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Susil Nelson-Kongoi is Papua New Guinean businessperson and is a leader in the country at helping working women get more responsibility and better work rights. She supports human rights. She helps indigenous women work for better jobs. She is the Senior Media and Communications Advisor at Exxonmobil PNG Limited. She works on public policy, helping the government of Papua New Guinea make good policies. She is Vice-Chariman of the Business Council of Papua New Guinea. Nelson-Kongoi won the Overall Westpac Outstanding Women Award in 2012 for helping Papua New Guinean women to join the workforce.  She is one of the only female oil executives in Papua New Guinea. She was featured in the "Pawa Meri" ("Power Women") film project that highlighted important women in Papua New Guinea.
Early Life 
Nelson-Kongoi comes from East Sepik Province. Her parents were educated. They were huge supporters of education. This inspired Nelson-Kongoi to sponsor and fight for Papua New Guineans education. Nelson-Kongoi has a Bachelor of Commerce from Canterbury College. She studied management and information systems. She also has a MBA from Divine Word University PNG.

Career 
She works for Exxonmobil PNG Limited as their Senior Media and Communication Advisor. She has been the Manager for Corporate Governance and Special Projects at PNG Sustainable program Ltd for 14 years. Her work helps other women who want careers.
Nelson-Kongoi was also asked to work on many national-level projects to make business and the economy stronger in Papua New Guinea.  She is on the board of the Business Council of Papua New Guinea. She also helped the The Center for International Private Enterprise start its Papua New Guinea Business Advocacy Network. The Business Advocacy Network helps women get high-level jobs. She is the leader of that Network. She is also the Board Coordinator for the Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is a board member for the Incentive Fund, helping girls and women work in businesses.  Nelson-Kongoi also helps teach women about personal and business finance.  She helps the Business Coalition For Women (BCFW) teach women about being business leaders. Nelson-Kongoi is the president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Port Moresby, too.
Awards 
Nelson-Kongoi won the Overall WOW Award (Westpac Outstanding Women Award) in 2012 for helping women in Papua New Guinea get jobs. She also earned a fellowship from the Australian Government's Fellowship program. She also fundraises for scholoarships for girls.

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Papua New Guinean people
The Curse of Quon Gwon is a Chinese American silent film. It is the oldest known Asian American film. It was completed in 1916. The producer of the film was Marion E. Wong. The Curse of Quon Gwon is a film about a family who are cursed for beginning to accept Western culture.

The cast 
Wong and her family made up the cast of the movie.  Wong played many parts in the making of the film.  She was the director of the film, the main villain, costume designer, and the producer of The Curse of Quon Gwon.  Wong got financial help from her uncle.  Wong’s sister-in-law, her mother, and her niece were all part of the cast, as well as many more.

Release of the film 
The Curse of Quon Gwon used to have 7 reels, but only 2 survived. Because of this, the movie is 42 minutes long. On July 21, 2005, the reels were released.

What happened to the film company 
The film company went bankrupt after making the movie.

References

Other websites

1916 movies
American silent movies
Movies set in California
Maria Branyas Morera (born 4 March 1907) is the current title holder of world's oldest living person since the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023, and the 18th oldest undisputed person in history.

Biography 
She was born in San Francisco, California.

In March 2020, she became the oldest person to recover from COVID-19. This record was later surpassed by Lucile Randon.

She currently lives in a nursing home located in Olot, Catalonia.
Ranking 
 22 December 2019 - Josefa Santos Gonzalez died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 112 years, 293 days, became the oldest living person in Spain.
 28 June 2021 - Maria Branyas Morera, aged 114 years, 116 days, entered the Gerontology Research Group's list for Guinness World Records.
 17 January 2022 - Thelma Sutcliffe died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 114 years, 319 days, became the oldest living person who was born in the United States.
 19 August 2022 - Tekla Juniewicz died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 115 years, 168 days, became the world's second-oldest living person.
 17 January 2023 - Lucile Randon died. Maria Branyas Morera, aged 115 years, 319 days, became the world's oldest living person.
 21 April 2023 - Maria Branyas Morera, aged 116 years, 48 days, finally surpassed Ana María Vela Rubio's final age and become the oldest person ever residing in Spain.
 14 May 2023 - Maria Branyas Morera, aged 116 years, 71 days, surpassed Tekla Juniewicz's final age and become the oldest emigrant ever.
Related pages 
 List of American supercentenarians

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1907 births
Living people
Spanish supercentenarians
People from San Francisco
Nurses
People from Catalonia
Spanish Roman Catholics
Herman Coessens (22 August 1943 –  January 2023) was a Belgian actor.

Coessens was most known as a stage actor at  where he played between the 1970s and 1990s. Coessens also played in many television series, including , , Ons geluk, ,  and Flikken.

Coessens married to actress Lieve Moorthamer. He died from an illness in January 2022, at the age of 79.

References

Belgian stage actors
Belgian television actors
1943 births
2023 deaths
People from East Flanders
Place of death missing
Fred Bellefroid (22 January 1945 – 13 January 2022) was a Belgian sculptor.

Bellefroid is the creator of the iconic  at the Oude Markt in Leuven. He made many sport statues. The common style of his statues are long figures that are moving. In 2021 he created the prize statues for the winner of the Brabantse Pijl cycling race.

