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Noonan Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University, at St John's College, Cambridge and at The Catholic University of America. From 1967 until his death in 2017, Noonan Jr. was married to Mary Lee Bennett. They had three children.
Noonan Jr. died on April 17, 2017 in Berkeley, California, aged 90.
April 2017 Champs-Élysées attack
On 20 April 2017, three police officers were shot by an assailant with a Kalashnikov rifle on the Champs-Élysées, a shopping street in Paris, France. One was killed and two others, along with another person, were seriously injured before the attacker was killed. An accomplice in the attack was also identified. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility.
President François Hollande called for an emergency security meeting at the Élysée Palace. He later released a statement saying French authorities were "convinced" the shooting was a suspected terrorist attack. Following the shooting, U.S. President Donald Trump, who was holding a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni at the time, expressed his condolences to the people of France and said, "[W]e have to be strong and we have to be vigilant."
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (; born 21 December 1977 in Amiens) is a French politician, senior civil servant, and former investment banker. Macron is the 25th and current President of France and co-prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017. He is a social liberal.
Macron was a member of the Socialist Party (PS) from 2006 to 2009. He was designated deputy secretary-general under François Hollande's first government in 2012 before being appointed Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs in 2014 under the Second Valls Government, where he pushed through business-friendly reforms.
Macron resigned in August 2016 in order to launch a bid in the 2017 presidential election. In November 2016, Macron declared that he would run in the election under the banner of "En Marche!", a centrist movement he founded in April 2016. Macron won the election after defeating Marine Le Pen on the second round on 7 May 2017 by winning 66% of the vote. At his election to the presidency at age 39, he became the youngest President in French history and the youngest head of state since Napoléon III.
Macron was born in Amiens, France. He is the son of Françoise (Noguès), a physician, and Jean-Michel Macron, professor of neurology at the University of Picardy. He was raised in a non-religious family, but he was baptised a Roman Catholic at his own will at age 12. He learnt piano in Amiens conservatory.
His parents sent him off to Paris because of a bond he had formed with Brigitte Auzière, a married teacher with three children at Jésuites de la Providence, who later became his wife. He studied Philosophy at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
Macron was a member of the Socialist Party (PS) from 2006 to 2009.
He was appointed as the Minister of Economy and Finance in the second Valls Cabinet on 26 August 2014, replacing Arnaud Montebourg. In August 2015, Macron stated that he was no longer a member of the PS and was now an Independent.
Macron founded an independent political party, En Marche!, in Amiens on 6 April 2016. On 16 November 2016, Macron formally declared his candidacy for the French presidency after months of speculation. In his announcement speech, Macron called for a "democratic revolution" and promised to "unblock France".
Many foreign politicians have voiced support for Macron, including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and former US President Barack Obama.
On 23 April 2017, Macron won 24% of the vote with opponent Marine Le Pen winning 21%. During the second round, Macron beat Le Pen by a Landslide victory with 66% of the vote to LePen's 34%.
Macron formally became President on 14 May. On 15 May, he appointed Édouard Philippe of the Republicans as Prime Minister. On the same day, he met Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, as part of his first official foreign visit. The two leaders emphasized the importance of France–Germany relations to the European Union. They agreed to draw up a "common road map" for Europe, insisting that neither was against changes to the Treaties of the European Union.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (; born 19 August 1951) is a left-wing French politician who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of the French Republic.
In 1976, he was elected municipal councilor of Massy (1983), general councilor of the Essonne departement (1985), and senator of the same department (1986, reelected in 1995 and 2004). He also served as Minister-Delegate of Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002, under the Minister of National Education, Jack Lang, in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin.
As leader of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European elections and was elected member of the European Parliament in the South-West constituency (reelected in 2014).
During the protest movement against the pension reform of 2010 his public stature grew thanks to his many public and television appearances. He was also the candidate of that coalition in the 2012 presidential election, at the outcome of which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the votes. He is a candidate in the 2017 presidential election "outside the frame of political parties", and founded the movement "Unsubmissive France" (FI) in February 2016.
He is a candidate for the presidency again for the 2022 election.
Angel Espinosa
Ángel Espinosa Capó (October 2, 1966 – April 12, 2017) was a Cuban amateur boxer. He was part of the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and captured the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won an Olympic medal due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. A hard hitting Cuban with a southpaw stance one of the most feared in his era was known to have about 300 amateur fights.
Espinose was found dead in his gym in Miami, Florida from a suspected cardiac arrest on 12 April 2017, aged 50.
Burton Watson
Burton DeWitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American scholar and translator of both Chinese and Japanese literature. He was born in New Rochelle, New York.
Watson received awards including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1982 for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of "From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry", and again in 1995 for "Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o". He also received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2015.
Watson died on April 1, 2017 in Kamagaya, Japan, aged 91.
Bill Hagerty
William Francis "Bill" Hagerty IV (born August 14, 1959) is an American businessman and politician. He is the junior U.S. Senator from Tennessee since 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party.
