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Geoffrey David "Geoff" Grover (19 September 1943 – 12 April 2017), was a former Australian rules footballer.

Grover played for two seasons with the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, and was a business and marketing expert, who finished his career working in real estate on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

He played 119 senior games for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), including the 1967 Grand Final against Dandenong Football Club.

Grover was born in Glen Huntly, Victoria. He studied at Albury Grammar School, Caulfield Grammar School, Monash University, and the University of Melbourne.

In the 1980s he was National President of the Furniture Manufacturers Association.

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 Caulfield Grammarians Complete Player List: Season Debut & Player Number, Caulfield Grammarians Football Club, 2015.
 Devaney, J., Full Points Footy: Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs Volume One, Full Points Publications, (Lincoln), 2008.
 Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
 Australian National Football Council (ANFC), “Player Details”, Australian National Football Championships: Programme, Saturday, 11th June 1966, (Hobart), 1966.
 Webber, H., Years May Pass On... Caulfield Grammar School, 1881–1981, Centenary Committee, Caulfield Grammar School, (East St Kilda), 1981. 

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Giandomenico Boncompagni (13 May 1932 – 16 April 2017), best known as Gianni Boncompagni, was an Italian television and radio presenter, television director, screenwriter and lyricist.

Boncompagni made his television debut in 1977, as the presenter of the musical variety Discoring. Between 1987 and 1990 he wrote and directed the Sunday afternoon show Domenica in. In 1991, he moved to Fininvest, where he created the show Non è la Rai.

Boncompagni died in Rome, Italy on 16 April 2017 from a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 84.

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David Brumbaugh (December 2, 1960 – April 15, 2017) was an American businessman and Republican politician from Oklahoma.

Brumbaugh was a Representative in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for District 76, located in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma from 2011 until his death in 2017. He was Chairman for the Oklahoma Republican House Caucus which serves as the majority party in the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

Brumbaugh died on April 15, 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, aged 56.

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Oklahoma State Election Board Summary Results, Primary Election — July 27, 2010
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Income Tax Targeted by State Lawmakers

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Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer. He was best known for his work in jazz fusion.

Career
Holdsworth was known for his knowledge of music, through which he created works in chord progressions and solos. His unique legato soloing technique came from his desire to originally play the saxophone. He also become associated with playing an early form of guitar synthesizer called the SynthAxe, a company which he worked for in the 1980s.

Influence
Holdsworth has been called as an influence by such renowned rock, metal and jazz guitarists as Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Shawn Lane, and Alex Lifeson.

Frank Zappa once called him as "one of the most interesting guys on guitar on the planet", while Robben Ford has said: "I think Allan Holdsworth is the John Coltrane of the guitar. I don't think anyone can do as much with the guitar as Allan Holdsworth can."

Death
Holdsworth died on 15 April 2017 in Vista, California of a heart attack at the age of 70.

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Thomas Morgan Woodward (September 16, 1925 – February 22, 2019) was an American actor. Woodward was best known for his returning role on the soap opera Dallas as Marvin "Punk" Anderson. He also played the silent Boss Godfrey (the Walking Boss) in Cool Hand Luke (1967), and had the most guest appearances on Gunsmoke. His career began in 1956.

Woodward guest starred in two different episodes of the original series of Star Trek as two different characters.

Woodward was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin and at the University of Texas at Arlington. He retired from acting in 1998. Woodward died at his home in Hollywood Hills, California from prostate cancer on February 22, 2019 at the age of 93.

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Charles Tyner (born June 8, 1923-November 8, 2017) is an American actor.

In 1957, Tyner made his debut on Broadway, in the play Orpheus Descending. His first movie role was in That Kind of Woman (1959). He worked with Newman again in 1967, as Boss Higgins in Cool Hand Luke.

He appeared in such movies as The Reivers, Lawman, Harold and Maude, The Cowboys and Emperor of the North Pole. He was in the 1974 prison comedy The Longest Yard. He played Howard Rodman in the television series Father Murphy. He was also in Pete's Dragon.

Tyner retired in 2014.

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Pete's Dragon is the title of two Disney family movies:

 Pete's Dragon (movie)
 "Pete's Dragon" (short story), a unpublished short story by Seton I. Miller that the 1977 movie was based on
 Pete's Dragon (2016 movie)
Pete's Dragon is a 2016  American fantasy comedy-drama adventure movie directed by David Lowery, written by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks, and produced by James Whitaker. 

The movie is a remake of the 1977 musical movie of the same name written by Malcolm Marmorstein. The movie stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, and Robert Redford. 

