Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
In 2006, Harrington co-founded Picnik with friend and former colleague Darrin Massena, which was later acquired by Google in March 2010. Harrington left Google in March 2011, and co-founded another company with Massena, called Catnip Labs, in January 2012. Harrington was the CTO at The Committee for Children from 2016-2018 and is now the CTO of Amplion.

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Piqua ( ) is a city in Miami County, southwest Ohio, United States, 27 miles north of Dayton. The population was 20,522 at the 2010 census.

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The Ministry of Health () is a ministry in the Israeli government. It is responsible for deciding the health policies for the Israel.

The present Health Minister is Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz).

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 www.health.gov.il

1948 establishments in Israel
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Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) is a community based non-profit health-organization in Palestine. It was established in 1979 by a group of Palestinian doctors and health professionals. Its main objective is to improve the overall physical, mental, and social well being of all Palestinians, irrespective of their racial, political, social, economic status.

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Laura Hillman (born Hannelore Wolff; October 16, 1923 – June 4, 2020) was a German-born American survivor of Holocaust concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was also a Schindlerjude, who survived the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler. 

In 2005, she published a young adult book about her experiences during the Holocaust which is titled i will plant you a lilac tree – a memoir of a Schindler's list survivor. She was born in Aurich, Ostfriesland, Germany.

Hillman died on June 4, 2020 in Rossmoor, California at the age of 96.

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Rossmoor is a planned census-designated place located in Orange County, California. As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a total population of 10,625.

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Noel Dawn Johnson (December 1, 1972 – June 9, 2020) was an American basketball player and the head coach of the Midwestern State Mustangs women's basketball team. She played for the national championship Texas Tech Lady Raiders in 1993. She was born in Shamrock, Texas. She also coached Midwestern State Mustangs from 2009 to 2020.

Johnson died on June 9, 2020 from ovarian cancer, aged 47.

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Shamrock is a city in Wheeler County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 1,910.

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Peter E. Toschek (18 April 1933 – 25 June 2020) was a German experimental physicist. He researched nuclear physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. He was known as an important scientist of laser spectroscopy. He was a professor at Hamburg University. Toschek was born in Hindenburg, Saxony-Anhalt.

Toschek died on 25 June 2020 in Hindenburg, aged 87.

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Pierre-Antoine-Jean Bach (29 July 1932 – 26 June 2020) was a French-born Laotian Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1959. He was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Savannakhet. Laos, from 1971 to 1975.

Bach died on 26 June 2020, aged 87.

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Thomas Joseph Finn (November 21, 1948 – June 27, 2020) was an American pop jazz singer-songwriter, guitarist and DJ.  He was a founding member of the 1960s baroque pop group The Left Banke.

Finn died on June 27, 2020 at the age of 71.

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David Bruce Stronach   ( – ) was a British archeologist of ancient Iran and Iraq. He was an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was recipient of the 2004 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Gold Medal for "Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Stronach was an expert on the city of Pasargadae.

Stronach died on June 27, 2020 at the age of 89.

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Kim Bridgford (August 9, 1959 – June 28, 2020) was an American poet, writer, critic, and academic. 

In her poetry, she wrote mainly in traditional forms, particularly sonnets. She was the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, created in 2014 and first held in May 2015. She directed the West Chester University Poetry Conference from 2010 through 2014. She was born in Coal Valley, Illinois. Bridgford started teaching at Fairfield University in Connecticut in 1989.

Bridgford died from cancer on June 28, 2020, at the age of 60, at a hospice care center in Bettendorf, Iowa.

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John Thomas Kneebone  (1935 – 28 June 2020) was a New Zealand farming leader. He was elected as president of Federated Farmers in 1974. He was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 1989. He was the inspiration behind the National Agricultural Fieldays in 1969.

In the 1988 New Year Honours, Kneebone was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for public services and services to agriculture. 

He died in Cambridge on 28 June 2020, aged 84.

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Dame Ingrid Mary Roscoe, DCVO, FSA (27 May 1944 – 28 June 2020) was an English writer on art. Roscoe was Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire from 2004 until 2018. Roscoe was editor-in-chief and co-author of A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851, published in November 2009. 

Roscoe died on 28 June 2020, aged 76.

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Workum (, ) is a city located in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, Netherlands. It received city rights in 1374. It is one of the eleven cities of Friesland. It had a population of 4,435 in January 2017.

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Museology or museum studies is the study of museums. It studies the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in. They also study other things about museums including curating, preservation, public programming, and education.

