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Xinxiang () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China. In 2010, 5,707,801 people lived there.

Administration 
Xinxiang administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 6 counties.

Weibin District (卫滨区)
Hongqi District (红旗区)
Muye District (牧野区)
Fengquan District (凤泉区)
Huixian City (辉县市)
Weihui City (卫辉市)
Xinxiang County (新乡县)
Huojia County (获嘉县)
Yuanyang County (原阳县)
Yanjin County (延津县)
Fengqiu County (封丘县)
Changyuan County (长垣县)

Cities in China
Henan
Kaifeng () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, China. It was once the capital of the Song dynasty, and is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China. About 5 million people lived there in 2010.

Administration
Kaifeng administers five districts and four counties:

Gulou District ()
Longting District ()
Yuwangtai District ()
Xiangfu District ()
Shunhe Hui District ()
Weishi County ()
Qi County ()
Tongxu County ()
Lankao County ()

Other websites

 Government website of Kaifeng (in Simplified Chinese)
 Kaifeng City Portal (in Simplified Chinese)

Cities in China
Henan
Luohe () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. In 2010, 2,544,266 people lived there.

Administration
Luohe administers 3 districts and 2 counties.

Yancheng District (郾城区)
Yuanhui District (源汇区)
Shaoling District (召陵区)
Linying County (临颍县)
Wuyang County (舞阳县)

Cities in China
Henan
Zhoukou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, China. In 2010, 8,953,793 people lived there.

Administration
Zhoukou administers 1 district, 1 county-level city and 8 counties.
Chuanhui District (川汇区)
Xiangcheng City (项城市)
Huaiyang County (淮阳县)
Shenqiu County (沈丘县)
Dancheng County (郸城县)
Luyi County (鹿邑县)
Taikang County (太康县)
Fugou County (扶沟县)
Xihua County (西华县)
Shangshui County (商水县)

Other websites

Government website of Zhoukou  (in Simplified Chinese)

Cities in China
Henan
Pingdingshan (平顶山) is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It is also called Eagle City. In 2010, 4,904,701 people lived there.

Administration
Pingdingshan administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.

Xinhua District ()
Weidong District ()
Zhanhe District ()
Shilong District ()
Ruzhou City ()
Wugang City ()
Lushan County ()
Baofeng County ()
Ye County ()
Jia County ()

Cities in China
Henan
Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province, China. It has also been spelled Loyang. It is located by the Luo River and Yellow River. In 2010, 6,549,941 people lived there.

Administrative divisions
Luoyang administers 5 "built-up" urban districts, 1 additional district, 1 county-level city, and 9 more rural counties:

Luoyang proper
Jianxi District ()
Xigong District ()
Laocheng District ()
Chanhe Hui District ()
Luolong District ()
Jili District (non-urban, )
Mengjin County ()
Xin'an County ()
Luoning County ()
Yiyang County ()
Yichuan County ()
Song County ()
Luanchuan County ()
Ruyang County ()

Cities in China
Henan
Nanyang () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Henan province, China. In 2010, 10,263,660 lived there.

Administration
Nanyang administers 2 districts, 1 county-level city and 10 counties.

Wolong District ()
Wancheng District ()
Dengzhou City ()
Xinye County ()
Sheqi County ()
Tanghe County ()
Tongbai County ()
Fangcheng County ()
Nanzhao County ()
Zhenping County ()
Neixiang County ()
Xixia County ()
Xichuan County ()

Other websites

Government website of Nanyang  (in Simplified Chinese)

Cities in China
Henan
Sanmenxia (三门峡) is prefecture-level city in western Henan Province, China. Its name has also been spelled Sanmenhsia. It is on the south side of the Yellow River. In 2010, 2,234,018 people lived there.

Administration 
Sanmenxia administers two districts, two county-level cities and two counties.

 Hubin District（湖滨区）
 Shanzhou District（陕州区）
 Lingbao City（灵宝市）
 Yima City（义马市）
 Lushi County（卢氏县）
 Mianchi County（渑池县）

Cities in China
Henan
Shangqiu (商丘) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan in the People's Republic of China. Its name has also been spelled Shangkiu. Shangqiu was the first capital of the Shang dynasty. In 2010, 7,362,975 people lived there.

Administration
Shangqiu administers 2 districts, 1 county-level city and 6 counties.

Cities in China
Henan
Xinyang (信阳) is a prefecture-level city in southern Henan in the People's Republic of China. It has also been spelled Sinyang. The city is located on the south bank of the Huai River. In 2010, 6,109,106 people lived there.

Administration
Xinyang is divided into two districts and eight counties.