He was the managing director and co-founder of Hagerty Peterson & Company, a private equity investment firm.
On March 27, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Hagerty to serve as United States Ambassador to Japan, replacing Obama appointee Caroline Kennedy. He was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 86-12 vote.
Hagerty was born in Tennessee. He studied at Vanderbilt University.
On July 16, 2019, Hagerty announced he would resign as Ambassador to Japan. This came after President Trump announced his support for Hagerty for U.S. Senator of Tennessee in the 2020 election. In August 2020, he won the Republican nomination.
Lewis Eisenberg
Lewis Michael "Lew" Eisenberg (born 1942) is an American financier, investor and philanthropist.
Eisenberg is known for co-founding and heading a private equity firm, Granite Capital International Group L.P. Lewis Eisenberg has a relation in American political fundraising circles. He is most notable for the various national, state, and bi-state appointments he held throughout his career, specifically as the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the time of the September 11, 2001 attack of the World Trade Center, which the Port Authority operated.
In January 2017, Eisenberg was named as President Donald Trump's Ambassador to Italy. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 2017.
She was born in Hara town, Suwa District in Nagano Prefecture.
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Weinviertel
The Weinviertel ("Wine Quarter"), also called the Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg ("Quarter below the Manhartsberg"), is a region in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.
The Weinviertel is the most northeastern part of (Lower) Austria. It lies above the Danube River and borders both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The city/state of Vienna lies in the south.
It consists of low hills, which form the most western spur of the Carpathian Mountains.
It is well-known for its winegrowing (the biggest of Austria).
The maximum temperature in July and August is about 24 °C.
The Weinviertel comprises the following districts:
Washiqur Rahman
Washiqur Rahman (Bengali: ওয়াশিকুর রহমান বাবু) (c. 1988 - March 30, 2015) was a Bangladeshi blogger. He was hacked to death by two men with meat cleavers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after he wrote blog posts critical of Islam.
Washiqur Rahman, also spelled Oyasiqur Rhaman, was part of the 2013 Shabag movement, which called for the death penalty for Islamists for war crimes during the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
Rahman used the pen name Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling. Two students from an Islamic school were arrested by police. The two said they didn't know about Rahman's writing and they didn't know anything about blogs. Someone told them to kill Rahman as a religious duty. One of the attackers traveled from Chittagong and stayed overnight at a mosque. The other attacker was from an Islamic school in Dhaka. Rahman had a page on Facebook that said "I am Avijit", meaning he was a supporter of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger who was killed a month earlier.
On July 20, 2016, a Dhaka court indicted five people for the killing. Police believed they were members of the banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team.
Murder of Faisal Abedin Deepan
Faisal Abedin Deepan (Bengali: ফয়সাল আরেফিন দীপন)(c. 1972 - 31 October 2015) was a Bangladeshi book publisher of the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house. He was hacked to death inside his house in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital.
Deepan was a secular book publisher who printed writing that discussed topics like atheism and sexual orientation. He had received death threats from religious extremists. He published books by Bangladeshi-American writer and blogger Avijit Roy who was the four secular bloggers killed in Bangladesh the same year. Dipan's father said his company had published Avajit Roy's 2014 book, Biswasher Virus (The Virus of Faith).
An hour earlier, another publisher and two writers were attacked, but they survived. A local al-Qaeda group said they were responsible for the attack. Ahmed Rahim Tutal, a secular publisher, was attacked in his office at the Shudhdhoswar publishing house.
British politicians condemned the murder. British bishop Declan Lang, the chair of the international affairs department of the British bishops' conference, said that the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales should "speak out when people are imprisoned, tortured or killed on account of their atheism." Eric Adriaans, the National Executive Director of Centre For Inquiry Canada said that Canada should offer asylum to people targeted by religious extremists.
The International Publishers Association honored Deepan at their annual conference and called on the United Nations to do more about freedom of expression in Bangladesh. Tutul sent a message to the conference, saying: "If Jagriti Faisal Abedin Deepan were alive today, he would play an important role in this conference. But because he published free-thinking books, Islamist fundamentalists killed him. I urge all my publisher friends to continue to publish the works of free thinkers. I believe this is the best reply to the fundamentalists. By increasing the number of people that free-thinking books can reach, we'll be able to weaken fundamentalism in Bangladesh." Tutal also called for freedom for Bangladeshi writer and publisher, Shamsuzzoha Manik. Manik was arrested under a Bangladeshi law that prohibits criticism of religion. Manik is 73 years old and published a titled "Islam Bitorko" ("Debate on Islam").
Lawrence Hogan
Lawrence Joseph Hogan (September 30, 1928 – April 20, 2017) was an American Republican U.S. Representative. His son is the current Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan.
Hogan represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1975. Hogan did not run for re-election in 1974 and was unsuccessful that year in his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. He became county executive for Prince George's County, Maryland, in 1978 and served until 1982.