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Bernhardus “Bernhard” van Haersma Buma (23 March 1932 – 26 June 2020) was a Dutch politician and writer. He was a member of the Christian Historical Union (CHU) and later on of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He was mayor of Workum and Sneek. He was born in Stavoren, Netherlands.

Buma died from a heart attack on 26 June 2020 at a hospital in Leeuwarden, Netherlands at the age of 88.

Bernhard van Haersma Buma is the father of CDA politician Sybrand van Haersma Buma.

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Madeleine Juneau (10 November 1945 – 26 June 2020) was a Canadian museologist and teacher. She was a member of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal. She was awarded the Prix Gérard-Morisset in 2013. She was born in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Quebec.

Juneau died in Verdun, France on 26 June 2020, aged 74.

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Rosemarie Müller-Streisand (11 August 1923 – 26 June 2020) was a German church historian, theologian and teacher. In 1963 she became a professor and in 1969 she was a main person of church history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She retired in 1983.

Müller-Streisand died in Berlin on 26 June 2020, aged 96.

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Ernesto Marcel (23 May 1948 – 29 June 2020) was a Panamanian professional boxer. He competed from 1966 to 1974. He held the WBA featherweight title from 1972 to 1974 and challenged for the WBC featherweight title in 1971. Marcel was born in Colón, Panama.

Marcel died on 29 June 2020 in Panama City, aged 72.

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Ruben Armand "Benny" Mardones (November 9, 1946 – June 29, 2020) was an American pop singer-songwriter. He was known for his hit single "Into the Night," which hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart twice, in 1980 (#11) and again in 1989 (#20). He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mardones died on June 29, 2020 at his home in Menifee, California from Parkinson's disease-related problems, aged 73.

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Menifee is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and part of the Los Angeles Combined Statistical Area.

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Romoland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 2,005 at the 2020 census.

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Svend Aage Rask (14 July 1935 – 29 June 2020) was a Danish footballer. During his club career he played for Boldklubben 1909. He earned 1 cap for the Denmark national football team. He was in the finals squad for the 1964 European Nations' Cup.

Rask died on 29 June 2020, aged 84.

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Profile at DBU

1935 births
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2020 deaths
Stay As You Are (), also known as Stay the Way You Are, is a 1978 Italian Spanish erotic drama movie directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Nastassja Kinski, Francisco Rabal, Mónica Randall, Ania Pieroni, Barbara De Rossi, José María Caffarel, Massimo Bonetti. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures.

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The VSS, also called the Vintorez, is a sniper rifle featuring a built-in suppressor (similar to that of the AS-Val) the weapon is loaded with heavy subsonic 9×39mm SP5 cartridges and armor-piercing SP6 cartridges. It was manufactured (created) by the Soviet company TsNIITochMash during the late 1980s. It is issued primarily to Spetsnaz units for secretive operations, a role made evident by its ability to be broken down for transport in a specially fitted case.
Design 
The way the gun operates and the silencer system used on the VSS are based from the AS assault rifle. The VSS is a gas-operated select-fire rifle. It has a long-stroke gas piston operating rod in a gas cylinder above the barrel. The weapon catch is held in its place thanks to a rotating bolt who attach themselves to the appropriate socket when needed. The VSS is striker fired. It features a cross-bolt type fire selector switch located behind the trigger, inside the trigger guard; the safety lever and the charging handle resemble those used in Kalashnikov weapons.

The skeletonized wooden stock is a more rounded version of that provided on the SVD rifle; it has a rubber shoulder pad and can be removed when the rifle is dismantled for compact storage. The forward handguard is made from a high-impact polymer. If needed, the weapon can be used in fully automatic mode using either its original 10-round magazine or the 20-round magazines from the AS rifle.

Rifles
Soviet Union
Russia
The M2 flamethrower was an American-made portable flamethrower that was used during World War II. It was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. Although it could only shoot fire for around 7 seconds and the flame was only effective out to around 20–40 meters. However, with the arrival of flamethrower tanks, the need for flamethrower-carrying infantrymen to expose themselves to enemy fire was greatly reduced.

Though some M2s were sold off, the majority were scrapped (thrown away) when they were declared obsolete (uneeded).

Variants 
The M2 was the WWII model had hexagonal gas caps and hourglass frames. It was also called the M2-2, M2 for the tank groups and -2 for the wand type.

The M2A1-2 is the variation of the M2 mainly used during the Korean War. These had straight sided backpack frames, vented gas caps, a cylinder sized temperature guards and a safety catch. These are much more common today than WWII models.
M2A1-7 was a flamethrower used by the American troops during the Vietnam War. It is the updated version of the M2A1-2 unit used during The Korean War.