Cities in China
Henan
Xuchang () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. In 2010, 4,307,488 people lived there.

Administration
The prefecture-level city of Xuchang administers 2 district, 2 county-level cities and 2 counties.
Weidu District ()
Jian'an District ()
Yuzhou City ()
Changge City ()
Yanling County ()
Xiangcheng County ()

Cities in China
Henan
Zhumadian (驻马店) is a is a prefecture-level city in southern Henan in the People's Republic of China. It has also been spelled Chumatien. In 2010, 7,230,744 people lived there.

Administrative divisions
Zhumadian administers 1 district and 9 counties.

Yicheng District ()
Runan County ()
Pingyu County ()
Xincai County ()
Shangcai County ()
Xiping County ()
Suiping County ()
Queshan County ()
Zhengyang County ()
Biyang County ()

Cities in China
Henan
Derek Coates Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury (17 June 1918 – 21 November 2017) was a British member of the House of Lords. He also served as a senior civil servant and agricultural expert. He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.

He served as Chairman and later President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; President of the Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society; President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; President of the British Pig Association; and a Vice-President of the Nature in Art Trust. Barber was knighted in the 1984 Birthday Honours and was created a life peer as Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, of Gotherington in the County of Gloucestershire, on 12 August 1992.

Barber was a member of the House of Lords until his retirement on 25 March 2016. He died on 21 November 2017 at the age of 99.

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James Frederick Bridenstine (born June 15, 1975) is an American politician. Bridenstine was the 13th Administrator of NASA from April 2018 to January 2021. He served as the United States Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district, based in Tulsa, from 2013 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party. 

On September 1, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Bridenstine to be the next Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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The Export–Import Bank of the United States (abbreviated as Ex-Im Bank or the Bank) is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the United States Federal Government.

Operating as a wholly owned federal government corporation, the Bank "assists in financing and facilitating U.S. exports of goods and services". Under its charter, the Bank does not compete with private sector lenders, but rather provides financing for transactions that would otherwise not occur because commercial lenders are either unable or unwilling to accept the political or commercial risks inherent in the deal.

Its acting chairman and president is Charles J. Hall, awaiting the nomination and confirmation of a replacement for former chairman and president Fred Hochberg.

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Ernest Scott Garrett (born July 9, 1959) is an American politician and banker.

Garrett was the U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 to 2003.

Garrett chaired the powerful United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He lost his 2016 reelection campaign and was succeeded by Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat.

On June 19, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Garrett to become chairman and president of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, a post that requires confirmation by the United States Senate. In a 10-13 vote on December 19, 2017, the Senate Banking Committee declined to advance his nomination.

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The Office of National Drug Control Policy is a part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Background
The Director of National Drug Control Policy, known as the Drug Czar, heads the office. "Drug Czar" was a term first used in the media by then-Senator Joe Biden in October 1982. 

In addition to running the ONDCP, the director evaluates, coordinates, and oversees both the international and domestic anti-drug efforts of executive branch agencies and ensures that such efforts sustain and complement State and local anti-drug activities. The Director advises the President regarding changes in the organization, management, budgeting, and personnel of federal agencies that affect U.S. anti-drug efforts; and regarding federal agency compliance with their obligations under the National Drug Control Strategy, an annual report required by law.
2017 Rumored shutdown
As early as February 2017, The New York Times had reported that the Trump administration was considering eliminating the office, and other programs responsible for a total of $2.5 billion of domestic spending.
In May, the office's website was blanked and Politico and The Washington Post both reported that the office was about to be drastically defunded.

List of Directors
The title of Director, as well as the office, was created by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. The position had cabinet-level status from 1993 to 2009.

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 Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Federal Register
 "NIDA for Teens" at National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Thomas Anthony Marino (born August 13, 1952) is an American politician and attorney. He was the U.S. Representative for  from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.  

On September 1, 2017, The White House announced that President Donald Trump nominated Marino as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He withdrew on October 17, 2017 following reports that he championed a bill that protected opioid manufacturers and prevented DEA agents from being able to battle the Opioid Epidemic.

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 Issue positions and quotes at On the Issues
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 Collected news and commentary  at The Washington Post

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.

Background
President John F. Kennedy created USAID from its predecessor agencies in 1961 by executive order.  USAID's programs are authorized by Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act, which Congress supplements through directions in annual funding appropriation acts and other legislation. Although it is technically an independent agency, USAID operates subject to the foreign policy guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council. 

USAID operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

List of Administrators

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 Records of the Agency for International Development (AID) in the National Archives
 USAID Development Innovation Ventures
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Executive branch of the United States government
Mark Andrew Green (born June 1, 1960) is an American politician and diplomat. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Green was in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, representing . He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Wisconsin in 2006. He was the United States Ambassador to Tanzania from August 2007 until January 2009.

