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June 2 - Kathryn Joosten, 72, American television actress, lung cancer.
 June 2 - Richard Dawson, 79, English actor and former host of Family Feud, complications related to esophageal cancer.
 June 3 - Roy Salvadori, 90, English motor racing driver.
 June 4 - Eduard Khil, 77, Russian baritone singer.
 June 5 - Barry Unsworth, 81, British writer.
 June 5 - Ray Bradbury, 91, American writer and screenwriter, after long illness.
 June 6 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer.
 June 6 - Vladimir Krutov, 52, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player, internal bleeding and liver failure.
 June 6 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, 54, Spanish footballer and coach, heart attack.
 June 7 - Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, execution by hanging.
 June 7 - Bob Welch, 65, American musician, suicide by gunshot.
 June 7 - J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer, stroke.
 June 10 - George Saitoti, 66, Kenyan politician and former Vice president of Kenya, helicopter crash.
June 11 - Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress, heart problems.
 June 11 - Teofilo Stevenson, 60, Cuban boxer, heart attack.
 June 12 - Henry Hill, 69, American convict.
 June 12 - Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate, cancer.
 June 13 - Roger Garaudy, 98, French philosopher and Holocaust denier.
 June 13 - William Standish Knowles, 95, American chemist and Nobel laureate.
 June 14 - Carlos Reichenbach, 67, Brazilian movie director, heart failure.
 June 16 - Nils Karlsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.
 June 16 - Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress, blood disease.
 June 16 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
 June 17 - Rodney King, 47, American victim of police brutality, unexplained circumstances.
 June 19 - Norbert Tiemann, 87, American politician and 32nd Governor of Nebraska.
 June 21 - Ramaz Shengelia, 55, Soviet-Georgian footballer, brain haemorrhage.
 June 21 - Anna Schwartz, 96, American economist and writer.
June 23 - Brigitte Engerer, 59, French pianist, cancer.
 June 23 - Alan McDonald, 48, Northern Irish footballer and manager.
 June 24 - Lonesome George, c. 100, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise and last-known survivor of his sub-species.
 June 24 - Heino Kruus, 85, Estonian basketball player.
 June 24 - Miki Roque, 23, Spanish footballer, pelvic cancer.
 June 26 - Nora Ephron, 71, American writer, screenwriter and director, leukaemia.
 June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir, 96, two-time former Prime Minister of Israel, Alzheimer's disease.
July 1 - Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident.
 July 1 - Evelyn Lear, 86, American operatic soprano.
 July 3 - Sergio Pininfarina, 85, Italian senator for life, engineer and automobile designer.
 July 3 - Andy Griffith, 86, American stage, movie, and television actor, heart attack.
 July 4 - Eric Sykes, 89, British actor and writer.
 July 5 - Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
 July 7 - Leon Schlumpf, 87, Swiss politician, former Member of the Federal Council and former President of the Confederation.
 July 7 - Mouss Diouf, 47, Senegalese-born French actor and humorist.
 July 8 - Ernest Borgnine, 95, American actor, renal failure.
 July 9 - Terepai Maoate, 78, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
 July 9 - Dom Eugênio de Araújo Sales, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, heart failure.
 July 9 - Isuzu Yamada, 95, Japanese movie actress, multiple organ failure.
July 9 - Eva Rausing, 48, American businesswoman and philanthropist (body found on this date), heart attack linked to drug abuse.
 July 10 - Lol Coxhill, 79, English jazz saxophonist.
 July 12 - Dara Singh, 83, Indian wrestler and actor.
 July 13 - Jerzy Kulej, 71, Polish boxer and politician.
 July 13 - Richard D. Zanuck, 77, American movie producer, heart attack.
 July 13 - Sage Stallone, 36, American actor, movie director, producer and screenwriter, atherosclerosis (body found on this date).
 July 14 - Sixten Jernberg, 83, Swedish cross-country skier.
 July 15 - Celeste Holm, 95, American actress.
 July 16 - Jon Lord, 71, British musician (Deep Purple), pancreatic cancer and pulmonary embolism.
 July 16 - Stephen Covey, 79, American writer, complications from bicycle accident.
 July 18 - Rajesh Khanna, 69, Indian actor, producer and politician.
 July 18 - Jean Francois-Poncet, 83, French diplomat, politician and former Foreign Minister of France.
July 19 - Omar Suleiman, 76, Egyptian army general, politician, diplomat and intelligence officer.
 July 19 - Hans Nowak, 74, German footballer.
 July 22 - Bohdan Stupka, 70, Ukrainian actor and former Minister of Culture.
 July 22 - George Armitage Miller, 92, American psychologist.
 July 22 - Oswaldo Paya, 60, Cuban activist, traffic collision.
 July 23 - Sally Ride, 61, American astronaut and astrophysicist, pancreatic cancer.
 July 24 - Larry Hoppen, 61, American singer and guitarist, hanging.
 July 24 - John Atta Mills, 68, President of Ghana.
 July 24 - Sherman Hemsley, 74, American actor and comedian.
 July 24 - Chad Everett, 76, American actor, lung cancer.
 July 26 - Franz West, 65, Austrian artist.
 July 26 - Lupe Ontiveros, 69, American actress.
 July 27 - Norman Alden, 87, American actor, natural causes.
 July 27 - R. G. Armstrong, 95, American actor, natural causes.
 July 27 - Tony Martin, 98, American singer and actor, natural causes.
 July 27 - Jack Taylor, 82, English football referee.
