Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH or LD) is an enzyme found in nearly all living cells (animals, plants, and prokaryotes). It catalyzes the conversion of lactate to pyruvic acid and back
 
This is an important function because lactic acid builds up in muscle tissue. LDH works to prevent muscle fatigue and failure in various ways. 

Each LDH molecule is made of four subunits. There are somewhat different types of LDH in different tissues. The main type in the lungs has two M subunits and two H subunits (2H2M). The M and H subunits are coded by two different genes. The M subunit is coded by LDHA on human chromosome 11, and the H subunit is coded by LDHB on chromosome 12.

References 

Enzymes
"Million Reasons" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.  It is the seventh track on her fifth studio album, Joanne.  The song became the second single from the album on October 28, 2016, after "Perfect Illusion".

The song first reached number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Gaga performed the song as the second-to-last song from her Super Bowl 51 halftime show, before "Bad Romance".  After her show, "Million Reasons" reentered at number four on the Hot 100. It became her 10th top-five and 14th top-ten song in the US. She performed it as the encore song on the piano on the Joanne World Tour.

The Recording Industry Association of America certified the song Platinum for sales and streams of over one million copies in the US alone.

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Lady Gaga songs
Pop ballads
2010s ballads
Barbara Carroll (born Barbara Carole Coppersmith; January 25, 1925 – February 11, 2017) was an American jazz pianist and singer. Her career began in 1947. She was best known for her jazz trio, which had Benny Goodman in the line up. She also performed piano on Broadway plays. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts

Carroll died on February 11, 2017, at the age of 92.

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Damian Davey (born Damian Baker; 30 September 1964 – 12 February 2017), better known as simply Damian, was an English pop musician. He was best known for his 1989 song "The Time Warp", a cover version of the original track from The Rocky Horror Show. He also did a cover of the song "Wig-Wam Bam" by the Sweet. He was born in Manchester.

Damian died from cancer on 12 February 2017, at the age of 52.

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1964 births
2017 deaths
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English pop singers
Musicians from Manchester
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a commune and subprefecture of the French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in northern South America.

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a border town in northwest French Guiana. It is the second most populous city of French Guiana, after Cayenne.

Name 
The name was given in 1856 by the Governor of French Guiana, Auguste Laurent Bauding, after his father and grandfather. Because the town is on the side of the Maroni river, the name was completed as is now: Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

History 
The town was made a commune in 1949. In 1969, it was made the capital of the new arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

Geography 

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a city in northwestern French Guiana to the west of Cayenne, on the Maroni River (in Dutch: Marowijne), opposite the town of Albina in Suriname which can be reached by ferry or small boats.
The commune has an area of ; at the city hall, the altitude is . It includes some islands in the river: Île Portal, Île de la Quarantaine and Île aux Lépreux.

The Maroni river flows through the commune, to which it gives part of its name. Many of its tributaries also flows the commune: Crique Sparouine (on the southern border), Crique Bastien, Crique Serpent, Crique des cascades, Crique Awara, Crique Balaté, Crique Margot, Crique Chameau, Crique aux bœufs lamentins and Crique Vaches (on the northern border).

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is surrounded by the communes Mana to the north and east, Grand-Santi to the south and southwest and Apatou to the northwest.

Climate 
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni has a Tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification: Af) in which there is no dry season - all months have mean precipitation values of at least .
The average temperature for the year in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is . The warmest month, on average, is September with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is October with an average of .

Demographics
The inhabitants of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni are known, in French, as Saint-Laurentins (women: Saint-Laurentines).

The commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni has a population, in 2014, of 44,169; its population density is of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

Gallery

Related pages 
 Arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

References

Other websites 

 Ville de Saint-Laurent du Maroni official website 
 Collectivité territorial de Guyane website 
 Prefecture website 
 Guyane-Amazonie Tourism
Communes in French Guiana
Subprefectures in France
Jan Grabowski (27 May 1950 – 13 February 2017) was a Polish speedway rider. From 1970 to 1980, he represented Falubaz Zielona Góra. He won two bronze medals at the Team Speedway Polish Championship, in 1973 and 1979, with the team. He later became a speedway coach. He was born in Myślibórz.

Grabowski died on 13 February 2017 in Zielona Góra, at the age of 66.

