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is a Japanese manga novel series. It is about a group of anthropomorphic drink cans who do battle. It was created by Riku Ranjō, with illustrations by Hiro Suzuhira. She is known for her artistry in Shuffle!. The first novel was released on May 24, 2007. As of April 24, 2009, eight volumes have been published by Shueisha under their Super Dash Bunko label. In 2008 a project started to create a harem anime version based on the book.

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Dennis Clifford "Danny" Dunton (13 May 1924 – 2 January 2015) was an English international motorcycle speedway rider and promoter. He reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in 1950, achieving 12th place with 5 points. As well as riding, Danny promoted Peterborough Panthers and co-promoted Oxford Cheetahs, then Oxford Rebels and finally White City Rebels. Dunton was born in Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire.

Dunton died after a long illness on 2 January 2015, aged 90.

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Sundby is a locality in Ekerö Municipality in Stockholm County in Sweden. In 2010, 270 people lived there.

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Liden is a locality in Sundsvall Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 254 people lived there. The locality is near the Indalen River. The locality is located circa 50& kilometers (road 86) northwest of the town of Sundsvall.

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Strömsnäsbruk is a locality in Markaryd Municipality in Kronoberg County in Sweden. In 2010, 2,066 people lived there.

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Concealed weapon laws 
Carrying a concealed weapon (CCW) is the practice of carrying a handgun out of sight, hidden somewhere on a person's body. CCW is regulated by the states in the US. The laws vary, sometimes considerably, from state to state. As of 2015, most states grant licenses to carry handguns on a "Shall-Issue" basis to qualified applicants. Shall-Issue means the jurisdiction issuing the license must issue the license to anyone who is not otherwise prevented from owning a firearm. "May-Issue" allows the jurisdiction to decide on a case-by-case basis who may be issued a license. A few states are may-issue states, while seven states allow the carrying of firearms in a concealed manner without a permit (called Constitutional-carry).

Global gun laws 
Gun laws vary considerably around the world. The larger majority of countries heavily restrict or do not allow citizens to carry firearms.
United States and Canada 
Penalties for carrying a concealed weapon in the US without a permit can vary by jurisdiction. In some cases it is a misdemeanor but more often it is considered a felony. In Canada CCW is illegal but permitted under rare circumstances.

Mexico 
In Mexico civilians cannot own guns since it has been illegal since 1968. However, most Mexicans own guns, even fully automatic weapons. In South Africa there are about 6 million licensed handgun owners. There is also a very large backlog of those applying for a license. Illegal guns can be easily bought off the streets. About 2,000 guns are stolen per month from licensed owners making it the largest source of illegal guns.

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Ron Hovey  (25 August 1932 – 6 January 2015) was an Australian rules footballer. He played with Geelong in the Victorian Football League (VFL) from 1951 until 1960. He later served as the President of Geelong Football Club from 1988 until 1998. Two of his brothers, Ced and Jim, also played league football for Geelong.

Hovey died on 6 January 2015 at the age of 82.

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Kenneth E. Mapp (born November 2, 1955) is an American politician. He was the 29th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 2015 to 2019. He is a registered Republican, but ran as an independent.

A former three term Virgin Islands Senator, Mapp served as the Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1995 until 1999. Mapp was an independent candidate for Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the 2010 gubernatorial election, but was defeated by  John de Jongh.

He ran in the 2014 gubernatorial election for Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, defeating Donna Christian-Christensen, the longtime Delegate to Congress in a run-off.

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Gina Marie Raimondo (born May 17, 1971) is an American politician, businesswoman, and venture capitalist. She is a member of the Democratic Party. In 2021, she became the United States Secretary of Commerce under the Joe Biden administration.

In 2015, Raimondo became the 75th Governor of the State of Rhode Island. She is the first woman to be Governor of Rhode Island. She was the General Treasurer for the State of Rhode Island from 2011 through 2015.

On January 7, 2021, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Raimondo to serve as the United States Secretary of Commerce in his cabinet. Her nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 2, 2021 with a 84-15 vote.

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John Peter "Pete" Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American politician and businessman who is the United States Senator from Nebraska since 2023. He was the 40th Governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023. He was the former Chief Operating Officer of Ameritrade.

