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Yung Mung Sung is an upcoming Tamil comedy-drama movie written and directed by M. S. Arjun. Prabhu Deva features in the leading role, while Lakshmi Menon selected as lead heroine,while Thangar Bachan and RJ Balaji play other pivotal roles. The movie began production in February 2017.

Cast
 Prabhu Deva
 Lakshmi Menon
 Thangar Bachan
 RJ Balaji
 Prabhakar
 Chithra Lakshmanan
 Ashwin Raja

Production
Prabhu Deva agreed terms to work with newcomer Arjun for the comedy movie Yung Mung Sung in January 2017, with Vasan Visual Ventures taking the role of producers. Actors Thangar Bachan and RJ Balaji were also recruited for the movie, with the former signed to feature as the father of Deva's character. The team held talks with Catherine Tresa to play the lead actress, but her unavailability led the team to cast Lakshmi Menon in the role. Prabhu Deva was revealed to be playing a Kung Fu master in the movie, which is a period drama that travels from the 1970s to the 1980s.

The movie began production on 9 February 2017 following a launch event held in Chennai.

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2017 movies
2010s comedy movies
Pakistan has experimented with Daylight Saving Time (DST) a number of times since 2002, shifting local time from UTC+05:00 to UTC+06:00 during various summer periods, having the effect of making Pakistan counter-intuitively half an hour ahead of India during those times, even though India is generally to its east.

 In 2002, DST was observed from the first Sunday in April (April 7) at 00:00 to the first Sunday in October (October 6) at 00:00. The government cabinet decided to do this "in order to make maximum use of daylight and to save energy."
 In 2008, DST began on June 1, and was initially set to run through August 31 to meet the annual shortfall of 4 gigawatts of electricity instead of enforcing daily power cuts in households and factories. The government later extended the end date to October 31, including the holy month of Ramadan (which began in early September). DST was originally meant to end on August 31, 2008
 In 2009, DST was observed from April 15 through October 31.

Daylight saving time is no longer observed in Pakistan.

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Pakistan
Kellogg Company, or Kellogg's for short, is an American food distribution company. It is headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Kellogg's makes cereal, toaster pastries like Pop-Tarts, fruit-flavored snacks and vegetarian foods. The company's brands are Apple Jacks, Special K, Eggo, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, and many more.

Kellogg's products are made in 18 countries. They are sold in more than 180 countries, like France, Australia and Russia.

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American food companies
Companies based in Michigan
1906 establishments in the United States
Henggart is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
William Earl "Bill" White (August 26, 1939 – May 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. White was one of the most notable defensive defense men of the 1970s. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He played for the Rochester Americans and the Springfield Indians in the AHL. He played in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings and the Chicago Black Hawks.

White died on May 21, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario from natural causes at the age of 77.

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West End Girls is a pop song from the British duo Pet Shop Boys. The song is mixed with hip hop music. The lyrics are about inner-city life and class.

The first version of the song was released in April 1984. It became a club hit in the United States and some European countries. When the duo signed with British record company EMI, the song was re-recorded for their first studio album Please. In October 1985, the new version was released. It hit #1 in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.

In 1987, the song won Best Single at the BRIT Awards. In 2005, more than 20 years after its release, the song was awarded Song of the Decade between 1985 and 1994 by British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.

The "West End Girls" has many versions. One of them is eight minutes and nine seconds in length. Another version is seven minutes/fifty seconds long.

1984 songs
Pop songs
Songs about London
Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki (6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter. He was born in Kraków, Poland.

Wodecki was mostly known for songs “Chałupy Welcome To”, “Lubię wracać tam, gdzie byłem”, “Zacznij od Bacha” or the Polish versions of the Maya the Honey Bee, The Gummi Bears and the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie soundtracks. He was one of the judges on the Polish version of the Dancing with the Stars show, Taniec z gwiazdami, during its first twelve seasons.

Wodecki died at a hospital in Warsaw, Poland on 22 May 2017 from complications of a stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 67.

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Polish singers
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The Manchester Arena bombing was an Islamist suicide bomb attack. It occurred in Manchester, England, on the 22 May 2017. Twenty-three people were killed, including the bomber.

Bombing
The explosion caused Manchester Victoria railway station's services to be blocked. Police described the reports as a "serious incident".

Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotheram was present at the concert with his family.

