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Sivakasi was established in the 15th century during the reign of the Pandya king Harikesari Parakkirama Pandian. The town was a part of Madurai empire and has been ruled at various times by the Later Pandyas, Vijayanagar Empire, Madurai Nayaks, Chanda Sahib, Carnatic kingdom and the British Raj. The Sivakasi riots of 1899 took place during the British Raj here. Sivakasi has a dry weather, making it suitable for dry crops like cotton, chillies and millets. Badhrkali Amman temple is one of the most prominent landmarks of the town.
According to the 2011 census of India, Sivakasi had a population of 71,040 with a sex-ratio of 1,009 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.
Tiruppur district
Tiruppur District is a district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, formed in February 2009. The district is well-developed and industrialized.The city of Tiruppur is the administrative headquarters for the district. As of 2011, the district had a population of 2,479,052 with a sex-ratio of 989 females for every 1,000 males.
The city of Tiruppur, at the heart of the district, is a textile center. The Tiruppur banian industry, the cotton market, and the Kangeyam bull provide a vibrant economy.
Tiruppur
Tiruppur is a city in the Kongu Nadu region of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tiruppur is the administrative headquarters of Tiruppur district and the fifth largest urban settlement in Tamil Nadu.Located on the banks of Noyyal River. Tiruppur is administered by municipal corporation which was established in 2008 and the total area of the corporation is 159.6 km divided into 60 wards. The total population of the city as per the 2011 census is 444,352.
Tiruppur is a major textile and knit wear hub contributing to 90% of total cotton knit wear exports from India. The textile industry provides employment to over six lakh people and contributed to exports worth in 2014-15.
Kangeyam
Kangeyam is a second-grade municipality in Kangeyam taluk of Tiruppur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As of 2011, the town had a population of 32,147.
Kangeyam is a commercial center. Its main economic activity involves processing agricultural products: rice hulling, coconut oil extraction, and ghee production. Also groundnuts (peanuts) are raised.
The Kangayam bull is indigenous (native) to the area around Kangeyam. This bull variety is known for its superior strength as a draft animal and its ability to adjust to poor nutritional conditions. It is named after the town.
Dindigul district
Dindigul district is an administrative region in the south of Tamil Nadu, India. The district was carved out of Madurai district in 1985. The Dindigul city is the headquarters of the district. It has an area of 6266.64 km and comprises three Revenue Divisions, nine Taluks, and 14 Panchayat Unions.According to 2011 census of India, Dindigul district had a population of 2,159,775 with a sex-ratio of 998 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.
In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Dindigul one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the six districts in Tamil Nadu currently receiving funds from Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).
Dindigul
Dindigul is a city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the administrative headquarters of the Dindigul district.Dindigul has a number of historical monuments, the Rock Fort being the most prominent.Industries in Dindigul include lock making, leather, textile spinning, administrative services, agricultural trading, banking, agricultural machinery and educational services. Dindigul is upgraded to a municipal corporation.
The city covers an area of and had a population of 207,327 in 2011. Dindigul is well-connected by road and rail with the rest of Tamil Nadu. It is the 12th-largest urban settlement in the state and has a population of 292,512 according to Tamil Nadu's 2011 census. Dindigul has 200,000 hectares of cultivable land, and agriculture continues to be the main occupation of its inhabitants. Located between the Palani and Sirumalai Hills, Dindigul has a reserved forest area of 85 hectares..
Kodaikanal
Kodaikanal is a "hill station" city in the hills of the Dindigul district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Its name in the Tamil language means "The Gift of the Forest". Kodaikanal is referred to as the "Princess of Hill stations" and has a long history as a popular tourist destination.
Kodaikanal was established in 1845 as a resort town where people would come to find refuge from the high temperatures and tropical diseases of the plains. Much of the local economy is based on the hospitality industry serving tourism. As of 2011, the city had a population of 36,501.
The economy of Kodaikanal mainly depends on tourism. The number of tourists increased from two million in 1999 to 3.2 million in 2009.
The town's infrastructure changes every year in preparation for the peak tourist season. Due to the rapid development of nearby cities such as Madurai and Coimbatore, the town is learning to deal with year-round tourism. Popular tourist souvenirs include handcrafts, home-made chocolates, postcards and eucalyptus oil.
Terrace farms in surrounding villages grow plums, pears, chile peppers, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, garlic and onions. Most of the produce is transported by truck to other parts of India, while some are sold in the local market.other exotic fruits like dragon fruit,pears,apples, are also grown here
Pudukkottai district
Pudukkottai district is a district in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Pudukkottai is its district headquarters. Pudukkottai district is a least urbanised district in Tamil Nadu.
As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,618,345 with a sex-ratio of 1,015 females for every 1,000 males. A total of 179,688 were under the age of six, constituting 91,696 males and 87,992 females. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 17.6% and .08% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the district was 68.62%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. The district had a total of 387,679 households. There were a total of 761,693 workers, comprising 192,462 cultivators, 234,344 main agricultural labourers, 10,170 in house hold industries, 203,272 other workers, 121,445 marginal workers, 16,808 marginal cultivators, 70,805 marginal agricultural labourers, 3,771 marginal workers in household industries and 30,061 other marginal workers.