He was the Republican nominee for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Nebraska, which he lost to then incumbent Ben Nelson. He ran for Governor of Nebraska in the 2014 election, this time defeating the Democratic nominee, Chuck Hassebrook. He was inaugurated as Governor in January 2015.

In January 2023, Governor Jim Pillen picked Ricketts to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Ben Sasse.

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Charles Duane "Charlie" Baker, Jr. (born November 13, 1956) is an American businessman and politician. Since March 1, 2023, he has been president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Baker was the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 2015 to 2023. He was a cabinet official under two Massachusetts governors, spent ten years as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. He was also the Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in his unsuccessful bid in 2010.

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Douglas A. "Doug" Ducey (born April 9, 1964) is an American politician. He was the 23rd Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was sworn in as Governor on January 5, 2015. He also served as the 32nd State Treasurer of Arizona.

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Jeri Lynn Mooney (born January 28, 1944), also known as Susan Howard, is an American actress and writer. She works in both movies and television series. She played Maggie in Petrocelli. She played Donna in Dallas from 1979 to 1987. In The Love Boat, she played Cynthia.

Mooney was born in Marshall, Texas.

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John Lancelot Blades Percival, known as Lance Percival (26 July 1933 – 6 January 2015), was an English actor, comedian and after-dinner speaker. He was known for making the voices of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the animated series The Beatles.

Percival died in January 2015, aged 81. He will be cremated at Putney Vale Cemetery on 20 January 2015.

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Marshall is a city in northeastern Texas. At the 2010 census, 23,523 people lived there.

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Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. (September 7, 1926 – January 9, 2015) is an American movie producer. His best known movies were Mystic Pizza (1988), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013).

Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of actress Frances Howard and the pioneer motion picture mogul Samuel Goldwyn. He attended Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He served in World War II. He was married twice and had six children including Tony Goldwyn and John Goldwyn.

Goldwyn died from congestive heart failure on January 9, 2015 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 88.

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Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author. He was a Holocaust concentration camp survivor. He wrote his autobiographical roman fatelessness. In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was born in Budapest, Hungary.

Kertész died in Budapest, Hungary from complications of Parkinson's disease on 31 March 2016, aged 86.

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 Article on Kertész 
 The Last Word – an interview with Kertész from Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not"
 
 
 Imre Kertész—Nobel Lecture 
 B.-ing There , a review of the novel Liquidation by Ben Ehrenreich, Village Voice, 20 December 2004
 Imre Kertész on Jewish.hu's list of famous Hungarians 
 Haaretz article on Kertész

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Kosta is a locality in Lessebo Municipality in Kronoberg County in Sweden. There were 884 people living in 2010. The locality is located between the towns of Kalmar and Växjö. Kosta is known for the glassworks Kosta glasbruk.

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Hovmantorp is a locality in Lessebo Municipality in Kronoberg County in Sweden. In 2010, 2,991 people lived in the locality.

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Mark Burnett (born 17 July 1960) is a television producer based in Los Angeles. He was born in London and raised in Dagenham. He has been married to the actress Roma Downey since 2007.

Career
Burnett has produced shows including Survivor, The Voice, The Celebrity Apprentice, The Apprentice, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, and The Contender.

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The Haga Church () is an church building in the town of Gothenburg in Sweden. It belongs to Gothenburg Haga Parish of the Church of Sweden. The church was opened on Advent Sunday, 27 November, 1859.

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The Voice is a singing competition created in the Netherlands by producer John de Mol and singer Roel van Velzen. The show is now a franchise with countries across the globe hosting their own version. The show first aired on 17 September 2010.

Format 
The way The Voice works is different in some countries, but most retain these rounds and rules. Kids versions are made as well. Almost anyone 8 and up can apply to be on the show. However, only contestants that are teenagers and up can apply to compete on the show where adults compete.