Bellefroid died in  on 13 January 2022, at the age of 76.

Gallery

References

1945 births
2022 deaths
Belgian sculptors
Hammond Pond Reservation is a woodland park in Newton, Massachusetts. Hammond Pond is located within the park. 

The park is a part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The first piece of land that would become the park was bought from John Lowell in 1916.  There are trails there that go to Webster Woods and Houghton Garden.  The MBTA Green Line (Riverside Branch) runs through the park from East to West, and the Hammond Pond Parkway runs through the park from North to South.

Hammond Pond is as a Massachusetts "Great pond".  The pond and reservation are named after the Hammond family, which settled in the area in the 17th century.

Image gallery

References

Other websites

Hammond Pond Reservation Department of Conservation and Recreation
Webster Woods and Hammond Pond Newton Conservators

Geography of Massachusetts
State parks in the United States
Christopher Richard Stringini (known as "Richie Stringini") is an American actor, dancer and singer. He was born on November 28, 1988 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Early Life 
Richie Stringini was adopted at the age of four to Kathleen and Robert Stringini, from Wheaton, Illinois, USA. Richie Stringini has a brother named Bobby. he studied at Acacia Academy located in LaGrange, Illinois. Richie Stringini started acting and modeling professionally at the age of four. then Richie Stringini acted in a movie titled Rule Number One (2005). Before auditioning in Florida for the reality television show Big In America (BIA).

US5 
Known as "Richie" in the pop boy band US5. A group that was developed by Lou Pearlman through a German reality TV show, Big in America. He is an original member of US5, which enjoys great success in Europe.

After US5 
After a few years of silence, Richie began a solo career. His debut single was "Man Down."

References
References

1988 births
Singers from Illinois
Living people
People from La Grange, Illinois
Arjan Paans (1969 – 17 January 2023) was a Dutch journalist.

Paans was born in 1969. His father Boudewijn Paans, was editor-in-chief of . His mother Anna worked for the Gooi- en Eemlander and Amersfoortse Courant.

Paans started his journalist career at Gooi- en Eemlander where his mother worked. He worked for 23 years in several positions at Algemeen Dagblad. He worked for Algemeen Dagblad between 2003 and 2008 in Berlin, Germany. He became for Algemeen Dagblad deputy editor-in-chief. He was editor-in-chief interior and coordinator Rotterdam at NRC Handelsblad.  In 2016 he started working for the regional newspapers of the Telegraaf Media Groep and was among others editor-in-chief of Leidsch Dagblad, Haarlems Dagblad and Gooi- en Eemlander. Paans was editor-in-chief of free newspaper Metro between 2017 and May 2018. In 2021 he became editor-in-chief of .

Paans  was married to Loes and they had a son Wolf. Paans died from cancer on 13 January 2022, at the age of 53.

References
References

Dutch journalists
1969 births
2023 deaths
A methine group or methine bridge is a functional group =CH−. It consists of a carbon bound by one double bond and 2 single bonds, where one of the single bonds is to a hydrogen.

Organic chemistry
Pyridine is an organic compound with the chemical formula C5H5N. It is similar to Benzene, with one methine group (=CH−) replaced by a nitrogen atom.

Organonitrogen compounds
Alphons Leo Walter Joseph Panis (16 August 1932 – 15 January 2023) was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party and later Christian Democratic Appeal. Panis was mayor of Maartensdijk (1973–1978) and mayor of Leusden (1987–1997).

Biography
Panis was born in Berkel-Enschot in 1932. His father  (1900–1975) was twice mayor of Berkel-Enschot and in between mayor of Haaren. His uncle was architect  (1891-1972).
Panis attended gymnasium in Tilburg. After completing his military service, he studied Dutch law at the University of Utrecht. After his graduation in 1960, he started his civil service career at the General Affairs department of the province of Utrecht. He later became secretary of the Midden-Utrecht circle. Subsequently he was acting secretary of the cooperation body agglomeration Eindhoven. In May 1973 he became mayor of Maartensdijk. During his term as mayor, new-build neighborhoods were established on the south side of the village of Maartensdijk, like the the 'Kruidenbuil', as well as the new-build neighborhoods of Groenekan and Westbroek. Panis opposed the abolition of the municipality of Maartensdijk. In mid-1987 Panis became mayor of Leusden. He was the mayor of Leusen until 1997.

Panis died in Amersfoort on 15 January 2023, at the age of 90.

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Politicians from North Brabant
Dutch mayors
1932 births
2023 deaths
Alphonsus Gerardus Martinus "Alphons" Panis (25 January 1900 – 22 February 1975) was a Dutch politician.

Panis was born as the son of teacher Leonardus Waltherus Panis (1852-1933) and Anna Maria Cornelia van Roessel (1857-1914). He grew up in a large Catholic family. Several brothers became priests, including the titular bishop Walther Panis; one sister joined the Sisters of St. Francis. His brother Constant Panis became a known architect in Tilburg.

Panis worked at the municipal clerk of Berkel-Enschot. In 1926 he started working as a secretary at the municipality of Helvoirt. In 1929, Panis was appointed mayor of Berkel-Enschot. Eight years later in 1937 he was appointed mayor of Haaren. In 1947 he returned to the municipality of Berkel-Enschot to become mayor there again. Panis retired in 1965.

