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Gavin Whittaker (13 January 1970 – 6 January 2017) was an Australian professional rugby league player. He played as in the front row during the 1990s. He played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the Gold Coast Chargers and the Western Suburbs Magpies. He retired in 1998. He was born in Pittsworth, Queensland.

Whittaker died from stomach cancer on 6 January 2017 at his home in Parkwood, Queensland. He was 46, and would of turned 47th a week after his death.

References

Other websites
 Gavin Whittaker at the Rugby League Project

1970 births
2017 deaths
Australian rugby league players
Cancer deaths in Queensland
Deaths from stomach cancer
Sportspeople from Queensland
The Allgäu Alps are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps. They are located in Bavaria in Germany, and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range is directly east of Lake Constance. 

There are relatively high levels of rain and it is the rainiest place in Germany. While there are some permanent snowfields, there are no glaciers. Most mountains have grassy faces on one side, and sheer cliffs on the other. Further south the mountains begin to look Dolomite, as they have crevices and gullies. The main river in the region is the Iller, which splits the mountains in half. The high peaks are all on the east of the Iller. On the west they are usually not taller than 2200m. Many activities occur in them, including hiking and skiing.

The ten highest peaks 
The highest peaks of the Allgäu Alps are either on Austrian soil or on the Austro-German border.

References

 
Mountain ranges of the Alps
Mountain ranges of Germany
Mountains of Austria
Lucina Elena da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws (5 April 1929 – 7 January 2017) was a Dutch Antillean politician for the National People's Party (PNP). She served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, an office her husband Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez previously held, briefly in 1977. She was also the first female to hold the office. Prior to this, she was the Minister of Health and Environment, Welfare, Youth, Sports, Culture and Recreation (1970–1977).

Costa Gomez-Matheeuws died on 7 January 2017 in Willemstad, Curaçao at the age of 87.

References

1929 births
2017 deaths
Dutch politicians
Netherlands Antilles
The Großer Krottenkopf is the highest mountain in the Allgäu Alps. It is in Austria and is  tall. It is part of the Hornbach chain, which runs along the main branch of the Allgäu Alps for 15 km eastwards. There are several routes to climb it from different directions.

References 

Allgäu Alps
Mountains of Austria
Tyrol (state)
Anthony "Tony" Booth (22 June 1933 – 11 January 2017) was a British artist. He was best known as the original poster artist for The Beatles and other bands in the Merseybeat era. He also worked with The Cavern Club. He was known as Brian Epstein's "right-hand man" in the 1960s in Liverpool. He was born in Merseyside and grew up in Moreton.

Booth died from cancer on 11 January 2017 in Upton, Merseyside, aged 83.

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1933 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in England
English artists
People from Merseyside
The Party for Freedom, Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid (shortened PVV), is a right-wing political party in the Netherlands.

Party leader, founder and only member is Geert Wilders.

The party was founded on 22 February 2006. In the 2006 Dutch general election, PVV won 6 seats in the House of Representatives with 579,490 votes. In the 2010 elections, PVV won 24 seats with 1,435,349 votes. In the 2012 elections, PVV won 15 seats with 950,263 votes. In the 2017 elections, the PVV won 20 seats (+5) with 1,372,941 votes. In the 2021 elections they have won 17 seats (-3).

PVV is Eurosceptic, meaning they are against the European Union. They are also openly very critical of Islam. Economically, the party supports economic liberalism and wants to lower taxes. It is also a populist party.

The PVV gained a great amount of popularity in 2017, coming second in the election.

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Party for Freedom
 Expatica – 'Turkey in the EU? Never! 
 Expatica – Moroccans want Wilders prosecuted
Islamophobia
Nationalist organizations in Europe
Eurosceptic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
2006 establishments in the Netherlands
Anthony Stephen "Tony" King  (17 November 1934 – 12 January 2017) was a Canadian-born British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He was best known for his work at the University of Essex. He was considered a leading expert of democracy. He was also the BBC television analyst on election night from 1983 to 2005. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1950s.

King died on 12 January 2017 at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 Anthony King  profile at the University of Essex website

1934 births
2017 deaths
British academics
Canadian political scientists
Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens (born 21 December 1972 in Managua) is a Costa Rican swimmer of German descent.

She competes in the 200 m to 800 m freestyle swimming. 

At the 1996 Summer Olympics she won a gold medal in the 200 meter freestyle.

She is the only gold-medalist Costa Rica ever had.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won two bronze medals, in the 200 meter and 400 meter freestyle.

Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 under coach Francisco Rivas.

No article about Claudia Poll can be complete without mentioning mentioning that she has tested positive for an illegal, performance-enhancing steroid and was suspended from competition for four years, according to an announcement this afternoon by the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) in Lausanne, Switzerland. 6 June 2002"
Ironically, Poll's older sister, Sylvia, was a silver medalist at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, beaten to the wall by East Germany's Heike Friedrich. After the collapse of Communism, East German Secret police (Stasi) files revealed that Friedrich — along with all other East German Olympic swimmers — had systematically been doped as a matter of national policy.