Note: Contestant & Artist mean the same thing.
Blind Auditions 
A certain number of contestants perform, hoping to impress the coaches. The contestant(s) pick(s) a song to perform, and the judges listen to the contestant blindly, only judging their voice because they are turned away from the contestant, to avoid bias against certain people. If a coach likes a contestant's voice enough, the coach can press their button and they will turn around and see who the contestant is. The contestant does not stop performing until their song is over. If more than one coach turns, the contestant gets to decide which coach they would like to work with. If only one coach turns, the contestant just goes on their team after talking about the performance. If no coaches turn, the contestant is eliminated. Although the coaches do give advice to all contestants that perform. Once a coach's team has a certain number of artists, they may no longer add artists to their team.
Block 
The block is a feature that prevents another coach from getting an artist. If a coach blocks, they must press their block button for that contestant, hit their button to turn around and see the contestant, and finally turn around before the coach they decide to block turns around. Only one block can be performed per performance. If a coach tries to block an artist that is already blocked, their block will not work.
Battles 
In the battles, coaches decide to pair two artists from their team against each other, performing the same song in a "boxing ring" type arena.  The paired artists train together with their coach to improve upon their skills.  Each sings a different parts of a song, relay style. The artists perform at the same time in the battles. Once the song is over and the coaches make their comments, it is up to the contestant's coach to decide who is the winner of the battle. The winner advances to the knockouts. Coaches have saves and steals which they can use to save an artist on their team, or steal one from another team. However, these are limited.
Knockouts 
In the knockouts, the remaining artists once again battle each other, however this time they work individually with their coach. Also, each artist performs their own song and they do not sing at the same time. Like the battles,Once the song is over and the coaches make their comments, it is up to the contestant's coach to decide who is the winner of the battle. The winner advances to the Live shows. Coaches usually only have steals in this round which they can steal an artist from another team. However, these are limited.
Live Shows 
Finally, The remaining artists give final performances. A certain number of contestants stay while the rest are eliminated. Winners are often picked by letting the viewers in the  country decide who should win and who should be eliminated until only 1 contestant remains. They are declared the winner. The winner and their coach and artist celebrate with the host, and they may win a cash prize and some random prize(Usually associated with music). Some seasons feature the Instant Save.

List Of Coaches 
In no particular order:

Adam Levine
Cee-Lo Green
Christina Aguilera
Blake Shelton
Shakira
Usher
Gwen Stefani
Pharrell Williams
Alicia Keys
Miley Cyrus
Jennifer Hudson
Kelly Clarkson
John Legend
Nick Jonas
Ariana Grande
Camila Cabello
Chance the Rapper
Niall Horan

Career

The Voice (2023)
The Voice (2023)

At the age of 24, Kala Banham auditioned for the twenty-third season of The Voice singing Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now". Three of the four coaches, Chance the Rapper, Kelly Clarkson, and Niall Horan, turned their chairs for her, with Horan using his block on Clarkson. Banham chose to be part of Team Niall, making her one of ten artists by the end of the Blind Auditions on Team Niall, and one of a total of forty artists advancing to the Battles.

In the Battles, Banham competed against Gina Miles as the two sang "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver. Horan deemed Miles the winner, however Banham was stolen by Kelly Clarkson, and advanced to the Knockouts on her team, making her one of seven artists by the end of the Battles on Team Kelly, and one of a total of twenty-four artists (not including the Playoff Pass contestants) to advance to the Knockouts.
During the Knockouts, Banham was paired against teammates Cait Martin. In this round, Banham chose to cover Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris". While Clarkson deemed Martin the winner, Banham was stolen by both Blake Shelton and Chance the Rapper - she chose Chance as her coach. This made her one of the final five artists (along with Jamar Langley, Manasseh Samone, Ray Uriel and Sorelle) on Team Chance, and one of a total of twenty artists to advance to the Playoffs.

In the Playoffs, Banham performed the song "My Funny Valentine" by Ella Fitzgerald. This was the first playoffs to not be contested live since season thirteen. Chance, who could only save two of his five remaining artists to advance to the Live Semi-Finals, chose Ray Uriel and Sorelle, eliminating Banham from the competition.

The Voice performances

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Ytterhogdal is a locality in Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 534 people lived in the locality.

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Norr-Hede is a locality in Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 261 people lived there.

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Ulvkälla is a locality in Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 456 people lived here.