July 27 - Russ Mayberry, 86, Scottish-American television director, illness.
 July 27 - Geoffrey Hughes, 68, British actor, prostate cancer.
 July 30 - Chris Marker, 91, French photographer, writer and documentary moviemaker.
 July 30 - Maeve Binchy, 72, Irish novelist, after short illness.
 July 31 - Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira, 87, Brazilian footballer and coach.
 July 31 - Gore Vidal, 86, American writer, complications from pneumonia.
August 1 - Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer.
 August 2 - Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage (body found on this date).
 August 5 - Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress, respiratory arrest.
 August 6 - Bernard Lovell, 98, British physicist and radio astronomer.
 August 6 - Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.
 August 6 - Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer, after short illness.
 August 9 - Mel Stuart, 83, American director and producer, cancer.
 August 9 - Al Freeman, Jr., 78, American actor.
 August 10 - Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist. 
 August 13 - Johnny Pesky, 92, American baseball player, manager and coach.
 August 13 - Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American writer, publisher and businesswoman.
 August 14 - Phyllis Thaxter, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 August 14 - Svetozar Gligoric, 89, Serbian chess grandmaster, stroke.
 August 14 - Sergey Kapitsa, 84, Russian physicist.
August 15 - Harry Harrison, 87, American science fiction writer.
 August 15 - Biff Elliot, 89, American movie and television actor.
 August 16 - Abune Paulos, 76, Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch.
 August 16 - William Windom, 88, American movie, television, voice, and stage actor, heart failure. 
 August 18 - Jesse Robredo, 54, Filipino politician, plane crash.
 August 18 - Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer and songwriter.
 August 19 - Tony Scott, 68, British movie director and producer (brother of Ridley Scott), suicide by jumping. 
 August 20 - Phyllis Diller, 95, American actress and comedian, natural causes.
 August 20 - Dom Mintoff, 96, former Prime Minister of Malta, natural causes.
 August 20 - Meles Zenawi, 57, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and former President, illness.
 August 20 - Virginia Dwyer, 92, American movie and television actress, natural causes.
 August 21 - William Thurston, 65, American mathematician.
 August 22 - Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 88, Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.
August 23 - Steve Van Buren, 91, Honduran-born American football player, pneumonia.
 August 23 - Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer and voice actor for The Muppets and Sesame Street, cancer.
 August 24 - Felix Mielli Venerando, 74, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
 August 24 - Pauli Ellefsen, 76, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
 August 24 - Steven Franken, 80, American television, voice and movie actor, cancer.
 August 25 - Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon, complications from heart surgery.
 August 27 - Russell Scott, 91, American entertainer, pneumonia.
 August 27 - Malcolm Browne, 81, American journalist and photographer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 August 28 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, 74, Russian Muslim Sufi leader, bombing.
 August 28 - Alfred Schmidt, 81, German philosopher.
 August 30 - Chris Lighty, 44, American music executive and talent agent, suicide.
August 31 - Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, 101, Soviet-Russian military commander.
 August 31 - Carlo Maria Martini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Milan.
 August 31 - Max Bygraves, 89, British talk show host, actor, singer, and comedian who hosted Family Fortunes, Alzheimer's disease.
September 1 - Hal David, 91, American songwriter, complications from a stroke.
 September 1 - Smarck Michel, 75, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti, brain tumor.
 September 3 - Sun Myung Moon, 92, Korean religious leader, pneumonia.
 September 3 - Mahmoud El-Gohary, 74, Egyptian footballer and coach, complications from a stroke.
 September 3 - Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, American actor, complications from a heart attack.
 September 6 - Art Modell, 87, American businessman and former NFL team owner, heart failure.
 September 6 - Terry Nutkins, 66, British naturalist and television presenter, leukemia.
 September 7 - Leszek Drogosz, 79, Polish Olympic boxer and actor, cancer.
 September 8 - Bill Moggridge, 69, British designer, writer and educator, cancer.
 September 8 - Mārtiņš Roze, 47, Latvian politician and Minister of Agriculture, blood clot.
 September 8 - Thomas Szasz, 92, Hungarian psychiatrist.
 September 10 - Lance LeGault, 77, American movie, television, and voice actor.
September 10 - Vondell Darr, 93, American silent movie and child actress.
 September 11 - Sergio Livingstone, 92, Chilean footballer, natural causes.
 September 11 - Deaths in the 2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks:
Christopher Stevens, 52, American diplomat and 10th Ambassador of Libya, murdered.
Sean Smith, 34, American diplomat, murdered. 
Glen Doherty, 42, American security officer, murdered.  
Tyrone Woods, American former U.S. Navy Seal, murdered.    
 September 12 - Derek Jameson, 82, British journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