Hogan suffered a stroke and died on April 20, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 88.
Yvonne Monlaur
Yvonne Monlaur (15 December 1939 – 18 April 2017) was a retired French movie actress who was active in the late 1950s and 1960s. She was best known for her roles in the Hammer horror movies. She was born in Pau, France.
In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror movie "The Brides of Dracula" alongside Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in "The Terror of the Tongs" (1961) with Christopher Lee.
Monlaur died on April 18, 2017 in Paris, aged 77.
Ugo Ehiogu
Ugochuku Ehiogu (; 3 November 1972 – 21 April 2017) was an English professional footballer who played as a centre back from 1989 to 2009. He was the coach of the Tottenham Hotspur U23 team until his death in April 2017.
He played in the Premier League with Aston Villa and Middlesbrough. He also played in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion, Leeds United and Sheffield United, as well as a spell in the Scottish Premier League with Rangers.
Ehiogu won two Football League Cups, with Aston Villa in 1996 and then with Middlesbrough in 2004. Ehiogu was an England international, with a record of 4 caps and 1 goal.
In 1993, playing for the England under-21 team, he became the first black player to captain an England team in a competitive match. In 2012, he came out of brief retirement by signing for non-league side Wembley to participate in the club's FA Cup games alongside other retired veteran players.
Ehiogu died on 21 April 2017 after suffering a cardiac arrest at Tottenham Hotspur's training ground in London, aged 44.
Chilly Willy
Chilly Willy is an animated cartoon character. His Friends are Woody Woodpecker,Andy Panda,'Talkie' Tom,Oswald Rabbit.He was one of Universal Characters.In Three For Breakfast.Woody,Talkie,Chilly Eating Dosai Because Carbohydrate Is Coming.
Germaine Mason
Germaine Mason (20 January 1983 – 20 April 2017) was a Jamaican-born British track and field athlete competing in high jump. In 2006, he switched sporting allegiance, and then represented Great Britain.
Mason won silver and bronze medals at the World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2002. His first medal at senior level came at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, when he won a gold medal, having achieved a personal best jump of 2.34 meters. He finished fifth at the World Championships the same year.
Mason was eligible to represent Great Britain because his father David was born in London. Mason's mother persuaded him to switch allegiance, and Mason's change in nationality was ratified by athletics' governing body, the IAAF, in 2006.
Mason won a silver medal for Great Britain at the Beijing Olympics on 19 August 2008.
Mason died in a motorbike accident on 20 April 2017 at the age of 34.
Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska (June 20, 1930 – April 20, 2017) was a Polish sculptor and fiber artist. She was known for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium. She was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland from 1965 to 1990 and a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. She was born in Falenty, Poland.
Abakanowicz died on April 20, 2017 in Warsaw at the age of 86.
Jay Dickey
Jay Woodson Dickey, Jr. (December 14, 1939 – April 20, 2017) was an American politician. He was a former U.S. Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Arkansas. He served in Congress from 1993 to 2001.
Both the Dickey Amendment (1996), which blocks CDC funds to be used for injury prevention research that might advocate or promote gun control, and the Dickey-Wicker Amendment (1995), which prohibits federal funds to be spent on research that involves the destruction of a human embryo, are named for him.
After the 2012 Aurora shooting, former congressman Dickey said that he regrets his role in blocking the CDC from researching gun violence.
Dickey died on April 20, 2017 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, aged 77.
Marge Champion
Marjorie Celeste "Marge" Champion (née Belcher; September 2, 1919 – October 21, 2020) was an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She won an Emmy Award for Outstading Choreography in 1975.
At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated movies. Snow White was modeled after Champion for the 1937 animated classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Later she performed as an actress and dancer in movie musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance.
Champion has also done creative choreography for liturgy, and served as a dialogue and movement coach for the 1978 TV miniseries, "The Awakening Land", set in the late 18th century in the Ohio Valley.
Together as a dance team, the Champions performed in MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s, including "Show Boat" (1951) and "Everything I Have Is Yours" (1952). MGM wanted the couple to remake Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies, but only one, "Lovely to Look At" (1952), a remake of "Roberta" (1935), was completed.
Champion turned 100 in September 2019. She died on October 21, 2020 in Los Angeles at the age of 101.
Gunslinger is the twelfth studio album by Garth Brooks. The album was released on November 25, 2016 through Pearl Records.
Hadash
Hadash, Hebrew: חד"ש , meaning "New", a Hebrew acronym of "HaHazit HaDemokratit LeShalom uLeShivion", Hebrew: החזית הדמוקרטית לשלום ולשוויון‎‎ ,
the Arab version: "al-Jabhah ad-Dimuqrāṭiyyah lis-Salām wa'l-Musāwah", Arab: الجبهة الديمقراطية للسلام والمساواة‎‎ ,
(shortened Arab: الجبهة , also meaning "New"),
both meaning "The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is communist.
