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Eugene Richard "Gene" Michael (June 2, 1938 – September 7, 2017), nicknamed "Stick", was an American shortstop, coach, scout, manager and executive in Major League Baseball. He was born in Kent, Ohio.

Michael played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Detroit Tigers from 1966 to 1975. After his playing career, Michael managed the Yankees and Chicago Cubs, and served as the Yankees' general manager. Michael built the Yankees team that became a dynasty in the late 1990s.

Michael died of a heart attack on September 7, 2017, in Oldsmar, Florida at the age of 79.

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Jews believe in only one god, because they believe that that one god was not only the creator of the world, but also that they can have an individual and personal relationship with him. The name of that god is God, meaning “The Name” or “My Master”. 

The religion started in Mesopotamia, later on moving to Canaan, and near the Middle East. It developed gradually around 1800 BCE. During this time, God talked to Abraham, and told him to go to Canaan with his followers. Once they arrived, they became sheep herders. But one day, famine caused them to flee to Egypt, where they eventually became slaves. After all that happened, God talked to another spiritual leader in Judaism to help Abraham and his followers get back to Canaan, which he eventually did. The religion spread widely after that. The spread is called the Jewish Diaspora. The Jews spread to other countries and took their religion with them. 

The Jews have to follow specific rules from their bible. One of them is the 10 commandments. They also have to live near their Synagogue because they don't believe in taking transportation on Shabbat.

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The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group A was one of the nine UEFA groups for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. The group was made up of six teams: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, and Luxembourg.

Table

Goalscorers
8 goals

 Marcus Berg

6 goals

 Arjen Robben

4 goals

 Olivier Giroud
 Antoine Griezmann
 Aurélien Joachim
 Emil Forsberg

3 goals

 Georgi Kostadinov
 Memphis Depay
 Quincy Promes
 Davy Pröpper
 Andreas Granqvist
 Mikael Lustig
 Ola Toivonen

2 goals

 Pavel Savitski
 Ivaylo Chochev
 Spas Delev
 Ivelin Popov
 Kévin Gameiro
 Thomas Lemar
 Dimitri Payet
 Paul Pogba
 Vincent Janssen
 Wesley Sneijder

1 goal

 Alexei Rios
 Anton Saroka
 Mikhail Sivakow
 Maksim Valadzko
 Mihail Aleksandrov
 Stanislav Manolev
 Marcelinho
 Dimitar Rangelov
 Aleksandar Tonev
 Blaise Matuidi
 Kylian Mbappé
 Florian Bohnert
 Maxime Chanot
 Daniel da Mota
 Olivier Thill
 Davy Klaassen
 Georginio Wijnaldum
 Jimmy Durmaz
 Oscar Hiljemark
 Isaac Kiese Thelin
 Victor Lindelöf
 Christoffer Nyman

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 Qualifiers – Europe: Round 1 , FIFA.com
FIFA World Cup, UEFA.com
 Standings – Qualifying round: Group A, UEFA.com

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Jenaz () is a municipality of the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Jenins () is a municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Municipalities of Graubünden
Ferrera is a municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

History
It was formed on 1 January 2008 through the merger of Ausserferrera and Innerferrera.

Villages
 Ausserferrera
 Innerferrera

Languages

Gallery

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Villars-Sainte-Croix is a municipality in the district of Ouest lausannois in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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 Official Homepage  

Municipalities of Vaud
Die () is a small city and commune in southeastern France in the Drôme department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It is in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Geography
Die is in the eastern part of the Drôme department. The Drôme river, a tributary of the Rhône river, flows through the commune.

It has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Die to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Lyon, the regional capital - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Strasbourg - ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nice - .

The commune of Die is surrounded by 8 communes: Chamaloc, Romeyer, Laval-d'Aix, Molières-Glandaz, Aix-en-Diois, Barsac, Ponet-et-Saint-Auban, Marignac-en-Diois.

Climate
The climate of Die, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Die are known, in French, as Diois (women: Dioises).

With a population of 4,516, Die has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Die

Administration
Die is a sub-prefecture in the Drôme department since 1800. It is the capital of the Die arrondissement and is also the administrative centre () of the canton of Le Diois formed by 63 communes, with 13,617 inhabitants (2014).