It has four controls:
 Back of the rear grip: firing safety clip.
 Front of the rear grip: firing trigger.
 On top of the front part: igniter safety catch.
 Under the front part: igniter trigger.

The M9A1-7 was the most common model used in Vietnam and is much lighter and easier to use. Tanks for this weapon are commonly found, but most wands were destroyed after the Vietnam war.

Some U.S. Army flamethrowers have a front handgrip with the same shape as the rear handgrip. In these models the igniter controls are on the front handgrip, arranged in the same way as the rear handgrip controls. The M2 was replaced by the M9A1-7 flamethrower which was used in Vietnam. The M9A1-7 was replaced by the M202A1 FLASH.

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Wilson is a 1944 American biographical drama movie directed by Henry King and starring Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Francis X. Bushman. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox and was nominated for 10 Oscars and won 5 Academy Awards in 1945.

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Burslem is one of the towns that is part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census revealed the ward had a population of 11,314 people.

Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent are the other towns that make up the city.

It is a very old town. The Domesday Book shows Burslem (then known as Bacardeslim) as a small farming hamlet. Even as far back as the late 12th century, there was a pottery industry in the town.

The Trent & Mersey Canal flows through the west and south of the town centre. It was used as the main way pottery was moved from the factories. Heavy goods are most economically transported by water.

The football club Port Vale F.C. is based in the town. It plays home games at Vale Park. Professional darts player Phil Taylor is from Burslem.

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What's So Bad About Feeling Good? is a 1968 American comedy movie directed by George Seaton and starring George Peppard, Mary Tyler Moore, Dom DeLuise, John McMartin, Charles Lane, Thelma Ritter. It was distributed by Universal Pictures and was a box office disappoint.

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Agata Karczmarzewska-Pura (born 27 June 1978) is a Polish volleyball player.

She played at the 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship, 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix, and 2008 FIVB World Grand Prix.

She played for PTPS Nafta-Gaz Piła.

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The Clown Murders is a 1976 Canadian horror movie directed by Martyn Burke and starring John Candy, Stephen Young, Lawrence Dane, Cec Linder, Al Waxman. It was distributed by Trans World Entertainment.

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was a Japanese volleyball player.

Life and career
Yumika Yokoyama was born on 2 March 1987 in Beijing. She studied at Shimokitazawa Seitoku High School and Waseda University. Her school friend was volleyball player Saori Kimura.

She played at the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix. She wanted to play in the 2008 Summer Olympics. However, she died before the event.

She was diagnosed with cancer. She died of rhabdomyosarcoma on 17 April 2008, aged 21.

She wrote a book, . It was adapted into a Japanese television drama in 2010.

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Shaolin Chamber of Death () (Shao Lin mu ren xiang) is a 1976 Hong Kong action movie directed by Chen Chi-Hwa and starring Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang Lee, Yuen Biao, Lo Wei, Tien Miao, Chiang Kam. It was distributed by Lo Wei Productions.

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Mihoko Tsutsui (, born 6 December 1985) is a Japanese volleyball player. She played at the 2004 FIVB World Grand Prix and 2014 FIVB Women's Club World Championship.

She played for Hisamitsu Springs.

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Other websites 
 Mihoko Tsutsui getty

1985 births
Living people
Japanese volleyball players
Verónica Contreras Flores (born 8 June 1977) is a Peruvian volleyball player.

She played at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, 2006 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, 2006 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, 2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, and 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup.

In 2012/13, she won the Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol Femenino championship. She played for Regatas Lima, AD A Pinguela, CV Universidad César Vallejo, and CV Deportivo Géminis.

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Moonraker is a 1979 British French American science fiction spy action movie directed by Lewis Gilbert and is the 11th movie in the James Bond franchise. It stars Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Cléry, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Geoffrey Keen, Lois Maxwell. It was distributed by United Artists and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1980. Shirley Bassey sings the title song of the movie.

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Tatiana Smyrnidou (born 21 June 1995) is a Greek volleyball player.

She played at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.

She played for Filathlitikos Thessaloniki.

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Claude B. Klee (born 1931, died April 3, 2017) was an French biochemist. She was awarded a 1991 Presidential Executive Rank Award. In 1992, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Education 
She graduated from the University of Marseille. She studied with M. Staehelin. She worked with Herbert Tabor, Louis Sokoloff, and Maxine Singer. She worked at the National Cancer Institute.