The movie tells the story of an orphaned boy who befriends a dragon in the Pacific Northwest, and how their discovery by the town's local residents changed their lives

Pete's Dragon premiered on August 8, 2016 and was theatrically released by Walt Disney Pictures in the United States in 2D, Disney Digital 3-D, and RealD 3D formats on August 12, 2016. 

The movie received positive reviews from critics. It made $143 million worldwide against a $65 million production budget.

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Xavier López Rodríguez (February 17, 1935 – March 25, 2023), his better known as "Chabelo", was a Mexican actor and television host.

He worked on television for over sixty years. "Chabelo" has been in more than thirty motion pictures and recorded more than thirty musical albums. He also has produced many shows like La Cuchufleta and La Güereja Quiere Más. 

His most famous TV show was En Familia con Chabelo, which was broadcast every Sunday morning on Televisa. This show was made up of contests with people from the audience, gifts and games and was mainly for children. The program ended on Sunday, December 20, 2015 after 47 years.

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Jean Rochefort (29 April 1930 – 9 October 2017) was a French actor, director and screenwriter. He had a career that has spanned over fifty years. 

Born in Paris, he was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National.

During his early career, he was in Cartouche, Captain Fracasse and in Merveilleuse Angélique. In 1972, he starred opposite Pierre Richard as Chief of Counter-Espionage Louis Toulouse in the Yves Robert comedy Le Grand Blond avec Une Chaussure Noire, a role he reprised in the 1974 sequel Le Retour du Grand Blond.

Rochefort won two César Awards: in 1976, Best Supporting Actor for Que la fête commence; and in 1978, Best Actor for Le Crabe-tambour.

Rochefort died on 9 October 2017 at a Paris hospital at the age of 87.

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Qin Shi Huang (; 18 February 259 B.C.  – 10 September 210 B.C.) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and was the first emperor of a unified China.

He was born Ying Zheng () or  Zhao Zheng (), a prince of the state of Qin. He  became the King Zheng of Qin () when he was thirteen, then China's first emperor when he was 38 after the Qin had ruled all of the other Warring States and unified all of China in 221 BC.

Early life
The First Emperor's father Yiren was the grandson of Ze, the ruler of Qin. The rulers of Qin and Zhao were from the same family, but the two lands fought against one another frequently. They wanted to make peace. King Ze gave his grandson Yiren to the leaders of Zhao so that, if Qin started to fight Zhao, the ruler of Zhao would kill Yiren and his family. Because King Ze would not want that, the ruler of Zhao was able to have less fear that Qin would fight him. (He also sent people from his family as prisoners to Qin so that things were even.)
The ruler of Zhao was angry but Zheng's mother hid. He was not able to kill her or her son. Zheng's mother had been the girlfriend of Lü Buwei, but Lü gave her to Yiren when he fell in love with her. Sima Qian was not certain that Zheng was the son of Zichu and not the son of Lü Buwei, but most people thought that he was the son of Zichu, ruler of Qin. When Zichu died, Zheng got to be the new ruler of Qin. Because he was still very young when this took place, his mother and Lü Buwei were the true rulers.

Time of ruling
Later, Zheng was older and put Lü Buwei and his mother's new boyfriend to death. He put his mother away as a prisoner as well. Now, Zheng and his helper Li Si ruled Qin. Their ideas are called Legalism. It said that the old ways of doing things were not good: if everyone did as ordered by the ruler and by his laws, things would be much better. The best way to run a country was for the ruler to have all the power. That way, no one would be able to fight or hurt other people. As the ruler of Qin, Zheng liked these ideas; as the ruler of China, he said they would be the only ideas. He made Confucianism and other old ideas against the law. Only the library in his palace (great house) was able to have books with any old ideas or with other people's accounts of history. Everyone else would have to read about Legalism and the accounts of history approved by the Emperor
. The First Emperor's men then burned the other books and even killed some of the men who tried to keep them by burying them (putting them under the earth).
Death
The First Emperor did not want to die. He went to Shandong and Jiangsu to look for people who would be able to make him live forever. No one was able to do that, but some people think that Xu Fu's journeys to look for Mount Penglai were important for Japan. This was about the time Japan's early Jōmon period ended and its Yayoi period started. The Yayoi period was the start of farming and the start of large countries in Japan. The First Emperor died in 210  BC.

The First Emperor had many sons, but his helpers Li Si and Zhao Gao tricked Fusu, his most liked son into killing himself. That way, a younger son became the Second Emperor and Li Si and Zhao Gao was able to be the true rulers for a while. The time when the First Emperor's family ruled China is named the Qin Dynasty, but it was very short. After the Qin Dynasty, there was more fighting before Liu Bei came out on top and got to be the new ruler of China. His family was named the Han Dynasty.

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 "What's Inside Qin Shi Huang's Tomb?" 