Twin towns 
Die is twinned with:
  Wirksworth, United Kingdom
  Varallo Sesia, Italy
  Frankenau, Germany
  Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Die
 Communes of the Drôme department

References

Other websites

 Ville de Die - Official site 
 Departamental Council website 
 Prefecture website 
 Drôme Tourisme 
 Office de Tourisme du Pays Diois 

Subprefectures in France
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Türkân Akyol (September 12, 1928 – September 7, 2017) was a Turkish   politician, physician and  academic. She was the first Turkish female government minister, and the first female university rector in Turkey. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She served as Minister of State from 1992 through 1995.

Akyol died on 7 September 2017 in Ankara, Turkey of a lung infection at the age of 88.

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 http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/First-female-ministers.htm

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Don Williams (May 27, 1939 – September 8, 2017) was an American country singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He began his solo career in 1971, singing popular ballads and amassing 17 number one country hits.

His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and imposing build earned him the nickname: "Gentle Giant" of country music.

On September 8, 2017, Williams died after a short battle with emphysema in Mobile, Alabama at the age of 78.

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Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. He contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. Pournelle served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1973.

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 Jerry Pournelle  at 1999 NASFiC website where he was GoH
 How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET
 Jerry Pournelle Interview at AMCtv.com 

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Les McDonald, CM (30 April 1933 – 4 September 2017) was a Canadian athlete and administrator. He was the founding President of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) from 1989-2008, and was made an Honorary President for the organization until his death in 2017.

McDonald is largely credited with getting the sport of triathlon into the Olympic Games, with the inaugural race taking place at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. He is a member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (2007), the BC Sports Hall of Fame (2009), and the ITU Hall of Fame (2014). He was awarded the Olympic Order in 2010, in Vancouver, by the International Olympic Committee.

McDonald was inducted as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2013 by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, the Governor General of Canada.

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Myopathy is a disease of the muscle in which the muscle fibers do not function properly. 

This results in muscular weakness. "Myopathy" simply means muscle disease (Greek myo- "muscle" + patheia < -pathy "suffering"). This meaning implies that the primary defect is within the muscle, as opposed to the nerves ("neuropathies" or "neurogenic" disorders) or elsewhere (e.g., the brain). Muscle cramps, stiffness, and spasm can also be associated with myopathy.

Muscular disease can be classified as neuromuscular or musculoskeletal in nature. Some conditions, such as myositis, can be considered both neuromuscular and musculoskeletal.

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Pierre Bergé  (; 14 November 1930 – 8 September 2017) was a French industrialist and patron. He was the co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House and onetime life partner and longtime business partner of the late fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

Bergé was recognized with the Order of Orange-Nassau, Officer of the Ordre National du Mérite, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, and Legion of Honor.

Bergé died of myopathy on 8 September 2017, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, at the age of 86.

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The United States National Health Care Act, or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act () is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers (D-MI). The bill had 49 cosponsors in 2015. As of August 12, 2017, it had 116 cosponsors, which amounts to a majority of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives and is the highest level of support the bill has ever received since Conyers began annually introducing the bill in 2003.

The act would create a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, the rough equivalent of Canada's Medicare and Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance, among other examples. Under a single-payer system, most medical care would be paid for by the Government of the United States, ending the need for private health insurance and premiums, and probably recasting private insurance companies as providing purely supplemental coverage, to be used when non-essential care is sought.

The bill was first introduced in 2003, when it had 25 cosponsors, and has been reintroduced in each Congress since. During the 2009 health care debates over the bill that became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, H.R. 676 was expected to be debated and voted upon by the House in September 2009, but was never debated.

The bill was introduced again recently by Rep. Conyers in the House of Representatives. Senator Bernie Sanders has said that he intends to introduce a parallel bill in the United States Senate in the future.

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Energy policy means the way of conservation of energy and the means to conserve it. Energy has bought immense changes in human life. Thus energy conservation is gaining much momentum.

Energy
is a Japanese composer of avant-garde music.

Ichiyanagi was born in Kobe, Japan.

One of his best known works is the 1960 composition Kaiki, which combined Japanese instruments, shō and koto, and western instruments, harmonica and saxophone.

Another work, Distance (1961), required the performers to play from a distance of three meters from their instruments. Anima 7 (1964) stated that chosen action should be performed "as slowly as possible".

Ichiyanagi was married to Yoko Ono from 1956 to 1963.

