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John Henry Harlan (December 21, 1925 – February 27, 2017) was an American television and radio announcer. He has worked on many television projects for over 40 years, mainly game and variety shows. He was born in Sonoma County, California.

Perhaps his best-known work was for the Bob Hope specials aired on NBC during the 1960s through the 1990s and for Name That Tune produced between 1974 and 1985.

Harlan studied at California State University, Fresno, graduating in 1948.

Harlan died in Los Angeles, California on February 27, 2017, aged 91.

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Elizabeth Anne "Betty" Okino (born June 4, 1975 in Entebbe, Uganda) was one of the first African-American gymnasts. 

Along with being a former Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics, Okino is also an actress today. She retired in 1992 with 3 silver medals, 2 bronze medals, and 1 gold medal. She represented the U.S. She has been in movies like Æon Flux and Creature Unknown.

1975 births
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SummerSlam (2016) was a wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) made by WWE. It happened on August 21, 2016 at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was the twenty-ninth time a SummerSlam PPV was held, the second year in a row that it happened at the Barclay's Center and the first WWE PPV since the WWE brand extension started up again.

Twelve matches were performed at the event. In the most important match, Brock Lesnar beat Randy Orton by technical knockout while in another important match, Finn Balor beat Seth Rollins to become the first WWE Universal Champion.

Background
Background

Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler
This match was for the WWE World Championship. SmackDown wrestler Dean Ambrose won a match for the title at Battleground on July 25 against Raw wrestlers Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. So SmackDown needed to find a challenger for Dean for SummerSlam and they had a six-pack challenge to find the challenger. The first five spots were given to John Cena, Bray Wyatt, AJ Styles, Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler. Apollo Crews took the sixth spot when he won a battle royal, but Dolph won the six-pack.
Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins
Because the WWE World Championship was on SmackDown, Raw had to create their own world championship. They called it the WWE Universal Championship. Raw commissioner Stephanie McMahon felt that Seth had a chance to pin Dean Ambrose at Battleground and that would have brought the World Championship to Raw but Roman Reigns was selfish and broke up the pin. Because of that, Stephanie gave Seth the first spot in the first Universal Championship match. Then, Finn beat Cesaro, Kevin Owens and Rusev in a fatal 4-way match and Roman beat Chris Jericho, Sami Zayn and Sheamus in another fatal 4-way. Finally, Finn and Roman fought in a normal match where the winner would face Seth at SummerSlam and Finn won this match.
Matches
 On the pre-show, American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan), The Hype Bros (Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley), and The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso) beat Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango), The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor), and The Vaudevillains (Simon Gotch and Aiden English) in a 12-man tag team match.
 On the pre-show, Sami Zayn and Neville beat The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) in a tag team match.
 On the pre-show, Sheamus beat Cesaro
 Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens beat Enzo Amore and Big Cass in a tag team match.
 Charlotte beat Sasha Banks (champion) for the WWE Women's Championship.
 The Miz (champion) (with Maryse) beat Apollo Crews for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
 AJ Styles beat John Cena.
 Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson beat The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (champions) (with Jon Stewart) by disqualification for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
 Dean Ambrose (champion) beat Dolph Ziggler for the WWE World Championship.
Natalya, Alexa Bliss, and Nikki Bella beat Becky Lynch, Naomi, and Carmella in a six-women tag team match.
 Finn Balor beat Seth Rollins to become the first WWE Universal Champion.
 Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) beat Randy Orton.
2016 in the United States
Professional wrestling
SummerSlam
2010s in New York (state)
Lodève () is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France. It is a subprefecture of the department and also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

History
Lodève started as the capital of a Celtic tribe before becoming the Roman city Luteva (also known as Forum Neronis). It was a centre for textile production under Louis XV and was home to one of only two royal factories for tapestry, the other being the one in Paris.

Geography
Lodève is in the north of the Hérault department, where the plains rise up to the Larzac plateau. It is a narrow valley of the Lergue river, a tributary of the Hérault river.

The commune has an area of  and is at an altitude of about  above sea level. The city of Montpellier is to the east of Lodève at  and Béziers is to the west at . Lodève is at  from the Mediterranean Sea.
The commune of Lodève is surrounded by the communes Soumont, Olmet-et-Villecun, Poujols, Fozières, Les Plans, Le Puech, Soubès, Lauroux, Lavalette, Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas, Le Bosc and Usclas-du-Bosc.

