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Joseph Blatchford (born June 7, 1934) was the third Director of the United States Peace Corps. Blatchford was appointed Peace Corps Director in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. He retired 1971.

Blatchford was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Beverly Hills, California.

Other websites
 An Interview with Joseph Blatchford  Peace Corps Volunteer magazine. May, 1970  Pages 5-13 
 Peace Corps News Clips about Joseph Blatchford

1934 births
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Steve Hewlett (8 August 1958 – 20 February 2017) was a British print and radio journalist. He served as visiting professor of Journalism and Broadcast Policy at the University of Salford. He worked for the BBC and The Guardian and for programs such as Nationwide and Watchdog.

Hewlett died in London from oesophageal cancer on 20 February 2017, aged 58.

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Desmond Connell (24 March 1926 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He was an Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. 

Cardinal Connell was one of a number of senior clergy to have been heavily criticized for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin.

Other websites
Grant of arms of His Eminence Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin 
Desmond Cardinal Connell (Catholic-Hierarchy)
Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
College of Cardinals. Biographical notes. Cardinal Desmond Connell
Archdiocese of Dublin – 26/11/09 Personal Statement of Cardinal Desmond Connell

1926 births
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Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
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Anthony Downs (; November 21, 1930 – October 2, 2021) was an American economist. He specialized in public policy and public administration. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., beginning in 1977.

Before 1977, Downs served for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation. He also was a Senior Analyst at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the University of Chicago.

Downs died on October 2, 2021 in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 90.

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Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten  (5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist. He won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be thought as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Selten was professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Selten, who was partly Jewish, died on 23 August 2016 in Poznań, Poland, aged 85.

References

Other websites

 Laboratory for Experimental Economics , at the University of Bonn, Germany 
 Reinhard Selten – Autobiography
 IDEAS/RePEc
 Economista alemán, nacido en Breslau (actualmente Wroclaw, en Polonia).
 

1930 births
2017 deaths
German academics
German economists
People from former German territories
People from Wrocław
German Nobel Prize winners
Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand actress. She started her career in 2001.

Biography
Castle-Hughes was born in Donnybrook, Western Australia. Her mother is Māori and her father is an Australian. She moved to New Zealand at the age of one. She grew up in Auckland. She became a New Zealand citizen in 2001. Castle-Hughes also has four younger siblings: Rhys, Liam, Maddisyn and Quade.

Castle-Hughes is best known for her role as Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the movie Whale Rider (2002). For this, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the youngest person to be nominated for the award at the time. She has also appeared in the movies Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008) and Red Dog (2011). On television, she has appeared in The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Manhunt: Unabomber.
Castle-Hughes and Bradley Hull, her partner from 2003 to 2010, have a daughter, Felicity-Amore Hull (born 25 April 2007). She was married to Jonathan Morrison from 2013 to 2016. She has bipolar disorder.

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1990 births
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Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau (born 12 November 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player. He plays as a back row forward. He has played over sixty times for Wales since 2011. For club, he played for Cross Keys RFC and Newport RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons. He has played for Bath Rugby since 2016.

Faletau was born in Tofoa, Tonga. His father is Tongan international Kuli Faletau. He grew up in Pontypool, Wales.

References

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 Welsh Rugby Union profile 

1990 births
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Welsh rugby union players
Dana International, Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל , stage name of Sharon Cohen, Hebrew: שרון כהן , (born as Yaron Cohen on February 2, 1972 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pop singer and transsexual.

Dana International won the  Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with the song Diva.

References 
 Dana International Official Website 

1972 births
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Eurovision Song Contest winners
Israeli LGBT people
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Stephen Michael Gleason (born March 19, 1977) is a former American football player. He played mainly as a safety. He played for the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) between 2000 and 2007. He was best known for blocking a punt in 2006, which became a symbol of recovery for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

In 2019, Gleason was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Gleason was born in Spokane, Washington. He is married to Michel Rae Varisco. They have two children. In 2011, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

References

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 TeamGleason.org

Congressional Gold Medal recipients
1977 births
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Francis Pollet (born at Roubaix, 5 May 1964) is a French General officer. From March 2017 to the 30th of June 2022, he is the director-general of the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (French private aerospace university).

Pollet graduated from the École de l'Air in 1985. He started his career as fighter pilot and corporate pilot for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac. He worked in human resources and operational activities. In 2003, he joined higher education as head of École de l'Air at Salon-de-Provence. In March 2017, he became head of the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées. He leaves the school the 30th of June 2022, replaced by Valérie Cornetet.

