Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
John Francis Putnam (June 21, 1917 – November 29, 1980) was the art director and designer of Mad from 1954 to 1980.  "Until John came to us, Mad was just a comic book," said publisher Bill Gaines following Putnam's death.  "He joined Mad as a $75 a week temporary employee, and was [in 1980] the oldest member of the staff both in terms of age and time with the magazine."

Putnam, the son of the novelist-playwright Nina Wilcox Putnam, also drew occasional cartoons for Mad.  He was the co-creator of the "Mad Zeppelin," and the originator of the magazine's "Arthur the potted plant."  The latter sight gag had its origins in a pot of homegrown marijuana Putnam had been quietly growing in the Mad art department until it was recognized by an editor who told him to get rid of it.  In Frank Jacobs' book "The MAD World of William M. Gaines," Jacobs reported that Putnam "saw that it was disposed of in a nonwasteful manner."

Putnam also created the "mascot" and logo for Paul Krassner's The Realist, where he was a longtime contributor.  Prior to joining Mad, he had run his own freelance art studio.  Putnam stored Mad artwork in drawers with labels like "Pornography" and "Transvestia."

In 1954, he scripted the story "Dien Bien Phu!" for EC Comics' Two-Fisted Tales No. 40 (December 1954 – January 1955).

Putnam, a photographer, military history expert, miniature model enthusiast, and a collector of sea shells and classical French literature, lived in the West Village, where he had a number of gallery shows of his wood sculptures and painted paper constructions. He was friends with Diane Arbus, and they sometimes took photographs together at the Hudson River docks. He recalled, "Diane and I often talked about France. She couldn't get over the fact that I stlll spoke French like a native. Sometimes I'd translate Proust for her, or Charles Trenet lyrics. She told me she'd had a French nanny as a kid and had once believed she spoke French fluently, but no longer could remember a word of it."  Putnam also served as translator when Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias first arrived at the Mad offices, unable to speak a word of English.

John Putnam lived on Occident Avenue on Staten Island in the 60s with his wife and two sons.

During one of the annual Mad staff trips, Putnam died of pneumonia in Munich, Germany.  The magazine's staff had been forced to return to New York while Putnam was still lingering in the hospital, but his longtime friend, Mad artist George Woodbridge remained behind to stay with Putnam, and ultimately to accompany his body back to the United States.

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American comics writers
American comics artists
20th-century American photographers
1917 births
1980 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia in Germany
Mad (magazine) cartoonists
EC Comics
Naor's Friends () is an Israeli television sitcom created by Naor Zion for the Israeli Channel 10. The series premiered on November 14, 2006, and series 3 started airing on April 5, 2011. The Israeli comedian Naor Zion completely wrote and directed the series and also stars in the series as a fictionalized version of himself. The series which is set in Tel Aviv revolves around Naor's eccentric friends and acquaintances, including Weisman, Dedi, Mika and Omri

The series focuses on four single friends in their thirties, who live in the center of Tel Aviv - Naor (played by Naor Zion), Weisman (played by Benny Avni), Dedi (played by Yuval Semo), Mika (played by Tamar Keinan), Omri (played by Yoni Zicholtz). Dafi (played by Mali Levi) is introduced in the third series as the closest female friend to the main male cast after Tamar Keinan quit her role as Mika.

On 13 July 2016, some 5 years since its last original episode, creator and star Naor Zion announced the series will be returning for a 4th season on Channel 10. It would also be the first season without Ronit Ivgy, who died earlier that same year. The fourth season began filming in August 2016.

The opening theme song of the series, "לא נרדמת תל אביב" (Translated: "Tel Aviv Never Sleeps") was written, composed (and original sung by) Danny Robas, and is performed in the series by Adi Cohen (who won third place on Kokhav Nolad season 2).