Related pages 
 Silvia Poll, sister and also swimmer
 Costa Rica at the Olympics
Swimming World Magazine Jun 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_sport_(P)#cite_note-46

1972 births
Living people
Costa Rican sportspeople
Olympic bronze medalists
Olympic gold medalists
Swimmers
Sylvia Poll Ahrens (born September 24, 1970 in Managua) is a Costa Rican swimmer of German descent.

She is a backstroker and freestyle swimmer.

At the 1988 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle. It was the first medal for a Costa Rican athlete.

Related pages
 Claudia Poll, sister and also swimmer
 Costa Rica at the Olympics

1970 births
Living people
Costa Rican sportspeople
Olympic silver medalists
Swimmers
Yelko Gómez (born March 9, 1989 in Chiriquí Province) is a Panamanian cyclist.

He has been riding for Hyundai-Momi-Continental since 2015.

In 2014 and 2015 he won the National Time Trial Championships.

1989 births
Living people
Cyclists
Panamanian sportspeople
Igloofest is a yearly music festival. It is held outside in Montreal, Canada at the Old Port of Montreal. It began in January 2007 with about 4,000 people attending. In 2012 about 70,000 people attended.

References

Other websites

 Igloofest 2013, Montreal; YouTube 
 Official website

Music festivals
2007 establishments in Canada
Graham Taylor  (15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017) was a British football manager and player. He was the chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993. He also managed Lincoln City, Watford, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He played for Lincoln City and Grimsby Town between 1962 and 1972.

Taylor was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He married Rita Cowling in 1965. They had two daughters.

Taylor died from a heart attack on 12 January 2017 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. He was 72.

References

Other websites

1944 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
English footballers
England national football team managers
English football managers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Sportspeople from Nottinghamshire
England at UEFA Euro 1992
The dash is a punctuation mark that is usually written in the middle of a line of text. A hyphen is sometimes called a dash, but it is used differently. Dashes are used to add more drama to writing. The two main forms of dashes are:
 The en dash (–) is the shorter of the two. It is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em dash. In normal text it is about the width of the letter "n". An en dash is used to connect two numbers that make up a range (for example pages 3–6). It is also used to show a range of dates (2010–2011) or of time (11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.). 
 The em dash (—) is so-named because it is about the length of an uppercase M. They are best used to show emphasis or for an interruption in thought. They can also be used in place of a comma, parentheses, or a colon. But they are less formal than the punctuation marks they replace.

References

Other websites 
 English Grammar Basics: How to Use a Dash; YouTube

Punctuation
The Hohes Licht is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps. It is  high. It is the second highest in the Allgäu  range after the Großer Krottenkopf. The summit is in Tyrol, Austria.

Hohes Licht is 14km south of Oberstdorf. It was first climbed in 1854, and a "survey signal" was left on top for triangulation. On 6 August 1869 it was first climbed for leisure purposes by Hermann von Barth. When he arrived the signal was still there.

References 

Allgäu Alps
Mountains of Austria
Tyrol (state)
Oil refining is the name for a number of processes from chemical engineering, which transform crude oil into useful products such as different fuel oils, Liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, kerosene or  diesel oil. These transformation occur in plants called petroleum refineries. The transformations are done in many steps. The refineries are large industrial complexes, that have many different sub-units, and facilities. Each refinery has its own unique arrangement and combination of refining processes. The exact setup of the refinery is largely determined by the its location, desired products and economic considerations.

Modern petroleum refineries process as much as 800,000 to 900,000 barrels (127,000 to 143,000 cubic meters) per day of crude oil.

Industries
From about the 16th to the 19th century, barbary was a name for a region in North Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic, and from the Mediterranean to the Sahara. The states were called barbary states or berbery states, after the people of the Berbers, who lived there. The coastal regions were commonly called barbary coast.

During the era of Colonialism, names were introduced or re-used, to split this area into single states: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

Today, this region is commonly called Maghreb.

History of Africa
16th-century establishments
19th-century disestablishments
New Braunfels (i/ˌnjuː ˈbrɔːnfəlz/ newbrawn-fəlz) is a city in Comal and Guadalupe counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the seat of Comal County. New Braunfels is a principal city of the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area. The city's population was 57,740 at the 2010 census. In 2015, its estimated population is 70,543.

New Braunfels is  northeast of downtown San Antonio. It is  southwest of San Marcos, and  southwest of Austin.

New Braunfels was established in 1845 by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels. Prince Solms named the settlement in honor of his home in Solms-Braunfels, Germany. The city has a strong German influence. This is seen in the downtown area architecture. The city uses ZIP codes 78130–78133 and telephone area code (830).

References

Other websites 
 New Braunfels official website
 New Braunfels History; YouTube

Cities in Texas
County seats in Texas
1845 establishments in the United States
1840s establishments in Texas
Brian Fletcher (18 May 1947 – 11 January 2017) was an English Jockey. He was born in Cockfield, County Durham. 