In 2014, he became the president of the International Republican Institute, and sits on the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

On May 10, 2017, President Donald Trump chose Green to lead the United States Agency for International Development. Green was confirmed on August 3, and sworn in on August 7, 2017. He resigned in April 2020.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.

In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), quality standards in long-term care facilities (more commonly referred to as nursing homes) through its survey and certification process, clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, and oversight of HealthCare.gov.

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 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Federal Register
 Health Care Financing Administration in the Federal Register

1965 establishments in the United States
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Seema Verma (born September 27, 1970) is an American health policy consultant. She was the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, serving under the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2021. She is the founder and CEO of SVC Inc., a health policy consulting firm.

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Official biography from SVC Inc. 

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Ajit Varadaraj Pai (born January 10, 1973) is an American attorney. He served as the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He is the first Indian American to hold the office.

Early life
Pai was born in Buffalo, New York. He was raised in Parsons, Kansas. Pai studied at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago.

Early political career
He has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.

Chairman of the FCC
In January 2017, President Donald Trump named Pai as Chairman of the agency.
In March 2017, Trump announced that he would renominate Pai to serve another five-year term at the FCC, which will require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Before his appointment to the FCC, Pai held positions with the Department of Justice, the United States Senate, the FCC's Office of General Counsel, and Verizon Communications.

On May 18, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission took the first formal step toward dismantling the net neutrality rules.

Pai was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for an extra five-year term as FCC Chairman on October 2, 2017.

He became well known in 2017 in his criticism and attempt to end the Obama-era policy net neutrality. It received wide criticism.

On November 30, 2020, Pai announced his plans to leave the FCC. He resigned from his post as FCC Chairman on January 20, the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States.
Personal life
Pai lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Janine Van Lancker, daughter Annabelle Malathi Pai, and son Alexander Madhav Pai.

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Scott Gottlieb is an American physician. Gottlieb was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019.

Gottlieb was a clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine, a resident fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, and an internist at Tisch Hospital.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

Purpose
The SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States.

In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and other statutes.  The SEC was created by Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as  and commonly referred to as the Exchange Act or the 1934 Act).
Chairs
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was the first Chair of the SEC. Later SEC commissioners and chairmen include William O. Douglas, Jerome Frank (one of the leaders of the legal realism movement), and William J. Casey (who later headed the Central Intelligence Agency under President Ronald Reagan).

The current chair is Gary Gensler serving since 2021 after being nominated by President Joe Biden.

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 SEC in the Federal Register
 Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
 Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni (ASECA)

United States federal executive departments
Walter J. "Jay" Clayton III (born July 11, 1966) is an American attorney. He was the 32nd Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 4, 2017 until December 23, 2020.

From 1993 to 1995, Clayton clerked for Marvin Katz, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

At Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton was co-managing partner of the firm's General Practice Group.

On January 4, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Clayton to be SEC Chairman. On May 2, 2017, the U.S. Senate voted 61-37 to confirm Clayton as Chairman of the SEC. Votes cast in favor of Clayton's confirmation included nine Democrats and one Independent alongside 51 Republican votes. On May 4, 2017, Clayton was sworn in, marking the official beginning of his role as Chairman.

On June 19, 2020, United States Attorney General Bill Barr announced that President Trump would nominate Clayton to replace Geoffrey Berman as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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Richard Allen Grenell (born  September 18, 1966) is an American media commentator and diplomat. Grenell was the acting Director of National Intelligence from February 20, 2020 to May 26, 2020. He was the United States Ambassador to Germany from May 8, 2018 to June 1, 2020. He was the longest serving spokesman at the United Nations. 

Grenell also briefly served as national security spokesman for Mitt Romney in his 2012 campaign for President, becoming the first openly gay spokesman for a Republican presidential candidate. He resigned after pressure from social conservatives.

In September 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Grenell as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He was confirmed 56–42 on April 26, 2018. He presented his credentials to the President of Germany on May 8, 2018.

In June 2013, Grenell revealed that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and started chemotherapy. In September 2013, Grenell announced that he was in remission.

Grenell is openly gay.
On February 19, 2020, President Trump announced his plans to make Grenell as the acting Director of National Intelligence. This made Grenell the first openly gay politician to become a member of the United States Cabinet.

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Kenneth I. Juster (born November 24, 1954) served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the United States Government from January 2017-June 2017.

According to press reports, in June 2017 he was to be nominated to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 2, 2017.