Ichiyanagi won the 33rd Suntory Music Award (2001). He has been honored with Japan's Order of Culture.

References

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 Julian Cope's Japrocksampler entry on Toshi Ichiyanagi 

1933 births
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Japanese composers
Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and a jazz musician. He received an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and Golden Globe Award. He is known for his first acting role on American television as a Nazi SS officer in the 1978 mini-series Holocaust.

Moriarty played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990–1994) on the television show Law & Order. Moriarty is also known for his roles in movies such as Bang the Drum Slowly, Who'll Stop the Rain, Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Troll, Courage Under Fire, and Shiloh.

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 Michael Moriarty  at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
 
 
Yahoo Movies: Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty UUU fan site (via archive.org): includes semi-regular blog posts by Moriarty
Michael Moriarty(Aveleyman)

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Luna Shamsuddoha (4 October – 17 February 2021) was a Bangladeshi Women Entrepreneur. She was the Chairman of the software firm Dohatec New Media, in Dhaka Bangladesh, which she founded in 1992. She was the first woman to head any state-owned bank in Bangladesh. She is the founder President of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT). She has got ‘Bangladesh Business Award-2017’ for her exceptional contribution to the country’s economy and honored with `Annona Best 10 award' for her remarkable execution in local software industry as a women entrepreneur  She serves as board member of SME Foundation, Independent University Bangladesh (IUB), Director of state-owned Janata Bank Limited. She has joined as chairman of the state-owned Janata Bank Limited.

Early life and education
Shamsuddoha was born to Lutfar Rahman and Hasina Rahman on 4 October in Dhaka. She got her Secondary School certificate from Viqarunnisa Noon School and College and Higher Secondary School certificate from Holy Cross College. She has a master's degree in International Relations (IR) from University of Dhaka.

Career
She began business in 1985 as the Managing Partner of The Executive Center. Prior to that, she functioned as English Language Teacher at British Council Language Resource Center and as Lecturer, English Language, Institute of Modern Languages, Dhaka University. Her company is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and System Integrator. Dohatec provides software solutions to institutions, government agencies and corporations in USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Bangladesh. Dohatec’s key clients are The World Bank, World Health Organisation, US Postal Service, Government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Army.

Personal life
Shamsuddoha was married to A. K. M. Shamsuddoha, a businessman in Dhaka. The couple had a daughter Reem Shamsuddoha.

Shamsuddoha died on 17 February 2021 in Dhaka.

Awards
 Bangladesh Business Award, 2017
 Honorary Special Recognition Award by Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN), 2013

References 

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The University of Dhaka (ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), also known as Dhaka University or simply DU), is the oldest university in modern Bangladesh. It was created in 1921 during the British Raj. It is important to the modern history of Bangladesh. After the Partition of India, the university was important to the progressive and democratic movements in Pakistan. Its students and teachers played a central role in the rise of Bengali nationalism and the independence of Bangladesh.

Today, it is the largest public university in Bangladesh, with a student body of 33,000 and a faculty of 1,800.

Other websites
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Heiteren is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Chingleput district was a district in the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the area of the present-day districts of Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur and parts of Chennai city. It was sub-divided into six taluks with a total area of 7,970 square kilometres (3,079 sq mi). The first capital was the town of Karunguzhi, with an interruption between 1825 and 1835, administrative headquarters were transferred to Kanchipuram. In 1859 the region of Saidapet, now a neighbourhood in the city of Chennai, was made the administrative headquarters of the district.

History 
Excavations made by Robert Bruce Foote indicate that the region was inhabited in the Stone age. During the end of first millennium B. C, it was under the Thondaiman kings. The Pallavas with their capital at Kanchi came to power in about 500 A. D. When the Pallava kingdom began to decline, the region was conquered by the Western Gangas in about 760 A. D. Chingleput was ruled by the Rashtrakutas, Cholas and the Kakatiyas of Warangal until the 13th century AD when it fell to the Delhi Sultanate. Chingleput area was conquered by the Vijayanagar Empire which ruled the region from 1393 till 1565 and from 1565 till 1640 as the kingdom of Chandragiri.

