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Medicare for All - Guaranteed healthcare to all people as a right.

 Green New Deal - Invest in renewable energy and create new jobs.

 College for All - Make colleges and universities tuition free, and cancel all student debt.

 Get Corporate Money Out of Politics - Such as by banning political donations from federal lobbyists and corporations.

 A Responsible, Comprehensive Foreign Policy - Implement a foreign policy which focuses on democracy, human rights, diplomacy and peace, and economic fairness.

 Jobs for All - enact a federal jobs guarantee.

On April 8, 2020 one day after the Wisconsin primary, Sanders ended his campaign after failing to beat Biden in many primary contests after Super Tuesday. On April 13, Sanders formally endorsed Biden for the Democratic nomination.

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Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network. Canoe.com is a business subsidiary of Postmedia Network. The French-language website continues to use the former name for both sites, Canoe.ca, and is owned by Quebecor Media. The phrase "Canadian Online Explorer" is shown in the header of the English version of the site. The name "Canoe" as an acronym from the abbreviation "Can. O. E." is a play on the word "canoe" (or "canoë" in French). Canoe's head office has been in Toronto, Canada, at 333 King Street East.
The Canoe Network has had over 7.7 million monthly visitors and includes separate English and French portals at en.canoe.com and fr.canoe.ca, information verticals like Cnews, SLAM!, JAM! and Lifewise, as well as the Sun Media newspaper sites. Canoe.com also has online services in the fields of employment and continuing education (Jobboom.com), housing (Homes-Extra.ca), automobiles Autonet.ca and ASL Internet. ASL Internet is an abbreviation of Aged Stock Limited which was incorporated in 2002 by James Kovacs and sold to Canoe in 2008. The group also runs personals (reseaucontact.com), social networks (space.canoe.ca), classified ads (classifiedextra.ca) and advertising solutions (canoeklix.ca).

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Websites
Oliver County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 1,877 people lived there. The county seat and only city is Center.

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Pembina County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 6,844 people lived there. The county seat is Cavalier.

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Ramsey County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 11,605 people lived there. The county seat is Devils Lake.

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A fist is the term given to the hand when the four fingers are clenched, and the thumb closed over the first finger. In this solid form, it can be used for striking in combat. The half-closed fist may be used for some tasks, like knocking.

Making a fist is virtually unknown amongst other primates. Their fingers have different proportions to humans.

Body parts
Williams County is a county in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 40,950 people lived there. The county seat is Williston.

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Ward County is a county in North Dakota in the United States. There were 69,919 people living there at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous county in North Dakota. The county seat is Minot.

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

Its vineyards produce one of the finest Alsacian wines: the Grand Cru Zinnkoepflé.

Related pages 
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References 
 INSEE commune file

Other websites

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Otto Schubiger (6 January 1925 – 28 January 2019) was a Swiss ice hockey player. He played for the ZSC Lions, GCK Lions and SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, winning the Swiss National League A championship in 1949 and 1961, both with ZSC. Internationally Schubiger played for the Swiss national team, winning a bronze medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and bronze medals at the 1951 and 1953 World Championships.

Schubiger died on 28 January 2019 in Baden at the age of 94.

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Prilly () is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, in the district of Ouest lausannois. It is a western suburb of the city of Lausanne.

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 Official website 

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Cities in Switzerland
Rachel Grace Pollack (August 17, 1945 – April 7, 2023) was an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on tarot. Pollack was involved in the women's spirituality movement.

Tarot reading
Pollack wrote a book about Salvador Dali's Tarot deck. Pollack's work 78 Degrees of Wisdom on Tarot reading is used by many Tarot readers.

Comics
Pollack is best known for her run of issues 64–87 on the comic book Doom Patrol, on DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, with Grant Morrison. In the comic, Pollack wrote about topics such as menstruation, sexual identity, and transsexuality that are unusual in comics.
Fiction
Three of Pollack's novels have won or been nominated for major awards in the science fiction and fantasy field: Unquenchable Fire won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award; Godmother Night won the 1997 World Fantasy Award, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and was nominated for a Lambda Award; Temporary Agency was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award and the Mythopoeic Award, and shortlisted for the Tiptree.

Influences
Pollack was Jewish, and frequently wrote about the Kabbalah.

Pollack was a transsexual woman and wrote often about transgender issues. In Doom Patrol she introduced Coagula, a transsexual character. She also wrote several essays on being transsexual. She attacked the idea that it is a "sickness."  She wrote that it is a passion and helps with greater understanding of others.
A Secret Woman features a police detective who is transgender and Jewish. The detective utters the prayer, "Blessed art thou oh G-d who made me not a woman. Double blessed is Doctor Green who has." Rachel Pollack created the characters known as 'the bandage people' for her Doom Patrol run. The bandage people are 'sexually remaindered spirits' who died in sexual accidents. The initials srs came from the medical term 'sex reassignment surgery'.  Rachel wrote the essay "The Transsexual Book of The Dead" for the anthology Phallus Palace. This article is concerning trans men.

