AcharyaChanakya/simple-wikipedia huggingface dataset:
Gloria Whelan
Gloria Whelan (born November 23, 1923) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. She is known for children's and young adult fiction. Her book "Homeless Bird" won the National Book Award for Young People's Fiction in 2000.
Whelan was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at the University of Michigan. In 1948, she married Joseph Whelan.
Whelan's books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia. Whelan is also the author of short stories which have appeared in "The Ontario Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review", and other literary quarterlies.
Her collection of short stories, "Playing with Shadows", was published by the Illinois Press. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies and in "Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards". Whelan is, according to Liz Rosenberg in the "Chicago Tribune", "an accomplished, graceful, and intelligent writer."
Whelan won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel "Homeless Bird". She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction with her short story "What World Is This?" and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories.
Denny Crum
Denzel Edwin "Denny" Crum (born March 2, 1937) is an American men's college basketball coach at the University of Louisville in Kentucky from 1971 to 2001 with a 675–295 record.
Crum guided the Cardinals to two NCAA championships (1980, 1986) and six Final Fours. Honored in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 1994, Crum is one of the major figures in the history of sports in Kentucky and in college basketball in general.
Crum was born in San Fernando, California. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Sam Pivnik
Szmuel "Sam" Pivnik (1 September 1926 – 30 August 2017) was a Polish Holocaust survivor, author and memoirist. He was the second son of Lajb Pivnik, a tailor, and Feigel Pivnik. He was born in Będzin, Poland.
Pivnik was registered in Auschwitz and tattooed with prisoner number 135913. On 27 December 1943, Pivnik was admitted to the prisoner infirmary in the Quarantine area KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau, B IIa, Block 9, with suspected typhus. On 19 January 1945 the camp at Fürstengrube was evacuated in the face of the advancing Red Army and prisoners who were fit enough to move were, initially, marched to a railhead at Gleiwitz.
Pivnik spent the next three months on construction work before he – together with approximately 200 other former Fürstengrube prisoners – were evacuated by barge along the River Elbe to Holstein in northern Germany.
Pivnik was liberated by the British Army in Neustadt on 4 May 1945. His memoir "Survivor – Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom" was published on 30 August 2012.
Pivnik died in London on 30 August 2017, two days before his 91st birthday of pneumonia-related complications.
Marion Marshall
Marion Marshall (born Marian Lepriel Tanner; June 8, 1929) is a American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California.
From 1963 to 1971, she was married to Robert Wagner. From 1952 to 1959, she was married to director Stanley Donen.
Marshall's first movie appearances were in the 20th Century Fox movies "Gentleman's Agreement" and "Daisy Kenyon" in 1947 (although they were both uncredited). She went on to play roles (many minor) in over 25 more movies until 1967.
Marshall had a small but significant role in his "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949). She was featured in three Martin and Lewis comedy movies, "The Stooge", "Sailor Beware" and "That's My Boy", with stars Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Xiang Shouzhi
Xiang Shouzhi (; November 28, 1917 – September 2, 2017) was a Chinese general and revolutionist. He was born in Xuanhan County, Sichuan.
Xiang was promoted to the rank of major general (shao jiang) in 1955 and general (Shang jiang) in 1988. He was a member of the 11st National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 12nd CPC Central Committee.
Xiang died on September 2, 2017 in Nanjing, China of heart failure at the age of 99.
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías (30 June 1912 – 11 March 2009) was a Mexican architect. She was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Dehesa worked for close to 50 years in the Federal District of Mexico City, primarily designing single-family homes and apartment buildings. She was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a degree in architecture.
She graduated in 1937, the first Mexican woman to graduate with a degree in architecture. Her thesis, which won honorable mention from the jurors, was entitled "Artillery Barracks Type". It was accepted in 1939 and she attained her professional designation.
In 1974, she was announced as a joint winner of the Ruth Rivera Prize, together with the first Mexican female civil engineer, Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza. In 2006, the College of Architects of Mexico City, honored her for her contributions.
Frantz Yvelin
Frantz Yvelin is the current managing director of French airline Aigle Azur, since 2017.
Yvelin started his career in Information technology as consultant. Then, he founded two French airlines : "L'Avion" in 2006 and "La Compagnie" in 2013.
Also, he is a teacher in air transport at the French Civil Aviation University ("Mastère Spécialisé" degrees).
Jacques Maillot
Kleinbösingen
Galmiz
Galmiz is a municipality in See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.
Oeste Futebol Clube
Oeste Futebol Clube is a football club which plays in Brazil.