Pudukkottai
Pudukkottai is the administrative headquarters of Pudukkottai district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The people in the city are employed majorly in teritiary sector activities.
The Thondaiman king, Vijaya Raghunatha rebuilt the town based on the principles of town planning so that the main streets were laid intersecting at right angles with the palace at the centre.
According to 2011 census of India, Pudukkottai had a population of 143,746 with a sex-ratio of 1,003 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929. A total of 11,762 were under the age of six, constituting 6,028 males and 5,734 females. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes accounted for 11.87% and .06% of the population respectively. The average literacy of the town was 92.19%, compared to the national average of 72.99%. The town had a total of 28838 households. There were a total of 41,408 workers, comprising 268 cultivators, 275 main agricultural labourers, 994 in house hold industries, 35,578 other workers, 4,293 marginal workers, 128 marginal cultivators, 47 marginal agricultural labourers, 144 marginal workers in household industries and 3,974 other marginal workers. As of 2001, 20 slums were identified in the town and approximately 37,740 people resided in the slums.
Asiad Santhi Soundarajan, Tamil Nadu's first woman medalist in the Asian Games, is from Pudukkottai.
Sittanavasal Cave
Sittanavasal Cave is a 2nd-century Jain complex of caves in Sittanavasal village in Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu, India. Its name is a Tamil word which means "the abode of great saints". The monument is a rock-cut monastery or temple. Created by Jains, it is also called the Arivar Koil, and is a rock cut cave temple of the Arihants. It contains remnants of notable frescoes from the 7th century. The murals have been painted with vegetable and mineral dyes in black, green, yellow, orange, blue, and white. Paintings have been created by applying colours over a thin wet surface of lime plaster.
While the Sittanavasal village is dated from 1st century BC to 10th century AD when Jainism flourished here, the Temple-cave was initially dated to Pallava King Mahendravarman I (580–630 AD) prior to his conversion from Jainism to Hinduism as a Shaivite.
Theni district
Theni district is a district of the Tamil Nadu state in South India. The city of Theni is the district headquarters. The district is divided into two natural divisions: The hilly areas are constituted by parts of three taluks: Periyakulam, Uthamapalayam, and Andipatti with thick vegetation and perennial streams from the hills on the western side and Cumbum valley which lies in the Uthamapalayam taluk. As of 2011, Theni district had a population of 1,245,899 with a sex-ratio of 991 females for every 1,000 males.
Land area for farming in Theni district is 40.33%. The principal crop production (in tonnes) in 2005-2006 was: sugarcane 1,201,221, cotton 95,360 (561 bales of 170. kg lint each), rice (paddy) 66,093, millets and other cereals 57,081, pulses (legumes) 6,677, peanut (groundnut) 4,021 and sesame (gingelly) 325.
silk, banana, coconut, tea, coffee, cardamom, grapes and mango are other main produce of the district.
Cumbum Valley is a major centre for grape production with 4,000 small farmers producing over 90,000 tonnes of muscat grapes.
Cotton-spinning mills and sugar mills are the major industries in this district. In Andipatti Taluk, handloom weaving and power looms are flourishing. In Uthamapalayam Taluk, the Highwavis Estate produces an important amount of tea. Bodinayakanur is a major marketplace for cardamom, coffee, tea and black pepper. This city is also called "Cardamom City" because of the large quantity of cardamom trade in this area. It has an auction centre for cardamom.
Theni
Theni is a town situated in western region of Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India, near the border to Kerala. It is the headquarters of Theni District.Theni district is the 2nd ranked in ASIA on the Banana trading. It is known for the large-scale trading of garlic, cotton, cardamom, grapes and chilli. It hosts the second largest weekly market in Tamil Nadu and the fourth largest in South India. It is well-connected by rail and road to Madurai and by road to all the important cities in Tamil Nadu. The nearest airport is at Madurai.
Kleinandelfingen
Kloten (Swiss German: "Chloote") is a city in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is the nearest village to Zurich Airport. The ice hockey club EHC Kloten has a stadium in the town.
Ahmad Tibi
Ahmad Tibi, Arab: أحمد الطيبي , Hebrew: אחמד טיבי , (born December 19, 1958 in Tayibe) is an Israeli politician. He is political leader and founder of Ta'al ("Arab Movement for Renewal").
Tibi is an Arab Israeli and a Muslim.
After being educated as a physician (specialized in gynecology) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he worked at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.
From 1993 to 1999 he advised Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In this capacity he negotiated with the Israelis on the issue of the Wye River Memorandum in the United States in 1998.
In 1999 he became a Member of Knesset. He has been deputy speaker of the Knesset since 2006. He has also been a The Joint List politician since 2015.
Tibi wants Israel being brought back to its borders of before the Six-Day War of 1967. He advocates both the two-state solution, the return of Palestinian refugees and the lifting of the Jewish nature of the State of Israel.
He is considered a controversial politician because of his ties with all sorts of Palestinians (not only in Israel but also in the Palestinian territories) and of things he said in parliament.
Togoshi-Ginza Station
Togoshi-Ginza Station (戸越銀座駅,とごしぎんざえき) is a Railway station of Tokyu Corporation in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.
