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Artificial leather is a substance used as a replacement for real leather. It is used where the properties or the look of real leather are desired, but real leather is too expensive, unsuitable, or not feasible for ethical reasons. Compared with real leather, artificial leathers are much cheaper to produce. Water resistance is another advantage of many artificial leathers. They are often used for upholstery and fashion and other purposes.
Usually, there are two components: A kind of textile, and some kind of plastic (such as PVC). Real leather is produced from the skin of animals.
Artificial leather might look like it is better for the environment, since no animals need to be killed to make it. The problem with artificial leather is different: When the item of clothing is no longer used, it is thrown away. Many plastics take a long time to decay. That way, the plastic part may get into the sea, where animals such as birds and fish eat it. The chemicals used to make artificial leather are toxic, and can lead to pollution.
Kitty Courbois
Catharina Anna Petronella Antonia (Kitty) Courbois (13 July 1937 – 11 March 2017) was a Dutch actress. In 2010 she was awarded the Medal of Merit. She was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Courbois died on 11 March 2017 in Amsterdam from a cerebral hemorrhage, aged 79.
Murray Ball
Murray Hone Ball ONZM (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist. He became known for his "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero" (the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine), "Bruce the Barbarian", "All the King's Comrades" (also in Punch) and the long-running "Footrot Flats" comic series.
In 2002 Ball became an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist.
Ball was born in Feilding, New Zealand. He studied at Parktown Boys' High School. Ball died on 12 March 2017 in Gisborne, New Zealand from complications of dementia, aged 78.
Shifa Gardi
Shifa Gardi (Kurdish:Şîfa Gerdî, Arabic:شفاء كردي)(July 1, 1986 - February 25, 2017) also known as Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, was a Kurdish journalist for the Kurdish Rudaw Media Network in Iraq. She died in a roadside bomb explosion while reporting on the Iraqi advance into Mosul. When she died, Gardi was speaking to Shiite commander Hashd al-Shaabi beside a huge hole where ISIS militants dumped the bodies of people they killed. Al-Shaabi's feet caught in a wire, which made the bomb explode. Gardi, commander al-Shaabi, and four fighters were killed. Gardi's cameraman Younis Mustafa and seven fighters were wounded.
Ranja Jamal, a Rudaw journalist who is embedded with the Iraqi army was with Gardi when she died. He said she was looking for the deep hole called "Mosul’s Valley of Death", or Al Khafsa, where ISIS threw hundreds of people. The hole is in a valley south of the Mosul near a village called Al Athba. According to the Islamic State's doctrine, Muslims who oppose the group or fighters who leave the group cannot be buried in Muslim cemeteries. Al Athba is 20 kilometers south of Mosul and five kilometers from the main Baghdad-Mosul road. Gardi had information about the valley but she was not able to find it. On her way back, she met a Popular Mobilization Forces or Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi group, and they took her to the place.
Gardi was born a refugee in 1986 in the town of Urmia Zêwe, Iran. In 2006, she graduated from Computer Technical Institute. In 2013, she graduated from the media department at Salahaddin University. In 2006, she started her career in media and worked as a teacher. From 2007 to 2010 she worked as a journalist. Gerdi was with the Rûdaw Media Group from its beginning. At the beginning of the Mosul offensive she started a program titled “Focus Mosul”. Gerdi followed the events of the war by going to the front as a war correspondent. Gerdi once brought a rabbit back to her office, because it was malnourished. She was killed February 25, 2017 in a bomb explosion in Mosul. Her cameraman Younis Mustafa was injured in the explosion.
The President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, sent his condolences. Mesud Tek, the General Secretary Socialist Party of Kurdistan in Turkey also sent condolences. Marie-Claude Bibeau, the Canadian Minister for international development, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk, and Falah Mustafa, head of Department of Foreign Relations of Kurdistan Regional Government all expressed their condolnces.
BandNews FM
Rádio BandNews FM is a Brazilian "all news" radio network. It first started in 20 March 2005. It is owned by Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação.
The network started broadcasting at exactly midnight in 20 March 2005, after at 23:59, Rádio Cidade said goodbye to its listeners after 25 years and played the last top 3 songs. The first on-air journalist was Carlos Nascimento.
Currently, it serves ten cities: Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Vitoria, Joao Pessoa and Salvador. The first 4 cities carry the network's "de facto" flagship stations.
Campinas and Ribeirao Preto (in 106.7 FM and 96.7 FM) stopped carrying BandNews FM programming in 2014. They are now branded as Band FM.
BandNews FM is well known for its slogan "Em 20 minutos, tudo pode mudar" (In 20 minutes, everything can happen), which refers to how the news is updated every 20 minutes. This format (that allows listeners to tune in at any time of the day to get the leading stories of the moment) is inspired by 1010 WINS, America's most well-known news station.
From 6:00 to 23:00, on these news blocks, 6 minutes of them being given to each individual affiliate for providing local stories, read by a local announcer. Normally there's a local-only news programme from 9:00 to 11:00. Overnights feature live national announcers, broadcast by all affiliates.
