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NRG is a South Korean K-pop band formed in 1997 by Music Factory Entertainment. The group rose to fame with their debut song, "I Can Do It."
In 1999, members Myunghoon and Sungjin left the group, while the other three released the album "NRG 003." After member Hwansung tragically died of pnemonia in 2000, Myunghoon and Sungjin rejoined the group for their memorial album, "Sorrow."
The group made an official come back with "Hit Song" in 2003, which ranked #1 on the music charts.
Following the departure of Sunghoon, the 3 remaining members released 1 more album before disbandment. In 2017, NRG announced a new album would be released on the 20th anniversary of debut.Red Velvet (group)
Red Velvet is a South Korean girl group that debuted in 2014 with 4 members: Wendy, Irene, Joy, and Seulgi. Their debut song, "Happiness," was released in August 2014. In 2015, SM added Yeri to the group.
Blackpink
Blackpink is a South Korean girl group that debuted on 8 August 2016. The members are Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, and Lisa.
They are the highest-charting female K-pop act on both "Billboard" Hot 100 and "Billboard" 200. They are also the first and only K-pop girl group to enter and top the "Billboard"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Emerging Artists chart. They are also the first female K-pop group to have four number-one singles on "Billboard"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s World Digital Song Sales chart. Their song "Ddu-Du Ddu-Du" was the most-viewed Korean music video in the first 24 hours on YouTube. In January 2019, it became the most viewed music video by a K-pop group on YouTube. Blackpink was also the first female K-pop group to perform at Coachella.
Most viewed songs
Steve Baker (illusionist)
Steve "Mr. Escape" Baker (July 26, 1938 – September 17, 2017) was an American comedian and magician. He was best known as an escape artist. He was born in Oakland, California.
During his career from 1967 through the early 1990s Baker appeared on "Dick Clark's LIVE Wednesday", "Games People Play", and was a star on an HBO special along with Tony Curtis and special guest star Dorothy Dietrich, called "The World's Greatest Escapes", and several times on "That's Incredible!".
Baker died on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 79.
Günter Halm
Günter Halm (27 August 1922 – 26 September 2017) was a German Nazi infantryman and lieutenant. He was born in Elize, Germany. He was raised in Hanover, Germany. He was the youngest member of the Afrika Korps to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his bravery in action. He was active in the military from 1941 through 1945.
Halm died in Bad Münder, Germany on 26 September 2017 at the age of 95.
Vladimir Voevodsky
Vladimir Alexandrovich Voevodsky (; , 4 June 1966 – 30 September 2017) was a Russian-American mathematician. He was born in Moscow.
His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. He was also known for the proof of the Milnor conjecture and motivic Bloch-Kato conjectures and for the univalent foundations of mathematics and homotopy type theory.
Voevodsky died on September 30, 2017 at his home in Princeton, New Jersey of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 51.
Terry Downes
Terry Downes, BEM (9 May 1936 – 6 October 2017) was a British middleweight boxer, and occasional movie actor. He was nicknamed the "Paddington Express" for his aggressive fighting style. As of 2008, Downes was Britain’s oldest surviving former world champion. He held the world middleweight title for ten months from 1961-62. He was born in London.
One of his best known roles was in Roman Polanski's 1967 movie "The Fearless Vampire Killers", in which he played "Koukol", a hunchbacked servant. His other movie credits included appearances in "A Study in Terror" (1965), "Five Ashore in Singapore" (1967), "The Golden Lady" (1979), "If You Go Down in the Woods Today" (1981), and the Derek Jarman movie "Caravaggio" (1986).
Downes died on 6 October 2017 in London, aged 81.
Toon Geurts
Antonius "Toon" Geurts (29 February 1932 – 6 October 2017) was a Dutch sprint canoer. He was most successful in the K-2 1000 m event, in which he finished in seventh, second and fourth place at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics, respectively. He won silver at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was born in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
Geurts died in The Hague, the Netherlands on 6 October 2017 at the age of 85.
Ralphie May
Ralph Oliver "Ralphie" May (February 17, 1972 – October 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but raised in Clarksville, Arkansas. His jokes were mainly about observational comedy, wit, word play, satire, sexuality, race, religion, family life and obesity.
May was influenced by Sam Kinison, Lenny Bruce, Buddy Hackett, and Richard Pryor. In 2003, May was chosen to participate in the first season of "Last Comic Standing". He finished in second place in the competition. After that, he appeared in comedy shows like "The Wayne Brady Show" and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". In 2005, he was the only white comedian on "The Big Black Comedy Show", which also featured Mo'Nique, Rodman, and Vince Morris.
May was married to Lahna Turner from 2005 until they separated in 2015. They had two children.
May died of a pneumonia-related heart attack at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 6, 2017 at the age of 45.