At approximately 01:35 BST, a controlled explosion was conducted by police in Cathedral Gardens after what was believed to be an explosive device was found. The item was determined to be harmless clothing that was left behind.

Police were first treating this as a possible but unconfirmed terrorist attack done by a suicide bomber until confirmed as a suicide bombing hours later.

The bombing is the most deadly terrorist attack to occur in the United Kingdom since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Attacker
The suicide bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old British citizen of Sunni Islam faith and was known to British security services. He was born in Manchester on 31 December 1994 to a family of refugees from Libya who had settled in south Manchester. The lone male was reported to have carried out the attack using an improvised explosive device in an act of a suicide attack.

Reactions
The event took place just over two weeks before a general election in the United Kingdom. Both Prime Minister and Conservative leader Theresa May, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron quickly condemned the incident, expressed sympathy for the victims, and praised the response of emergency services.

Condolences were expressed by the leaders and governments of many countries:  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Pope Francis, and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Yousef Al-Othaimeen.

President Donald Trump condemned the attack and wrote on Twitter: "We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom." Trump also commented on the events whilst on a visit to Israel, calling the perpetrator(s) "evil losers."

A one-minute silence was observed at 11am on 25 May 2017.

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The Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Hunts Bank, Manchester, North West England. It is just north of the city centre, and is above Manchester Victoria station.

The arena has the most seats of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, and second largest in the European Union with a capacity of 21,000. It hosts music and sporting events including boxing and swimming. The arena was a key part of Manchester's bids to host the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000 and was eventually used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

On 22 May 2017, 22 people were killed by an Islamist suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert in the arena.

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1995 establishments in England
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Arena
Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden (July 30, 1981 – May 22, 2017), nicknamed The Kentucky Kid, was an American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006. He was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. On September 3, 2009, it was confirmed that Hayden had signed a one-year extension of contract with Ducati for the 2010 MotoGP season, ending speculation of a move away from the team.

On May 17, 2017, Hayden was hit by a car while riding his bicycle near Rimini, Italy. Five days after the accident, Hayden died in the hospital in Cesena, Italy on May 22, 2017 at the age of 35.

References

Other websites

 Profile on MotoGP.com
 Profile on WorldSBK.com
 Nicky Hayden – MotoGP Rider Biography at Motorcycle-USA

1981 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Sportspeople from Kentucky
People from Owensboro, Kentucky
Anna Dorothy Halprin (born Anna Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 25, 2021) was an American dancer. She helped create the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance. Born in Winnetka, Illinois she spent her entire career in San Francisco, California

Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the ideas of post-modern dance. In the 1950s, she created the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art.

Halprin died on May 25, 2021 in San Francisco just two months before her 101st birthday.

References

Other websites

 
 Anna Halprin's entry in "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia"
 Anna Halprin papers, 1940-2008, held by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

1920 births
2021 deaths
American dancers
American centenarians
American choreographers
Entertainers from Illinois
People from San Francisco
People from Winnetka, Illinois
Winnetka () is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located 16 miles north of downtown Chicago.  The population was 12,187 at the 2010 census. In 2015, Winnetka was ranked the richest municipality in Illinois and the second richest in the United States (behind Scarsdale, New York). The area is one of the most exclusive and wealthy suburbs in the nation.

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 Village of Winnetka official website
 Winnetka Public School District
 Winnetka Historical Society
 Winnetka Historical Society: History of Buildings

Villages in Illinois
Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
Settlements in Cook County, Illinois
David Randolph "Dave" Scott (born June 6, 1932), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and former test pilot. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon.

As an astronaut, Scott made his first flight into space as pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong, in March 1966, spending just under eleven hours in low Earth orbit. Scott then spent ten days in orbit as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 9, his second spaceflight, along with Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart.  

During this mission, Scott became the last American to fly solo in Earth orbit (not counting subsequent untethered EVAs).  Scott made his third and final flight into space as commander of the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth human lunar landing, becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon and the first person to drive on the Moon.

References

Other websites

 Scott's official NASA biography
 Astronautix biography of David R. Scott
 Spacefacts biography of David R. Scott
 Scott at Encyclopedia of Science
 

1932 births
Living people
Apollo astronauts
Scientists from San Antonio, Texas
Elections are held in North Korea. People can elect the representatives of their government, as well as the members of city councils, mayors and governors. Elections are held every 4-5 years. In North Korea, people are required to vote, and almost all people vote.