Climate
The climate of Lodève, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csb - Mediterranean climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Lodève are known, in French, as  Lodévois (women: Lodévoises).

With a population of 7,381, Lodève has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Lodève

Lodève forms with other seven communes the urban area of Lodève with a population of 9,780 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Lodève, formed by nine communes with a population of 9,977 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .

Administration 
Lodève is a subprefecture of the Hérault department, the capital of the arrondissement of Lodève and the administrative centre () of the canton of Lodève.
It is part of the intercommunality Lodévois et Larzac ().

Sister cities 
Lodève is twinned with:
 South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Sites of interest 
 Lodève Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Fulcran de Lodève), parts of which date from the sixth century.
 Museum Fleury (temporary art exhibitions and archeology permanent collection).
 L'Atelier national du tapis de Lodève, the French state carpet-making workshop.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Lodève
 Communes of the Hérault department

References

Other websites

 Ville de Lodève website  
 Communauté de communes Lodévois et Larzac website  
 Tourisme en Lodévois et Larzac 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Hérault
Radu Gabrea (20 June 1937 – 9 February 2017) was a Romanian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He directed more than twenty movies between 1969 and 2016. He was known for directing the movie Gruber's Journey (2008).

Gabrea died in Bucharest on 9 February 2017, aged 79.

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1937 births
2017 deaths
Romanian movie directors
Romanian screenwriters
Writers from Bucharest
Spanair Flight 5022 was a passenger flight from Barcelona, Spain to Gran Canaria via Madrid. On 20 August 2008 the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating this route crashed after take-off from runway 36L at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport. 154 passengers and crew on-board died, and only leaving only 18 survivors.

The cause of the crash was pilot error due to failure to configure the flaps and slats for take-off.

Victims

Aviation accidents and incidents in the 2000s
Aviation accidents and incidents in Europe‎
2000s in Spain
2008 in Europe
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926 – 1 March 2017) was a British artist and political activist. He was best known for developing the concept of auto-destructive art (ADA) and the Art Strike. He was also one of the starters of the Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966.

Metzger was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He was the son of Polish Jews. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1939 as a refugee.

Metzger died on 1 March 2017 in London, at the age of 90.

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Dardic is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the Dardistan region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.

List of Dardic languages 
Shina
Kashmiri
Khowar
Pashayi
Torwali
Palula
Indus Kohistani
Gawar-Bati
Ushoji
Kalami
Kalasha
Sawi
Dameli
Kalkoti
Chilisso
Kohistani Shina
Shumashti
Brokskat
Gowro
Domaaki
Bateri
Amnon Krauz, Hebrew: אמנון קראו , (born August 10, 1952 in Petah Tikva) is a former Israeli swimmer.

Krauz participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City but wasn't able to obtain a medal.

Other websites 
 www.sports-reference.com 

1952 births
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Swimmers
Chalybeate is a mineral water which contains iron. The name comes from the latin word for steel. During the 17th and 18th century, people believed Chalybeate had health benefits. It does not. Chalybeate contains pitiful amounts of iron, and is not used as a source of iron.

Iron
David Ian "Joe" Jackson  (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Jackson's first and second releases, "Sunday Papers" and "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" became a hit in 1979. This was followed by many new wave singles before he started creating more jazz type pop music. He had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with "Steppin' Out". He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 19 studio albums and earned 5 Grammy Award nominations in a career extending from 1978 to today.

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A sabra, Hebrew: צבר‎‎ - tzabar, is a Jew who is born in Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine or in the State of Israel. As of 2015, about three quarters of the Israeli Jews are sabras.

The term "sabra" is derived from the prickly pear. Like this cactus a sabra is supposed to be hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
Thomas "Tommy" Gemmell (16 October 1943 – 2 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager. 

He served as a left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. 

Gemmell is best known as one of the Celtic side who won the 1966–67 European Cup; he scored the first Celtic goal in the final. Gemmell played 18 times for Scotland, and also played for Nottingham Forest, Miami Toros and Dundee.  After retiring as a player in 1977, Gemmell managed Dundee and Albion Rovers.