Works 

 Ernesto Carafoli, Ernesto Carafoli, Claude B. Klee, (ed) Cakcium-Regulated Protein Dephosphorylation, Calcium as a Cellular Regulator

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 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claude_Klee2

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French biologists
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Fernanda Gritzbach (born 10 January 1984 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian volleyball player. She played at the 2003 Pan American Games and 2003 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship.

She played for CV Logroño. In 2019-20, she was MVP of the Iberdrola League.

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Walsall is a market town in the county of the West Midlands, England. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall. It iwas historically part of Staffordshire. Its town centre is 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Birmingham and 6 miles (10 km) east of Wolverhampton. A 2011 census revealed that 67,594 people live in the town and 269,323 people live in the borough.

It is a very industrial town and was effected by the Industrial Revolution. The town used to have a large industry of making products such as saddles and chains.

Walsall has been majorly redeveloped and modernised since the 1970s and is still being constantly developed.

Barr Beacon is a hill located in Walsall. It is the highest point between itself and the Ural Mountains in Russia.

The town has a professional football club, Walsall FC. Their nickname is "The Saddlers" and they play their home games at the Bescot Stadium in the Bescot suburb of the town.
Twinning
Walsall has four twin towns. It is twinned with:
 Amritsar, India
 Bahla, Oman
 Mulhouse, France
 Kobar, Palestine

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Tetyana Budko (ukr. Тетяна Будко; born 24 May 1984) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She played at the 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship, 2002/2003 European Cups, 2004/2005 European Championships, and 2003 FIVB Women's U20 World Championship.

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 http://www.bvbinfo.com/player.asp?ID=5303

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Yuliya Bogmatser (born 3 June 1984 in Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She played at the 2002 Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship, winning a silver medal, 2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship, and 2010 FIVB Women's World Championships.

She was best setter in the Ukrainian Superliga in 2004/05 and in 2005/06.

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References for chemical elements 
 List of chemical elements — with basic properties like standard atomic weight, m.p., b.p., abundance
 Abundance of the chemical elements
 Abundances of the elements (data page) — Earth's crust, sea water, Sun and solar system
 Abundance of elements in Earth's crust
 Atomic radii of the elements (data page) — atomic radius (empirical), atomic radius (calculated), van der Waals radius, covalent radius
 Boiling points of the elements (data page) — Boiling point
 Critical points of the elements (data page) — Critical point
 Densities of the elements (data page) — Density (solid, liquid, gas)
 Elastic properties of the elements (data page) — Young's modulus, Poisson ratio, bulk modulus, shear modulus
 Electrical resistivities of the elements (data page) — Electrical resistivity
 Electron affinity (data page) — Electron affinity
 Electron configurations of the elements (data page) — Electron configuration
Electronegativities of the elements (data page) — Electronegativity (Pauling scale)
 Hardnesses of the elements (data page) — Mohs hardness, Vickers hardness, Brinell hardness
 Heat capacities of the elements (data page) — Heat capacity
 Heats of fusion of the elements (data page) — Heat of fusion
 Heats of vaporization of the elements (data page) — Heat of vaporization
 Ionization energies of the elements (data page) — Ionization energy (in eV) and molar ionization energies (in kJ/mol)
 List of oxidation states of the elements — Oxidation state
 Melting points of the elements (data page) — Melting point
 Speeds of sound of the elements (data page) — Speed of sound
 Thermal conductivities of the elements (data page) — Thermal conductivity
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Oxygen-16 (16O) is a stable isotope of oxygen, having 8 neutrons and 8 protons in its nucleus.

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Spetsnaz is an umbrella term (used for many different things) for special forces in Russian language and is used in numerous post-Soviet states.

Historically, the term meant a special operations units controlled by the main military intelligence service GRU (Spetsnaz GRU). It also describes task forces of other ministries (such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs' ODON and Ministry of Emergency Situations' special rescue unit) in post-Soviet countries. Russian special forces wear different berets depending on the branch of the armed forces they belong to.

As Spetsnaz is a Russian term, it mostly means the special forces of Russia, but other post-Soviet states often refer to their special forces units by the name as well, since these nations also got their special purpose units from the old Soviet security agencies.

Known Operation History
Second World War 
During the Second World War, it Soviet forces needed intelligence on German troop positions in northern Norway and Finland. On 5 July 1941 Admiral Arseniy Golovko of the Northern Fleet authorized the formation of a ground spy troop. This unit, the 4th Special Volunteer Detachment, was to be recruited from the fleet's sports-men and  had about 65 to 70 personnel. Later the unit was renamed the 181st Special Reconnaissance Detachment.