FC Sion
FC Sion is a football club which plays in Switzerland.
Haldenstein
Haldenstein is a municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Zhao Wei
Zhao Wei (born 12 March 1976), also known as Vicky Zhao or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer. She is considered one of the most popular actresses in China and Chinese-speaking regions, and one of the highest paid actresses.
Over her 20 years acting career, Zhao has starred in many box-office smash-hits, including "Shaolin Soccer" (2001), "Red Cliff" (2008-2009), "Painted Skin" (2008), "" (2012), "Dearest" (2014) and "Lost in Hong Kong" (2015). She has received numerous awards from the Shanghai International Film Festival, Huabiao Awards, Changchun Film Festival, Hundred Flowers Awards and Shanghai Film Critics Awards for films like "A Time to Love" (2005) and "Mulan" (2009). In 2014, after almost 2-year break from acting, she returned to the silver screen in Peter Chan's movie "Dearest", and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress.
Her directorial debut "So Young" (2013) broke the box office record for movies directed by female Chinese directors in just a week. The movie also earned her multiple awards in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Golden Rooster Award for Best Directorial Debut, Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan.
Zhao was named as member of the main Jury at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
Zhao Wei became a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Programme on 20 November 2016.
Młoszowa
Młoszowa [] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trzebinia in Chrzanów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is 3 km southeast of Trzebinia, 8 km east of Chrzanów, and 33 km west of the regional capital Kraków.
In 2004, 2,610 people lived there.
ClearArmor
ClearArmor is an American cyber security firm based in Riegelsville, Pennsylvania. ClearArmor is the first cybersecurity company focused on "CyberSecurity Resource Planning (CSRP)". ClearArmor was named one of the "20 Most Promising Cyber Security Solution Providers" by CIOReview.
CyberSecurity is achieved by implementing a program, framework, and technology designed to fit the needs of the organization. A NIST CSF CyberSecurity Framework-based design enables organizations to benefit from a wide range of industry best practices and meets regulatory requirements.
ClearArmor’s CSRP (CyberSecurity Resource Planning) is a leadership driven, structured business process that implements the NIST CSF with processes, technology, metrics thereby achieving cyber security CSRP provides for a top-down methodology as dictated by the NIST Framework.
ClearArmor provides a one-stop Technology and Process solution for NIST-Compliant CyberSecurity which strengthens cybersecurity as dictated by the Presidential Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure in May 2017.
Bürserberg
Joseph Deiss
Joseph Deiss (born January 18, 1946) is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC). He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006, heading first the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (1999–2002) and then the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (2003–2006). He was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 65th session in 2010.
Martin Hub
Martin Hub (born March 13, 1964) is a Czech actor and stuntman. He was born in the Prague, Czech Republic, where he continues to live today, he acts in the stunt group Filmka. In 1992, he appeared in six parts of the American series, "Young Indiana Jones". He is best known for his appearances in movies such as "Titanic" (1997) , where he played the father of a small Slovak boy, "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) as Czech Wehrmacht Soldier, and he was Russell Crowe's stuntman in "Gladiator" (2000).
Free travel pass
A free travel pass is when certain passengers can use buses, trains or trams without paying a fare or presenting a ticket. They may need to present an identification card produced by their employer, or by the transport provider.
The following are types of passenger who may receive free travel on transport services:
Hinterrhein, Switzerland
Hinterrhein () was a municipality in Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the municipalities Hinterrhein, Nufenen and Splügen joined together to become the new municipality called Rheinwald.
Igis () is a former municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2012 the former municipalities of Igis and Mastrils merged into the new municipality of Landquart.
Tamara Tchinarova
Tamara Tchinarova Finch (also tr. Chinarova; born Tamara Rekemchuk, July 18, 1919 – August 31, 2017) was a Romanian ballet dancer and writer. She was born in Cetatea Albă, Kingdom of Romania.
During the 1940s Tchinarova worked significantly to the development of Australian dance companies, including the Kirsova Ballet and the Borovansky Ballet. After retiring from dancing, she worked as a Russian/English interpreter for touring ballet companies, including the Australian Ballet, and as a dance writer.
Tchinarova was married to Australian actor Peter Finch from 1943 until they divorced in 1959.
Tchinarova died on August 31, 2017 at her home in Malaga, Spain of pneumonia at the age of 98.
Hagenthal-le-Haut
Hartmannswiller
Hartmannswiller () is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Hattstatt
Seneca County, Ohio
Seneca County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 56,745 people lived there. The county seat is Tiffin. It is named for the Seneca Indians.