John Herrnstein
John Ellett Herrnstein (March 31, 1938 – October 3, 2017) was an American baseball and football player. He played Major League Baseball from 1962 to 1966 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Braves. He also played college baseball and football at the University of Michigan from 1956 to 1959. He was born in Hampton, Virginia.
Herrnstein died at his home in Chillicothe, Ohio on October 3, 2017 of complications from leukemia, at the age of 79.
Jon Huntsman Sr.
Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. (June 21, 1937 – February 2, 2018) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Huntsman plastics are used in a wide variety of familiar objects, including (formerly) McDonald's clamshell burger containers.
From 1971 to 1972, he was the White House Staff Secretary during the Richard Nixon presidency.
Huntsman Sr. died of prostate cancer in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 2, 2018 at the age of 80.
Rainer Weiss
Rainer "Rai" Weiss (; ; born September 29, 1932) is a German-born American physicist of partly Jewish descent (his father was Jewish).
He is known for his works in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He is a professor of physics emeritus at MIT. He is best known for inventing the laser interferometric technique which is the basic operation of LIGO.
Weiss was Chair of the COBE Science Working Group.
In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Barry Barish
Barry Clark Barish (born January 27, 1936) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Laureate. He is a Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading expert on gravitational waves, and is of Jewish descent.
In 2017, Barish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. He is known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.
In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
Daisaku Ikeda
AKMU
AKMU (also known as Akdong Musician) is a duo consisting of brother and sister, Lee Chanhyuk and Lee Suhyun. The duo performed together for the 1st time at an audition for LOEN in 2012, and eventually signed under YG Entertainnment. The group officially debuted in 2014 with their album PLAY. In 2017, Chanhyuk enlisted for the military, thus putting the group on hiatus until his return.Santiago Tequixquiac
Santiago Tequixquiac (or "Tequixquiac") is a city in the state of México in Mexico. About 22,000 people live there.
Malinalco Municipality
Malinalco is a municipality of the state of Mexico.
Apaxco Municipality
Apaxco is a municipality of the state of Mexico.
Atlacomulco Municipality
Atlacomulco is a municipality of the state of Mexico.
Lydie Polfer
Lydie Catherine Polfer (born November 22, 1952 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgian politician of the Democratic Party (DP). She is the current mayor of Luxembourg City.
Polfer was Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, an MEP, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
She was mayor of Luxembourg City from 1982 to 1999, and has been again since 2013.
Her father Camille Polfer was also mayor of Luxembourg City.
Cantons of the Allier department
This is a list of cantons of the Allier department:
Camille Polfer
Camille Polfer (November 21, 1924 in Namur - March 19, 1983 in Luxembourg City) was a Luxembourgian sports teacher and politician of the Democratic Party (DP).
He was mayor of Luxembourg City from 1980 to 1981, and was succeeded by his daughter Lydie Polfer due to his poor health.
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Bronisław Chromy
Bronisław Chromy (June 3, 1925 – October 4, 2017) was a Polish sculptor, painter, and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Chromy was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. He was born at Leńcze near Lanckorona.
Chromy died in Kraków, Poland on October 4, 2017 at the age of 92.
Konstantin Sarsania
Konstantin Sergeyevich Sarsania (; 11 June 1968, Moscow – 7 October 2017, Moscow) was a Russian professional football coach and a former player and agent.
At the time of his death he worked as director of sports for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.
He made his debut as a player in the Soviet Second League in 1988 for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow.
Darsi Ferrer Ramírez
Darsi Ferrer Ramírez (2 November 1969 – 6 October 2017), was a Cuban doctor, journalist, director of Juan Bruno Zayas Health and Human Rights Center, and a dissident. He put in jail by President Fidel Castro.
He organized protests at the UNESCO headquarters in Havana and published about poverty in Cuba. He was arrested and went on a hunger strike. Ferrer was facing up to 8 years in prison. He was released on 22 June 2010.
Ramírez in Havana on 6 October 2017 at the age of 47.
Howie Mandel
Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian, actor, television host, and voice actor. He is known as host of the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal in Show on December 19 2005-Present in Karen Vann"
Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role as rowdy ER intern Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama "St. Elsewhere". He is also well known for being the creator and star of the children's cartoon "Bobby's World", as well as a judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent".
Louis Walsh
Marek Gołąb
Marek Gołąb (7 May 1940 – 6 October 2017) was a Polish weightlifter who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics at which he won a bronze medal in the middle-heavyweight division. He was born in Zakliczyn, Poland.
Gołąb died in Warsaw, Poland on 6 October 2017 at the age of 77.