The area was annexed by the Mughals in 1687 and was later conquered by the Nawab of the Carnatic. In 1763, Chingleput was ceded to the British East India Company by Mohammad Ali, the then Nawab of the Carnatic. It was the site of the Carnatic Wars and was frequently taken by Tipu Sultan during the last years of the 18th century.After the independence of India, the district became part in 1950 of the newly named Madras State. As a result of the 1956 States Reorganisation Act, the state's boundaries were re-organised following linguistic lines.

Population
As of 1901, Chingleput had a total population of 1,312,222. 96 percent of the population were Hindus while the rest where Christians and Muslims. About three-fourths of the people spoke Tamil as their mother tongue the remainder spoke Telugu. Due to its proximity to Madras city, there were also large numbers of Europeans in the district.

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Coimbatore district was one of the districts of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the areas of the present-day districts of Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur and the Kollegal taluk of present-day Karnataka. It covered a total area of 20,400 square kilometres (7,860 sq mi) and was sub-divided into 10 taluks. The administrative headquarters was Coimbatore city. Most of Coimbatore's inhabitants were Tamil-speaking but there were also large numbers of Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada speaking people.

History 
Coimbatore was a part of the ancient Chera kingdom during the Sangam Age. After the Chera kingdom fell, the region was ruled by the Western Gangas and the Hoysalas. Coimbatore came under Muslim rule in the 13th century AD and was a province of the Vijayanagar Empire. After the fall of the Vijayanagar Empire, Coimbatore was ruled by the Madurai Nayaks till 17th century. A series of wars between the Kingdoms of Kingdom of Mysore of Madurai Nayak dynasty resulted in the region coming under the control of Mysore kings till the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the Third Mysore War in 1792, Coimbatore became a part of British India.
The district was founded in 1805. In 1868 Nilgiri District was segregated. The Avinashi taluk was formed when Karur was separated from the district and merged with Trichinopoly District. In 1927 and 1929 other readjustments were made. In 1956 the Kollegal taluk was transferred to Mysore State.

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Madura District was one of the districts of the Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the present-day districts of Madurai, Dindigul, Theni, Ramanathapuram, Sivagangai and parts of Virudhunagar District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

History 
Madura district was the centre of the Pandya kingdom and its capital city of Madurai was flourishing ever since the Sangam period. In the 10th century AD, the region was conquered by the rising Chola power. The Pandyas governed as subordinate from the 10th to the 13th century AD when they asserted their independence and established their supremacy over the declining Cholas. After a short and progressive rule, the Pandyas were defeated by the Delhi Sultanate whose ruled Alauddin Khilji sacked Madura. The region was ruled by the Madurai Sultanate for some time before it was conquered by the Vijayanagar Empire. The Vijayanagar kings were succeeded by the Madurai Nayak kingdom whose demise in 1736 left behind a huge void. After a short period of anarchy, Madura was conquered by the British East India Company and the district of Madura was carved out.

Taluks 
Madura district was sub-divided into 15 taluks, including 5 zamindari taluks of Ramnad estate and 3 zamindari taluks of Sivaganga estate.

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Ibadan is the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria. There are over 3 million people living in Ibadan which makes it the most populous city in Oyo state. It is the third most populous city in Nigeria, after Lagos and Kano. It is the largest city in the country by land size.

Ibadan is located in south-western Nigeria. Ibadan was the centre of administration of the old Western Region since the days of the British colonial rule, and parts of the city's ancient protective walls still stand to this day. The major inhabitants of the city are Yoruba, as well as various communities from other parts of the country.

Cities in Nigeria
Zapalasaurus is a genus of dinosaur named after the city of Zapala. The type species, Zapalasaurus bonapartei, was found in Neuquén Province, Argentina. It was a diplodocoid, a long-necked herbivore, and it lived during the Early Cretaceous.

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FC Schaffhausen is a football club which plays in Switzerland.

Honours
Swiss Cup: Runners-up
 1988, 1994
Challenge League: 1st
 2004
Swiss Super League: 8th
 2006

Other websites
 Official website 

1896 establishments in Europe
1890s establishments in Switzerland
Schaffhausen
Schaffhausen
Klosters-Serneus is a ski resort and municipality of the district Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

It is a popular ski location and the slopes are easily accessible via a large cable car.

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Municipalities of Graubünden
Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland
Küblis is a municipality in the district of Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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The Drôme () is a river in southeastern France. It is a left tributary of the Rhône river. It gives its name to the French department of Drôme.