Hagenbach (disambiguation)
Hagenbach can mean:
Hagenbach (river)
The Hagenbach is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Miiko Taka
Taka was born in Seattle, Washington, but raised in Los Angeles, California.
Fairborn, Ohio
Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States. It is near Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 32,352 people lived there in the 2010 census.
Markethill
Markethill is a village in County Armagh in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.
Fairview Park, Ohio
Fairview Park is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in the United States. At the 2010 census, the 16,826 people lived there.
Huber Heights, Ohio
Huber Heights is a city in Ohio, United States. It is in Montgomery, Miami and Greene counties. The city is named for Charles Huber who built many of the houses in the area. 38,101 lived there at the 2010 census.
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond
Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, 10th Duke of Lennox, 10th Duke of Aubigny, 5th Duke of Gordon (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2017), styled Lord Settrington until 1935 and Earl of March and Kinrara between 1935 and 1989, was an English peer and landowner. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex from 1975 until 1990, and Lord Lieutenant from 1990 to 1994.
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (born 4 July 1934) is a British nobleman, peer, and politician.
Hamilton became Duke of Abercorn in the Peerage of Ireland on the death of his father in June 1979. He was the son of James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Mary Crichton (daughter of Lt.-Col. Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton (1872–1914), eldest son of John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne). He is a former politician and Lord Steward of the Household.
James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (born 6 April 1935), known as Earl of Kincardine until 1954 and Marquess of Graham between 1954 and 1992, is a Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland and a British Conservative Party politician.
The Duke of Montrose was a shadow minister for the Scotland Office before the 2010 General Election. He has also spent some time in China promoting renewable energy and environmental measures, and he is a fluent speaker of Mandarin.
Helmut Oberlander
Helmut Oberlander (born 15 February 1924) is a former Canadian citizen who was a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Oberlander is on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.
Since 1994, the Government of Canada has made repeated attempts to revoke Oberlander's citizenship.
In July 2017 the Government of Canada used an Order in Council to strip Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship for the fourth time.
Arrondissement of Nyons
The arrondissement of Nyons is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Drôme "département" in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital is the city of Nyons.
When the "arrrondissements" of France were created on 17 February 1800, the "arrondissement" of Nyons was part of the department of Drôme.
The "arrondissement" of Nyons is the most southern of the "arrondissements" of the department; it has an enclave of the Vaucluse department. It is the largest "arrondissement" of the department, with an area of . It is the second "arrondissement" in population with 141,971 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" of Nyons is bordered to the north by the "arrondissement" of Die, to the west by the Hautes-Alpes department, to the southeast by the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, to the south by the Vaucluse department and to the west by the Ardèche department.
There are 6 cantons in the arrondissement of Nyons: they are:
The "arrondissement" of Nyons has 149 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Disappearance of Etan Patz
Etan Patz was a boy from New York City who was abducted on May 25, 1979 in the SoHo village. He was declared dead in 2001. His disappearance started the use of milk cartons for missing children in the United States.
Jo Frost
Jo Frost (born 27 June 1971) is a British nanny who hosted a television program broadcasted in the United Kingdom called "Supernanny", first aired in 2004. She later did the United States version, and it first aired in January 2005. Supernanny ended in March 2011 in the United States and 7 September 2012 in the United Kingdom. Frost now does "Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour" on the UP channel.
Jo Frost has a husband, his name is Darrin Jackson. She married him in 2014.
Bus garage
A bus garage or bus depot is a place where buses are stored and repaired. Bus garages can also be called a bus depot but in some countries a bus depot can also mean a bus station. In many areas, bus garages are on the site of former tram sheds, where trams were stored, before they were replaced with buses. In other areas, garages were built to replace horse-bus yards.
The largest bus depot in the world is Millennium Park Bus Depot In Delhi India.
Most bus garages will contain:
Garages may also contain recovery vehicles.
Bus depot
Bus depot may mean:
Peadar Lamb
Peadar Lamb (1930 – 1 September 2017) was an Irish stage, television and voice actor. He was born in Carraroe, Galway, Ireland.
Lamb was known for starring in many Irish language productions, for playing king Fin Varra in the television series "Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog" and for lending his voice to old Piggley Winks on the Children's television series "Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks".
Lamb died in his sleep at his home in Glenageary, Ireland on 1 September 2017 at the age of 87.
Anyang (Henan)
Anyang () is a city in northern Henan in the People's Republic of China.
Hebi
Hebi () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China.
Jiaozuo
Jiaozuo () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China. In 2010, 3,540,101 people lived there.
