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Brinji was arrested on May 12, 2014. He was held in solitary confinement and not permitted to speak to anyone. He was not allowed access to a lawyer. On March 24, 2016, he was convicted by Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court (SCC), a counter-terrorism court. The charges were “insulting the rulers of the country”, “inciting public opinion”, “accusing security officers of killing protesters in Awamiyya”, “ridiculing Islamic religious figures” and “violating Article 6 of the Anti-Cyber Crime Law”. He received a travel ban for eight years and a fine of 50,000 Saudi riyals (about $13,300 USD). The court also ordered his Twitter account closed.
International groups criticized the Saudi government because Brinjui did not have a lawyer and because he had a skin condition and did not have a cell with a daylight.
Gustaw Lutkiewicz
Gustaw Lutkiewicz (29 June 1924 – 24 February 2017) was a Polish actor and singer. He started his career in 1948. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1970, the Officer's Cross in 1985 and later the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Lutkiewicz died on 24 February 2017 in Warsaw, at the age of 92.
In statistics, a central tendency (or 'measure of central tendency') is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. Measures of central tendency are often called averages.
The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean, the median and the mode.
James Stevenson
James Stevenson (July 11, 1929 – February 17, 2017) was an American illustrator and author. He wrote over 100 children's books. His cartoons appeared regularly in "The New Yorker" magazine. He usually used a special comic book style of illustration that is very well known. His books, like "What's Under My Bed", have been featured on the "Reading Rainbow" television series. He was born in New York City.
Stevenson died on February 17, 2017 in the neighborhood of Cos Cob in Greenwich, Connecticut, from complications of pneumonia, aged 87.
Marilyn B. Young
Marilyn B. Young (April 25, 1937 – February 19, 2017) was an American historian of American foreign relations. She served as professor of history at New York University.
In 2000, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and the Berkshire Women's History Prize for "The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990". She was elected President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2011.
Young died in New York on February 19, 2017, aged 79.
Rohit
Rohit is a given name, usually for males. It is mostly used in India.
The word "rohit" refers to the color red. It is derived from Sanskrit, meaning "the first rays of the sun". The early morning sunlight usually has a reddish tint.
HaAvoda
HaAvoda, Hebrew: העבודה , meaning "The Labor", (full name: Mifleget HaAvoda HaYisrelit, Hebrew: מפלגת העבודה הישראלית , meaning "Israeli Labor Party", often called like that or just "Labor Party") is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is social democratic, and Zionist.
Political leader is Amir Peretz.
HaAvoda was founded in 1968 as a result of a merger of three leftist parties: Mapai, Ahdut HaAvoda, and Rafi.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 3 (-2).
HaAvoda was cooperating with HaTnu'a ("The Movement") and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") as HaMahaneh HaTziyoni ("The Zionist Union"). Together they had 24 seats in the 20th Knesset (2015-2019).
Football in Ireland
Football in Ireland is about association football and can be subdivided into:
Dandot RS
Coordinates: 32°38′19″N, 72°58′37″E
Dandot RS is a village and Union Council, an administrative subdivision, of Jhelum District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil] and is located at 32°38′19″N 72°58′37″E.
Wertach
Wertach is a small town in the Oberallgäu district, southern Bavaria, Germany. It is in the German Alps. It is on the river Wertach, southeast of Kempten. The town was the childhood home of the writer W. G. Sebald. It was first mentioned in 955. It received town status in 1423. In March 2014 Eberhard Jehle became mayor
Edwin Kessler
Edwin Kessler III (December 2, 1928 – February 21, 2017) was an American atmospheric scientist. He was known for being part of the development of Doppler weather radar and was the first director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).
Kessler died in Austin, Texas on February 21, 2017, aged 88.
David Waddington
David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington (2 August 1929 – 23 February 2017) was a British politician. He was a member of the Conservative Party, and a supporter of Margaret Thatcher.
Waddington was born in Lancashire]. He studied at Hertford College, Oxford and at Gray's Inn, where he qualified as a barrister.
Waddington served as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1968 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1990. He was then made a life peer. He was the government Chief Whip from 1987 to 1989, and served in the Cabinet as Home Secretary from 1989 to 1990.
He served as Leader of the House of Lords from 1990 to 1992. He then served as the Governor of Bermuda from 1992 to 1997.
Waddington died on 23 February 2017 in England, aged 87.
Jack Pope
Andrew Jackson "Jack" Pope, Jr. (April 18, 1913 – February 25, 2017) was an American judge, attorney, author and legal scholar. He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas from November 1982 through January 1985.
Pope holds the record of the longest sitting justice in Texas Supreme Court history, having served for 38 years. He was the oldest living former Chief Justice of any supreme court in the United States, as well as the longest living chief justice of any supreme court of any state in United States history.
Pope was born in Abilene, Texas. He studied at the University of Texas Law School and at Abilene Christian University. He turned 100 in 2013.
Pope died at his home in Austin, Texas on February 25, 2017, aged 103.
ActiveX is a system for managing computer. it controls the "DLL" (Dynamic-link library) that can be used as a shared data over the applications. ActiveX is a type of library in the file DLL.
