electricity instead of enforcing daily power cuts in households and factories. The government later extended the end date to October 31, including the holy month of Ramadan (which began in early September). DST was originally meant to end on August 31, 2008
 In 2009, DST was observed from April 15 through October 31.
Daylight saving time is no longer observed in Pakistan.

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Pakistan
Wels (Latin: Ovilava) is a city in the state of Upper Austria in Austria. It is on the Traun River near Linz. About 60,000 people lived there in 2016.

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Kellogg Company, or Kellogg's for short,(now rebranding as Kellanova in the UK only) is an American food distribution company. It is headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Kellogg's makes cereal, toaster pastries like Pop-Tarts, fruit-flavored snacks and vegetarian foods. The company's brands are Apple Jacks, Special K, Eggo, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, and many more.

Kellogg's products are made in 18 countries. They are sold in more than 180 countries, like France, Australia and Russia.

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

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Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Sir Paul Rupert Judge (25 April 1949 – 21 May 2017) was an English business and political figure. He served as Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc. He also worked at Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, Tempur-Pedic, and The Abraaj Group.

Judge was born in London. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2002 until his death, he was married to Barbara Thomas. Judge died on 21 May 2017 in London at the age of 68.

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Jimmy LaFave (July 12, 1955 – May 21, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. He was born in Willis Point, Texas. After moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma, LaFave created a musical style called Red Dirt music. LaFave was an Advisory Board member and regular performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. 

LaFave has recorded 15 albums and his 2007 release, Cimarron Manifesto, reached the No. 1 mark on the Americana Music Association album chart. In 2012, LaFave released the studio album Depending On The Distance. 

LaFave died on May 21, 2017 in Austin, Texas from tissue cancer at the age of 61.

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 Jimmy LaFave on MySpace

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William Earl "Bill" White (August 26, 1939 – May 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. White was one of the most notable defensive defense men of the 1970s. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He played for the Rochester Americans and the Springfield Indians in the AHL. He played in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings and the Chicago Black Hawks.

White died on May 21, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario from natural causes at the age of 77.

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Luis Oscar Fulloné Arce, better known as Oscar Fulloné (4 April 1939 – 22 May 2017) was an Argentine football coach and player. He played for Independiente Medellín and Real Oviedo before moving to England to play for Aston Villa in 1967.

Known as Oscar Arce during his time in England he remained in the country following his retirement from playing and was a coach for both Sheffield United and Sunderland. He became manager of Swiss side FC Sion in 1980 before going on to become one of the most successful African club managers.

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 Profile at afrik.com

1939 births
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Argentine footballers
Argentine football managers