Jiaozuo administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.
Puyang
Puyang (濮阳) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan province, China. It is on the northern shore of the Yellow River.
Puyang administers 1 district and 5 counties.
Xinxiang
Xinxiang () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China. In 2010, 5,707,801 people lived there.
Xinxiang administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 6 counties.
Kaifeng
Kaifeng () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, China. It was once the capital of the Song dynasty, and is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China. About 5 million people lived there in 2010.
Kaifeng administers five districts and four counties:
Luohe
Luohe () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. In 2010, 2,544,266 people lived there.
Luohe administers 3 districts and 2 counties.
Zhoukou
Zhoukou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, China. In 2010, 8,953,793 people lived there.
Zhoukou administers 1 district, 1 county-level city and 8 counties.
Pingdingshan
Pingdingshan (平顶山) is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It is also called Eagle City. In 2010, 4,904,701 people lived there.
Pingdingshan administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.
Luoyang
Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province, China. It has also been spelled Loyang. It is located by the Luo River and Yellow River. In 2010, 6,549,941 people lived there.
Luoyang administers 5 "built-up" urban districts, 1 additional district, 1 county-level city, and 9 more rural counties:
Nanyang, Henan
Nanyang () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Henan province, China. In 2010, 10,263,660 lived there.
Nanyang administers 2 districts, 1 county-level city and 10 counties.
Sanmenxia
Sanmenxia (三门峡) is prefecture-level city in western Henan Province, China. Its name has also been spelled Sanmenhsia. It is on the south side of the Yellow River. In 2010, 2,234,018 people lived there.
Sanmenxia administers two districts, two county-level cities and two counties.
Shangqiu
Shangqiu (商丘) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan in the People's Republic of China. Its name has also been spelled Shangkiu. Shangqiu was the first capital of the Shang dynasty. In 2010, 7,362,975 people lived there.
Shangqiu administers 2 districts, 1 county-level city and 6 counties.
Xinyang
Xinyang (信阳) is a prefecture-level city in southern Henan in the People's Republic of China. It has also been spelled Sinyang. The city is located on the south bank of the Huai River. In 2010, 6,109,106 people lived there.
Xinyang is divided into two districts and eight counties.
Xuchang
Xuchang () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. In 2010, 4,307,488 people lived there.
The prefecture-level city of Xuchang administers 2 district, 2 county-level cities and 2 counties.
Zhumadian
Zhumadian (驻马店) is a is a prefecture-level city in southern Henan in the People's Republic of China. It has also been spelled Chumatien. In 2010, 7,230,744 people lived there.
Zhumadian administers 1 district and 9 counties.
Derek Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury
Derek Coates Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury (17 June 1918 – 21 November 2017) was a British member of the House of Lords. He also served as a senior civil servant and agricultural expert. He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.
He served as Chairman and later President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; President of the Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society; President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; President of the British Pig Association; and a Vice-President of the Nature in Art Trust. Barber was knighted in the 1984 Birthday Honours and was created a life peer as Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, "of Gotherington in the County of Gloucestershire", on 12 August 1992.
Barber was a member of the House of Lords until his retirement on 25 March 2016. He died on 21 November 2017 at the age of 99.
Jim Bridenstine
James Frederick Bridenstine (born June 15, 1975) is an American politician. Bridenstine was the 13th Administrator of NASA from April 2018 to January 2021. He served as the United States Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district, based in Tulsa, from 2013 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party.
On September 1, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Bridenstine to be the next Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Export–Import Bank of the United States
The Export–Import Bank of the United States (abbreviated as Ex-Im Bank or the Bank) is the official export credit agency (ECA) of the United States Federal Government.
Operating as a wholly owned federal government corporation, the Bank "assists in financing and facilitating U.S. exports of goods and services". Under its charter, the Bank does not compete with private sector lenders, but rather provides financing for transactions that would otherwise not occur because commercial lenders are either unable or unwilling to accept the political or commercial risks inherent in the deal.
Its acting chairman and president is Charles J. Hall, awaiting the nomination and confirmation of a replacement for former chairman and president Fred Hochberg.
Scott Garrett
Ernest Scott Garrett (born July 9, 1959) is an American politician and banker.
Garrett was the U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 to 2003.
Garrett chaired the powerful United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He lost his 2016 reelection campaign and was succeeded by Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat.
On June 19, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Garrett to become chairman and president of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, a post that requires confirmation by the United States Senate. In a 10-13 vote on December 19, 2017, the Senate Banking Committee declined to advance his nomination.