Awards 
 National Order of Merit
 Medal of Aeronautics
 Legion of Honour
 National Defence Medal
 Overseas Medal

Bibliography 
 Le futur de l'avion : Les prochains défis de l’industrie aéronautique, Ivry-sur-Seine, FYP Éditions, 2020, 160 p. (ISBN 978-2-36405-203-1)

References
References

Further reading
 Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. ()

1964 births
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French aviators
French generals
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The Chifley Tower is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the 11th tallest building in Australia.

Buildings and structures in Sydney
Skyscrapers in Australia
1992 establishments in Australia
Florac Trois Rivières is a French commune, a subprefecture of the Lozère department, in the Occitanie region. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Florac.

The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 when the former communes of Florac and La Salle-Prunet were combined to form the new commune.

Geography
Florac Trois Rivières is in the valley of the Tarnon river, a small river that flows through the Lozère department before joining the Tarn river. The commune is found at the start of the Gorges du Tarn (a canyon formed by the Tarn river).

The city and the Tarnon valley are within the Cévennes National Park but they are not part of the park.

The commune of Florac Trois Rivières has an area of  and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune is surrounded by the communes Quézac, Bédouès-Cocurès, Pont de Montvert - Sud Mont Lozère, Cans et Cévennes, Vebron and Montbrun.
The climate in Florac Trois Rivières in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
, Florac Trois Rivières had 2,107 inhabitants for a density of  persons/km2.

The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as Floracois (women: Floracoises).

Twinned and partner towns
Florac Trois Rivières is twinned with:
  L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
  Arbúcies, Catalonia, Spain

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Florac
 Communes of the Lozère department

References

Other websites

 Mairie de Florac Trois Rivières website 

2016 establishments in France
Subprefectures in France
Communes in Lozère
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Football Club, Hebrew: מכבי אחי נצרת - Mo'adon Kaduregel Maccabi Aḥi Natzrat, Arabic: نادي كرة القدم اخاء الناصرة  - Nade Korat Alqadam Maccabi Ekhaa Al-Nasera) is an Israeli football club in Nazareth.

The club was established in 1968 and plays in the Liga Leumit.

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Executive Order 13769, also called Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, is an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump on January 27, 2017. It limits travel to the United States from some countries and by all refugees.

The order said that no more than 50,000 refugees could be let into the United States in fiscal year 2017 until it was deemed to be in the national interest by President Trump. It stopped the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days (about four months). After that 120 days, the program would start again for individual countries. The order also stopped the entry of refugees from Syria. The order tells some Cabinet secretaries to stop entry of nationals from countries that do not meet adjudication standards under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The United States Department of Homeland Security lists these countries as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The Department of Homeland Security later allowed green card holders and dual nationals of other countries to enter the United States. However, they had to have a passport or nationality of a non-listed country.

There were many lawsuits that tried to stop the order. One was State of Washington v. Trump, which resulted in a temporary restraining order (TRO). The TRO was issued on February 3, 2017. It stopped much of the executive order. The issue is about whether the order is legal and whether it is against the United States Constitution.

More than 100 travelers were held. They were held for hours without family or legal assistance. Up to 60,000 visas were taken away.

Protests against the order took place in airports and cities.

The order was criticized by Democratic and Republican members of U.S. Congress, Catholic bishops, business leaders and universities.

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Immigration
2017 in the United States
An executive order is a rule or order made by a President of the United States. The order tells agencies and officers of the Federal government of the United States things that they must do.

Executive orders can be stopped by the courts in a process called judicial review. They may be stopped if they are against laws or against the Constitution of the United States.

Executive orders have a big effect on the internal affairs of government. They decide how and to what degree legislation will be enforced. They also deal with emergencies and wars.

United States law
Ricardo Domínguez (20 July 1985 – 22 February 2017), nicknamed Pelón, was a Mexican professional boxer. He fought in the light welterweight division. He was best known for having won the 2009 Campeón Azteca tournament at lightweight. After 50 bouts, he won 37 of them. He was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa.

Dominguez died from colon cancer on 22 February 2017, at the age of 31.

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Deaths from colorectal cancer
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Bengt Olov Emanuel "Julle" Gustavsson (13 January 1928 – 16 February 2017) was a Swedish footballer and manager. He played as a defender. He played for IFK Norrköping, Atalanta and Åtvidabergs FF. He also played for the Sweden national football team during the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Ringarum, Östergötland County.

Gustavsson died on 16 February 2017 in Norrköping, at the age of 89.