The network also broadcasts selected Brazilian football matches, alongside Bandeirantes and CBN, two likewise-formatted radio networks.
Expelliarmus
Expelliarmus is a defense spell used in the Harry Potter book and film series. It is used to disarm your opponent and is a rather simple spell to use. Harry Potter uses it when dueling Lord Voldemort in The Goblet Fire.
Stephen Nicol (born 11 December 1961) is a Scottish former footballer. He played as a full-back. He played for Ayr United, Liverpool, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers and the Scotland national team. He was best known for his time at Liverpool. He won many honours with the Reds, including five league titles and a European Cup (1984). He now works for ESPN.
Nicol was born in Troon, South Ayrshire. He is married to Eleanor and has two children.
Rádio Trânsito
Rádio Trânsito (currently known as Rádio Trânsito Caçula de Pneus) is a radio station in São Paulo, broadcasting in 92.1 FM since 12/2/2007, specialized in providing traffic and transit news of the capital and metropolitan region to its listeners.
The program of the station consists of live traffic information throughout São Paulo metropolitan area with indication of alternative routes and where to avoid, as well as music between 22:00 and 6:00 (might be more in holidays and weekends). The listeners can collaborate with information on the transit through SMS, social networks and through a portal of voice over the telephone. The radio also has a partnership with the traffic app Waze.
Chilcote
Chilcote is a village in netherseal,England with approximately 52 houses.With 174 people living there biggest place there is homefarmbarn.
BandNews TV
BandNews TV is the first Brazilian 24-hour rolling news channel, owned by Grupo Bandeirantes. Its headquarters and newsroom are located in Sao Paulo. It was the second news channel launched in the Brazilian cable/satellite market.
BandNews TV is popular with people who may not have time to watch, or wait for, lengthy news reports. The channel broadcasts live and updated 15-minute news wheels throughout most hours of the day. In these reports there are 12 minutes of news and 3 minutes for other news-based segments, such as sports, fashion and cinema. It also broadcasts Jornal da Band Monday-Saturday nights at 8:30, right after the original broadcast on Band. BandNews is the third most watched Brazilian news channel and it was also the first Brazilian HD news network.
Since the channel's launch, every single newscast is aired directly from the newsroom, which has a circle table for anchors to speak to the camera.
Direct reduced iron
Direct reduced iron is created when iron ore is burned in a bloomery. Direct reduced iron is also called sponge iron. Direct reduction is removing the oxygen from the ore. Gas and Coal are both used to burn iron. Using Direct Reduction to costs less than using blast furnaces. Direct Reduction is used more than blast furnaces. The country that makes the most Direct reduced iron is India.
Direct reduced iron gets rust very easily. Direct reduced iron can light on fire easily. Direct reduced iron contains waste, which has to be removed before it can be turned into steel. Only a small amount of Direct reduced iron can be made at a time.
Ancient Egyptians used direct reduced iron because it was easier to work with. Direct reduced iron can be made at a lower temperature.
Direct reduced iron is not useful on its own. Before it is used, Direct reduced iron is beaten with hammers and folded many times to make Wrought Iron. The Wrought Iron is burned to make steel.
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Kleve
Kleve (or "Cleves" in English) is the capital of the Kleve Rural District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It had about 50,000 people in 2016.
It was also the capital of the Duchy of Cleves (disestablished in 1795).
Kleve lies on the Rhine River and borders the Netherlands.
Partly on Kleve territory lies the Klever Reichswald, an ancient forest dating from the Middle Ages.
United Torah Judaism
United Torah Judaism (Hebrew Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet, : יהדות התורה המאוחדת) (shortened "UTJ") is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is conservative, and Ashkenazic Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox).
Political leaders are Ya'akov Litzman (Agudat Yisrael) and Moshe Gafni (Degel HaTorah).
Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet was founded in 1992. It is an alliance of two parties: Agudat Yisrael (meaning "Union of Israel", belonging to the Hasidism movement) and Degel HaTorah (meaning "Banner of the Torah", belonging to the Misnagdim movement).
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 7 (/).
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RMS Empress of Ireland
The RMS "Empress of Ireland" was a Canadian ocean liner. It sank in the Saint Lawrence River after an accident with the Norwegian ship SS "Storstad" on 29 May 1914. Of the 1,477 people on the "Empress", 1,012 died.
The ship was launched in 1906. It had just begun its 96th voyage when it sank.
The "Empress of Ireland" left Quebec City for Liverpool at 4:30 pm local time.
The wreck of the "Empress of Ireland" lies in 130 feet of water. This makes it easy to access for most divers. Many artifacts from the wreck have been retrieved.
École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole
École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole is a renowned graduate agricultural school in France. It is in a campus of the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (Southern France).
It trains teacher in Agronomy. ENSFEA also offers bachelor's degree, Master’s and PhDs.
École nationale supérieure de formation de l’enseignement agricole was founded as École nationale de formation agronomique in 1963. The new name has been implemented in 2016.