Office of National Drug Control Policy
The Office of National Drug Control Policy is a part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
The "Director of National Drug Control Policy", known as the "Drug Czar", heads the office. "Drug Czar" was a term first used in the media by then-Senator Joe Biden in October 1982.
In addition to running the ONDCP, the director evaluates, coordinates, and oversees both the international and domestic anti-drug efforts of executive branch agencies and ensures that such efforts sustain and complement State and local anti-drug activities. The Director advises the President regarding changes in the organization, management, budgeting, and personnel of federal agencies that affect U.S. anti-drug efforts; and regarding federal agency compliance with their obligations under the National Drug Control Strategy, an annual report required by law.
As early as February 2017, "The New York Times" had reported that the Trump administration was considering eliminating the office, and other programs responsible for a total of $2.5 billion of domestic spending.
In May, the office's website was blanked and Politico and "The Washington Post" both reported that the office was about to be drastically defunded.
The title of Director, as well as the office, was created by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. The position had cabinet-level status from 1993 to 2009.
Tom Marino
Thomas Anthony Marino (born August 13, 1952) is an American politician and attorney. He was the U.S. Representative for from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.
On September 1, 2017, The White House announced that President Donald Trump nominated Marino as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He withdrew on October 17, 2017 following reports that he championed a bill that protected opioid manufacturers and prevented DEA agents from being able to battle the Opioid Epidemic.
United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.
President John F. Kennedy created USAID from its predecessor agencies in 1961 by executive order. USAID's programs are authorized by Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act, which Congress supplements through directions in annual funding appropriation acts and other legislation. Although it is technically an independent agency, USAID operates subject to the foreign policy guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council.
USAID operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
Mark Andrew Green
Mark Andrew Green (born June 1, 1960) is an American politician and diplomat. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Green was in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, representing . He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Wisconsin in 2006. He was the United States Ambassador to Tanzania from August 2007 until January 2009.
In 2014, he became the president of the International Republican Institute, and sits on the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
On May 10, 2017, President Donald Trump chose Green to lead the United States Agency for International Development. Green was confirmed on August 3, and sworn in on August 7, 2017. He resigned in April 2020.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), quality standards in long-term care facilities (more commonly referred to as nursing homes) through its survey and certification process, clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, and oversight of HealthCare.gov.
Seema Verma
Ajit Varadaraj Pai (born January 10, 1973) is an American attorney. He serves as the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He is the first Indian American to hold the office.
Pai was born in Buffalo, New York. He was raised in Parsons, Kansas. Pai studied at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago.
He has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.
In January 2017, President Donald Trump named Pai as Chairman of the agency.
In March 2017, Trump announced that he would renominate Pai to serve another five-year term at the FCC, which will require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Before his appointment to the FCC, Pai held positions with the Department of Justice, the United States Senate, the FCC's Office of General Counsel, and Verizon Communications.
On May 18, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission took the first formal step toward dismantling the net neutrality rules.
Pai was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for an extra five-year term as FCC Chairman on October 2, 2017.
He became well known in 2017 in his criticism and attempt to end the Obama-era policy net neutrality. It received wide criticism.
On November 30, 2020, Pai announced his plans to leave the FCC. He resigned from his post as FCC Chairman on January 20, the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States.
Pai lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Janine Van Lancker, daughter Annabelle Malathi Pai, and son Alexander Madhav Pai.
Scott Gottlieb
Scott Gottlieb is an American physician. Gottlieb was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019.
Gottlieb was a clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine, a resident fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, and an internist at Tisch Hospital.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.
The SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States.
In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and other statutes. The SEC was created by Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as and commonly referred to as the Exchange Act or the 1934 Act).
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was the first Chair of the SEC. Later SEC commissioners and chairmen include William O. Douglas, Jerome Frank (one of the leaders of the legal realism movement), and William J. Casey (who later headed the Central Intelligence Agency under President Ronald Reagan).
The current chair is Gary Gensler serving since 2021 after being nominated by President Joe Biden.
Jay Clayton
Walter J. "Jay" Clayton III (born July 11, 1966) is an American attorney. He was the 32nd Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 4, 2017 until December 23, 2020.
From 1993 to 1995, Clayton clerked for Marvin Katz, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
At Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton was co-managing partner of the firm's General Practice Group.
On January 4, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Clayton to be SEC Chairman. On May 2, 2017, the U.S. Senate voted 61-37 to confirm Clayton as Chairman of the SEC. Votes cast in favor of Clayton's confirmation included nine Democrats and one Independent alongside 51 Republican votes. On May 4, 2017, Clayton was sworn in, marking the official beginning of his role as Chairman.