In any of operating systems, such as Linux, Mac or the Microsoft Windows, data files have the same kind of file format as that of the Dynamic-link library. They can be called a resource DLL. Examples of such DLLs include icon libraries, sometimes having the extension ICL, and the font files, having the extensions FON and FOT. For example, ActiveX is well-known for use in web browsers.
Hassan Al-Jundi
Mohammed Hassan Al-Jundi (1939 – 25 February 2017) was a Moroccan author, movie director and movie actor.
Al Jundi was best known for his role as Abu Jahl, Amr ibn Hisham in the Arabic version of the movie "The Message" and also acted as Kisra in the English language version of the movie. He was also popular the role of Rustam in the movie "Qadisiyah".
He acted as Utbah ibn Rabiah in the 2012's in the historical drama series "Umar ibn al-Khattab".
Al-Jundi died on 25 February 2017 in Marrakesh, Morocco, aged 78.
Daryl (magician)
Daryl Easton (August 13, 1955 – February 24, 2017) known professionally as Daryl and born Daryl Martinez, was an American magician. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. He would call himself "The Magician's Magician." Daryl usually went by his forename only. He specialized in card tricks, close-up and parlor magic.
Two of his most famous contributions to magic were the "Hot Shot Cut", a knuckle-busting sleight where the spectator's chosen card spins like a boomerang out of the deck, and the "Ultimate Ambition" trick which allows a card to be inserted fairly into the middle of a deck and yet appear back on top.
Daryl accidentally hanged himself in the closet of his hotel room in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2017. He was 61.
Leon Ware (February 16, 1940 – February 23, 2017) was an American music artist, songwriter and composer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
Besides a solo career as a performer, Ware was best known for producing hits for other artists including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Maxwell, Minnie Riperton and Marvin Gaye. He was known for co-producing the latter's album and the song "I Want You".
Ware died on February 23, 2017 from complications of prostate cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 77.
Wildpoldsried
Wildpoldsried is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. The village has been awarded for reducing it's carbon footprint and using renewable energy. Wildpoldsried now produces 321 percent more energy than it needs. Last year it gained over 4 million euros of revenue.
Shtetl
A shtetl (, "щетл") is a small Jewish town or village in Eastern Europe.
WWE Universal Championship
The WWE Universal Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, currently defended on their SmackDown brand. It is one of three world titles in WWE, alongside the WWE Championship on RAW and the NXT Championship on NXT. The current champion is , who is in his second reign.
With the return of the WWE Brand Extension in the middle of 2016, a draft took place in July 19. The WWE Champion Dean Ambrose was drafted to "SmackDown". And as a result, "Raw" was left without a world title. On the July 25, 2016 episode of "Raw", Stephanie McMahon and the general manager Mick Foley created the WWE Universal Championship to be the world title of the program.
The first champion was determined at SummerSlam on August 21, 2016. Finn Bálor beat Seth Rollins to win the title.
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship
The WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship is a wrestling title owned by WWE. It was created for the "SmackDown Live" brand after the return of the brand extension. The WWE Tag Team Championship became exclusive of "Raw". The first champions were Heath Slater and Rhyno and The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso) are the current champions and in their fourth reign which is a record.
With the return of the WWE Brand Extension in the middle of 2016, a draft took place in July 19. The WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) was drafted to "Raw". As a result, "SmackDown Live" was left without a tag team title. On the August 23, 2016 episode of "SmackDown Live", Shane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. A tournament was created for determined the first champions. The final match occurred at Backlash on September 11, 2016, and Heath Slater and Rhyno beat The Usos to won the title.
† Chad Gable had a injury after beating The Usos and the American Alpha were removed from the final. The Usos then beat The Hype Bros at Backlash to replace American Alpha in the final.
WWE SmackDown Women's Championship
The WWE SmackDown Women's Championship is a wrestling championship in WWE competed by women of the "SmackDown Live" brand. It was created after the return of the brand extension. The WWE Women's Championship became exclusive of "Raw". The current champion is Charlotte Flair
With the return of the WWE Brand Extension in the middle of 2016, a draft took place on July 19. The WWE Women's Champion Charlotte was drafted to "Raw". As a result, "SmackDown Live" was left without a women's title. On the August 23, 2016 episode of "SmackDown Live", Shane McMahon introduced the SmackDown Women's Championship. The first champion was crowned at Backlash on September 11, 2016, where Becky Lynch beat Alexa Bliss, Carmella, Naomi, Natalya and Nikki Bella in a six-pack elimination challenge to win the title.
As of January 31, 2021.
WWE Cruiserweight Championship
The WWE Cruiserweight Championship is a wrestling title owned by WWE and on WWE's weekly TV show, "205 Live". Only wreslters under can dispute it. The first champion was T.J. Perkins and the current is Buddy Murphy.
In 2016, WWE created the Cruiserweight Classic, a 32-man tournament for cruiserweights. When T.J. Perkins beat Gran Metalik in the final, Triple H gave him the new WWE Cruiserweight Championship for the new cruiserweight division on the Raw brand.