He was known for riding the horse Red Rum to win the Grand National in 1973 and 1974 and for second place in 1975. He first won the Grand National at the age of 20, in 1968 riding  Red Alligator. He retired in 1976 with a head injury. Fletcher is one of the only jockey to have won the Grand National three times. He won the Scottish National in 1974. His record winning time on Red Rum in the 1973 Grand National was to stand for 17 years till beaten by Mr Frisk ridden by Marcus Armytage. 

Fletcher died on 11 January 2017 in England, aged 69.

References

Other websites
Face to Face with a Superstar, Winning Post, August 2007 (incl photo of Brian Fletcher) 
 Whatever Happened to Brian Fletcher Evening Gazette April 5 2005

1947 births
2017 deaths
British equestrians
Sportspeople from County Durham
A partisan is an armed fighter, who is not part of the regular troops of a country or state. The term comes from Italian, where it meant member of a political party.  There is no separate legal status for partisans in international law.  The law of war uses four criteria to legally define someone as a prisoner of war, if the person is captured:
 There is someone at the head of the organisation, who assumes liability
 They can be identified by a sign or mark, which is visible from far away
 They carry their weapons openly
 They adhere to the customs and laws of war, during their operation.
In 1977, there were two additional protocols: They clarified that it is sufficient to carry the weapons openly only on some occasions, to be titled armed combatant.

References 

International law
Nikolay Neprimerov (1 May 1921 – 11 January 2017) was a Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor of physics at the Kazan State University. Neprimerov was Head of the Department of Radioelectronics of the Kazan University for 32 years and is author of more than 150 scientific papers and 9 monographs. 

He also authored a book about the everyday life of military pilots during World War II. He was awarded numerous honours and medals. Neprimerov dedicated more than 40 years to and is internationally known for physical research in oil recovery.

References

1921 births
2017 deaths
Russian academics
Russian physicists
One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 (OG269), on September 16, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed after an aborted landing. It hit an embankment next to runway 27 at Phuket International Airport. The aircraft burst into flames on impact at about 3:45pm. The crash killed 89 of the 130 persons on board. OG269 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand.

A two-year investigation by the NTSB resulted in a report. It was based in part on the crash report published by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee of the Ministry of Transport. The probable cause of the accident was determined to be crew error.

References 

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2007
2007 in Asia
2000s in Thailand
Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. He was known for his works Le fiamme di Toledo and Assandira . He was born in Guasila, Sardinia.

Angioni died on 12 January 2017 in Cagliari, Sardinia, aged 77.

References

Other websites
OPAC SBN 
Giulio Angioni 
Sardegna Digital Library 
Wuz
Club Dante 

1939 births
2017 deaths
Italian writers
European anthropologists
People from Sardinia
Central () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Areguá. Its ISO 3166-2 code  is PY-11.

The department has 2,297,739 inhabitants. That is more than any other department of Paraguay. The department is also the smallest of all the departments.

History
The Central Department, known as “Comarca Asuncena”, was the most populated country region in old times.

The towns of this department had different origin. Domingo Martínez de Irala started the towns of Itá, Ypané and Areguá in 1538 and 1539. Villeta was founded by the governor Juan Gregorio Bazán de Pedraza in 1714. Other towns were founded around chapels.

The towns of Nueva Italia, Colonia Thompson and Villa Elisa were already established as agricultural settlements in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. These were mainly settled by immigrants.

Geography
The Central department is in the central western part of the Oriental region. It is on the southern border of the Western region. It surrounds the capital, Asunción.
The department has an area of . That is  of the area of Paraguay. Its estimated population in 2013 was 2,297,739. That gave a population density of  inhabitants per square kilometre.

The Central department is relatively flat. It has only small hills. It has several rivers, as the Paraguay river, and streams flow through it. The Ypacaraí and Ypoá lakes are on the borders of the department.

Limits
 To the north: Presidente Hayes and Cordillera departments.
 To the east: Paraguarí department.
 To the south: Ñeembucú department.
 To the west: Argentina and the Distrito Capital

Districts
The department is divided in 19 districts:

Economy

Industries include the processing of food, furniture, clothing, pharmaceutical production, metallurgic, plastic and ceramics. The city of Villeta has a large number of industries. Central is the second biggest economy of Paraguay.

Tourism
Tourism

The Central Department has many attractions for tourism. Among the most famous natural resources at an international level, is the Lago Ypacaraí. This lake is a very important natural attraction and the town of Areguá. The capital of the department is located on the banks of this lake

Related pages
 Departments of Paraguay
 ISO 3166-2:PY

References

Other websites

 Statoids - Departments of Paraguay

Departments of Paraguay
James Paul David "Jim" Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and politician.

Bunning played as a pitcher in the Major League Baseball. In his career, he played for the Detroit Tigers (1955–1963), the Philadelphia Phillies (1964–1967; 1970–1971), the Pittsburgh Pirates (1968–1969) and the Los Angeles Dodgers (1969). He retired from baseball in 1971.

Bunning served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1987 through January 3, 1999. He was a member of the Republican Party. Bunning served in the United States Senate from January 3, 1999 through January 3, 2011 after retiring.