Geography
The Drôme river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Saillans in the Drôme department.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Saillans (108 years)

Course
The Drôme starts in the Col de Carabès, in the western foothills of the Alps, in the commune of La Bâtie-des-Fonds, (Drôme department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Drôme flows first to the northwest and then to the west.

The Drôme river flows within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 2 departments and 37 communes. It flows through the following communes, among others:
 Drôme : Valdrôme, Luc-en-Diois, Die, Saillans, Allex, Crest, Loriol-sur-Drôme, Livron-sur-Drôme
 Ardèche : Le Pouzin (at its confluence)

Finally, it flows into the Rhône river in the commune of Loriol-sur-Drôme, on the border with the Ardèche department.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Drôme river are:

Left tributaries:
 Roanne - 33.9 km

Right tributaries:
 Bez - 25.4 km
 Gervanne - 29.9 km

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Air Transat is a Canadian leisure airline based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in December 1986. In 2016 there were about 2,500 employees.

Other websites
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Airlines of Canada
1986 establishments in North America
1980s establishments in Canada
Selima Ahmed (born 7 July 1960) is a Bangladeshi politician and businesswoman. She is the Vice Chairperson of Nitol-Niloy Group and started and is the President of the Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI). She is part of the board of Janata Bank Limited. She was a board member of Sonali Bank Limited, but is not any more. In 2014 she won the Oslo Business for Peace Award for her work in Business.  She is a Global Ambassador of The International Alliance for Women (TIAW) and also a Course Teacher of MBA class in University of Dhaka.

Early life and education
Ahmed earned her graduation and Masters in Business Management from Dhaka University and did short courses from USA, Japan, Denmark and Canada. She is a fellow of Stanford University. She has been working to help businesses for over 28 years and has helped many women entrepreneurs.

Career
Ahmad, is Vice Chairperson of the Nitol-Niloy Group. She is the Key person of the Bangladesh chapter of Women Democracy Network. She is a member of the Civil Society Advisory Group of UN Women. She also holds positions in different committees of various national and international organizations.

Personal life
Ahmad is married to Abdul Matlub Ahmad, a Business Leader and former President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industries (FBCCI).

Awards
 Oslo Business for Peace Award, 2014
 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Award by International Republican Institute, USA, 2013
 Priyadarshini Award by Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs(FIWE), 2012
 Women’s Contribution to Development by The Islamic Development Bank(IDB), 2012
 TIAW World of Difference 100 Award by The International Alliance for Women, Canada, 2010
 Special Prize for Women entrepreneurs by Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), 2010
 Women Entrepreneur Appreciation Award by Karachi Chamber of Commerce, 2009
 Business Express Award Women Entrepreneurs by Business Express, 2009
 Female Business Personality of the Year-2008 by Bangladesh Cultural Reporters Association, 2008
 Cultural Reporter’s Award: 2007
 Best Business Woman by Financial Weekly Magazine, 2000, 2002, 2003

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Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar OBE FAcSS (; born 21 May 1944) is a British professor and a life peer in the House of Lords. She is a prominent Muslim feminist, and characterises herself as a Socialist and a Shi'a Muslim.  Her background is in equal opportunities in Britain, and before that, land reform and development in Iran, where she grew up, and journalism in both countries.
The estate of Ramnad was a permanently settled zamindari estate that existed in the Ramnad subdivision of the Madura district and later Ramnad district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency in British India from 1801 to 1949.

The seat of administration was the town of Ramanathapuram. The Zamindari had its origins in the Kingdom of Ramnad established by Raghunatha Kilavan in the late 17th century. In 1803, the Kingdom was converted to a Zamindari by the British. The male rulers of Ramnathapuram also bore the title of Sethupathi or "protector of the bridge", the bridge here referring to the legendary Rama's Bridge while female rulers bore the title "Nachiyar".

Details 
The estate covered an area of 2,104 square miles (5,450 km2) and had a population of 723,886 in 1901. It was one of the largest and most populous zamindari estates in the Madras Presidency. The zamindar of Ramnad paid a tribute of Rs. 3.75 lakhs for the year 1903-04 to the British government.