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In mathematics, closure describes the case when the results of a mathematical operation are always defined. For example, in ordinary arithmetic, addition on real numbers has closure: whenever one adds two numbers, the answer is a number. The same is true of multiplication. Division does not have closure, because division by 0 is not defined. In the natural numbers, subtraction does not have closure, but in the integers, subtraction does have closure. Subtraction of two numbers can produce a negative number, which is not a natural number, but is an integer.
One can sometimes make closure of a mathematical object by including new elements to it. The integers are a closure of the natural numbers by including negative numbers. The real numbers are a closure of the rational numbers by including square roots of positive numbers. The complex numbers are a closure of the real numbers by including square roots of negative numbers. Since every non-zero polynomial has a root in the complex numbers, the complex numbers are also the algebraic closure of the real numbers. One can express this relationship as .

Sometimes, if one includes an element to make closure, it makes more changes. For example, if one includes infinity,  (that is, closure of division), the laws of addition and subtraction are changed. There is no inversion of addition for .
Ordinary closure is called finite closure. There is also infinite closure. The definition of a topological space mentions infinite closure. Open spaces have (finite) closure of intersection. Open sets have infinite closure of union. That is, in mathematical notation, if A0, and A1 and ... An ... are open sets, then B and C are open sets:

 

 
In point-set topology, given a set S, the set containing all points of S along with its limit points is called the topological closure of S. This is sometimes written as . The closure of S is also the smallest closed set containing S.

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ASUSTeK Computer Inc., usually referred to as ASUS, is a computer hardware and electronics company. It was founded in Taipei in 1989 by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao. ASUS is the world's fifth-largest PC vendor by 2013 unit sales (after Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Acer).

Name 
The name ASUS originates from Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.

Products
ASUS's products include laptops, tablet computers, desktop computers, mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), servers, computer monitors, motherboards, graphics cards, sound cards, optical disc drives, computer networking devices, computer cases, computer components and computer cooling systems.

Republic of Gamers (ROG)
Republic of Gamers is a brand used by ASUS since 2006, encompassing a range of computer hardware, personal computers, peripherals, and accessories oriented primarily toward PC gaming. The line includes both desktops and high-spec laptops.

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Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation headquartered in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

In 2013 Acer was the fourth largest personal computer vendor in the world.

Products

Business desktops
 Acer Veriton series

Business notebooks
 Acer TravelMate series
 Acer Extensa series

Chromebooks
Acer AC700
Acer C710
Acer C720 (2GB)
Acer C720 (4GB)
Acer C720P

Computer displays
 G Series
 P Series
 H Series
 X Series
 B Series
 V Series
 S Series
 T Series
 D Series
 MO Monitor TV series

Consumer desktops

 Acer Aspire Desktop series
 Acer Aspire Predator series

Consumer notebooks
 Acer Aspire Notebook series
 Acer Aspire Timeline series
 Acer Ferrari products series
 Acer Iconia

Home network solutions
 Acer Clear.fi

Mobile phones
 Acer CloudMobile
 Acer Allegro (WP8)
 Acer Tempo series
 Acer Liquid series
 Acer beTouch
 Acer neoTouch
 Acer Stream
 Acer E110
 Acer DX
 Acer F
 Acer Iconia
 Acer T
 Acer X960

Netbooks

 Acer Aspire One series
 Ferrari One
Nettops
 Acer Aspire Revo

Projectors
 Professional series
 Home series
 Travel series
 Value series

Servers and storage
 Acer server F1 series
 Tower series: T110 F1, T115 F1, T150 F1, T310 F1, T350 F1;
 Rack series: R160 F1, R180 F1, R320 F1, R360 F1, R380 F1, R385 F1, R585 F1;
 Blade series: B2x285 F1, B2x280 F1, B460 F1;
 Gemini series: B1170 F1, B2170 F1, B2170t, B2175 F1
 Home Server Series: H340, H341, H342, Altos Easystore M2
 Acer storage series
 N500 F1, N1600 F1, HNAS3080, GS2040, AMS2100, AMS2300

Tablets

 Acer Iconia Tab series
 Acer Aspire Switch 10. This is a 2-in-1 tablet with detachable keyboard. It was launched in 2014 and runs Windows 8.