Turn Left, Turn Right is a Taiwanese picture book by writer Jimmy Liao.
The lead female character is living in an old apartment building on the edge of the city. Every time she goes out, no matter where she goes, she always goes left first. The lead male character is living in an old apartment building on outskirts of the city. Every time he goes out, no matter where he goes, he always goes right first. He never meets her. But the city is like a maze, it lets people see the same scene, go the same route.
She was used to turning left and he was used to turning right, but they never had a meeting with each other in the pictured fiction story, “Turn Left, Turn Right.” It was the first long fiction story written by Jimmy Liao, talking about the feelings between a man and a woman. The fiction story gives a detailed account of a very interesting relation in living between the leading man and the leading woman in chapter one. There are many bright ideas in this pictured fiction story including the lines and color, with much attention to detail, and good order changes. This book is not only one of his best fiction stories but also one of the greatest works of art. Jimmy Liao said that this fiction story’s idea began when one day he was too troubled to draw by the loud noises of workers from next door. He could not help but think specially pleasing thoughts on that day. All of a sudden, he got money from someone he never knew who was living nearby. He started imagining what would come about to this leading man and woman character if they never knew they were neighbors, but slept right next to each other only separated by only one thin wall.
This book became a movie in 2003. Warner Brothers Studios produced it. Gigi Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro starred in it. The scenes are mainly in Taipei. For example: Beitou Hot Springs, Ximen-cho hiking area, Taipei MRT Station Warner Village、Taiwan Railway Sungai Station, Minsheng shequ fu jin street, and Taipei City Yangming Hospital.
Gou Bu Li baozi
Gou Bu Li baozi is a group of restaurants in TianJin, China that sells steamed buns. Gou Bu Li baozi was established in 1858. It is one of the most famous foods in Tianjin. Gou Bu Li’s shop is one of the oldest and most famous shops in that city. In 1960, the Gou Bu Li baozi went out of China to foreign countries. Now there are so many shops in China.
Gou Bu Li Baozi was founded in the Qing Dynasty in 1858. It was started by Gao You Gui when he was young, His family named him "young dog". He lived in Tianjin when he was very young. He was a worker in Liu's store. It took him three years to learn how to make Baozi very pleasing and beautiful. Firstly, he started a store called "cheap and friendly store".
Because his Baozi is very very pleasing, many people went to his store. So that he is too having much to do to talk with the persons getting goods from store. So his person getting goods from store called him dog ignored. That's why "Gou Bu Li "is so greatly respected and so many people called it that until now.
When Yuan shikai was a person doing teaching in army in Tian Jin. He gave this to queen Dowager Cixi, she is very happy and say:"Gou Bu Li baozi is so very pleasing that it is better that the animal’s meat in the mountain or the seafood in the sea, after I take it, I think I go back to a young person." After this Gou Bu Li baozi is more greatly respected than it used to.
In the 1920s, with the Tianjin advertisement inside middle moving south and moving closer to the land rights, Gao yougui not taken into account the buns store and moved to the Tianxiang market of tianjin But after this the business is not good for a long time and on the edge to shut down. After the groups of persons Republic of China be started. any private companies change quality of to Public - private the way of loving persons. On March 15, 1956, the Tianjin food company in the peaceful part of the shandong Road military building made strong against attack Park Ruizhuang place opened in tianjin Gou Bu Li baozi store, then, the Chinese leaders put on air of being more important than other person many times.
Gao You Gui is a ratio of 3 to 7 fat and fresh pork and even with the right amount of water, ribs soup and belly soup, and accompanied by sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, diced green onions made into stuffing. The steamed buns will be half of the rubbing, after the release agent, roll into a diameter of 8.5 cm and thick uniform round skin. Pack with your fingers with a pinch and twist open, so there will be 18 pleats, looking like a flower, and finally steam the buns.
Do not use jam. Use mushroom and chicken or special flour to make sure the baozi is small and delicious. And so many people had learn the method of how to make baozi but his baozi never be surpassed.
In 1980, Gou Bu Li has the logo. In 1992 Gou Bu Li became the first one that have a logo. At present, the Gou Bu Li has been registered in the 11 international classification, service trademark in 1999 by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Trademark Office identified as "China Famous Brand", which is the commercial value of its brand affirmed.
In the 1980s, Gou Bu Li baozi began franchise chain operations. In 1980, Beijing Hua Tian Diet Group Company introduced the Gou Bu Li to Beijing. In 2004, the Gou Bu Li open a branch in Taiwan. There are now many branches in China.
TV show: Legend of Gou Bu Li baozi
Knonau
Artzenheim
Artzenheim is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is 17 km of Colmar.
Tom Gilbey (designer)
Tom Gilbey (19 May 1938 – 24 May 2017) was a British fashion designer associated with Savile Row tailoring of the 1960s. He was born in London, England. His designs have featured in the Fashion Museum, Bath, and are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of London.
Gilbey died of cancer on 24 May in London at the age of 79.
Mordechai Tzipori
Mordechai Tzipori, Hebrew: מרדכי צפורי‎‎ , born as "Mordechai Hankovich-Hendin", (September 15, 1924 – May 29, 2017) was an Israeli general and a politician of HaLikud.