The most prominent of these new recruits was Viktor Leonov, who joined the Soviet Navy in 1937. He was assigned to a submarine training detachment and then moved to a repair station in the Northern Fleet at Polyarnyy. Leonov had trained as a scuba diver, after which he joined 4th Special Volunteer Detachment, where he conducted numerous secret operations and twice being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Initially the unit was confined to performing small scale reconnaissance missions, platoon sized missions by sea and on occasion on land into Finland and later Norway. They began conducting sabotage missions and raids to snatch prisoners for interrogation. They would also destroy German ammunition and supply posts, communication centers, and harass enemy troop concentrations along the Finnish and Russian coasts.

When the European conflict ended, the Naval Scouts were sent to fight the Japanese. Leonov along with Capt. Kulebyakin and 140 men, landed on a Japanese airfield at Port Vonsan, not realizing they were opposed by over 3,500 enemy soldiers. A tense standoff ensued, until the commanding officers of the unit managed to bluff the Japanese forces into surrendering.

Soviet War in Afghanistan 
For further details about the Soviet conflict during Afghanistan War see here.
Soviet Spetsnaz forces took part in the Soviet–Afghan War of 1979–1989 in Afghanistan, usually fighting  battles using helicopters. Their most famous operation, Operation Storm-333, was carried out on 27 December 1979 when Soviet special forces stormed the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan and killing Afghan President Hafizullah Amin and his 200 personal guards. The Soviets then installed Babrak Karmal as Amin's successor.

The operation involved approximately 660 Soviet operators dressed in Afghan uniforms, including 50 KGB and GRU officers from the Alpha Group and Zenith Group. The Soviet forces occupied major governmental, military and media buildings in Kabul, including their primary target – the Tajbeg Palace.
In the first one and a half years of the war, Spetsnaz units in the form of the 459th special forces company, were exclusively responsible for recon missions and intelligence gathering for the 40th Army. Aside from reconnaissance, the 459th was also tasked with capturing prisoners, destroying the leaders and field commanders of the Mujahideen.

By 1985, the GRU had expanded its special forces footprint to two spetsnaz brigades in Afghanistan, comprising just under 5,000 troops.

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Oxygen-17 (17O) is a low-abundance, natural, stable isotope of oxygen (0.0373% in seawater; it is about twice as common as deuterium).

References

Isotopes
Oxygen
Oxygen-18 (, Ω) is a natural, stable isotope of oxygen and one of the environmental isotopes.

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Isotopes
Oxygen
Madeley is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and is now part of the new town of Telford. In 2001, the town had a population of 17,935 people.

Madeley is recorded in the Domesday Book as a small settlement.

A part of the Ironbridge Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in the civil parish.

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Olga Pavlova (born 4 March 1969) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She represented Ukraine during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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Living people
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Wellington is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and forms part of the new town of Telford. It is 3.5 miles (5.5 km) northwest of central Telford and 12 miles (19 km) east of Shrewsbury. The 2011 census revealed that the town has a population of 25,554 people.

It became part of the new town of Telford in 1968.

The town's population makes it the third largest town in Shropshire, behind Telford and Shrewsbury.

The Wrekin hill is 3.5 miles southwest of the town.

The town has a railway station on the Wolverhampton–Shrewsbury line. Passengers can get direct trains to Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, London and parts of Wales.

The New Bucks Head, the home stadium of football club A.F.C. Telford United, is located in Wellington.

Twinning
Wellington has one twin town. It is twinned with:
 Châtenay-Malabry, Paris, France

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Stoke on Tern is a village in Shropshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Stoke upon Tern, next to the River Tern. 

It is near to the border with Staffordshire. In the 2011 census, the civil parish had a population of 2,034 people. The small villages of Stoke Heath, Ollerton, Eaton upon Tern and Wistanswick are also in the parish.

The village is 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south-west of the centre of Market Drayton and is around half way between Market Drayton and Telford. The village of Hodnet is 2.6 miles (4.2 km) to the west.

The village has a church and a primary school.

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Llanymynech is a village in Shropshire, England and Powys, Wales. It is in the civil parish of Llanymynech and Pant, next to the River Vyrnwy.

It is located 17.4 miles north-west of Shrewsbury, Shropshire's county town and 9 miles (14 km) north of the Welsh town of Welshpool. It straddles the Welsh border. Some parts of the village, such as the golf course, are located in Wales. Two of the village's three pubs are entirely in England and the third is entirely in Wales.

The village's name is "Church of the Monks" in Welsh.