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Abigail Kubeka (known Nonzwaki Khumalo) is a South African born legend and actress. She stars the role of Zondiwe Mogale on Generations:The Legacy.

Filmography

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Abigail Kubeka | White Pages

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was the second-oldest Japanese person ever (behind Kane Tanaka) at the age of 117 years and 260 days. She was also the oldest living person for 7 months. She was at the time of her death the oldest Japanese person ever and the oldest person ever from Asia. She is also the last confirmed person that was alive during the 19th century. She was the last member of the Lost Generation.

Tajima became the oldest living person in Japan in 2015 after the death of an 115-year-old unknown woman. She became the world's oldest confirmed living person in 2017 upon the death of Violet Brown. Brown was aged 117.

Biography 
Tajima was born in Araki in the westernmost part of Kikaijima Island. She lived in Kikai. She had 9 children .

As of September 2011, she had 28 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren and 35 great-great-grandchildren. As of September 2017, she had over 160 descendants, including great-great-great grandchildren.
Tajima died on 21 April 2018 in a Japanese hospital in Kikai, Kagoshima, Japan at the age of 117. It was later confirmed that she had been in hospital since January.

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Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator. Blainey is known for having written  texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including The Tyranny of Distance (1966). He has published over 35 books, including histories of the world and of Christianity. Other well known works include The Peaks of Lyell (1954) and A Short History of the World (2000).

Blainey was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 1967. In 1975 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his works to Australian literature. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours list of 2000 for his service to academia, research and scholarship.

Biography
Blainey was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He studied at the University of Melbourne.
Blainey has  often appeared in newspapers and on television. He held chairs in economic history and history at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years. In the 1980s, he was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. He received the 1988 Britannica Award for dissemination of knowledge and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000.

He was once described as the "most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and, in the 1980s and 1990s, most controversial of Australia's living historians".

Blainey is married to author Ann Blainey. They both live in Melbourne.

More readings
 Bolton, Geoffrey. "Geoffrey Blainey" in Kelly Boyd, ed. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, vol 1 (1999) pp 93–95

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Works about Geoffrey Blainey 
ABC Interview with audio

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"The Cure" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.  She performed it at the 2017 Coachella Music Festival in California on April 15, 2017, replacing Beyoncé.  The song was released after her show.  The day of its release, it reached number one on iTunes in 62 countries.

"The Cure" entered at #23 on the UK Singles Chart, #17 in Australia, #39 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #3 on the US Digital Songs chart.  It later reached #19 in the UK, #33 in Canada, and the top ten in Australia.

On February 6, 2018, the RIAA certified the song platinum in the US for sales and streams of over one million copies.

Live performances 
Gaga has performed "The Cure" on the Joanne World Tour.  On November 19, 2017, she performed it via satellite on the American Music Awards of that year while she was at the Washington, D.C. stop of the tour.

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David DiChiera ( ; April 8, 1935 – September 18, 2018) was an American composer and writer. He was the founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre. He was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He was known for his work Four Sonnets (1965), which was composed for soprano and piano. It premiered in 1978 at the Kennedy Center.

From 1981 to 1993, DiChiera was appointed artistic director of the Dayton Opera Association. In 1986 he was appointed founding General Director of the newly formed Opera Pacific. DiChiera has served as a trustee for the National Institute of Music Theatre and as a board member of the American Arts Alliance. He has been a panel member for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and chairman for the Opera/Musical Theater Panel.

In February 2016, DiChiera announced his retirement, effective in July 2017. In April 2017, DiChiera was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. DiChiera died on September 18, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan from the disease at the age of 83.

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Louis Clark "Lou" Brock (June 18, 1939 – September 6, 2020) was an American former professional baseball player. He began his 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing in 1961 for the Chicago Cubs, and spent the majority of his career playing as a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. 

Brock was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985  and the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014. He is currently a special instructor coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.

In April 2017, Brock was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that starts in the bone marrow's plasma cells. In July 2017, Brock said that he was "absolutely cancer-free".

Brock died in St. Louis, Missouri on September 6, 2020 at the age of 81.

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Billy Leo Williams (born June 15, 1938) is a retired American baseball left fielder. He played sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and two seasons for the Oakland Athletics. Williams was added into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1999, he was named a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

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"Its all about R-e-s-p-e-c-t for 'Sweet Swingin' Billy Williams 
The Williams-Santo Cubs 1961-1965 @ The Hardball Times

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Lou Antonio (born January 23, 1934) is an American actor and TV director. He was best known for performing in the movies Cool Hand Luke and America America. He also starred in two short-lived TV series, Dog and Cat, and Makin' It.

Antonio was married to fellow Actors Studio member, Lane Bradbury;

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Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American actor.