Tzipori became a member of Irgun in 1939. From 1945 to 1948 the British detained him in Africa.
In 1948 he joined the Israel Defense Forces. He was educated as an officer and studied at Tel Aviv University.
In the 1960s Tzipori was commanding an armoured battalion, and later on the armor school. In 1971 he became deputy commander of the Armor Corps, in 1973 commander of Command and Staff, and in 1974 deputy head of operations in the general staff. In 1976 he left the army as a lieutenant general.
He entered the Knesset in 1977. From 1977 to 1981 he served also as deputy defense minister in the First and Second Begin Government, and from 1981 to 1984 also as communications minister in the Second Begin Government and the First Shamir Government. In 1984 he left politics.
Afterwards he was leading the National Insurance Institution.
Tzipori was born in Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine. He died at a medical center in Ramat Gan, Israel, at the age of 92.
Deaths in June 2017
Ramat Gan
Ramat Gan (; ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of Tel Aviv. It is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, and many high-tech industries. The current mayor is Carmel Shama.
Ramat Gan was established in 1921 as a moshava, a communal farming settlement, and in 2015 it had a population of 152,596.
Molly Peters
Molly Peters (15 March 1942 – 30 May 2017) was an English actress and model. She was born in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. She was best known for her role in the James Bond movie "Thunderball" as Patricia Fearing. Her career lasted from 1964 through 1967.
Peters appeared in "Playboy", in the November 1965 issue. Her appearance was as part of a photo essay entitled "James Bond's Girls", by Richard Maibaum.
On 30 May 2017, Peters died at the age of 75 from complications of a stroke in London, England.
Dasari Narayana Rao
Dasari Narayana Rao (4 May 1942– 30 May 2017) was an Indian movie director, screenwriter, actor, politician, and lyricist. He was known for his works in Telugu cinema, and few Bollywood movies. He has directed more than one hundred and fifty feature movies of many genres.
His works are known to be part of social injustice, corruption and gender discrimination. Rao has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards including the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and four Filmfare Awards South including the life time Achievement. During his career he has also acted in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada languages.
Lubomyr Husar
Lubomyr Husar MSU (Liubomyr Huzar; 26 February 1933 – 31 May 2017) was the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a minority church in Ukraine but the largest "sui juris" Eastern church in full communion with the Holy See.
Husar was also a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the transfer of the see of Lviv to Kiev in 2005, he was the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop of Kiev-Galicia. In February 2011 he became Major Archeparch Emeritus after he resigned due to ill health.
Husar died on 31 May 2017 following a long-illness in Kniazhychi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine at the age of 84.
Frédérick Leboyer
Frédérick Leboyer (November 1, 1918 – May 25, 2017) was a French obstetrician and author. He was best known for his 1974 book, "Birth Without Violence", which popularized gentle birthing techniques, in particular, the practice of immersing newborn infants in a small tub of warm water. This method is known as a "Leboyer bath".
Leboyer also advocated low lighting and noise in a warm room to limit the supposed shock of birth, and that a newborn be laid on its mother's stomach and allowed to bond, instead of being taken away for tests.
Leboyer died on May 25, 2017 in Paris, at the age of 98.
Graham Paul Webb (13 January 1944 – 28 May 2017) was an English racing cyclist. He became the world amateur road race champion in 1967. In response to a journalist's shouted comment that the last British amateur world road champion had been Dave Marsh 45 years earlier, Webb retorted: "And they'll have to wait another 45 years before another British rider wins."
Webb died on 28 May 2017 in London at the age of 73.
Hans Gerschwiler
Hans Gerschwiler (born 21 June 1921) is a Swiss former figure skater. He is the 1948 Olympic silver medalist. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He made his international debut at the 1939 European Championships, where he placed 5th.
Gerschwiler won the 1947 World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships. He also won the silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and came in second at the 1948 European Championships, both time finishing behind Dick Button.
Küsnacht
Küsnacht is a city in the canton of Zurich. It is found in the district of Meilen.
Goldbach, Heslibach, Itschnach, Küsnachter Berg, Schmalzgrueb, Limberg, Wiserholz, Hohrüti, Wangen, Chalenstein (Kaltenstein) and Forch
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka was a Nazi death camp during World War II. It was in Poland, which was controlled by Germany at that time. The camp was in a forest northeast of Warsaw.
The goal of death camps like Treblinka was to kill millions of people as quickly as possible. Treblinka was open from July 23, 1942, to October 19, 1943, during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest part of The Holocaust. At Treblinka, the Nazis killed at least 700,000 and 900,000 Jewish people, and at least 2,000 Roma people. The Nazis killed more Jews at Treblinka than at any death camp other than Auschwitz.
Nazi officials opened Treblinka in November 1941 as a forced labor camp. The Nazis sent two groups of people to Treblinka to work as slaves:
However, they kept the Jews and Poles in separate parts of the camp.
Most of the prisoners at Treblinka worked in a gravel pit; in an irrigation area; or in the forest, where they cut wood to fuel the camp's cremation ovens.
Between 1941 and 1944, more than 20,000 people were prisoners at Treblinka I. More than half of them died from hunger, disease, mistreatment, and summary executions (executions without a trial).