Political leader is Ayman Odeh.
Hadash was founded in 1977 as a merger of the communist party of Rakah, Black Panthers and others.
Its supporters are mainly (secular, Christian) Israeli Arabs and some far-left Israeli Jews.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 5 (/).
Hadash is cooperating with Balad, Ra'am and Ta'al as HaReshima HaMeshutefet (Hebrew) or al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah (Arab) (both meaning "The Joint List"). Together they have 15 seats.
DZBB-TV
DZBB-TV, channel 7, is a commercial broadcast VHF television station owned by GMA Network in the Philippines. Its studios are located at the GMA Network Center, at the corner of Timog Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Quezon City. Its transmitter station is located at GMA Compound, Tandang Sora Avenue, Barangay Culiat Tandang Sora, Quezon City.
David Ray Wilkerson (May 19, 1931 in Hammond, Indiana – April 27, 2011 in Cuney, Texas) was an American pastor, evangelist, and author.
Although not officially linked to a any denomination, Wilkerson can be considered a Pentecostal in teachings and practice.
Wilkerson was a pastor in Pennsylvania. Around 1960 he started a ministry in New York City to help and evangelize teenagers, who were involved in drugs and crime. In 1960, he founded for that reason the Christian relief organization Teen Challenge. With the Sherrills he wrote a book about his experiences called "The Cross and the Switchblade" (1962).
Some years later, in 1967, he founded Youth Crusades, again aimed at teenagers but this time to prevent them from the bad things mentioned above.
In 1971, he founded again a Christian organization, World Challenge, to evangelize worldwide.
In 1987, he erected the Times Square Church, an independent and very succesful church in Manhattan, New York City.
Wilkerson wrote several Christian books, like the already mentioned "The Cross and the Switchblade" (1962) and the very impressive "The Vision" (1974). Last book and its successor ("The Vision and Beyond", 2003) are dealing with divine prophecies about severe misconduct, problems and disasters the world is facing in the future (and already partly happening); he also revealed that the so-called "Number of the Beast" (Antichrist) will be composed of a combination of three times six numbers. He also wrote about other divine prophecies such as riots and arsons cities in the United States (especially New York City) but also worldwide are going to endure in the future because of their sinful behavior, and countries going bankrupt causing shopping and money problems worldwide.
David Wilkerson died as a result of a car accident in eastern Texas in 2011, aged nearly 80.
DYSS-TV
DYSS-TV channel 7, is an commercial originating station owned by GMA Network in the Philippines. Its studios are located at the GMA Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City and the transmitter is located at Brgy. Bonbon, Cebu City.
It was then known as "Greater 7 Cebu" in the 1970s.
DWWW
DWWW (774 AM) is a C-QUAM AM radio station owned and operated by Interactive Broadcast Media in the Philippines. The station is also an affliate station of the Radio Mindanao Network. The studio is in Unit 808, Atlanta Centre, Annapolis St., Greenhills, San Juan City, while the transmitter is at Brgy. Tagalag, Valenzuela City, Philippines.
Veyras, Switzerland
Veyras is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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Andrews County, Texas
Andrews County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 14,786 people lived there. The county seat is Andrews.
Andrews County was made in 1910.
Andrews County has a total area of 1,501 square miles.
In 2010, the county had 14,786 people living there.
Angelina County, Texas
Angelina County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 86,771 people lived there. The county seat is Lufkin.
Angelina County was made in 1846.
Angelina County has a total area of 865 square miles.
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Aransas County, Texas
Anansas County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 23,158 people lived there. The county seat is Rockport.
Archer County, Texas
Archer County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 9,054 people lived there. The county seat is Archer City.
Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 – April 17, 2017) was an Estonian-born American neuroscientist, a psychobiologist, the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. He was born in Tartu, Estonia.
Panksepp created the term 'affective neuroscience', the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals.
Panksepp died on April 17, 2017 from cancer at his home in Bowling Green, Ohio at the age of 73.
Delbert Daisey
Delbert Lee "Cigar" Daisey (March 6, 1928 – April 19, 2017), known as "Cigar" Daisey, was an American waterfowl wood carver and decoy maker. He was born in Chincoteague, Virginia. He lived at the Refuge Waterfowl Museum. His decoy carvings are recognized for both their artistic value and functionality as working pieces for waterfowl hunting.
His works include black ducks, mallards, redheads, ruddys and red-breasted mergansers and often crafted in drake (male) and hen (female) pairs.
He had carved about 1900 ducks in total and he generally used cork or wood as his medium. He carved his first duck out of balsa wood in 1940 at his father's wood shop.
The Smithsonian has his works in their collection. He earned his nickname in 1945 while leaving cigar butts to taunt game wardens while poaching ducks on Assateague Island. Later in life, Daisey was an avid conservationist.