 September 12 - Sid Watkins, 84, British neurosurgeon.
 September 13 - Peter Lougheed, 84, Canadian politician, lawyer, and football player, natural causes.
 September 16 - Princess Ragnhild of Norway, 82, Norwegian royalty, after long illness.
 September 16 - John Ingle, 84, American movie, television, and voice actor. 
 September 17 - Russell E. Train, 92, American politician.
 September 18 - Santiago Carrillo, 97, Spanish Communist politician.
September 20 - Fortunato Baldelli, 77, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
 September 21 - Henry Bauchau, 99, Belgian psychoanalyst and writer.
 September 21 - Michael Rye, 94, American movie, television, stage, voice, and video game actor, natural causes.
 September 23 - Corrie Sanders, 46, South African boxer, shot.
 September 23 - Pavel Grachev, 64, Russian general and politician.
 September 25 - Andy Williams, 84, American singer and entertainer, bladder cancer.
 September 26 - Johnny Lewis, 28, American movie and television actor, injuries from a fall.
 September 27 - Herbert Lom, 95, Czech-born British movie and television actor.
 September 28 - Michael O'Hare, 60, American movie, stage, and television actor, heart attack.
 September 29 - Carlos Büsser, 84, Argentine military personal who was commander of Operation Rosario, heart attack.
 September 29 - Hebe Camargo, 83, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter, cardiac arrest.
 September 29 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 86, American publisher.
September 30 - Barbara Ann Scott, 84, Canadian figure skater.
 September 30 - Barry Commoner, 95, American biologist, professor and politician, natural causes.
October 1 - Eric Hobsbawm, 95, British historian and writer, after long illness.
 October 1 - Dirk Bach, 51, German actor, comedian and television presenter.
 October 1 - Moshe Sanbar, 86, Hungarian-born Israeli economist.
 October 5 - Claude Pinoteau, 87, French movie director and screenwriter.
 October 6 - Chadli Bendjedid, 83, 3rd President of Algeria.
 October 7 - Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, 37, Mexican druglord, shot.
 October 8 - Ken Sansom, 85, American movie, television, stage, radio, and voice actor, stroke.
 October 9 - Paddy Roy Bates, 91, British pirate radio broadcaster and founder of the Sealand micronation, Alzheimer's disease.
 October 10 - Alex Karras, 77, American football player and actor, kidney failure.
 October 11 - Helmut Haller, 73, German footballer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
 October 11 - Edgar Negret, 92, Colombian sculptor, cancer and heart failure.
October 13 - Gary Collins, 74, American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and television host, natural causes.
 October 14 - Arlen Specter, 82, American politician and former United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
 October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk, 89, former King of Cambodia, heart attack.
 October 15 - Claude Cheysson, 92, French politician and former foreign minister.
 October 17 - Emile Allais, 100, French alpine skier.
 October 17 - Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress, model and singer, complications from cancer.
 October 17 - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, 89, American inventor and scientist, prostate cancer.
 October 18 - Slater Martin, 86, American basketball player.
 October 19 - Fiorenzo Magni, 91, Italian road racing cyclist, aneurysm.
 October 20 - E. Donnall Thomas, 92, American physician and Nobel Prize winner.
 October 20 - Paul Kurtz, 86, American Secular Humanist philosopher.
October 21 - George McGovern, 90, American politician, former United States Senator for South Dakota and 1972 Presidential candidate, natural causes.
 October 21 - Yash Chopra, 80, Indian movie director, screenwriter and producer.
 October 22 - Russell Means, 72, Native American activist, writer, musician, politician and actor, esophageal cancer.
 October 22 - Shubha Phutela, 21, Indian movie actress and model, multiple organ failure.
 October 23 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, 78, Indian poet and novelist, heart attack.
 October 23 - Wilhelm Brasse, 94, Polish photographer and Holocaust survivor.
 October 24 - Anita Bjork, 89, Swedish actress.
 October 24 - Margaret Osborne duPont, 94, American tennis player.
 October 25 - John Connelly, 74, English footballer.
 October 25 - Jacques Barzun, 104, French-born American historian and philosopher.
 October 26 - John M. Johansen, 96, American architect, heart failure.
 October 27 - Hans Werner Henze, 86, German composer.
October 27 - Natina Reed, 32, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress, traffic collision.
 October 28 - Terry Callier, 67, American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, cancer.
 October 29 - J. Bernlef, 75, Dutch novelist and poet.
 October 29 - Albano Harguindeguy, 85, Argentine general, natural causes.
 October 31 - John Fitch, 95, American racing driver, engineer and inventor.
 October 31 - John H. Reed, 91, American politician and 67th Governor of Maine.
November 1 - Mitch Lucker, 28, American singer (Suicide Silence), traffic collision.
 November 1 - Gae Aulenti, 84, Italian architect and designer.
 November 1 - Agustin Garcia Calvo, 86, Spanish academic and philosopher, respiratory failure.
 November 2 - Milt Campbell, 78, American athlete, prostate cancer and diabetes.
 November 4 - Ted Curson, 77, American jazz trumpeter.
 November 5 - Elliott Carter, 103, American composer, natural causes.
 November 6 - Maxim of Bulgaria, 98, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