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Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr. (born May 12, 1944), known as Keith Kellogg, is a retired general officer in the United States Army. President Donald Trump put Kellogg in charge of the  presidential transition agency action team for defense. He was named a foreign policy advisor to then presidential candidate Trump in March 2016. 

He was named Acting United States National Security Advisor on February 13, 2017 following the resignation of Michael T. Flynn.

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Clint Ronald Roberts (January 30, 1935 – February 13, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for South Dakota from 1981 to 1983. He was born in Presho, South Dakota.

Roberts died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on February 13, 2017 in Pierre, South Dakota, at the age of 82.

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Loukianos Kilaidonis (; 15 July 1943 – 7 February 2017) was a Greek composer, songwriter and singer.

Kilaidonis was born in Athens. He studied at the Leonine Lycium of Patissia. afterwards he went to Thessaloniki where he studied architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for two years, where he finished his studies at the National Metsovo Polytechnic. 

Kilaidonis never did work in architecture because he started a career in music. His first work was the album Our city in 1970. Two years later he made the album Red Thread with Nikos Gatsos and the singers Manolis Mitsias and Dimitra Galani. 

Kilaidonis died in Marousi, Greece on 7 February 2017 from a respiratory infection, aged 73.

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2017 deaths
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Singers from Athens
Ren Xinmin (; December 5, 1915 – February 12, 2017) was a Chinese rocket scientist. He was a specialist in astronautics and liquid rocket engine technology. He worked at the University at Buffalo.

Early life
Ren was born in Ningguo, China. He studied at Southeast University and at the University of Michigan.

Career
Ren was the technical director of the Long March 1 rocket. It was used for the successful launch of China's first satellite, and chief designer of Chinese store able propellant rocket engine. He was also the chief designer for Long March 3 launch vehicle, Fengyun, and SJ (Shijian) series satellites.

Ren was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Ren, Huang Weilu, Tu Shou'e and Liang Shoupan were bracketed together as "four venerable pioneers of astronautics (航天四老)" in China. They were granted the Two Bombs and One Satellite Merit Medal in 1999.

Death
Ren died on February 12, 2017 in Beijing, aged 101.

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Harvey Lichtenstein (April 9, 1929 – February 11, 2017)  was an American arts administrator.

He was best known for his 32-year tenure (1967–99) as president and executive producer of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, or BAM. He led the institution to a renaissance, championing contemporary performance, establishing the Next Wave Festival, and providing a vital venue for dance, theater, music, and collaborations that bridged disciplines. When Lichtenstein retired, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation made the decision to honor his considerable accomplishments by foregoing its own naming rights and dedicating the BAM Harvey Theater in his honor.

Lichtenstein was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Brooklyn College and at Black Mountain College. Lichtenstein died in Manhattan, New York on February 11, 2017 from complications of a stroke, aged 87.

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Lucky Pulpit (foaled February 10, 2001 – February 13, 2017) was an American Thoroughbred stallion. He stood at Harris Farms in Coalinga, California.

Lucky Pulpit was a son of the Blue Grass Stakes winner Pulpit, who in turn is a son of 1992 United States Horse of the Year A.P. Indy. Lucky Pulpit was the sire of the 2014 Kentucky Derby and 2014 Preakness Stakes winner and subsequent 2014 Horse of the Year, California Chrome.

Lucky Pulpit died of a heart attack in Arcadia, California on February 13, 2017, aged 16.

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2001 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Thoroughbred racehorses
Åsleik Engmark (27 December 1965 – 12 February 2017) was a Norwegian comedian, actor, singer and writer. He was best known for his work as one of the co-founders of the Norwegian cabaret group Lompelandslaget. In Norwegian dubbing, he was well known for voicing Timon in the The Lion King series, Mike Wazowski in the Monsters, Inc. and Woody in the Toy Story series. He was born in Oslo.

Engmark died of an illness on 12 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium, at the age of 51.

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1965 births
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was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He won a total of five Olympic medals, four silvers and a bronze. He won medals at the 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome) and 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo). He was born in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture.

Yamanaka died from pneumonia on 10 February 2017 in Tokyo, at the age of 78.

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2017 deaths
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Bobby Murdoch (25 January 1936 – 12 February 2017) was an English footballer. He played as a striker. He played for Liverpool, Bolton Wanderers, Barrow, Stockport County, Carlisle United, Southport and Wigan Athletic. He was also a player-manager for the amateur club South Liverpool. He was born in Garston, Liverpool.