Canton of Bellerive-sur-Allier
The canton of Bellerive-sur-Allier is an administrative division of the Allier department in central France. The central government decided to reorganize the regions of the country. As a result, Bellerive-sur-Allier was created in 2015.
There are several communes:
Jinusean
Jinusean is a South Korean hip-hop duo formed by YG Entertainment in 1997, and is known as YG Entertainments 1st major k-pop group. The group's debut song, "Tell Me" brought the group instant fame. After their album "Nora Bossa", in 2004, the group became inactive until 2015 when they returned with the single, "Tell Me One More Time," performed with (then) YG trainee, Jang Hana.National Day of the People's Republic of China
National Day is a yearly holiday in the People's Republic of China. It celebrates the beginning of its new government on October1, 1949. It is one of two Golden Weeks in the country, along with the Chinese New Year.
The Mandarin Chinese name of the holiday is "Guóqìng Jié", which means "Nation-Celebrating Holiday" or "Holiday of National Celebration". It is written in traditional characters and in simplified characters. The holiday has also become a common given name in China, with around 420,000 people named "Guoqing" in 2010.
From at least the time of the Western Jin dynasty in the late 3rd century, the birthday of the emperor was celebrated as a national holiday. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Republic of China celebrated its national day on October10.
Near the end of the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party began the People's Republic of China on September21, 1949. This is sometimes known as "Chinese Independence Day". The PRC leaders and 300,000 Chinese celebrated the creation of the new government on October1 in Tian'anmen Square. At the first meeting of the first CPPCC on Oct.9, Xu Guangping introduced Ma Xulun's suggestion that China have a yearly national day celebrated apart from the birthday of the Communist Party. They recommended it be October1, the day of Mao's public message. The Central People's Government passed their suggestion on December2, making Oct.1 a yearly holiday.
National Day was celebrated with military parades in Beijing every year from 1949 to 1959. By 1960, the problems during the Great Leap Forward caused the government to suggest saving money on celebrations. From 1960 to 1970, there were no military parades but the day was still celebrated with large gatherings in Tian'anmen Square. After the Ninth Congress, the big meetings in Beijing were discouraged in favor of smaller events at parks and other locations from 1971 to 1983. 1984 saw the first military parade in many years, celebrating the PRC's 35th anniversary. There was another large military parade at the 50th anniversary in 1999, and a third at the 60th anniversary in the year after the Beijing Olympics.
Since the year 2000, National Day has been one of the country's Golden Weeks: there are three days of paid time away from work from Oct.1 to Oct.3 and two weekends around it are moved to make a 7 day long holiday. These Golden Weeks copied a similar Japanese idea. The 2017 National Day was 8 days long, because it also included the Mid-Autumn Festival. In 2014, the day before National Day became Martyrs' Day, celebrating the soldiers and other Chinese who died creating the PRC.
National Day begins with the raising of the national flag at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing.
The holiday is associated with large military parades in Beijing. The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party give speeches and watch from Tian'anmen, the southern gate of the Forbidden City, and millions of Chinese people watch from Tian'anmen Square and on television. China no longer has these parades every year, but the idea now is to have a smaller parade every 5th anniversary and a larger parade every 10th anniversary. When these parades occur, the city tries very hard to keep everyone safe and to make the event look good. For the 2009 parade, the city police added 1,120,000 volunteers to patrol the streets. 50,000 policemen and women worked more than 25 hours without stopping for rest or sleep.
Every year, many large groups of flowers are put along Beijing's Chang'an Avenue. The 2017 centerpiece measured across its base and stood high. Lan Hailang and dozens of other designers and officials made it from April to September, with at least 70 big design changes. The finished designs should show how China is getting better and what it plans to do next. Parts of the 2017 flower designs show the Belt-and-Road Initiative to make China's connections with Central Asia better; other parts show ways Beijing and Tianjin are going to be better over the next few years.
There are state dinners in Beijing and at Chinese embassies around the world throughout the week.
In the evening, fireworks are set off in Beijing, Hong Kong, and other large cities. There are also some singing, dancing, painting, and calligraphy celebrations. In Shanghai, the Tourism Festival's Music Fireworks Festival happens during the weeklong holiday. It is one of Asia's largest fireworks shows.
The long holiday also helps Chinese tourism, with millions of people traveling around the country visiting family members or sightseeing. This leads to higher prices and crowds, though, so foreign visitors are usually encouraged to come at other times of the year instead. The 1st day of the 2017 National Day vacation set records for the national rail system: more than 15 million trips were taken over 24 hours.
Unlike traditional Chinese holidays, National Day is not associated with any special food.
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Structural pipe fitting
Structural pipe fitting is a pipe used for various structures.