 November 6 - Clive Dunn, 92, British actor, comedian and writer, complications from surgery.
 November 7 - Carmen Basilio, 85, American boxer, pneumonia.
 November 8 - Lucille Bliss, 96, American actress, natural causes.
 November 9 - Sergey Nikolsky, 107, Russian mathematician.
 November 9 - Joseph D. Early, 79, American politician and member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, illness.
 November 9 - Bill Tarmey, 71, British actor, heart attack.
November 9 - Major Harris, 65, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), member of The Delfonics, heart and lung failure.
 November 11 - Rex Hunt, 86, British former Governor of the Falkland Islands.
 November 12 - Sergio Oliva, 71, Cuban-born American bodybuilder.
 November 14 - Ahmed Jabari, 52, Palestinian military commander (Hamas), airstrike.
 November 16 - Aliu Mahama, 66, former Vice president of Ghana.
 November 17 - Bal Thackeray, 86, Indian politician, cardio-respiratory arrest.
 November 19 - Pete La Roca, 74, American jazz drummer.
 November 20 - David O'Brien Martin, 68, American politician, cancer.
 November 21 - Ajmal Kasab, 25, Pakistani gunman in the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks, executed by hanging.
 November 21 - Deborah Raffin, 59, American actress, leukemia. 
 November 22 - Bryce Courtenay, 79, South African-Australian writer, stomach cancer.
 November 23 - Larry Hagman, 81, American actor, director and producer, leukemia.
November 24 - Héctor Camacho, 50, Puerto Rican boxer, shot.
 November 25 - Dave Sexton, 82, English footballer and coach.
 November 25 - Lars Hormander, 81, Swedish mathematician.
 November 26 - Joseph E. Murray, 93, American doctor who performed the first successful kidney transplant, stroke.
 November 28 - Zig Ziglar, 86, American writer, speaker, and salesman, pneumonia.
 November 30 - I. K. Gujral, 92, former Prime Minister of India, multiple organ failure.
December 1 - Mitchell Cole, 27, English footballer, heart problem.
 December 1 - Phil Taylor, 95, English footballer and coach.
 December 1 - Jovan Belcher, 25, American football player and murderer, suicide by gunshot.
 December 2 - Ehsan Naraghi, 86, Iranian sociologist and writer, long illness. 
 December 4 - Miguel Calero, 41, Colombian footballer.
 December 4 - Besse Cooper, 116, American supercentenarian and world's oldest person,  respiratory failure.
 December 5 - Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, heart failure.
 December 5 - Elisabeth Murdoch, 103, Australian philanthropist and mother of Rupert Murdoch, natural causes.
 December 5 - Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, cardiac arrest.
 December 6 - Miguel Abia Biteo, 51, former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, heart attack.
 December 9 - Patrick Moore, 89, English astronomer, writer and broadcaster, infection.
 December 9 - Jenni Rivera, 43, American-Mexican singer and actress, plane crash.
December 9 -  Charles Rosen, 85, American pianist and writer on music.
 December 10 - Iajuddin Ahmed, 81, former President of Bangladesh, heart and kidney disease.
 December 10 - Lisa Della Casa, 93, Swiss operatic soprano.
 December 11 - Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian operatic soprano.
 December 11 - Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian sitarist, after short illness.
 December 13 - Maurice Herzog, 93, French mountaineer.
 December 14 - Kenneth Kendall, 88, British television broadcaster, stroke.
 December 17 - Dina Manfredini, 115, Italian-American supercentenarian and world's oldest person.
 December 17 - Daniel Inouye, 88, United States Senator for Hawaii, respiratory complications .
 December 19 - Peter Struck, 69, German politician, heart attack.
 December 19 - Robert Bork, 85, American legal scholar who was nominated to become part of the United States Supreme Court in 1987, heart disease.
 December 20 - Jimmy McCracklin, 91, American blues musician, diabetes and hypertension.
December 21 - Lee Dorman, 70, American bass guitarist, natural causes.
 December 22 - Cliff Osmond, 75, American actor, writer, producer, director, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 December 24 - Richard Rodney Bennett, 76, British composer and musician.
 December 24 - Charles Durning, 89, American actor, natural causes.
 December 24 - Jack Klugman, 90, American stage, television and movie actor, prostate cancer.
 December 25 - Frank Calabrese, Sr., 75, American Chicago mafia hitman (Family Secrets), suspected heart disease.
 December 25 - Othmar Schneider, 84, Austrian alpine skier.
 December 26 - Gerry Anderson, 83, British writer, director and producer.
 December 26 - Fontella Bass, 72, American singer, heart attack.
 December 27 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., 78, American general, complications from pneumonia.
 December 27 - Harry Carey, Jr., 91, American actor, natural causes.
 December 28 - Václav Drobný, 32, Czech footballer, bobsleighing accident.
December 28 - Emmanuel Scheffer, 88, German-born Israeli football coach.
 December 29 - Tony Greig, 66, South African-born English cricketer, heart attack.
 December 29 - Mike Auldridge, 73, American bluegrass musician, cancer.
 December 30 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, 103, Italian neurologist, neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner, natural causes.
 December 30 - Carl Woese, 84, American scientist and biologist, pancreatic cancer.
was an old province of Japan in the area of Ishikawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called . 