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 Kenneth I. Juster Biography on U.S. Department of Commerce web site (archive)
 Speech on U.S.-India Civil Space Cooperation
 Speech on U.S.-India Relations and High-Technology Trade
 Confirmation Hearing before U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

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Mājuli or Majoli  (, is an island in the Brahmaputra River, Assam, India.

The island had a total area of  at the beginning of the 20th century. Much land was eroded, so it had an area of only  in 2014. Majuli has shrunk as the river surrounding it has grown. However, it is recognised by Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Largest River Island.

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Parenchyma forms the bulk of plant ground tissue, where they may be specialised to function in photosynthesis, storage, or transport. Parenchyma is integral to vascular tissue, where it provides a route of exchange for materials within and between the xylem and the phloem.

Parenchyma refers to both a cell type and a simple tissue and is found within all three tissue systems of vascular plants: the dermal, ground (fundamental) and vascular tissue systems.

Parenchyma functions are diverse and dependant on both location within the plant and morphological specialisation.

Parenchyma is composed of living cells that retain the ability to divide and hence play a key role in several developmental processes, as well in plant response to wounding.

Plant tissues
Joseph Joestar (ジョセフ・ジョースター, Josefu Jōsutā) is a main character from the manga and anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. First introduced in Battle Tendency with his friend, Caesar Zeppeli, he appears in the later parts Stardust Crusaders and Diamond is Unbreakable. After Stardust Crusaders, Joseph's grandson, Jotaro Kujo, is the JoJo with the most major appearances in the series. From his birth he can use a special power called the "Ripple" (Hamon in the original Japanese), which is based on life energy. In Jojo's Bizarre adventure people also can have special powers that are called a "Stand". Joseph has a stand which is called Hermit Purple. It is called that because it represents the 9th tarot card: The Hermit. This stand can take spirit photos, be used as a grappling hook, and conduct the Ripple like an electric current. It appears as a lot of purple vines covered in thorns. 

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Bayer AG is a German pharmaceutical company. It is headquartered in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company was founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and are best known for their first produced drug Aspirin.

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Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter of Steely Dan.

Becker and Donald Fagen reformed Steely Dan in 1993 and had remained active, most notably including their 2000 Two Against Nature album, which won four Grammy Awards. Becker also released two solo albums, 1994's 11 Tracks of Whack and 2008's Circus Money.

Becker died on September 3, 2017 after suffering from an unknown illness in Maui, Hawaii at the age of 67.

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Hausgauen is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Hecken is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Damon Jerome Keith (July 4, 1922 – April 28, 2019) was an American judge. He was a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He served as Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1977 until his retirement in 1995. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter.

Keith was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Wayne State University, at Howard University and at West Virginia State University. Keith married Rachel Boone in 1953. They had three daughters. Boone died in 2007.

Keith died on April 28, 2019 at his home in Detroit, at the age of 96. The cause was problems from leukemia and heart disease.

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 Damon Keith Papers at the Walter P. Reuther Library
 Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft
 Keith biography
 2003 Rep. Conyers speech praising Keith
 Judge Damon J. Keith to Inaugurate University of Richmond Law School's Judges in Residency Program
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Joan Colom i Altemir (April 1921 – 3 September 2017) was a Spanish photographer. He was born in Barcelona.

Colom was known for his portraits of Barcelona's underworld and working class, especially in the infamous neighbourhood of Raval. Colom was a self-taught photographer, and produced his best-known pictures while working during the week as an accountant.

In 1957 he became a member of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya (AFC), and co-founded in 1960 the artist's group El Mussol ("The Owl").

Colom died in Barcelona on 3 September 2017 at the age of 96.

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El País article

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Hégenheim is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is on the border to Switzerland.

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John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet. He wrote more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

Ashbery died on September 3, 2017 at his home in Hudson, New York of natural causes at the age of 90. He was survived by his husband David Kermani.

Poetry
Turandot and other poems (1953)
 Some Trees (1956), winner of the 1955 Yale Series of Younger Poets
 The Tennis Court Oath (1962)
 Rivers and Mountains (1966)
 The Double Dream of Spring (1970)
 Three Poems (1972)
 The Vermont Notebook (1975)
 Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
 Houseboat Days (1977)
 As We Know (1979)
 Shadow Train (1981)
 A Wave (1984)
 April Galleons (1987)
 Flow Chart (1991)
 Hotel Lautréamont (1992)
 And the Stars Were Shining (1994)
 Can You Hear, Bird? (1995)
 The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (1997)
 Wakefulness (1998)
 Girls on the Run (1999)
 Your Name Here (2000)
 As Umbrellas Follow Rain (2001)
 Chinese Whispers (2002)
 Where Shall I Wander (2005)
 Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (2007) 
 A Worldly Country (2007)
 Planisphere (2009)
 Collected Poems 1956–87 (2010)
 Quick Question (2012)
 Breezeway (2015)
 Commotion of the Birds (2016)
 They Knew What They Wanted: Collages and Poems (2018)
Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works (2021)
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‘a serpentine | Gesture’: The Synthetic Reconstruction of Ashbery’s Poetic Voice in Cordite Poetry Review
Poems by John Ashbery at PoetryFoundation.org
The Ashbery Resource Center
John Ashbery at EPC
John Ashbery--the Academy of American Poets
John Ashbery at PennSound