Television
 AT Series

Other (discontinued devices)
 Digital cameras
 Personal digital assistants
 Automotive navigation systems
 Acer PICA

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Feza Gürsey (April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics,  his works on the Chiral model  and on SU(6)  are most popular.

Publications

 (With Chia-Hsiung Tze) On the Role of Division, Jordan, and Related Algebras in Particle Physics (1996),

Awards and honors

1969 Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Science Award
1977 Oppenheimer Award together with Sheldon Glashow
1977 A. Cressey Morrison Prize together with R. Griffiths in Natural Sciences
1979 Einstein Medal
1981 Collège de France Award
1984 Honorary title of "Commendatore" by Italy
1986 Wigner medal administered by the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation
1989 Award of Association of Turkish - American Scientists and Engineers
1990 Galatasaray Foundation Award

The Feza Gürsey Institute in Istanbul and Feza Gürsey Science Center in Ankara are named in his honor.

Related pages
 List of Turkish scientists

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Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd). It is maintaining the group and moving the group from place to place. Many thousands of years ago herding became a way of life for many nomadic people. Today it is still a necessity for farmers, ranchers and those who raise domestic animals.

Herds 
Some animals instinctively gather together as a herd. A group of animals fleeing a predator will herd together for protection. Some predators, such as wolves and dogs, have instinctive herding abilities that come from primitive hunting instincts. But there can be a fine line between chasing and herding. Dogs that show basic herding instincts can be trained to compete in herding and stock dog trials. It's a sport that dogs and their owners can enjoy together.
Herding is used in agriculture to manage domesticated animals. Herding can be performed by people or dogs trained to control the movement of livestock under the direction of a person. Animals such as cattle, sheep and goats are commonly herded by humans and dogs. Also herd dogs may be used to gather and herd turkey, geese, ducks and chickens.

Herd dogs 
Originally dogs were used to both herd and guard domestic animals. Over time dogs were bred to specialize in one or the other. Herd guardians or guard dogs became the 24-hour protector of the flock. Herd dogs were developed to keep the herd together. Herding dogs are critical to Australian and British sheep farms.
Herd dog breeds 
Herding dog breeds are typically intelligent, all-work and full of energy.
 Australian Kelpie is a highly intelligent herding breed that can work with little or no guidance. One of the most heat tolerant dogs.
 Australian Cattle Dog is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia to herd cattle. Will nip at their heels to move cattle.
 Belgian Shepherd Dog (Malinois) is a breed of herding dog. They also excel as police dogs, personal protection dogs, bomb and drug detection dogs.
 Border Collie is one of the most intelligent dog breeds used for herding all kinds of livestock.
 German Shepherd (called an Alsatian in Great Britain and parts of Europe) is one of the most popular herd dogs. They work as police dogs, detection dogs and in search and rescue dogs as well as many other roles. 
 Old English Sheepdog originally a drover (herd dog) used to drive sheep to market. A large intelligent good-natured dog is often a family pet.
Pyrenean Shepherd is a small French herding dog that is highly intelligent and lightning-fast. An excellent sheep herding dog.
Herding occupations 
People who work with agricultural animals have different occupational names. This is based on the type of animal they work with or names that vary by country.
 A shepherd is someone who looks after sheep.
 A cowboy is someone who works on a ranch. Often they herd cattle.
 A Gaucho (Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile) is similar to a cowboy and often work with cattle.
 A goatherd or goatherder is a person who herds goats.

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Continental AG is a leading German automotive manufacturing company specializing in tires, brake systems, automotive safety, powertrain and chassis components, tachographs, and other parts for the automotive and transportation industries. Continental is based in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Continental was founded in 1871 as a rubber manufacturer, Continental-Caoutchouc und Gutta-Percha Compagnie.

Continental is the world's 4th largest tire manufacturer.

The company's revenue in 2010 increased by 23.5% to 3449 million dollars.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden () is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been around in Sweden since 1850. It's headquarters are the Stockholm Sweden Temple. The Stockholm Sweden Temple is located in Västerhaninge.