Teaching
For nearly 20 years Pollack taught seminars with Tarot author Mary K. Greer at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York.

Awards
 1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel winner for Godmother Night
 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel nominee for Temporary Agency
 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Unquenchable Fire

Published works

Non-fiction books

Novels

Collections

Anthologies

Short fiction
Short fiction

Poetry
 The Wild Cows (1993)

Essays
 "Introduction: A Machine for Constructing Stories" (1989)
 Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1991) (1991)
 Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1995) (1995)
 Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 1996) (1996)

Comics
 Doom Patrol, Issues 64–87, 1993-1995, Vertigo
 New Gods Volume 4, Issues 1–11, 1995-1996, DC Comics
 Time Breakers, Issues 1–5, 1995, Helix
 Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk, Issue 1, 1998, Vertigo

References

Other websites
 
 
 Reviews of 78 Degrees of Wisdom
  at Upcoming4.me

1945 births
2023 deaths
American science fiction writers
American comics writers
American short story writers
American novelists
The Parliament of Eswatini (Swazi: Libandla) is the large group of legislators, or law makers, of the country of Eswatini. It is made of two groups called "chambers". These chambers are:

The Senate, or Upper Chamber
The House of Assembly or Lower Chamber.

Both groups are located in Lobamba.

Related pages 
 Parliamentary procedure
 Legislatures

Other websites 
 

Eswatini
Eswatini
Eswatini
Government in Africa
Unbiquadium, also known as element 124 or eka-uranium, is the possible chemical element with atomic number 124 and placeholder symbol Ubq. Unbiquadium and Ubq are the temporary IUPAC name and symbol, respectively, until the element is discovered, confirmed, and a permanent name is decided upon. In the periodic table, unbiquadium is expected to be a g-block superactinide and the sixth element in the 8th period. Unbiquadium has attracted attention, as it may lie within the island of stability, leading to longer half-lives.

Related pages 
 unbitrium – unbipentium

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Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is paleontologist who was educated at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species from places such as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger.  One of his most widely publicized discoveries is that of a nearly complete specimen of Sarcosuchus (known as SuperCroc).

Fossil species described by Sereno or his team
Dinosaurs
Aerosteon
Afrovenator 
Significant new material of Carcharodontosaurus
Deltadromeus
Eocarcharia
Eodromaeus
Eoraptor
Erliansaurus
Graciliceratops
Significant new material of Herrerasaurus
Jobaria
Kryptops
Neimongosaurus
Nigersaurus
Pegomastax
Three new species of Psittacosaurus (P. meileyingensis, P. xinjiangensis, P. gobiensis)
Rajasaurus
Raptorex
Rugops
Significant new material from Spinosaurus
Spinostropheus
Suchomimus
Other fossil reptiles
Marasuchus, an early relative of dinosaurs
"The African Pterosaur"
Sarcosuchus imperator or SuperCroc
Anatosuchus minor or DuckCroc from Niger
Araripesuchus rattoides or RatCroc from Niger and Morocco
Kaprosuchus saharicus or BoarCroc from Niger and Morocco
Laganosuchus thaumastos or PancakeCroc from Niger and Morocco
Laganosuchus maghrebensis or PancakeCroc from Niger and Morocco

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Living people
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Nebulasaurus (meaning "misty cloud liard") is a sauropod only known from a braincaise. It was related to Spinophorosaurus.

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Jurassic dinosaurs
Sauropods
Super Bowl LIII (meaning Super Bowl 53 in Roman numerals) was an American football game in which the New England Patriots, who were the winners of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the 2018 season, beat the Los Angeles Rams, winners of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the 2018 season, 13-3 to become winners of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2018 season. It was the 6th time the New England Patriots won a Super Bowl. It was also the 11th time the New England Patriots had been in a Super Bowl and the 4th time the Los Angeles Rams had been in a Super Bowl. It is was played at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 3, 2018. The game had the lowest score of any Super Bowl in history, with 16 points scored by both teams. It also had the lowest amount of people watching it on television for a Super Bowl for 10 years, with 98.2 million people watching it in the United States
. The same teams played in this Super Bowl as the Super Bowl XXXVI, when the New England Patriots also won.
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The New Aspiration Party (Phak Khwam Wang Mai ) is a political party in Thailand. The party was founded in 1990 by General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh after his retirement as Commander-In-Chief of the Royal Thai Army. This party won the elections of 1996 and formed a coalition government with Chavalit as Prime Minister. The onset of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 diminished the electorate's confidence in the government, and Chavalit was forced to resign.