Bunning was 67 years old when he entered U.S. Senate. Among the bills that Bunning sponsored is the Bunning-Bereuter-Blumenauer Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004. Bunning was also the only member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to have opposed Ben Bernanke for Chief of the Federal Reserve.
In the 2010 Senate election, Bunning said he would not run and later supported then-eye doctor Rand Paul. Paul won the election with 56% of the vote.

Early life
Bunning was born in Southgate, Kentucky. He studied at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio and later at Xavier University where he got a Bachelor's degree.

Baseball career
During his baseball career, he pitched from 1955 to 1971, most notably with the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies. In 1959, the right-hander struck out the side, throwing the minimum nine pitches as a reliever in the top of the ninth inning of Detroit's 5–4 loss to Boston at Briggs Stadium. Sammy White, Jim Mahoney and Ike Delock were the victims of his inning.

When Bunning retired, he had the second-highest total of career strikeouts in Major League history; he currently ranks 17th.
As a member of the Phillies, Bunning pitched the seventh perfect game in Major League Baseball history on Father's Day Sunday, June 21, 1964, against the New York Mets. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1996.

Political career
After retiring from baseball, Bunning returned to his native northern Kentucky and was elected to the city council, then the state senate, in which he served as minority leader.

In 1986, Bunning was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 4th congressional district, and served in the House from 1987 to 1999. He was elected to the United States Senate from Kentucky in 1998 and served two terms as the Republican junior U.S. Senator.

Bunning reportedly blocked the move to restore public access to the records of past United States Presidents which had been removed under Executive Order 13233.

A September 2009 statewide opinion poll said Bunning had a 35% approval rating, with 55% disapproving of his performance.
In July 2009, he announced that he would not run for re-election in 2010. Bunning gave his farewell speech to the Senate on December 9, 2010, and was succeeded by Rand Paul on January 3, 2011.

Personal life
In 1952, Bunning married his wife Mary Catherine Theis. They had five daughters and four sons together. He lived in his hometown in Southgate, Kentucky.

Death
Bunning died at a Fort Thomas, Kentucky hospital on the night of May 26, 2017 at the age of 85 following a stoke he suffered in October 2016.

References

Other websites

Philadelphia Phillies history page on Bunning
Box score of Bunning's perfect game

1931 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Detroit Tigers players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Sportspeople from Kentucky
United States representatives from Kentucky
United States senators from Kentucky
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Meir Banai (‎; 5 July 1961 – 12 January 2017) was an Israeli musician, singer, and songwriter. He was a pop, rock and soul musician. He released ten albums, starting in 1984. He was best known his 2007 album Shma Koli, which had traditional Jewish texts and prayers in the music. He was born in Beersheba.

Banai died from cancer on 12 January 2017 in Ganot. He was 55.

References

1961 births
2017 deaths
Israeli pop singers
Israeli singer-songwriters
Jewish Israeli musicians
People from Beer Sheba
Pop musicians
Rock musicians
Rock singers
Soul musicians
The 2010 Dutch general election to elect the members of the House of Representatives was held on 9 June 2010.

The conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy won the most seats. Mark Rutte became the prime minister shortly after the election. The Christian Democratic Appeal lost the most seats in this election, while the Party for Freedom won the most.

Results

Related pages 
 2012 Dutch general election
 First Rutte cabinet

References

Other websites 
 NSD: European Election Database - Netherlands  publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1994–2010
 (nl) Tweede Kamerverkiezingen 2010, Parlement.com

2010 elections
2010s elections in the Netherlands
June 2010 events
Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple is one of the most popular and most visited Vaishnavite temple in India. It is in the hills of Tirumala at the city of Tirupati in Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh.This temple is dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, an avatar of Vishnu. This lord is also called by the names: Balaji, Govinda, Srinivasa, and Venkatajalapati.  It was built around the year 300. 

The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is on the Venkatadri hill, which is one of the seven hills of the Seshadri hills range. This is why the temple is called Temple of Seven Hills. Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is the second richest temple in the world after the Padmanabhaswamy Temple,  Thiruvananthapuram.

The temple is daily visited by about 50,000 to 100,000 devotees. On Special days like Brahmotsava, Tirumala Temple is visited by more than 500,000 devotees making the temple the most-visited holy place in the world.

Reference

Temples in India
1st millennium buildings and structures‎
The Christian Democratic Appeal,  (shortened CDA), is a political party in the Netherlands. It was the merger of three major former political parties: Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and Catholic People's Party (KVP).

The party was established on 11 October 1980. From 1982 to 2006, the party was very popular in the Netherlands. Their support was strongest in the 1986, 1989, 2002, 2003 and 2006 elections. In the 2010 elections, they lost 20 seats and received less than half of the votes from the previous election. In the 2012 elections, they received 801,620 and lost 8 more seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+6), and in the 2021 elections 15 (-4).
The party supports Christian democracy. The party can also have Jewish, Muslim and Hindu members of parliament. The party heavily supports the European Union and environmentalism. They call themselves a moderate party, but they have been in an alliance with the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The CDA believes that the toleration of "soft drugs" like marijuana should stop, and practices like abortion and prostitution should be limited. They also want a more friendly and open immigration policy. However, they do want immigrants to integrate into Dutch culture.