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A sing-along is an event where people sing songs together. The song leader can use a book of song lyrics and/or music as well as an instrument.

Singing
Crito is a dialogue written by the ancient Greek writer and philosopher Plato in 360 BC. Its only characters are Socrates and Crito. 

It centers around the moral consequences of helping Socrates escape from prison. Socrates argues against defying the law, even though Crito is willing to help him. Eventually Socrates convinces Crito that morally, Socrates must stay in prison and accept his execution. 
Plato, who had been a student of Socrates, wrote this dialogue among many others. Socrates is often a character of Plato's works, and the dialogue between Crito and Socrates is based on the death of Socrates. Socrates did in fact get executed by drinking hemlock.

References 

Ancient Greek philosophers
Theatre of ancient Greece
4th-century BC plays
A teen situation comedy or teen sitcom is a type of situation comedy television show that is made for teenagers.  The main characters on a teen sitcom are usually teenagers.  The shows are usually about problems that are common for teenagers.  Well known teen sitcoms include Saved by the Bell, Hannah Montana, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and iCarly.

Sitcoms
A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama movie. The movie was adapted from Walter Lord's book of the same name.

Plot
The RMS Titanic is christened for its maiden voyage. Passengers and crew get on board the ship. The ship departs from port on April 10, 1912 and heads out into sea.

The ship receives a number of ice warnings from other ships. However, only a few of the messages are sent to Captain Edward J. Smith. The captain does not slow down the ship, or consider an alternate route.

Late on Sunday, April 14, one of the lookouts sees an iceberg in front of the ship. Titanic turns hard to port and tries to avoid the iceberg. But the ship eventually hits the iceberg on its starboard side. The first five compartments, below the waterline, are ripped open. Thomas Andrews, the ship's maker, inspects the damage. He then learns the ship will sink within two hours. Making matters worse, the ship does not have enough lifeboats for all the people aboard.
A distress signal is sent out. The radio operator on the RMS Carpathia hears the distress call, understands the emergency and alerts Captain Arthur Rostron. Rostron, right away, orders the Carpathia to head to the Titanic at full speed. But unfortunately, it will take four hours to reach the Titanic.

Captain Smith orders Officers William Murdoch and Charles Lightoller to begin lowering the lifeboats. Women and children are let on the boats first. However, the women and children are not that happy about getting into the lifeboats. They are then forced into the boats by officers.

The Carpathia is racing to the Titanic site. Before Carpathia can get there, though, Titanic sinks.

On the Carpathia, Lightoller is told by Rostron that only 705 people have survived. They have only passed one body.

Cast
Kenneth More as Second Officer Charles Lightoller
 Ronald Allen as Mr. Clarke (Mr. John Chapman) 
 Robert Ayers as Arthur Godfrey Peuchen
 Honor Blackman as Mrs. Liz Lucas
 Anthony Bushell as Captain Arthur Rostron
 John Cairney as Mr. Murphy
 Jill Dixon as Mrs. Clarke (Mrs. Sarah Chapman) 
 Jane Downs as Mrs. Sylvia Lightoller
 James Dyrenforth as Colonel Archibald Gracie IV
 Michael Goodliffe as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews
 Kenneth Griffith as Wireless Operator Jack Phillips
 Harriette Johns as Lady Richard (Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon)
 Frank Lawton as J. Bruce Ismay
 Richard Leech as First Officer William Murdoch
 David McCallum as Assistant Wireless Operator Harold Sydney Bride
 Alec McCowen as Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam, SS Carpathia
 Geoffrey Bayldon as Wireless Operator Cyril Evans, SS Californian
 Tucker McGuire as Mrs. Margaret 'Molly' Brown
 John Merivale as Robbie Lucas
 Ralph Michael as Jay Yates
 Laurence Naismith as Captain Edward J. Smith
 Russell Napier as Captain Stanley Lord
Redmond Phillips as Mr. Hoyle
 George Rose as Chief Baker Charles Joughin
 Joseph Tomelty as Dr. William O'Loughlin
 Patrick Waddington as Sir Richard (Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon)
 Jack Watling as Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
 Michael Bryant as Sixth Officer James Moody
 Cyril Chamberlain as Quartermaster Rowe
 Richard Clarke as Martin Gallagher
 Bee Duffell as Mrs. Farrell
 Harold Goldblatt as Benjamin Guggenheim
 Gerald Harper as Third Officer, SS Carpathia
 Thomas Heathcote as Steward
 Andrew Keir as Second Engineer Officer John Henry 'Harry' Hesketh
 Patrick McAlinney as Mr. James Farrell
 Howard Pays as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
 Harold Siddons as Second Officer Herbert Stone, SS Californian
 Charles Belchier as Bandleader Wallace Hartley (uncredited)
 Teresa Thorne as Miss Edith Russell (uncredited)
 Howard Lang as Chief Officer Henry Wilde (uncredited)
 Sean Connery as Steerage passenger (uncredited)
 John Moulder Brown as boy (uncredited)
 Henry Campbell as William T. Stead (uncredited)
Larry Taylor as bearded seaman (uncredited)
 Julian Somers as Mr. Bull
 Rosamund Greenwood as Mrs. Bull (uncredited)
Historical inaccuracies
As with many Titanic movies made prior to 1985, this movie shows Titanic sinking in one piece. But in reality, the ship broke in two before sinking.