Discredited as a result of the economic crisis, Chavalit formed a coalition with the populist Thai Rak Thai Party led by Thaksin Shinawatra to take part in the 2001 elections. Shortly after the election, the majority of the New Aspiration Party merged with Thai Rak Thai and Chavalit became the Deputy Prime Minister in Thaksin's cabinet.
After the election in 2001,Thaksin Shinawatra the leader of Thai Rak Thai Party, became prime minister. The New Aspiration Party has joined the government. Shortly thereafter. The  New Aspiration Partywas merged with the Thai Rak Thai Party. Mostly to join Thai Rak Thai party (the governing party) with Gen. Chavalit Yongchaiyudh except Chalerm Yubamrung who return to be the Leader of the Mass Party Chingchai Mongcoltam decided to continue the New Aspiration Party and Lieutenant Colonel  Thita Rangsitpol Manitkul,WRTA Member of the Parliament and Deputy Secretary of the party. Offset to the Democrats. (Opposition Party) remains the only MPs moving from the opposition party government. During her tenure as a member of the House of Representatives

In the legislative elections on July 3, 2011, the party won 0.08% of the popular vote and no seats in the House of Representatives.

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"Kangding Qingge" () simply means "Kangding Love Song". The song is a folk song of a town named Kangding in Sichuan Province. The song is one of the most popular songs across the Sinosphere.

History 

In 1946, Wu Wen-ji studied  vocal music in Sikang Province in China. At the same time, he composed a song named Paomao Liuliude Shanshang. This means "Running Horse Mountain" in English. He also composed other local folk songs. When he was teaching at a Kuomintang military academy, he renamed the song as Kangding Love Song. He renamed it after the capital of the Sikang Province. He also changed some of the lyrics. The song then spread to the rest of China. This is due to the song being sung by a popular Soprano named Yu Yixuan.

Since then, the song has been performed  by many famous artists around the world. They includes Placido Domingo, Timi Zhuo , and A-mei.

Lyrics
Lyrics

In popular culture 
 The song was sung in an episode of the T.V. series Daredevil. It was featured in Season 01 Episode 05 . The title of the episode is "World On Fire".
 .The soundtrack of the 2003 video game, Command and Conquer: Generals has a song named "Runaway Train". It contains part of this song
 This song is also used in a soundtrack of Dynasty Warriors 4. It is a video game by Koei. 
 The song "Fuji I (Global Dub)" of the album Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT includes a remix version of this song. It was created by Akron/Family.
Sammo Hung sings a portion of the song in the movie "Dragons Forever"

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Sichuan
Chinese music
The Deutsch-Kasachische Universität, abbreviated DKU, (Kazakh-German University; , ) is a co-educational non-profit university located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was founded in 1999.  The school is accredited by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Classes
Classes are taught by German and Kazakhstani professors.

The university has less than five hundred students studying in pre-bachelor, bachelor and master's programs.  Master's degrees can be earned in 
Management
Finance
Logistics
Regional studies: Central Asia
Regional studies: IWRM 

Students are admitted based on scores on entrance exams and academic records.  Between 70% and 80% of applicants are accepted.

Partnerships
The university has partnerships with five universities in Germany.

Rankings
Whereas ‘Atameken’ National Chamber of commerce rating places it 5th among Kazakhstani universities, 
   UniRank places it 38th.
Location
The university is located at Pushkin Street 111/113, Almaty 050010.
The university's telephone number is +7 (727) 293 8913 - 29.

School colors
The school colors are gray, black, red and gold.

Other websites
official home-page of the university: http://dku.kz/de/

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Colleges and universities in Kazakhstan
1990s establishments in Kazakhstan
Early Life
Born in Gelsenkirchen, Gündoğan came through VfL Bochum's (German Club) youth academy. In 2008, he began playing for the club's reserve side before joining the first team, FC Nürnberg (German Club) the following season. He was then acquired by Borussia Dortmund (German Club) in 2011, winning the double of Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal (German knockout football cup) in his first season. In 2013, he helped Borussia reach their first UEFA Champions League Final since 1996–97. After playing a total of 157 matches and scoring 15 goals for the club, Gündoğan signed for Manchester City for an estimated transfer fee of £21 million in the summer of 2016. He won the Premier League and English Football League Cup in 2017–18.
Gündoğan made his senior debut for Germany in 2011 after previously being capped by Germany youth teams at under-18, under-19, under-20 and under-21 levels. He was chosen in Germany's squads for UEFA Euro 2012, the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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1990 births
German footballers
Sportspeople from Gelsenkirchen
Living people
Manchester City F.C. players
2022 FIFA World Cup players
Super Bowl LII (meaning Super Bowl 52 in Roman numerals) was an American football game in which the Philadelphia Eagles, who were winners of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the 2017 season, beat the New England Patriots, who were winners of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the 2017 season, 41-33 to become winners of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2017 season. It was the first time the Philadelphia Eagles won a Super Bowl and was their second NFL title. It was played at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 4, 2018.