North Korea
North Korea
Sicilian Wikipedia is the Wikipedian edition of Sicilian language. It was created on 5th October 2004. As of May 2017 there are 25,381 articles written by registered users in this Wikipedia.This language is spoken in the Italian regions of  Sicily Islands and Calabria.

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Wikipedias
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,South India from 1967 to 1969. He was the first member of a Dravidian party to hold that chief minister post.

Annadurai was famous for his oration skills, dramas and literary works in Tamil. He was the first politician from the Dravidian parties to use Tamil cinema for political propaganda. Annadurai was born in a middle-class family. He first worked as a school teacher, then moved into the political field of the Madras Presidency as a journalist. He became a member of the Dravidar Kazhagam and a big follower of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. But later Annadurai formed a new party named Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam due to differences between ideologies.

Various protests against the ruling Congress government took him to prison on several occasions; the last of which was during the Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. The agitation itself helped Annadurai to gain popular support for his party. His party won a landslide victory in the 1967 state elections. He legalised Self-Respect marriages, enforced a two language policy and renamed Madras State to Tamil Nadu. However, he died of cancer just two years into office. His funeral had the highest attendance web

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Tamil Nadu politicians
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the whole of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and parts of Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, and the union territory of Lakshadweep. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the Presidency and Ootacamund or Ooty, the summer capital. The island of Ceylon was a part of Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798 when it was created a Crown colony.

In the early decades of the 20th century, many significant contributors to the Indian independence movement came from Madras. After India got its independence Madras Prescidency became Madras State and later renamed as Tamil Nadu during C.N.Annadurai's reign as the chief minister.

In 1822, the Madras Presidency underwent its first census, which returned a population of 13,476,923.The last census of British India held in 1941 counted a population of 49,341,810 for the Madras Presidency.According to the 1871 census, there were 14,715,000 people who spoke Tamil, 11,610,000 people who spoke Telugu, 2,324,000 people who spoke Malayalam, 1,699,000 spoke Canarese or Kannada, 640,000 people spoke Oriya and 29,400 people spoke Tulu.

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Madras Presidency
Zulfiqer Russell () (born November 13, 1977) is the editor of Bangla Tribune and a lyricist of Bangladesh. He is a journalist by profession. He earned Citycell-Channel I Music Award in 2008, 2010 and 2013. He has received Mirchi Music Awards (Bangla) award for Best Modern Bengali song. This is the first time a Bangladeshi lyricist has won this awards. He received the award for the song, titled “Shabuj Chilo” which includes vocals by Nachiketa Chakraborty.

Career 
Zulfiqer Russell used to write for The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily Janakantha and many other publications from an early age. The words of a song by Mohammad Rafiquzzaman, from the movie Shuvoda, made him realise these words were not written by him. After a while, he started writing himself, but gradually realised that writing a song isn’t as easy as it sounds.  Moni Zaman from the band Symphony, worked with his song for the very first time that was voiced by Tuhin. Interestingly enough, it was never released. As a lyricist actually began when working with Bappa Mazumder.

Field of work 
Zulfiqer Russell is a professional journalist. Presently he is The Editor of popular news online Bangla Tribune.  Previously he worked for Maasranga Television and Bangla newspapers Daily Amader Shomoy, Ajker Kagoj and Banglabazar Patrika. He is also extensively involved and earned reputation and popularity as a lyricist. He is also well known for his lyrics in West Bengal, India.  Russell has written the official welcome song "O Prithibi Ebar Eshe Bangladesh Nao chiney" of ICC world cup cricket 2011 held in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. His movie The Distant Sky (আকাশ কত  দূরে) was selected for national film grants by the Bangladeshi government in 2010. He has written more than 1000 songs since 1996. Many eminent and popular singers have sung songs written by him. Russell is also a poet. His first publication is 'Kofine Ojoggo Purush'.

Albums

Awards

Family 
His spouse Worda Ahmed is a fashion designer. They have a daughter, Parisa Russell.

Movies
 Akash Koto Durey, 2013, Directed by Samia Zaman

References

Other websites
 http://www.zulfiqerrussell.com
 https://www.facebook.com/zulruss
 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zulfiqer+russell&aq=f
 http://www.dhakatribune.com/profiles/2015/jun/25/when-words-spell-magic
 Bangla Tribune 

Living people
Lyricists
Bangladeshi poets
screenwriters
1977 births
Harris County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 4,092,459 people lived there. The county seat is Houston. The county was founded in 1836.