Shortly to the north of the village is the village of Pant. Further north is the market town of Oswestry.

The village has an amateur football club, Llanymynech FC.

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Olena Kryvonossova (born 24 June 1972) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She represented Ukraine during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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1972 births
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Ukrainian volleyball players
Yuliya Buyeva (born December 24, 1975) is a Ukrainian volleyball player. She represented Ukraine during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She played for Universidad Granada, BBSC Berlin, Beşiktaş, and Universidad de Burgos.

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The Lamborghini LM001 is an off-road vehicle made by Lamborghini in 1981. It was first revealed at the 1981 Geneva Auto Show along with the new-at-the-time Lamborghini Jalpa. 

The LM001 was made for military use, but only one prototype was ever made. This was because the rear-engine design made the car handle poorly.

History
Even though the previously made Lamborghini Cheetah was a failure, Lamborghini still wanted to make an off-road military vehicle. The Cheetah concept was redesigned into the LM001. Unlike the Cheetah's Chrysler engine, the LM001 prototype had a 134 kW 5.9-litre AMC-built V8. The V12 from the Countach was supposed to be used for production models.

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The A12 is a short autoroute (motorway) in France. It used to be called the Autoroute de Bretagne (Autoroute of Brittany) in French. It is to the west of Paris. It goes between the A13 and the N10. The autoroute is about  long.

Exits and junctions

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Mariya Aleksandrova (born 7 April 1974) is a Ukrainian volleyball player.

She represented Ukraine during the 2001 Women's European Volleyball Championship.

She played for SVS Post Schwechat and Schweriner SC.

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Sanmiguelia is a  genus of fossil plants. It may be among the earliest angiosperms. It was identified by imprints of  palm-shaped leaves originating from the Triassic   geological period (251 to 199.6 million years ago). They were found in rocks  from Colorado . 

The leaves were ellipsoidal and wrinkled, up to 40 cm long and 25 cm wide, and were at the apex of a tapered or spindle-shaped stem. 
According to these data, it belonged to a possible  family flowering plants  Sanmigueliaceae , unknown  order, in class Magnoliopsida,  division Tracheophyta.

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 Flowering plant

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Incitatus was Emperor Caligula's favorite horse.  He lived in Ancient Rome around 40 CE.  His name means "fast-moving" in Latin.

There is a story that Caligula made his horse a senator, but it is probably not true.  According to historian Mary Beard, no ancient historian who was alive at the same time as Caligula ever said Caligula really made Incitatus a senator, and it is likely that he only told a joke about doing it.

Ancient historians do say Caligula gave his horse many gifts.  In 121 c.e., in his book The Twelve Caesars, the historian Suetonius says of Incitatus: "Besides a stall of marble, a manger of ivory, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones, he even gave this horse a house, a troop of slaves and furniture, for the more elegant entertainment of the guests invited in his name; and it is also said that he planned to make him consul."

In fiction
In fiction

In Robert Graves' 1934 book I, Claudius, the fictional Caligula does make the fictional Incitatus a senator and gives him an ivory trough to eat out of.  This is one of the ways Graves shows that Caligula has become mentally unstable.  After Caligula dies, Claudius treats Incitatus like a normal horse again.

A talking version of Incitatus appears as a villain in Rick Riordan's 2018 young adult novel The Burning Maze.

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Ancient Rome
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The Lamborghini Cheetah is an off-road prototype that was made by Lamborghini in 1977.

History 
The Lamborghini Cheetah was the first off-road vehicle made by Lamborghini. It was designed to be used by the military. The design of the Cheetah was largely a copy of Food Machinery Corporation (FMC)'s XR311 prototype, which was developed for the military in 1970. This resulted in legal action from FMC against Lamborghini in 1977.

The Cheetah was built in San Jose, California. After it was built, the prototype was sent to Sant'Agata Bolognese so Lamborghini could put on the finishing touches. The Cheetah was powered by a large, waterproofed 180 bhp 5.9L Chrysler engine, rear mounted, with a 3 speed automatic transmission. The mounting of the engine in the rear gave the Cheetah very poor steering, and the engine was not powerful enough for the Cheetah. This resulted in poor performance overall.
The only finished prototype was never tested by the US military. It was later sold to Teledyne Continental Motors, and it still exists today.  

Lamborghini eventually developed the Lamborghini LM002. The LM002 had a similar design to the Cheetah, but it had a 12-cylinder motor from the Lamborghini Countach mounted in the front.

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Boston River is a football club which plays in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was founded in 1939.