Research activities at ENSFEA relate to the following topics:
Chained to the Rhythm
"Chained to the Rhythm" is a 2017 disco and dancehall song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. Skip Marley, the grandson of Jamaican singer Bob Marley, raps in the song. It is taken from Perry's fifth studio album, "Witness", and is the ninth track on the album. It is about partying and being aware of things in society.
The song hit #1 in Mexico and Hungary. It also hit the top five in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. In the United States, the song entered at #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. On April 27, 2017, the song was certified platinum in the United States for sales and streams equal to one million copies.
For her fifth studio album, Perry said she wanted to make purposeful pop music. She had gotten depressed when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016 and was not in the mood to "write a club banger."
The video for the song is set in a carnival-type land called Oblivia and shows Perry riding amusement park rides. It was released on February 21, 2017.
Horst Ehmke
Horst Paul August Ehmke (4 February 1927 – 12 March 2017) was a German lawyer, law professor and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Federal Minister of Justice (1969), Chief of Staff at the German Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs (1969–1972) and Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Post (1972–1974).
Ehmke died on 12 March 2017 in Bonn at the age of 90.
Probyn Inniss
Sir Probyn Ellsworth Inniss MBE (18 November 1936 – 12 March 2017) was the Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1975 to 1980. Following the separation of Anguilla, he served as the Governor of Saint Christopher and Nevis from 1980 to 1981.
Adib Boroumand
Adib Boroumand (or Adīb Borūmand) (; 11 June 1924 – 13 March 2017) was an Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer. He was the head of the leadership council and chairman of central council of the National Front of Iran. He is known as the national poet of Iran.
He was born on 11 June 1924 in Gaz, Borkhar County, Isfahan, Persia (present-day Iran). He received a B.A. in Judicial Law from the University of Tehran, and since then he had been lived in Tehran.
Boroumand died on 13 March 2017 in Tehran at the age of 92.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965 – March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short filmmaker, and former radio show host.
Rosenthal was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated at Tufts University. She married Jason Brian Rosenthal. They had three children.
She was best known for her memoir "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life", her children's picture books, and the movie project "The Beckoning of Lovely". She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017.
She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ and to the TED conference.
Rosenthal died in Chicago, Illinois from ovarian cancer on 13 March 2017, aged 51.
Kasugafuji Akihiro
Kasugafuji Akihiro (February 20, 1966 – March 9, 2017) born as Shoki Iwanaga, was a sumo wrestler and coach. He was born in Oshika, Miyagi, Japan.
Akihiro was an active wrestler in professional sumo from 1981 until 1996, reaching a highest rank of "maegashira" 1. After his retirement he re-established the Kasugayama stable in 1997 and trained his own wrestlers. He left the Japan Sumo Association in 2012 after an expenses scandal, and was involved with a legal dispute in 2013 with his successor as head of Kasugayama stable which was not resolved until shortly before his death in 2017.
Akihiro died in Oshika, Japan from suspected heart failure on March 9, 2017, aged 51.
Anna Tramontano
Anna Tramontano (14 July 1957, Naples – March 2017) was an Italian computational biologist and Chair Professor of Biochemistry at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 2011 to 2014 she was a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).
She was an Associate Editor for the journal Bioinformatics from 2005 until 2016 editing papers in the area of structural bioinformatics.
Tramontano died in March 2017 in Rome, Italy at the age of 59. Her death was announced on 10 March 2017.
Ed Whitlock
Ed Whitlock (March 6, 1931 – March 13, 2017) was an English-born Canadian long-distance runner. He is the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003.
Whitlock was born in a suburb of London, England, and later moved to Canada. He wanted to study for an engineering career. He graduated from Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, England.
Whitlock, who ran as a teenager and took up the sport again in his forties, first became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than 3 hours in 2000, at the age of 69, with a time of 2:52:47.
He later extended this record, running a time of 2:58:40 at the age of 74. At 73, he set a world record in the marathon for men 70 to 74, running a 2:54:48, when he was 73, and his fastest time after turning 70. According to an article in "The New York Times", if age-graded, this time would be equivalent to a 20-year-old running 2:03:57 and which would have been the fastest marathon ever run in 2010. For an explanation of age-graded tables, see masters athletics. At the time of his death, Whitlock he was still the only person over 70 to run a marathon in less than three hours.
At age 85, he became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than four hours at 3 hours, 56 minutes 34 seconds at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October, 2016.
Whitlock died of prostate cancer on March 13, 2017 in Milton, Ontario, aged 86.
Titanium (song)
"Titanium" is a song performed by French DJ David Guetta. It features vocals from Australian singer Sia. The song reached number one in the UK, the top five in Canada, and the top ten in the US, where it was certified double-Platinum for sales and shipments of over two million copies. It finished at number 24 on the "Billboard" Year-End Hot 100 of 2012. It is the first song on Guetta's album, "Nothing but the Beat".