Other websites
Harris County government's website

Texas counties
Edwards County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 2,002 people lived there. The county seat is Rocksprings. It is named for Haden Edwards, an early settler of Nacogdoches, Texas.

Texas counties
Kerr County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 49,625 people lived there. The county seat is Kerrville. It is named for James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas.

Other websites
Official website of Kerr County

Texas counties
Gonzales County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 19,807 people lived there. The county seat is Gonzales. The county was made in 1836.

Other websites
Gonzales County government's website

Texas counties
Burleson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 17,187 people lived there. The county seat is Caldwell. The county is named for Edward Burleson, a general of the Texas Revolution.

Other websites
Burleson County official website

Texas counties
Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 24,554 people lived there. The county seat is La Grange. The county was made in 1837.

Other websites
Fayette County government's website

Texas counties
Stefano Farina (19 September 1962 – 23 May 2017) was an Italian football referee. He was born in Ovada, Italy.

Farina has refereed several high-profile matches in Serie A and the UEFA Champions League, including the 2006 UEFA Super Cup in Monaco. 

Farina officiated in qualifiers for the 2004 and 2008 European Championships, as well as preliminary matches for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups. He was known to have served as a FIFA referee during the period from 2001 to 2007.

He retired internationally in 2007 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 45. 

Farina died suddenly in Genova, Italy on 23 May 2017 from a suspected heart attack, aged 54.

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Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
Italian sportspeople
Referees
Moshe Gafni, Hebrew: משה גפני‎ , (born May 5, 1952 in Bnei Brak) is an Israeli rabbi and politician of Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet ("United Torah Judaism", shortened UTJ). He is political leader of Degel HaTorah ("Banner of the Torah"), one of the two branches of UTJ. He belongs to the Misnagdim movement of Haredi Judaism.

Before entering into politics Gafni was leading a kollel. 

He has been a Member of Knesset since 1988, with interruptions from 1992 to 1994 and from 1998 to 1999, due to rotations with Agudat Yisrael politicians of UTJ.

From 1990 to 1992 he was also deputy minister of religious affairs in the Fourth Shamir Government.

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

1952 births
Living people
Deputy government ministers of Israel
Israeli political leaders
Israeli rabbis
Jewish Israeli politicians
Members of Knesset
A kollel or kolel (), is an educational institute for Judaism at a higher level, focused on study of Torah, Talmud and other rabbinical writings. It differs from a yeshiva because most students at a kollel are married; they also get an allowance.

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Judaism
The Bohai Sea () is a gulf on the northeast coast of China and it is west of the Korean Peninsula. It is a redundant place name, which mean that the words making up the place name has the same meaning, since hăi (海) as in Bóhǎi already means "sea" or "ocean". Some important port cities on the Bohai Sea coast include Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, and Dalian.

Geography of China
A redundant place name is the name of a place in which the words that make up the name have the same meaning as each other. Since the words come from different languages, the connection between the two words may not be easily recognizable to the reader, especially if the reader only knows one language.

Countries 
 East Timor or Timor-Leste (East East): this is especially interesting since both names for the country as redundant place names. Timor comes from the Malay word timur, meaning "east", while Leste is the Portuguese word for "east".

Bodies of water 
 Bohai Sea (Bo Sea Sea): The word hǎi (海) as in Bóhǎi (渤海) is the Chinese word for "sea" or "ocean".
 River Avon, Bristol

Deserts 

 Sahara Desert (Deserts Desert): The word Sahara (صحراء) is the Arabic Word for "desert". The Arabic name for the desert is aṣ-Saḥrāʼ al-Kubrá (الصحراء الكبرى).

Mountains 
 Tian Shan Mountains (Heaven Mountain Mountains): The word shān (山) as in Tiān Shān (天山) is the Chinese word for "mountain".

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Names
Isla Escudo de Veraguas (also: Escudo de Veraguas Island) is a small island about 18 kilometers off of the coast of Panama. There is not much information on the climate or history of the island, but the animals inhabiting the island are known, such as the pygmy three-toed sloth, or Derby's woolly opossum.

Climate 
The climate of Escudo de Veraguas is undocumented, but the neighboring country of Panama has relatively warm temperatures, being around 70 to 90 degrees year-round.