Reception
The movie won several awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film.

References

Bibliography

Other websites
 
 
 
 
 A Night to Remember an essay by Michael Sragow at the Criterion Collection

RMS Titanic
1958 drama movies
British drama movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Roy Ward Baker
The Fundamental Orders were passed by three towns in Connecticut in 1639.  The orders were the first constitution in the American colonies.

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The Pontine Islands are a small archipelago along the Gulf of Gaeta, in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy, at about  from the European continent.

The islands were named after the largest island in the group, Ponza.

Geography
The archipelago has an area of about  with a resident population of about 4,076 persons. During the summers, many people visit the islands. They islands, Ponza and Ventotene, can be reached by ferry or hydrofoil.

The highest point in the archipelago is Monte Guardia in the southern end of the Ponza island; it is  high.

Muncipalities 
The archipelago has six islands and several islets divided in two groups, part of two comuni of the Latina province:

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Italian National Tourist Board North America 
 Ponziane, ìsole- 

Archipelagos
Islands of Italy
Province of Latina
Weathered is the third studio album by Creed. The album was released on November 20, 2001 through Wind-up Records. It was the number one album on the Billboard 200 during the week it was released.

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On the Beach is a novel by Nevil Shute, a British author who emigrated to Australia. It was published in 1957. It tells about the world after atomic war. Last people live in Australia and wait for coming of the radioactive cloud. When they start being sick of the radiation, they commit suicide. 

A movie based on the book was made in 1959. Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner starred in it.

References

Other websites 
 James Schellenberg, Review of Nevil Shute's On the Beach.

English-language novels
1957 books
Australian literature
Frank Delaney (24 October 1942 – 22 February 2017) was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He was the author of the New York Times best-seller Ireland, the non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections. 

Delaney was born in Tipperary, Ireland.

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2017 deaths
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Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard KCMG MBE (25 November 1916 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator and retired British Army officer. He was born in Dublin. He served as Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1964 through 1970.

He turned 100 in November 2016. Haskard died on 21 February 2017 in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, aged 100.

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Governors of the Falkland Islands
Douglas Evans Coe (October 20, 1928 – February 21, 2017) was an American evangelical leader. He served as associate director of the Christian organization, The Fellowship, (also known as a family of friends in Christ, the prayer breakfast groups). He has also been called as the "stealth Billy Graham." He was born in Medford, Oregon.

In 2005, Coe was named one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in the United States by Time magazine. Coe was an ordained Presbyterian elder and serves as a lay minister.

Coe died in Annapolis, Maryland on February 21, 2017 from complications of a heart attack, aged 88.

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Kendra Lust (born September 18, 1978 in Madison Heights, Michigan) is an American pornographic actress.

Early life 
Kendra was born to a French Canadian and an Italian. Kendra was broke in college so she stripped part time so she could afford school to become a nurse. She worked as a nurse for seven years. Kendra quit nursing after seven years so she could make more money and work fewer hours in the porn business. Kendra Lust is currently married to Chuck Mason and has a daughter.

Career 
During the final years of her career as a nurse, Kendra worked as a webcam model to being the change of career to porn. Kendra had sex on camera first in March 2012 with Phoenix Marie and Rachel Starr for the porn company Brazzers. Kendra did not have a typical entry into the porn industry as she had not done a scene with casting couch prior to getting a job at a big company like Brazzers.