In July 1942, the Nazis finished building Treblinka II, a death camp, about a mile from the labor camp (Treblinka I). At this time in history, the Nazis were already killing people at two other death camps: Belzec and Sobibor.
The Nazis committed genocide at Treblinka until November 1943. They murdered up to 925,000 Jewish people at the camp. They killed many of them with carbon monoxide in gas chambers.
Most Jewish men who were sent to Treblinka were killed right away. However, a few were chosen to be its slave-labor units, called "Sonderkommando." When the Nazis murdered people in the gas chambers, they forced the "Sonderkommando" to bury the victims' bodies in mass graves. These bodies were exhumed in 1943 and cremated on large open-air pyres, along with the bodies of new victims.
In early August 1943, the "Sonderkommando" revolted. Several Nazi guards were killed and about 200 prisoners escaped from the camp; almost a hundred survived the subsequent chase. Because of this, in October 1943, the Nazis stopped killing prisoners in Treblinka's gas chambers.
In late July 1944, Soviet troops were getting close to Treblinka. There were between 300 and 700 Jewish prisoners left at the camp. The Nazi guards shot them all. The Nazis then quickly destroyed the camp. Before running away, they built a farmhouse for a watchman and sloughed over the ground to try to hide the evidence of their genocide. Then they ran away from the camp.
During the last week of July 1944, Soviet troops arrived at Treblinka.
Nuwan Kulasekara
Nuwan Kulasekara is a Sri Lankan cricketer.He was born in Nittambuwa,Sri Lanka on July 22,1982.Kulasekara was once rated as the World's no 1 ODI bowler by the ICC in 2009He also has the ability to swing the balls in first few overs.
William Duborgh Jensen
William Duborgh Jensen (10 May 1935 – 24 May 2017) was a Norwegian fashion and costume designer. He was Norway's first "haute couturier" with his own collection in 1958. He later worked in television and movie as a costume designer.
He was appointed as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his efforts in fashion design.
William died on 24 May 2017 in Oslo at the age of 82.
Elena Verdugo
Elena Angela Verdugo (April 20, 1925 – May 30, 2017) was an American actress. She began in movies at the age of five in "Cavalier of the West" (1931). She had a starring role as a singer in 1957 musical comedy "Panama Sal". Her career in radio, television, and movie lasted from 1931 through 1985.
Verdugo was known for her role as Nurse Consuelo Lopez in the ABC series "Marcus Welby, M.D.", which ran from 1969 to 1976. In 1971-72, Verdugo was nominated for Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama category. Both nominations were for her performances on "Marcus Welby, M.D."
Verdugo has a star at 1709 Vine Street in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.
Verdugo was born in Paso Robles, California. She married Charles R. Marion from 1946 until they divorced in 1955. Then, she married Charles R. Rosewall from 1972 until his death in 2012. She had one child with Marion.
Verdugo died on May 30, 2017 in Los Angeles, California from natural causes at the age of 92.
Robert Young (actor)
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor. He was best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in "Father Knows Best" (NBC and then CBS), and the physician Marcus Welby in "Marcus Welby, M.D." (ABC).
Young has won three Emmy Awards (1957, 1958, 1970), a Golden Globe Award (1972) and a BAFTA Award (1979).
Young died of respiratory failure at his Westlake Village, California home on July 21, 1998 at the age of 91.
Robert M. Young
Robert Milton Young, usually known as Robert M. Young (born November 22, 1924) is an American screenwriter, director, cinematographer and producer. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
Young has frequently cast Edward James Olmos in his movies, directing him in "Alambrista!" (1977), "Saving Grace" (1986), "Triumph of the Spirit" (1989), "Talent for the Game" (1991), "Roosters" (1993), "Slave of Dreams" (1995) and "Caught" (1996). He produced Olmos's directorial debut, "American Me" (1992).
Erode district
Erode district(formerly Periyar district) is a district in the Kongu Nadu region (western part) of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was the largest district by area in the state before the formation of Tiruppur district and the headquarters of the district is Erode. Periyar district was a part of Coimbatore District before its division into two on September 17, 1979 and was renamed as Erode District in 1996. As of 2011, the district had a population of 2,251,744 with a sex-ratio of 993 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.
Bhavani River rises in the Western Ghats of [Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad district of Kerala. It receives the Siruvani River which has the second tastiest water in the world, a perennial stream of Coimbatore District, and gets reinforced by the Kundah river before entering Erode District in Sathyamangalam.
The country's first automated silk reeling unit is located near Gobichettipalayam.In 2005, Bhavani Jamakkalam (Bhavani Bedsheets) was registered as a Geographical Indication by the Government of India.
Periyakulam
Periyakulam is a town and a municipality in the Theni district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As of 2011, the town had a population of 42,976. Periyakulam is one of the oldest town in Tamil Nadu carrying rich cultural heritage.
Gobichettipalayam
Gobichettipalayam is a town and municipality in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the second largest city and urban concentration in Erode district and is the administrative headquarters of Gobichettipalayam taluk. The town is administered by a municipality established in 1949. It is known as "Mini Kollywood" because of the film shooting that takes place here and many films in Tamil and other languages have been shot here.This town has a population of 60,279 as of 2011.