Zerbe was born in Long Beach, California. He studied at Pomona College. He married Arnette Jens in 1962. They have two children.

His career began in 1963. Zerbe's movie roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 movie adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend; as a corrupt gambler in Farewell, My Lovely; as Abner Devereaux in Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park; as villain Milton Krest in the James Bond movie Licence to Kill; Rosie in The Turning Point, Admiral Dougherty in  Star Trek: Insurrection and Councillor Hamann in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. 

In 1976, Zerbe won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Lieutenant K.C. Trench in the private detective series Harry O.

His latest appearance is in the 2013 American black comedy-crime movie American Hustle.

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RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is distributed by Sony Music Nashville which is part of Sony Music.

Current artists
Kane Brown
Ryan Hurd
Miranda Lambert
Old Dominion
Jake Owen
Dolly Parton
Pistol Annies
Chris Young

Former artists
Alabama
Deborah Allen
Eddy Arnold
Chet Atkins
Baillie & the Boys
Bobby Bare
Jeff Bates
Matraca Berg
Clint Black
Catherine Britt
Garth Brooks
Jim Ed Brown
Bush Hawg
Tracy Byrd
Helen Cornelius
Paul Craft
Gail Davies
Skeeter Davis
John Denver
Dean Dillon
Josh Dorr
Ty England
Sara Evans
Leon Everette
Family Brown
Foster & Lloyd
Keith Gattis
Vince Gill 
Danny Gokey
Andy Griggs
Gus Hardin
Mike Henderson
Becky Hobbs
Waylon Jennings
George Jones
The Judds 
Kristen Kelly
Aaron Lines
Eddie London
Brice Long
Love and Theft
Lauren Lucas
Louise Mandrell
Martina McBride
Coley McCabe
Pake McEntire
Ronnie Milsap
Lorrie Morgan
Juice Newton
The Oak Ridge Boys
Jamie O'Hara
Robert Ellis Orrall
The Osborn Sisters
K.T. Oslin 
Paul Overstreet
John Pierce
Bobby Pinson 
Charley Pride
Eddie Rabbitt
Eddy Raven
Jerry Reed
Jim Reeves
Restless Heart
Kenny Rogers 
Crystal Shawanda
Shenandoah
Dee Jay Silver
Connie Smith
Joanna Smith
Hank Snow
Jo-El Sonnier
Tate Stevens
Tommy Shane Steiner
Larry Stewart
Sylvia
Nat Stuckey
3 of Hearts
3 of Hearts
Josh Thompson
The Thompson Brothers Band
Aaron Tippin
Steve Vaus
Porter Wagoner
Clay Walker
Steve Wariner
Dottie West
Lari White
Keith Whitley
Chuck Wicks
Wild Choir
Trisha Yearwood
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Heinrichjosef Georg "Heiner" Geißler (March 3, 1930 – September 12, 2017) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.

Geißler studied law and philosophy in Munich and Tübingen, where he graduated in 1960.

Geißler served as German minister for youth, family, and health from 1982 to 1985 and also general secretary of the CDU from 1977 to 1989. 

From being a conservative right-winger until the early 1990s, Geißler became increasingly leftist in his views as far as social policy and globalization are concerned. 

In 2007, he announced he had become a member of the attac network. This happened weeks before the 2007 G8 summit, which Germany, holding the 2007 G8 presidency, was hosting. Geißler himself said that his joining of attac had to be seen in the context of the upcoming G8 summit.

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Thorapalli is a village in Hosur taluk, Krishnagiri district of Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The village is on the banks of Ponnaiyar River. The population of the village according to 2011 census is 9849 people of 4669 males and 5180 females.

This village is the birthplace of India's first Indian Governor General and Indian freedom fighter, C. Rajagopalachari.

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The white-cheeked barbet or small green barbet (Psilopogon viridis) is bird.  It is an Asian barbet. It lives in southern India. It looks like the brown-headed barbet (or large green barbet) (Psilopogon zeylanica) but it has a different supercilium and a broad white cheek stripe below the eye. It lives in forests in the Western Ghats and other hills near the Western Ghats.

These birds eat mainly fruits, but also sometimes eat insects. These birds rarely visit the ground, obtaining their water from their fruit diet.They live in hollows of trees. Their call is a kutroo - kutroo. They also live in Bangalore.

Behaviour and description 
They are identified by their white cheek, also giving them their name. They are hard to spot, as they are green and look very much like a leaf. They also sit still and upright.They sometimes are found in small groups in fruiting trees, along with other fruit-eating birds (frugivores) like green pigeons, bulbuls and mynas. They live in broadleaved forests, gardens and groves.
References 

Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Oxford University Press, Helm Field Guides-2010

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Aditya I or Aditya Chola, the son of Vijayalaya Chola, is the second ruler of the medieval Cholas. He extended the Chola empire by the conquest of the Pallavas and occupied the Western Ganga Kingdom.