Jacques Bermon Webster Jr (born April 30, 1992), known professionally as Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Missouri City, Texas. Scott's musical style has been described as a fusion of traditional hip hop, lo-fi and ambient.
In 2012, Scott signed his first major-label deal with Epic Records. In November of the same year, Scott signed a deal with Kanye West's GOOD Music, as part of its production wing Very GOOD Beats. In April 2013, Scott signed a record deal with T.I.'s Grand Hustle imprint. Scott's first full-length project, the mixtape "Owl Pharaoh", was self-released in 2013. It was followed with a second mixtape, "Days Before Rodeo", in August 2014. His debut studio album, "Rodeo" (2015), was led by the hit single "Antidote". His second album, "Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight" (2016) became his first number one album on the "Billboard" 200. The following year, Scott released a collaborative album with Quavo titled "Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho" under the group name Huncho Jack.
In 2018, his highly anticipated "Astroworld" was released to widespread critical acclaim and produced his first "Billboard" Hot 100 number one single, "Sicko Mode". In late 2019, Scott's record label Cactus Jack Records released the compilation album "JackBoys" which became the first number one album on the "Billboard" 200 of the 2020s. As of 2020, Scott has sold over 45 million certified records in the US alone. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won a "Billboard" Music Award.
The Travis Scott meal helped boost McDonald's sales in September 2020.
Collaborative albums
Yisrael Beiteinu
Yisrael Beiteinu, Hebrew: ישראל ביתנו , meaning "Israel Our Home", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is right-wing conservative, nationalist, populist, secular, and Zionist. Its focus is especially Jews originating from the former Soviet Union.
Political leader is Avigdor Lieberman.
Yisrael Beiteinu was founded by Lieberman in 1999.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 7 (-1).
Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government.
Eisenkammer Pirna
El Mutún
El Cerro Mutún is a place where iron is mined in Bolivia. It contains about 40 billion tons of iron ore. This is about 5% of the world’s iron ore.
Meretz
Meretz, Hebrew: מרצ , meaning "Vigour", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is left-wing social democratic, green, secular, and Zionist.
Political leader is Nitzan Horowitz
Meretz was founded in 1992 as a result of a merger of three parties: Ratz, Mapam and Shinui.
From the previous election results, in March 2020, the number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 3 (/). In the most recent election, held on 23 March 2021 for the 24th Knesset, the party obtained five or six seats, pending the final count outcome of surplus vote sharing with the Labor party.
Civil Marriage Act (Canada)
Golden God
Golden God is the first EP made by Angolan rapper, Pedro Fernando. It was released on December 19, 2016. It was produced and mastered by DJ Nonó, Pedro Fernando, Márcio Dallas. The album Golden God (EP) was released on February 19, 2017 for digital sale on iTunes, and other digital platforms. The extended play was given 5.0 out of 5 stars by Discogs.
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin; 29 October 1934 in Giessen, Germany – 13 March 2017 in Berleburg) was the head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.
In July 2003, he underwent surgery for treatment of prostate cancer. He had undergone treatment for skin cancer.
Prince Richard died on the evening of March 13th, 2017 at castle of Berleburg in Germany from a suspected heart attack. Prince Richard's death was sudden. He was 82.
Kika de la Garza
Eligio “Kika” de la Garza, II (September 22, 1927March 13, 2017) was an American politician. He served as the Democratic representative for the 15th congressional district of Texas from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1997.
De la Garza died on March 13, 2017 in McAllen, Texas from kidney failure, aged 89.
Prunus virginiana
Chokecherries ("Prunus virginiana"), also known as the bitter-berry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry, are shrubs or small trees, which grow to around 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in).
Their leaves are oval with coarse, sharp edges. The flowers grow about 38.1–76.2 cm (15–30 in) long in late spring (well after chokecherry leaves appear).
The fruits are about 1 cm (3⁄8 in) across. They range in color from bright red to black. They have a very astringent taste, both somewhat sour and somewhat bitter. The fruits are sweetest when they are very ripe "berries" (actually drupes). These are dark in color.
Symsyn
Symsyn is a simple syntax programming language and real time multitasking runtime environment.
Named for its SIMple SYNtax, Symsyn is based on Free Pascal, which is based on Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth and named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.
Symsyn has a simple syntax and short learning curve. It provides access to functionality found in more sophisticated languages, such as the free version of the Pascal programming language, Free Pascal. The language's primitives, or basics, are Pascal procedures which, in some cases, access the Free Pascal Run Time Library.
These primitives provide the normal testing, arithmetic, move, and string handling capabilities as well as the following additions:
It is extensible, in that it can be extended. Algorithms can be added to the collection of primitives. Many programs can be written in SymSyn. Like most programming languages, SymSyn can say hello to the world.
Jack H. Harris
Jack Henry Harris (November 28, 1918 – March 14, 2017) was an American movie producer. He produced many blockbuster Hollywood movies including "The Blob" (1958), "4D Man" (1959), and "Equinox" (1970).
Harris died March 14, 2017, at his home in Beverly Hills, California from complications of pneumonia, aged 98.