The population is dominated by the Kongu Vellalar community. There are a significant number of North Indians, Gurkhas, Malayalis, Uralis, Mudaliar, Vanniyar, Dalits, Nadar and Vettuva Gounders. As per the religious census of 2011, Gobichettipalayam had 90.3% Hindus, 7.1% Muslims, 2.5% Christians and 0.1% others.
Uncle Tom's Cabaña
Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a movie made by Tex Avery. It is a short cartoon. It was made in 1947.
Swish Swish
"Swish Swish" is a song by American singer Katy Perry. It features a rap from American rapper Nicki Minaj. The song is from Perry's fifth studio album, "Witness". It talks about overcoming bullying and has sounds of house music throughout it. It was released in May 2017 as a promotional single with the pre-order of "Witness", but it was released later as an official single on May 19.
The song entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 at number 46.
Perry and Minaj first performed the song on TV at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, which Perry hosted.
Critics have said that the song is about singer Taylor Swift. She and Perry have had a rivalry since 2013, when Swift accused Perry of "stealing" backup dancers on tour. Swift released the song "Bad Blood" in 2014, which was rumored to be about her feud with Perry. Perry has revealed that she is ready to move on from the feud.
The music video stars several celebrities, such as actor Terry Crews and Internet personality Christine Sydelko. The setting is a basketball game against the Tigers (Perry's team) and the Sheep. A contest was held to determine what fans would appear in the video. The video is over six minutes long.
Irina Popova
Popova Irina Fedorovna (; born September 28, 1961), Russian sinologist and historian, Doctor of Sciences (2000), Director of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint-Petersburg (since April 2003), Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Documents of the IOM RAS, Full Professor in St Petersburg State University
Popova was a visiting scholar with the Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei (Taiwan), the Pennsylvania University (USA), School Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark), Peking University (China).
Popova graduated in 1983 from the St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Department of the History of Far East; completed her Ph.D. in 1989 at Russian Academy of Sciences, holds Doctor of Sciences degree in history (2000) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Subject of her Ph.D. thesis: “Rules for Emperors” (“Ti-fan”) by T'ang T'ai-tsung as a source on the Chinese Political Thought of the 7th century” (in Russian); subject of Doctoral thesis: “The Theory of the State Rulership in the Early T'ang China” (in Russian).
Chinese history and historiography; Dunhuang and Central Asian studies;
political thought, government and administrative system of pre-modern China;
Tang studies; history of Oriental studies; textual research; bibliography.
Basing primarily on the documents of the Tang dynasty, Popova has contributed into the study of the imperial rulership in medieval China and into the study of the interinfluence of the political practice and imperial ideology in pre-modern China; she has introduced into the academic use the original documents from Dunhuang and Turfan, Chinese epigraphic texts, visual sources on the history of Qing dynasty, archival material on the history of Russian expeditions in Central Asia and history of the Oriental studies
200 articles, 5 monographs (3 in cooperation with other researchers) and 10 edited collections of articles
Head of the Editorial Board of the periodicals: “Pis’mennye pamiatniki Vostoka”, “Written Monuments of the Orient”, “Strany i narody Vostoka” (“Countries and Peoples of Orient”), “Tulufan janjiu”, “Minzu guji yanjiu”, “Zhongguo lishi gudai wenxian” (China), “Studia Orientalia Slovaca” (University of Bratislava, Slovakia), “Shygys-Orient” (Kazakhstan); Deputy Head of the Editorial Board of the academic series “Pamiatniki pismennosti Vostoka’ (Written Monuments in the Oriental Scripts)
2013 – St Petersburg City Government Prize in science and engineering (Prize
in philology named after S.F. Oldenburg);
2016 – Honorary rank “Yangzi Scholar” 长江学者by Ministry
of Education of China.
Honorary Professor of Lanzhou University (China), Ningxia University (China), Shandong
University (China), Minzu University of China (Beijing, China), Shaanxi Normal
University (Xi'an, China); honorary doctor of the Institute of History of the Academy of Social Sciences of China
Roy Barraclough
Roy Barraclough, MBE (12 July 1935 – 1 June 2017) was an English comic actor. He was best known for his role as Alec Gilroy in the long-running British TV soap "Coronation Street", and for the double-act Cissie and Ada with comedian Les Dawson.
In the 2006 New Year Honours, Barraclough was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama and to charity in the North West. He was the recipient of three "Manchester Evening News" Theatre Awards including the Reader's Award, a "Liverpool Echo" Theatre Award and a Royal Television Society Award.
Barraclough died aged 81, at the Willow Wood Hospice in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on 1 June 2017, after a short illness.
Alois Mock
Alois Mock (10 June 1934 – 1 June 2017) was a politician. He was a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister, from 1987 through 1995, he helped take Austria into the European Union.
Mock died on 1 June 2017 from complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.
Nara
Nara, Na-ra or NARA may refer to:
Studio B Productions
Studio B Productions was a children's entertainment logo united by DHX Media and founded as DHX Media/Vancouver in 1988. In 1993, it was joined forces with Magnet Productions due to the fact Gullah Gullah Island had that logo the next year. Three years before, it was joined with Tooniverse, which turned into Tooniverse Songs then. When it joined forces with Moonscoop, it turned into Wildbrain.