Daisey died on April 19, 2017 in Chincoteague, Virginia, aged 89.
Attilio Nicora
Attilio Nicora (March 16, 1937 – April 22, 2017) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Verona Emeritus, and President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See. He served as President of the four-person Executive Board of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (FIA) from January 2011 until January 2014.
Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Nicora Pontifical Legate for the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. After being a cardinal-deacon for ten years, he was promoted to cardinal-priest by Pope Francis on 12 June 2014.
Nicora died on April 22, 2017 in Milan, Italy, aged 80.
Witold Pyrkosz (24 December 1926 – 22 April 2017) was a Polish actor. He was born in Krasnystaw, Poland.
He was best known as Lucjan Mostowiak in Polish TV series "M jak miłość", as Pyzdra in "Janosik", as Wichura in "Czterej pancerni i pies" and as Balcerek in "Alternatywy 4".
In 1974, Pyrkosz was decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit and in 1984, with the Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta. In 2009, he received the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis.
Pyrkosz died on 22 April 2017 in Warsaw from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 90.
Ramjet
A ramjet is a type of engine which uses the properties of air to create thrust. Ramjets are most often attached to aircraft, and require that the aircraft is moving above the speed of sound, also called Mach 1. They are different from "normal" aircraft engines because they do not have any moving parts which compress the air. Instead, they use shock waves to compress the air.
Ramjets are made up of 4 main sections.
The first section is called the inlet. The purpose of the inlet is to capture air and compress it. Compression is required in order to burn the fuel correctly. The compression comes from a process called a shock wave. Shock waves only occur when the aircraft is moving at or above Mach 1. For this reason, ramjets are more efficient if moving around Mach 2 or 3.
The second part of the ramjet is called the diffuser. Air that comes through the inlet is moving very fast, which makes it very hard to burn fuel. The job of the diffuser is to slow the flow down in an efficient way. By the time the air has passed all the way through the inlet, it is traveling slower than Mach 1. This is important for the diffuser to work properly. The diffuser is essentially just a pipe that increases in area as you move along it. Because the flow moving slower than Mach 1, the increasing area causes the air to slow down.
The third part of the ramjet is the combustor, also called the combustion chamber. The combustor is where the fuel is introduced to the air, and then burns. Burning fuel adds energy to the air, which will be later used to create thrust. The air must be moving relatively slowly for the combustor to work properly. There is a part inside the combustor called the flame holder. The flame holder, as the name suggests, holds the flame in place. A typical flame holder looks like a ring of small v-shaped pieces of metal. They create little pockets of slow air, which make it easier for the fuel to keep burning.
After the fuel is burned and the air is heated, it flows through the last part, the nozzle. The purpose of the nozzle is to turn all of the energy in the air into thrust. In order to do this, the nozzle must first get smaller then get larger. The smallest area of the nozzle is called the "throat". The air coming from the combustor is moving slower than Mach 1, so as the nozzle gets smaller, the air speeds up. The nozzle is designed so that once the air reaches the throat, it has sped all the way up to Mach 1. This is an important detail for the nozzle to work properly. Once the air passes the throat, the air gets larger again. Since the flow reached Mach 1 in the throat, increasing the area also increases the speed of the air. This is the key to creating thrust. The air exiting the nozzle essentially "pushes" the ramjet forward.
Michele Scarponi
Michele Scarponi (25 September 1979 − 22 April 2017) was an Italian road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017 for the 2002, Domina Vacanze–Elitron, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2017 teams.
Scarponi was declared the winner of the 2011 Giro d'Italia after the disqualification of Alberto Contador. Other major results of his career were the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, the 2011 Volta a Catalunya and the 2011 Giro del Trentino stage races.
Scarponi died at the age of 37 on 22 April 2017, after being hit by a truck, while riding his bicycle, close to his home in Filottrano, in the Italian region of Marche. He had competed in the 2017 Tour of the Alps only the day before.
Wiesław Gołas
Wiesław Gołas (born 9 October 1930 in Kielce) is a Polish actor and former Armia Krajowa's soldier. From 1970 to 1974, he starred in the comedy series "Czterdziestolatek".
Gołas was cast in a role of Tomasz Czereśniak in a widely popular TV World War II series "Czterej pancerni i pies". He has appeared in a number of movies including "Ogniomistrz Kaleń" (1961) and "Dzięcioł" (1970).
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2017 French presidential election
The 2017 French presidential election is a presidential election in France that took place on May 7th, 2017. The incumbent president, François Hollande, decided not to run for a second term because of his low approval ratings.
The main candidates are Nicolas Dupont-Aignan from Debout la France, Marine Le Pen from the National Front, Emmanuel Macron from En Marche!, Benoît Hamon from the Socialist Party, Nathalie Arthaud from Lutte Ouvrière, Philippe Poutou from the New Anticapitalist Party, Jacques Cheminade from Solidarity and Progress, Jean Lassalle from Résistons!, Jean-Luc Mélenchon from La France insoumise, François Asselineau from Popular Republican Union and François Fillon from The Republicans.