Cast

Main characters 
 Naor Zion (playing himself) - the main character of the series who works as a stand-up comedian.
 Daniel Weissmann (Played by Benny Avni) - Naor's best friend.
 Dedi Har'el (played by Yuval Semo): Naor's friend. Dedi is a pilot in the Israeli Air Force who became a pilot for the purpose of impressing women.
 Mika (played by Tamar Keinan) - a childhood friend of Naor with whom Naor and his friends consult about women, yet never listen to her advice. She is Tamir's girlfriend. Tamar Keinan quit her role as Mika before the third series.
 Omri (played by Yoni Zicholtz) - Naor's friend. Omri is a private eye.
 Dafi (played by Mali Levi) - Naor's friend who is introduced in the third series.

Recurring characters 
There are numerous recurring characters in The Friends of Naor. The most prominent are:
 Hanna Zion (played by Ronit Ivgy) - Naor's overbearing mother. She is often described as stingy.
 Tamir Landau (played by Aaron Silberberg) - Mika's surreal dwarf boyfriend.
 Pluto (played by David Kigler) - an eccentric fan of Naor.
 Avi Dalal (playing himself) - the owner of a well known pizzeria in Tel Aviv which is the permanent venue of the main characters. Dalal is the mentor of the group.

Plot

External links 
 
 Naor's Friends - official website

2006 Israeli television series debuts
Israeli television sitcoms
Channel 10 (Israeli TV channel) original programming
2000s Israeli television series
Lehlohonolo Benedict Ledwaba (27 July 1971 – 2 July 2021) was a South African professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2006, and held the IBF super bantamweight title from 1999 to 2001.

Ledwaba died from COVID-19 on 2 July 2021, at age 49.

Professional career
Ledwaba turned pro in 1990 and in 1999 captured the vacant IBF super bantamweight title with a decision victory over John Michael Johnson.  Ledwaba defended the belt 5 times before losing it to Manny Pacquiao via TKO to earn Pacquiao his second world championship in two weight divisions. Ledwaba continued to fight, but has never challenged for a major title since the loss. He retired from boxing after his loss to Maxwell Awuku on 24 November 2006.

Professional boxing record

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1971 births
2021 deaths
Bantamweight boxers
International Boxing Federation champions
Sportspeople from Soweto
South African male boxers
Super-bantamweight boxers
Featherweight boxers
Super-featherweight boxers
World super-bantamweight boxing champions
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa
Stickney is an unincorporated community in southern Maries County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route E, two miles east of Hayden. The location is just west of the confluence of Dry Creek and Montague Creek and two miles west of the confluence of Dry Creek with the Gasconade River. The community is about eight miles south of Vienna.

History
A post office called Stickney was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1951. The community has the name of the local Stickney family.

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Unincorporated communities in Maries County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Pharala is a village in the tehsil of Nawanshahr, Nawanshahr district (also known as Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar), in Punjab, India.

Demographics
According to the 2001 Census, Pharala has a population of 3,496 people. Neighbouring villages include Bharoli, Sandhwan, Anokharwal, Behram, Munna and Ghumana.

The most popular last names in Pharala are Atwal and Sangar(Kaushal). Other last names in the village are Sahota, Bal, Gill, Pannu, Mattu, Chumber, Uppal, Sandhu, Bansal, Bagga, Maan, Nijjar, Bali, Awasthi, Shreedhar, Talwar, Kainth, Abrol and Bhagirath

History
According to local tradition, Pharala was founded by Baba Hadal Atwal. Baba Hadal was married to a woman from Sandhwan. Since then the village has been known as "Sandhwan-Pharala".

Villagers believe that Baba Hadal had three brothers. One moved and founded Chitti Pind (Jalandhar district), one moved and founded Khurad Pur (Jalandhar district) and the third moved and founded a village in Gurdaspur district known as "Atwal". Atwal families in Bir Puadh (Kapurthala district) hail from Pharala.