Starting team
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Yvonne Y. Clark (born Georgianna Yvonne Young;  April 13, 1929 – January 27, 2019) was an American engineer. She is the first woman to get a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Howard University. She is the first woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University. She was the first woman to serve as a faculty member in the College of Engineering and Technology at Tennessee State University, then an emereti Professor.

Clark was the first African-American woman to earn a master's degree in Engineering Management from Vanderbilt University in 1972, after having sent the first African-American students to their engineering department earlier.

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Alf Lüdtke (18 October 1943 – 29 January 2019) (also Alf Luedtke) was a German historian. He was born in Dresden. He was a leading German representative of the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte in German). Lüdtke was the founder and editor of the journal Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen, as well as co-founder and co-editor of the journals Werkstatt Geschichte and Historische Anthropologie. Kultur – Gesellschaft – Alltag.

Lüdtke died on 29 January 2019 in Dresden from a stroke, aged 75.

References

Other websites
 Alf Lüdtke on the website of the University of Erfurt (with complete list of publications) 

1943 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from stroke
German educators
German historians
People from Dresden
Ronald Vaughan Joyce, C.M. (October 19, 1930 – January 31, 2019) was a Canadian entrepreneur and billionaire. He co-founded the Tim Hortons doughnut chain as Tim Horton's partner. He helped create Tim Horton Children's Camps and the Tim Horton Children's Foundation. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1992.

Net worth 
In 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth to be around US$1.4 billion. Joyce died at his home in Burlington, Ontario on January 31, 2019 at the age of 88.

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Canadian philanthropists
People from Nova Scotia
Businesspeople from Ontario
Canadian billionaires
Johnny Lion (born John van Leeuwarden; 4 July 1941 – 31 January 2019) was a Dutch singer, journalist and actor. He was best known for his hit-single "Sophietje". He was born in The Hague. An actor, Lion starred in the movies Siberia (1998) and in Van God Los (2003). A journalist, he worked for Panorama.

Lion, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and lung cancer, died in Breda, Netherlands on 31 January 2019, aged 77.

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1941 births
2019 deaths
Dutch journalists
Dutch movie actors
Dutch singers
Writers from The Hague
Lori Wilson (February 15, 1937 – January 30, 2019) was an American lawyer and politician. She was born in Waynesville, North Carolina. She was an Independent. Wilson was on the Florida Senate from 1973 to 1978.

Wilson died at her daughter's Indian Harbour Beach, Florida home on January 30, 2019 from complications of dementia, aged 81.

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2019 deaths
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Lawyers from Florida
Waynesville is a town in and the county seat of Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest town in Haywood County and the largest in western North Carolina west of Asheville. Waynesville. As of the 2010 census, Waynesville had a population of 9,869.

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County seats in North Carolina
Jeremy James Hardy (17 July 1961 – 1 February 2019) was a English comedian and actor. He performed on both television and radio. Hardy was best known for his appearances on radio panel shows such as the News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Hardy was a socialist. He supported the Labour Party. He performed at Labour Party rallies. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called him a "dear, lifelong friend".

Hardy died of cancer on 1 February 2019, at the age of 57.

References

Other websites

Jeremy Hardy at the British Film Institute

1961 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from cancer
English movie actors
English television actors
English comedians
English activists‎
English radio personalities
English television personalities
Actors from Hampshire
Ursula Karusseit (2 August 1939 – 1 February 2019) was a German actress. She was born in Elbing, West Prussia, Nazi Germany. Karusseit was known for her roles in Ways across the Country and in KLK Calling PTZ – The Red Orchestra.

Karusseit died of heart disease in Berlin on 1 February 2019, aged 79.

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1939 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from heart disease
German movie actors
German television actors
Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. He was best known for his roles as Richard Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances and as Roy in the British television series The Old Guys. Swift was born in Liverpool. He was married to journalist Margaret Drabble from 1960 to 1975 when they divorced.

Swift died at home in London from respiratory failure on 1 February 2019, aged 82.