Murdoch died on 12 February 2017, at the age of 81.

References

Other websites
 Bobby Murdoch at LiverpoolFC.com

1936 births
2017 deaths
English footballers
English football managers
Liverpool F.C. players
Sportspeople from Liverpool
Sara Coward (30 January 1948 – 12 February 2017) was a British actress. She was born in Eltham, London. She was known for her role as Caroline Sterling in the BBC radio soap opera The Archers. She first appeared in the series in 1977. She had the role as a regular from 1979 until September 2016. She also appeared in the TV series Inspector Morse, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Rumpole of the Bailey.

Coward was told she had breast cancer in 2013. She died on 12 February 2017 in Warwickshire, at the age of 69.

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1948 births
2017 deaths
Actors from London
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English stage actors
English television actors
Cancer deaths in England
Deaths from breast cancer
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is a Communist party in India. The party emerged from a split from the Communist Party of India in 1964. The CPI(M) was formed at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Calcutta from 31 October to 7 November 1964. The power of CPI(M) is concentrated in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. At present in 2016, CPI(M) is leading the state governments in Tripura and Kerala. It also leads the Left Front in West Bengal.

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A beam balance is a device used to measure mass. An object is put into a disk on one side that hangs from one end of a bar. It is balanced with weights at the other end. It has a lever at the middle just for support with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm at the end of the beam by equal length of strings. More so it can be used to measure various object.it is a very useful machine . it is used by shopkeepers to weight the material which the customer is buying

Machines
Measuring tools
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (better known as M. K. Stalin; often referred to by his initials MKS) (born 1 March 1953) is an Indian politician,present Chief minister of Tamilnadu and President of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. He became the 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2009 to 2011.Stalin is the third son of famous Tamil Nadu politician Karunanidhi, and was born to his second wife, Dayalu Ammal. Stalin became the Minister for Rural Development and Local Administration in the Government of Tamil Nadu after the 2006 Assembly elections. On 29 May 2009, Stalin was nominated as Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu by Governor Surjit Singh Barnala. Stalin serves as the Treasurer and the Youth Wing President of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. On 3 January 2013, M. Karunanidhi named him as his heir apparent, ending a long time confusion about who would take over the party reins after Karunanidhi's death. He was the Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002.

Reference
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1953 births
Goyescas is a Spanish opera with music by Enrique Granados and libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznabar. It is based on the piano work by Granados which is also called Goyescas. As the melodies had already been created for the piano work, the words of the opera had to be chosen to fit them.

The opera was first performed in New York, on January 28, 1916.  It is not performed as often as the piano version.

Story
Granados was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya.

Principal characters
 Rosario - soprano
 Fernando - tenor
 Pepa - mezzo-soprano
 Paquiro - baritone
Discography
 1955: Consuelo Rubio (Rosario), Ginés Torrano (Fernando), Ana-María Iriarte (Pepa), Manuel Ausensi (Paquiro); Madrid Cantores, Orquesta Nacional de España, Ataúlfo Argenta - (Decca)
 1996: Maria Bayo (Rosario), Ramón Vargas (Fernando), Lola Casariego (Pepa), Enrique Baquerizo (Paquiro); Orfeón Donostiarra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Antoni Ros-Marbà - (Auvidis)
 1997: Carmen González (Rosario), Josep Ruiz (Fernando), Maite Arruabarrena (Pepa), Alfonso Echevarría (Paquiro); Coral de Bilbao, Orquesta de Cadaqués, Gianandrea Noseda - (TRITÓ)
 2001: Rafaella Angeletti (Rosario), Yikun Chung (Fernando), Francesca Franci (Pepa), Davide Damiani (Paquiro); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - (Dynamic)

Sources

 The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993. 

1910s operas
Operas set in Spain
1916 works
Sarah DeRemer Knauss (née Clark; September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was an American supercentenarian, and the world's oldest living person between the death of Canadian woman Marie-Louise Meilleur on April 16, 1998, and her own death from natural causes aged 119 years, 97 days. Knauss is the oldest American ever and the third-oldest person in history, behind Jeanne Calment and Kane Tanaka.

She, also along with Danish-born Americanman Christian Mortensen, who died just 9 days after Meilleur, were the last two living people born before 1884. During the last 40 days of her life, she was also the last living person born before 1885.