A Structural pipe fitting, also known as a slip on pipe fitting, clamp or pipe clamp is used to build structures such as handrails, guardrails, and other types of pipe or tubular structure. They can also be used to build furniture and theatrical riggings. The fittings slip on the pipe and are usually locked down with a set screw. The set screw can then be tightened with a simple hex wench. Because of the modular design of standard fittings, assembly is easy, only simple hand tools are required, and risks from welding a structure are eliminated.
Other advantages of using structural pipe fittings are easy installation and reconfigurable design. Since there are no permanent welds in the structure, the set screws of the fittings can simply be loosened, allowing them to be repositioned. The project can be disassembled and stored if needed, or even taken apart with fittings and pipe recycled into a new project.
Fittings used for strong structures are galvanised malleable iron castings, and come in many styles such as elbows, tees, crosses, reducers and flanges. The fittings are not threaded; they simply lock onto the pipe with the supplied hex set screws.
Arrondissements of the Isère department
There are 3 arrondissements in the Isère department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into "arrondissements", which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.
The 3 arrondissements of Isère are:
Since its creation, the Isère department has had some changes:
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Connie Hawkins
Cornelius Lance Hawkins (July 17, 1942 – October 6, 2017) was an American American Basketball League, National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player, Harlem Globetrotter, Harlem Wizard and New York City playground legend. It was on the New York City courts that he earned his nickname The Hawk.
Hawkins was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Iowa State University.
Jim Landis
James Henry Landis (March 9, 1934 – October 7, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. Landis played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a center fielder on six teams from 1957 through 1967.
Landis was born in Fresno, California. He was raised in Richmond, California. Landis studied at Contra Costa College.
While playing eight seasons for the Chicago White Sox, he was an American League (AL) All-Star in 1962 and an AL Gold Glove Award winner five consecutive seasons. Landis also played for the Kansas City Athletics, the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, the Houston Astros, and for the Boston Red Sox.
Landis died at his Napa, California home on October 7, 2017 at the age of 83.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books, including twenty books of literary criticism, several books talking about religion, and a novel. He has edited hundreds of anthologies about many literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
Bloom came to public attention in the United States as a commentator during the canon wars of the early 1990s.
Bloom died at a hospital in New Haven, Connecticut on October 14, 2019 at the age of 89.
Geoffrey Chater
Geoffrey Chater (born 23 March 1921) is an English actor who was born as Geoffrey Michael Chater Robinson in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He has starred in both film and television projects. His television credits include appearances in "The Champions", "Dad's Army", "Callan", "Mapp and Lucia", "Heartbeat", "Foyle's War", "One Foot in the Grave", and "Midsomer Murders".
Charles Harris (photographer)
Charles "Teenie" Harris (July 2, 1908–June 12, 1998) was a talented and well known photographer. The main things that he took pictures of were people in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
Harris was born in 1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. His father and mother had a hotel in the part of the city called the Hill District. Early in the 1930s, he bought his first camera. After that he opened a photography studio. He took pictures for the magazine Flash! From the 1936 to 1975 Harris took photos of those living in the black neighborhoods of the city. Another publication called the "Pittsburgh Courier published his photographs. People called him ""One Shot" because he did not make people sit for a long time when he took their photos. He took more than 80,000 pictures in his life.
He wan't like other well-know photographers. Other photographers either took portraits or photographs of other places. Harris was unusual because taking photographs was part of his regular job in one city. His photos were not often seen in other places until after his death in 1998.
He took photos of famous people that visited Pittsburgh like:  Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Cooke, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Charlie Parker, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Dizzy Gillespie.
Harris also photographed famous Negro League baseball players of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords. Harris himself played baseball for the Crawfords when they were known as the Crawford Colored Giants.
He let another businessman, Dennis Morgan sell his photographs in 1986. Harris filed a lawsuit in 1998 for unpaid royalties and the return of his collection. He won the case after he died. The Carnegie Museum of Art purchased the collection from the Harris estate in 2001.
Since 2003, the museum has scanned and cataloged nearly 60,000 images. Many of these are available online. Many people help to identify the people in his photographs.
Inma Cuesta
Inma Cuesta is a Spanish actress.
Robotboy
Robotboy is an American-British-French animated television series produced by Alphanim, LuxAnimation, King Rollo Films and Cartoon Network Studios. The series premiered airs at 9AM ET/PT times on December 28, 2005 on Cartoon Network in the United States.
Robotboy is a boy.
Robotgirl is a girl.
List of Robotboy episodes
Vijayanagara architecture
The Vijayanagara Empire built all of their buildings, monuments, shrines and statues out of stone which were very intricately and elaborately carved with designs of gods and stories of famous heroes. All these were built in Dravidian style which was a common style of building then
Wilhelm Mohnke
Wilhelm Mohnke (1911 in Lübeck – 2001 in Damp near Eckernförde) was a German officer of the Waffen-SS with the rank of SS-Brigadeführer (equivalent to Brigadier).