His son Fons Panis (1932 – 2023) was mayor of Maartensdijk (1973-1978) and mayor of Leusden (1987-1997). He died in 1975 at the age of 75.

References
References

Dutch politicians
Dutch mayors
1900 births
1975 deaths
Place of death missing
Constantius Johan Willem "Constant" Panis  (1891 – 1972) was a Dutch architect.

Panis is seen as one of the most important architects in the region of Tilburg. Many buildings that he designed became municipal or national monuments.

Panis was the brother Alphons Panis. He was mayor of Berkel-Enschot and Haaren.

Designed buildings that became monuments

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1891 births
1972 deaths
Dutch architects
The 1928-29 Austrian Cup was the  cup competition in Austrian football.

Third round 
First round with teams from the Second league

 

 

Replay matches:

Round of 32
First round with teams from the highest league

 

 

Bye: Donau Wien, Bewegung XX

Round of 16

Quarter finals

Semi-finals

Replay match:

Final

First Vienna FC: Karl Horeschofsky - Karl Rainer - Josef Blum - Otto Kaller - Leopold Hofmann - Leonhard Machu - Josef Studenik - Karl Gerhold - Friedrich Gschweidl  - Franz Zillbauer - Leopold Giebisch coach:Ferdinand Frithum
SK Rapid Wien: Franz Griftner - Roman Schramseis -  Franz Kral - Johann Hoffmann  - Josef Smistik - Johann Luef - Willibald Kirbes - Franz Weselik - Matthias Kaburek  - Johann Horvath - Ferdinand Wesely coaches: Dionys Schönecker/Eduard Bauer

References

Austrian Cup
1929 in sports
1920s in Austria
The Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine, also known as OHRRPGCE, is a software made for creating video games. It was first shared with two different versions: a "crippled" version, which had the user be locked with only four maps to build with, and an "uncrippled" version, with sixteen maps to build with.

Supported Platforms

References 

Video game engines
Software
Taline and Friends is an American-Armenian musical group. They are best known for playing music for children. The members if the group are Taline Bessos,  Tzagratzoo, Napik, and Peeso. Alex Bessos is the songwriter and producer of the group. The most popular of the group's songs include “Im Kntag”, “Tzkneeg” and “Peesoee Bar”.

The  group has played a major role in developing Armenian language skills for children worldwide since the early 1990s.
History
The founders and creators of the group are Taline and Alex Bessos. They are based in Glendale, California. Taline was born in Beirut. She moved to the United States at the age of 15. Taline has a BA degree in Early Childhood Education. In 1993. she and Alex rented a small studio. They released their first CD called Hink Pokrig Tatigner. It included traditional Armenian songs from their childhood and original songs. In 1994, they released their second CD. The group started to gain more popularity when they made their first DVD Let’s Sing & Dance. They had their first concert in 2003 in New Jersey. The group had their first Armenian Children’s Christmas Concert in 2003 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. Their first international performance was in 2004 in Canada. Since then, they have have performed in many countries. These include Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Cyprus, France, Kuwait, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.
The group has made 5 DVDs and 11 CDs. These include lessons on different topics, including animals, the Armenian alphabet, and being Armenian. Their YouTube videos get over 20,000 views each day.

Taline was recognized among the 30 exceptional businesswomen at the 13th Annual Women in Business Legislative Update and Awards luncheon in 2012.

History of Songs from Taline and Friends 

 3 Khozikner
 5 Zkayaranner
 12 Amisner
 ABC
 Aklor Aghpare
 Andarin Mech
 Antsrev Gouka
 Arev Arev
 Arakasdanav
 Ari Ari
 Ay Nabasdag
 Badik Jan Badik
 Bareelouys
 Bjlig Mjlig Sarte
 B-I-N-G-O
 Bouy Bouy Moukike
 Bananov Gargantagh
 Baydzar Arev
 Bzdig Kouyr
 Bzdig Oryortige
 Christmas Medley
 Daretarts e Aysor
 Diknike Orore
 Donadzare
 Dyadzan
 Dzenkele Menkele
 Dzidzernaki Pouyne
 Dzovap Biti Yertank
 Fait Do Do
 Gaghant Baba Shoud Ari
 Gaghant Baba Oush e Mnatser
 Ge Barenk
 Ge Hnchenk Zanke
 Ge Khaghank Miasin
 Gakavik
 To Be Continued

References
References

Other websites
 Taline and Friends YouTube Channel
 The entertainer, By Joyce Rudolph, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 6, 2007
 
Musical groups from California
Glendale, California
1993 establishments in California
Jan Theelen (29 August 1939 – 15 January 2022) was a Dutch musician, arranger and producer.

Biography
Theelen played accordion when he was six years old. He started his professional music career as a pianist. He worked for a long time with Tom Manders, better known as Dorus. In the seventies he worked with the American Dutch singer , and also with  making the single .

Theelen had had its own music studio since the 1960s, first in Venray and later in Munstergeleen. Later he had this studio named "Onger Os" together with his son. In Limburg he was particularly known as an arranger of carnival music. Much of this music was recorded in his studio, that closed in 2020.

In 2007, Theelen was the winner of the Oeuvre-Priès van 't Limburgs Leed (translated: Oeuvre Prize of the Limburg Song).

Theelen died in Sittard on 15 January 2022, at the age of 82.