The province had borders with Etchū and Kaga provinces.

The ancient capital city of the province was Nanao.

History

Noto Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō. 

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Noto Province were reformed in the 1870s.

Shrines and Temples
Keta jinja was the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Noto.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
Ishikawa Prefecture
was an island province of Japan until 1871 when it became a part of Niigata Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called  or .

History

Sado Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō. 

In 1221, Emperor Juntoku was sent into exile on Sado Island.  The former emperor is sometimes identified as  because his last years were spent at Sado.  Juntoku remained at Sado until his death in 1242.  

In the Edo period, Gold was discovered and mined.  The Sado mines were added to the tentative World Heritage List in 2010.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Sado Province were reformed in the 1870s.

Geography
Sado is an island in the Sea of Japan.  It was off the coast of Echigo Province.

Shrines and Temples
Watatsu-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Sado.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites
Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
Niigata Prefecture
Louise I. Shelley is a professor at George Mason University in Virginia. She is also founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC).

She graduated from Cornell University cum laude in Penology and Russian literature in 1972. While there, she co-founded the Risley Residential College. She served on the Cornell Board of Trustees.  She got a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in  Criminology in 1973.  In 1973/74, she held a Columbia University, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship used to study in the Sociology Department, Law School and the Russian Institute. In 1977, Shelley earned a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

She joined the American University as an Assistant Professor in 1977. She became a full professor in 1986. In 2007, she moved to George Mason University.  Shelley has studied at Moscow State University as a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow.
Books
 Human Security, Transnational Crime and Human Trafficking edited with Shiro Okubo New York and London, Routledge, 2011.
 Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
 Organised Crime and Corruption in Georgia edited with Erik R. Scott and Anthony Latta, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
 Human Traffic and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives edited with Sally Stoecker Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.
 Izucheniye organizovannoy prestupnosti: rossiisko-amerikanskii dialog, edited with Ninel Kuznetsova and Yu. G. Kozlov, Moscow: Olimp, 1997.
 Policing Soviet Society: The Evolution of State Control, London: Routledge, 1996.
 Social Changes, Crime and the Police, edited with Jozsef Vigh Reading: Harwood Press, 1995.
 Crime and Control in Comparative Perspective, edited with H.G. Heiland and H. Katoh. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992.
Crime and Development (edited special issue), International Annals of Criminology, 1986, Vol. 24, Nos. 1 and 2.
 Lawyers in Soviet Work Life, Law, Crime and Deviance Series, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
 Crime and Modernization, The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime, Southern Illinois University Press, first printing, March 1981, second printing, March 1982. Translated into Chinese, published Bejing: Public Publishing House, 1987.
 Readings in Comparative Criminology, Southern Illinois University Press, 1981 (edited Collection).
 History Without Jews'', B'nai B'rith, 1977.
Other websites
 Official webpage 
 Bio at quarterly journal dispatches 

American sociologists
Writers from Virginia
Living people
1952 births
was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukui Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was also known as  or .  

The province had borders with Echizen, Ōmi, Tamba, Tango, and Yamashiro Provinces.

The ancient capital city of the province was Obama.

History

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Wakasa Province were reformed in the 1870s.

Shrines and Temples
Wakasahiko jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Wakasa.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
Fukui Prefecture
Robert James Gilbert Anderson (September 15, 1922–January 1, 2012) was an English athlete who represented Great Britain in the fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He choreographed the sword fights for many movies including Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

He was born in Hampshire on September 15, 1922, and during World War II he was a member of the British Royal Marines. He used his sword fighting skills in many movies starting with The Master of Ballantrae, based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson. During the filming he accidentally stabbed Errol Flynn in the leg. Anderson was the person dressed as Darth Vader in the sword fights in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He also arranged the sword fights in all three of the Lord of the Rings movies. Other movie credits included the James Bond movies, From Russia With Love and Die Another Day, The Princess Bride, The Three Musketeers (1993 movie), The Mask of Zorro, and The Legend of Zorro.

References
References

1922 births
2012 deaths
British fencers
English movie actors
1952 Summer Olympics
British Olympians
Geli Raubal (June 4, 1908–September 18, 1931), sometimes known as Angela Raubal was Adolf Hitler's half-niece. She was born in Linz, Austria-Hungary. She shot herself dead in Hitler's apartment in Munich, Weimar Republic. She is buried in Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria.

Family 
Father: Leo Raubal
Mother: Angela Raubal (Hitler's half-sister)
Boyfriend: Emil Maurice (Hitler's chauffeur)
Boyfriend: Adolf Hitler (rumored)

Sources
http://www.nndb.com/people/144/000087880/

1908 births
1931 deaths
Austrian Roman Catholics
Hitler family
People from Linz
Suicides by firearm in Germany
Tamara Toumanova ( March 2, 1919 – May 29, 1996) was an American ballerina and actress of Georgian descent. Toumanova is notable for ballet, and she also acted in several movies.