He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for service in the German retreat from France in 1944. He was the commander of the defense of the central government area in the Battle of Berlin, 1945.
Mohnke led the 5th company of the 2nd Battalion of the Infanterie-Regiment Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, at the outset of the Battle of France in 1940. He took command of the 2nd Battalion on 28 May after the battalion commander was wounded. It was around this time that Mohnke was allegedly involved in the murder of 80 British prisoners of war (POWs) of the 48th South Midland Infantry Division.
Mohnke was noted to be one of the last commanders to act upon orders issued by Hitler himself prior to his suicide.
Aziz Sancar (born September 8, 1946) is a Turkish chemist. He received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
He was born in Savur, Turkey.
Arrondissement of Grenoble
The arrondissement of Grenoble is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Isère "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and the prefecture of the department, is the city of Grenoble.
When the Isère department was created in 1790, the "arrondissement" of Grenoble was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Grenoble is bordered to the north and northeast by the Savoie department, to the east and southeast by the Hautes-Alpes department, to the south and west by the Drôme department, and to the northwest by the "arrondissements" of Vienne and La Tour-du-Pin.
It is in the southern half of the department and is the largest "arrondissement" with an area of , and the one with more people living in it with 758,956 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
In the "arrondissement" of Grenoble there are 19 cantons:
The "arrondissement" of Grenoble has 267 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Washington SyCip
Washington Z. SyCip, (30 June 1921 – 7 October 2017) was a Filipino-American accountant. He was the founder of the Asian Institute of Management and the accounting firm SGV & Company. He was born in Manila, Philippines.
SyCip fought in World War II. He became a United States citizen in 1943.
SyCip died of a heart attack on 7 October 2017 near New York City while on a flight traveling from Montreal to Manila at the age of 96.
Slim Chaker
Slim Chaker (24 August 1961 – 8 October 2017) was a Tunisian politician. He was born in Sfax, Tunisia. He was a member of the Nidaa Tounes party.
Chaker served on the cabinet of Moncef Marzouki and Beji Caid Essebsi. He served as Minister of Public Health for a few months in 2017. He also served as Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2016 and Minister of Youth and Sports for a few months in 2011.
Chaker died in Tunis, Tunisia from a heart attack after taking part at a marathon on 8 October 2017 at the age of 56.
Birgitta Ulfsson
Birgitta Margaretha Ulfsson, (1 July 1928 – 8 October 2017) was a Finnish actress and theater director. She was born in Helsinki. She started her career at Svenska Teatern, a theater in Helsinki for Swedish-language theater productions. She later moved on to Lilla teatern.
Between 1952 and 1984 she was married to actor Lasse Pöysti. She was known for her narrator role for the television series "Rederiet".
Ulfsson died in Helsinki on 8 October 2017 at the age of 89.
Milano Golf Club Le Rovedine
Milano Golf Club Le Rovedine, located in Milan (Opera area), is a country club. It is 7 km far from the Center of the city of Milan.
Golf Club Le Rovedine is a 650,000 square meters park, with 9-hole of difficult level 3. The 18 hole championships are open to every level of players. The 52nd Open of Italy and the 22nd Ladies Italian Open has been played there.
The Tiananmen is a monument in Beijing, China. It is widely used as a national symbol of China. It was built during the Ming dynasty in 1420. Tiananmen was the entrance to the Imperial City, within which the Forbidden City was located. Tiananmen is located to the north of Tiananmen Square, separated from the plaza by Chang'an Avenue.
The Chinese name for the gate (天安门/天安門) uses the Chinese characters for "heaven" (天), "peace" (安), and "gate" (门/門). This is why the name is usually translated as the"Gate of Heavenly Peace".
Abacab is the eleventh studio album by Genesis. The album was released on September 24, 1981 through Atlantic Records.
Neustrelitz
Neustrelitz is a town in the south of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the old capital city of the grand duchy Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Neustrelitz is 30 kilometers away from Neubrandenburg.
About 21,000 people were living there in 2016.
Alan Hawkins (athlete)
Hamish Nelson
Martin Jackson (athlete)
Martin Jackson also known as Marty Jackson (born 18 February 1978) is an Australian Paralympic Shot Put and Discus Thrower. He is coached by former New Zealand Paralympian John Eden. Jackson competes for Athletics Chilwell in the Victorian Athletic League. He is a multi-sport athlete, having previously played Grid Iron. Whilst playing, he sustained an injury during a misguided tackle, which caused a knee dislocation. It led to sensory ataxia/loss of proprioception and partial paralysis lower left leg. He represented Australia at the 2016 Oceania/Melanesian Championships in Fiji and the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London. Jackson competed in the F38 classified Shot Put event at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. He competed in the event alongside compatriot Cameron Crombie, Iran's Javad Hardani and Sweden's Victor Svanesohn, finishing in 4th place behind the three of them with a throw of 13.31 metres. On 7 October 2017, Jackson increased his Personal Best from 13.47m to 13.49m during a regional competition in at John Landy Athletics Field in Geelong.