On 12 June 2021, MP Pieter Omtzigt left the CDA and has become an independent politician.
Political leaders 
 Dries van Agt - 1976-1982
 Ruud Lubbers - 1982-1994
 Elco Brinkman - 1994
 Enneüs Heerma - 1994-1997
 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - 1997-2001
 Jan Peter Balkenende - 2001-2010
 Maxime Verhagen - 2010-2012
 Sybrand van Haersma Buma - 2012-2019
 Pieter Heerma - 2019-2020 (actually only parliamentary leader)
 Hugo de Jonge - 2020
 Wopke Hoekstra - 2020-

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian democratic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
Christianity in the Netherlands
1980s establishments in the Netherlands
1980 establishments in Europe
Democrats 66, , official name: Politieke Partij Democraten 66 (shortened D66), is a political party in the Netherlands. They are a social liberal party.

The party was formed on 14 October 1966 by a group of young academics led by Hans van Mierlo. The party had their most success in the 1994 election, where they won 24 out of 150 seats. In the 2010 elections, they received 654,167 votes and won 10 seats. In the 2012 elections they received 757,091 votes and won 12 seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+7), and in the 2021 election 24 (+5).

D66 is very supportive of the European Union. They historically supported the legalization of gay marriage, prostitution, and euthanasia. The party supports environmentalism and wants a mixed economy. D66 wants tax-cuts for the lower and middle classes. They also want direct democracy.
Political leaders  
 Hans van Mierlo - 1966-1973
 Jan Terlouw - 1973-1982
 Laurens Jan Brinkhorst - 1982
 Maarten Engwirda - 1982-1986
 Hans van Mierlo - 1986-1998
 Els Borst - 1998
 Thom de Graaf - 1998-2003
 Boris Dittrich - 2003-2006
 Alexander Pechtold - 2006-2018
 Rob Jetten - 2018-2020 (actually only parliamentary leader)
 Sigrid Kaag - 2020-

References

Other websites 
 Website of Democrats 66
 Website of Democrats 66 International (English)

Liberal parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
1960s establishments in the Netherlands
1966 establishments in Europe
Euroscepticism is the criticism of the European Union (EU). Some observers also say that the total rejection of the EU is euroscepticism. Euroscepticism should not be confused with Anti-Europeanism, which is the dislike or fear of European culture and/or people.

Eurosceptics says that the European Union weakens the nation state. They also say that the European Union is too bureaucratic (meaning that important decisions are made by officials who aren't elected). In 2016, the countries with the most unfavourable view of the EU were Greece, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe have been contributed to their Eurosceptic views. On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union with 52% voting to leave.

Polls
Polls 

In November 2015, a poll showed that those with a positive image of the EU went down from 52% in 2007 to 37%. Distrust of the EU was highest in Greece (81%), Cyprus (72%), Austria (65%), France (65%) Germany (63%), the United Kingdom (63%) and the Czech Republic (63%).

Parties 

Some major Eurosceptic parties are shown below (organized by country):

References 

European Union
The Sweden Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a political party in Sweden.

The party was founded on 6 February 1988. In the 1988 Swedish general election, they only received 1,118 votes. However, their support has been slowly increasing since. In 2018, they received 1,135,627 votes and won 62 out of 349 seats in the Riksdag.

Other political parties in Sweden refuse to cooperate with the SD.

Beliefs 

The Sweden Democrats mainly believe in social conservatism and nationalism. They believe that the current immigration policies in Sweden have failed. They also to make it harder for people to become citizens. According to the SD, a person who wants to become a citizen should: live in Sweden for 10 years, show that they are not criminals, be fluent in Swedish and know Swedish history.
The SD wants to ban abortion after 12 weeks unless the mother's life is in danger. They want a restrictive policy towards drugs and alcohol. They are Eurosceptic, meaning they are critical of the European Union. They awknowledge that LGBT people do not chose their sexuality, and believe that discrimination towards them should be illegal. The SD wants to bring back the conscription (meaning the government forces people to join the armed forces). They are supportive of nuclear power. They are against the death penalty.

References

Other websites 
  Sweden Democrats
  Jimmie Åkesson's website
  SD-Kuriren
  Sweden Democratic Youth

1988 establishments in Sweden
Political parties in Sweden
Ari Rath (‎; 6 January 1925 – 13 January 2017) was an Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer. He was born and grew up in Vienna. After the Anschluss, Rath, who was Jewish, came through a Kindertransport as a thirteen-year-old boy to Palestine. In 1975, he became an editor for The Jerusalem Post. Later, in 1979, he became the chief editor. In 1989, he left The Jerusalem Post, and taught at the University of Potsdam. He supported a peaceful bringing together of Israel and Palestine.

Rath died on 13 January 2017 in Vienna at the age of 92.