Dub of Scotland
Dub or Duff was king of Scotland after the death of Indulf/Indulphus in 962, he reigned for 4-5 years until 967 when he died and was succeeded by Cuílen he was the son of king Malcolm I and most likely Bethoc. He was born circa 915 making him nearly 50 before he became king. He had 2 children with NN, Kenneth III who later reigned and Grimus II mac Duibh, prince of Scotland.
His reign began in 962 after the death of Indulf, king of Scots. It lasted until 967, he was succeeded by Cuilén who ruled until 971 and was succeeded by Dub's son Kenneth III.
He died in 967 aged 52 (circa), leaving behind 2 children. His burial place has been lost and no one knows the exact place of his burial although it was most likely in 967 just after his death and in Iona, Scotland.
Roberto De Vicenzo
Roberto De Vicenzo (14 April 1923 – 1 June 2017) was an Argentine professional golfer. He won more than 230 tournaments worldwide in his career including eight on the PGA Tour and most famously the 1967 Open Championship. He was born in Villa Ballester, Argentina.
De Vicenzo died on 1 June 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of 94.
Peter Thomson (golfer)
Peter William Thomson AO, CBE (23 August 1929 – 20 June 2018) was an Australian professional golfer. He was best remembered for his five wins in The Open Championship.
Thomson was born in Brunswick, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia. His Open Championship wins came in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965. He was the only man to win the tournament for three consecutive years in the 20th century. Thomson died in Melbourne on 20 June 2018 from Parkinson's disease, aged 88.
Doug Ford (golfer)
Douglas Michael Ford, Sr. born Fortunato (August 6, 1922 – May 14, 2018) was an American professional golfer and two-time major golf champion.
Ford's first major was the 1955 PGA Championship. Ford was that season's PGA Player of the Year.
Ford played on four Ryder Cup teams: 1955, 1957, 1959, and 1961. He was inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame in 1972. He was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. Ford was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010 and was inducted in May 2011.
Ford died May 14, 2018 at the age of 95.
1977 Chicago Loop derailment
The 1977 Chicago Loop derailment occurred on Friday February 4, 1977, when a Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ended another on the northeast corner of the Chicago Loop at Wabash Avenue and Lake Street during the evening rush hour.
The collision forced the first four cars of the rear train off the elevated tracks, killing 11 people and injuring over 180 as the cars fell onto the street below.
Michael A'Hearn
Michael Francis A'Hearn (November 17, 1940 – May 29, 2017) was an American astronomer and astronomy professor at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He was also the principal investigator for NASA's EPOXI mission.
Ervin E. Dupper
Ervin Emil Dupper (January 8, 1923 – May 28, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the South Dakota State Senate from 1965 to 1968. He represented the 21st and 23rd districts. He served a brief stint as State Attorney of Walworth County in 1955 to 1956 prior to his election to the state senate. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Dupper was born in Herreid, South Dakota. He studied at the University of Oregon where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science, and then attended the University of South Dakota for a law degree.
Dupper died at a hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota from a short-illness, aged 94.
O'Hare station train crash
On March 24, 2014, a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Blue Line passenger train overran the bumper at the station at the O'Hare International Airport, injuring 34 people. The accident caused $11,196,796 in damage.
A spokesman stated that it was likely that the train entered the station at too high a speed. It was later estimated that the train entered the station at , which was not an excessive speed. At least 50 firefighters and paramedics attended the accident.
The cause of the accident was that the train operator, 25-year-old Brittney Tysheka Haywood, fell asleep at the controls.
As a direct consequence of the accident, the CTA reduced the speed limit into the O'Hare station from to . The area of the speed limit was also extended away from the station.
Andersonville National Historic Site
The Andersonville National Historic Site is the site of the American Civil War prisoner of war camp Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison). Andersonville was a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp during the last 12 months of the Civil War.
The site is near Andersonville, Georgia. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County. Along with the former prisoner, the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum are also at the Andersonville National Historic Site.
12,920 Union Army prisoners died. This was over one out of every four prisoners at Andersonville.
The camp was overcrowded with four times as many prisoners as it was designed to hold. There was not enough water, food, or sanitation. About 45,000 Union prisoners were held at Camp Sumter during the war; nearly 13,000 (nearly 3 in every 10) died. The most common causes of death were scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.
During the Civil War, Confederate Captain Henry Wirz ran Andersonville. After the war, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes and executed.
Metra
Metra is a commuter railroad in the Chicago city area. The railroad operates 241 stations on 11 different rail lines. It is the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership and the largest and busiest commuter rail system outside the New York City area. There were 83.4 million passenger rides in 2014, up 1.3% from the previous year.
The estimated busiest day for Metra ridership occurred on Nov. 4, 2016—the day of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series victory rally.
Jabuticaba ("Plinia cauliflora"), also known as Brazilian grapetree or jaboticaba, is a tree in the family Myrtaceae, native to Brazil. It is unusual in that it appears to blossom right out of the bark and trunk of its tree. The tree may even look covered in purple warts or pimples when it is fully in season. It is often used in its native lands in South America much like grapes are used elsewhere.