In the year 903 CE, Aditya Chola killed the Pallava king Aparajita and annexed the Pallava territories with that of the Cholas. He conquered Kongu land from the Pandyas. He died in 907 CE in Tondaimannarur.

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Western Ganga dynasty was an important ruling dynasty of ancient Karnataka in India which lasted from about 350 to 1000 CE.The Western Ganga sovereignty lasted from about 350 to 550 CE. Initially ruling from Kolar and later, moving their capital to Talakadu on the banks of the Kaveri River in present Mysore district.The defeat of the Western Gangas by Cholas around 1000 resulted in the end of the Ganga influence over the region.

Dynasties in India
Uzalo is a telenovela produced by Stained Glass Productions, which is co-owned by Kobedi "Pepsi" Pokane and South African hiphop artist HHP.

Cast

Leleti Khumalo as MaNzuza
Sthandwa Nzuza as Magwaza
Abigail Kubeka as Mamlambo
Sihle Ndaba as Smangele
Thando Thabethe as Guest
Nyalleng Thibedi as Zekhethelo Mhlongo

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Mala Ilomska is very short  (around 2 km) right  tributary of  Ilomska – one of right tributaries of  Ugar − in Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Skender Vakuf Municipality.

This small river is formed from seven springs and streams at the Petrovo polje (Peter's field), on the southwestern slopes of the hill Omarike (1243 m). The min  source is at an altitude of about 1230 m, and one of the registered is Bijeljino spring, near the hamlet of Nikodinovići. In addition to these, there are no significant tributaries.

Related pages
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Petrovo polje (Bosnia)
Petrovo Polje (Skender Vakuf)

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Petrovo Polje  (Peter's Field)  is a village in  Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republika Srpska, Kneževo Municipality. Until the 1960s it belonged to the former municipality Šiprage, and then for some time and the municipality of  Kotor Varoš. From ancient times to the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the village belonged to the Church municipality Imljani.

Geography

Peter Field is a village with a few scattered hamlets and more mountain houses on the plateau of Petrovo polje (field) on the slopes of Mount Vlašić. The north is bounded by a line beginning a steep slope into the valley Vrbanja river, on the line elevation  of 1,220  and 1140, and on the south  with Ilomska valley.

World War II
During World War II, this village was the center of many important events.

Related pages
Kneževo 
Šiprage

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Background
NATO was responsible for carrying out the Dayton Peace Accords.  The Dayton Peace Accords were started on November 22, 1995 by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, on behalf of Serbia and the Bosnian Serb Republic.  The actual signing happened in Paris on December 14, 1995.  The peace accords contained a General Framework Agreement and eleven supporting annexes with maps.  The accords had three major goals: ending of hostilities, authorization of military and civilian program going into effect, and the establishment of a central Bosnian government while excluding individuals that serve sentences or under indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunals from taking part in the running of the government. IFOR's specific role was to implement the military Annexes of The General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
IFOR relieved the UN peacekeeping force UNPROFOR, which had originally arrived in 1992, and the transfer of authority was discussed in Security Council Resolution 1031. Almost 60,000 NATO soldiers in addition to forces from non-NATO nations were deployed to Bosnia. Operation Decisive Endeavor (SACEUR OPLAN 40105), beginning 6 December 1995, was a subcomponent of Joint Endeavor.

The Dayton Agreement resulted from a long series of events. Notably, the failures of EU-led peace plans, the August 1995 Croat Operation Storm and its aftermath, the Bosnian Serb atrocities, in particular the Srebrenica massacre, and the seizure of UNPROFOR peace-keepers as human shields against NATO's Operation Deliberate Force.
Admiral Leighton W. Smith, Jr. (Commander in Chief Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH)) acted as the Joint Force Commander for the operation (also known as Commander IFOR (COMIFOR)). He commanded the operation from HQs in Zagreb and later from March 1996 from the Residency in Sarajevo. Lt Gen Michael Walker, Commander  Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) acted as the Land Component Commander for the Operation, commanding from HQ ARRC (Forward) based initially in Kiseljak and from late January 1996 from HQ ARRC (Main) Ilidža. This was NATO's first ever out-of-area land deployment. The Land Component's part of the operation was known as Operation Firm Endeavour.
At its height, IFOR involved troops from 32 countries and numbered some 54,000 soldiers in-country (BiH) and around 80,000 involved soldiers in total (with support and reserve troops stationed in Croatia, Hungary, Germany, and Italy and also on ships in the Adriatic Sea). In the initial phases of the operation, much of the initial composition of IFOR consisted of units which had been part of UNPROFOR but remained in place and simply replaced their United Nations insignia with IFOR insignia.