Her first Boy/ Girl scene was with Manuel Ferrara titled Locker Room Pussy in 2012
Kendra Lust owns an Onlyfans Account for exclusive content she produces herself for the fans that she started in the 2020's 

In January, 17, 2022 she told Renee Paquette on The Sessions Podcast (Oral Sessions at the time) that she still does some nursing while continuing to film explicit content. She talked about how when she started the agents weren't necessarily the best for most women and how she's worked hard to make sure women have a better experience with better agents and even owns her own agency for women.

Awards 
Kendra has been awarded "Best Milf Fan Award" in 2015

Kendra has been awarded "XBIZ Milf Performer of the Year" 2X in both 2015 and 2016

Kendra has been awarded "XRCO Milf of the Year" in 2016 

Kendra has been awarded "Hottest MILF" by AVN in 2016.

Kendra has been awarded "AVN Milf Performer of the Year" 2X in both 2016 and 2017

Kendra Lust holds the honnor of being a 7X "AVN Hottest Milf Fan Award"

References

Other websites
1978 births
Living people
Actors from Michigan
American pornographic actors
American erotic dancers
AVN Award winners
Jeanne Martin Cissé (6 April 1926 – 21 February 2017) was a Guinean teacher and nationalist politician. She served as ambassador to the United Nations and in 1972 was the first woman to serve as President of the United Nations Security Council. She served in the government of Guinea as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 until the 1984 military coup.

Cissé was born in Kankan, Guinea. She studied at the École Normale d'Institutrices de Rufisque in Dakar, Senegal, where she trained to become a teacher.

Cissé died on 21 February 2017 in Conakry, Guinea, aged 90.

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Teachers
, (Seitaro Suzuki; 鈴木 清太郎; Suzuki Seitarō; 24 May 1923  – 13 February 2017) was a Japanese movie director, actor, and screenwriter. He made 40 B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre.

He won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991). His movies remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical movies beginning in the mid-1980s, home video releases of key movies such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter became popular outside of Japan.

Suzuki died on 13 February 2017 at a Tokyo hospital from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 93.

References

Other websites
 Midnight Eye interview: Seijun Suzuki
 Seijun Suzuki: Authority in Minority  at Senses of Cinema
 Cinefiles – An archive containing essays, notes, reviews and book excerpts on Suzuki's films
1923 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Japanese movie directors
Japanese screenwriters
Japanese movie actors
Ion William Croitoru (December 7, 1965 – February 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was born and raised in Ontario, Canada.

Croitoru is better known by his ring names, Johnny K-9 and Bruiser Bedlam. He competed in several Canadian wrestling promotions, including Stampede Wrestling, and later wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). 

He wrestled as a jobber in the WWF, but he was booked to win titles in several other promotions.

Croitoru is also famous for his history of legal problems. He was a member of Satan's Choice, a biker gang, and has also been convicted of assault, trafficking cocaine and bombing a police station.
In 2005, Croitoru was arrested for the murder of lawyer Lynn Gilbank and her husband Fred. After a lengthy investigation, the charges were dropped in June 2006 because of insufficient evidence. He worked as a security guard in Vancouver, British Columbia until being arrested in May 2009 for conspiracy to commit murder. 

On January 24, 2011, Croitoru was charged with first degree murder in connection with the 2008 execution of Jonathan Barber in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Croitoru died while under house arrest on February 21, 2017, at a federal halfway house in Toronto from a suspected heart attack, aged 51.

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Harold Ray Denton (February 24, 1936 – February 13, 2017) was an American civil servant. He served as the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) from 1988 until his retirement in 1998. He is best known for his role as President Jimmy Carter's personal adviser for the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident.

Denton was born in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina. He died at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee from complications of Alzheimer's disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 80.

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American civil servants
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Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Ruth Siegel; June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality and writer. She is best known for her radio show Sexually Speaking during the 1980s. She worked for Planned Parenthood in the 1950s. She has also written many books.

Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She is Jewish and moved to Switzerland as a child. She moved to New York City in 1956.

References

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1928 births
Living people
American feminists
German Jews
Jewish American writers
Jewish feminists
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Writers from Frankfurt
Writers from New York City
Pnina Rosenblum, Hebrew:  פנינה רוזנבלום (born December 30, 1954 in Petah Tikva) is a successful Israeli business woman and former politician.

When she was younger, she was a model and an actress (abroad known as Pnina Golan), playing in several movies.

In 1983 she tried to get nominated as Israel's candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Six years later she went into business by starting a cosmetics company called Pnina Rosenblum Ltd.