Tournova became an American citizen in 1943. She married her second husband, Casey Robinson, a Hollywood script writer and producer, in 1944.

Life 
Shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Toumanova's mother, Eugenia Toumanova, left Georgia, Russia looking for her first husband, Konstantin Zakharov. She was pregnant at the time. She gave birth to Toumanova in Siberia. It has been verified that Toumanova is of Georgian ancestry.

Toumanova's parents became separated during the revolution. Toumanova was 18 months old before her parents were found each other. The family went from Russia to Shanghai, China. They lived there for a year. They then moved to Cairo. After living in refugee camps, the family moved to Paris. There was a large Russian émigré community there.
After moving to Paris, Toumanova was given piano lessons and studied ballet with Olga Preobrajenska. Toumanova said she was her "first and only permanent teacher" and an "immortal friend". She made her debut at the Paris Opera at the age of ten in the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne. George Balanchine saw her in ballet class and hired her for de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as one of the three "baby ballerinas".

References

Other websites
 Australia Dancing — Lutte eternelle 
 Tamara Toumanova

Russian ballerinas
Actors from Georgia (country)
American dancers
1919 births
1996 deaths
Faizal Yusof (1979 - 1 January 2011) was a Malaysian actor. He acted in the popular television series Tiramisu and Manjalara. He died from heart failure, and was buried in the Batu Mudu Muslim Cemetery in Kuala Lumpur.

References

1978 births
2011 deaths
Malaysian actors
Television actors
People from Kuala Lumpur
Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (February 13, 1939–August 31, 2011) was a USSR cosmonaut.

Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and studied engineering at the Higher Military Engineering School of the Soviet Navy in Pushkin. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of a deep sea diving unit in the Baltic Sea War Fleet. 

He was chosen to be a cosmonaut on October 23, 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23 in 1976. After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on June 24, 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries.

References

1939 births
2011 deaths
Cosmonauts
Soviet engineers
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
was an old province of Japan in the area of Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It was sometimes called .  

Awa had borders with Tosa, Sanuki, and Iyo Provinces.

History

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Awa Province were reformed in the 1870s.

Shrines and Temples
Ōasahiko jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Awa.

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 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

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  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan
Tokushima Prefecture
Teapot Rock is a rock formation in Natrona County, Wyoming. A nearby oil field is named after the rock. The oil field was the focus of a bribery scandal during the administration of Warren G. Harding, the Teapot Dome scandal. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

The eroded sandstone formation is  tall and is about  in circumference.  It is a few hundred yards east of Wyoming Highway 259, about  north of Casper, Wyoming in the Powder River Basin near Teapot Creek. 

The outline of the rock once resembled a teapot and gave its name to several man-made and natural features, including a geologic structural uplift known as the Teapot Dome, and an oil field about  east.
In 1915, U.S. Navy was converting its ships to oil-fired boilers. The Navy bought the Teapot Dome Oil Field. It was called "Naval Petroleum Reserve Number Three" as part of a program to ensure that the  Navy would have sufficient fuel reserves in an emergency. It was one of several related fields in the area, the largest of which was the Salt Creek Oil Field. By comparison with the Salt Creek Field's  peak production of  of 1923, the Teapot Dome field had about 64 wells, with few producing more than 150 barrels per day (24 m3/d).

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Ghost Adventures is a weekly American paranormal television series that started on October 17, 2008 on the Travel Channel. Produced by MY-Tupelo Entertainment, the program follows and stars ghost hunters Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin, as they investigate locations that are reported to be haunted. Hosted and narrated by Bagans, the show airs new episodes on Fridays at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on the Travel Channel. Nick Groff of the Ghost Adventures crew confirmed there will be a sixth season that will premier in 2012.

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was a Japanese island province in the Seto Inland Sea near Hyōgo Prefecture on the island of Honshū.   It was sometimes called  .  

Awaji Island is between Honshū and the island of Shikoku. Awaji means literally "Road to Awa". It was the route for traveling to Awa Province from the central part of Japan.

History

In 764, Emperor Junnin was sent into exile on Awaji.  He died on the island in 765.  The former emperor was known as Awaji no Haitei.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Awaji Province were reformed in the 1870s.

Shrines and Temples
Izanagi jingu was the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Awaji.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

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  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

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Hyōgo Prefecture
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (released as Circle of Blood in the US) is a point-and-click adventure game released to the PC on November 5, 1996. It was released on the PlayStation in December that same year and on the Game Boy Advance March 19, 2002. It has also been released to the Mobile phone, and re-released to the Wii, PC, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS and iOS as a "director's cut". According to Charles Cecil, it sold around a 1,000,000 copies in the mid-1990s. The game follows George Stobbart - a young American patent lawyer, who is a eye witness and victim of a bomb attack on a small Parisian cafe.
In 1994,Charles Cecil, Noirin Carmody and Sean Brennan invented the game while having dinner together and talking about the mythology of the Templars. The game is serious in tone, but also has plenty of humor and graphics animated in a style of classic animated movies. The game takes place in both real and fictional locations. The Shadow of the Templars was the third game built with the Virtual Theatre engine.