List of Sethupathis

Chieftains under the Madurai Nayak 
 Sadaikka Thevar Sethupathi (1590-1621)
 Kootan Sethupathi (1621-1637)
 Dalavai Sethupathi (1637-1659)
 Raghunatha Sethupathi (1659-1670

Independent kings 
 Raghunatha Kilavan (1670–1708)
 Vijaya Raghunatha Sethupathi I (1708–1723)
 Sundaresvara Raghunatha Sethupathi (1723 -1728)
 Kumara Muthu Vijaya Raghunatha Sethupathi (1728-1734)
 Muthukumara Raghunatha Sethupathi (1734-1747)
 Rakka Thevar (1747-1748)
 Vijaya Raghunatha Sethupathi II (1748-1760)
 Muthuramalinga Sethupathi I (1760-1794)

Ruler of princely state under the paramountcy of the British Raj 
Mangaleswari Nachiyar (1795-1803)

Zamindars 
 Mangaleswari Nachiyar (1803-1807)
 Annaswami Sethupathi (1807-1820)
 Ramaswami Sethupathi (1820-1830)
 Muthu Chella Thevar Sethupathi (1830-1846)
 Parvatha Vardhani Ammal Nachchiyar (1846–1862)
 Muthuramalinga Sethupathi II (1862–1873)
 Court of Wards (1873–1889)
 Bhaskara Sethupathy (1889–1903)
 Dinakara Sethupathy
 Raja Rajeswara Sethupathi (1903–1929)
 Shanmugha Rajeswara Sethupathi (1929–1967)
 Ramanatha Sethupathi (1967–1979)
 Rajeswari Nachiyar (1979-)

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Alina Janowska (16 April 1923 – 13 November 2017) was a Polish actress. She was known for her roles in  Zakazane piosenki and in Samson (by Andrzej Wajda). From 1970 to 1974, she starred in the comedy series Czterdziestolatek.

Biography
Janowska was born in 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. She came from a wealthy family. She was arrested on the night of 23 April 1942 for helping a Jewish family. She was imprisoned for 7 months in Pawiak in Warsaw. She was a member of the Warsaw Uprising.

In 1963, she married fencer Wojciech Zabłocki.

Janowska died on 13 November 2017 in Warsaw from Alzheimer's disease, aged 94.

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The Justice Party, officially the South Indian Liberal Federation, was a political party in the Madras Presidency of British India. It was established in 1917 by T. M. Nair and P. Theagaraya Chetty as a result of a series of non-Brahmin conferences and meetings in the presidency. Communal division between Brahmins and non-Brahmins began in the presidency during the late-19th and early-20th century, mainly due to caste prejudices and disproportionate Brahminical representation in government jobs.

Elections Conducted and aftermath
In 1920, it won the first direct elections in the presidency and formed the government. For the next seventeen years, it formed four out of the five ministries and was in power for thirteen years. It was the main political alternative to the nationalist Indian National Congress in Madras. After it lost to the Congress in the 1937 election, it never recovered. It came under the leadership of Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy and his Self-Respect Movement. In 1944, Periyar transformed the Justice Party into the social organisation Dravidar Kazhagam and withdrew it from electoral politics. A rebel faction that called itself the original Justice Party, survived to contest one final election, in 1952.

Ideology
The Justice Party was isolated in contemporary Indian politics by its many controversial activities. It opposed Brahmins in civil service and politics, and this anti-Brahmin attitude shaped many of its ideas and policies. It opposed Annie Besant and her Home rule movement, because it believed home rule would benefit the Brahmins. The party also campaigned against the non-cooperation movement in the presidency. It was at odds with M. K. Gandhi, primarily due to his praise for Brahminism. Its mistrust of the Brahmin–dominated Congress led it to adopt a hostile stance toward the Indian independence movement. Although it professed to represent all non-Brahmins, the Justice Party eventually lost the support of Muslims and Untouchables, who accused it of serving the interests of only a few castes like Vellalars (Mudaliars, Pillais), Balija Naidus, Beri Chettis, Kapus and Kammas.

The Justice Party's power period is remembered for the introduction of caste-based reservations, and educational and religious reform. In opposition it is remembered for participating in the anti-Hindi agitations of 1937–40. The party was responsible for creating Andhra and Annamalai universities and for developing the area around present-day Theagaroya Nagar in Madras city.

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Kofi Annan - a former chief of the United Nations(or UN); economist

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J. B. Dauda - member of parliament (in Sierra Leone); economist; he died in 2017

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah - a former president of Sierra Leone; economist; died in 2014

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Mohamed Talbi - the historian died in 2017.