Jabuticaba fruit looks like thick-skinned deep-purple grapes. Inside the pink or white sweet fleshy fruit. Embedded in the pulpy flesh are several large seeds. The fruit is typically eaten fresh or made into tarts, jams or wines and liqueurs.
Jack McCloskey
John William "Jack" McCloskey (October 19, 1925 – June 1, 2017) was an American basketball player, coach and executive. He played for the Philadelphia Warriors for one season in 1953. McCloskey coached the Portland Trail Blazers from 1972 through 1974. After coaching, he became general manager for the Minnesota Timberwolves and for the Detroit Pistons. He was born in Mahoney City, Pennsylvania.
McCloskey died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on June 1, 2017 at his home in Savannah, Georgia, aged 91.
Great Falls, Montana
Great Falls is a city in west-central Montana. It is the county seat of Cascade County. The 2015 census estimates put the population at more than 59,000 people.
Great Falls takes its name from the series of five waterfalls close together along the upper Missouri River. It is home to the C. M. Russell Museum Complex, the University of Providence, and Great Falls College.Near the town is Malmstrom Air Force Base.
R. James Harvey
R. James Harvey (born Roland James Harvey; July 4, 1922 – July 20, 2019), also known as James Harvey; was an American politician and judge. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Harvey was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan Law School.
Harvey first served as Mayor of Saginaw, Michigan from 1957 through 1959. From 1961 through 1974, Harvey served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 8th congressional district.
In 1974, he was nominated to serve as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by Richard Nixon. He would retire from this court in 1984 to serve as Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan after being promoted by President Ronald Reagan. Harvey officially retired from politics and law in 2002.
Harvey died at his home in Naples, Florida on July 20, 2019 at the age of 97.
J. B. Dauda
Joseph Bandabla Dauda (24 December 1942 – 1 June 2017) widely known as J. B Dauda, was a Sierra Leonean politician and economist. He was born in Kenema District, Sierra Leone. He was a member of the All People's Congress.
Dauda served as a member of the Parliament of Sierra Leone for Kenema from 1986 through 1992. Dauda served as Second Vice-President from 1991 until he was overthrown in 1992. He returned to politics by serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010 through 2012.
Dauda died at a hospital in Accra, Ghana from a long-illness on the morning of 1 June 2017 at the age of 74.
Indian name
Indian names, written in roman letters may use the letters for the vowels to denote different sounds than is conventional in American or British English.
The Sanskrit/devanagari vowels अ (u̱nder), आ (ah), इ (in), ई (eat), उ (put), ऊ (boot), ए (ate), ऐ (add), ओ (oh - not as a diphthong), औ (ogre), are mapped to 'a', 'aa', 'i', 'ee', 'u', 'oo', 'ae', 'ei', 'o', 'ou', in that order, in most transcriptions of Indian names into English.
Thus ‘Ekamresh’ is pronounced ‘AkaamrAsh’ where the capitalized A’s represent the long ‘a’ (as in the name of the letter) and the 'aa' has the vowel sound in 'ah'. The short 'a' and short 'o' of American English are absent in Indian languages and their use can often result in mispronunciation of Indian names.
Furthermore, the letters used in English for the retroflex consonants (t and d) are also used to sound dentals (as in 'math' and 'the'), especially when they occur in the beginning of a word. As an example, the India name 'Dev' would not have its first consonant pronounced as in the American name 'Dave'. Similarly the name 'Tarun' would not have its first consonant sounded as in 'Tom'.
The letter 'h' is used to aspirate certain consonants. So, in the names 'Khare', 'Ghanshyam', 'Kaccha', 'Jhumki', 'Vitthal', 'Ranchodh', 'Thimmayya', 'Uddhav', 'Phaneesh', and 'Bhanu', the sounds 'ka', 'ga', 'cha', 'ja', 'ta' (retroflex), 'da' (retroflex), 'ta' (dental), 'da' (dental), 'pa', and 'ba' are sounded with an strong outward breath.
Lindau (, formerly "Lindau im Bodensee"; ; Swabian: "Linde" or "Lindou"/"Linda") is a major town and island on the eastern side of Lake Constance ("Bodensee") in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the rural district ("Landkreis") of Lindau and is near the borders of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau. As of 31 December 2018, 25,490 people lived there.
Singen (Hohentwiel)
Singen (Hohentwiel) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the border to Switzerland.
Taiwan Pride
Aspach, Haut-Rhin
Elementary education is provided by the government for children ages 6-14. After 14, families are required to pay for their children’s private school. Because of India’s massive population, high-paying jobs are very competitive and leave many unemployed.
Aspach-le-Haut
Aspach-le-Bas
Attenschwiller
Aubure
Baldersheim
Balgau
Kyburg, Switzerland
Kyburg is a former municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Kyburg merged into the municipality of Illnau-Effretikon.
Billikon, Brünggen, Ettenhusen, Mülau, Neu-Brünggen and Seemerrüti.
Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada
Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada () NI (12 June 1923 – 2 June 2017) was a noted Pakistani lawyer, served as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.