Around Pharala
Pharala has a historic Gurudwara known as Gurudwara Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji, who visited this place during the Mughal era on the course of his journey to Sri Anandpur Sahib. The village also has a government senior secondary school, the Shiv Mandir, Gurdwara Lasurha Sahib, Dera Dudha-Dhari, the shrine of Bhajan Dass Ji, Masjid, Gurdwara Guru Ravidas Ji and Balmik Mandir and a sports stadium.

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Nawanshahr
Villages in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district
PA21 may refer to:
 Pennsylvania Route 21
 Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district
 Piper PA-21, an aircraft prototype
 Pitcairn PA-21, an autogyro of the 1930s
or  (or unofficially: Herjangen) is a fjord that branches off of the Ofotfjorden in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The  long fjord is located just north of the Rombaken fjord.  The villages along the fjord are Bjerkvik and Herjangen.  The European route E06 and European route E10 highways run along the northern and eastern shores of the fjord.

References

Fjords of Nordland
Narvik
The City of Leipzig awards the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding () which has been given since 1994. The award is endowed with prize money of 20,000 Euro and is presented every year during the official opening of Leipzig Book Fair.

Recipients
Source:

 1994 Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland)
 1994 Eckhard Thiele (Germany)
 1995 Péter Nádas (Hungary)
 1995 Svetlana Geier (Germany)
 1996 Aleksandar Tišma (Serbia)
 1996 Fritz Mierau (Germany)
 1997 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
 1997 Antonín J. Liehm (Czech Republic)
 1998 Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
 1998 Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland)
 1998 Andreas Tretner (Germany)
 1999 Eric Hobsbawm (United Kingdom)
 1999 Nenad Popović (Serbia)
 2000 Hanna Krall (Poland)
 2000 Peter Urban (Germany)
 2001 Claudio Magris (Italy)
 2001 Norbert Randow (Germany)
 2002 Bora Ćosić (Serbia)
 2002 Ludvík Kundera (Czech Republic)
 2003 Hugo Claus (Belgium)
 2003 Barbara Antkowiak (Germany)
 2004 Dževad Karahasan (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
 2004 Gábor Csordás (Hungary)
 2005 Slavenka Drakulić (Croatia)
 2006 Yurii Andrukhovych (Ukraine)
 2007 Gerd Koenen (Germany)
 2007 Michail Ryklin (Russia)
 2008 Geert Mak (Netherlands)
 2009 Karl Schlögel (Germany)
 2010 György Dalos (Hungary)
 2011 Martin Pollack (Austria)
 2012 Ian Kershaw (United Kingdom)
 2012 Timothy D. Snyder (United States)
 2013 Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Germany)
 2014 Pankaj Mishra (India)
 2015 Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania)
 2016 Heinrich August Winkler (Germany)
 2017 Mathias Énard (France)
 2018 Åsne Seierstad (Norway)
 2019 Masha Gessen (United States/Russia)
 2020 László F. Földényi (Hungary)
 2021 Johnny Pitts (United Kingdom/United States)
 2022 Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria)
 2023 Maria Stepanova (Russia)

References

External links
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, official website

German-language literary awards
Awards established in 1994
Fiction awards
Events in Leipzig
Trevor Lewis  (born 8 July 1933) is a British entomologist.  He was President of the Royal Entomological Society 1985-1986, and was Director of the AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research, 1989–1993.  He was appointed a CBE in 1992.

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Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
British entomologists
1933 births
Living people
Zenodorus may refer to
Zenodorus (spider), a genus of spiders
Zenodorus son of Lysanias, King and ruler of Iturea
Zenodorus (mathematician), ancient Greek mathematician
, builder of the Colossus of Nero in Rome
This is a list of the squads of the teams that participated in the 2013 Caribbean Premier League.