References

Other websites
Clive Swift at the British Film Institute

 Obituary at bbc.co.uk

1936 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Disease-related deaths in London
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English songwriters
Actors from Liverpool
Writers from Liverpool
Walter James Edyvean (October 18, 1938 – February 2, 2019) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston from 2001 to 2014. He was born in Medford, Massachusetts.

Edyvean died on February 2, 2019 in Boston, aged 80.

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1938 births
2019 deaths
American Roman Catholic bishops
People from Medford, Massachusetts
People from Boston
is an adventure manga by Kazutoshi Soyama. It was published by Shogakukan in CoroCoro Comic since October 2001. It received the 2005 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. There is a 51-episode anime series based on this manga. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 2004 to March 2005. It is licensed by Viz Media in North America as Grandpa Danger. There is also a series of video games based on this manga. A second anime television series ran from October 20, 2012 to December 22, 2012.

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2004 anime television series
Anime series based on manga
Justin Edward Fairfax (born February 17, 1979) is an American attorney and politician. He was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party, he beat Republican nominee Jill Vogel in the 2017 election. 

Fairfax is the second African American elected statewide, following Douglas Wilder, who was elected to the same position in 1985 and became Virginia Governor in the 1989.

In early February 2019, Big League Politics reported that Fairfax had been accused by Vanessa C. Tyson, an associate professor at Scripps College and fellow at Stanford University, of sexual assault at a hotel at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

In September 2020, Fairfax announced his candidacy for Governor of Virginia. He lost the Democratic nomination to former Governor Terry McAuliffe.

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1979 births
Living people
Lawyers from Pittsburgh
Lieutenant Governors of Virginia
Politicians from Pittsburgh
Democratic Party (United States) politicians
Lawyers from Virginia
African American politicians
Bernard Lietaer (7 February 1942 – 4 February 2019) was a Belgian civil engineer, economist, author and professor. He studied monetary systems and promoted the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency. He was born in Lauwe, Belgium. Lietaer was known for his books The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity and New Money for a New World.

Lietaer died on 4 February 2019 at the age of 76.

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1942 births
2019 deaths
Belgian writers
Belgian engineers
Belgian academics
Belgian economists
Civil engineers
People from West Flanders
Kirill Aleksandrovich Tolmatsky (; 22 July 1983 – 3 February 2019), better known by his stage name Detsl (Russian: Децл), was a Russian hip hop artist. In 2000, he released his debut album Who? You to massive success and quickly became a teen idol of the early 2000s in Russia. In 2001, his second album Street Fighter was released.

He died on 3 February 2019 in Izhevsk at the age of 35 from a sudden heart attack after performing his live set at the private birthday party. In a 2007 interview, Detsl talked about faking his own death at the exact same age while performing at a concert in the same city he would actually die in.

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2019 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Russian singers
Robert Bartmess Friend (November 24, 1930 – February 3, 2019) was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched mainly for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1951 to 1965. He also played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of 1966. He is the first man ever to have led the league in ERA while pitching for a last place team.

Friend was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He studied at Purdue University. Friend died suddenly in his sleep at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 3, 2019 from cardiac arrest at the age of 88.

References

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Retrosheet
 Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame 

1930 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Pittsburgh Pirates players
New York Yankees players
New York Mets players
Sportspeople from Indiana
Salesforce Tower, formerly known as the Transbay Tower, is a  office skyscraper in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco. The building has a mix of office, transportation, retail, and residential uses.

Upon its completion in 2018 it became the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline, with a top roof height of  and overall height of , surpassing the  Transamerica Pyramid. It is also the second-tallest building west of the Mississippi River after the  Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles.

Awards
On April 10, 2019, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Salesforce Tower as the "Best Tall Building in the World" for the year 2019. It was celebrated at the Grand Hyatt Shenzhen, China.

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Wilshire Grand Center is a  skyscraper in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It is the tallest building in Los Angeles, the tallest building in California, the tallest building west of the Mississippi River and outside of New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia, and the 11th tallest building in the United States. The building is 105 floors. 

It is taller than the U.S. Bank Tower by . The building is part of a mixed-use hotel, retail, observation decks, shopping mall, and office complex, expected to revitalize downtown Los Angeles and the area surrounding the building. The development of the complex is estimated to cost $1.2 billion.

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Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian actress and activist. She was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1980 movie Harlequin. She was also known for the movie Don't Let It Get You. 

Her other movie appearances include Touch and Go (1980) and Turkey Shoot (1982). She played Iris Wheeler on the American soap opera Another World from 1988 to 1994.

Duncan died on 3 February 2019 from cancer in Sydney, aged 76.

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2019 deaths
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Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Actors from New South Wales
Ransom County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 5,703 people lived there. The county seat is Lisbon.

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North Dakota counties
Beeville is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Bee County.