On June 19, 2020, United States Attorney General Bill Barr announced that President Trump would nominate Clayton to replace Geoffrey Berman as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Richard Grenell
Richard Allen Grenell (born September 18, 1966) is an American media commentator and diplomat. Grenell was the acting Director of National Intelligence from February 20, 2020 to May 26, 2020. He was the United States Ambassador to Germany from May 8, 2018 to June 1, 2020. He was the longest serving U.S. spokesman at the United Nations.
Grenell also briefly served as national security spokesman for Mitt Romney in his 2012 campaign for President, becoming the first openly gay spokesman for a Republican presidential candidate. He resigned after pressure from social conservatives.
In September 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Grenell as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. He was confirmed 56–42 on April 26, 2018. He presented his credentials to the President of Germany on May 8, 2018.
In June 2013, Grenell revealed that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and started chemotherapy. In September 2013, Grenell announced that he was in remission.
Grenell is openly gay.
On February 19, 2020, President Trump announced his plans to make Grenell as the acting Director of National Intelligence. This made Grenell the first openly gay politician to become a member of the United States Cabinet.
Kenneth I. Juster
Kenneth I. Juster (born November 24, 1954) served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the United States Government from January 2017-June 2017.
According to press reports, in June 2017 he was to be nominated to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 2, 2017.
Majuli
Mājuli or Majoli (, is an island in the Brahmaputra River, Assam, India.
The island had a total area of at the beginning of the 20th century. Much land was eroded, so it had an area of only in 2014. Majuli has shrunk as the river surrounding it has grown. However, it is recognised by Guinness Book of World Records as the World's Largest River Island.
Parencyma
Parenchyma forms the bulk of plant ground tissue, where they may be specialised to function in photosynthesis, storage, or transport. Parenchyma is integral to vascular tissue, where it provides a route of exchange for materials within and between the xylem and the phloem.
Parenchyma refers to both a cell type and a simple tissue and is found within all three tissue systems of vascular plants: the dermal, ground (fundamental) and vascular tissue systems.
Parenchyma functions are diverse and dependant on both location within the plant and morphological specialisation.
Parenchyma forms the bulk of plant ground tissue, where they may be specialised to function in photosynthesis, storage, or transport.
Parenchyma is integral to vascular tissue, where it provides a route of exchange for materials within and between the xylem and the phloem.
Parenchyma is composed of living cells that retain the ability to divide and hence play a key role in several developmental processes, as well in plant response to wounding.
Joseph Joestar
Joseph Joestar (ジョセフ・ジョースター, Josefu Jōsutā), born on 27 September 1920, is a main character from the manga and anime "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure". First introduced in "Battle Tendency" with his friend, Caesar Zeppeli, he appears in the later parts "Stardust Crusaders" and "Diamond is Unbreakable". After "Stardust Crusaders", Joseph's grandson, Jotaro Kujo, is the JoJo with the most major appearances in the series. From his birth he can use a special power called the "Ripple" (Hamon in the original Japanese), which is based on life energy. In Jojo's Bizarre adventure people also can have special powers that are called a "Stand". Joseph has a stand which is called Hermit Purple. It is called that because it represents the 9th tarot card: The Hermit. This stand can take spirit photos, be used as a grappling hook, and conduct the Ripple like an electric current. It appears as a lot of purple vines covered in thorns.
Bayer
Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist and co-songwriter of Steely Dan.
Becker and Donald Fagen reformed Steely Dan in 1993 and had remained active, most notably including their 2000 "Two Against Nature" album, which won four Grammy Awards. Becker also released two solo albums, 1994's "11 Tracks of Whack" and 2008's "Circus Money".
Becker died on September 3, 2017 after suffering from an unknown illness in Maui, Hawaii at the age of 67.
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Hecken, Haut-Rhin
Damon Keith
Damon Jerome Keith (July 4, 1922 – April 28, 2019) was an American judge. He was a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He served as Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1977 until his retirement in 1995. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter.
Keith was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Wayne State University, at Howard University and at West Virginia State University. Keith married Rachel Boone in 1953. They had three daughters. Boone died in 2007.
Keith died on April 28, 2019 at his home in Detroit, at the age of 96. The cause was problems from leukemia and heart disease.
Joan Colom
Joan Colom i Altemir (April 1921 – 3 September 2017) was a Spanish photographer. He was born in Barcelona.
Colom was known for his portraits of Barcelona's underworld and working class, especially in the infamous neighbourhood of Raval. Colom was a self-taught photographer, and produced his best-known pictures while working during the week as an accountant.