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Dutch musicians
Dutch record producers
1939 births
2022 deaths
Marie Korsaga is an astrophysicist from Burkina Faso. She is the first female Burkinabe astrophysicist. Korsaga studies dark matter. She also supports girls who are interested in science.

Early life 
Korsaga became interested in science when she learned about people traveling to the Moon. She was fascinated by shooting stars.  She was interested in many kinds of science. Korsaga did not see many women working in science. She saw very few African women working in science. She did see some female engineers. She planned to be a civil engineer.

Career 
Korsaga attended Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She studied mathematics and physics. She learned about new kinds of science. Astronomy was one of the sciences that she learned about.

She continued studying in France after she finished college. Korsaga want to the Astrophysics Laboratory of Marseille (LAM) in France. She earned a doctorate from LAM and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She studied galaxies.
Korsaga works as a researcher at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg in France. She is also a teacher at the Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Burkina Faso.  Korsaga has also spoken at the African Union. She was honoured by the city of Huesca, Spain in their sundial. Dr. Korsaga is a founding member, and sits on the editorial board, of “L’Astronomie Afrique”. It is the first French language online astronomy magazine in Africa.

She won the African Network of Women in Astronomy award. The award is from the African Network of Women in Astronomy.

Advocacy 
Korsaga works to get more girls from Burkina Faso interested in science. She also works to make Burkina Faso stronger in research about space. She wants her country to be the first African country to launch satellites into space.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Astrophysicists
Burkinabé people
African scientists
Wahida Amiri (born in 1990) is an Afghan librarian and an activist for women’s rights.  Amiri runs a library. Since 2017, her library of over 5,000 books is open in Kabul to motivate women to read. But in August 2021, Amiri returned to Kabul to see the Taliban stopping girls and women from going to work and school. She gathered a group of women and started a movement called “Spontaneous Movement of Afghan Women Fighters”.  In December 2021, Amiri made it on BBC’s list of the 100 most inspiring women.
Early Life 
Amiri was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan and temporarily moved to Pakistan and came back to Kabul at 15. When she moved to Pakistan she had to do many of the chores like cooking, cleaning, and scrubbing the floors. After the Taliban was defeated, Amiri returned home. Women and girls could now go to school and work. Even though education was important to Amiri, her family thought taking care of the house and guests was more important.  Five years later, she was able to enroll into school with the help of her cousin.

Career 
Amiri didn’t learn how to read until she was 20 years old.  She took her exams while taking care of her home.  She took them over and over until she finally passed.  Finally, she was welcomed into a university where she studied law.  Amiri discovered the English author Virginia Woolf and finally realized she held power in her voice.  When the Taliban took power again in Afghanistan, Amiri lost her job.
Activism 
The Taliban said girls cannot go to school. They said women cannot have jobs. Amiri organized women to protest.

References 

1990 births
People from Kabul
Librarians
Afghan women's rights activists
Saeeda Etebari is an Afghani jewelry artist.  Etebari had meningitis when she was one, causing her to be deaf. She joined the Turquoise Mountain Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture and trained in jewelry-making. She was chosen to have an exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

Early life 
Etebari was born in a Pakistani refugee camp. She was the third of nine children. When she was only one years old, she developed meningitis. Meningitis is a disease that, for Etebari, resulted in hearing loss and not being able to speak.  Etebari couldn’t go to school, so her dad founded a deaf school for her to learn.  Etebari speaks sign language. Etebari signs about the struggle of accepting that she was deaf and mute, but now she thinks of it somewhat as a blessing.
Schooling 
After graduating, Etebari’s brother suggested she apply to Turquoise Mountain Institute. At Turquoise Mountain, she studied handmade jewelry design. Etebari’s talents were noticed there, as she excelled in her work. Etebari considers being deaf a blessing for her, for when she goes to work on jewelry, the loud noises of tools don’t affect her concentration.

Smithsonian Exhibition 
Etebari was chosen with Abdul Matin Malekzadah and Sughra Hussainy, to have an exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum.  Etebari’s work ​​is inspired by the culture of where she grew up in Afghanistan. One of Etebari’s more famous pieces is an emerald and gold necklace that she designed with British jeweler Pippa Small. This piece was displayed at the Smithsonian.

References 

Afghan people
Aiko Doden is a Senior Commentator at NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation. She is also chief producer at NHK World. Doden is a commentator about Asia and the world.  She knows the most about South East Asia and United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. 

She used to be a reporter in NHK’s ASEAN, where she focused on Myanmar. She was also based in Thailand where she reported on security.  

She is on “NHK World Newsline In Depth.” She used to be on “NHK News at 9 PM”, “NHK World Network” and “NHK Asian Voices.”

Doden went to Columbia University for graduate school. She has a Master's degree in international relations. When she was little, Doden lived in London, England.

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Living people
Television news anchors
Japanese journalists
Columbia University alumni
Romy Medeiros da Fonseca ( July 1921 - 2013) was a Brazilian lawyer, publisher, and women's rights activist.  She was born in Rio de Janeiro. She was part of many groups that fought so women would have the same rights as men in Brazil. She fought to make sure women had the right to be in the army. She was a publisher of many stories about women's rights. In 1977 she was a big part of making the law letting married people to break up. Da Fonseca was also part of the United Nations board for problems about making sure that women had the same rights as others. She also made the National Council of Women in Brazil. Da Fonseca was also a big help to make sure everyone had the same rights while Brazil was having a government problem in 1964.