Gemmell died on 2 March 2017, aged 73, after a long illness.

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 Newcastle Fans profile

1943 births
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Scottish football managers
Footballers from North Lanarkshire
John Harry Hampshire (10 February 1941 – 1 March 2017), also known as Jack Hampshire, was an English cricketer and umpire. He played eight Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England between 1969 and 1975. 

He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1961 to 1981, and for Derbyshire from 1982 to 1984. Overseas, he was a successful captain of Tasmania in the period before the state was included in the Sheffield Shield.< He was also appointed President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2016, serving until his death.

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Tan Sri Mohamed Zain bin Shamsuddin (5 November 1935 – 1 March 2017), known professionally as Jins Shamsuddin, was a Malaysian movie actor, director and politician. He is known for his role in Bukit Kepong (1981). 

On 13 October 2004, he became the first actor-politician in Malaysia following his appointment as a member of the Dewan Negara in the 11th Parliament of Malaysia. He continued to be a Senator for two terms until 11 February 2011.

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in February 2011, causing him unable to speak and unable to recognising anybody else, including his family. Following several years of bad health, Shamsuddin died at 5:45 pm at a clinic in Taman Melawati, after choking on cekodok on Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at the age of 81. Shamsuddin's second son Putera Hang Nadim confirmed on his father's death.

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2017 deaths
Malaysian politicians
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David Rubinger (; 24 June 1924 – 2 March 2017) was an Israeli photographer. His famous photo of three Israeli paratroopers after the recapture the Western Wall in the Six-Day War has become a defining image of the conflict. Shimon Peres called Rubinger "the photographer of the nation in the making".

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1924 births
2017 deaths
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Joseph Vũ Duy Thống (July 2, 1952 – March 1, 2017) was a Vietnamese prelate, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phan Thiet from July 2009 to his death and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on Cultural Affairs. He was Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city from 2001 to 2009.

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1952 births
2017 deaths
Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishops
Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday (23 June 1940 – 2 March 2017) was a South African professional golfer who won tournaments on three continents.

Personal life
Hobday was born in Mafikeng. He represented the country in the 1966 Eisenhower Trophy. He also lived in Rhodesia.

Career
Hobday turned professional in 1969. He spent his regular career mainly on the Southern Africa Tour, where he won six times and the European Tour, where he won the 1976 German Open and the 1979 Madrid Open. As a senior, he played mainly in the United States on the Senior PGA Tour (now Champions Tour), where he claimed five titles between 1993 and 1995 including one senior major, the 1994 U.S. Senior Open.

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1940 births
2017 deaths
South African golfers
Pau Donés Cirera (11 October 1966 – 9 June 2020) was a Catalan songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of the musical group Jarabe de Palo.

Biography

Early years 
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Donés grew up in Barcelona. He got his first guitar when he was 12 years old.

Along with his brother Marc, they set up their first group: J. & Co. Band, and afterwards Dentaduras Postizas. For a while, he combined locals concerts in Barcelona with his job for an advertising agency.

In 1996 he formed Jarabe de Palo, being La Flaca his first album.
Health 
On 1 September 2015 he had to cancel all his concerts after having an operation for colorectal cancer. On 5 April 2016 he announced via Twitter that he had recovered from his illness. However, he had a relapse a year later. He announced in October 2018 that he was to leave the music world indefinitely from January 2019. A year later, in April 2020, it was reported that Jarabe de Palo was recording a new album, Tragas o escupes, to be launched in September. However, its launch was moved forward to May 2020. He died from the disease on 9 June 2020, aged 53.

Discography 
 1996 - La flaca
 1998 - Depende
 2001 - De vuelta y vuelta
 2003 - Bonito
 2004 - 1 m²
 2007 - Adelantando
 2009 - Orquesta reciclando
 2011 - ¿Y ahora qué hacemos?
 2014 - Somos
 2015 - Tour Americano 14-15 (CD/DVD)
2017 - 50 palos (10-03-2017)
2020 - Tragas o escupes

Compiling 
 2003 - ¿Grandes éxitos?
 2004 - Colección "Grandes"
 2005 - Completo, incompleto
 2006 - Edición 10º aniversario "La Flaca"

References

Other websites
Other websites

 Jarabe de Palo's official website

1966 births
2020 deaths
Spanish singer-songwriters
Spanish guitarists
Musicians from Barcelona
Alternanthera philoxeroides is "alligator weed", an invasive species. It is an aquatic plant species and can be found in waterways.