References

1925 births
2017 deaths
Austrian Jews
Israeli journalists
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Refugees from Nazism
Alexandra Föderl-Schmid (born 30 January 1971) is an Austrian journalist. She has been the chief editor of the newspaper Der Standard since 2007. She began working at the newspaper in 1990. She has been the newspaper's Germany on-the-scene reporter and Brussels-based European Union on-the-scene reporter.

Föderl-Schmid was born in Haslach an der Mühl, Upper Austria. She studied at the University of Salzburg.

References

1971 births
Living people
Austrian journalists
People from Upper Austria
Palakkad is a city in the state of Kerala, India. It is the administrative capital of Palakkad District. Palakkad has the seventh most people in Kerala. Malayalam is the most spoken language in Palakkad city.

Population
Palakkad had 130,955 people as of the 2011 Census of India. The literacy rate of the city is 94.20%. The metro area of Palakkad has  293,566 people.

Tourist Places
Tourist places in Palakkad include:
 Palakkad Fort
 Jainimedu Jain temple
 Kalpathy Agraharam - Famous for ratholsavam
 Malampuzha Dam
 Manappulikavu Temple
 Chinmaya Mission Guruvayurappa Temple
Nelliampathi- 
Attapadi
Silent valley National Park

References

Cities in Kerala
Irfan Khan Pathan is an Indian cricketer from Gujarat. He is a left arm fast bowler and left handed batsman. He started with the India national cricket team in the Border–Gavaskar Trophy. Pathan was the first person to take a hat-trick in the first over. He did this achievement against Pakistan at Karachi.

Irfan Pathan was born on 27 October 1984 in what is now Vadodara. His older brother is Yusuf Pathan. He is also a cricketer who played for the National Team of India. 

Irfan's top score in Test cricket: 102 out. Total wicket:100. ODI Top Score:83 out. Total wicket:173.

Reference

1984 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Indian sportspeople
Anton Nanut (13 September 1932 – 13 January 2017) was a Slovenian conductor of classical music. From 1981 to 1999, he served as the chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He was a professor of conducting at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He also had worked with over 200 orchestras and had made over 200 recordings with many labels. He also worked with Milenko Stefanovic. He was born in Kanal ob Soči.

Nanut died after a long illness on 13 January 2017 in Šempeter pri Gorici. He was 84.

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1932 births
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Classical musicians
Conductors
Slovenian musicians
Oude IJsselstreek is a municipality in the province of Gelderland, the Netherlands. About 39,000 people were living there in 2021.

The western part of Oude IJsselstreek lies in the Liemers region, the eastern part in the  Achterhoek region. It borders Germany.

Oude IJsselstreek was created from the former municipalities of Gendringen and Wisch on 1 January 2005. It is named after the Oude IJssel river.

References 
 Plaatsengids.nl

2005 establishments in the Netherlands
Municipalities of Gelderland
Achterhoek
Liemers
Aa en Hunze is a municipality of the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands. In 2016 about 25,000 people were living in this municipality.

Aa en Hunze lies in the northeastern part of Drenthe.

Aa en Hunze was established in 1998 by combining the municipalities of Anloo, Gasselte, Gieten, and Rolde.

Other websites
 Aa en Hunze website

 
1990s establishments in the Netherlands
1998 establishments in Europe
Tracer is a fictional video game character from Overwatch. She first appeared in an update for the game Heroes of the Storm. She later appeared in the 2016 video game, Overwatch. These games are made by Blizzard Entertainment, a company that makes and publishes video games.

In Overwatch, the character is known as Tracer, but her real name is Lena Oxton. Her personality is noticeably happy and energetic. She is known as one of the faster characters in the game, but also one with low health. In the game, she is able to teleport and time travel, with her abilities "Blink" and "Recall". She is an "Offense" hero commonly used to flank or distract the enemy team. Her Ultimate Ability, "Pulse Bomb" is commonly used to eliminate high priority targets in a small area, it can also stick to enemies and eliminate others nearby, Tracer herself can also be damaged by this if she is too close.
In the real world, she is one of the more well known characters from Overwatch. This is because she is seen on the cover of the video game and Blizzard has made animated videos featuring her.

Design
Tracer was first seen in 2014 at Blizzard Entertainment's "BlizzCon 2014" event. The main designer on Overwatch, Scott Mercer, said that Blizzard's canceled project, Titan, had a character with Tracer's abilities. Jeff Kaplan was the main hero designer for  Overwatch; he had a big part in Tracer's design. While the game was still being designed and tested, or its "beta" period, Tracer's health was lowered.
Her personality was designed as heroic and happy. Overwatch game designer Michael Chu said, "the thing about Tracer is that she has a personality which is out of the norm for most people. She is incredibly optimistic, she is incredibly bubbly - it's part of her hero persona. We love her, I think she is very much one of the main characters of the game [...] [to] really carry the torch of what the game is all about: heroism." She is British and the British actress Cara Theobold voices her in the game.
While the game was still being designed, victory poses were added to the characters. Tracer's "Over the Shoulder" victory pose caused a controversy, because some players thought that the pose's focus on her physical features did not line up with her personality traits. Some players disagreed with this, finding nothing wrong with it, but Jeff Kaplan, the director of Overwatch apologized for the pose. Blizzard then changed the victory pose to better fit Tracer's personality, and while some players were happy with the change, as well as with Blizzard listening to the game's community, other players thought that the game's makers were giving up their creative control to offended players.