After the show "205 Live" was created, the Cruiserweight Championship also could be defended in this program. When WWE fired the champion at the time, Enzo Amore in January 2018, there was an announcement that there would be a general manager on "205 Live" and he/she would decide what would happen to the championship. Drake Maverick was chosen to be the general manager and he decided that there would be a 16-man tournament to decide a new WWE Cruiserweight Champion and that the final would happen at WrestleMania 34. In the final, Cedric Alexander beat Ali to win the title. After WrestleMania 34, "205 Live" separated from "Raw" so the title is only defended on that show.
Neil Fingleton
Neil Fingleton (18 December 1980 – 25 February 2017) was an English actor and basketball player. He was the tallest British-born man and the tallest man in the European Union at 7 ft 7.56 in (232.6 cm) in height and among the 25 tallest men in the world.
This title has been confirmed by the "Guinness Book of Records" in the summer of 2007; Fingleton took over from Christopher Greener who stood at 7 ft 6 ¼ in (229.2 cm) in height.
Fingleton died on 25 February 2017 from a heart attack in Durham, England, aged 36.
Jean Baptiste de Montesson, Marquis of Montesson
Jean Baptiste de Montesson, Marquis of Montesson (1687-1769) was a French Nobleman, with the rank of a Marquis. His second wife was Charlotte de La Haye de Riou. Despite marrying twice, he had no children.
Baptised at the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, in 1687. He was a member of the Montesson family from the region of Brittany in France. In 1709 he married Marguerite Iris de Poix The couple had no children. Eventually at the age of 70 he married Charlotte de La Haye de Riou. His second wife would eventually become the mistress and later still the secret wife of the Duke of Orléans
The aged Marquis of Montesson died in Paris at the age of 83. He was buried in the "Arcis de Meslay" in Meslay (du-Maine). His tomb was destroyed during the French Revolution.
Brunella Bovo (4 March 1932 – 21 February 2017) was an Italian movie and television actress. She was born in Padua, Italy. She was known for her roles as Edvige in "Miracle in Milan" (1951) and as Wanda in "The White Sheik" (1952). She starred in many B-Movies and soap operas sometimes under the name Barbara Hudson.
Bovo died on 21 February 2017 in Rome from pneumonia, aged 84.
Ludvig Faddeev
Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also "Ludwig Dmitriyevich"; ) (23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He discovered of the Faddeev equations in the theory of the quantum mechanical three-body problem and for the development of path integral methods.
Faddeev was born in Leningrad. He studied at Saint Petersburg State University.
Faddeev led the Leningrad School, in which he along with many of his students developed the quantum inverse scattering method for studying quantum integrable systems in one space and one time dimension. This work led to the invention of quantum groups by Drinfeld and Jimbo.
From 1976 to 2000, Faddeev was head of the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences (PDMI RAS).
Faddeev died on 26 February 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia at the age of 82.
Ivar Aronsson
Ivar Mauritz Aronsson (24 March 1928 – 6 February 2017) was a Swedish rower. He competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the coxed fours and finished fourth in the eights competition. He won two silver medals in these events at the 1955 European Championships.
WWE United Kingdom Championship
The WWE United Kingdom Championship is a wrestling title owned by WWE and competed for by the men of NXT UK. It was created in December 15, 2016 and a 16-man tournament with British wrestlers happened on January 14 and 15, 2017 to crown the champion. Tyler Bate beat Pete Dunne in the final to become the first champion. Dunne beat Bate at NXT TakeOver: Chicago in May 2017 to become the current champion.
Larry P. Arnn
Larry Paul Arnn is an American conservative educator, writer and philanthropist. He has served as the 12th president of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States since May 2000.
He is a political conservative who has been influenced by the thought of Leo Strauss and his teacher Harry V. Jaffa.
Ed Garvey
Edward R. "Ed" Garvey (April 18, 1940 – February 22, 2017) was an American lawyer, politician and progressive activist.
Garvey was born in Burlington, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Garvey worked for the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), the labor organization representing the professional American football players in the National Football League (NFL). In 1970 Garvey was assigned to counsel union president John Mackey regarding negotiations on a new four year contract with the league's owners.
Garvey was later offered the position of executive director in the now-certified NFLPA in 1971.
Garvey served as its executive director until 1983, through two strikes (in 1974 and 1982) and invoking antitrust legislation in his many court battles with the league.
Garvey directed the NFLPA though a series of court battles that led, in 1975, to the ruling in Mackey v. NFL that antitrust laws applied to the NFL's restrictions on player movement.
In 1976, armed with leverage regarding player movement from team to team, Garvey and the union won major concessions from the owners. Garvey's negotiations with the league exchanged the players' threat of pursuing a system of unfettered free agency for an improved package of player benefits.
In 1986, Garvey ran for the U.S. Senate from Wisconsin, losing to Republican incumbent Bob Kasten by a small margin In an unsuccessful bid for Wisconsin governor in 1998 against three-term incumbent Tommy G. Thompson, Garvey sought to highlight campaign finance reform and limited contributions to his campaign to a fixed amount per donor. Thompson won by a wide margin.