In 1957 he became a member of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya (AFC), and co-founded in 1960 the artist's group "El Mussol" ("The Owl").
Colom died in Barcelona on 3 September 2017 at the age of 96.
Hégenheim
Hégenheim is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is on the border to Switzerland.
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror".
Ashbery died on September 3, 2017 at his home in Hudson, New York of natural causes at the age of 90. He was survived by his husband David Kermani.
Richard Sui On Chang
Richard Sui On Chang (November 30, 1941–August 30, 2017) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii from 1997 to 2006. He was ordained to the diaconate on March 5, 1966, and to the priesthood on September 4, 1966.
Chang was consecrated Bishop of Hawaii on March 30, 1997 and died in Honolulu on August 30, 2017 from pneumonia at the age of 75.
Horacio White
Horacio White (April 2, 1927 – August 26, 2017) was an Argentine swimmer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 100 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle relay, reaching the final in the latter and coming 6th.
White died in Buenos Aires on August 26, 2017 at the age of 90.
Michael J. C. Gordon
Michael John Caldwell "Mike" Gordon FRS (28 February 1948 – 22 August 2017) was a British computer scientist. He was born in Ripon, Yorkshire.
Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994, and in 2008 a two-day research meeting on "Tools and Techniques for Verification of System Infrastructure" was held there in honour of his 60th birthday.
Gordon died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire on 22 August 2017 at the age of 69.
M. R. Srinivasan
Viktor Cherepkov
Viktor Ivanovich Cherepkov (; April 16, 1942 – September 2, 2017) was a Russian politician. He was a Deputy of the State Duma of the third and fourth convocation. He was mayor of Vladivostok (1993–1994; 1996–1998). He was a Captain 1st rank in retirement.
Cherepkov died on September 2, 2017 of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia at the age of 75.
Dave Hlubek
David Lawrence "Dave" Hlubek [ ] (August 28, 1951 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician and singer. He was the lead guitarist and founding member of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His best known song was "Flirtin with Disaster".
Hlubek died of a heart attack on September 3, 2017, at the age of 66.
Catalan Company
The Grand Catalan Company (), officially the "Magna Societas Catalanorum", and widely known as the Catalan Company, was a free company of mercenaries founded by Roger de Flor in the early 14th century.
De Flor recruited soldiers left unemployed with the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 by the Crown of Aragon, who opposed the French dynasty of Anjou.
In 1303 de Flor offered the services of his Company to the Byzantine emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus and his son the Basileus Michael IX Palaeologus. The Orthodox Byzantine Empire was under threat by the Turks, who were invading Anatolia and established the mighty Sultanate of Rum, whose name expressed succeeding to the '[Eastern] Roman' empire.
Roger de Flor's offer was accepted by both Byzantium and by the Crown of Aragon, rulers in Sicily and southern Italy, who were quite eager to rid themselves of unemployed and unruly soldiers. Roger de Flor departed with 39 galleys and transports carrying around 1,500 knights and 4,000 Almogavars, special foot soldiers employed mainly serving the kingdom's interests in the Mediterranean Sea, especially from Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon.
Roger de Flor arrived in Constantinople with the help of king Frederick III of Sicily in 1303, and married the niece of Andronicus, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria, and was named Megas Doux ('Great Dux', i.e. head of the fleet). Roger de Flor campaigned with his Company in Anatolia, defeating the Turks but also engaging in widespread violence and looting of the Byzantine inhabitants. By this point, the Catalans, were considered by the Byzantines to be little better than brigands and freebooters.
This put him at odds with the Byzantine Emperor, and the indiscipline of the Almogavars marked the end of Roger de Flor. On 30 April 1305, he was slain along with 300 cavalry and 1,000 infantry by the Alans, another group of foreign mercenaries at the service of the Emperor.
The Company proceeded to devastate the Balkanic regions of Thrace and Macedonia for the next two years, including an attack on Thessalonica by land and sea, and raids against the monasteries on Mount Athos. Until recently no Catalans were allowed on the Athos peninsula by the Athonite monks.The struggle ended with the departure of both the Infante and Ferran, and with Bernat de Rocafort becoming leader of the Company.
Bernat de Rocafort offered the Company's services to Charles of Valois to strengthen his claim to the Byzantine Empire and whom the Count of Barcelona had expelled from Sicily before founding the Company in a dynastic war for the Crown of Aragon. In 1309, Charles of Valois' deputy Thibault de Chepoy ended the leadership of Rocafort, arresting him and sending him to Naples where he died of hunger the same year.