In 1999 she tried to be chosen in the Knesset by forming Tnufa (an independent list meaning "momentum") with Avi Balashnikov. In December 2005 she became a Member of Knesset (MK) for Likud when several Likud politicians had switched to the recently formed Kadima. Her parliamentary career ended in March 2006 when she was not chosen in the elections.

Pnina Rosenblum married and divorced the same man twice. Later on she married another man.

She has German-Jewish and Iraqi-Jewish roots.

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

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 Pnina Rosenblum's Website
1954 births
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Israeli television actors
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Israeli models
Israeli movie actors
Israeli singers
Jewish actors
Jewish businesspeople
Jewish Israeli musicians
Jewish Israeli politicians
Jewish models
Jewish politicians
Likud politicians
People from Petah Tikva
War Horse is a 2011  British-American war drama movie directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, adapted from English author Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel of the same name.

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2011 drama movies
2010s war movies
American drama movies
American war movies
American epic movies
Movies directed by Steven Spielberg
Movies composed by John Williams
Movies set in the 1910s
Movies set in France
Movies about horses
Pig iron is iron with a high carbon content. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into ingot form, in a blast furnace. It’s called pig iron because when being cast, each ingot being cast looks like a Piglet suckling milk from a sow.

History
Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese knew about pig iron, and were producing it as early as 1100 BC.

Uses
Pig iron is refined into Wrought iron by melting it and blowing hot air through it. Pig iron can also be turned into gray iron.

Modern Uses
Originally, pig iron was poured out the bottom of the furnace and shipped to a steel mill for processing. Now, we turn the metal into pellets before shipping it.

Iron
Alloys
Truro (Mi'kmaq: Wagobagitik) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada.

References

Other websites 

 Town of Truro (official website)
 TruroNS.com (Your Truro information website)
 Central Nova Tourist Association (official website)
 Downtown Truro Partnership
 Truro Daily News

Towns in Nova Scotia
The Hôtel de Montesson was a small townhouse on the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in Paris, France. It was constructed after 1770 for Madame de Montesson, the secret and morganatic wife of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. He had a house adjoined to Montesson's. The couple would eventually marry circa 1768 in the Chapel of the Hôtel. The building would be destroyed by an accidental fire in 1810.

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Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 – January 25, 2017) was an America writer and teacher. He was known as a contributor to Luso-American literature.

His work were mainly autobiography, historical narrative and fiction about the human experience. His first book, Crossing the Sauer, was an account of his three months as a combat infantryman from January through March 1945. Crossing the Sauer was called by Paul Fussell as "one of the most honest, unforgettable memoirs of the war I've read."

Books
Crossing the Sauer: A memoir of World War II (2002)
Through a Portagee Gate (2004)
Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)
Tony: A New England Boyhood (2008)

References

Other websites
Official Website of Charles Reis Felix 
Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent 
Charles Reis Felix -- Bibliography

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Naděžda Kavalírová (13 November 1923 – 20 January 2017) was a Czechoslovakian-born Czech physician, human rights activist and former political prisoner. 

She became actively involved in the resistance to Czechoslovakia's Communist government. She later headed the Confederation of Political Prisoners (Konfederace politických vězňů České republiky) from 2003 until her death in January 2017.

Kavalírová died in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on 20 January 2017, at the age of 93.

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Đinh Xuân Lâm (4 February 1925 – 25 January 2017) was a Vietnamese historian. He was known for having to helped build the Department of Recent History and of Modern Vietnam. He served as vice president of the Vietnam History Science and Chairman of the Scientific Council Center for Information and Documentation UNESCO.

He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and Professor in 1984, branches of history.

Related pages
List of historians by continent

Other websites
 People's Teacher - Professor Dinh Xuan Lam and sadness trans history
 People's Teacher - Professor Dinh Xuan Lam: "I followed the revolution prosper too!" 
 Professor of History, People's Teacher Dinh Xuan Lam
 Prof. Dinh Xuan Lam: "No consultations when writing textbooks used"

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Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer of Jewish descent.

He was known for his help "to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes". For General Electric he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 in 1959. He said that his greatest contribution was to be the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.

He was the father of movie director Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg died on August 25, 2020 at his home in Los Angeles, aged 103.

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Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet movie and stage actor. He was known for playing Grigori Rasputin in the Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.

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Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. (; August 15, 1943 – February 22, 2017) was an American Samoan politician. He served as the territory's lieutenant governor and congressional delegate. He served as a U.S. House Representative from American Samoa's At-large congressional district from 1989 through 2015.

Faleomavaega died at his home in Provo, Utah on February 22, 2017, aged 73.