Inhabitants 
The inhabitants of the island are different from the mainland species in the idea that they are smaller and more adapted to the island. Some examples:
 Bradypus pygmaeus
 Oedipina maritima
 Caluromys derbianus
 Hoplomys gymnurus
 Myotis riparius

Sources 

Panama
Escudo de Veraguas
Bradypus pygmaeus is a species of three toed sloth. It lives on the island of Escudo de Veraguas. It is listed as critically endangered on IUCN's Red List, due to its location range being less than 5 square kilometers and because of deforestation of the mangroves in which they live. The pygmy three toed sloth is not prey to any natural predator, as it lives on an isolated island where there aren't many other animals.

Diet 
Pygmy three toed sloths eat the leaves from various trees.

Appearance 
The fur of the pygmy three toed sloth is covered with algae. The algae is camouflage. They have long arms and curved claws that help them hold onto the trees. They have a slow metabolic rate that allows them to digest one leaf in up to a month.

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Xenarthrans
Hettlingen is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Miami, Florida. In 1992, he replaced Connie Kay in the Modern Jazz Quartet. He played with Jimmy Oliver, Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Divine, King James and Sam Reed before moving to New York in 1959.

Roker died on May 22, 2017 from lung cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Adler, David R. "Old-school drummer shares laughs, post-bebop classics". philly.com (12/31/2007)
 Delvecchia, Mike. "Mickey Roker: The Voltan of Ortlieb's Jazzhaus". Philadelphia Arts Writers Web site (June 2004)
 "Mickey Roker" (Drummerworld Web Site)
DTM interview

1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Pennsylvania
American jazz musicians
American drummers
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Musicians from Miami, Florida
William Carney (July 1, 1942 – May 23, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 1st congressional district from 1979 through 1987. Carney was a member of the Conservative Party of New York and later the  Republican Party. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Carney died on May 23, 2017 in Washington, D.C. from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

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1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in Washington, D.C.
United States representatives from New York
Politicians from New York City
US Republican Party politicians
(August 22, 1938 – May 23, 2017) was a Japanese politician. He was born in Tokyo.

Yosano was a member of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Sunrise Party of Japan and former member of the House of Representatives, serving his ninth term in the Lower House representing Tokyo's first electoral district until his defeat in the Japanese general election, 2009. Yosano was Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from August 2007 to September 2007 and was State Minister in charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy in Tarō Asō's administration from February to September 2009.

Yosano died of pneumonia on May 23, 2017 in Tokyo at the age of 77.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Japan
Politicians from Tokyo
Hinwil is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is the capital of the district of Hinwil.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Cities in Switzerland
Altkirch is a commune in Alsace in north-eastern France, in the Haut-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture. It is in the Grand Est region. Its name comes from the German Alte Kirche ("old church").

Geography
Altkirch is in the south of the Haut-Rhin department. The Ill river, a left tributary of the Rhine river, flows through the commune.

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

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

The commune of Altkirch is surrounded by the communes:

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

Population
The inhabitants of Altkirch are known, in French, as Altkirchois (women: Altkirchoises).

With a population of 5,738, Altkirch has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Altkirch

Administration
Altkirch is a subprefecture in the Haut-Rhin department since 1800. It is the capital of the Altkirch arrondissement and is also the administrative centre () of the canton of Altkirch formed by 64 communes, with 47,552 inhabitants (2014).

Twin towns 
Altkirch is twinned with:
  Le Thor, France, since 1991
  San Daniele del Friuli, Italy, since 1994
  Füzuli, Azerbaijan, since 2016

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Altkirch
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Other websites

 Ville d' Altkirch - Official site 

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Subprefectures in France
Landesbank Helaba, short for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany offering financial services to companies, banks, institutional investors and the public sector, both within Germany and internationally. At the same time, it is the central clearing institution and service provider for 40 percent of German savings banks. Helaba is an institution incorporated under public law. With approximately 6,300 employees and two headquarters in Frankfurt and Erfurt, the bank maintains branches in Düsseldorf and Kassel as well as offices in Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich and Muenster. On an international level, Helaba acts through branches and representative offices in Paris, London, New York, Madrid, Moscow, Shanghai, and Singapore. Frankfurter Sparkasse, the leading retail bank in the Rhine-Main region, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Helaba. The Helaba Group also comprises the online bank 1822direkt, LBS Hessen-Thüringen and WIBank. The latter implements development programmes of the State of Hesse. Further Helaba subsidiaries are Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft and the OFB Group (Real estate development).
Banks of Germany
1953 establishments in Europe
1950s establishments in Germany
Richard Montgomery (December 2, 1738 - December 31, 1775) was a general in the American war for independence.