Garvey died on February 22, 2017 at his lake home in Verona, Wisconsin, aged 76.
Polyp (medicine)
A polyp is a growth of tissue in areas such as the colon, stomach, nose and ear. It has a stalk which attaches the growth. If it doesn't have a stalk then it is called "sessile."
Mudrike
Mudrike is populated place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Travnik Municipality.
Jean de Noailles
Jean-Louis-Paul-François de Noailles, 5th Duke of Noailles (26 October 1739, Paris – 20 October 1824) was a French nobleman and was the fifth Duke of Noailles. He first became known for his efforts as a chemist which gained him the election as a member of the "Académie des sciences" in 1777. He was also a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Having emigrated in 1792, he lived in Switzerland until the Restoration in 1814, when he took his seat as a peer of France.
His first wife, Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau and the couple had several children;
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Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee or Golrokh Iraee (Farsi: گلرخ ایرایی), born about 1980, is an Iranian writer, accountant and human rights defender who advocates against the practice of stoning in Iran.
Golrokh began serving a six-year sentence in October 2016 for “insulting the sacred” and “propaganda against the state,” after she wrote a story about stoning. Iraee was released from prison on January 3, 2017 after a 71-day hunger strike by her husband and a protest on Twitter that got international attention, but she was returned to prison January 22, after her husband stopped his hunger strike.
Stoning to death is controversial in Iran, and often used against women. In 2010 there was strong international criticism of Iran because of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Ashtiani was freed in March 2014, after nine years on death row. Another Iranian woman, Fariba Khalegi, is believed to be in prison and in danger of stoning.
In September 2014, the Iranian government searched the home of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and her husband Arash Sadeghi (Farsi: آرش صادقی) in Tehran. The guards took laptops, notebooks and CDs. They found an unpublished story Iraee wrote about stoning a woman. In the story, a young woman watches the movie, “The Stoning of Soraya M”, becomes angry, and burns a copy of the Koran.
After the story was found, Iraee and her husband Sadegh were arrested by four men believed to be from the Revolutionary Guards. They took Sadegh to Evin Prison, but they took Iraee to a secret place for three days. They did not allow her to see a lawyer or to talk to her family. Then they took her to Evin Prison. For 17 days, they questioned her for hours, blindfolded her, and threatened to kill her. While they interrogated Iraee, she had to listen to the guards kick and choke her husband in the next cell.
Iraee had two short hearings. Her first hearing was about her husband's political activity. She was not permitted to speak. During the second hearing she was in the hospital after surgery, but the court would not look at her medical records. Her first lawyer was pressured to drop her case, and her second lawyer was prohibited from representing her.
In October 2016, Iranian officials called Ebrahimi Iraee on a friend's telephone and told her to go to Evin Prison to start serving a six-year prison sentence. They did not have an arrest warrant, as the law requires. Iraee was convicted of “insulting Islamic sanctities” and “spreading propaganda against the system.”
Amnesty International called on the Iranian governement to set Iraee free. According to Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, "She is facing years behind bars simply for writing a story, and one which was not even published – she is effectively being punished for using her imagination. Instead of imprisoning a young woman for peacefully exercising her human rights by expressing her opposition to stoning, the Iranian authorities should focus on abolishing this punishment, which amounts to torture."
On October 24, Iraee's husband Sadeghi went on a hunger strike in prison to protest Iraee's imprisonment. There were demonstrations outside Evin Prison, which is very unusual. Even though Twitter is prohibited in Iran, a Twitter campaign used the hashtag #SaveArash On January 3, 2017 Iraee was set free, and Sadeghi stopped his hunger strike. Sadghi's family said he was having many medical problems, including vomiting blood, and respiratory, heart, kidney and gastrointestinal problems. They took Sadeghi to the hospital, but after only a few days, on January 7 they returned him to prison, even though the doctors said he needed to be in the hospital.
Iranian authorities said Iraee and Sadegh could be temporarily out of prison on bail if they got property bonds worth 7 and 10 billion rials (US$300,000) for Arash Sadeghi and 5 billion rials (US$150,000) for Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee.
Iraee brought a property deed for the bail, but the government said they had a new order, and that Iraee must return to prison. Iraee refused to return to prison, but when she tried to visit her husband in the hospital, on January 22 the Revolutionary Guards at Sarallah Headquarters forced her to return to Evin Prison.
Golrokh was transferred from Evin prison to a prison in the town of Varamin in March 2018. At this time Golrokh and fellow human rights defender, Atena Daemi were being held in a quarantine section of Shahr-e Rey prison. It has been reported that the conditions are poor, with the activists still wearing the same clothing as when they arrived.
As of 9 March, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, who suffers from severe muscular pain, had been on hunger strike for over one month (35 days), and had reportedly been forcibly given IV fluids since her arrival to the prison.
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an African American physicist and mathematician. She finished schooling at a very early age. Katherine Johnson was 1 of the first 3 black people allowed to study at West Virginia University, which before that was officially racist and did not let black people be students. She was known for her work on the United States' aeronautics and space programs where she worked with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.
She was also known for accuracy in computerized celestial navigation. She made it possible for many space flights such as Project Mercury, including the early NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program to happen. Her calculations were critical to the success of these missions.