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Fictional lesbians
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Noordoostpolder is a municipality of Flevoland, the Netherlands, and a former municipality of Overijssel. In 2016 about 47,000 people were living in Noordoostpolder.

Other websites 
 Noordoostpolder website

Municipalities of Flevoland
Former municipalities of Overijssel
Dronten is a municipality of Flevoland, the Netherlands. 

In 2016 about 41,000 people were living in the municipality and 28,000 in the town of Dronten.

Other websites 
Official website

Settlements in Flevoland
Municipalities of Flevoland
Zeewolde is a municipality of Flevoland, the Netherlands. 

In 2016 about 22,000 people were living here.

Other websites 
 Zeewolde website

Settlements in Flevoland
Municipalities of Flevoland
The Kosi river is a river in Asia. It is called the "Sorrow of Bihar" because of the damage caused when it floods.

Rivers of Bihar
Rivers of India
Rivers of Nepal
Jallikattu is a traditional event in Tamil Nadu. It is an ancient Tamil event where participants try to embrace a bull, when the bull try to knock them off. It displays the bravery of a person who embraces the bull. The person who wins the event was awarded with money in the ancient Tamil period

The earliest history of Jallikattu was from about 2500 years ago. It is held on the day of third day of Pongal festival and second day of Thai month of the Tamil calendar which is known as Maatu Pongal.
The Supreme Court ordered a ban on this event on 7th of May,2014 because of animal welfare issues.And the Tamil Nadu youngsters protested against the Supreme Court's decision at the Marina beach .Despite being banned more than 2 million people participate in this annual event. The ongoing protests forced the government of India to issue a special ordinance for jallikattu and hence the ban was lifted by the Union Government on 8th of Januar,2018. Organisations like PETA protested against this order and the people of Tamil Nadu asked for the banishment of this organisation from the state.

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Events in India
History of Tamil Nadu
A scallion is a vegetable. Scallions are also called spring onions, green onions, and salad onions. 

Vegetables
Allium
Achtkarspelen is a municipality of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 28,000 people.

Municipalities of Friesland
Ameland is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 3,600 people. The municipality covers an area of 269 km², the island an area of 59 km².

Ameland makes part of the West Frisian Islands ().

It lies west of the island of Schiermonnikoog and east of the island of Terschelling.

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West Frisian Islands
Municipalities of Friesland
The Hochfrottspitze is a mountain near Oberstdorf, Germany. It is the highest German mountain in the Allgäu Alps at  high. The border with Austria is on its ridge. 

With the Trettachspitze and Mädelegabel, the Hochfrottspitze forms a well known trio of peaks on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps. It was first climbed in 1869 by Hermann von Barth. The route to the top is difficult to climb. The mountain is made of dolomite.

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Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Tyrol (state)
Mountains of Austria
Mountains of Germany
Stadskanaal is a municipality of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. 

About 32,000 people were living in the municipality in 2016, and about 20,000 in the village of Stadskanaal in 2012.

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Settlements in Groningen (province)
Municipalities of Groningen (province)
Kapelle, Zeelandic: Kapelle or Kapel'n,  is a village and municipality on the former island of Zuid-Beveland, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

In 2017 the municipality had about 13,000 people.<br/ >
In 2016 the village had about 7,000 people.

Famous people 
 Jan Peter Balkenende (born 1956), former Prime Minister

Municipalities of Zeeland
Settlements in Zeeland
Blattodea is an order of insects made up of the cockroaches and termites.

Insects
Milton Metz (c. 1921 – January 12, 2017) was an American radio and television personality in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He occasionally did commercial work for local radio and television stations until he was unable to due to his health in the last year of his life.

Metz was inducted into the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989. He was also named as a Gold Circle Honoree in 2009 by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Metz died in Louisville, Kentucky at a retirement facility from complications of a fall on January 12, 2017, aged 95.

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1921 births
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American radio personalities
American television personalities
People from Cleveland
People from Louisville, Kentucky
Paleoconservatism (sometimes called paleocon) is a conservative idea that stresses tradition, limited government and civil society, along with religious, national and Western identity. The idea is mainly found in the United States.

According to scholar Michael Foley, paleoconservatives want more restrictions on immigration, cuts in multicultural programs, protectionism (basically meaning that foreign goods will be taxed more), isolationism, and to bring back traditional societal roles.