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Al-Kindi - he is known as the first to write an explanation of cryptanalysis and the method of frequency analysis; death in 873 AD

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Yasmin Altwaijri, listed on BBC's 2014 list featuring 100 Women internationally; one of thirty-five women featured in the book Arab Women Rising, which includes women from Tunisia to Saudi Arabia; scientist within Medicine;

 Suhad Bahajri, Chemistry

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Bashar al-Assad, president of Syria (as of 2017), Medicine

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Azerbaijan 

Vafa Guluzade - he was a Foreign Policy State Advisor for Azerbaijan President; the political scientist died in 2015.

Lotfi A. Zadeh - pioneer (or one of the earliest scientists) of fuzzy logic; computer scientist, electrical engineer, mathematician; d. in 2017

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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal - he has a Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Story; he is a scholar of engineering and computer science.

China

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Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze - a former member of the Parliament of Georgia;  he is an assyriologist (and therefore a linguist)
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Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie - a former president of Indonesia; aerospace engineering scientist
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Ferid Murad - he has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Lev Vygotsky, credited for starting the concept, zone of proximal development, often abbreviated as ZPD, which is the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she cannot do; Psychology; died in 1934

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Alojz Benac - became a corresponding member of the Yugoslav/Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Archeology; died in 1992.

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Milan Nakonečný

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Madis Kõiv - he got the award, the  Tuglas short story award; physicist, writer and philosopher; died in 2014

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Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze - a former member of the Parliament of Georgia;  he is an assyriologist (and therefore a linguist)
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Janet Gibson - Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990; zoologist (and therefore also a biologist)
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Louis L. Mowbray - he successfully bred the first Galapagos tortoises and Galapagos penguins in captivity; he was a naturalist and an ornithologist; death in 1952
David B. Wingate (He got the awards, the Queen’s Honours (UK); and (UN's) Global 500 Award)

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Julieta Castellanos - the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. State Department.

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Thomas Edison - he and his workers made "the first practical incandescent light bulb";  died in 1931
Benjamin Franklin, President of Pennsylvania,  died in 1790

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Bengaluru Vijaya Radha (August 1948 – 10 September 2017) was an Indian actress and movie producer. Starting her career in the 1964 movie  Navakoti Narayana. She went on to play mostly supporting roles in over 300 movie, 250 of which were in Kannada, and the rest in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Tulu and Hindi. She was born in Bangalore, Mysore State, India.

Radha died of a heart attack on 10 September 2017 in Bangalore at the age of 69.

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Nancy Hatch Dupree (; October 3, 1927 – September 10, 2017) was an American-Afghan historian whose work primarily focused on the history of modern Afghanistan.

Dupree went to Barnard College and Columbia University to study Chinese.

Dupree was the director of the Afghanistan Center at Kabul University in Afghanistan and author of five books that she compiled while studying the history of Afghanistan from 1962 until the late 1970s.

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Michael Friedman (September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017) was an American composer and lyricist. He was a founding associate artist of The Civilians. He received a 2007 Obie award for excellence.  His musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson opened on Broadway in October 2010. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Friedman was openly gay.

Friedman died on September 9, 2017 in Manhattan, New York from complications of AIDS at the age of 41.

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Frank Henrik Aarebrot (19 January 1947 – 9 September 2017) was a Norwegian political scientist. He was born in Bergen, Norway. He was professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen and adjunct professor of democracy development at the Örebro University. He regularly lectured at Institut des Sciences Politiques and at the Humboldt University. Aarebrot has written 69 books on the democratisation of Europe, following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Norway, Aarebrot was known as a political commentator.

Aarebrot died in Bergen from heart surgery-related problems for a heart attack he suffered on 9 September 2017 at the age of 70.

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Nick Andrew Theodore (born September 16, 1928) is an American politician. He was a State representative from 1963-66 and 1970-78, a South Carolina state senator from 1967-68 and from 1981-86, and the 85th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. 

Theodore is a member of the Democratic Party.

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William Brantley Harvey Jr. (August 14, 1930 – December 12, 2018) was an American lawyer and politician. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1958, and served until 1975, when he was installed as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. He served in that position until 1983. 

Harvey later served on the  South Carolina Commission of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, as well as the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

Harvey died on December 12, 2018 in Beaufort, South Carolina at the age of 88.