The club has a historic season in 2017 when the qualified for the Copa Sudamericana for the first time ever. They were eliminated by Paraguayan club Cerro Porteno in the second round. The following season they also qualified for the same cup, this time being eliminated by Banfield in the same round, after beating Jaguares de Cordoba 4-2 on aggregate.

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20th-century establishments in Uruguay
1930s establishments in South America
1939 establishments
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Telford and Wrekin is a unitary authority district and borough in the West Midlands of England. It is part of the ceremonial county of Shropshire. It borders Staffordshire.

The district was created in 1974 and was called The Wrekin.

It is the only separate unitary authority in Shropshire. It shares its Fire and Rescue Service and Community Health with the rest of the county.

The biggest town in the borough is Telford. The borough also includes the towns of Wellington, Shifnal, Bridgnorth and Newport.

Wards 
The borough contains 30 wards.

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Shawbury is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. It is 8.4 miles (13.5 km) north east of Shrewsbury, the county town, 11.5 miles (18.5 km) north west of Telford and 163 miles (262 km) north west of London. The 2011 census revealed the parish had 2,872 residents.

The village is recorded in the 1085 Domesday Book. In the book, it is called Sawesberie. 

The A53 between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton goes through the village.

The village has a Co-operative shop, a pub, a church, a chip shop and a Chinese takeaway.

It is home to RAF Shawbury, a Royal Air Force base.

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Von Ryan's Express is a 1965 American World War II adventure movie directed by Mark Robson and based on the novel of the same name by David Westheimer. It stars Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton, James Brolin, Edward Mulhare, Wolfgang Preiss, Vito Scotti and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1966.

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Ivan Stepanovich Utrobin () (March 10, 1934 – June 25, 2020) was a Soviet cross-country skier. He competed during the early 1960s, training at VSS Trud in Moscow Oblast. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km event at 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. 

Utrobin died on June 25, 2020 at the age of 86.

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The Lamborghini 350 GT is a sports car made by Lamborghini from 1964 to 1966. It is the first road car made by Lamborghini. The 350 GT was based off the Lamborghini 350GTV prototype. Both cars used a 3.5-liter V12 engine. 

The Lamborghini 400 GT was the successor to the 350 GT.

History
After testing his Lamborghini engine in May 1963, Giotto Bizzarrini, who was the head engineer at Lamborghini, left the company. The following month Ferruccio Lamborghini told engineer Gian Paolo Dallara to build a road-car version of Bizzarrini's 350GTV. Dallara was helped in this project by engineer Paolo Stanzani and test driver Bob Wallace.
Dallara and Stanzani quickly realized that the 350 GTV was not made well for mass production. They decided to build the 350 GT as a road-car version. First, they began de-tuning the original Bizzarrini engine and redesigning the original Bizzarrini chassis for street use. They then started getting the 350 GTV ready for its late-October 1963 Turin Auto Show debut. Lamborghini hoped its debut would raise interest in the 350 GT. The 350 GT was released in 1964. It was Lamborghini’s first road car.

Engine and transmission
The 350 GT was powered by a  V12 engine. Each engine was tested for 24 hours on a Schenk Walge dynamometer. In the tests, it was run for the first 12 hours under electric power, and then with gasoline at increasing speeds. The test revealed that the engine produced  at 6500 rpm and  of torque at 4500 rpm.

The engine was paired to a five-speed manual transmission which was made by ZF.
Performance
The 350 GT had a kerb weight of . With its V12 engine, it could accelerate from  in 6.8 seconds, and from  in 16.3 seconds. It also had a top speed of .

Lamborghini 350 GTS
The Lamborghini 350 GTS was a convertible version of the 350 GT. That meant it had a roof that was able to open. The 350 GTS was first shown at the 1965 Turin Auto Show. Two of them were built by Carrozzeria Touring in 1965. The convertible top was designed to be concealed (hidden) in the storage area behind the two seats when it was folded down.

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Rudolfo Anaya (October 30, 1937 – June 28, 2020) was an American writer, poet, educator and playwright. He was best known for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima. Anaya was thought to be one of the founders of Chicano literature. He was born in Pastura, New Mexico.

Anaya died on June 28, 2020 at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 82.

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Pastura is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States, approximately halfway between Santa Rosa and Vaughn. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 23.

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Vaughn is a town in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 446 at the 2010 census.

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Klaus Francke (17 July 1936 – 28 June 2020) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Francke was a member of the German Bundestag from 1976 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2002. He was born in Hamburg.

Francke died on 28 June 2020 in Hamburg, aged 83.