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The Church of Sweden Youth () is the children's and youth group of the Church of Sweden. It was created on 1 January 1993. The Church of Sweden Youth was created after several christian youth groups had come together to form it.

In 2013 there were 13,000 members of various ages.

The come-together of the former youth groups was proposed in 1964.

Chairpersons
Following people have been chairpersons.

1993-1994 - Gunilla Casserstedt Lundgren
1994-1997 - Helena Karlsson
1997-2001 - David Sundén
2001-2005 - Erik Persson
2005-2009 - Maria Wingård
2009-2013 - Johan Berkman
2013 - Amanda Carlshamre

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David Ian Hewlett (18 April 1968) He is an English-Canadian actor, writer and director. He is best known for his role as Dr. Meredith Rodney McKay on the science fiction TV shows Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.
 
Hewlett was born in Redhill, Surrey, UK. He moved to Canada when he was a child.

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The Jehovah’s Witnesses in Sweden () is part of the international Jehovah's Witnesses religion. It has been around in Sweden since 1909. In the past, its headquarters were in Arboga. Later, the headquarters were moved to Denmark in 2012.

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Karin Ann-Marie Söder (30 November 1928 – 19 December 2015) was a Swedish Centre Party politician. She was a member of the Swedish cabinet between 1976-1978 and again in 1979. She was the first female leader of a major political party in Sweden. She also was of the first female foreign ministers in the world. She also worked successful for Systembolaget not being opened on Saturdays.

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2015 deaths
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Roy James Tarpley (November 28, 1964 – January 9, 2015) was an American professional basketball player. He played the power forward and center positions, earning an NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award in 1988. Tarpley became known during his career for being banned from the NBA because of his drug and alcohol abuse. He had some success playing in Europe.

Tarpley was born in New York City and died in Arlington, Texas.

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Robert Vossler Keeley (September 4, 1929 – January 9, 2015) was an American politician. He served in Foreign Service of the United States, from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador: to Greece (1985–89), Zimbabwe (1980–84), and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in charge of southern and eastern Africa.

Keeley was born in Beirut, French Lebanon to American parents. He died in Washington, D.C. from a stroke at the age of 85.

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2015 deaths
Deaths from stroke
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People from Beirut
The Honda Pilot is a mid-sized four-door crossover utility vehicle made by Honda. It was first made in 2002 as a 2003 model. The vehicle replaced Honda's compact SUV, the Passport, which was actually a rebadged Isuzu Rodeo. The Pilot is built on the Accord platform, which also underpins the Odyssey minivan and the Ridgeline pickup truck.

The vehicle was redesigned in 2009. It has three rows of seats. The vehicle has limited off-road capability but does allow wading through nineteen inches of water. The Pilot was Honda's largest crossover up until the introduction of the Crosstour, a station wagon based SUV built on the Accord platform. While it is longer than the Pilot it doesn't allow seating for 7-8 passengers.

The Pilot has been compared with other crossover cars and sport utility vehicles.
The Pilot was redesigned in 2015 for the 2016 model year. It no longer has a boxy crossover look. It now looks more like the Honda Odyssey. Its 6-cylinder engine is now more powerful and mated to 6- and 9-speed automatic transmissions.

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Bernard Malanda-Adje (28 August 1994 – 10 January 2015), nicknamed Junior Malanda, was a Belgian professional footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder for VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. 

He was born in Brussels, Belgium.

Malanda died in a car accident in Porta Westfalica, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany at the age of 20.

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Hubert Simon Markl (17 August 1938 – 8 January 2015) was a German biologist. He also served as President of the Max Planck Society from 1996 to 2002.

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Ettore Scola (10 May 1931 – 19 January 2016) was an Italian screenwriter and movie director. He was known for his movies A Special Day (1977), That Night In Varennes (1982), What Time Is It? (1989) and Captain Fracassa's Journey (1990).

Scola died at a hospital in Rome, Italy from pneumonia on 19 January 2016 at the age of 84.

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Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras - Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for movies Missing (1982), Hannah K. (1983), Betrayed (1988), Music Box (1989), Mad City (1997) and Amen. (2002).