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Aquatic plants
Amaranthaceae
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known as CP Rail (CP) is a railway in North America with track in both Canada and the United States. It was built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885. Although it used to go all the way to Atlantic Canada, it does not do so anymore.

When British Columbia became part of Canada in 1871, one of the promises the federal government made was to link it to the rest of Canada by rail. Most of the trains that use the CPR carry freight, and the CPR used to run passenger train services until they were taken over by Via Rail in 1978. For many years, until the airplane was invented, the railway was the only way to move people across the country. Because of this, it had a big role in the settlement and development of Western Canada.
The company that owns the CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, was once one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada. It owns about  of track from Montreal in the east to Vancouver in the west and Edmonton to the north. CP also has track in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States. 

The logo of the CPR company is a beaver, the national symbol of Canada, and it has its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and its U.S. operations are in Minneapolis. It trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP.

References

Further reading

 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Premier's Funeral (11 June 1891). The Woodstock Evening Sentinel Review, p. 1.

Other websites
Other websites

 Canadian Pacific Railway official website
 Canadian Railway history and stories
 CPR, from Sea to Sea: The Scottish Connection  — Historical essay, illustrated with photographs from the CPR Archives and the McCord Museum's Notman Photographic Archives
 
 The Canadian Pacific Railway inception - A rich digital set of unique artifacts, archival and graphic material from the UBC Library Digital Collections
 The Early Chinese Canadians: Working in B.C.: Gold, Railway, Mining, and Salmon
 Royal Canadian Pacific
 , illustrated account of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Rail transport in Canada
Evin Prison is Iran's most notorious prison.  It is in the foothills of the Alborz Mountains above Tehran.  Some of Iran’s most respected activists and lawyers are serving time in this prison.

The prison started in 1971 during the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a place for political prisoners. At the time, there was space for 320 prisoners. Since the 1979 revolution, the prison has 15,000 prisoners.  The prison has a reputation for brutality and torture. It is believed that many people died in this prison from torture.

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The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition. It is played by the men's national teams of the members of FIFA, the sport's global body of the sport. 

The tournament was created in 1995 as the Beach Soccer World Championship. It took place every year for the next decade controlled by Beach Soccer Worldwide. Because the sport was increasing rapidly in popularity and growth, FIFA was interested in controlling the tournament,  they took over and also changed the name to make it a official FIFA tournament. Since 2009, the tournament has taken place every two years.

The most recent edition was held in Espinho, Portugal. Portugal were crowned as  champions for the second time, the first under being controlled by FIFA, after defeating Tahiti 5–3 in the final.

FIFA competitions
EgyptAir is the flag carrier of Egypt. It began in 1933. Originally, it was named "Misr Airwork". The name was finally changed to EgyptAir in October 1971. The airline was the first from the Middle east to have jet aircraft. In 2008, it joined Star Alliance. EgyptAir suffered heavy losses during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Gallery

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Arash Sadeghi (Farsi: آرش صادقی) is an Iranian activist and political prisoner. He started a hunger strike on October 24, 2016 after his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee went to prison for an unpublished story on her computer about a woman watching a movie about a stoning. the government promised to let her out of prison until her case was reviewed, but after Sadeghi ended his hunger strike, they took her back to prison.

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Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was an American broadcaster. He was born in Houghton, Michigan. He was the co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report, a role he held since 1979 through December 31, 2009. He is best known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes").

Kangas died on February 28, 2017 in Miami, Florida from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.

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Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer, and Democratic politician. He is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He became a senator when Ken Salazar was appointed Secretary of the Interior.

Bennet worked as managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver mayor (and former Colorado Governor) John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

On April 3, 2019, Bennet announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had surgery and was later announced cancer-free. A month later on May 2, Bennet launched his 2020 campaign for President of the United States. He announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president during an interview on CBS This Morning. He ended his campaign on February 11, 2020 after a poor performance in the New Hampshire primaries.