Runcorn
Runcorn is a town in Cheshire, England. It is located within the Borough of Halton. In 2010 about 61,000 people lived there. It is on the southern bank of the River Mersey.
Halton Castle is the main landmark of the town. The Norton Priory is an important historical site in the town.
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a yearly holiday in the People's Republic of China. It celebrates Qu Yuan, a writer and a government leader who lived a long time ago and died because he loved his country very much. The Dragon Boat Festival is always on the 5th day of the 5th month of China's old calendar, but—because that calendar is based on changes in the moon and not the sun—it is not always on the same day of the new calendar. The old calendar adds a 13th month when it is very different from the seasons, though, so the Dragon Boat Festival is always in late spring.
In Chinese, the Dragon Boat Festival is usually called "Duānwǔ Jié", which means the "Holiday of Welcoming the Seventh". This name is based on the old calendar, which used a group of 12 names as a kind of week. Chinese people write it in traditional characters and in simplified characters.
A long time ago in China, this holiday may have celebrated the harvest of "winter wheat" or dragon gods with power over rivers and seas. By the time of Sima Qian, an important writer of history who lived around 100, different people used the festival to remember Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, or Cao E. Today, most Chinese people are taught that the holiday remembers Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan was an important writer of poems who lived around 300. He lived at a time when the government of China was very weak and all its different parts began to say they were different countries. Qu Yuan's part was called Chu, and its king Xiong Huai was so powerful that he controlled Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and most of the places around them. King Huai listened to other leaders who said bad things about Qu Yuan and made him move to the countryside twice. King Huai also made other mistakes that also hurt Chu. The second time that Qu Yuan was sent away, he wrote a long poem about his sadness and then killed himself by walking into the Miluo River with a heavy stone. People don't agree about exactly why he did this but most think it was because of sadness for his country or a last try to make his king pay attention to his many mistakes.
The Republic of China celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival as to celebrate Qu Yuan and other Chinese writers.
For a long time, the People's Republic of China did not pay attention to the Dragon Boat Festival but, in 2005, it was one of three traditional Chinese holidays approved for celebration. Since 2008, it has been a national holiday.
All over China, people make and eat little pyramids of sticky rice called zongzis to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. In southern China, some people also race dragon boats in rivers or in the sea. Both traditions are said to have started when local people ran to the Miluo River to throw zongzis around Qu Yuan's body to protect it from fish and dragons.
There are also some older traditions to get ready for the Chinese summer, like drinking rice wine with pesticides to avoid snakes and mosquitos. These are less common today.
Wacław Józef Świerzawski
Wacław Józef Swierzawski (14 May 1927 – 7 October 2017) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Swierzawski served as bishop of the Diocese of Sandomierz, Poland, from 1992 to 2002.
Swierzawski died on 7 October 2017 in Zawichost, Poland at the age of 90.
Obudu
Obudu is a tourist location that has several resorts in Cross River State, Nigeria.
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Das Kapital is a written work created by philosopher Karl Marx first published on 14 September 1867 explaining capitalism and its issues such as values, exploitation and colonization.
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (; born as Remko L. Olhaas, 17 November 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas went to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded "Volume Magazine" together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.
He is thought of as one of the most important architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, "Time" put him in their top 100 of "The World's Most Influential People".
Richard Thaler
Richard H. Thaler (; born September 12, 1945) is an American economist of Jewish descent.
He is best known for being a theorist in behavioral finance. He was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for improving behavioral economics.
Chinese National Day
Chinese National Day is the national day of China. It may mean:
In old China, it may also refer to the emperor's birthday.
Vettabbia Canal
The Vettabbia Canal, known in Italian as the Naviglio Vettabbia, is a canal in the southern part of Milan, a city in northern Italy.
The ancient Romans built the canal to bring water to the city. Today farmers use it to irrigate their crops. Part of the canal is now underground. There are two large parks along the banks of the canal where it comes above the ground. One park is called the "Parco della Vettabbia". Near the park is a famous abbey called the "Abbazia di Chiaravalle". The abbey was built in the 12th century. The other park is called the "Parco Ripamonti".
Arrondissement of La Tour-du-Pin
The arrondissement of La Tour-du-Pin is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Isère "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of La Tour-du-Pin.