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Photojournalism is taking photos to tell a story in mass media.  The first photojournalist was Mathew Brady, who took pictures of the American Civil War.  From World War II through the 1970s, many magazines and all the world's major newspapers had their own photographers. There was strong competition to take the best pictures.  Later it became difficult to make money as a photojournalist, because the places to publish photos disappeared, and because there were many more photographers.

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Bradley Earl Ayers (March 7, 1935 – February 10, 2017) was an American soldier, CIA operative, writer and political activist. He was known for saying that the CIA played a role in the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Ayers was one of the first career officers to voice opposition to the Vietnam War and to speak out publicly against it. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Ayers died in Somers Lake, Wisconsin on February 10, 2017, aged 81.

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Harold Boyd Woodruff (July 22, 1917 – January 19, 2017) was an American soil microbiologist. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was known for the discovery of actinomycin, and the development of the industrial production by fermentation of many natural products. This included cyanocobalamin (a synthetic form of Vitamin B12), the avermectins, and other important antibiotics.

Woodruff died on January 19, 2017, at the age of 99 at his home in Watchung, New Jersey.

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John Ronald "Johnny" McCormack (August 2, 1925 – February 22, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. McCormack began his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. He also played for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks.  He retired from the NHL in 1955 season.

McCormack won two Stanley Cups in his career, one in 1951 with Toronto and another in 1953 with Montreal. He also won the 1945 Memorial Cup with the St. Michael's Majors and the Allan Cup in 1950 with the Toronto Marlboroughs.

McCormack died on February 22, 2017 at his home in Oshawa, Ontario, aged 91.

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Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor. He started his career in 2000. He is best known for his roles in the movies The Black Balloon (2008), Sanctum (2011) and The Purge (2013). He also appeared as Lucas Holden in the soap opera Home and Away from 2005 to 2008.

Wakefield was born in Cairns, Queensland. He grew up in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an Austrian medical doctor and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was the Minister for Health and Minister for Women from 2014 until her death. She had also been a member of the National Council since 2006.

Oberhauser was born in Vienna. She was married and had two daughters.

Oberhauser said she had abdominal cancer in 2016. She died on 23 February 2017, at the age of 53.

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Me'a She'arim, Hebrew: מאה שערים  - "hundred gates", is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem. 

The Me'a She'arim neighbourhood was founded in 1874 and its population consists primarily of Haredi Jews.

It is one of the oldest neighbourhoods of the city and lies northwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. 

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Rishon LeZion, Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן  - "first of Zion", is a city in Israel. About 244,000 people were living here in 2015.

Rishon LeZion is in the Gush Dan region in the Central District, south of Tel Aviv.

It was founded by Russian Jews in 1882.

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The State of Israel is divided into six districts.

In Hebrew a district is called mahoz - מחוז (plural: mehozot - מחוזות).

These districts are:
 Haifa District, around the city of Haifa and northern Sharon Plain
 Jerusalem District, west of the city of Jerusalem
 Tel Aviv District, around the city of Tel Aviv
 Central District, southern Sharon Plain and northern Shfela
 Northern District, Galilee
 Southern District, Negev and southern Shfela

Not official:
 Judea and Samaria Area, the West Bank
Likud ( - HaLikud, meaning The Consolidation, official name: HaLikud-National Liberal Movement, commonly called Likud), is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is right-wing conservative, nationalist, and Zionist.

Political leader is Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel, 1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–).

Likud was founded in 1973 as a a result of an alliance (and later on a merger in 1988) of six liberal and nationalist parties, like Gahal, Herut and the Liberal Party.

Founders were Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, who both became Prime Minister of Israel.

Number of seats in the 25th Knesset: 32 (+3).

Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government and the Netanyahu-Gantz Government.

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Creos Luxembourg S.A. owns and manages electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

History 
Creos was formed as a result of a deal to unite:
Cegedel S.A. – the Grand-Ducal electricity company of Luxembourg. It was founded in 1928 and at the time distributed 70% of the electricity in the country.
 Soteg S.A. – Luxembourg's primary gas supplier - and Saar Ferngas AG – a distribution company created in 1929 in Saarland.