References

Other websites
 Senator Michael F. Bennet official U.S. Senate site
 Michael Bennet for Senator
Collected news and commentary at The Denver Post

1964 births
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People with dyslexia
Robert Allen "Bob" Iger (; born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020.

Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996.

He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in the year 2015.

On February 25, 2020, Iger announced his retirement as the CEO of Disney.

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Huntingdonshire was an historic county of England. It is now is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire. Its council is based in Huntingdon.

Districts
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author and educator. She was one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. She was the fourth Black American woman to earn a Ph.D. She was a mathematician and a Classics scholar. She fought for women's right to be educated and the strength the United States could build by educating Black women and men.

Early life 
Cooper was born in 1859. She was born into slavery. Her mother was Hannah Stanley Haywood, a slave in the home of prominent landowner George Washington Haywood. She had two brothers, Rufus and Andrew. Her grandfather was a carpenter that was sent to help build the capital of North Carolina. After the slaves were free Cooper’s brothers became good carpenters.

Cooper was freed at the age of six. She then went to school.
Education 
Cooper went to a school for Black children called St. Augustine. By the age of ten she was teaching math.  Cooper had to beg them to let her in the Greek class. It was only for boys. Cooper thought that it was unfair that due to her gender she was kept out of the Classical classes. Thankfully she did not give up and was able to “sit in” on the male Greek classes.

Cooper felt frustrated that she had to fight to get the opportunity to study Classics. She wanted all students to be offered Greek. She kept fighting to make it equal. Eventually, the school provided Greek classes for male and female students.

She stayed at St. Augustine for 14 years as a student and a teacher of Latin, Greek, and Math. In 1877 she married another teacher, George A.G. Cooper. He died two years later.
After going to St. Augustine she went to the college Oberlin College in Ohio. Again, she could only take the women's courses. Classes for girls taught household skills. The classes for women did not require taking Latin, Greek or even advanced mathematics. Cooper asked to be in the men’s courses. She excelled at the full classical education at Oberlin. Cooper got her bachelors degree in Math in 1884. She earned her Master's Degree in 1887.

In 1911 Cooper started working on her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Four years later her brother died. She took responsibility for raising his five grandchildren. She had to take a break from studying. In 1924 she started studying again, at the University of Paris in France.
In 1925, at the age of 67, Cooper earned her Ph.D. Her doctoral thesis was: L'Attitude de la France à L'égard de l'Esclavage pendant La Révolution (Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutionists). Her writing showed that slavery and bad treatment of Black peoples were a big part of revolutions in the France and Haiti. She was the fourth Black American woman to reach that level.

Career
Cooper had a varied career.

Teaching 
In 1887 she became part of the M Street High school faculty. She taught mathematics, science, and Latin.

In 1902 she became the principal of M Street High School. When Cooper was Principle she enhanced the academic reputation, plus lots of her graduates entered Ivy leagued schools. The District of Columbia did not renew her contract. They did not think that Black students needed to be prepared to go to college. Cooper was not scared. After she continued her career by teaching in Lincoln University for four years. In 1910 Cooper was rehired by M Street High School.
In 1930, Cooper retired from teaching to assume the presidency of Frelinghuysen University, a school for black adults. She served as the school’s registrar after it was reorganized into the Frelinghuysen Group of Schools for Colored People. Cooper remained in that position until the school closed in 1950.

Writing 
A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South was Cooper's first book. She published it in 1892. She argued that women should be educated. She especially wanted Black women to be educated. Cooper's book made her a popular public speaker. She spoke to a wide variety of groups, which included the National Conference of Colored Women in 1895. She was also at the first Pan African Conference in 1900.

In the 1890s Cooper was also involved in the black women's club. Middle class black women would help the less fortunate black women.

At the age of 67 Cooper received her doctorate from Paris.
Death
Cooper died at the age 105 in 1964. Anna J. Cooper was a fighter for what is right and hopefully her legacy reigns on.

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1964 deaths
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Educators from North Carolina
African American writers
American essayists
American feminist writers
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Hallopus was a prehistoric crocodylomorph that was classified as a dinosaur in 1881 by Othniel Charles Marsh.