On 23 April 2017, Macron won 24% of the vote with Le Pen winning 21%. During the second round, Macron beat Le Pen by a Landslide victory with 66% of the vote to Le Pen's 34%.
Red West
Robert Gene "Red" West (March 20, 1936 – July 18, 2017) was an American actor, movie stuntman and songwriter. He was probably best known to American movie audiences for his role as Red in "Road House", alongside Patrick Swayze. Recently, he appeared as Roger in the 2013 drama movie "Safe Haven".
West was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His cousin was Sonny West, the bodyguard of Elvis Presley. He studied at Jones County Junior College. In 1961, he married Pat Boyd. West and Presley were very close friends and worked with Presley during his tours.
West was fired by Presley and later helped write the book "", which was published weeks before Presley's death. The book, according to West in the book, was an attempt to help Presley, but believed by some to be an attempt to retaliate and earn an income after being fired. Presley offered the publisher of the book $1,000,000 ($1million) to stop printing the book.
Wets died of an aortic aneurysm in Memphis, Tennessee on July 18, 2017, aged 81.
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (; born May 1, 1934) is a Mexican politician. He was a former Head of Government of the Federal District and a founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Cárdenas ran for the presidency of Mexico three times. His 1988 loss to the Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate by the narrowest of margins had long been considered a direct result of electoral fraud, later acknowledged by President Miguel de la Madrid.
Cárdenas previously served as a Senator, having been elected in 1976 to represent the state of Michoacán and also as the Governor of Michoacán between 1980-1986.
Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Jamir Hussain ("née" Begum; born 25 December 1984) is a British baker, columnist, author and television presenter.
Cryotherapy is using a freezing chamber (usually -110 degrees) to help muscles recover. Cyrotherapy is said to multiple applications. The word "Cryo" comes from Greek language, which means icy or cold. Cryotherapy is a procedure that exposes the body to temperatures colder than -200 degrees for about 3 minutes. The practice is said to have originated in Japan in late 1970s when a Japanese rheumatologist used cold temperatures to treat his patients painful joints. Cryotherapy is also used to treat cancer, wherein, extreme coldtemperatures destroy cancer cells.
James von Brunn
James Wenneker von Brunn (July 11, 1920 – January 6, 2010) was an American man who was responsible for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2009. Security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns was killed in the shooting, and von Brunn was wounded by two security guards who returned fire. Von Brunn was a white supremacist. and Holocaust denier He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Von Brunn was named the prime suspect in the shooting, and was charged with first-degree murder and firearms violations. While awaiting trial, von Brunn died on January 6, 2010 in Butner, North Carolina from congestive heart failure caused by sepsis, aged 89.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting was a shooting at that nation's memorial to The Holocaust in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2009. Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns was shot, and later died from his injuries.
Suspect James Wenneker von Brunn was charged in federal court on June 11, 2009, with first-degree murder and firearms violations. On July 29, 2009, von Brunn was indicted on seven counts, including four which made him eligible for the death penalty. In September 2009, a judge ordered von Brunn to undergo a competency evaluation to determine whether or not he could stand trial. While awaiting his trial, von Brunn died on January 6, 2010 of congestive heart failure caused by sepsis at the age of 89.
According to the six-page indictment, von Brunn entered the building and shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, who died from his injuries. Von Brunn was a white supremacist and Holocaust denier who had been arrested and convicted for entering a federal building with various weapons in 1981 while trying to place the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, who he considered to be treasonous, under citizen's arrest.
Isiaka Adeleke
Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke (15 January 1955 – 23 April 2017) was a Nigerian politician. He was a two time senator who represented the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State from 2007 to 2011 and was elected again under the banner of the All Progressives Congress in 2015. He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007.
He ran for reelection in April 2011 on the PDP platform, coming second with 77,090 votes.
The winner was Mudasiru Oyetunde Hussein of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with 121,971 votes.
Adeleke suffered a heart attack and died on 23 April 2017 in Osogbo, Nigeria, aged 62.
Imre Földi
Imre Földi (8 May 1938 – 23 April 2017) was a Hungarian weightlifter. Competing at a record of five Olympic Games, he won a gold medal in 1972 and silver medals in 1964 and 1968.
During his career he set 21 world records, and after his retirement he coached his daughter to become a European champion. Földi earned numerous awards for his results and achievements, most notably he was named Weightlifter of the Century by the International Weightlifting Federation and was elected for Sportsperson of the Nation in Hungary.
Vivek Murthy
Vivek Hallegere Murthy (born July 10, 1977) is an American physician and a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Murthy is the 21st and current Surgeon General of the United States since 2021 during the Joe Biden presidency. Before, he served as the 19th Surgeon General from 2014 through 2017 during the Barack Obama presidency.