Cities in Texas
County seats in Texas
Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940) is an English actress.

Cornwell is best known for her role as Daisy in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. She played Anya Claus in the 1985 movie Santa Claus: The Movie.

Other websites 
 Judy Cornwell on IMDb

1940 births
Living people
Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 British-American Christmas movie starring Dudley Moore, John Lithgow and David Huddleston. The movie was directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It was released in North America on November 27, 1985, by TriStar Pictures.

Cast
 David Huddleston as Santa Claus
 Dudley Moore as Patch
 John Lithgow as B.Z.
 Judy Cornwell as Anya Claus
 Burgess Meredith as the Ancient One
 Jeffrey Kramer as Dr. Eric Towzer

Other websites
 Santa Claus: The Movie on IMDb
 Santa Claus: The Movie on Rotten Tomatoes

1985 movies
British movies
American movies
Christmas movies
Movies directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Movies set in New York City
Josephine Ann Tewson (26 February 1931 – 18 August 2022) was an English actress. She was best known for her roles in the British sitcoms Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine. Her career began in 1957 and she retired in 2019.

Tewson died on 18 August 2022 at a retirement home in London, England at the age of 91.

References

Other websites 

 Josephine Tewson on IMDb

1931 births
2022 deaths
English movie actors
English stage actors
English television actors
Actors from London
Martyrs is a 2008 French psychological horror movie. It was first shown at 2008 Cannes Film Festival at the Marché du Film. It was released theatrically in France on 3 September 2008.

The movie was controversial upon its release. It was associated with the New French Extremity movement.

Plot
In 1971, a young girl, Lucie Jurin, escapes from a disused slaughterhouse. She's been imprisoned and abused there for over a year. The criminals and their motivations remain a mystery. Lucie is placed in an orphanage. She becomes friends there with a young girl named Anna Assaoui. Anna quickly discovers Lucie believes she is being constantly terrorized by a ghoulish creature. Anna comforts Lucie every time she has a nightmare.
Fifteen years later, in 1986, Lucie bursts into a home of a "normal" family, the Belfonds. The Belfonds are Gabrielle, her husband and children Antoine and Marie. Lucie kills them all with a shotgun. Anna waits for Lucie elsewhere. Anna knows Lucie believes the Belfonds were the people responsible for her childhood abuse. But at the same time, Anna is horrified when Lucie tells her she's killed them.

When they get to the house, Anna discovers Gabrielle is still alive. Anna tries to help her escape. However, Lucie beats Gabrielle to death. Lucie realizes that her insanity will not leave her. She commits suicide.
The next day, Anna is still at the family's house. She calls her mother by telephone. She has been estranged from her mother. In their conversation, it becomes evident that Anna was abused by her parents as a child. Suddenly, Anna hears some noises. She finds a secret underground chamber in the living room. In the chamber is a horribly tortured young woman named Sarah. Sarah proves that Lucie was right about the family. Anna helps Sarah escape. A group of strangers, however, kill Sarah with guns. Anna is captured. She meets the strangers' leader, an elderly lady named Mademoiselle.

Anna becomes the group's latest subject. She goes through a period of being beaten and degraded. She hallucinates a conversation with Lucie. Anna is later told she has progressed further than any other test subject. She has reached the "final stage." She is skinned alive. She survives the procedure.
Cast
 Mylène Jampanoï as Lucie Jurin
 Jessie Pham as Young Lucie
 Morjana Alaoui as Anna Assaoui
 Erika Scott as Young Anna
 Catherine Bégin as Mademoiselle
 Isabelle Chasse as The Creature
 Robert Toupin as The father (Mr. Belfond) 
 Patricia Tulasne as The mother (Gabrielle Belfond) 
 Juliette Gosselin as Marie Belfond 
 Xavier Dolan-Tadros as Antoine Belfond 
 Louise Boisvert as Anna's Mother (voice)
 Jean-Marie Moncelet as Étienne
 Emilie Miskdjian as Sarah

Reception
Martyrs was categorized as a new example of new era French horror movies in terms of violence that it shows. The movie-ranking website Rotten Tomatoes said %53 of critics had given the movie positive reviews.

French Commission de Classification des Oeuvres Cinématographiques rated the movie 18+ (not suitable for children under 18). The movie's producers appealed. Martyrs' rating was later changed to 16+.

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Raphine is an unincorporated community in Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in the U.S. state of Virginia.

The name "Raphine" came from an old Greek word "raphis", meaning "to sew." It was chosen in honor of James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902). American inventor and industrialist Cyrus McCormick lived here before moving to Chicago.

In addition to Walnut Grove, the Kennedy-Lunsford Farm and Kennedy-Wade Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Jüri Pihl (17 March 1954 – 3 February 2019) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party.