References

Archosaurs
Coronium was thought to be a chemical element  in 1882. The evidence was a thin green spectrometry line in the solar corona. In 1930, it was proved that it did not exist. The green line was just highly ionized iron, (Fe13+), which is now called coronium.

Spectroscopy
Iron
The continental margin is the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust. Together, the continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise are called the continental margin. Continental margins are about 28% of the oceanic area.

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Structure of the Earth
Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog". 

These frogs are quite common, and researchers think this has been overlooked because of their their small size. They are indeed extremely small, and can sit on a coin or a fingernail. However, they are not so small as Paedophryne, which is the smallest land vertebrate.

References 

Frogs of Asia
Igor Sychev is a Kazakh blogger and a political prisoner.  He received international attention when he went to prison over an online poll about whether Kazakhstan should join Russia in the same way as Crimea in the Ukraine.

Sychev is an ethnic Russian from a former Russian area in the east of Kazakhstan.  It has a majority of ethnic Russian people.  Sychev was the administrator of VKontakte, a popular Russian social networking site. On November 18, 2015, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Sychev said he did not put up the poll, and he took it down after he received complaints.

Synchev was convicted under a new law, passed in 2015, that prohibits calling for separatism. In January 2017, Sychev's sentence was upheld on appeal.

The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) asked the EU to support Sychev and other victims of free speech violations.

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Bloggers
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Living people
Anne Kristin Sydnes (13 May 1956 – 3 March 2017) was a Norwegian politician. She was a member of the Labour Party. She served as the Minister of International Development from 2000 to 2001. She was married to Jan Egeland.

Sydnes died after a long illness on 3 March 2017, at the age of 60.

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1956 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian politicians
Jhulelal (Sindhi:جهوللال), Kutchi: ઝૂલેલાલ) is the Ishta Dev (community God) of Sindhi people. His birthday Cheti Chand falls on the second day of the Chaitra month. It is auspicious for Sindhis and celebrated all over the world.

Notes

Hindu gods and goddesses
HaBayit HaYehudi, Hebrew: הבית היהודי , meaning The Jewish Home (often called like that), is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is (far) right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, Modern Orthodox Jewish, and Religious Zionist.

Political leader is Rafi Peretz.

HaBayit HaYehudi was founded in 2008 as a result of a merger of three parties but in fact it is the successor of Mafdal (National Religious Party).

Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 1 (-1).

Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government and the Netanyahu-Gantz Government.

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Political parties in Israel
Zionist parties
Religious Zionism (Hebrew: ציונות דתית - Tziyonut Datit) is a branch of Zionism. It is a combination of Zionism and Judaism.

Religious Zionists are in favour of a State of Israel, that is mainly populated by Jews and dominated by Judaism.

In their view the State of Israel should encompass the entire Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael). This includes the so-called Palestinian territories (West Bank, Gaza Strip) and also the Golan Heights.

Religious Zionism dominates Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel.

Politically Religious Zionists can especially be found in HaBayit HaYehudi (The Jewish Home) but also in HaLikud.

Jewish denominations
Judaism in Israel
Zionism
Yesh Atid, (, meaning There is a Future), is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is centrist social liberal, secular, and Zionist.

Political leader is Yair Lapid, who was Prime Minister of Israel from July 2022 to December 2022. 

Yesh Atid was founded in 2012.

Number of seats in the 25th Knesset: 24 (+7).

Participating in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

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The World Tamil Badminton Federation (WTBF) (Tamil: அகில உலக தமிழர் பூப்பந்தாட்ட பேரவை) is the international governing body of Badminton for the world Tamils. It conducts the annual international competition. The first ever tournament was held on 2013 in Switzerland.

Tournament Winners

Men's Singles Open

Ladies Single Open

Men's Doubles Open

Ladies Double Open

Victories by nationality (First Place, All Time)

Related pages
 Tamil Eelam national football team

References

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Sports organizations
Badminton
Tamils
Qantas Flight 32 was a passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore operated by an Airbus A380. On November 4, 2010 the plane suffered an engine failure over Indonesia, but the plane made an emergency landing at Singapore Changi Airport with no loss of life to the 469 people onboard.