Murthy, founder of nonprofit Doctors for Obama, replaced Boris Lushniak, who had been Acting Surgeon General since 2013. Murthy was the first Surgeon General of Indian descent and was the youngest active duty flag officer in federal uniformed service.
On April 21, 2017, Murthy was relieved of his duties but will continue to serve as a member of the Commissioned Corps. Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams was named acting Surgeon General.
On November 9, 2020, then President-elect of the United States Joe Biden announced that Murthy would co-chair his COVID-19 Advisory Board, alongside former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner David A. Kessler and Yale public health professor Marcella Nunez-Smith. On December 3, "Politico" reported that Murthy would return to the role of Surgeon General in the Biden administration. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 23, 2021 with a 57-43 vote.
Sylvia Trent-Adams
Sylvia Trent-Adams (born circa 1965) is a rear admiral in the USPHS. She was the acting Surgeon General of the United States from April 21, 2017 through September 5, 2017.
As surgeon general, she directs the operations of the USPHS Commissioned Corps and communicates scientific information to advance the health of the nation. Previously, she was the deputy surgeon general. She has served as the chief nurse officer of the USPHS, since November 2013.
James O. Mason
James Ostermann Mason (June 19, 1930 – October 9, 2019) was an American physician and public health administrator.
Mason was the United States Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) from 1989 to 1993 and the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1989 to 1990. As the ASH he was also a former four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Mason was also a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Mason served in the church as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative. In 1974, while serving as Church Commissioner for Health Services, Mason wrote a pamphlet for the church titled, "Attitudes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Toward Certain Medical Problems", which expresses the church's views on abortion, birth control, and homosexuality.
Mason died on October 9, 2019 in Salt Lake City at the age of 89.
Minnie Joycelyn Elders (born Minnie Lee Jones; August 13, 1933) is an American pediatrician and public health administrator.
Elders was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States. Elders is best known for her frank discussion of her views on controversial issues such as drug legalization and distributing contraception in schools. She was forced to resign in December 1994 amidst controversy as a result of her views. She is currently a professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Santa Ana Department
Santa Ana is a department in El Salvador. The capital is Santa Ana, one of the largest cities in El Salvador.
The department was created in 1855 during the presidency of José María San Martín. The Santa Ana Volcano is in this department. The main rivers are the Lempa and the Guajoyo rivers. The most important lakes in the department are Lake Güija on the border with Guatemala, and Lake Coatepeque which is in the southern part of the department.
Santa Ana is divided into 13 municipalities:
Jerry Adriani
Jerry Adriani (Jair Alves de Sousa; 29 January 1947 – 23 April 2017) was a Brazilian singer, musician and actor. He began his career in television while working with Rede Tupi in São Paulo. His early works were as a vocalist for the group "Os Rebeldes".
Adriani died at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro from cancer on 23 April 2017, aged 70.
Jean Périmony
Jean Périmony (2 March 1931 – 9 April 2017) was a French comedian, actor, educator, theater director, and costume designer. He was born in Dole, Jura. He was known for working with assistant director Robert Manuel and then with Henri Rollan. He created the "Cie du Villiers" (1969) and the Festival Molière at the Théâtre Trévise in Paris (1977).
Périmony opened his drama school in September 1960 and taught at the Conservatory of Orléans from 1983 through 1986. He was served in the House of the Legion of Honor from 1984 through 2000 and the INA from 1984 to 1990. He was also Secretary General of the Catholic Union of Theater and Music from 1990 to 1996.
Périmony was married to literary agent Marie-Cécile Renauld until his death in 2017. They had three children.
Périmony died on 9 April 2017 in Paris, France at the age of 86.
Jess Kersey
Jesse "Jess" Kersey (January 12, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American basketball referee. He was born in Newport News, Virginia. He worked for the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.
Kersey joined the NBA in 1973. During his 30 year career, he officiated 1,911 regular season games, 189 playoff games and 18 NBA Finals games.
In July 1997, Kersey resigned from the NBA after 24 seasons as a referee after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
Kersey died of cancer on April 22, 2017 in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the age of 76.
František Rajtoral
František Rajtoral (12 March 1986 – 23 April 2017) was a Czech football player. He last played for Turkish club Gaziantepspor. He was best known for his stint at Viktoria Plzeň. He was a member of the Czech Republic national football team. He won the Czech Cup with FC Viktoria Plzeň in 2010. Further trophies he won with the club include the Gambrinus Liga twice and the Czech Supercup.
On 29 February 2012, Rajtoral earned his first cap for the senior team of his country in the 1–1 draw with Ireland in a friendly match.
Rajtoral was described as "one of the best attacking right-wingers in the Czech Republic" by a journalist for the BBC.
Rajtoral committed suicide by hanging himself his apartment in Gaziantep, Turkey on 23 April 2017. He was 31.
Carole Hersee
Carole Hersee is a person known for being the "Test Card Girl" on BBC.