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Michael Cacoyannis (, Michalis Kakogiannis; 11 June 192225 July 2011) was a Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter. He was best known for his 1964 movie Zorba the Greek.

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The Holmes Brothers was a musical trio originally from Christchurch, Virginia. They perform blues, soul, gospel, country, and rhythm & blues music. Its members include Sherman Holmes, Popsy Dixon and Wendell Holmes.

Career
They began playing in 1979. They were influenced by B.B. King. They have released twelve studio albums, with three reaching the top 5 on the Billboard Blues Albums chart. They have gained a following by playing regularly at summer folk, blues, gospel, and jazz festivals. Members are brothers Wendell and Sherman Holmes with drummer Popsy Dixon.

Members
As of 2015, Sherman Holmes resides in Saluda, VA and is the last surviving member of the band. Popsy Dixon died of bladder cancer on January 9, 2015. A few months later, Wendell Holmes died on June 19, 2015 from a pulmonary embolism.

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The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia. It is in the state of South Australia facing the Great Australian Bight. The Gulf is 322 km (200 mi) long and 129 km (80 mi) wide at its mouth. The western shore of the Gulf is the Eyre Peninsula. The eastern side is the Yorke Peninsula which separates it from the smaller Gulf St Vincent. Its entrance was defined by Matthew Flinders as a line from Cape Catastrophe on Eyre Peninsula to Cape Spencer on Yorke Peninsula.

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Peter Frederick Weller, Ph.D. (born June 24, 1947) is an American movie director, actor and educator. He is known for his role as RoboCop in RoboCop and RoboCop 2.

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 History Channel's Engineering an Empire site
 "RoboCop in Rome!"  New York Daily News
 "RoboCop, PhD" Wired News
 "RoboCop speaks to Detroit" Funny Or Die

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Bruce Stuart Greenwood (born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor and musician. He is known for his roles as U.S. presidents in Thirteen Days and National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Ben Stevenson in Mao's Last Dancer and for his role as Captain Christopher Pike in the 2009 Star Trek movie and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.

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Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks; April 24, 1940 – May 9, 2017) was an American actor and singer. He was known for his roles in Kill Bill and in Django Unchained.

Parks died on May 10, 2017 in Los Angeles at the age of 77.

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William James Remar (born December 31, 1953), known professionally as James Remar, is an American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles in Sex and the City, The Warriors, 48 Hrs., The Cotton Club, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Vampire Diaries, and in Dexter.

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Dennis Christopher (born Dennis Carrelli; December 2, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American movie actor. He is known for his roles in Breaking Away, It and in Fade to Black. He also appeared as Leonide Moguy in Django Unchained.

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Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823 – 10 March 1903) was a French-born British artist. She created many paintings of children and women. Her work Elaine was the first public collection of a female artist.

Anderson also painted No Walk Today and many other paintings.

She was born in Paris, France. She died in Falmouth, England.

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The European turtle dove (also known as turtle dove) is a member of the Dove bird family. They are smaller than many other doves.

The turtle dove is native to Europe, Asia and Africa.

Turtle doves are talked about in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

There aren't as many of these birds in Europe as there used to be.

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The Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is where the two exhibition races, the Advance Auto Parts Clash, Can-Am Duel, and the two points-paying races, the Daytona 500 and Coke Zero Sugar 400 is held. The track is also where the Rolex 24 at Daytona is held, and also two Xfinity Series races and one Camping World Truck Series race.

History 
Daytona speedway was built in 1959. Races had been held on the hard sandy beach since 1902. Racing on the beach ended in 1959 when Daytona International Speedway opened. Bill France, Jr. was behind the construction of the speedway. The first race was won by Lee Petty in a field of 59 cars. In 1962, the first major race on the road course was held. It was won by Grand Prix driver Dan Gurney driving a red Lotus. Near the end of the race and with a 2 minute lead, his engine failed. He coasted across the finish line to win.
By the 1960s, the sportscar race was made into a 24 hour race. This required multiple drivers for each car and involved a long period of racing at night. Both races grew in popularity in the 1970s and 80s. Today the Daytona 500 is an important race in NASCAR. The Rolex 24, which is named that because it is sponsored by the Rolex watch company, is an important endurance race.