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2010
2010s in Singapore
2010s in Indonesia
2010s in Australia
November 2010 events
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A toll-free telephone number is a telephone number in which the person who owns that telephone number is charged for calls that come to them, rather than the person making the call to that number being charged. These numbers usually begin with "1-800" in North America (800 being the area code under the North American Numbering Plan), but are different around the rest of the world.

They are not to be confused with "collect calls", which are made when the person making the call does not want to have to pay their telephone company to make it. In this case, the person receiving the call has to agree to be charged for that call, while those owning toll-free numbers already agree to being charged for incoming calls.

References 
Telephone numbers
Rhys Joseph Wesser (born 31 March 1979) is an Australian former professional rugby league player. He played in the National Rugby League (NRL) between 1998 and 2011. He was best known for playing for the Penrith Panthers, winning the 2003 premiership with them. He later played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He scored 129 total club tries in his career.

Wesser was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He is of Indigenous Australian ancestry.

References

Other websites
 Rhys Wesser at the Rugby League Project

1979 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
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Ayer is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Villages in Valais
Former municipalities of Valais
Stephen Peter Kearney  (born 11 June 1972) is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach and former player. He was the head coach of the National Rugby League (NRL) New Zealand Warriors from 2017 to 2020. He has also been head coach of the New Zealand national team and the Parramatta Eels. He also played for the Warriors and Melbourne Storm in the 1990s and 2000s.

Kearney was born in Paraparaumu, North Island. He is Māori.

References

Other websites
 Stephen Kearney at Rugby League Project

1972 births
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New Zealand Māori people
New Zealand rugby league players
Sportspeople from Wellington
Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English former footballer. He is best known for playing for Liverpool between 1974 and 1985. He won eight First Divisions, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, four European Cups, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup with Liverpool. He also played for Northampton Town and Bolton Wanderers. He later managed Bolton, Coventry City, Cardiff City and Manchester City.

Neal was born in Irchester, Northamptonshire. He has two children, including a son, Ashley (born 1974), also a footballer.

References

Other websites

 Phil Neal at LiverpoolFC.com

1951 births
Living people
English football managers
English footballers
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Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson  (22 January 1945 – 1 December 2011) was an Australian rugby league player and coach. He played between the 1960s and 1981. He was known for playing for Easts and captaining Australia. He also played for Queensland and the Parramatta Eels. He was the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport.

Beetson was born in Roma, Queensland. His mother was a member of the Stolen Generation.

Beetson died from a heart attack on 1 December 2011 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He was 66.

References

Other websites
 Arthur Beetson at the Rugby League Project

1945 births
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Elisabeth Lichtenberger (17 February 1925 – 14 February 2017) was an Austrian geographer. She taught at the University of Vienna. She was born in Vienna. She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1999.

Lichtenberger died on 14 February 2017 in Vienna, aged 91.

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Boaz Vaadia (November 13, 1951 – February 25, 2017) was an Israeli-American artist and sculptor. He was born in Gat Rimon, Israel. He worked primarily in stone and later by casting in bronze. He said that his work is based on the power of natural materials and the relation of human beings to that power.

Vaadia died in Brooklyn, New York from pancreatic cancer on February 25, 2017, aged 65. He was survived by his wife Kim and two daughters.

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New York Times - Neighborhood Report
DeCordova Sculpture Park
International Sculpture Center
ArtNews Biography 

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Howard Anthony Schmidt (October 5, 1949 – March 2, 2017) was an American cyber security expert and partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity.

He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month.

Schmidt died in Muskego, Wisconsin on March 2, 2017 from brain cancer, aged 67.

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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She was born in New York City.

She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.

Fox died at age 93 at a hospital in Brooklyn from congestive heart failure on March 1, 2017.

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References

Other websites
 Interview by Ramona Koval for The Book Show on ABC Radio National (July 29, 2004).
 Interview with short biography by Jesse Lichtenstein for Loggernaut (no date)
 The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox by Greg Gerke (January 24, 2010)

1923 births
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Writers from New York City
Míriam Colón (born Míriam Colón Valle; August 20, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. She was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Colón was known for her roles as Georgina Montana in Scarface (1983), Maria in Gloria (1999), and as Mercedes in Goal! (2005).

Colón died on March 3, 2017 from complications of a lung infection in New York City, aged 80.

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 Miriam Colón bio  at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
 The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 
Miriam Colon's Interview on NBC Latino 

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Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.