2000s
On 23 January 2009, all the unites of ownership from Cegedel S.A. and Saar Ferngas AG were moved to Soteg S.A., which made restructuring with retrospective effect on 1 January 2009. This made a new energy group. Named Enovos, it included the parent company Enovos International S.A. and the two main subsidiaries: Creos (formerly Cegedel S.A.) in charge of network activities, and Enovos Luxembourg S.A. in charge of production, sales and marketing. Enovos and Creos each have a subsidiary for the German market: Enovos Deutschland and Creos Deutschland.
2010s
Over the next two years, Creos consolidated its position on the Luxembourg market. In 2010, it acquired the natural gas networks from Luxgaz Distribution S.A. On 1 January 2011, the City of Luxembourg transferred its electricity and natural gas networks and its teams to Creos in exchange for owning units of property in Creos. The owned units of property increased from 5.71% to 24.57%,. Creos also owns units of property in the following companies: Luxmetering (the Interest Economic Group which pilots the smart metering network) since 2012 , Balansys (joint-venture between Creos and Fluxys Belgium) and Ampacimon since 2015 and NEXXTLAB since 2018.

In order to make a difference between the parent company and its subsidiaries – energy provider Enovos and grid operator Creos –, Enovos International is now called Encevo. End July, private equity firm Ardian sold its stake up to 24.92 percent in Encevo to China Southern Power Grid International, the second grid operator in China and in the world.
2020s
Following a reorganization of the Encevo Group in Germany at the end of October 2021, Creos Luxembourg sold its stake in Creos Deutschland Holding GmbH  . On 1 July 2023, Laurence Zenner, previously head of CFL Cargo, became the new CEO of Creos Luxembourg.

Business sector 
Creos Luxembourg S.A. plans, constructs and maintains the electricity and natural gas transmission and distribution networks in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

In Luxembourg, following the liberalisation of the energy markets, an independent organisation – the Luxembourg Institute of Regulation (ILR) – organises and supervises access to the networks. The tariffs are subject to its approval. The energy suppliers are thus guaranteed transparent access to Creos's networks.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Electricity network 
The majority of the electricity in Luxembourg comes from Germany via two double high-voltage 220,000 volt (220 kV) lines connected to the German network. Interconnection with Belgium has become operational with a phase shifting transformer (PST) at the Schifflange Centre in October 2017. Around 15% of the energy is produced locally (biogas, cogeneration, wind turbines, hydroelectricity and photovoltaics).
Voltage
The electricity is send to the six stations (Flebour, Roost, Itzig/Blooren, Heisdorf, Bertange and Schifflange) where the voltage is reduced from 220 to 65 kV. It is given to industries and large municipal distribution networks. The voltage is then reduced from 65 kV to 20 kV in more than 60 transformer stations in the whole country. The electric energy obtained is distributed to SMEs, towns and villages where the transformers reduce the current voltage to 0.4 kV before distributing it to the final consumer. A control centre, known as Electricity Dispatching, controls and manages these high and medium-voltage networks.

Length
The total length of the Luxembourg electricity network managed by Creos is 10,123 kilometres, including 593 kilometres of high-voltage lines, 3,702 kilometres of medium-tension lines and 5,828 kilometres of low tension lines.
Natural gas network 
Thanks to its connections with Germany, Belgium and France, Luxembourg is linked to the interconnected gas networks throughout Europe. Monitored by Dispatching Gas, the high and medium-pressure pipelines distribute the gas to 60 communes that are connected to the national gas network. Pressure-reducing stations that supply the local networks then reduce the gas pressure. Creos distributes natural gas in 45 communes,.
Since 1 October 2015, Creos and Fluxys Belgium, in collaboration with their respective regulators ILR and CREG, have united the national markets of Luxembourg and Belgium into one Belux market. This integration, the first between two European Union member states, reflects the will of the European Union to create an European gas market without borders,,,. Balansys, the joint venture between Creos and its Belgian counterpart Fluxys, is the balancing operator in the Belux zone from 1 June 2020. In other words, it is responsible for ensuring that the gas market is well supplied, without one of the two suppliers having to pay an entry fee for its gas on the other's market.

Operations centres 
Creos has four regional centres. They build, operate, maintain and repair the electricity and natural gas networks.
The Roost Centre covers the central and northern regions. It covers the high, medium and low-voltage electricity services and the medium and low-pressure natural gas services, the central store and the mechanical and electrical workshops,.

The Schifflange Centre covers the southern part of the country.

The Luxembourg City Centre, which covers the capital and the communes of Strassen and Hesperange, moved together with the Strassen headquarters to a new site in Merl at the end of 2021.

The Contern Centre manages and adjusts the meters, in particular smart meters.

Dispatching for electricity and natural gas together with the monitoring rooms for remote network control and management are installed in Bettembourg since 2020.

Projects 
Creos works in two national projects; smart grids, electromobility and energy management.