When the Isère department was created in 1790, the "arrondissement" of La Tour-du-Pin was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of La Tour-du-Pin is bordered to the north and northeast by the Ain department, to the east by the Savoie department, to the south by the "arrondissement" of Grenoble, to the west by the "arrondissement" of Vienne, and to the northwest by the Rhône department.
It is in the northeast of the department and is the second largest "arrondissement" with an area of , and the second in population with 270,681 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
In the "arrondissement" of La Tour-du-Pin there are 8 cantons:
The "arrondissement" of La Tour-du-Pin has 137 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Sylke Tempel
Sylke Tempel (30 May 1963 – 5 October 2017) was a German author and journalist.
At the time of her death, she had been the editor-in-chief of the foreign policy magazine "Internationale Politik" since 2008. She was born in Bayreuth. She covered a range of events such as the Oslo I Accord, the Intifada and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. In 2003, she was a recipient of the Quadriga award.
Tempel was a reporter for the publications "Profil", "Facts" and "Der Tagesspiegel", among others. She also wrote a number of young adult novels, published by "Rowohlt Berlin", a part of Rowohlt Verlag.
On 5 October 2017, she died in Tegel, a neighborhood of Berlin, during Storm Xavier when she was struck by a tree and died from her injuries. She was 54.
Armando Calderón Sol
Armando Calderón Sol (June 24, 1948 – October 9, 2017) was a Salvadorian politician. He served as President of El Salvador from June 1, 1994 to June 1, 1999, representing the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA).
Calderón Sol died on 9 October 2017 of lung cancer at a Houston, Texas hospital at the age of 69.
Savur
Savur is a district of Mardin Province in Turkey. It is also the name of a town in that district.
Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar was born in this district in 1946.
Rafe Mair
Rafe Mair (31 December 1931 – 9 October 2017) was a Canadian lawyer, political commentator and former radio personality and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He served as member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Kamloops from 1975 through 1983. He served as a member of the British Columbia Social Credit Party.
Mair died on 9 October 2017 in Vancouver at the age of 85.
Arrondissement of Vienne
The arrondissement of Vienne is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Isère "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Vienne.
When the Isère department was created in 1790, the "arrondissement" of Vienne was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Vienne is bordered to the north by the Rhône department, to the east by the "arrondissement" of La Tour-du-Pin, to the southeast by the "arrondissement" of Grenoble, to the south by the Drôme department, to the southwest by the Ardèche department, and to the west by the Loire department.
It is in the northwest of the department and is the smallest "arrondissement" with an area of , and the one with fewest people living in it, with a population of 213,960 inhabitants and a density of inhabitants/km².
In the "arrondissement" of Vienne there are 6 cantons:
The "arrondissement" of Vienne has 177 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Avril Lavigne (album)
Avril Lavigne is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne. It was released on 1 November 2013 by Sony Music Entertainment. The album is a follow-up to her 2011 release "Goodbye Lullaby". Lavigne collaborated with many producers including Martin Johnson, Peter Svensson, David Hodges, Matt Squire and Chad Kroeger. In both musical and lyrical aspects, the album represents a departure from the acoustic-oriented production of her previous album "Goodbye Lullaby", featuring a more pop and upbeat sound juxtaposed with power and piano ballads. "Avril Lavigne" also incorporates electronic music, industrial and punk rock. The album features two vocal collaborations: Kroeger and American industrial metal singer Marilyn Manson. This was her first and only album through Epic.
Atherton, California
Atherton is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States. Its population was 7,159 as of 2013. Atherton is one of the richest cities in the United States, and is regularly ranked among the most expensive ZIP codes in the country. It was founded in 1923.
San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County ( ; Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 718,451. The county seat is Redwood City. The county is in the San Francisco Bay region.
Riigikogu
The Riigikogu is the parliament of Estonia. Today the Riigikogu has 101 seats.
The Estonian word "riigikogu" is cognate to the German word "Reichstag".
Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir science fiction movie directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. A sequel to "Blade Runner" (1982), the movie stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto in supporting roles.
Set thirty years after the original film, the story depicts a replicant blade runner named K, who discovers the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. To prevent a possible war between species, K is secretly tasked with finding the child and destroying all evidence related to it, leading him to discover that the child bears a connection to missing blade runner Deckard.
"Blade Runner 2049" premiered in Los Angeles on October 3, 2017 and was released in the United States on October 6, 2017, in 2D, 3D and IMAX. The movie received acclaim from critics, with some regarding it as one of the best sequels ever made.
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada, born as "Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen", (July 21, 1893 in Greifswald - February 5, 1947 in Berlin) was a German writer and politician.
Famous works from him are "Kleiner Mann - was nun? (Little Man, What Now?)", "Jeder stirbt für sich allein (Every man dies alone)", "Wolf unter Wölfen (Wolf Among Wolves)" and "Der Alpdruck (Nightmare in Berlin)".