Related pages 
 Indianapolis Motor Speedway
 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
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Kansas Speedway
 Richmond Raceway
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 Auto Club Speedway
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Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (or Tschirnhausen) (10 April 1651 – 11 October 1708) was a German mathematician, physicist, doctor, and philosopher.

Works
Late in the seventeenth century, he was charged with making a survey of the minerals of Saxony. He had a government position there.  He and his assistant, Johann Friedrich Böttger, discovered how to make porcelain. 
Before that, it had only been made in Asia.

Tschirnhaus's work in mathematics is remembered in the Tschirnhaus transformation. It removed some intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation.  He is also remembered in the Tschirnhausen cubic.

His work in physics included work in optics. Working  with Martin Knorr, he developed an improved polishing technique. This was used in the lenses and mirrors he made. He made burning glasses of high quality. He used these in experiments.

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Hank Flamingo was an American country music group. It formed in 1988.

Discography
Studio albums
 Hank Flamingo (1994)

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Robert Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist and journalist. He won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers. He was also twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Awards.

Stone was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was raised by his mother, who suffered from schizophrenia, until the age of six and was later raised in a Catholic orphanage. As a result of chain smoking, he had emphysema.

Stone died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on January 10, 2015 in Key West, Florida, aged 77.

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Brad Stephen "Taylor" Negron (August 1, 1957 – January 10, 2015) was an American writer, actor, painter, and stand-up comedian. His best known movies were Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Bio-Dome (1996), and Stuart Little (1999). He appeared in television shows such as Wizards of Waverly Place, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911, Friends, My Wife and Kids, Seinfeld, ER, and Party of Five.

Negron was born in Glendale, California. He grew up in La Cañada Flintridge, California. He was of Puerto Rican ancestry. He was also the cousin of singer Chuck Negron. He was openly gay.

Negron died from liver cancer on January 10, 2015 in Los Angeles. He was 57.

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Bruzaholm is a locality in Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2010, 250 people lived there. Bruzaholm is one of two inhabited localities in Sweden (2010) whose name contain the letter z.

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Mariannelund is a locality in  Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,468 people lived there. Mariannelund appears as a place of setting for many of the stories of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren's books Emil i Lönneberga.

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Hjältevad is a locality in Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2010, 335 people lived there.

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Hult is a locality in Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2010, 455 people lived there. Swedish writer Albert Engström grew up in Hult.

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Ingatorp is a locality in Eksjö Municipality in Jönköping County in Sweden. In 2010, 453 people lived there.

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Chen-Ning Franklin Yang (born October 1, 1922), also known as Yang Zhenning, is a Chinese-born American physicist and mathematician. He works on statistical mechanics and particle physics. Yang and Tsung-dao Lee received the 1957 Nobel prize in physics. This was for their work on parity nonconservation of weak interaction.

Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1957)
Rumford Prize (1980)
National Medal of Science (1986)
Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture and Medal (1988)
Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society (1993)
Bower Award (1994)
Albert Einstein Medal (1995)
Lars Onsager Prize (1999)
King Faisal International Prize (2001)

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Frösön (Frey's island; ; "fɾøːsœʏːa" in the local dialect, Jamtlandic) is the largest island in the lake of Storsjön. It is located west of the town of Östersund in Sweden, Sweden. On the island is the "Frösö Runestone". That Runestone is dated from 1030-1050 AD.

The Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger had a summerhouse on the island. In 1930, he made it his permanent home.

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The Outlaws is an American country rock band formed in 1972. They are a Southern rock/country rock band. Some of their best known hits were "There Goes Another Love Song" (1975), "Green Grass and High Tides" (1975) and "Ghost Riders In The Sky".

Like other southern rock bands, the Outlaws used two lead guitars. However, the Outlaws’ used three and four part vocal harmonies which made them different from other southern rock bands who usually had a single lead singer.

Over the years there has been many changes in the band's members. The current lineup includes Henry Paul and Monte Yoho who were original band members. The other three original members - Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones and Frank O'Keefe - have all died.