Antigua Hawksbills

Justin Kemp (injured), Steven Smith (injured)

Barbados Tridents

Guyana Amazon Warriors

Jamaica Tallawahs

St Lucia Zouks

Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel

References

External links

Caribbean Premier League
Asterius may refer to:

 Asterion or Asterius, multiple figures in Greek mythology
 Asterius of Ostia (d.223), Christian martyr and saint
 Asterius of Caesarea (d.262), Christian martyr and saint
 Asterius, Claudius and Neon (d. 303), Christian martyr and saint
 Asterius of Petra (d. 365), Bishop of Petra and saint
 Asterius of Amasia, bishop of Amasia, later in the 4th century
 Asterius (comes Hispaniarum), Roman general who defeated the Vandals in Hispania in various battles.
 Asterius the Sophist, philosopher
 Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius, Roman consul for 494
John Cornwallis (23 December 1706 – 1768) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1747.

History 
Cornwallis was the fourth son of Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis and his wife Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran. He was educated at Eton College in 1718. He married Sarah Dale, daughter of Rev. Hugh Dale. His brothers Hon. Edward, James and Stephen Cornwallis were also Members of Parliament.

Cornwallis was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for the family seat of  Eye at the  1727 British general election with his elder brother Stephen. He voted    regularly with the Government and was appointed Equerry to Prince of Wales in about 1731. He spoke against the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. At the 1734 British general election he was returned unopposed with his brother again. In 1737, he gave up his post of equerry to the Prince when the Prince of Wales went into opposition, because the pension he had from the King was worth more than the salary from his place. He was returned unopposed with his brother again at the 1741 British general election. At the end of Walpole's Administration he voted with the Opposition on Pulteney's motion for a secret committee to inquire into the war, on account of which his brother, Lord Cornwallis,  turned him out of doors next day.  He subsequently became a follower of the Prince of Wales again. He was not renominated by Lord Cornwallis for Eye at the 1747 British general election but stood on his own account and was defeated.  He did not stand for Parliament again.

Death 
Cornwallis died on 9 June 1768, leaving a son and three daughters.

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1706 births
1768 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
British MPs 1727–1734
British MPs 1734–1741
British MPs 1741–1747
The 2014 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament will be held March 6–10 at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. The tournament will be held in Springfield through 2014. The winner of the tournament receives the conference's automatic bid into the 2014 NCAA tournament.

Bracket and Results
 

All times listed are Eastern

See also
 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
 MAAC women's basketball tournament

External links
 2014 MAAC Women's Basketball Championship

References

MAAC women's basketball tournament
Basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts
College basketball tournaments in Massachusetts
21st century in Springfield, Massachusetts
Women's sports in Massachusetts
Maria Filomena Dumandan Singh (born June 25, 1966) is a Filipino judge who has served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines since 2022.

Early life and education
Singh was born on June 25, 1966. She graduated from the University of the Philippines, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in English major in imaginative writing. She earned a Juris Doctor from the Ateneo Law School with second honors distinction. She studied at the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington, D.C., for a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies.

Judicial career
Singh served as an associate justice of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines from 2014 to 2022, succeeding Justice Rosalinda Asuncion-Vicente who retired in November 2013. She previously served as the senior member in the 3rd Division of the Court of Appeals under the chairpersonship of Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta.

On May 18, 2022, Singh was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe. Singh is Duterte's last appointment to the Supreme Court.

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1966 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Ateneo de Manila University alumni
Filipino women judges
Filipino women lawyers
Justices of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines
Washington College of Law alumni
21st-century women judges
Choi Kyu-Woong (also Choi Gyu-Wung, ; born May 28, 1990, in Busan) is a South Korean swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. He shared silver medals with China's Xue Ruipeng in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, in a time of 2:12.25. He also collected two medals (silver and bronze) in both 100 and 200 m breaststroke at the 2009 East Asian Games in Hong Kong, China. Choi is a member of the swimming team at the Korea National Sport University in Seoul, under his personal coach Lee Woo-Shin.