In 1945 (after the Surrender of Germany) he was mayor of the village of Feldberg in the south of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
He was also a beekeeper.
He had 3 children. The name of his first wife was Anna Ditzen, while the name of his second wife was Ulla Losch.
There is a Hans-Fallada-Haus in the village of Carwitz.
Scriptio continua (Latin for "continuous script") is a style of writing that does not use spaces, different letter cases, or punctuation to tell apart words, phrases, or sentences. It was a common way of writing for texts in Ancient Greek and Classical Latin. Even though Greek and Latin speakers already created punctuation to tell words apart, "scriptio continua" was often used to save space. This was because writing materials were expensive and the boundaries between words, clauses, and sentences are not so clear in spoken language.
Use of "scriptio continua" became less common after the fall of the Roman Empire, and spaces began to appear between words. The first known documents that used spacing were Irish and Anglo-Saxon Bibles and Gospels. However, "scriptio continua" is still used for the writing systems for several modern languages, including Southeast Asian abugidas like Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Javanese, Balinese, and Tibetan. Languages that use the Chinese character system like Chinese and Japanese sometimes use "scriptio continua", even though modern Chinese and Japanese stopped using it when they adopted punctuation during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The first sentence below is the first sentence of Ovid's Metamorphoses written in Latin using "scriptio continua" writing, the second is the same sentence written in Latin using spaces, punctuation and cases, and the third is an English translation. In all the Latin sentences, all the letter U's have been replaced with letter V's.
The first sentence is the biblical verse John 3:16 in the King James Version written in English using "scriptio continua" writing, and the second is the same sentence written in English using spaces, punctuation and cases.
Due to the internet, modern English developed a form of "scriptio continua" through email and URL web addresses. Since spaces are invalid characters, the URL for the website "Example Fake Website" would be examplefakewebsite.com.
Chinese had no sort of punctuation until the 20th century, and only added punctuation because of their interactions with Western countries. Chinese is still fairly readable even without punctuation and spacing because each Chinese character represents an entire word or morpheme (the smallest meaningful units of language) instead of single sounds like an alphabet.
The first sentence below is a sentence written in modern Chinese, the second is the same sentence using "scriptio continua" writing, the third is the sentence written with spaces in between the words, the fifth is the sentence written in Hanyu Pinyin, and the fifth is the sentence translated into English.
Like Chinese, Japanese also does not use spacing in its writing. Even though Japanese also uses many Chinese characters (called kanji in Japanese) in its writing, the two languages are actually very different from each other. When Japanese was first written, it was written entirely in kanji and man'yogana (kanji used only for writing the sounds of Japanese). Chinese characters could be used to either tell a words' pronunciation or its meaning, so it made Japanese very hard to read. Even native Japanese speakers had a hard time reading ancient Japanese writings.
Later during the 10th century, the Japanese created different sound-based systems to write more quickly and to tell apart phonetic-loan characters and semantic-based characters more easily. These writing systems are called kana.
Today Japanese uses three different writing systems, kanji for showing the meanings of words, and hiragana and katakana for showing the sounds of words. While Japanese does not use spacing, native Japanese speakers can still tell apart words quickly because the three different types of writing look quite different from each other, and each writing system is usually used for a certain kind of word. Kanji is usually used to write native Japanese words, Chinese loanwords, and the roots of content words (nouns, adjective, adjectives, adverbs). Hiragana is usually used for common phrases, particles, and the inflections of content words. Katakana is usually used for loanwords from languages other than Chinese, onomatopoeia, and for extra emphasis.
Also like Chinese, it used no punctuation until after it had major interactions with Western countries, and it did not have any punctuation until the Meiji Period, when Japan quickly modernized.
The first sentence below is sentence written in Japanese using hiragana, katakana and kanji without spaces between words. The second is written in hiragana, katakana and kanji with spaces in between words (including particles). The third is written only in hiragana and katakana. The fourth is written entirely in romaji (Japanese written in the Latin alphabet). The fifth is the sentence translated translated in English. The sixth is written using "scriptio continua" entirely in kanji and man'yōgana.
Pennant Hills, New South Wales
Pennant Hills is a suburb located in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris is a graduate engineering school in France. It is in a campus of the PSL Reseach University (Northern France).
Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at Mines ParisTech.
Admission to the Mines ParisTech engineering Programme implemented at Mines ParisTech is possible after two/three year scientific undergraduate studies.
The Mines ParisTech Programme typically lasts three years and results in a master's degree, augmented with international experience. Thus undergraduate studies + the Mines Programme account for more than a cumulated 300 ECTS credits as applicable in the European education system.
Research activities at Mines ParisTech relate to the following topics:
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