Johnson also did calculations for plans for a mission to Mars.
Katherine Goble Johnson wrote 26 research reports. She was the first women to attend an editorial meeting at NASA.
In 2015, Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was included in the BBC series "100 Women" the next year.
Johnson died on February 24, 2020 at her home in Newport News, Virginia at the age of 101.
Gerald Kaufman
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (21 June 1930 – 26 February 2017) was a British Labour politician.
Kaufman served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 until his death in 2017. He served first for Manchester Ardwick and then for Manchester Gorton.
He was a government minister in the 1970s and a member of the Shadow Cabinet in the 1980s. He became Father of the House after the retirement of Peter Tapsell in 2015. At the time of his death, he was the eldest sitting MP of the UK Parliament.
Kaufman died on 26 February 2017 at the age of 86.
Love on the Brain
"Love on the Brain" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna. It is the fourth single from her eighth studio album, "Anti". She wrote the song with Fred Ball and Joseph Angel, who produced it. The song has reached number 5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, becoming her 30th top-ten hit in the United States.
The song is about being delirious while in love. It begins with the lyrics, "And you got me like, 'Oh' / What you want from me?" while Rihanna sings in the chorus, "Must be love on the brain / That's got me cursing my name."
John Peter Rhys Williams (born 2 March 1949) is a former Welsh rugby union player. He played as a fullback. He played for Wales between 1969 and 1981, making 55 appearances. He also played for the British Lions eight times. He started going by his initials because there was another player named John Williams.
Williams was born in Bridgend. Outside of playing rugby, he was a surgeon.
Walt Koken
Walt Koken (born October 9, 1946, Columbia, Missouri) is an American claw-hammer banjo player and old-time fiddler, who received the Nashville Old-Time String Band Association's Heritage Award for 2016. Koken was prominent in the old-time music revival during the 1960s, and continues to be a leader and mentor in the old-time music community today.
Koken defines old-time music as, “fiddle-centric and related music (ballads, etc.) from the Piedmont, Appalachia, the Gulf coast, central Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, northern Virginia, western Pennsylvania, and westward with the pioneers all the way to the coast.” "Old-time music is for dancing and its songs are for lifting us above our burdens. Our music gives relief from the everyday burdens of modern life, and an insight into a simpler time, with a glimmer of hope for us all.”
Koken's mother, Helen Hawkins Koken Pickel, was a classical pianist and a beloved kindergarten teacher. Her family was from England before immigrating to America. His father, John C. Koken, was a math professor whose family emigrated from Germany. The Koken family arrived in New Orleans in 1850, then traveled up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. By 1892, the Koken Barber’s Supply Company of St. Louis held two barber chair patents; one for the first reclining Koken chair and one for the first hydraulic lift chair. In 1915 Walter F. Koken received a patent for the first electric Barber’s Chair.
Koken started playing banjo at the age of thirteen. “In 1959, my brother had broken his arm, and heard that playing guitar might be a good way to get its strength back. He got his old guitar with a warped neck and high strings, and started strummin’ it. I really thought that was neat, and one day he came to me and said, “Why don’t you get a banjo, and we’ll make some money?”
Since 1965, Koken has played in multiple bands: the Busted Toe Mudthumpers, the Muskrat Ramblers, the Fat City String Band, the legendary Highwoods Stringband, and The Cacklin’ Hens and Roosters Too!.
Currently, he plays fiddle-banjo duets with his partner and soul-mate Clare Milliner, as well as with Milliner, Kellie Allen, and Pete Peterson as the old-time string band, Orpheus Supertones. In 2011, Koken completed his multi-year literary collaboration with Clare Milliner, "The Milliner-Koken Collection of American Fiddle Tunes."
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Frits Soetekouw
Frits Soetekouw (6 June 1938 – 3 May 2019) was a Dutch footballer. He was born in Amsterdam, North Holland.
Soetekouw played as a defender at club level between 1961 and 1971. He played for De Volewijckers, Heracles, Ajax, Eindhoven and DWS. He was the captain of Ajax for a short time. He captained the side in their 5–1 win against Liverpool in 1966. He also once appeared for the Netherlands national team in 1962.
Soetekouw died on 3 May 2019, at the age of 80.
Isabel Lucas
Isabel Lucas (born 29 January 1985) is an Australian actress. She is well known for her role in the soap opera Home and Away, as well as in movies such as Immortals, , Daybreakers, Red Dawn and The Loft.
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Iron Act
The Iron Act was a law created by Great Britain in 1750 to make American Colonies import more Iron from Great Britain, and preventing the colonies from refining iron on their own.
The act was officially repealed in 1867.
Maryland and Virginia were the only colonies majorly affected. The act essentially stopped all creation of edged tools, nails, and tinplates. Great Britain had a history of creating acts designed to create more trade to England. This was one of the many acts that caused the American Revolution.