Choi qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by breaking a South Korean record and clearing a FINA A-standard time of 2:11.17 from the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including former silver medalist Dániel Gyurta of Hungary and local favorite Michael Jamieson of Great Britain. Choi raced to seventh place by less than 0.04 of a second behind Ukraine's Igor Borysik in 2:13.57. Choi failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminary heats.

He also qualified for the 2016 Olympics, again in the 200 m breaststroke.

References

External links
NBC Olympics Profile

1990 births
Living people
South Korean male breaststroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers for South Korea
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in swimming
Swimmers at the 2010 Asian Games
Swimmers at the 2014 Asian Games
Sportspeople from Busan
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
21st-century South Korean people
Die große Chance ("The Big Chance") is an Austrian talent television show, originally aired between 1980 and 1990, then revived in 2011.

Background
Die große Chance was originally broadcast by the Österreichischen Rundfunk (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) showing on prime time between 1980 and 1990. Peter Rapp hosted the show from 1980 to 1988. Thomas Klock took over in 1988 and Elisabeth Engstler in 1989 and 1990. The programme was discontinued in 1991.

2011-present: Revival
Die große Chance was revived as a competitive talent show starting 2011. It was broadcast on Austrian television ORF eins. 

The first season broadcast between 9 September and 11 November 2011 was won by singer Christine Hödl in 2011, with Valerian Kapeller as runner-up and Magic Acrobatics third. It was hosted by Andi Knoll. Notably, the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest eventual winner, Conchita Wurst, came sixth in the 2011 series.

The second season broadcast from 7 September to 2 November 2012 and was won by dancing duo Alexandra und Esprit, with the music band Solid Tube as runner-up and cabaret act Flo und Wisch third. Andi Knoll hosted the programme for a second season.

The third season in 2013 was hosted by Alice Tumler and was won by vocals and harp act Harfonie, with singer/ steirische harmonika player Petra Mayer as runner-up and singer Ivana Cibulova third.

Die große Comedy Chance
Another offshoot of the programme was Die große Comedy Chance for giving a chance for comedians to perform. The first series was broadcast in 2012, also hosted by Andi Knoll and won by Zwa Voitrottln with a second season in 2014 won by Olivier Sanrey.

1980 Austrian television series debuts
1990 Austrian television series endings
2011 Austrian television series debuts
1980s Austrian television series
1990s Austrian television series
2010s Austrian television series
ORF (broadcaster) original programming
German-language television shows
Mill Plain is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is in the southern part of the town, directly north of the downtown area of Fairfield and northeast of Southport. It is bordered to the west by the Mill River, to the south by Interstate 95, to the east by Mill Plain Road, and to the north by Duck Farm Road.

Mill Plain was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.

References 

Census-designated places in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Census-designated places in Connecticut
Azelis Group is a Belgium-based distributor specializing in food ingredients and specialty chemicals, headquartered in Antwerp. It is listed on Euronext since 2021 and has presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.

History 
Azelis Group was established by the merger of Novorchem (Italy), and Arnaud (France) in 2001. In 2004, Azelis acquired Benelux companies: Sibeco Group and Sepulchre. In 2005, Azelis acquired a chemical distributor Brøste from Denmark. In December 2006, 3i global finance house bought the Azelis Group from Cognetas (now Motion Equity Partners) for over €300 million. 

As of 2011, the company had 36 companies under its brand name. In 2021, Azelis Group was listed on Euronext Brussels through IPO, having raised €1.77 billion with a market capitalization of €6.08 billion. Bloomberg noted that it was the biggest Belgian IPO since 2007.

In 2022, Azelis Group made 12 acquisitions and exceeded $4 billion turnover.

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Companies listed on Euronext Paris
Belgian companies established in 2001
Songo-Doubacoré is a commune in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 232 square kilometers and includes 11 villages. In the 2009 census it had a population of 14,007. The village of Oula, the administrative centre (chef-lieu) of the commune, is 26 km northeast of Koutiala.

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External links
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Communes of Sikasso Region