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Richard Sui On Chang (November 30, 1941–August 30, 2017) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii from 1997 to 2006. He was ordained to the diaconate on March 5, 1966, and to the priesthood on September 4, 1966. 

Chang was consecrated Bishop of Hawaii on March 30, 1997 and died in Honolulu on August 30, 2017 from pneumonia at the age of 75.

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From Hawaii's Bishop Richard S.O. Chang: A Statement on Windsor Report 

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Horacio White (April 2, 1927 – August 26, 2017) was an Argentine swimmer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 100 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle relay, reaching the final in the latter and coming 6th.

White died in Buenos Aires on August 26, 2017 at the age of 90.

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1927 births
2017 deaths
Argentine Olympians
Swimmers
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
Michael John Caldwell "Mike" Gordon FRS (28 February 1948 – 22 August 2017) was a British computer scientist. He was born in Ripon, Yorkshire.

Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994, and in 2008 a two-day research meeting on Tools and Techniques for Verification of System Infrastructure was held there in honour of his 60th birthday.

Gordon died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire on 22 August 2017 at the age of 69.

References

1948 births
2017 deaths
British computer scientists
People from North Yorkshire
Malur Ramasamy Srinivasan (born 5 January 1930), is an Indian nuclear scientist and mechanical engineer. He played a key role in the development of India's nuclear power programme and the development of the PHWR. He received the Padma Vibhushan Award. He was born in Bangalore, India.

References

Other websites
 http://www.asset.org.in/Archtechts%20of%20Indian%20Nuclear%20Programme.pdf 
 http://dae.nic.in/?q=node/394 
 http://www.asianscientist.com/features/m-r-srinivasan-former-chairman-indian-atomic-energy-comission-nehru-centre/
 http://www.dianuke.org/understand-liability-srinivasan/
 http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/m-r-srinivasan-why-kudankulam-nuke-plant-is-viable-111100900019_1.html

1930 births
Living people
Indian physicists
Indian engineers
People from Bangalore
Nuclear engineers
Viktor Ivanovich Cherepkov (; April 16, 1942 – September 2, 2017) was a Russian politician. He was a Deputy of the State Duma of the third and fourth convocation. He was mayor of Vladivostok (1993–1994; 1996–1998). He was a Captain 1st rank in retirement.

Cherepkov died on September 2, 2017 of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia at the age of 75.

References

Other websites
 Биография на сайте партии «Свобода и Народовластие» 
 Виктор Черепков не согласился с президентом

1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Russian politicians
Mayors
David Lawrence "Dave" Hlubek [ ] (August 28, 1951 – September 3, 2017) was an American guitarist. He was the lead guitarist and founding member of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His best known song was "Flirtin' with Disaster".

Hlubek died of a heart attack on September 3, 2017, at the age of 66.

References

1951 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American rock guitarists
Musicians from Florida
Writers from Florida
The Grand Catalan Company (), officially the Magna Societas Catalanorum, and widely known as the Catalan Company, was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century.

History
De Flor recruited soldiers left unemployed with the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 by the Crown of Aragon, who opposed the French dynasty of Anjou.

In 1303 de Flor offered the services of his Company to the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus and his son the Basileus Michael IX Palaeologus. The Orthodox Byzantine Empire was under threat by the Turks, who were invading Anatolia and established the mighty Sultanate of Rum, whose name expressed succeeding to the '[Eastern] Roman' empire.
Roger de Flor's offer was accepted by both Byzantium and by the Crown of Aragon, rulers in Sicily and southern Italy, who were quite eager to rid themselves of unemployed and unruly soldiers. Roger de Flor departed with 39 galleys and transports carrying around 1,500 knights and 4,000 Almogavars, special foot soldiers employed mainly serving the kingdom's interests in the Mediterranean Sea, especially from Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon.