Nhung Nu Hon Ruc Ro
Nhung Nu Hon Ruc Ro also know as "The brilliant kiss" in English is the first musical adaptation of Vietnam by BHD production and was one of the most anticipated films in 2010. The movie received the following nominations: Vietnamese Golden Kite Award for Best Feature Film, Vietnam Film Festival Award for Best Director - Feature film, and the Golden Lotus Award. It is unique in the sense that it is comedy but also a musical. At the core of the movie is an important message about real life issues and love. One of the touching scenes in the end when there is a gay character that expresses his sadness that he does not have a love. The film addresses this by letting the character know that although he does not have a love, he is loved by many of his friends. It is a very fun, positive and uplifting movie. The film brings together the most popular actors today such as Thanh Hang, Ming Hang, and Phuong Thanh. All the scenes in the film were made at Ngoc Suong Resort which is in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
After the launch of movie Nhung nu hon ruc ro by director Nguyen Quang Dung in 2011 people have begun to notice the beauty of Cam Ranh Bay where the movie was filmed. This destination has often been a favorite spot for couples out for their wedding photo shoots and artists to film their music videos. Those who wish to discover beautiful beaches can head onto National Highway 1A towards Cam Thinh Dong Commune in Cam Ranh Town.
The film's story revolves around the daughter of the resort owner, Thanh Lam is on the verge of bankruptcy. She obtained the trust of his father while promising to make a fantastic musical concerts with famous singers appeared and will televise live nationwide Valentine's Day to draw the attention of the Investors.
Irish Americans () are an North American ethnic group. They are American citizens whose ancestors were Irish.
People are called Irish Americans if:
Most Irish people came to the United States between the 17th to mid-19th centuries.
The largest number of Irish people came to the United States between 1820 and 1860. During this time, one out of every three people who immigrated to the United States was Irish.
Between 1820 and 1860, 1,956,557 Irish arrived in the United States. 75% of these immigrants - about 1.5 million Irish people - came after the Great Famine of 1845-1852 (also called "The Great Hunger". Many more Irish people died while trying to travel to America on coffin ships.
Between 1820 and 1930, about 4.5 million Irish people moved to the United States.
Most Irish people who came to the United States during the 1800s lived in big cities where there were many other Irish people. They did this so they could help and protect each other. Many stayed near the ports where they arrived, like Boston, New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Many Irish people also lived in Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore.
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to America in the 1800s were Catholic. At that time, most of the United States was controlled by Protestants who were ethnically English, Anglo-Saxon, and Germanic.
Many Irish immigrants were treated badly. For example:
Some politicians spoke out against Irish people. For example, in 1836, Benjamin Disraeli wrote:
In the mid-1950s, a political group called the Know-Nothing Movement tried to get Catholic politicians fired from their jobs.
Stereotypes about Irish Americans did not go away. For example, President Richard Nixon once said:
In 2013, about 33.3 million Americans - about one in every 10 - reported having some Irish ancestry. This is about seven times the number of people who actually live in Ireland.
Allotropes of iron
Iron is the most often-used example of a metal with allotropes. These allotropes are α-iron, aka ferrite, γ-iron, aka austenite, and δ-iron, which doesn’t have another name. At higher temperatures, ε-iron exists, called hexaferrum. There is evidence for a fifth form, but it has not been proven to exist.
Delta Iron is Iron below 1538°C. Austenite is created when Iron cools further, to 1394°C. Beta ferrite Iron is the term for Iron that’s paramagnetic. Alpha Iron is all Iron below 912°C. Epsilon Iron is created above 10 GigaPascals and below 100°K.
Anthracite iron
Anthracite iron is iron smelted using anthracite coal, and is a form of pig iron. Anthracite Iron aided the industrial revolution by allowing iron production to skyrocket.
Charcoal prices rose so it was more expensive to create iron. So anthracite was used instead.
Royal Rumble (2017)
Royal Rumble (2017) was a wrestling Pay-per-view made by WWE. It happened on January 29, 2017. It was performed at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It was the thirtieth time a Royal Rumble was held, the second to be held at the Alamodome and the fourth to be held in Texas.
Eight matches were performed at the event. The most important match was the Royal Rumble match. Randy Orton won it by last eliminating Roman Reigns for a world championship match at WrestleMania 33. Tye Dillinger also wrestled in WWE for the first time in the Royal Rumble. John Cena beat WWE Champion AJ Styles in another important match that was for the title. That was the thirteenth time John won the title (which is a record) and the sixteenth time he won a world championship. That meant he tied Ric Flair's record.
WrestleMania 33 was the thirty-third yearly WrestleMania wrestling Pay-per-view made by WWE. It will happen on April 2, 2017 and it will be performed at the Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. It will be the second WrestleMania to happen at the stadium and the third to happen Florida.