Biography 
Knauss was born as Sarah DeRemer Clark on September 24, 1880, as the third of seven children in Hollywood, Pennsylvania, US. Her family then later moved to South Bethlehem, Pennyslavia.

Her only child, Kathryn, was born in 1903 and died in 2005, aged 101. After 64 years of marriage, her husband died in 1965 at the age of 86.
Knauss was a very short woman. She was  tall.

At the age of 104, she moved in with her daughter, Kathryn Knauss Sullivan. At the age of 106, she was no longer able to walk and got about via wheelchair. She remained in relatively good health well into her 119th year, except for being almost totally deaf.

Death 
On December 30, 1999, Knauss died from natural causes in her sleep at around 3:00 p.m., while sitting in the chair in her room. She died 2 days before the year 2000 started. With her death, British woman Eva Morris become the oldest living person in the world.

Related pages 
List of American supercentenarians

Notes

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1999 deaths
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People from Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Bilice is a populated place in the Kotor Varoš Municipality of Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Population

Related pages
Kotor Varoš

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Baština is a populated place in the Kotor Varoš Municipality of Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Population

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Kotor Varoš

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Settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jonathan Russell (February 27, 1771 - February 17, 1832) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts (March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823). He graduated from Brown University (then Rhode Island College) in 1791. He was also appointed by James Madison to the Diplomatic Service in France in 1811. Russell was one of the five commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent with Great Britain in 1814, ending the War of 1812. Jonathan Russell died in Milton, Massachusetts on February 17, 1832 (aged 60). His final resting place is in the Russell Family Cemetery (Milton, Massachusetts).
Democratic-Republican Party politicians
American diplomats
United States representatives from Massachusetts
19th-century American politicians
The inferior temporal gyrus is the part of the brain that helps you process shades

Anatomy of the brain
Tạ Phong Tần (born September 15, 1968 in Vĩnh Lợi District, Bạc Liêu Province)  is a Vietnamese blogger.  She was a member of the Vietnamese Communist Party and an  officer in the Vietnamese security forces. In 2013 she received an International Women of Courage Award.

In 2006, she started a blog “Truth and Justice.”  She wrote about news and politics.  In 2011, she went to prison.  She was convicted of propaganda against the state. 

She was freed from prison on September 19, 2015. She went to live in the United States.

Awards  
International Women of Courage Award, 2013
FreeThe20 campaign

References

Other websites 

 2013 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

1968 births
Living people
Vietnamese writers
Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Bloggers
Stefán Karl Stefánsson (; ; 10 July 1975 – 21 August 2018) was an Icelandic actor and singer. He was best known for playing antagonist Robbie Rotten on the children's television series LazyTown.

Career
Stefán Karl's career started in 1994. At the age of 19, he worked as a puppeteer for television. During his years as a puppeteer, he had also been studying at the Drama Academy of Iceland. However, he was not satisfied with how Iceland views their drama standards. He remembered that his principal at his high school said that "acting is not about making faces and changing your face". He did not agree with his high school principal.
Later, Stefán Karl had been invited by Magnús Scheving, an Icelandic gymnast, to portray one of the characters in the second LazyTown play. Scheving created the plays because he was concerned that Iceland's younger generation is not doing enough exercise. Stefán Karl explained that "[Scheving] wanted the kids to get healthier, so he created this musical called LazyTown. He played Sportacus, the fitness fanatic, and I was Robbie Rotten, the guy who liked to stay indoors and sleep". After initial success with the musical, Nickelodeon eventually made a deal with the creators of LazyTown to air the first 40 episodes of LazyTown along with a special studio built in Iceland. During the first few years of LazyTown in the early 2000s, Stefán Karl initially knew no English, but soon became fluent.
Personal life 
Stefán Karl lived in Los Angeles with his wife Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir, three daughters, and one son. In June 2018, he was awarded the Order of the Falcon. He had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Tourette syndrome.