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1738 births
1775 deaths
American Revolutionary War
Irish people
Military people
Hirzel is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hirzel merged into the municipality of Horgen.

Former municipalities of Zürich
Villages in Zürich
Hittnau is a municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Other websites

 Official website of Hittnau 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Charles Walker (born 12 June 1928) is a retired Fijian civil servant and Alliance Party politician and former diplomat. He was born in the village of Sawana in the Lomaloma district on Vanua Balavu island in the Lau Archipelago.

Walker was a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister from 1977 through 1987. served as Ambassador to the Empire of Japan, Republic of South Korea & The People's Republic of China from 1988 through 1993.

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1928 births
Living people
Ambassadors to Japan
Civil servants
Fijian politicians
Ambassadors to China
Eva Estrada Kalaw (June 16, 1920 – May 25, 2017) was a Filipino politician and professor. She served as a Senator in the Senate of the Philippines from 1965 through 1972. She was elected senator in 1965 under the Nacionalista Party. She was serving in Senate during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, she was part of a major transformation in Philippine domestic and foreign policies. 

Kalaw was a candidate for President of the Philippines in 1986 and again in 1992.

Kalaw was born in Murcia, Tarlac, Philippine Islands. She studied at the University of the Philippines. Kalaw died on May 25, 2017 at a hospital in Manila at the age of 96.

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Chełmno extermination camp () was the first extermination camp (death camp) opened by Nazi Germany.  It was 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the city of Łódź, Poland.  In 1939, Nazi Germany had invaded Poland, and had annexed (took control of) parts of Poland.

The Nazis built Chełmno with the specific goal of carrying out ethnic cleansing through mass murder.  The Nazis kept Chełmno open from , as part of Operation Reinhard during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, and again from  to  during the Soviet counter-offensive.

The Nazis murdered over 150,000 people at Chełmno, including many Polish Jews from the Łódź Ghetto and the local people who lived in Reichsgau Wartheland (Warthegau).

Victims

The Nazis killed at least 152,000 people at Chełmno.  Nazi officials were eventually charged with killing at least 180,000 victims.

The Kulmhof Museum of Martyrdom (pl)says that around 200,000 people were killed at Chełmno.

Most of the people killed at Chełmno were:
 Jews from west-central Poland;
 Roma people from around Poland;
 Soviet prisoners of war; or
 Jews who had been forced to live in the Łódź Ghetto.  These included Jews from Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Germany, Luxemburg, and Austria.

The Nazis killed these victims using gas vans.  They forced the victims into large vans, and then pumped carbon monoxide into the vans to suffocate and kill the victims.

Early on, the Nazis experimented at Chełmno.  They developed methods which they used later during The Holocaust in Nazi-controlled Poland.

Destruction
Russian soldiers captured the town of Chełmno on .  By then, the Nazis had already destroyed evidence that the Chełmno camp ever existed.  They left no prisoners behind. One of the camp's survivors, who was fifteen years old at the time, said that only three Jewish males had escaped successfully from Chełmno.

In 1961, the three best-known survivors testified about Chełmno at Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. In 1962-1965, two survivors also testified at trials held in West Germany against people who worked at the camp.

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Zehava Gal-On, Hebrew: זהבה גלאון , born as Zehava Schnipitzky, (born January 4, 1956 in Vilnius) is an Israeli activist and politician. She is political leader of Meretz ("Vigour"). She has been leading Meretz since 2012 (she did already an unsuccessful atttempt in 2007).

She was born in the capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. As a young child she moved with her parents to Israel, where she grew up for the greater part in Petah Tikva (still living in this city). She studied philology and special education, and mastered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gal-On is engaged in all sorts of rights activism, like civil and human rights but also women's rights and social justice. She held leading positions in newspaper Politika, in B'Tselem (a human rights organization concerning Israel's behaviour in the Palestinian territories) and Ratz (a forerunner of Meretz).