Critics praised The Shadow of the Templars for its story, puzzles, voice acting, dialog and gameplay. The Game was spawned by a number of sequels. They are known as the Broken Sword series. Cecil also led the development of the sequel, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror. Revolution released a remake in 2009, which also got very good reviews from the gaming press.
Gameplay
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars is a 2D adventure game played from a third-person perspective. Through a point-and-click interface, the player takes the role of George Stobbart through the game's world. A player interacts with the environment by selecting from multiple commands.

Players must properly construct action combinations between commands and the world's objects in order to successfully solve puzzles and progress in the game.

While talking with other characters, the player can choose between topics for discussion, such as objects from your inventory (on top of the screen), or other (on the bottom of the screen). 
The in-game action is often interrupted by cutscenes, non-interactive animated sequences that are used to provide information about character personalities and advance the plot. Like other Revolution Software's Games, in The Shadow of the Templars, the player character's death is possible.
The audio of the game includes recorded sound effects, orchestral music and recorded voices of voice actors. The game graphics are animated in a style of classic animated films.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whatculture.com/film/broken-sword-the-movie.php|title=Whatculture!: Broken Sword: The Movie|date=22 May 2007 |publisher=Whatculture!}}</ref> The game was directed by Charles Cecil and the original score was composed by Barrington Pheloung.
Synopsis
Setting and characters
Judging by the likes of the surroundings (and the opening quote: "Paris in the Fall. The last months of the year, and the end of millennium..."), They started talking about the mythology of the Templars, and what rich historical background it would create a game. And so, "Broken Sword was born". Charles Cecil convinced a layout artist, Eoghan Cahill to join the project. He and his friend Neil Breen, who had both worked at the Don Bluth studios in Dublin, drew all the backgrounds in pencil, and the team then digitally colored them in Photoshop.

The development process was very exhilarating, but often fraught. On its release, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars was received very good both critically and commercially.
The Director's Cut
On March 21, 2009, Ubisoft released a special edition of Shadow of the Templars for the Wii and Nintendo DS. According to Charles Cecil, The Director's Cut came about, thanks to a group of Broken Sword fans, who started an online petition, beging him to bring the series back to the Wii and the Nintendo DS. The special editions are extended versions of the original. The game was programmed by Tony Warriner and Joost Peters.  In The Director's Cut, Hazel Ellerby returns to voice Nicole Collard in the new sections, for the first time since the original. Rolf Saxon, like in every sequel, also returns to voice George Stobbart.
After releasing the original game to the GBA, Cecil thought it was time to reward fans with something new and different by making The Director's Cut. So, he decided the game would start a day before the famous Parisian cafe explosion in the original game, and it fills in some of the back-story of Nicole Collard, a pivotal character in the game. To this end Charles Cecil also drafted in the acclaimed comic book artist, Dave Gibbons, with whom Revolution worked previously on their 1994 cult classic adventure, Beneath a Steel Sky. In edition to working on the visual references for the game, Gibbons has also produced a comic book, to accompany the game's DS release (see Comic). Gibbons said that he decided to return to work on this video game, because he knew producing character shots with a range of expressions would be a challenging thing to do, but he knew he would enjoy it because of his involvement in the past.
Unlike in the original, players control Nico in some parts of the game. New puzzles were designed for each platform. Besides the new character artwork by Dave Gibbons, The Director's Cut also had a new first person view for certain puzzles.

Unlike the original game, the updated version also allows for multiple solutions to puzzles and a new co-operative mode for two players. In the DS version, there is no voice acting, only subtitles. A version for iPhone and iPod touch was released on January 20, 2010. In May 2010, a version with higher resolution and a digital comic was released on the iPad. A PC version was released on August 27, 2010 on various digital distribution services.
Marketing and release 
Revolution made a comic book for the DS release of The Director's Cut in 2009 (see Comic), and also a launch trailer.  On the release of The Director's Cut on iPhone and iPod touch on January 24, 2010, Revolution released the launch trailer on their YouTube channel, revolutionbevigilant. On the 8th day of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas, Revolution made The Director's Cut free for download for 24 hours.

 Purchase 
The original is currently available from Sold Out Sotware and Good Old Games (if you buy The Director's Cut). 
The iPhone version of The Director's Cut  can be purchased from the iPhone/iPod Touch AppStore. The iPad version is also available on the iPad AppStore. The Mac version is available from Steam and the Mac AppStore. The PC version can be purchased from Intel Appup, Steam and Good Old Games, and also as part of the Broken Sword Complete package from Mastertronic. The Wii and DS versions are currently available in stores.
Downloadable content 
The Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars - Director's Cut Original Soundtrack was released on the iTunes Store on December 28 December, 2009. If you buy The Director's Cut on Good Old Games, you also get the original game, original manual, HD wallpapers, the soundtrack, 11 avatars, and the comic book.