Illness and death
Stefán Karl announced in October 2016 that he had been diagnosed with bile duct cancer. On the same month, GoFundMe campaign was subsequently created by LazyTown head writer Mark Valenti to pay his living costs when he became too ill to work. The campaign was popularized by various YouTube users uploading parodies of Stefán Karl's work. This eventually made the songs "We Are Number One" and "The Mine Song" from LazyTown become Internet memes. In August 2017, Stefán Karl stated he was in remission. He clarified on his GoFundMe campaign that while his metastases had been removed after successful liver surgery in June 2017, he still had the disease and had refused further adjuvant therapy.
In March 2018, Stefán Karl was diagnosed with inoperable bile duct cancer, and said that he was undergoing chemotherapy to increase the length of his life. In April 2018, he announced that he personally chose to stop his chemotherapy, and then began to shut down all his social media accounts.

He died on 21 August 2018 at the age of 43. His wife stated that Stefansson didn't want to a funeral when he died. Instead, she had said that his body will be secretly scattered into a distant ocean.

Legacy
It was announced by his manager, Cheryl Edison, that the Stefán Karl Academy & Center for the Performing Arts will be opened in Switzerland in the year 2019 as a memorial to his career.

Filmography 
Stefán Karl has been credited in various works including plays, television series, films, and games.

Theater

Films 
According to IMDb:

Television

Video games

References

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1975 births
2018 deaths
Icelandic singers
Icelandic movie actors
Television actors
Stage actors
Deaths from cholangiocarcinoma
Pusheen is a cartoon cat and an internet meme. She is seen in comic strips and sticker sets on Facebook. Some of the stickers are animated.  Pusheen was created in 2010 by Hilary Duff a comic strip on her website, Everyday Cute. 

The original comic strip series used characters modeled after her owners, Belton and Duff. Also included was their dog named Care, and Pusheen, a female chubby gray tabby cat based on Belton's cat that now lives with her parents in Oregon. Pusheen's name comes from the word puisín, which means kitten in Irish.

Social media 

Pusheen is an example of the popularity of cats on the Internet and in social media.  An exhibition at the New York City Museum of the Moving Image used Pusheen along with other celebrity cats such as Grumpy Cat, Keyboard Cat and Lil Bub as examples. 

The Facebook page for Pusheen has over 8.9 million followers as of March 2020.
The brand has expanded with merchandise from Barnes & Noble, Hot Topic, and Petco. Pusheen is also now seen on: Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. The Pusheen Corp has created a mobile app to go along with their sticker collection that started on Facebook.  Also, the company has started releasing GIFs on their website several times a month.

References

Other websites 
 

American Internet celebrities
Fictional cats
Mary Akrami is an activist from Afghanistan.  She started the Afghan Women Skills Development Center, a women's shelter in Kabul.  In 2007 she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Life 

Akrami grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan.  During the war with the Taliban, her family left Afghanistan and went to live in Pakistan.  Akrami got a BBA degree in Administration and Economy from Peshawar in Pakistan.

Work 

Akrami worked with a group of women to start classes in English and computer literacy for Afghan women in refugee camps.  They got help from the Aurat Foundation (an NGO in Pakistan) and the Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC). 

In 2001, Akrami went to the Afghan Civil Society meeting in Bonn, Germany.  After the war, she went back to 
Afghanistan and started an economic development project for women in the small village of Ghazni. In April, she started a women's shelter with the help of Norwegian church Aid (NCA). The shelter provides psychological counseling and legal aid.
To promote human rights for women, they started a  peace building program in the Parwan province. They started 12 peace committees 6 and 1 central Shura in each district.  Women have 50% representation in the peace committees.

References  

1970s births
Living people
BBC 100 Women
Afghan women's rights activists
Parwan Province
Hans-Voldemar Trass  (2 May 1928 – 14 February 2017) was an Estonian ecologist and botanist. He was a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences from 1975 until his death. He was the president of the Estonian Naturalists' Society from 1964 to 1973 and 1985 to 1991. He was awarded the Acharius Medal by the International Association for Lichenology in 1992.

Trass was born in Tallinn. He was married to Estonian Raine Loo. The couple had a son, composer and organist Toomas Trass.

Trass died on 14 February 2017, at the age of 88.

Related pages
List of Estonian scientists
List of ecologists

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2017 deaths
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Ecologists
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Ricardo Arias Calderón (4 May 1933 – 13 February 2017) was a Panamanian politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Party. He served as the first Vice President of Panama from 1989 to 1992.

Arias was born in Panama City. He studied at Yale and the Sorbonne. He was a Roman Catholic. He was married to Theresa and had four children.

Arias died on 13 February 2017 in Panama City, at the age of 83.