In 1999 she was chosen into the Knesset. She lost her seat in 2009 but returned in 2011. She left the Knesset in October 2017.

As a Member of Knesset she was chairing the parliamentarian committee with regard to women trafficking, and criticized the Law of Return for being discriminatory.

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 Bio at Knesset Website

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Procter & Gamble (P&G) is an American corporation. The company is in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It mostly has a wide range of cleaning products and hygienic products.

Before selling Pringles to Kellogg's, P&G's products also included food and drink.

Products produced by P&G include Crest, Ivory soaps, Tide laundry detergent and Prell shampoo. In the 1880s, they created Ivory soap, a product that floats in water.

In April 1985, the moon & stars symbol was removed from its packaging, because its stars resembled "666", the Satan symbol.

In January 2005, P&G announced they were buying Gillette, a company known for making razors and razor blades for shaving. P&G used to make Duracell batteries. The company makes Braun products and Oral-B toothbrushes.

P&G got out of the food business in 2012 when they sold Pringles to the Kellogg's food company. P&G had also sold Jif peanut butter, Crisco shortening and Folgers' coffee.

Procter and Gamble produced and sponsored the first serial dramas during the 1930s. Because of P&G being known for detergents, these serial dramas started being called soap operas. With television in the 1950s and 1960s, soap operas, such as Guiding Light, went from the radio to CBS television. The last P&G produced show, As the World Turns, left television in 2010. The only soap opera partially produced by P&G remaining on air is The Young and the Restless on CBS. From May 1964 to June 1999, P&G produced and sponsored Another World on the NBC network.

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Juliana Koo (formerly Young; née Yen; September 26, 1905 – May 24, 2017) was a Chinese-American diplomat. She served as first head of the United Nations Protocol Department. She was a supercentenarian and after emigrating to the United States, she became the third wife of diplomat and politician Wellington Koo.

Koo died on May 24, 2017 in New York City, aged 111.

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Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer. He was born in Munich, Germany. Johnson best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also wrote plays, poetry and non-fiction.

Johnson died at his home on May 24, 2017 in Gualala, California from liver cancer at the age of 67.

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 Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
 KCRW Bookworm Interview 
 Profile at The Whiting Foundation
 Denis Johnson profile and poems at Academy of American Poets
 Denis Johnson at Library of Congress Authorities — with 25 catalog records

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Laura Biagiotti (; August 4, 1943 – May 26, 2017) was an Italian fashion designer. She was born in Rome, Italy. She had her first fashion show in 1972. The House of Biagiotti (based on Via dei Condotti in Rome) is now listed among the largest fashion houses in Italy with an expansion of products including accessories and watches. She moved to Beijing for some time and was the first Italian designer to present a collection in China, in April 1988.

Biagiotti died on May 26, 2017 in Rome from complications of a heart attack at the age of 73.

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Marga Minco (pseudonym of Sara Menco, born 31 March 1920) is a Dutch journalist and writer. Her real surname was Menco, but an official accidentally switched the first vowel. She was born in Ginneken to an Orthodox Jewish family. In 1957 Minco published her first book,  ("The bitter herb"). The title of a later book was Een leeg huis ("A empty house").

Awards 
 1957 – Bureau voor Postreclame en Adressen De Mutator N.V. Short-story Prize for Het adres
 1958 – Vijverberg Prize for Het bittere kruid
 1999 – Annie Romein Prize for her entire oeuvre
 2005 – Constantijn Huygens Prize for her entire oeuvre

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Rose quartz is a translucent pink to rose-red variety of quartz. It is rarely found as a crystal and is far more common in massive form. 

Among gemstones, rose quartz is considered a semiprecious stone that may be used in jewelry. Rose quartz stones that are nearly transparent are sometimes cut to make flat surfaces called facets, to better reflect light.

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Ayman Odeh, , , (born January 1, 1975 in Haifa) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He is political leader both of Hadash ("New") and HaReshima HaMeshutefet / al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah ("The Joint List").

Early life & education
Ayman Odeh was born in the year 1975. He was raised in the city of Haifa which is located within the neighbourhood of Kababir. His father was a construction worker. Even though their family was Muslim but his father sent him to a Christian school.

Ayman Odeh studied law at the University of Craiova located in Romania from 1993 to 1997. When he was studying in Romania then he took part in pro-Palestinian rallies. He also learned Romanian language and read the memoirs of various political thinkers and revolutionaries.