From 1993 to 2003 he was the General Director of Kaitsepolitsei. From 5 April 2007 to 21 May 2009 he was the Minister of the Interior in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip.

Pihl died on 3 February 2019 at the age of 64.

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Kristoff St. John (July 15, 1966 – February 3, 2019) was an American actor. From 1991 to 2019, he played the role of Neil Winters on The Young and the Restless. He was nominated for eleven Daytime Emmy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, and ten NAACP Image Awards for the role. He was born in New York City.

St. John was found dead in his Los Angeles, California home on February 3, 2019, aged 52. On March 19, 2019, it was announced that his death had been ruled accidental, with the cause listed as heart failure.

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Joe Pat Tolson (April 15, 1941 – February 3, 2019) was an American Democratic politician. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 to 2014. Tolson was born in Pinetops, North Carolina.

Tolson died on February 3, 2019 from respiratory failure at a hospital in Tarboro, North Carolina, aged 77.

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Pinetops is a town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,374 at the 2010 census. Pinetops is located at  (35.790821, -77.638807).

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Tarboro is a town in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Rocky Mount Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, 11,415 people lived in the town. It is the county seat of Edgecombe County.

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Edgecombe County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. At the 2020 Census, its population was 48,900. Its county seat is Tarboro.

Edgecombe County is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Rocky Mount is a city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the Atlantic coastal plain region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 57,685 at the 2010 census. 

Rocky Mount has received the All-America City Award from the National Civic League two times, in 1969 and 1999.

History

Beginnings
The region around the Tar River had several types of indigenous people for 12,000 years. It had been home to the historic Tuscarora people, who spoke an Iroquoian language, for a long time before the first Europeans arrived. After the English colonists and indigenous allies started the Tuscarora War in the early 1700s, they drove most of the survivors off to the North. The English speakers then began to settle the area.

The Falls of the Tar River Primitive Baptist Church was established in 1757. The church was the center of community life, and its records were the first records of the developing town. It effectively ran the law enforcement for the town.
19th century
A post office was made at the falls of the Tar River on March 22, 1816. The name "Rocky Mount" starts appearing in documented history at this point. The name referred to the rocky mound at the falls of the Tar River. Rocky Mount Mills, the second cotton mill in the state of North Carolina, was built there soon after in 1818. Its proprietors were two entrepreneurs and Joel Battle, who was the grandson of an original colonist who lived in the area. Joel bought out the other proprietors before giving the mill to his cousin James Smith Battle. The mill's spindles were run by enslaved African Americans until the 1850s. At that time, the mill owners only hired white women and girls, who were employed for the rest of the century.
The Battle family was also involved in building the longest continuous railroad in the world at the time, the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, which ran about  east of the mill. The railroad had a lot of influence on the development of the town. In 1871, the county line moved from the Tar River to its present location in the center of the tracks. The Raleigh-Tarboro stage route also passed just south of Rocky Mount.

During the Civil War, the area was attacked in 1863 by Union troops under the command of Brigadier General Edward E. Potter. They destroyed the mill, which supplied the Confederates yarn and cloth. After the war ended, the owners rebuilt the mill. On February 19, 1867, the village outside the mill was incorporated as a town.
In the second half of the 19th century, the tobacco industry became very important in the state. Rocky Mount could take advantage of the very quickly rising demand for brightleaf tobacco that grew best in sandy soil because it was next to the coastal plain. Tobacco also affected the city's social life. Warehouses where tobacco was stored and sold began hosting balls for the community in the 1880s. These became known as "june germans" for the time of year and style of dance. June Germans eventually became all-night dance parties and attracted musicians and socialites from miles around well into the 1900s. By the end of the 19th century, tobacco had replaced King Cotton as the town's main cash crop.

20th century

At the start of the 20th century, Rocky Mount became the northern headquarters of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, which had its major repair shops and yard facilities in the town. This caused a lot of railroad employees to come to the town. In 1900, Rocky Mount's population was around 3,000.
On February 28, 1907, with a population around 7,500, Rocky Mount was officially incorporated as a city. A vibrant central business district arose.

As in the rest of the South, states made racial segregation legal. This included discrimination in where people could live. White suburbs were mostly on the west side of town, such as Villa Place and West Haven. Black neighborhoods, such as Crosstown and Around the "Y", where jazz musician Thelonious Monk was born, were mostly on the east side of town.
Several notable Civil Rights events occurred in Rocky Mount. In 1946, African-American tobacco warehouse workers voted to organize in Rocky Mount as part of a broader nationwide movement known as Operation Dixie. It included voter registration to fight against disenfranchisement of blacks and other actions against segregation. On November 27, 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Booker T. Washington High School. He used his refrain "I have a dream" a year before his more famous speech at the March on Washington. The city had a sanitation workers' strike in 1978 when government sanitation workers protested their black co-worker being wrongfully arrested. He was acquitted in court on the charges. In 2018 the city council apologized to him for the case.