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1933 births
2017 deaths
People from Panama City
Vice presidents of Panama
The Proclaimers are a Scottish folk rock band. The members are twin brothers, Charlie and Craig Reid (born 5 March 1962). They are best known for the songs "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", "Sunshine on Leith", "I'm on My Way" and "Letter from America". They are also known for singing with a Scottish accent.

The Reid brothers were born in Leith. They are fans of Hibernian and support Scottish independence.

References

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1962 births
Living people
Musical groups established in 1983
Musicians from Edinburgh
Scottish musical groups
Scottish singers
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Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American real estate investor and developer and newspaper publisher. He was the senior advisor to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump.

Career 
With White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, he forms Trump's leadership team. Kushner is said to be President Trump's most trusted advisor, showing "unwavering loyalty" to his father-in-law.

In August 24, 2017, Jared Kushner visited Israel to meet  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He went to Palestine to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to restart a peace process in the Middle East.

Kushner married Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump in 2009. They have three children.

References

1981 births
Living people
Businesspeople from New Jersey
Harvard University alumni
Jewish businesspeople
New York University alumni
Real estate developers
Trump family
People from Livingston, New Jersey
Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2017 until 2021. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson), and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Johnson was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom by then President-elect Donald Trump on January 19, 2017.

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Businesspeople from New York City
Ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom
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Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997) was an American singer and musician. He was also known as Bruddah Iz. He is best known for his versions of the songs "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World", recorded in 1988 and released in 1993. He also played the ukulele to his songs. He was a Native Hawaiian and supported independence of the U.S. state to become a sovereignty.

Kamakawiwoʻole was born in Honolulu. He was married to Marlene. The couple had a daughter, Ceslieanne (born ).

Kamakawiwoʻole had health issues because of his obesity. He died on June 26, 1997, in Honolulu, at the age of 38.

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Native Hawaiians
Märta Elisabeth Rehn (née Carlberg; born 6 April 1935) is a Finnish politician. She is a Swedish-speaking Finn, and was a member of the Swedish People's Party. She was the Minister of Defence from 1990 to 1995. She was also an Undersecretary General of the United Nations from 1995 to 1999.

Rehn was born in Helsinki. She was married to Ove Rehn from 1955 until his death in 2004. They had four children. She has survived cancer twice.

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1935 births
Living people
Politicians from Helsinki
"Talking Body" is a 2014 electropop song from singer and songwriter Tove Lo. The song was released to American contemporary hit radio on January 13, 2015 by Republic Records. The song comes from her studio album Queen of the Clouds (2014).

The song is about trying to seduce someone into sex.

"Talking Body" hit #12 on Billboard Hot 100.

References

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"Bang Bang" is a pop-soul ballad from Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. The song is about female empowerment, sex and feminism.

The song was released on July 29, 2014 as the lead single from Jessie J's studio album Sweet Talker (2014). The song is also off Grande's album My Everything (2014).

"Bang Bang" began at #1 in the United Kingdom. It hit the Top Ten in several countries, like Australia, Canada and the United States.

It won Favorite Song of the Year at the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards on Nickelodeon.

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Albion is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 20,449.

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Alma is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,044.

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The Province of South Carolina (also known as the South Carolina Colony) was originally part of the Province of Carolina in British America. In 1776 the province became the U.S. state of South Carolina.

The Carolinas were named for King Charles II of England. The colony was first named "Carolana". Charles II had given the land to a group of eight nobles called the Lords Proprietors. In 1712 the Carolina Province split into the Province of North Carolina and Province of South Carolina. Both provinces became British royal colonies in 1729.

Lord Charles Montagu (1741-1784) was Royal Governor of the Province of South Carolina from 1766 to 1773.

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Bear Bluff is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 138.

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Brockway is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,828.

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City Point is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 182.

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Cleveland is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 481.

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Curran is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 343.

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Franklin is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 448.

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Garden Valley is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 422.

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Garfield is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 638.

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Hixton is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 652.

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Irving is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 751.

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Knapp is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 299.

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Komensky is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 509.

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Dinocephalosaurus is a genus of long necked, aquatic Archosaurs which lived in the Triassic seas. Its fossils are found in 244 ± 1.3 million year old rocks.  