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Further reading

Charles Bertin, A Summer in Mostar: 50 days with the Salamander Division, January - June 1996

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CCRP Bosnia Research and Publications
Information on Operation Joint Endeavour on the NATO Website

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1990s in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1995 in Europe
1996 in Europe
Iron powder is what you get when you crush iron into small pieces. It is used to make magnets and steel.

Iron
An iron puddler was a person who worked to make iron in a reverberatory furnace. Because the work was hard, it was hot, and the fumes were bad for them, puddlers died around the age of 30. 
Iron
The Iron Range is a group of mining districts near Lake Superior that mine iron. Taconite in the area are turned into pellets.

Iron
Ironstone china, ironstone ware or  just ironstone, is a type of pottery. It is vitreous (glazed or glassy) pottery made in the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. It is not earthenware, but is similar to fine stoneware.  

There is no iron in ironstone. Its name is got because it is strong and durable. Ironstone was developed in the 19th century by potters in Staffordshire. It sold well as a cheaper alternative to porcelain.

Ironstone in Britain's Staffordshire potteries was made by Charles James Mason after his patent of 1813. The name "ironstone" later became generally used. The strength of Mason's ironstone enabled the company to produce ornamental objects of large size. Their vestibule vaseswere  1.5 metres high. Mantelpieces were made from several large sections. Mason's tableware was widely used in hotels and restaurants as well as private homes. It was usual for commercial clients to have the name of their establishment transfer printed onto the stoneware.
Mason's was not the only manufacturer. Another high-class pottery was Spode, who made ironstone from 1805 onwards. They had big exports to France, where ironstone was often preferred to faience pottery.

During the mid-19th century The United states was the largest export market for Staffordshire's potteries. They bought plain white stoneware in huge quantities.

Antique ironstone wares are collectable, and in particular items made by Mason's.

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Pottery
Raghavendra was born in the town of Bhuvanagiri in Tamil Nadu, India in a Kannada Madhva Brahmin family.His real name is Venkatanatha. Venkatanatha studied under Sudheendra Theertha and emerged as a talented scholar and consistently won debates over scholars older than him. He was also known as a teacher of Sanskrit and the ancient Vedic texts.In 1614, he took sannyasa or became a sanyasi and adopted the name Raghavendra. In 1621, Raghavendra succeeded his guru Sudheendra Theertha as the head of the Kumbakonam monestry which was called Sri Mutt and served from 1621 to 1671. He traveled all over South India explained Madhvacharya's Dvaita philosophy and attributed with a number of miracles. In 1671, after assuring his disciples in a speech that he will be in spirit with them for the next seven hundred years, Raghavendra attained Samadhi at Mantralayam.

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People from Tamil Nadu
Carolina Oliveira may refer to:

 Carolina de Oliveira (Carolina Pacheco De Oliveira), an actress known for television programing in Lebanon and the Arab world
 Carolina Oliveira (Carolina Machado de Oliveira), a Brazilian movie and television actress
Carolina Machado de Oliveira  (born November 29, 1994) is a Brazilian actress.  Oliveira was nominated for an International Emmy Award, considered the Oscar of the TV world, for best actress in Hoje É Dia de Maria. 

Oliviera was born in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. She is known for the TV series "Caminho das Índias" (India: A Love Story) (2009), "Hoje é Dia de Maria" (Today is Maria's Day) (2005), and "Páginas da Vida" (Pages of Life) (2006).

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Living people
1994 births
Brazilian actors
Carolina de Oliveira (Arabic: كارولينا دي أوليفيرا ) (born November 16, 1978) is an actress known for appearing in Lebanese TV programs. She was named one of BBC's 100 most influential women in 2016 for her work in mental health.

Life 
Carolina de Oliveira was born in Damascus, Syria to a Brazilian father and a Syrian mother. She attended Jesus and Mary School near Beirut, Lebanon. She received a master's degree in fashion design from the University of Lyon in France. In 2006, there was a rumor that she might marry Egyptian singer Ehab Tawfiq, but she said it was only a rumor.   In 2013, she confirmed that she was engaged to Egyptian artist Ehab Tawfik between 2006 and 2007, but they broke up. During a March 2015 interview, she said she received Lebanese citizenship with the help of the Lebanese authorities.