Roger de Flor arrived in Constantinople with the help of king Frederick III of Sicily in 1303, and married the niece of Andronicus, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria, and was named Megas Doux ('Great Dux', i.e. head of the fleet). Roger de Flor campaigned with his Company in Anatolia, defeating the Turks but also engaging in widespread violence and looting of the Byzantine inhabitants. By this point, the Catalans, were considered by the Byzantines to be little better than brigands and freebooters.
End of Roger de Flor
This put him at odds with the Byzantine Emperor, and the indiscipline of the Almogavars marked the end of Roger de Flor. On 30 April 1305, he was slain along with 300 cavalry and 1,000 infantry by the Alans, another group of foreign mercenaries at the service of the Emperor. 

The Company proceeded to devastate the Balkanic regions of Thrace and Macedonia for the next two years, including an attack on Thessalonica by land and sea, and raids against the monasteries on Mount Athos. Until recently no Catalans were allowed on the Athos peninsula by the Athonite monks.The struggle ended with the departure of both the Infante and Ferran, and with Bernat de Rocafort becoming leader of the Company.
Bernat de Rocafort offered the Company's services to Charles of Valois to strengthen his claim to the Byzantine Empire and whom the Count of Barcelona had expelled from Sicily before founding the Company in a dynastic war for the Crown of Aragon. In 1309, Charles of Valois' deputy Thibault de Chepoy ended the leadership of Rocafort, arresting him and sending him to Naples where he died of hunger the same year. 

In 1318 the Company expanded its power into Thessaly, taking control of the Duchy of Neopatria.

End of the Company

The Catalan rule was to last until 1388–1390, when they were defeated by the Navarrese Company under Pedro de San Superano, Juan de Urtubia, and allied with the Florentines under Nerio I Acciaioli of Corinth. His descendants controlled them until 1456 when they were conquered by the Ottoman Empire. By that time, like many military enterprises, the Great Company had faded out of history.
Chronicle of muntaner
The early history of the Catalan Company was chronicled by Ramon Muntaner, a former member of the company, in his Crònica.

Sources and references

Catalan Company (1302-1388 AD) , by David Kuijt and Chris Brantley
History (14th century). Aragon

Byzantine Empire
14th century in Europe
History of Greece
Joris August Odilius Ludovicus Vercammen (born October 14, 1952 in Lier) is a Belgian priest of an Old Catholic Church denomination.

Vercammen was a Roman Catholic priest in his native country.

He went to the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands in 1988. He has been archbishop of this church since 2000.

Joris Vercammen is married with three children.

References 
 www.utrechter-union.org

1952  births
Living people
Archbishops
Belgian Roman Catholic priests
Old Catholics
People from Antwerp (province)
John Michael "Johnny" Gaudreau (born August 13, 1993) is an American professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

1993 births
American ice hockey left wingers
Calgary Flames players
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winners
Living people
Sportspeople from New Jersey
United States Hockey League players
Mount Cook also known in the local Maori language as Aoraki or Aorangi is the highest mountain in New Zealand with a height of .

Geology
It is part of the Southern Alps Mountain Range and is flanked by the Hooker Glacier to the southwest and the Tasman Glacier to the east. The mountain has three peaks: The south peak being the lowest at 3,593m/11,788 ft., The middle peak at 3,717m/12,195 ft. and the North peak being the highest at 3,724m/12,218 ft. This is the height of the north peak after the landslide of December 1991 which took 30 meters off the top and also turned the summit into a knife-edge ridge.

History
The mountain was named by Captain John Lort Stokes in honour of Captain James Cook who travelled around the islands of New Zealand in 1770 however the first Europeans to see Mount Cook were probably members of Abel Tasman's crew.
Climbing
It was first climbed by Tom Fyre, George Graham and Jack Clarke. Mount Cook is a favourite destination for climbers and was used by Sir Edmund Hillary as training for his historic climb of Mount Everest.

Cook
Geography of New Zealand
Mountain climbing
Mackenzie District
"London Bridge" is the debut single recorded by American singer and rapper Fergie. It was on her debut studio album, The Dutchess (2006). It was written by Fergie, Mike Hartnett, Sean Garrett, and producer Polow da Don.

Track listing
 Digital single
 "London Bridge" (Single Version) — 3:28

 UK CD single
 "London Bridge" (album version) — 4:01
 "London Bridge" (instrumental) — 3:25

 Australian CD single
 "London Bridge" (album version) — 4:01
 "London Bridge" (instrumental) — 3:27
 "London Bridge" (a cappella) — 3:18
 "London Bridge" (video version) — 3:31

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2006 songs
Debut singles
Hip hop songs
Dance songs
R&B songs
Fergie (singer) songs
The arrondissement of Valence is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Drôme département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital is the city of Valence.