Didocephalosaurus means "terrible headed lizard". The first specimen found was just a skull, discovered near Xinmin in Guizhou Province, China in 2002. The second specimen found nearby, and was the head and much of the postcrainal skeleton, minus the tail. Dinocephalosaurus is the "first record of protorosaurid reptile (Order Protorosauria) from the Middle Triassic of China".

A new specimen found in Yunnan Province, southern China, showed evidence of live births (ovoviviparity). This is the earliest known example of this in the large group of tetrapods which includes dinosaurs, crocodiles, pterosaurs and birds.

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Manchester is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 704.

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Melrose is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 470.

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Millston is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 159.

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North Bend is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 488.

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Northfield is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 639.

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Springfield is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 623.

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Ashwaubenon is a village in Brown County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2014 the population was 17,111.

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Auburndale is a village in Wood County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2014 the population was 679.

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Avoca is a village in Iowa County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2014 the population was 627.

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Bagley is a village in Grant County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2014 the population was 366.

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Baldwin is a village in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2014 the population was 3,960.

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Cady is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 821.

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Cylon is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 683.

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Eau Galle is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,139.

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Emerald is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 853.

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Erin Prairie is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 688.

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Forest is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,080.

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Glenwood is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 785.

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Hammond is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of 2014 the population was 1,910.

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Kinnickinnic is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of 2010 the population was 1,722.

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Pleasant Valley is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of 2014 the population was 523.

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Rush River is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of 2010 the population was 560.

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St. Joseph is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, USA. As of 2010 the population was 4,095.

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Manfred "Manni" Kaiser (7 January 1929 – 15 February 2017) was a German footballer. He played as a a midfielder. He played for Wismut Gera, Wismut Aue and the East Germany national team. He was born in Zeitz.

Kaiser died on 15 February 2017 in Lindau, at the age of 88.

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Dr. Helen Patricia Sharman OBE FRSC (born 30 May 1963) is a British chemist. She became the first British astronaut and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1993.

She worked as a research and development technologist for GEC in London and later as a chemist for Mars Incorporated dealing with nice properties of chocolate.

Sharman was born in Grenoside, Sheffield.

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Azerbaijan State Russian Samed Vurgun Drama Theatre (, ), is a drama theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan performing plays in the Russian language. The plays of the theatre are mainly from Russian literature, and the rest are plays from Azerbaijani and European  writers. The theatre was founded in 1937 and in 1956 was renamed after the Azerbaijani poet Samed Vurgun. The theatre show plays not just for adults, but for children too.

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The Guiana Shield is a geographic region found in northeast South America. It is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate. It is a 1.7 billion-year-old Precambrian geological formation that forms part of the South American northern coast.

The higher elevations on the region are called the Guiana Highlands, which is where there are mesas or "table" mountains called tepuis.

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  or Bouclier guyanais;
 ;
  or Macizo Guayanés;
 .

Guiana  and The Guianas are often used as collective names for Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, and sometimes even includes the portions of Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil which are on the Guiana Shield.

Geography
Geography

The Guiana Shield is In six countries; they are, from west to east:
 western Colombia (the Guainía department);
 Venezuela, where the Orinoco river makes the northern limit of the Shield.
 Guyana;
 Suriname;
 French Guiana, an oversea department of France;
 northern Brazil, (Roraima, Pará and Amapá states) in the North Region, limited to the south by the Amazon river.

The Guiana Shield is roughly bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Orinoco river to the north and west, the Negro river (an important tributary of the Amazon river) to the southwest, and the Amazon river to the south.

Mountains 
The Guiana Highlands is formed by small plateaus and mountain ranges. The western part of the Highlands, mainly in Venezuela, is where are the higher mountains. From west to east, the mountains ranges and plateaus are:
Serra do Imeri / Cerro de la Neblina - the most southern mountain range; the Pico da Neblina is here.
 Sierra / Cerro Parima - mountain range between Venezuela and Brazil; here starts the Orinoco river.
 Pacaraima Mountains- a mountain range in the border of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil; here is the Mount Roraima, the highest mountain of Guyana.
 La Gran Sabana (The "Great Savanna") - a plateau in Venezuela that is part of the Canaima National Park.
 Kanuku y Kamoa Mountains - In southern Guyana.
 Acarai Mountains - in the border of Brazil, Guyana and Suriname.
 Border Mountains - between Suriname and Brazil.
 Wilhelmina Mountains, Kayser Mountains, Van Asch Van Wijck Mountains, Oranje Mountains and Eilerts de Haan Mountains - all in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The highest mountain of Suriname, Julianatop, is in the Wilhelmina Mountains.
 Tumuk Humak Mountains (Serra do Tumucumaque) - in the border of Suriname, Brazil and French Guiana.
The highest point in the Guiana Shield is Pico da Neblina () in Brazil at . Pico da Neblina is the highest summit of the larger Serra do Imeri, a plateau on the Venezuela-Brazil border; it is also the highest mountain in Brazil.