 Comic 
The comic book of the same name was created by Charles Cecil and very well known artist Dave Gibbons for the DS release of Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars - Director’s Cut in March 2009. The short comic provides a further glimpse back into Nico’s past, leading readers right up to the events of her playable segments in the game.

 Reception 

 Sales 
The game was a commercial success. Charles Cecil said that it sold around a 1.000.000 copies in the mid 90's. He also said that the sales of Revolution's games are going slightly back up again.
Critical response Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars got very good reviews from critics. Adventure Gamers praised the game's story, puzzles, art, voice acting and interface, and called it a true masterpiece and adventure gaming at its absolute finest. However, the magazine stated that long conversations may put some players of. Joe Antol of Adventure Classic Gaming stated that it's one of the best adventures he has played in a number of years, and that it's a "must play and experience" adventure title for any adventure game lover. Game Over Online praised the GBA version, saying that Revolution did a great job redrawing the game's visuals, and that its patience, maturity and depth are some things that are rarely seen on the GBA. RPGFan stated that even if the GBA version can be buggy at times, it's still a worthy addition to any GBA library, and is one of the finest examples of how a well-crafted graphic adventure should be done
. James Gordon of HonestGamers praised the games graphics, sound and story, and even called it one of the best GBA games to date, he stated that you may not want to play it more than once, even though he did. PC Gamer praised the game's story, puzzles and art. However, unlike most critics, the reviewer has criticized the voice acting, saying that it is not quite professional, and at times annoying. He also criticized the puzzles, stating that they were good, but some required to much pixel-hunting. "Mr. Bill and Lela" of Mr. Bill's Adventureland stated that it's a "winner" and a totally addictive game, which combines the very best aspects of traditional adventure games and mystery thrillers, with even a little romance thrown in for good measure, and a suspenseful and slowly evolving story that will keep you glued to your seat.
Like the original release, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars - Director's Cut also got very good reviews from critics. App Spy praised the game's great looking visual presentation, excellent touch screen controles and challenging puzzle gameplay, and called it a must own games, even for newcomers to the genre, but stated that the hint system can make things too simple, and that the auto-save function is not the greatest. Touch Arcade said: "Whether you're an old fan of the original game, a newcomer to the series, or even someone who's never played a point-and-click adventure before, Broken Sword is a game with mass appeal that will draw you in" and called it "A Point-and-Click Classic Made Even Better". Slide to Play gave both, the iPhone and iPad a 4 out of 4 stars, and called it a real winner, even among other classic adventures
. Nigel Wood of Touchgen praised the game's great visuals, sound, and well implemented interface, but called story the winner in the game, as it can "like a good book, keep you glued to your little screen". LEVEL stated that even 13 years after its first appearance, Broken Sword lost nothing of its powers, and called it a fantastic adventure game with lovely characters, strong story and DS-enhanced puzzle solving. Just Adventure stated that the game consists of a rich plot, fun characters and puzzles, and great art and soun. Francis Rizo III of Video Game Talk stated that Broken Sword with its engagingly deep storyline, gorgeous art, fun writing, entertaining puzzles and terrific vocal cast, just raised the bar to a level that will be incredibly hard to meet for any game, and that people should buy it, as it is fun and its success may spur developers to take another look at this somewhat dormant genre, supplementing the wave of Wii ports with something new and original.
Awards Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars - Director's Cut was nominated for a British Academy Video Games Award 2010 for Story, but lost to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. In 2010, The Director's Cut won the award for Best European Adventure at the European Games Awards.

 Legacy 
In 2004, Adventure Gamers ranked Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars at #4 on their list of Top 20 Adventure Games of All-Time. Adventure Classic Gaming ranked it at #3 on their list of Top 10 retro graphic adventure games of all time from PC to consoles, in 2006. Metacritic ranked it at #9 on their list of 25 Best iPhone and iPad Games of 2010. In 2011, Adventure Gamers ranked it at #4 again on their list of Top 100 All-Time Adventures. In 2011, the first two Broken Sword games have been downloaded by over 4 million people.
Sequels Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars spawned three sequels. The first, Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror was released in 1997 and is the only game in the series that does not follow the Knights Templar story line. It uses the same engine as the first Broken Sword game. Six years later, Revolution released Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, which moved to 3D graphics, and is the only game in the series that uses a direct control mechanism. It uses the RenderWare engine. In 2006, the company Broken Sword: The Angel of Death (released as Secrets of the Ark: A Broken Sword Game' in North America), which returns to the point 'n' click system used in the first two games, and is the only game in the series not released on any console. The game uses Sumo Digital's engine. In 2009, Revolution released a director's cut of the first game, named Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars - Director's Cut
. The company released a remastered edition of the second, named Broken Sword: The Smoking Mirror - Remastered, in 2010. Revolution has confirmed that there will be a new Broken Sword'' game in the future, and in 2D, but did not confirm they are currently making one.
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 Broken Sword: The Shadow Of The Templars GameSpot profile 
 Broken Sword - Official on Facebook
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