Career
Odeh is an Arab Israeli and a former Muslim. He believes in socialism. He is in favour of Arab and Jewish Israelis collaborating, and is supporting Mizrahi Israelis, who in his opinion are neglected for Israeli Jews coming from the Western world. He also advocates weaponless Palestinian actions to reach its goals.

He started his political career in 1998 by becoming a councillor of Haifa on behalf of Hadash. This lasted till 2005. Next year he became secretary-general.

After several failing attempts to become a Member of Knesset in 2009 and 2013, Odeh has eventually succeeded in 2015. The very same year he had become political leader of Hadash and of The Joint List (last one is a cooperation of the four mainly Arab parties in parliament).

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Samsu-iluna ruled Babylon from 1750 BC to 1712 BC. He was the son of Hammurabi, the conqueror of Mesopotamia. He became King with the death of his father in 1750 BC.

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A sexbot is a robot that could be used for sexual intercourse. Sexbots do not exist yet, but they may exist in the future. It could be useful for people who are disabled or extremely shy. It has been predicted by some sociologists that sexbots will be used by TFLers (True Forced Loners) and people suffering from inceldom. Some analysts say that sexbots exist because young men outnumber young women in the dating scene.

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Hochfelden is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Municipalities of Zürich
The flag of the US state of Louisiana features the image of a white pelican and her young in a nest on an azure field.

Below the nest on a white banner is the Louisiana state motto in capital letters:  "UNION CONFIDENCE JUSTICE"

Flags of the United States
Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) was a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France.  He wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography.

Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955. He was the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

Horne died on 25 May 2017 at his Oxfordshire, England home at the age of 91.

Honours and awards
 CBE (1992)
 Knight Bachelor (2003)
 Chevalier, Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (1993)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1968)

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Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Daschle was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1978 and served four terms. In 1986, he was elected to the Senate, becoming minority leader in 1994. Defeated for re-election in 2004, he took a position as a policy advisor with a lobbying firm, and also became a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.  He co-authored a book supporting universal health care.

Daschle was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy, and was nominated by then President-elect Obama for the position of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after the 2008 election. However, Daschle withdrew his name on February 3, 2009, amid a growing controversy over his failure to report and pay income taxes accurately. 

Daschle is currently working for The Daschle Group, a Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson, a large law firm and lobbying group.

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Leo Eric Varadkar ( ; born 18 January 1979) is an Irish politician and physician serving as the Leader of Fine Gael since 2017 and Tánaiste since 2020. He was Taoiseach and Minister for Defence from 2017 to 2020. He is the Leader of Fine Gael since June 2017 replacing Enda Kenny. He has served as Minister for Social Protection since May 2016. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2007 for the Dublin West constituency.

Early career
In 2004 he was co-opted onto Fingal County Council and served as deputy mayor before his election to Dáil Éireann. He was promoted to the Front Bench by Enda Kenny as Spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, remaining in this position until a 2010 reshuffle when he became Spokesperson on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

After the formation of the Coalition Government in March 2011, he was appointed Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. A cabinet reshuffle in July 2014 saw Varadkar appointed to the position of Minister for Health. During his tenure he became the first openly gay Irish government minister. 

Following the formation of a Fine Gael minority government in May 2016, he was appointed Minister for Social Protection.

Taoiseach

2017 Fine Gael leadership election
After the resignation of Enda Kenny as Leader of Fine Gael in May 2017, Varadkar announced his candidacy for party leader. He faced Minister for Housing Simon Coveney in the Fine Gael leadership election. He won the election on 2 June 2017.

On 14 June, he was nominated as Taoiseach by Dáil Éireann and this nomination was approved by the President of Ireland. Varadkar became Ireland's first openly gay Taoiseach, as well as the youngest and the first of half-Indian descent.

Defeat
On 26 June 2020, it was announced that Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party had agreed to form a coalition government, marking the first time the two main Irish parties had formed a government together. As part of the agreement, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will hold the office of Taoiseach until December 2022, while Varadkar will take the position of Tánaiste. The pair will then swap roles after roughly 2½ years, with Varadkar retaking the position of Taoiseach for the remainder of the coalition's term. Martin is expected to be elected Taoiseach by the Dáil on 27 June.

Personal life
Varadkar is openly gay. He is first openly gay cabinet member in Ireland.

His partner is Matthew Barrett.

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