Popular Republican Union (2007)
The Popular Republican Union (French: "Union Populaire Républicaine", UPR) is a French political party. It was formed in 2007 by François Asselineau.
The party is nationalistic, and is very critical of the European Union. They are against federalism and the Americanisation of France.
Asselineau qualified to run in the 2017 French presidential election on 23 April 2017. He received almost 1% of the national vote, with 332,588 votes.
GERB
GERB (which stands for Граждани за Европейско Развитие на България, "Grazhdani za Evropeysko Razvitie na Bŭlgaria," meaning Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria. The word герб/gerb also means "coat of arms" in Bulgarian) is a political party in Bulgaria. The party leader is Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
The party supports Bulgaria's membership in the European Union. They are also called a liberal conservative and populist party. The party has been an important force in Bulgarian politics since it's creation in 2006. Their best performance was in the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received around 40% of the national vote and won 117 out of 240 seats. Their most recent performance was in the 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received 33% of the national vote and won 95 out of 240 seats.
Volya (Bulgarian political party)
Volya (Bulgarian: "Воля" meaning "Will"; previously known as Dnes and the Liberal Alliance) is a political party in Bulgaria. It was founded on 15 July 2007 by businessman Veselin Mareshki. The name "Volya" was adapted on 28 November 2016.
The party is seen as having a pro-Russian stance, and is also Eurosceptic (meaning they are critical of the European Union). It is also nationalistic and populist.
Their best performance in the parliamentary election was in 2017, where they received around 4% of the national vote and won 12 out of 240 seats.
Giannino Castiglioni
Giannino "Gio" Castiglioni (4 August 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor. His style was representational. Castiglioni was born in Milan and studied at the Accademia di Brera. He finished his studies there in 1906. From the early 1900s he primarily lived and worked in Lierna, a town on Lake Como. In 1951, he designed the master plan, the square, and several individual buildings in Lierna.
In his early career, Castiglione worked mainly as a painter. His later works were sculptures.
List of Pictish kings
Caradoc was a knight of the Round Table. He was raised as the son of Caradoc the Elder, the king of Nates. His mother had an affair with a sorcerer named Eliavres who was his real father. During a beheading game, he chopped off his opponents head. The corpse replaced the head and explained that he was Caradoc’s biological father. Humiliated, he took his father and locked him in a tower. While attempting to escape, the wizard made a serpent wrap itself around his son's arm. A witch persuaded Eliaures, who was a magician, to make the snake attach itself to Caradoc's arm, sucking his blood. His friend Cador saved his life by putting his sister Guimer in a vat of milk and Caradoc in a vat of sour wine. This got the snake to cross from one vat to the other, giving Cador the chance to kill it with his sword. The attack caused Caradoc’s arm to “shrivel away”, and he became known as Breifbras (little-arm). Later in life he married Guignier. Due to Caradoc’s mother’s infidelity, he was very paranoid and made his wife go through a chastity test while they were both in Camelot. She passed the test and the two were given the city of Cirencester as a reward.
Cecilia Alvear
Cecilia Alvear (November 5, 1939 – April 21, 2017) was a Ecuadorian-American journalist in television news. She was the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She was known as a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burbank, California. In 1995 and 1996, Alvear was Editor at Large of "Si", a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the U.S.
Alvear died of breast cancer on April 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 77.
Chris Bearde
Chris Bearde (18 June 1936 – 23 April 2017) was an Australian comedy writer, producer and director. He was best known for his work as a writer on the 1960s hit "Laugh-In" and for co-writing and producing TV specials for Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Sonny Bono, Cher, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Andy Williams, Michael Jackson, The Osmonds, Dinah Shore, Diana Ross, and Lucille Ball. He also created the format for the original "The Gong Show". He also created "That's My Mama" and "Sherman Oaks".
Bearde died suddenly at his home in Westlake Village, California from a heart attack on 23 April 2017 at the age of 80.
Hubert Dreyfus
Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature. Dreyfus was known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".
Dreyfus was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and is a recipient of the Harbison Prize for Outstanding Teaching at UC Berkeley. Erasmus University awarded Dreyfus an honorary doctorate "for his brilliant and highly influential work in the field of artificial intelligence, and for his equally outstanding contributions to the analysis and interpretation of twentieth century continental philosophy".
William Hjortsberg
William "Gatz" Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was known for writing the screenplay of the movie "Legend". His novel "Falling Angel" was the basis for the movie "Angel Heart" (1987).
Hjortsberg died on April 22, 2017 in Livingston, Montana from pancreatic cancer, aged 76.
John Sparrow David Thompson
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was the 4th Prime Minister of Canada. He served from November 24, 1892 until his death from a heart attack on December 12, 1894.
Chriet Titulaer
Chriet Titulaer (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017) was a Dutch astronomer, former television presenter and popular science and technology writer. He lived in Houten, Utrecht province. He was born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg province.