Paul Gottfried created the term in the 1980s. It was used to refer to conservative traditional Catholics and agrarian Southerners who turned against Communism during the Cold War.
Leading paleoconservatives 
 Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States, Political researcher Bruce Wilson said about Trump, "[He] advances core paleoconservative positions laid out in "The Next Conservatism" — rebuilding infrastructure, protective tariffs, securing borders and stopping illegal immigration, neutralizing designated internal enemies and isolationism."
 Pat Buchanan – Journalist
 Robert Novak – Journalist
 Virgil Goode – Politician
 Marjorie Taylor Greene – Politician, U.S. Representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district since 2021.
Nick Fuentes – Presenter

Related pages
 Antiglobalization
 Liberal conservatism

References

Other websites
 Breaking All the Rules (BATR) 
 Conservative Heritage Times
 James Kalb's Conservatism FAQ

Conservatism
Political movements
Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovsky (; 20 October 1926 – 12 January 2017) was a Ukrainian-Russian politician. He was born in Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Murakhovsky served as first deputy premier during the Gorbachev Era from 1985 through 1989.

Murakhovsky died on 12 January 2017, aged 90.

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1926 births
2017 deaths
Ukrainian politicians
Russian politicians
John Robert Maurice Jacobs OBE (14 March 1925 – 13 January 2017) was an English professional golfer, coach, entrepreneur, writer and administrator. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2000. He was born in Yorkshire. He founded the PGA European Tour in 1972.

Jacobs' death was announced on 13 January 2017 at the age of 91.

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Profile on the World Golf Hall of Fame's official site

1925 births
2017 deaths
British golfers
English businesspeople
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
Writers from Yorkshire
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), commonly known as Lord Snowdon, was an English photographer and filmmaker. He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.

Snowdon retired from the House of Lords on 31 March 2016.

Armstrong-Jones died at his home in Kensington, London, England on 13 January 2017, aged 86.

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1930 births
2017 deaths
English photographers
Movie directors from London
Writers from London
Gilberto Agustoni (26 July 1922 – 13 January 2017) was a Swiss Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1994 to 1998. He was later a Cardinal-Priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Schaffhausen.

Agustoni died on 13 January 2017 at the age of 94.

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1922 births
2017 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Swiss Roman Catholic priests
People from Schaffhausen
Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo (15 May 1925 – 13 January 2017), better known as Horacio Guarany, was an Argentine singer, musician and writer. He was called one of the most important Argentine folklore singers. He won a Platinum Konex Award in 1985. He began his career in the 1940s. He released around 57 solo albums. He was signed with the record labels Philips and EMI. He was born in Las Garzas, Santa Fe Province.

Guarany died from a cardiac arrest on 13 January 2017 in Luján, Buenos Aires Province. He was 91.

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1925 births
2017 deaths
Argentine singers
Argentine writers
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Disease-related deaths in Argentina
Folk singers
Argentine guitarists
Yanni (later John) Alexis Mardas (; 2 May 1942 – 13 January 2017) was better known as Magic Alex, was a Greek electrical engineer and businessman. His nickname, "Magic Alex", was given to him by The Beatles when he worked with the group between 1965 and 1969, including being head of Apple Electronics. He was born in Athens, Greece.

Mardas died from complications of pneumonia in his apartment in Athens on 13 January 2017, aged 74.

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Other websites
Lennon's artwork put on sale by Mardas
Chris Hunt interview with Cynthia Lennon
Life of The Beatles

2017 deaths
1942 births
The Beatles
Electrical engineers
Greek businesspeople
People from Athens
The Nationalist Movement Party (sometimes called Nationalist Action Party; Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a political party in Turkey.

The MHP was founded on 9 February 1969 by Alparslan Türkeş. Their most successful performance in an election was in 1999, where they received 5,606,634 votes and won 129 out of 550 seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In the last election, they received 5,599,600 votes and won 40 out of 550 seats.

The Nationalist Movement Party has been called a neo-fascist party, and has been linked to some violent militias. They are cultural nationalists, and moved from supporting secularism to having a pro-Islamic stance. They are Eurosceptics, meaning they are against the European Union.

Their slogan is: Ülkenin Geleceğine Oy Ver (meaning "Vote for the country's future").

The MHP refuses to have any form of dialogue with the left-wing Kurdish nationalist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

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Other websites
Other websites 

Official Web site
Official Site of Ulku Ocaklari (Turan idealists)
Nationalist Movement Party Multimedya 

Political parties in Turkey
Conservative parties
Fascism
The National Alliance (officially called the National Alliance "All For Latvia!" or "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK"; Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība „Visu Latvijai!” or „Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK”; NA) is a political party in Latvia.

The current party was founded on 23 July 2011. The party is a merger of All For Latvia! and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK. Their support has been rising since their creation, and in the last parliament election they received 151,567 votes and won 17 out of 100 seats in the Saeima. In the 2014 European election, they received 63,229 votes and won 1 out of 8 seats.

The party is based on nationalism and conservatism. They are Eurosceptic, meaning that they are against the European Union. The party also wants the government to have a stricter anti-Russia stance.

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Other websites 
  Official website 

Political parties in Latvia‎
Eurosceptic parties
2011 establishments in Europe
Establishments in Latvia
Bonaire is an island of the Caribbean Netherlands and the former Netherlands Antilles. It is a special municipality (public body) of the Netherlands. It lies off the coast of Venezuela, near the islands of Aruba and Curaçao, which are also parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Bonaire lies at . It has a land area of 288  km². In 2014 about 18,000 people were living there.

Kralendijk is the island's capital city.