History
When the Drôme department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Valence was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Valence is the most northern of the arrondissements of the department; it is the smallest arrondissement of the department, with an area of , but the one with more people living in it, with 314,233 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement of Valence is bordered to the north and east by the Isère department, to the south by the arrondissement of Die and to the west by the Ardèche department.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
There are 12 cantons in the arrondissement of Valence: they are:

 Bourg-de-Péage (2601)
 Crest (2602) (partly)
 Drôme des collines (2605)
 Loriol-sur-Drôme (2607) (partly)
 Romans-sur-Isère (2611)
 Saint-Vallier (2612)
 Tain-l'Hermitage (2613)
 Valence-1 (2615)
 Valence-2 (2616)
 Valence-3 (2617)
 Valence-4 (2618)
 Vercors-Monts du Matin (2619) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Valence has 105 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Albon (26002)
 Alixan (26004)
 Ambonil (26007)
 Andancette (26009)
 Anneyron (26010)
 Arthémonay (26014)
 Barbières (26023)
 Barcelonne (26024)
 Bathernay (26028)
 La Baume-Cornillane (26032)
 La Baume-d'Hostun (26034)
 Beaumont-lès-Valence (26037)
 Beaumont-Monteux (26038)
 Beauregard-Baret (26039)
 Beausemblant (26041)
 Beauvallon (26042)
 Bésayes (26049)
 Bourg-de-Péage (26057)
 Bourg-lès-Valence (26058)
 Bren (26061)
 Chabeuil (26064)
 Le Chalon (26068)
 Chanos-Curson (26071)
 Chantemerle-les-Blés (26072)
 Charmes-sur-l'Herbasse (26077)
 Charpey (26079)
 Châteaudouble (26081)
 Châteauneuf-de-Galaure (26083)
 Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (26084)
 Châtillon-Saint-Jean (26087)
 Chatuzange-le-Goubet (26088)
 Chavannes (26092)
 Claveyson (26094)
 Clérieux (26096)
 Combovin (26100)
 Crépol (26107)
 Crozes-Hermitage (26110)
 Épinouze (26118)
 Érôme (26119)
 Étoile-sur-Rhône (26124)
 Eymeux (26129)
 Fay-le-Clos (26133)
 Génissieux (26139)
 Gervans (26380)
 Geyssans (26140)
 Le Grand-Serre (26143)
Granges-les-Beaumont (26379)
 Hauterives (26148)
 Hostun (26149)
 Jaillans (26381)
 Lapeyrouse-Mornay (26155)
 Larnage (26156)
 Laveyron (26160)
 Lens-Lestang (26162)
 Malissard (26170)
 Manthes (26172)
 Marches (26173)
 Margès (26174)
 Marsaz (26177)
 Mercurol-Veaunes (26179)
 Miribel (26184)
 Montchenu (26194)
 Montéléger (26196)
 Montélier (26197)
 Montmeyran (26206)
 Montmiral (26207)
 Montrigaud (26210)
 Montvendre (26212)
 Moras-en-Valloire (26213)
 La Motte-de-Galaure (26216)
 Mours-Saint-Eusèbe (26218)
 Mureils (26219)
 Ourches (26224)
 Parnans (26225)
 Peyrins (26231)
 Peyrus (26232)
 Ponsas (26247)
 Pont-de-l'Isère (26250)
 Portes-lès-Valence (26252)
 Ratières (26259)
 La Roche-de-Glun (26271)
 Rochefort-Samson (26273)
 Romans-sur-Isère (26281)
 Saint-Avit (26293)
 Saint-Bardoux (26294)
 Saint-Barthélemy-de-Vals (26295)
 Saint-Bonnet-de-Valclérieux (26297)
 Saint-Christophe-et-le-Laris (26298)
 Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse (26301)
 Saint-Laurent-d'Onay (26310)
 Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence (26313)
Saint-Martin-d'Août (26314)
 Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse (26319)
 Saint-Paul-lès-Romans (26323)
 Saint-Rambert-d'Albon (26325)
 Saint-Sorlin-en-Valloire (26330)
 Saint-Uze (26332)
 Saint-Vallier (26333)
 Saint-Vincent-la-Commanderie (26382)
 Serves-sur-Rhône (26341)
 Tain-l'Hermitage (26347)
 Tersanne (26349)
 Triors (26355)
 Upie (26358)
 Valence (26362)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Drôme department
 Communes of the Drôme department

References

Valence
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group was made up of six teams: Austria, Georgia, Republic of Ireland, Moldova, Serbia, and Wales. Serbia won the group and qualified for the world cup, while the Republic of Ireland finished 2nd and moved on to the second round.