References 

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Brazilian lawyers
1921 births
2013 deaths
Junko Shimada (Japanese: 島田順子, born in 1941) is a Japanese fashion designer who created her own clothing brand. She designs clothes for Lady Gaga. Shimada also designed the Japanese team's outfits for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Shimada's brand is called "Junko Shimada."

Early life 
Shimada was born in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1941. She liked painting. Her mother told her to lean a skill that would let her earn money. Growing up, she also dreamed of working for Levi’s, an American clothing company known for their denim clothing. So she studied at Sugino Gakuen Dressmaker Jogakuin, a fashion designing/dressmaker school. 

In school, she started watching French movies. Shimada moved to Paris in 1966.

Career 
After moving to Paris, Shimada worked as a stylist and with famous fashion companies. She worked for Mafia Deisgn Studio. She then moved to Cacharel. She first designed children's clothes, then men's clothes.
In 1981 she started the "Junko Shimada Design Studio."  She has many shops in France. She also makes luggage, eyeglasses, kimonos, and other items.

Shimada combined French history and Japanese culture in her work. Ever since she started her brand, Shimada has been featured in the Paris Fashion Week. In 2012, Shimada was awarded with the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her outstanding work in the fashion industry. She is a member of the "Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode."

Awards and honors 
Shimada received the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.

References 

Fashion designers
Living people
Amelia Goldberg (1862-1950) known as Nadage Doree (also spelled Nadege) was a Jewish American activist, actress, and writer. She fought for justice for Jews. Goldberg wrote books called: "Gèlta, Or, The Czar and the Songstress” and “Did Jesus Change? The Answer of the Jew to the Question of the Ages.” Goldberg was also a singer. She wrote patriotic songs.  She is best known for being arrested while trying to speak to United States' President Theodore Roosevelt about violence against Jewish people in Russia.

Career 
Goldberg was an activist and author. She wrote her two books, “Gèlta, Or, The Czar and the Songstress” and “Did Jesus Change? The Answer of the Jew to the Question of the Ages.” She also wrote for The American Israelite newspaper.Goldberg was also an opera singer and actress. She started writing patriotic songs, and producing plays. She was a model for Duke cigarette cards. She had a race horse named after her. She was an activist who fought against anti-semitism.
Activism 
In 1905 during President Roosevelt's church service, she interrupted to try to convince Roosevelt to help Russia’s Jews. She got arrested.  She sued Roosevelt’s secretary (William Loeb Jr.) 50,000 for a false arrest.

References
Naomi Faik-Simet (b. 1977) is a Papua New Guinean dance researcher at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. She is the first PhD from Papua New Guinea to graduate from a dance studies program. Fail-Simet is also the first dance research her country's government ever employed. She works to preserve and create cultural traditions. Papua New Guinea is working to be modern. Sometimes people do not like traditional ideas. Faik-Simet wants people from Papua New Guinea to remember their culture and not just adopt other cultural traditions. She teaches people about traditional and contemporary dance and music. She shows people traditional and new arts can go together. She represents Papua New Guinea for UNESCO's  Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre, the International Council for Traditional Music, World Dance Alliance, and World Alliance for Arts Education.

Early Life 
Faik-Simet was born in Papua New Guinea. She grew up during the period after Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia.
Career 
In 2001, Faik-Simet started working for the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. In 2003 she returned to University of Papua New Guinea to complete her undergraduate college degree. She completed her degree in 2005. Soon, Faik-Simet realized she needed more education. First, she connected with experts who lived in New Zealand, Nicholas Rowe and Ralph Buck. In 2010 she got a scholarship from the University of Auckland to study a traditional dance called "gunge takwaku."

Faik-Simet graduated from University of Auckland in New Zealand with a PhD in dance studies in November, 2021. She studied in New Zealand from. April 28, 2017 until Dec 29, 2020. She studied the impact of colonialism on dance education in Papua New Guinea. Faik-Simet studied how to use dance to pass down culture and knowledge. She is now the assistant director at the Institute of Papua New Guinea. Faik-Simet is the only dance researcher in Papua New Guinea.
Faik-Simet helps organize conferences, like the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania.

She received the Mineral Resource Development Co (MRDC) award in 2011 for making an impact in decolonising dance in Papua New Guinea. The award is a Westpac Public Sector award. It is part of the Westpac Outstanding Women Award.

Personal Life 
Faik-Simet and her husband have two children.

References 

Papua New Guinean people
1977 births
Elsa Renee Flores is an American biologist and chemist. She is a member of the editorial board of Cancer Research, a very prestigious research journal. She is the leader of the Cancer Molecular Pathobiology study section at the United State's National Institutes of Health. Before this, she served as the co-director of the Metastasis Research Center.  She was also the director of the Genes and Development Ph.D. program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Early life
Flores grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her father studied biology and chemistry which sparked her love for science. However, when she had to make a decision for college, she was stuck between science and liberal arts. In the end, she enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and majored in chemical engineering. Later, she came back as a postdoctoral fellow.  As a postdoc she worked in Tyler Jacks's lab. Flores was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Career
Flores’ maternal grandmother and aunt were both diagnosed with cancer. Her family members' health inspired Flores to study cancer.