Mengelberg died in Amsterdam on 3 March 2017, aged 81.

Solo albums
 1979: Pech Onderweg (BV Haast)
 1982: Musica Per 17 Instrumenti / 3 Intermezzi /Omtrent Een Componistenactie Composer's Voice
 1994: Impromptus (FMP)
 1997: Misha Mengelberg (I Dischi Di Angelica)
 1997: The Root Of The Problem (hatOLOGY)
 1999: Two Days In Chicago (hatOLOGY)
 2000: Solo (Buzz)
 2005: Senne Sing Song (Tzadik)

References

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1996 Mengelberg interview conducted by Dan Warburton
Discography from the European Free Improvisation Pages 
ICP Orchestra Homepage
FMP releases

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Jazz pianists
Musicians from Kyiv
Chalais is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Chalais 

Municipalities in Sierre
Chandolin is a village in the  municipality of Anniviers in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Until 2009 it was a municipality.

History
On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Chandolin, Ayer, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Culture
It has at least one museum: the Ella Maillart Museum previously was the home of travel writer Ella Maillart (en:).

Other websites

 Official website 

Villages in Valais
Former municipalities of Valais
Pierre Guénin (19 February 1927 – 1 March 2017) was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He was the founder of LGBT movie awards in France. He was the founder of the Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists. He was a journalist for Cinémonde.

Guénin was born in Étampes, France on 19 February 1927. 

Guénin founded Editions S.A.N., a publisher of LGBT magazines, in 1967. He was the founding editor of Eden and Olympe, whose writings were forbidden under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1978.

Guénin died on 1 March 2017 from complications from pneumonia in Paris at the age of 90.

List of books

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Fitzroy Edwards (17 November 1955 – 4 March 2017), better known by his stage name Edi Fitzroy, was a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter. His career began in 1975 but best known for his work in the dancehall era. He was known for his songs "Miss Molly Colly" and "Deep in Mi Culture". He has been a regular performer at annual Peter Tosh memorial concerts in Jamaica.

Personal life
Fitzroy was born in Chapelton, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. He studied at Chapelton All-Age and Clarendon College. Fitzroy was a Rastafarian, stating that he has been "from birth".

Fitzroy died on 4 March 2017 at a hospital in May Pen, Claredon Parish, Jamaica, aged 62.
Songs
Youthman Penitentiary (1982), Alligator
Check For You Once (1982), Musical Ambassador
Coming Up Strong (1984), Musical Ambassador
Eclipse (1987), RAS
Pollution (1990), VP
Deep in Mi Culture (1993), Henry K
We a Lion (2000)
Hold the Vibes (2006), King Step
Compilations
First Class Citizen (2001), Musical Ambassador
The Best Of Edi Fitzroy Featuring Sly and Robbie and The Roots Radics (2010), Musical Ambassador

References

Other websites
Edi Fitzroy on Myspace

1955 births
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Jamaican singer-songwriters
Jamaican reggae musicians
John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is a British-born American diplomat of Greek descent.  He served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State, and the first ever Director of National Intelligence.

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John Michael "Mike" McConnell (born July 26, 1943) is a former vice admiral in the United States Navy. 

During his naval career he served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996. His civilian career includes serving as the United States Director of National Intelligence from 20 February 2007 to 27 January 2009 during the Bush administration and seven days of the Obama administration.

McConnell was born and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral. He was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region. 

Blair was a career officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the White House during the presidencies of  both President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan. Blair retired from the Navy in 2002 as an Admiral. In 2009, Blair was selected as President Barack Obama’s first Director of National Intelligence, but after a series of bureaucratic battles, he resigned on May 20, 2010.

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1947 births
Living people
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Kenneth W. Dam (born August 10, 1932) served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (the second highest official in the United States Department of the Treasury) from 2001 to 2003. He worked in international economic development. 

Dam is a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and a professor emeritus and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

Other websites
 University of Chicago law school biography of Kenneth Dam
 Brookings Institution announcement on Kenneth Dam's appointment as senior fellow
 Speech by Kenneth Dam on economic growth in Latin America 
 

1932 births
Living people
United States Deputy Secretaries of State
Politicians from Kansas