At the 2017 Royal Rumble, Randy Orton won the most important match - the Royal Rumble match for a world championship match at WrestleMania 33. At the Elimination Chamber on February 12, 2017, Bray Wyatt won the WWE Championship but Randy said he won't fight Bray because he supports Bray. This means he will probably fight for the WWE Universal Championship, but Goldberg is fighting for that title at Fastlane on March 5, 2017 and he's supposed to fight Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania. Besides that, after Randy said he won't fight Bray, a 10-man battle royal happened where, in the end AJ Styles and Luke Harper fought on the apron after both going over the top rope, their feet both touched the floor and the referees could not decide who won. On SmackDown on February 28, a match between AJ and Luke will happen where the winner will fight Bray at WrestleMania. Also, at WrestleMania 32, it was a surprise when Shaquille O'Neal was in a the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Big Show was also in the match and they fought. After that WrestleMania, Shaq asked if Big Show wanted a match at this WrestleMania. After that, they have argued inside of WWE. On the final Raw before Mania, after Show defeated James Ellsworth, Shaq confronted Show and challenged him to a Contract vs Career match (that mean if Shaq beat Show, Shaq will become a full time wrestler of WWE and Show will be forced to leave WWE). Show accepted under one more condition, this will be a Airplane match( the first wrestler falls off the airplane will lose)
Winner: Randy Orton
Singles match for WWE Universal Championship
Winner:Goldberg
3. Chris Jericho © vs Kevin Owens.
Singles match for the WWE United States Championship
Winner: Kevin Owens
4. Bayley © vs Charlotte vs Sasha Banks vs Nia Jax
Fatal 4 away Match for the WWE Raw Women's championship. And Dana Brooke. Banned from the Building
Winner: Bayley
5. Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson © vs Enzo Amore and Colin Cassidy vs Cesaro and Sheamus
triple threat ladder Tag team match for WWE raw tag team championship
Winner: The Hardy Boyz
The Hardy boyz won this match after there shocking return
6. Alexa Bliss © DEFEATED .Deonna Purrazzo
Mickie James Triple Threat Match for the WWE Smack-down Live Women's championship
Winner : Alexa Bliss
7. Andre the giant memorial battle royal match
Battle Royal match for the Andre the giant memorial Trophy
Winner : Baron Corbin
8. The Undertaker vs. Roman Reigns No Holds Barred match
Winner: Roman Reigns
after the undertaker lost this match he retired
10. Dean Ambrose © vs. Baron Corbin singles match for the WWE
Intercontinental championship
Winner: Dean Ambrose
11. Neville © vs. Austin Aries singles match for the Cruiserweight championship
Winner: Neville
12: AJ Styles vs Shane McMahon Singles match
Winner: AJ Styles
Maryland Toleration Act
Xiluodu Dam
Bertram Kostant
Bertram Kostant (May 24, 1928 – February 2, 2017) was an American mathematician. He was known for his works in Kostant partition function and Kostant–Parthasarathy–Ranga Rao–Varadarajan determinants. In 2016, he won the Wigner Medal. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kostant was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the University of Chicago.
Kostant died at a rehabilitation center in Roslindale, Massachusetts on February 2, 2017 from stroke complications, aged 88.
Jiří Lanský
Jiří Lanský (17 September 1933 – 14 February 2017) was a Czech high jumper. He won silver medals at the 1954 and 1958 European Championships. He finished seventh at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Lanský died in Prague, Czech Republic on 14 February 2017, aged 83.
Suthan Suthersan
Suthan Suthersan (10 June 1956 – 20 February 2017) was a Sri Lankan-American environmental engineer. He served as the Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice President of Arcadis North America.
Suthersan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He studied at the University of Peradeniya and at the University of Toronto.
Suthersan died on 20 February 2017 in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, aged 60.
Peter A. Diamond
Peter Arthur Diamond (born April 29, 1940) is an American economist. Diamond is known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s.
He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, along with Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides. He won the Prize for studying what happens when trading in markets is difficult. For example, because buyers and sellers need to find another before they can trade.
He is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On June 6, 2011 he withdrew his nomination to serve on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, citing intractable Republican opposition for 14 months.
Oliver E. Williamson
Oliver Eaton Williamson (September 27, 1932 – May 21, 2020) is an American economist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a laureate of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Williamson died on May 21, 2020 in Oakland, California of pneumonia-related problems at the age of 87.
Tania Dalton
Tania Dalton (née Nicolson; 26 November 1971 – 1 March 2017) was a New Zealand international netball player. She was part of the 2003 Netball World Championships winning Silver Ferns squad. She made 12 caps for the Silver Ferns in total, playing in the positions of goal shooter (GS) and goal attack (GA).
Dalton was a member of the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns from 1996–2004 and 2006–07; she was also named in 2005 but was forced out through injury. She played domestic netball for the Northern Force from 1998 until 2000, and the championship-winning Southern Sting from 2002–2006.
After retiring from playing professional netball, she worked as a netball commentator on SKY Sports for international tests, the ANZ Championship and National Championships, alongside former internationals Anna Stanley, Natalie Avellino, Kathryn Harby-Williams and Bernice Mene.
Dalton is also a part owner of the franchise food outlet chain, Pita Pit New Zealand Limited.
Dalton collapsed on 23 February 2017 while playing a regular game of social touch rugby in her home town of Takapuna, Auckland. She was running at the time and was not injured in the game. She was immediately hospitalised in a critical condition with a ruptured internal carotid artery aneurysm. On 28 February 2017, her family turned off her life support. She died the next day, on 1 March, at the age of 45.