Flores was a member of the editorial board of Cancer Research.

Flores discovered many ways to tackle cancer that can be used as possible cancer treatments in the future. She studied causes of breast cancer with Helmut Zarbl. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked in Paul Lambert's Lab. She dissected the life cycle of the human papillomavirus- a major cause of cervical cancer.

Flores discovered cancerous tumors could regress with a protein called amylin. This discovery helped her continue her search for the cure for cancer.

Flores holds several patents for inventions to help fight cancer.

References

Other websites
Elsa Flores Labs
Google Scholar List of Publications
Anna Alida Theresia Nilsson  (April 27,1869 - December 11, 1947) was a Malmö drawing teacher, suffragist, peace activist, and women's rights activist. Nilsson became a drawing teacher in 1890. In 1914, Nilsson committed suffrage to be a role model for other women, and fight for women’s rights. After the First World War, Nilsson joined the women’s peace movement. Nilsson was elected to the board of the “International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom” when it was started in 1919 In 1929 Nilsson retired, and began traveling around Europe by train and bus. In 1934 Nilsson started collected history textbooks from different countries to compare.
Early life 
Nilsson was born at Toarp manor house in Södra Säm, Västergötland. She was born into a Swedish family. Her dad was Hans Petter Nilsson, who was a textile cottage industry promoter. Her mother was Albertina Juliana. In 1885, Nilsson’s father died and was replaced by a guardian. Her mother then remarried to a relative. Nilsson was the fourth child out of her five siblings, and she was especially close with her older sister Ada Nilsson.

Career 
Nilsson attended the Lyceum school with her sister and received her qualifications to be a drawing instructor in 1890. Nilsson worked as a junior teacher at the Stockholm Tekniska professional school for two years. During this time she also gained her penmanship qualifications. After, she moved to Malmö, where she spent eight years at “Tekniska Afternoon- and Evening-School” working as a drawing instructor. For six months in 1900 she worked as a pattern designer in Stockholm.
Nisson was a peace activist. She was a delegate to the International Women’s Peace Congress, The Hague, in 1915. Nilsson was an author of books about peace. She wrote four books: 

 Data and Facts in the Peace Movement, (1924); 
 From Two Battlefields, and A Third, (1933); 
 Peace Movement ABC, (1934); 
 Ten Happy Years Traveling in Peace Work, (1945).

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1869 births
1947 deaths
Swedish educators
Women's rights activists
Lavenia Yalovi is a Fijian sports commentator. Sports journalist Aaron Kearney recruited her to learn to be a sports commentator. He asked Yalovi to join the "Commentary for Good" program. That program worked with Women in news and sport. One of the goals of the program was to get more women reporting on sports. Yalovi is one of the first female Pacific Islander to be a sports commentator. She worked during the Women's World Cup and commentated in Fijian. Yalovi was also on three national sports teams.

Early life 
Yalovi plays many different sports. She grew up in Kadavu Island. As a child, she was not allowed to play soccer because she was a girl. Soccer was seem as a sport for boys. As a girl, she could play softball  and netball. 

Yalovi's family moved to Suva for secondary and tertiary education.
Career 
Yalovi became a social science teacher. She was asked be a sports coach at her school. She started learning soccer so she could coach girls to play it. She became really good at soccer. In one year she was on Fiji's national football team. 

Yalovi was on three of Fiji's national teams. She played football. Yalovi also played hockey and rugby. She participated in the Pacific Women’s Sports Leadership Program in Papua New Guinea. Yalovi is the national coordinator for the Get into Rugby PLUS program in Fiji. She works for the Fiji Football Association. She is in Australian government videos about international cooperation using sports. 

Yalovi commentates with Adele Willie and Jennesa Hinge Moli of Vanuatu. Kearney recruited them together. Willie and Moli have worked in media. Yalovi knows about sports. Together they can comment on games. Their first job together was at the Oceania Nations Cup. FIFA liked their work. FIFA invited them to come to France to work at the Women's World Cup.

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Year of birth missing
Living people
Association football broadcasters
Fijian sportspeople
Female footballers
Field hockey players
Fijian rugby union players
Riley J. Silverman is an American author, writer, and comedian. She has a best selling comedy album called “Intimate Apparel”.

Career 
Silverman is an author of StarWars books. She made an appearance in the “Too Late” comedy horror film.

Television 
Silverman was on Comedy Central's Not Safe with Nikki Glaser. She was also in the STARZ TV series Take My Wife, as Regan”.

Podcasts 
Silverman is also head writer for the quiz show podcast, International Waters (renamed Troubled Waters). She has a science fiction podcast called "Bubble." She did SyFy channel's limited podcast Forgotten Women of Genre.

Stand-up comedy 
She headlined at Portland's Queer Comedy Festival. Silverman inspired the creation of HoliDames, an all-female comedy show that is performed every December in her hometown, Columbus, Ohio.
Personal Life 
Silverman grew up in rural Ohio, near Columbus. As a child, Silverman wanted to be an inventor. Silverman is a transgender woman. She lives in Los Angeles, California. She is a life-long Star Wars fan. She likes cosplay.