 
After WWII, the city continued to grow. In the 1950s and 1960s, the city's economy started to include banking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and the headquarters of a fast food chain known as Hardee's.
New higher education buildings were made, including North Carolina Wesleyan College in 1956 and Nash Community College and Edgecombe Community College in 1968. In 1970, Rocky Mount received an All-America City Award. In the 1970s the city's hospitals were combined under Nash General Hospital. That was also the period of completion of Rocky Mount–Wilson Regional Airport.

From the 1980s, the inner city suffered urban decay, as businesses had moved out to suburban highway locations. Rocky Mount's downtown got worse as new neighborhoods and shopping malls were built, such as Golden East Crossing. The city also expanded its borders by annexing nearby cities, such as Battleboro to the north. In 1999, the city won its second All-America City Award.
In the fall of 1999 two hurricanes hit eastern North Carolina. Both passed over Rocky Mount. Hurricane Dennis hit the town as a tropical storm in August with  of rain and Hurricane Floyd hit it in September with nearly  of rain. During Hurricane Floyd, most of the flooding happened quickly overnight. Many people did not know about the flooding until the water came into their homes. A lot of people needed to be rescued. The hurricane caused the worst flooding in the history of the Tar River, which was already full of water from the hurricane in August. Many homes and businesses were destroyed.

21st century
At the start of the 21st century, the city has encouraged efforts to improve the historic downtown, supporting projects to renovate buildings such as the Rocky Mount station and Douglas Block, or repurpose them, such as the Imperial Centre for Arts and Sciences.
In 2007, Capitol Broadcasting Company bought Rocky Mount Mills. It is adapting it as a mixed-use campus of breweries, restaurants, residential lofts, and event space. Major new community projects include the  sports complex and  downtown event center. In 2019, CSX, the successor company of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, developed a new intermodal cargo terminal that is expected to improve the local economy in the next decade.

Geography

Rocky Mount is in northeastern North Carolina. It is at the fall line between the Atlantic Coastal Plain to the east and the Piedmont region to the west. The city is  east of Raleigh, the state capital. It is  northeast of Fayetteville,  north of Wilmington,  north of Wilson,  south of Roanoke Rapids, and  south of Richmond, Virginia.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of .  of that is land and  is covered by water. The Tar River passes through the city from west to east, crossing the fall line at Upper Falls and Little Falls and going down  in the city limits. The city is between Edgecombe and Nash counties.

Neighborhoods

Historic Rocky Mount Mills Village
Next to the Tar River, the Rocky Mount Mills Village grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a small community of tenants working for the mill. Built between 1885 and 1940, each home in the historic district is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places. Changes in industrialization eventually forced the mill to close. However, when the mill closed, the property remained intact. Though the property has been a rental for its entire existence, covenants are placed on the property to assure home ownership and owner occupancy and protect the historical integrity of the district.
Climate
Rocky Mount has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) known for cool, sometimes kind of cold winters, and hot, humid summers. The average high temperatures range from  in the winter to around  in the summer. The average low temperatures range from  in the winter to around  in the summer.

Economy

The economy of the Rocky Mount metropolitan area was mostly focused on agriculture  and making textiles in the past. It has added pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. Distribution and logistics are important to local businesses because the city is located near a lot of highways and railways. The area has a strong service sector and a lot of financial and customer support buildings are here.

Rocky Mount is located  from the state capital Raleigh and its Research Triangle. This has helped bring new companies to Rocky Mount that want skilled workers and a lower cost of running a business.
The metropolitan area was listed in a 2020 study as the third-highest in the United States where manufacturing is doing very well with a manufacturing output of $6.2 billion, or $42,270 per capita. Between 2014 and 2018, manufacturing grew in the Rocky Mount area by 11.8%, and there were 108% more manufacturing jobs than the national average.

In 2019, CSX Transportation started building a $200 million cargo terminal in Rocky Mount.

Largest employers
Below is a list of some of the largest employers in the metropolitan area as of 2018.

Shopping
Rocky Mount gets a lot of shoppers with many big retailers and specialty shops in the city. Rocky Mount's shopping centers are generally built along and around US 301 (Wesleyan Boulevard). Two of them are Golden East Crossing and Englewood Square.

In the downtown area, the Douglas Block is a commercial area that was a former African American business district. Station Square is a shopping area located next to city hall and the train station.

Arts and culture