Preben Hertoft
Preben Hertoft (5 January 1928 – February 2017) was a Danish psychiatrist and professor in medical sexology, senior doctorate in medicine.
Hertoft worked over 40 years as a sexologist doing research, treatment, counseling and education.
In 1986 he founded the first medical centre for sexology in Denmark. Most of the time he had heterosexual and homosexual patients with sexual problems in therapy, but he also treated and counselled transvestites and pedophiles.
Eugene Garfield
Eugene Garfield (September 16, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics. Garfield's work led to the development of several Information Retrieval algorithms, like HITS and Pagerank.
Garfield was born in New York City. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Garfield died on February 26, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from a heart attack, aged 91.
Garfield was born in 1925 in New York City as Eugene Eli Garfinkle, and was raised in a Lithuanian-Italian Jewish family.
He studied at the University of Colorado and University of California, Berkeley before getting a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Columbia University in 1949. Garfield also received a degree in Library Science from Columbia University in 1953.
Working as a laboratory assistant at Columbia University after his graduation, Garfield indexed all previously synthesized compounds so that not to remake them, which helped him understand that his inclination to information towards science was bigger than towards chemistry.
In 1951, he got a position at the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, where most of the National Library of Medicine information systems were developed.
In 1956, Garfield founded the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ISI formed a major part of the science division of Thomson Reuters.
Garfield is survived by a wife, three sons, a daughter, a step-daughter, two granddaughters, and two great-grandchildren.
Deaths in March 2017
Data matrix
Data matrix is an invention of a two-dimensional barcode.
The coded information can be text or numbers. It is read by a bar code reader.
Error correction codes are often used to increase reliability. Even if one or more cells are damaged, the message can still be read. A data matrix symbol can store up to 2,335 alphanumeric characters.
Beta ferrite
Beta ferrite is ferrite that is paramegnetic instead of ferromagnetic, heated to a temperature of above 771°C.
β-Fe may refer to an unproven to exist fifth allotrope of iron, only produced once in Uppsala University. Iron was compressed to 35-40 GPa then heated to 1500°K and scanned. The result was never reproduced.
Robin Stenuit
Robin Stenuit (born June 16, 1990 in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve) is a Belgian road bicycle racer. His speciality is sprinting.
Participating in professional teams since 2011, Stenuit has been riding for Wanty-Groupe Gobert since 2016.
He achieved several victories, among others the Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise and the Memorial Van Coningsloo, both in 2015.
Bloomery
A bloomery is a type of furnace that was once widely used for smelting oxides. Bloomeries were the first smelters able to smelt iron. The result of using a bloomery is a mass of iron and slag called a bloom. This is called sponge iron, because it is porous like a sponge. Sponge iron is usually refined into wrought iron. Bloomeries are no longer used in smelting, because blast furnaces are better.
A bloomery consists of a chimney with heat-resistant walls made of earth, clay, or stone. Near the bottom, pipes (made of clay or metal) enter through the side walls. The pipes allow air to enter.
To use a bloomery, charcoal is inserted into the chimney, then heated. Then roughly the same volume of iron is inserted. A common product of this process is fayalite, which occurs when iron mixes with slag.
Iron began to be used around 1200 BC.
China appeared to not use bloomeries, seemingly skipping to blast furnaces. However, bloomeries have been found in China, though these were likely only brought from other locations, and not built in China.
Bloomeries had been used in Sub-Saharan Africa before 500 BC.
European Bloomeries started very small, smelting about 1kg of iron with each use, but got larger over time, smelting about 14kg on average in the fourteenth century.
Bog iron
Bog iron is a form of iron found in swamps. Bog Iron is generally found in a spring.
Smelting bog iron has existed since pre-Roman times. Most iron smelted during the Viking era came from bog iron. In Russia, bog iron was the main source of iron until the sixteenth century.
Iron was produced by Vikings around 1000 AD.
Mining Bog Iron had been done in Virginia as early as 1608, and more bog iron has been mined in New Jersey and Maryland.
Moshe Katsav
Moshe Katsav, Hebrew: משה קצב , (born December 5, 1945 in Yazd, Iran) is a former Israeli politician of Likud.
He was mayor of Kiryat Malakhi, a Member of Knesset and a (deputy) government minister. He was also President of Israel from 2000 to 2007.
From 2011 to 2016 he was in prison because of a conviction of sexual offences (like rape). Katsav denied the accusations.
Hérault (river)
The Hérault () is a river in southern France that flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Hérault department is named after this river.
The Hérault river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area of of which 64.8% are forests and 32.0% are used for farming.
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Agde, near its mouth.
Average monthly discharge (m/s) at Agden
The Hérault starts in the "Col de Prat Peyrot" on the Mont Aigoual, in the Cévennes, southeastern Massif Central, in the "commune" of Valleraugue, Gard department, at an altitude of about .
The Hérault flows to the south, in general, and passes through the Gard and Hérault, in the Occitanie region, and a total of 43 "communes", most of them in the Hérault department:
Finally, it flows into the Mediterranean Sea in Agde, in the Hérault department.
The main tributaries of the Hérault river are:
Carbonyl iron