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Living people
American comedians
People from Ohio
People from Columbus, Ohio
Early life and family 
Soria was born and raised in Visalia, Tulare County, a county in Central California. She is a first generation American. Her parents came to the United States from Michoacán, Mexico. She grew up working on a farm with her parents. Soria’s parents valued education and giving back to their community. She became interested in politics and law at a young age. Soria went to University of California, Berkeley for her undergraduate degree. She studied Political Science and Chicano/a Studies. She later attended University of California, Davis for a Juris Doctor.  A Juris Doctor is a degree you need to be a lawyer. Soria was one of the sixty people accepted into Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Executive Leadership Program.
Soria is one of five children. One sister is on the Lindsay City Council, in Tulare County, California. Another sister is on the board of directors of the Lindsay Unified School District. Soria's youngest sister is on the board of directors of the local hospital. She also has one brother.

Career 
After graduating from University of California, Berkeley, Soria began to work at the Sacramento State Capitol. She focused on women’s health, education, and public safety. She went to law school two years later. During her time in law school at University of California, Davis, she interned at the White House.

Soria worked as a legal clerk for California Rural Legal Assistance. She became Policy Advisor for California Assemblyman Henry T. Perea. She was District Director for State Senator Michael Rubio. She then became an adjunct professor at Fresno City College.
Fresno Council 
Soria was elected to the Fresno City Council in 2014. She was on the city council eight years. She was the only woman on the council. Soria represented more than 72,000 people from her community. She helped homeless people and worked for affordable housing. Soria also wanted better parks. Soria was a member of the Fresno City Council until her win as a California State Assembly member in 2022. She was elected president of the Council in 2018. She was the first Latina council president in Fresno city history.

2020 Election 
Soria ran against US Congressperson Jim Costa for California District 16 in the United States Congress. She lost in the primary election to a Republican Party candidate, Kevin Cookingham.
2022 Election 
Soria ran for the California State Assembly in 2022. She ran against Mark Pazin. The election was on November 4, 2022. The vote was very close: 51% for Soria, 49% for Pazin. She took office on December 5th 2022. Right now, she is working with a board of other assembly members.

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Living people
American politicians
Politicians from California
Adriana Cerezo Iglesias (born November 24, 2003) is a Spanish taekwondo artist. At only the age of 17, Cerezo had won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making her one of the youngest Spanish olympic athletes to ever compete in taekwondo.

Early life 
Cerezo was born in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. At the age of 4, she decided that she wanted to learn taekwondo. She quickly moved her way up through the ranks, and ended up winning a gold medal during her first time at the European Taekwondo Championships.
Career 
Cerezo attended the Hankuk school and competed for their team. In 2020, she won a gold medal during her first time at the European Taekwondo Championships. Shortly after, Cerezo qualified to compete for Spain in the Tokyo Olympics.  In 2021, Cerezo had won gold medals at the Turkish and Spanish open. In addition to this, she had also won a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics which had been moved due to the COVID pandemic. Cerezo still competes in Taekwondo and is working towards the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Living people
2003 births
Taekwondo practitioners
Sportswomen
Spanish Olympic silver medalists
The Buka sticky-toed frog (Cornufer gigas) is a frog. People have seen it on two islands of the Solomon Islands: Bougainville Island and Buka Island.  These two islands are in Papua New Guinea.  People saw the frog between 0 and 1230 meters above sea level.

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Frogs of Oceania
Ariane 6 is a European expendable launch system. In 2023, it was being developed. It has been in development since the early 2010s by ArianeGroup. They were creating it for the European Space Agency (ESA). The system was being built to replace the Ariane 5. The stated reason for Ariane 6 was that is was half the cost of Ariane 5. The new system would also increase the maximum number of launches each year from six or seven to up to eleven.

Ariane 6 is designed with two core stages. They are both powered by liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen (hydrolox) engines. The first stage has a version of the Vulcain engine that is used on the Ariane 5. The second stage has a new design of the Vinci engine. Most of the lift-off thrust comes from solid rocket boosters attached to the first stage. There are two P120s on the Ariane 62 and four on the Ariane 64 variants. These are larger versions of the P80s used on the Vega rocket.
Description 
Two versions of Ariane 6 are being created:
 Ariane 62 has two P120 solid boosters. It will weigh about  at liftoff. This version is intended for government and scientific missions. It can launch up to  into Geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) and  into LEO.
 Ariane 64 has four P120 boosters. It has a liftoff weight of about . This version is intended for commercial satellite launches. It can launch up to  into GTO and  into LEO. Like Ariane 5, it will be able to launch two geosynchronous satellites together.

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Spacecraft
"She's Got a Way" is a 1971 debut single by Billy Joel and originally released from his debut studio album Cold Spring Harbour. It is better known as a live version from his 1981 album Songs in the Attic. It went to number 23 in the United States and number 46 in Canada in early 1982.

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1972 songs
1970s ballads
Debut singles
Billy Joel songs
Greater Lagos Fiesta is an annual New Year's Eve event organized by the Lagos State Government through the Lagos State  Ministry of Tourism, Art, and Culture.

History
The Greater Lagos Fiesta was established in the year 2012. The event was formerly known as Lagos countdown which was later renamed One Lagos Fiesta by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the year 2015 which is now known as Greater Lagos Fiesta.