Peter M. Gruber
Peter Manfred Gruber (28 August 1941 – 7 March 2017) was an Austrian mathematician. He worked in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry. He was born in Klagenfurt, Austria.
From 1971, he was Professor at the University of Linz, and from 1976, at the TU Wien. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Gruber died on 7 March 2017 in Vienna, Austria, aged 75.
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is a commune in southwestern France, part of the department of Haute-Garonne in the Occitanie region.
In 72 B.C. the Roman General Pompey, while on the way back to Rome after a military campaign in Spain, founded a Roman colony there named "Lugdunum Convenarum".
In 1083, the knight Bertrand de l'Isle-Jourdain was named as Bishop of Comminges. He ordered the construction of the cathedral and of the Romanesque cloister. The place became used by pilgrims as a stage on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
Bertrand de l'Isle was canonised and became known as Saint-Bertrand in the 13th century and Lugdunum Convenarum became known as "Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges".
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is on the foothills of the Pyrenees in the Comminges region at to the southwest of Saint-Gaudens. It is on the border with the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is the southwestern end of Haute-Garonne department and borders 8 other "communes", six of them in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
The Garonne river flows through the northeastern border of the "commune"; several of its tributaries, all small streams, flow through the "commune".
The climate of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges are known, in French, as "Commingeois" (women: "Commingeoises").
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges has a population, in 2014, of 243, for a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is part of the "arrondissement" of Saint-Gaudens, the Bagnères-de-Luchon canton and of the intercommunality "Les Pyrénées Haut-Garonnaises" ().
Lens, Switzerland
Lens is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Crans-sur-Sierre, Flanthey, Chelin, Vaas, Les Condémines, Saint-Clément and Valençon.
Wrexham () is the largest town in north Wales. It is an administrative, commercial, retail and educational centre.
Wrexham is between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley along the border with England. Historically part of Denbighshire, the town became part of Clwyd in 1974. Since 1996 it has been the centre of the Wrexham County Borough.
At the 2011 Census, Wrexham had a population of 61,603, the fourth largest urban area in Wales.
The town has a professional football club, Wrexham FC, who currently compete in the English football league system.
It has two train stations, these are Wrexham General and Wrexham Central.
Ferrosilicon
Ferrosilicon is a combination of iron and silicon. Between 15% and 90% of ferrosilicon is silicon. Ferrosilicon is made by burning sand while there’s iron in the sand. Ferrosilicons that contain the most silicon are made in electric arc furnaces.
Perryite is a rock that is a combination of iron and silicon.
When ferrosilicon is touching water, it may slowly make hydrogen. Ferrosilicon is used by the military to quickly produce hydrogen for balloons. The chemical reaction uses sodium hydroxide, ferrosilicon, and water. The generator is small enough to fit in a truck and needs only a small amount of electric power. The materials are stable and not combustible, and they do not make hydrogen until mixed.
Ferrosilicon is used to get oxygen out of steel. Magnesium is made by combining ferrosilicon with dolomite.
Ferrosilicon is used to make hydrogen in the military.
Zionist Union
HaMahaneh HaTziyoni, Hebrew: המחנה הציוני‎‎ , meaning "The Zionist Camp" (often called "The Zionist Union"), is an Israeli political cooperation. Its ideology is left-wing centrist, and Zionist.
HaMaḥaneh HaTziyoni was formed in 2014 as a cooperation of HaAvoda (Israeli Labor Party), HaTnu'a ("The Movement"), and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") in an effort to prevent Likud continuing its governing position after the Knesset elections of 2015.
Because its attempt was unsuccessful, party head Yitzhak Herzog became leader of the opposition. When Herzog left the Knesset in June 2018 to become head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, he was replaced by Tzipi Livni.
There are two political leaders. The party head is Avi Gabbay (HaAvoda). As Gabbay is not a Knesset member, Tzipi Livni (HaTnu'a) leads this faction in the Knesset.
Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: 24 (HaAvoda: 19, HaTnu'a: 4, HaTnu'a HaYeruqa 1).
Ralf Krewinkel
Ralf Karel Hubert Krewinkel (born 12 November 1974 in Kerkrade) is a Dutch politician.
Krewinkel is a member of the Labour Party. He has started his political career as a councillor (1998-2006) and an alderman (2006-2011) of his home town.
In 2011 he became mayor of Beek, followed by Heerlen in 2015. He stepped down in 2019.
Both Kerkrade, Beek and Heerlen are situated in the south of the province of Limburg.
Bimmen
Bimmen is a hamlet in the German municipality of Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bimmen is low-lying. It borders on the Netherlands in the west and on the Rhine River in the north.
About 170 people are living there.
The Klever Straße is connecting Bimmen with neighbouring Dutch village of Millingen aan de Rijn.
Alice Teodorescu
Alexandra "Alice" Teodorescu (born 2 May 1984) is a Swedish jurist with the Företagarna organisation of Swedish entrepreneurs and a commentator on social and political issues.
Teodorescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, but came to Sweden as a child in 1989 and was raised in Lund.
She did attended the Sture Academy, a training programme for young people owned and runed by the company Timbro and named after Sture Eskilsson.
Dolly Style
Dolly Style is a Swedish pop group. The group was created by Emma Nors and Palle Hammarlund. It features three girls, all born in 1996, that call themselves Molly, Holly and Polly. The trio claims to originate from a "dollhouse in Dollyville". The group gets its inspiration from 1960s fashion and victorian style. The group has participated in the Melodifestivalen two times.
Kristina Winberg
Iris Mittenaere
Iris Mittenaere (born 25 January 1993) is a French runway model and the winner of the beauty pageant Miss Universe 2016 on 30 January 2017 in Manila, Philippines.
Mittenaere was born on 25 January 1993 in Lille, to Yves Mittenaere, a professor of history and geography, and Laurence Druart, a schoolteacher and lecturer. She has a brother, sister, and half-sister. Her parents separated when she was three years old.
Mittenaere attended school in Steenvoorde, where she lived with her mother. In 2011, she graduated "lycée" with a degree in science. After graduating, she moved back to Lille, where she attended Lille 2 University of Health and Law, studying dentistry. She plans on becoming a dental surgeon after graduating.
After winning the Miss Flandre title in Bailleul, Mittenaere entered the Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2015 pageant in Orchies, which she won. Mittenaere represented Nord-Pas-de-Calais at the Miss France 2016 pageant. On 19 December 2015, she was crowned Miss France by Miss France 2015 Camille Cerf in Lille.
She competed in Miss Universe 2016 where she succeeded Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines. The last European titleholder to complete her year as Miss Universe was Miss Universe 1990 Mona Grudt of Norway.
Mittenaere is in a relationship with fellow dentistry student Matthieu Declercq.
Joint List
HaReshima HaMeshutefet, Hebrew: הרשימה המשותפת‎‎ , or: al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah, Arab: القائمة المشتركة‎‎ , both meaning "The Joint List" (often called like that) is an Israeli political cooperation of four, mainly Arab parties, established in 2015.
Its ideology depends on its members' ideology. Common objective are the interests of the Arab Israelis.
Its political leader is Ayman Odeh (Hadash).
HaReshima HaMeshutefet / al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah was founded in 2015 as a cooperation of Hadash (communist), Balad (social democratic, secular), Ra'am (Islamist), and Ta'al (right-wing centrist, secular). Especially the last three parties are fully Arab and anti-Zionist.
The Joint List was established to prevent the Arab parties from disappearing from the Knesset due to the raise of the election threshold (the minimum percentage of votes for a party to get one parliamentary seat), and also to support the Zionist Union in its effort to replace the third Netanyahu government.
The number of seats won by the Joint List in the 23rd Knesset: 15 (Hadash: 5, Ra'am: 4, Balad: 3, and Ta'al: 3).
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Sok An
Dr. Sok An (; April 16, 1950 – March 15, 2017) was a Cambodian politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Office of the Council of Ministers from 2004 to his death, and started serving in the Cabinet in 1993. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Takéo and a member of the central committee of the Cambodian People's Party.
An was born in Kirivong, Takéo, Cambodia. He studied at University of Phnom Penh. He was married to Theng Ay Annie at the time of his death. They had five children.
An died at a hospital in Beijing on March 15, 2017 from a short-illness at the age of 66. An suffered from diabetes and was seeking medical treatment in Beijing since December 2016.
Enrique Morea
Enrique Jorge Morea (11 April 1924 – 15 March 2017) was an Argentine tennis player. He was born in Buenos Aires.
Morea won the mixed doubles title of the 1950 French Championships. He also won two Gold medals at the inaugural men's tennis competition at the 1951 Pan American Games. Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph ranked Morea as World No. 10 in 1953 and 1954.
Until his death, Morea was the honorary president of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis (AAT).
Morea died in Buenos Aires from natural causes on 15 March 2017, aged 92.
Richard H. Solomon
Richard Harvey Solomon (June 19, 1937 – March 13, 2017) was an American diplomat. He served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992, after which he was Ambassador to the Philippines.
In September 1993, he became president of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held until September 2012. He later joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.
Solomon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Solomon died on March 13, 2017 in Bethesda, Maryland from brain cancer, aged 79.
Henri Cueco
Henri Cueco (19 October 1929 – 13 March 2017) was a French painter, essayist, novelist and radio personality.
His work was exhibited internationally. He was the author of several books, including collections of essays and novels. He was also a contributor to France Culture.
He was a communist-turned-libertarian, he was a co-founder of Coopérative des Malassis, an anti-consumerist artists collective. He was best-known for "The Red Men", a series of figurative paintings depicting aspects of the Cold War like the May 1968 events, the Vietnam War and Red Scare, and his 150 still lifes, or "portraits," of potatoes.
Cueco died of Alzheimer's disease on 13 March 2017 in Paris, aged 87.