Work
Work 

De Oliveira started her television career at Future TV network in 1997. She was in Orbit TV's 'Oyoun Beirut', then went to NBN (National Broadcasting Network) in Lebanon with four other shows: "Al Sabahieh", "3al Moda" and "3al Eticket, and "Special". She became well known after she went to MBC, the Arab satellite TV channel, with "Ante", "Wakif Il Sa3a", "She Style", "Lux Fashion World" and three seasons of the reality show "The Biggest Winner", the most popular show on MBC.  In 2010, Carolina moved to the news channel Al Arabiya, with "Drama Ramadan" and "Cinema in a Week".  In 2009 she was in Khaled Youssef's film "Kalemni Shokran".

De Oliveira was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 34 years, and decided to speak out about the disorder. She has also supported the Ruban Rouge organization against HIV-Aids in Africa and the Middle East.

Other websites 
 Carolina De Oliveira on Facebook
 Carolina De Oliveira on Twitter

References
References 

Living people
1978 births
Lebanese entertainers
Television personalities
BBC 100 Women
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born 20 July 1925) is a French politician. He served as the 8th President of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. He served as Minister of Finance 1981 to 1984. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1981.

In 2015, Donald Tusk announced that Delors would become the third person ever to have the title of Honorary Citizen of Europe because of "his remarkable contribution to the development of the European project".

Delors was born in Paris. He studied at the University of Paris. In 1941, he married his wife Marie Lephaille. Together, they have one daughter: Martine Aubry (born 1950), who is the mayor of Lille  and the First Secretary of the Socialist Party.

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Delors addressing the British trade unions
 The famous headline from The Sun in the UK: "Up Yours Delors"

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French Ministers of Finance
The Temple of Athena Nike is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens. It was named after the Greek goddess, Athena Nike. The temple was built around 420BC. It is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. The temple measured only   in width and  in length. The temple has four columns on the bothe the front and back sides.

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5th-century BC buildings and structures
Jesus and Mary School is a Lebanese nonprofit Roman Catholic school in Rabweh, Lebanon, a northern suburb of Beirut.  The school was started in 1965 by Elias Farah, the Archbishop of Antelias and run by the Sisters of Jesus and Mary. It provides education for students from kindergarten to the 12th grade.  In 2002, Maronite Archdiocese of Antelias became the owner of the school. In 2019, the greatest generation graduated. The H militia ended May 9,2019 with the retirement of the chairman.

Buildings and structures in Lebanon
1965 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in Lebanon
The University of Lyon is a group of institutions for higher education and research in the cities of Lyon and Saint-Étienne in France.  It is the largest French center for higher education outside of Paris, with 25 associated institutions and 120,000 students.

Other websites 

 Official website Université de Lyon

References  

Colleges and universities in France
Lyon
Saint-Étienne‎
The Clain is a river in western France that flows through the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It flows into the Vienne river, as a left tributary.

Geography
The Clain 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 Dissay, south of Châtellerault near the confluence with the Vienne river.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Dissay

Course
The Clain river starts in the Charente department near the border with the Vienne department, in the place called Chapelle Beau Clain to the south of the commune of Hiesse, at an elevation of about . From here, it flows to the north into the Vienne department.

Finally, the river flows into the Vienne river, on the left side, in the commune of Cenon-sur-Vienne near Châtellerault.
The Clain flows through 2 departments and 33 communes, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region:
 Charente: Hiesse, Alloue.
 Vienne: Champagne-Saint-Hilaire, Pressac, Epenede, Romagne, Sommières-du-Clain, Château-Garnier, Joussé, Payroux, Mauprevoir, Saint-Martin-l'Ars, Voulon, Anche, Naintré, Beaumont, Vouneuil-sur-Vienne, Saint-Cyr, Migne-Auxances, Jaunay-Clan, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux, Dissay, Liguge, Poitiers, Saint-Benoit, Buxerolles, Smarves, Iteuil, Roches-Premarie-Andille, Aslonnes, Vivonne, Cenon-sur-Vienne (confluence).

Main tributaries 
The main tributaries of the Clain river are:

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

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 Banque Hydro - Station L2501610 - Le Clain à Dissay  

Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Amna Suleiman (Arabic: آمنة سليمان) can mean:
 Amna Suleiman, teacher and women's bicycle advocate from Gaza featured by BBC 100 Women
 Amna Suleiman Abdullah Al-Gharagir, a member of the Jordanian parliament 
 Amna Suleiman or Amna Jibril, a Palestinian woman from Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, member of the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah movement, and head of the General Union of Palestinian Women in Lebanon
Franciscus Henricus Johannes Joseph "Frans" Andriessen (2 April 1929 in Utrecht – 22 March 2019) was a senior Dutch politician.

In 1967 he was first elected to the House of Representatives for the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP). From 1971 to 1977 he was leader of the KVP. In 1977, the KVP merged with two protestant parties to form the Christen-Democratisch Appel (CDA). 