Activities
Greater Lagos Fiesta is usually a fun-filled entertainment event for people living in Lagos. According to the Lagos State Government, part of the reason for the event is to bring Lagosians together to have fun because activities of the event will be taken to them through the five major divisions of Lagos. The five locations and venues are, Eko Atlantic City, Victoria Island, Badagry Grammar School, Badagry, Agege Stadium, Agege, Ikorodu Town Hall, Ikorodu, and Epe Youth Center, Epe all in Lagos State.
It is also an opportunity for business owners to showcase their businesses and make a profit. No doubt, the fiesta has added also the economic growth of Lagos in terms of Tourism and Entertainment and other related sectors. In 2013, about 200,000 people celebrated the during ten-day nonstop activities of the fiesta and the city of Lagos earned about one billion naira.

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Fighting in southern Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War has been going on since 2014. The war between Russia and Ukraine became bigger in February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Fighting is still going on in southern Ukraine, as of 2023's third quarter.

The 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive started in June.
Battles and taking control of land 
Battle of Huliaipole; More and more Ukrainian soldiers were gathered around Huliaipole (media said on December 19, 2022); In response, more and more Russian soldiers gathered around Melitopol. During 2023's third quarter, the city (Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast) sometimes gets hit by artillery (or canon shots).
Robotyne (map), Tokmak (hromada, similar to municipality), Polohy, Zaporizhzhia. Ukrainian soldiers won the battle (in 2023's third quarter).
Dnieper clashes; In 2023, Ukrainian soldiers have (again) been making incursions and taking part in skirmishes on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River.
As of May 2023, ISW said that some Ukrainian soldiers (were in control of, or) were staying on the southern part of the island Ostriv Velykyi Potomkin.
In May 2023, the ISW said that Ukrainian soldiers had taken control of Toloka Island and the Zburivsksyi Kut bay at the mouth of the river delta. Also, the ISW said that there was significant (fighting or) partisan activity in Hola Prystan and Oleshky against the Russian administrators at those places.
Dachi, a village on the East Bank of the Dnieper River - and near the Antonivka Road Bridge, is under the control of Ukrainian soldiers (as of April 2023). Antonivsky island, which is swampy, is under Ukrainian control.
In January 2023, a Russian milblogger said that Ukrainian soldiers were still doing reconnaissance on Kinburn Spit. Ukrainian authorities gave support to that claim.
Ended in 2022
Kherson counteroffensive, ended November 11, 2022; It happended in Kherson oblast.
 Ukraine took the city of Kherson back on November 11, 2022. The city is in Kherson oblast.
Ukraine took Davydiv Brid back on October 4, 2022. The place is in Kherson oblast.
Battle of Davydiv Brid, ended 16 June, 2022.
Battle of Mykolaiv, ended April 8, 2022. Ukrainian soldiers kept the city. The battle took place in Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv Oblast.
Battle of Kherson, ended 2 March, 2022.

Ended in 2014
During the Offensive on Mariupol, Russian and Russian-backed separatist troops supporting the Donetsk People's Republic moved towards the city of Mariupol. Fighting started in the outskirts of the city on September 6, 2014.

Related pages
Military campaign

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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Vincent Boot (24 April 1945 – 17 January 2022) was a Dutch judoka.

Boot was active as competitive judoka during the 1960s and 1970s. He became five times Dutch national champion. He was selected to represent the Netherlands at international competitions, including for the 1973 World Judo Championships and 1974 European Judo Championships. After his active career he founded his own judo school "Budo Stichting Boot" where he gave for many years judo lessons. In 2020 he received an Order of Orange-Nassau.

Boot died in Zwolle on 17 January 2022, at the age of 76. His funeral was on 24 January and included a guard of honor of many martial artists.

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Dutch judoka
1945 births
2022 deaths
Marinus Johannes Christiaan "Joop" Worrell  (18 June 1938 – 17 January 2022) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party.

He served as a alderman of Woudrichem from 1971 to 1974 and as a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1974 to 1989. Afterwards he became mayor of Woudrichem between 1989 and 2001.

Worrell died in Woudrichem on 17 January 2022, at the age of 83.

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1938 births
2022 deaths
Dutch politicians
People from Amsterdam
Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Dutch mayors
Albert "Ab" Blokker (1945 – 15 January 2022) was a Dutch businessman. He was owner of Dutch retail chain .

Blokker built "Blokker Holding" together with his brother Jaap Blokker, with a series of important acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s, including Bart Smit (1985), Leen Bakker, Casa (1988), Xenos (1989), Intertoys, Marskramer (1993) and Maxi Toys (1997). After the death of Jaap Blokker in July 2011, Ab remained the sole active family shareholder the Blokker group. However, he could not prevent the further decline of the chain and clashed with the innovative director Roland Palmer, who had to resign in 2015. In 2017, Ab Blokker stepped down as a member of the Supervisory Board. In 2021 he sold his interest in decoration chain Casa International to the management and investment company Globitas.

Blokker died on 15 January 2022, at the age of 76.

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Dutch businesspeople
1945 births
2022 deaths
Place of death missing
James Edward Banks (born July 16, 1979) is an American politician. He is a member of the U.S. representative for  since 2017. He is a Republican.

In January 2023, Banks announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate in the e2024 election.

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1979 births
Living people
United States representatives from Indiana
Republican Party (United States) politicians
The Huntsville Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area on the northern border of Alabama. The metro area's principal city is Huntsville, and consists of two counties: Limestone and Madison.

Huntsville, Alabama
Metropolitan areas of the United States