Table

Goalscorers

6 goals

 Aleksandar Mitrović

4 goals

 Marko Arnautović
 James McClean
 Dušan Tadić
 Gareth Bale

3 goals

 Louis Schaub
 Valeri Qazaishvili
 Daryl Murphy

2 goals

 Martin Hinteregger
 Marc Janko
 Mijat Gaćinović
 Aleksandar Kolarov
 Filip Kostić
 Joe Allen
 Aaron Ramsey

1 goal
1 goal

 Guido Burgstaller
 Martin Harnik
 Marcel Sabitzer
 Jano Ananidze
 Valerian Gvilia
 Nika Kacharava
 Giorgi Merebashvili
 Tornike Okriashvili
 Igor Bugaiov
 Alexandru Dedov
 Alexandru Gațcan
 Radu Gînsari
 Séamus Coleman
 Shane Duffy
 Jeff Hendrick
 Shane Long
 Jonathan Walters
 Branislav Ivanović
 Nemanja Matić
 Luka Milivojević
 Aleksandar Prijović
 Tom Lawrence
 Hal Robson-Kanu
 Sam Vokes
 Ben Woodburn

1 own goal

 Kevin Wimmer (against Wales)

Other websites

 
 Qualifiers – Europe: Round 1 , FIFA.com
 FIFA World Cup, UEFA.com
 Standings – Qualifying round: Group D, UEFA.com

2016 in sports
2017 in sports
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group E is one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group is made up of six teams: Armenia, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland and Romania. Poland won the group and qualified for the world cup, while Denmark finished 2nd and moved on to the second round.

Table

Goalscorers

16 goals

 Robert Lewandowski

8 goals

 Christian Eriksen

7 goals

 Stevan Jovetić

4 goals

 Thomas Delaney
 Fatos Bećiraj

3 goals

 Kamil Grosicki

2 goals

 Ruslan Koryan
 Henrikh Mkhitaryan
 Andreas Cornelius
 Nicolai Jørgensen
 Sergei Khizhnichenko
 Bauyrzhan Turysbek
 Stefan Mugoša
 Žarko Tomašević
 Constantin Budescu
 Adrian Popa
 Bogdan Stancu

1 goal
1 goal

 Gevorg Ghazaryan
 Artak Grigoryan
 Hovhannes Hambardzumyan
 Varazdat Haroyan
 Aras Özbiliz
 Marcos Pizzelli
 Peter Ankersen
 Kasper Dolberg
 Yussuf Poulsen
 Islambek Kuat
 Gafurzhan Suyumbayev
 Damir Kojašević
 Stefan Savić
 Marko Simić
 Marko Vešović
 Nikola Vukčević
 Jakub Błaszczykowski
 Kamil Glik
 Bartosz Kapustka
 Krzysztof Mączyński
 Arkadiusz Milik
 Łukasz Piszczek
 Rafał Wolski
 Alexandru Chipciu
 Ciprian Deac
 Claudiu Keșerü
 Răzvan Marin
 Alexandru Maxim
 Nicolae Stanciu

1 own goal

 Hrayr Mkoyan (against Poland)
 Filip Stojković (against Poland)
 Kamil Glik (against Denmark)

Other websites

 
 Qualifiers – Europe: Round 1 , FIFA.com
 FIFA World Cup, UEFA.com
 Standings – Qualifying round: Group E, UEFA.com

2016 in sports
2017 in sports
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group C was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group was made up of six teams: Croatia, Finland, Iceland, Kosovo, Turkey, and Ukraine. Iceland won the group and qualified for the world cup, while Croatia finished 2nd and moved on to the second round.

Table

Goalscorers

6 goals

 Andriy Yarmolenko

5 goals

 Mario Mandžukić
 Cenk Tosun

4 goals

 Gylfi Sigurðsson

3 goals

 Alfreð Finnbogason
 Artem Kravets

2 goals

 Marcelo Brozović
 Nikola Kalinić
 Andrej Kramarić
 Paulus Arajuuri
 Joel Pohjanpalo
 Teemu Pukki
 Kári Árnason
 Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson
 Hakan Çalhanoğlu
 Volkan Şen
 Ozan Tufan
 Burak Yılmaz

1 goal

 Matej Mitrović
 Ivan Perišić
 Ivan Rakitić
 Domagoj Vida
 Robin Lod
 Alexander Ring
 Pyry Soiri
 Birkir Bjarnason
 Hörður Björgvin Magnússon
 Björn Bergmann Sigurðarson
 Ragnar Sigurðsson
 Valon Berisha
 Atdhe Nuhiu
 Amir Rrahmani
 Cengiz Ünder
 Artem Besyedin
 Yevhen Konoplyanka
 Ruslan Rotan

1 own goal