He served as Minister of Finance (1977–1980) and European Commissioner for Competition (1981-1985), Agriculture (1985-1989), and External Relations and Trade (1989–1993). 

Andriessen was one of few politicians to serve three terms as an EU Commissioner.

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was a Japanese-born English scholar. Watanabe was one of Japan’s more important cultural  critics. 

Watanabe was born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture. He studied at Sophia University and completed his doctorate at University of Münster in 1958. 

Watanabe became successively lecturer at Tsuruoka, assistant professor and full professor, until his retirement. He served as emeritus professor at the same university until his death. He was chairman of the Japan Bibliophile Society. His personal collection of books on English philology (see Bibliography) was perhaps his most important contribution to the field of English philology in Japan, containing many rare items.

Watanabe died on 17 April 2017 in Tokyo from heart failure, aged 86.

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Marvin Dawson Mathis (November 30, 1940 – April 17, 2017) was an American politician. He served in U.S. Representative as a Democrat, representing Georgia's 2nd congressional district from 1971 through 1981.

Mathis was born in Nashville, Georgia. He studied at South Georgia College in Douglas, Georgia. From 1964 to 1970, he was news director of WALB-TV in Albany, Georgia.

Mathis was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives serving in Congresses from January 3, 1971 through January 3, 1981. He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in 1980. 

In 1982 he tried to win his old seat in the house but lost to successor Charles Hatcher in the Democratic primary. He became a private advocate. He lived in Nashville, Georgia.

Mathis died in April 2017 in Tifton, Georgia from complications of pneumonia, aged 76.

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Liganga is a place in Tanzania where iron is mined. There is also Vanadium and Titanium there. It is near Lake Malawi.

Mining
Cardiodon was a genus of sauropod dinosaur. It was likely a four-legged herbivore.

Sauropods
Neosodon ('new tooth') was a sauropod dinosaur. It was likely a four-legged herbivore.

Sauropods
Moses Veerasammy Nagamootoo (born November 30, 1947 in Whim) is a Guyanese politician of the Alliance for Change. 

He was the Prime Minister of Guyana from May 20, 2015 to August 2, 2020.

He has also written a novel.

1947 births
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Guyanese novelists
Prime Ministers of Guyana
Theodore James "T.J." Perkins (born September 3, 1984) is an American professional wrestler. Perkins has worked for NJPW (2001-2005, ROH (2003-2012), TNA (2004-2016, and 2019-2021) and WWE (1016-2019). He is currently workingthe independents. He currently uses the ring name TJP. He competed on NXT,  WWE Raw and WWE 205 Live while he work for the wwt.

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In Japan, blast furnaces were invented very early. So Japan was able to make very pure iron earlier than other countries, which would still be using bloomeries. Their furnaces, called "tataras" were able to make steel and wrought iron. The design of tataras was probably taken from Korea.

Iron
Meehanite is a form of iron made through a process invented by Meehanite Worldwide. When a foundry produces Meehanite, it means that Meehanite Worldwide has allowed them to use their method.

The process was invented in the 1930's when the founder of Meehanite Worldwide discovered you can use Calcium Silicide to make very pure iron.
Iron
Meteoric iron is iron that comes from meteorites. Most meteorites are made of iron and nickel.

Meteors were the only source of iron before smelting was invented. Meteoric iron can be found all over the world, like in Ancient Egypt and Greece.

Iron
Maple Valley is a small city in King County, Washington, USA. Its zip code is 98038. At the time of the 2010 census, its population was 22,684. As of 2016, its population was 24,790.

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Cities in Washington (state)
Sylvia Rose Moy (September 15, 1938 – April 15, 2017) was an American songwriter and record producer. She was associated with the Motown Records group. She was the first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts. She is probably best known for her songs written with and for Stevie Wonder.

Moy died of complications from pneumonia in Dearborn, Michigan on April 15, 2017, at the age of 78.

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 Adam White, "Sylvia and Stevie: inspiration and influence" 

1938 births
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Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in Michigan
American songwriters
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People from Dearborn, Michigan
On September 23, 2016, five people were killed in a mass shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, U.S. 

The gunman was identified as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old who emigrated from Turkey as a child with his family. He was arrested the following day in Oak Harbor, Washington, his hometown. On September 26, he confessed to committing the shooting.

Shortly before 7:00 p.m. PDT on the same day, Cetin walked into a Macy's store at the Cascade Mall with a stolen rifle and opened fire, killing four women and one man. The male victim died the next day at a Seattle hospital.

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2016 mass shootings in the United States
Mass murder in 2016
Mass murder in the United States
September 2016 events
Terrorist incidents in 2016