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Hugh K. Leatherman Sr. (April 14, 1931 – November 12, 2021) was an American Republican politician. He was a member of the South Carolina Senate, from 1981 until his death. He was the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Leatherman and sat on the state's Budget and Control Board. 

He was President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate for all but one day from 2014 through 2019.

On October 22, 2021, it was announced that Leatherman was in hospice care in Florence, South Carolina for colorectal cancer. He died from the disease on November 12, 2021 at the age of 90.

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Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin is a Bangladeshi Business leader. He is the President of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI). He led the Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector of the country over thirty years and became the President of  Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), the largest export earning sector of the country.

Early life and education
Md. Shafiul  Islam (Mohiuddin) obtained B.Com (Hon’s) and  M.Com degree in Accountancy from University of Dhaka.

Career
Mohiuddin involve with RMG sector of the country over thirty years. He entered garment industry in 1992 by establishing Onus Apparel Ltd. Since he started his export oriented garments industry named Onus Group, the largest export earning  sector  of  the  country. He has also successfully diversified his business in other business  sectors like  Garment  Accessories,  Real  Estate,  Shipping, Fishing, Trawler, Dredging, Solar  Energy,  Auto Bricks,  Handicrafts,  etc.  He has currently employed over six thousand people in his business group. He is the Director of Trustee Board, BGMEA University  of  Fashion  and Technology (BUFT). He  is also the Vice President of Society for Anti addiction Movement (SAAM), Centre of  Excellence for Bangladesh Apparel Industry (CEBAI)  and Rugby Federation, Director of  Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited, Director of  BGMEA Apparel Club.

Personal life
Mohiuddin is married to Leesa Khalid Islam. The have three daughters and one son.

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Gadi Eizenkot, Hebrew: גדי איזנקוט, (born May 19, 1960 in Tiberias) has been the Chief of General Staff (Ramatkal) of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since February 16, 2015.

Eizenkot has the rank of lieutenant general (rav aluf).

He has been an Israeli soldier since 1978. He commanded the following units: the Northern Command, the Golani Brigade, the Judea and Samaria Division, and the Operations Directive. In between he was military secretary to prime minister Ehud Barak from 1999 to 2001.

He fought in several wars, like the 1982 Lebanon War, the 2006 Lebanon War and the Gaza War.

Eizenkot is a Maghrebic Jew (he is of Jewish-Moroccan descent). During his youth he lived in Eilat. He studied history at Tel Aviv University and political science at Haifa University. He also studied at the United States Army War College.

He is married with five children, and lives in Herzliya.

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Chabana (茶花, literally "tea flowers"), is a general word used in the Japanese language, for the arrangement of flowers at a Japanese tea ceremony.  The flowers are not arranged in any special way, the method for arranging these flowers is known as "thrown in".  

This style of flower arranging is recognised as a particular type of Ikebana (生け花, "arranging flowers"), also known as Kādo (華道, the "way of flowers"), which has its beginnings in Buddhist flower offerings.

Chabana in particular, refers to a flower display for the room where the tea ceremony is to be held, the Chashitsu (茶室, literally "tea rooms").

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The single non-transferable vote (often Abbreviated to S.N.T.V.) is an electoral system for multiple member electoral districts. It is an electoral system which can produce an proportional result but it will depend on the district's magnitude (the number of representatives in the electoral district) if there is more members in each electoral district the more proportional the result will be. In many cases the single non-transferable vote has been replaced by other voting systems. 

In certain cases S.N.T.V. is thought to be similar to Plurality-at-large voting, commonly refereed as Bloc Voting, but is different because in S.N.T.V electors are only allowed to vote for one candidate but in Plurality-at-large voting the voter have as many votes as there are seats to win.

Example 

This example has three winners in the electoral district
 The voters select one candidate on the ballot
 All votes are counted
 The three candidates with the highest number of votes win

Current Usage 
Today there are very few places which use the Single Non Transferable Vote: 
 Afghanistan's House of Peoples. 

 Kuwait's National assembly.
 Indonesia's Regional Representative Council.
 Puerto Rico's Legislative Assembly (only for 11 seats in the Senate and 11 seats in The House of Representatives).
 Japan's House of Councillors (only for 146 seats). 
 Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (only for the six aboriginal seats).
 Vanuatu's Parliament.

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