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Louis Felix Danner Mahoney (8 September 1938 – 28 June 2020) was a Gambian-born British actor. He was born in The Gambia. He was an anti-racist activist. He represented African-Asian members on the council of the actors'union, Equity. He became Vice President between 1994 and 1996. Mahoney was known for his multiple roles on Doctor Who and as Brother Paulo in Omen III: The Final Conflict. He also appeared in Captain Phillips.

Mahoney died on 28 June 2020 in London, aged 81.

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Chief Bode Akindele (2 June 1932 – 29 June 2020) was a Nigerian billionaire businessman. According to The Daily Telegraph, he was worth about $1.19 billion. He was the owner and Chairman of Madandola group of companies. He was born in Oyo, Oyo.

Akindele died on 29 June 2020 at his home in Lagos, aged 88.

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People from Oyo State‎
Oyo is an ancient city in Oyo State, Nigeria. It was founded as the capital of the historic Oyo empire in the 1830.

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Efraín Barquero (3 May 1931 – 29 June 2020) was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2008. He worked in Colombia during the government of Salvador Allende. In France he wrote A deshora  between 1979 and 1985, which was later published in Chile in 1992. During this time he also wrote Mujeres de oscuro and El viejo y el niño.

Barquero died in Santiago de Chile on 29 June 2020 from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 89.

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Albert Sulon (3 April 1938 – 29 June 2020) was a Belgian footballer. He played as a defender. Sulon played for RFC Liège, UR Namur, RES Jamboise and Tilleur FC. He also earned 6 caps for the Belgian national team between 1965 and 1967.

Sulon died on 29 June 2020, aged 82.

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1938 births
2020 deaths
Belgian footballers
Ivo Banac (; 1 March 1947 – 30 June 2020) was a Croatian-American historian. He was a professor of European history at Yale University. He was a politician of the former Liberal Party in Croatia. Banac was a consultant for the Bosnian Institute. In 1990, he became a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was President of the Liberal Party (2003–2004) and MP (2003–2008).

Banac died on 30 June 2020, aged 73.

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Other websites
 Ivo Banac - Detalji znanstvenika   (Scientist profile at the Ruđer Bošković Institute)

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Naturalized citizens of the United States
Croatian writers
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American historians
Timothy Paul Brooks (December 4, 1947 – June 30, 2020) was an American professional wrestler. He was better-known by his ring name "Killer" Tim Brooks. He competed in North American regional promotions such as in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Pacific Northwest Wrestling (PNW) World Wrestling Council and World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) and Southwest Championship Wrestling (SWCW) during the 1970s and 1980s. Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas.

Brooks died on June 30, 2020 at his home in Waxahachie, Texas from cancer at the age of 72.

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Online World of Wrestling profile 
CageMatch profile 

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2020 deaths
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Little Einsteins: Our Huge Adventure (or by its simple form Our Huge Adventure) is a 2005 American animated musical adventure movie. It was released on August 23, 2005, by Walt Disney Home Entertainment for Playhouse Disney. It was followed by a television series Little Einsteins from 2005 to 2009.

The Little Einsteins (Leo, June, Quincy and Annie) find a caterpillar. They helped him after he falls off a little green pickup truck to get to a tree of many colors to become a butterfly.

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The plains brown tree frog, plain tree frog or Victoria frog (Litoria paraewingi) is a frog from Australia. It lives in southern Australia just north of Melbourne, in Victoria and New South Wales.

The adult male is 21 to 28 mm long from nose to rear end and the adult female is 34 to 36 mm long.  It is pale brown in colour with a stripe from its nose over its eyes and down its body.  Parts of its legs are pale yellow or orange.  It looks very similar to the brown tree frog.

This frog can live in forests or grasslands.  It lives in bodies of water that are still or slow-flowing, like creeks, ditches, lakes, and slow parts of rivers.

The plains brown tree frog is closely related to the brown tree frog, enough that they can have babies together when they meet in the wild, though this is rare.  Scientists studied the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA of hybrid frogs and they found that it was male plains brown tree frogs mating with female brown tree frogs more than half the time.
They lay eggs on underwater plants.

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Salma Lakhani  (born 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian businessperson and philanthropist. She is the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. She is the first Muslim Lieutenant Governor of Canada.

Early life and education 
Lakhani was born in Uganda. In 1972, the leader of Uganda made the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Because of this, she and her husband moved to Edmonton in 1977, from the United Kingdom. She got a bachelor's degree with honours from the University of Manchester. She studied clinical biochemistry.

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Politicians from Edmonton
Canadian businesspeople
Canadian Muslims
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