Rivers and waterfalls 
Many rivers start on the Guiana Highlands and most of them flow to the north, into the Atlantic Ocean. Some of them are:
 The Orinoco river starts in the Sierra Parima.
 The Essequibo, the main river of Guyana; it starts in the Acarai Mountains.
 The Courantyne, the longest river of Suriname; it also starts in the Acarai Mountains.
 The Maroni river that forms the border between French Guiana and Suriname; it starts in the Tumuk Humak Mountains.
 The Oyapock river that forms most of the border between French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapá.

In the region there are some notable waterfalls such as the Angel Falls,  high, in Venezuela, and the Kaieteur Falls,  high, on the Potaro River in the Pacaraima Mountains of Guyana.
Climate 
As a whole, the Guiana Shield region has a tropical climate characterized by a relatively high mean annual temperature over  at sea level. Because of the Guiana Shield is just north of the equator, its climate varies primarily according to elevation and the effects of the trade winds. The trade winds blow from the east and northeast, off of the Atlantic Ocean onto northeastern South America.

The heaviest rains usually occur between May and August, whereas the rainy season from December to January is shorter and less intense, with rains mostly along the coast. In areas where there is only one rainy season, the driest part of the year is January to March; in areas where there are two rainy seasons the driest months are March and October. However, even during most dry seasons, frequent storms provide adequate moisture to allow evergreen tropical moist forests to persist in most low elevation parts of the region.
The climate data for Santa Elena de Uairén weather station () in La Gran Sabana at an altitude of  are:.

Plant and animal life 

Since the individual peaks in the Guiana Highlands have been isolated from each other for millions of years, many plants and animals have evolved in a different way on each mountain.

Many of the mountains are covered in permanent clouds and mist washing all the soil away, and leaving barren rock and water. Because of this many plants are carnivorous and feed on insects and small animals.

So far over 2,000 species of plants been found, and more than 50% are endemic to this region, meaning they are found only here, and many are only found on one peak.

Mineral resource 
Some minerals are found in large amounts in the Guiana Shield; diamonds, gold and bauxite are some of them. The large-scale mining of these, and other minerals, is creating some environmental problems.
Protected areas 
In the Guiana Shield, there are several protected areas, as National parks or reserves; some of them are:

Venezuela 
 Canaima National Park
 Duida-Marahuaca National Park
 Serranía de la Nebina National Park
 Parima-Tapirapeco National Park
 Yapacana National Park

Guyana 
 Kaieteur National Park

Suriname 
 Central Suriname Nature Reserve

French Guiana 
 Guiana Amazonian Park

Brazil 
 Montanhas do Tumucumaque National Park
 Monte Roraima National Park
 Pico de Neblina National Park
 Serra da Mocidade National Park
 Viruá National Park

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Related pages
 Tepui
 List of rivers of the Americas

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 Conservation International: o Escudo das Guianas 

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Geography of Guyana
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Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled passenger flight from Karachi to Jeddah, via Riyadh. On August 19, 1980 the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar with 287 passengers and 14 crew members on-board, caught fire seven minutes after take-off. Although the plane made an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport, all 301 people on-board died of smoke inhalation, with the aircraft later destroyed by the fire.

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Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who at the time of her death, at the age of , was the oldest verified living person in the world from the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her death in 5 months later.

She was also the first verified supercentenarian from Jamaica and the oldest verified Jamaican person ever. Brown was born when Jamaica was a part of the British Empire and was the last living former subject of Queen Victoria.

Life 
Her date of birth was variously reported as 4 March 1900, 10 March 1900, and 15 March 1900. However, it was officially recognised as 10 March 1900 by the Guinness World Records.

Her son, Harland Fairweather (April 15, 1920 – April 19, 2017), was known as the oldest person with a parent alive.