John Van de Kamp
John Van de Kamp (February 7, 1936 – March 14, 2017) was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1975 until 1981, and then as the 28th Attorney General of California from 1983 until 1991.
Van de Kamp died at his Pasadena home on March 14, 2017 from a short-illness, aged 81.
Rodrigo Valdéz
Rodrigo Valdez (December 22, 1946 – March 14, 2017) was a boxer from Colombia who was a World Middleweight Champion and Undisputed World Middleweight Champion whose rivalry with Carlos Monzón has long been considered among the most legendary boxing rivalries.
Valdez was trained by International Boxing Hall of Fame coach Gil Clancy. Many people consider him, Antonio Cervantes and Miguel "Happy" Lora to be the three greatest boxers ever to come from that country. He is 29th on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Valdéz died on March 14, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia from a heart attack, aged 70.
Jim McAnearney
James "Jim" McAnearney (20 March 1935 – 14 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager.
McAnearney played for Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Bradford City, who he also briefly managed in 1968 with Tom Hallett.
He later managed Rotherham United, Frickley Athletic, Scarborough and Hallam, and worked as a coach at Sheffield Wednesday (where he was also caretaker manager) and Leeds United. In later life he established and ran a tool/engineering business.
McAnearney died on 14 March 2017, at the age of 81.
Royal Robbins
Royal Robbins (February 3, 1935 – March 14, 2017) was one of the pioneers of American rock climbing.
After learning to climb at Tahquitz he went on to make first ascents of many big wall routes in Yosemite. As an early proponent of boltless, pitonless clean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s by encouraging the use and preservation of the natural features of the rock.
He went on to become a well-known kayaker.
Robbins died on March 14, 2017 in Modesto, California from a long-illness, aged 82.
The Intouchables ( , UK: Untouchable) is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama movie directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy.
The movie is about a quadriplegic Philippe (François Cluzet) and his caretaker and later best friend Driss (Omar Sy) going on adventures throughout Paris while Philippe is going through challenges of being quadriplegic.
Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 movie "Welcome to the Sticks".
The movie was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The movie has received several award nominations. In France, the movie won César Award for Best Actor for Omar Sy, and seven nomination for César Awards include the César Award for Best Film But losing to the Academy Award for Best Picture winner "The Artist".
In 2019, an English-remake titled "The Upside" (2019) was released with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart.
Marcelino dos Santos
Marcelino dos Santos (20 May 1929 – 11 February 2020) was a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and statesman. He was born in Lumbo.
He was a founding member of the "Frente de Libertação de Moçambique" (FRELIMO—Mozambican Liberation Front), in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s.
He also was Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remains a member of the Frelimo Central Committee.
Santos died on 11 February 2020 at the age of 90.
Doina Cornea
Doina Cornea (; 30 May 1929 – 3 May 2018) was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was notable as a dissident during the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Cornea illegally sent the first letter to Radio Free Europe in 1982. It was the first in a series of texts and protests against the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime. She saw the crisis not just an economic one, but also a spiritual crisis.She said that the Romanian people "a people fed solely on slogans", who value more material values rather than spiritual values, which she defined as the ones which "generated intelligence, ethics, culture, liberty and responsibility".
In August 1987, she addressed an open letter to Nicolae Ceaușescu, in which she advocated reform in the higher education: greater academic freedom.
She argued for freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and freedom of travel; on the economic side, her letter (which may have been drafted by other collaborators) argued for closing down loss-making factories, re-tooling factories for being able to compete with foreign companies, hiring foreign managers and recreation of private land ownership, as well as the stopping of the Systematization programme.
Cornea was put on house arrest by the Securitate (Romanian government officials). Following a documentary shown on Belgian television, an international campaign for her release began. Resolutions arguing for her release were passed by the European Parliament and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
She was released 21 December 1989 (during the Romanian Revolution, on the day before the Ceaușescu regime fell);
Cornea born in Brașov, Romania. Cornea began studying French and Italian at Cluj University in 1948. In 1980, she published her first "samizdat" book, "Încercarea Labirintului".
Alfred Moisiu
Alfred Spiro Moisiu (; born 1 December 1929) is an Albanian politician. He was the fourth President of the Republic of Albania from 2002–2007. He is the eldest son of famed Albanian Army general Spiro Moisiu.
Selim Hoss
Selim Ahmed Hoss (spelled "Salim Al-Hoss" on his website, Arabic: سليم أحمد الحص) (born 20 December 1929) is a veteran Lebanese politician. He was a Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut.
Lee Hyun-jae
Lee Hyun Jae (born December 20, 1929) is a former South Korean politician.
He served from March to December 1988 as the twentieth prime minister of South Korea.
Lee is the chairman of the Ho-Am Prize Committee and an advisor of the Korean Association for Cultural Economics as of 2017.
Milan Panić
Milan Panić (, ; born 20 December 1929) is a Serbian-American former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, humanitarian, and multimillionaire businessman based in Newport Beach and Pasadena, California. He served as Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993. During and after his time as Prime Minister, he campaigned for peace and democracy in the Balkan region.