In 1318 the Company expanded its power into Thessaly, taking control of the Duchy of Neopatria.
The Catalan rule was to last until 1388–1390, when they were defeated by the Navarrese Company under Pedro de San Superano, Juan de Urtubia, and allied with the Florentines under Nerio I Acciaioli of Corinth. His descendants controlled them until 1456 when they were conquered by the Ottoman Empire. By that time, like many military enterprises, the Great Company had faded out of history.
The early history of the Catalan Company was chronicled by Ramon Muntaner, a former member of the company, in his "Crònica".
Joris Vercammen
Joris August Odilius Ludovicus Vercammen (born October 14, 1952 in Lier) is a Belgian priest of an Old Catholic Church denomination.
Vercammen was a Roman Catholic priest in his native country.
He went to the Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands in 1988. He has been archbishop of this church since 2000.
Joris Vercammen is married with three children.
Johnny Gaudreau
John Michael "Johnny" Gaudreau (born August 13, 1993) is an American professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for the Calgary Flames in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Mount Cook
Mount Cook also known in the local Maori language as Aoraki or Aorangi is the highest mountain in New Zealand with a height of 3,724 meters (12,218 ft.)
It is part of the Southern Alps Mountain Range and is flanked by the Hooker Glacier to the southwest and the Tasman Glacier to the east. The mountain has three peaks: The south peak being the lowest at 3,593m/11,788 ft., The middle peak at 3,717m/12,195 ft. and the North peak being the highest at 3,724m/12,218 ft. This is the height of the north peak after the landslide of December 1991 which took 30 meters off the top and also turned the summit into a knife-edge ridge.
The mountain was named by Captain John Lort Stokes in honour of Captain James Cook who travelled around the islands of New Zealand in 1770 however the first Europeans to see Mount Cook were probably members of Abel Tasman's crew.
It was first climbed by Tom Fyre, George Graham and Jack Clarke. Mount Cook is a favourite destination for climbers and was used by Sir Edmund Hillary as training for his historic climb of Mount Everest.
London Bridge (Fergie song)
"London Bridge" is the debut single recorded by American singer and rapper Fergie for her debut studio album, "The Dutchess" (2006). It was written by Fergie, Mike Hartnett, Sean Garrett, and producer Polow da Don.
Arrondissement of Valence
The arrondissement of Valence is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Drôme "département" in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital is the city of Valence.
When the Drôme department was created on 17 February 1800, the "arrondissement" of Valence was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Valence is the most northern of the "arrondissements" of the department; it is the smallest "arrondissement" of the department, with an area of , but the one with more people living in it, with 314,233 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The "arrondissement" of Valence is bordered to the north and east by the Isère department, to the south by the "arrondissement" of Die and to the west by the Ardèche department.
There are 12 cantons in the "arrondissement" of Valence: they are:
The "arrondissement" of Valence has 105 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
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David Consunji
David M. Consunji (October 18, 1921 – September 4, 2017) was a Filipino businessman and politician. He was the chairman of a publicly listed holding firm, DMCI Holdings, Incorporated. He was a former secretary of the Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications from 1970 to 1975, during the Marcos administration.
In 2014, Forbes listed him as the 6th richest Filipino, with a net worth of US$3.9 billion.
Consuji's death was announced on September 4, 2017. His cause of death was not given.
Sultan Ahmed
Sultan Ahmed (6 June 1953 – 4 September 2017) was an Indian politician. He was born in Kolkata, India. He served as the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Council of Ministers of the Republic of India. He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) on a Trinamool Congress ticket. He had previously been a 2-time Congress MLA for Entally ( in1987–91 and once again in 1996–2001).
Ahmed died at a hospital in Kolkata after suffering from cardiac arrest on 4 September 2017 at the age of 64.
Mountaga Diallo
Mountaga Diallo (1942 – 4 September 2017) was a Senegalese diplomat and former army general. He was the Ambassador of Senegal to Russia from presenting his credentials to Russian President Vladimir Putin on 17 February 2005 until his death in 2017. He previously served as the Force Commander of MONUC from 2000 to 2004. He was born in Kolda, Senegal.
Diallo died on 4 September 2017 in Dakar, Senegal of a heart attack at the age of 74 or 75.
Rosey Grier
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932) is an American actor, singer, Protestant minister, conservative politician and former professional American football player.
Grier was born in Cuthbert, Georgia. He was named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Grier was raised in Roselle, New Jersey. He studied at Pennsylvania State University.