He ran for President of Serbia in 1992, ultimately coming in second to Slobodan Milošević.
Efraín Goldenberg
Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber, or "Efraím," (born 28 December 1929) is a retired-Peruvian politician. He served as Peru's finance minister, foreign relations minister, and Prime Minister in the 1990s.
On February 17, 1994, he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Peru by then President Alberto Fujimori, a position that he held until 1995.
Goldenberg was born on December 28, 1929, in Lima, Peru, to Jewish Romanian immigrants. He grew up in Talara. He studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Omar Sy
Omar Sy (born 20 January 1978) is a French actor and comedian. He is best known in France for his duo with Fred Testot, "Omar et Fred", and for his role in "The Intouchables". Internationally, he is known for his roles in "" and "Jurassic World".
Sy received a César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for his role in "The Intouchables" and in doing so also became the first actor of African descent to win the French award.
Sy is a Muslim. His parents are both immigrants from West Africa.
The ultraviolet catastrophe is the name given to a conflict between theory and the observation in classical physics.
An ideal black body at thermal equilibrium emits radiation in all frequency ranges. It emits more energy as the frequency increases. By calculating the total amount of radiated energy, it can be shown that a blackbody would release an infinite amount of energy. This contradicted the principles of conservation of energy and showed a new model was needed for the behaviour of blackbodies. This happened around the end of the nineteenth century. It was one of the things that led to the invention of quantum mechanics.
It led theorists like Max Planck to come up with quantum theory in which energy leaves the body in distinct packets called quanta rather than in continuous waves. The quantum theory accurately predicted the energy of the radiation that is observed.
Rayleigh-Jeans formula predicts that the radiated intensity should increase as square of frequency. So energy density (intensity) would become infinitely large at the high frequency end of the spectrum, but experimentally observed that it approaches zero.
This divergence for higher frequencies is called ultraviolet catastrophe.Le Vigan, Gard
Le Vigan () is a commune in south central France in the region of Occitanie. It is a subprefecture of the Gard department. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of the same name.
Since the creation of the Gard department on 4 March 1790, Le Vigan has been a subprefecture of the department.
Le Vigan is at the south of the Massif Central and near the Mont Aigoual, in the valley of the Arre, a right tributary of the Hérault river. The Arre flows through the town.
Le Vigan has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" of Le Vigan is surrounded by the "communes" Aulas, Avèze, Saint-André-de-Majencoules, Roquedur, Saint-Bresson, Pommiers and Mandagout.
Le Vigan is part of the Cévennes National Park ().
The climate of Le Vigan, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csa - Mediterranean climate with hot summers.
The inhabitants of Le Vigan are known, in French, as "Viganais" (women: "Viganaises").
With a population of 3,933, Le Vigan has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Le Vigan
Le Vigan forms, with other 6 "communes", the urban area of Le Vigan with a population of 7,184 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Le Vigan, formed by 15 "communes" with a population of 8,996 inhabitants and an area of .
Le Vigan is a subprefecture of the Gard department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Le Vigan and the administrative centre () of the canton Le Vigan; the canton has 23,033 inhabitants .
It is part of the intercommunality "Le Pays viganais".
Le Vigan is twinned with:
Alès
Alès () is a commune in south central France in the region of Occitanie. It is a subprefecture of the Gard department. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of the same name.
Since the creation of the Gard department on 4 March 1790, Alès has been a subprefecture of the department.
Alès is at north-northwest of Nîmes, in a curve (meander) of the Le Gardon d'Alès river, which half surrounds it. It is at the foot of the Cévennes, near the Cévennes National Park.
Alès has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" of Alès is surrounded by the "communes" Saint-Jean-du-Pin, Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues, Saint-Privat-des-Vieux, Cendras, Saint-Christol-lès-Alès and Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas.
The climate of Alès, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csb - Mediterranean climate with warm summers.
The inhabitants of Alès are known, in French, as "Alésiens" (women: "Alésiennes").
With a population of 39,993, Alès has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Alès
Alès forms, with other 21 "communes", the urban area of Alès with a population of 94,622 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Alès, formed by 52 "communes" with a population of 114,137 inhabitants and an area of .
Alès is a subprefecture of the Gard department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Le Vigan and the administrative centre () of the cantons
It is part of the intercommunality "Alès Agglomération".
Alès is twinned with:
Geoffrey Wainwright
Geoffrey John Wainwright MBE (19 September 1937 – 6 March 2017) was a British archaeologist specializing in prehistory. He was the Chief Archaeologist of English Heritage from 1989 to 1999. He served as visiting professor to a number of universities. He served as President of the Prehistoric Society from 1981 to 1985 and the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2007 to 2010.
Wainwright was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He studied at Cardiff University and at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Wainwright died on 6 March 2017 in Pembrokeshire, Wales, aged 79.
Torgny Lindgren
Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer.
Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith.
Lindgren died in Stockholm on 16 March 2017 from stomach cancer, aged 78.