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Fred Bass (June 28, 1928 – January 3, 2018) was an American businessman. He was born in New York City. He was best known as the owner of New York City's Strand Bookstore, which was founded by his father Ben Bass. Bass joined the family business at the age of 13, working weekends with his father when Strand was located on 4th Avenue.

His daughter Nancy is married to United States senator from Oregon Ron Wyden.

Bass died on January 3, 2018 in Manhattan, New York of congestive heart failure at the age of 89.

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Lawal Kaita (4 October 1932 – 2 January 2018) was a Nigerian politician. He was elected on the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform as governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria, holding office between October and December 1983. He left office when the Nigerian Second Republic ended with the coup that brought General Muhammadu Buhari to power.

Kaita died on 2 January 2018 of liver failure in Abuja, Nigeria, aged 85.

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Conan the Indomitable is a fantasy novel by American writer Steve Perry, featuring Robert E. Howard's  sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in trade paperback by Tor Books in October 1989; a regular paperback edition followed from the same publisher in September 1990.

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American novels
Fantasy books
The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical research centre in London which opened in 2016. It is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King's College London (KCL), the Medical Research Council, University College London (UCL) and the Wellcome Trust. 

The institute has 1,500 staff, including 1,250 scientists, and an annual budget of over £100 million, making it the biggest single biomedical laboratory in Europe.  

The Institute includes the former UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, which was at Mill Hill, North London.  

The institute is named after the British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. Crick shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. Unofficially, the Crick has been called Sir Paul's Cathedral, a reference to its Director, Sir Paul Nurse, and St Paul's Cathedral.

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London Borough of Camden
Roadblock was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the WWE, an American–based promotion. It was broadcast live and available on PPV and the WWE Network. The event was established in March 2016, debuting as a WWE Network-only exclusive. The second event, now a Raw brand exclusive event, was moved to December 2016 where it aired on the WWE Network, but also traditional PPV outlets as well. The event's name was a reference to its original March position on the "Road to WrestleMania".

Dates and venues

Related pages
 List of WWE Network events
 List of WWE pay-per-view events

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Roadblock
Bühler is a municipality of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.

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Sarn was a municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2010 the former municipalities of Portein, Präz, Sarn, and Tartar merged into the municipality of Cazis.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Raedersdorf is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

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INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Aharon Appelfeld (; born Ervin Appelfeld; February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was a Romanian-born Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. He lived in Mevaseret Zion and taught literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and was often writing in Jerusalem's Ticho House (Beit Ticho).

In 2007, Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 was adapted for the stage and performed at the Gerard Behar Center in Jerusalem.

In 1941, when he was nine years old, the Romanian Army retook his hometown after a year of Soviet occupation and his mother was murdered. Appelfeld was deported with his father to a Nazi concentration camp in Romanian-controlled Transnistria. He escaped and hid for three years before joining the Soviet army as a cook.

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Bruce Halle (May 27, 1930 – January 4, 2018) was an American businessman and the founder and chairman of Discount Tire.  He was the wealthiest person in Arizona. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He donated much of his money to Republican-related causes and politicians.

Halle died on January 4, 2018, in Paradise Valley, Arizona at the age of 87.

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Frank Buxton (February 13, 1930 – January 2, 2018) was an American actor, television writer, author, and television director. He was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. 

In 1966, Buxton teamed up with Hal Seeger in the animated cartoon series Batfink. He also hosted the game show Get the Message for ABC in 1964. He also had movie roles in What's Up, Tiger Lily? and Overboard.

For the 1970s, Buxton worked as a writer, producer and director for Paramount Television. He served as a story editor for the comedy anthology series Love, American Style, in addition to writing and directing episodes of The Odd Couple, Happy Days and Mork & Mindy.

Buxton died at his home in Bainbridge Island, Washington of complications from heart disease on January 2, 2018 at the age of 87.

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West Orange is a suburban township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

History 
Former Governor of New Jersey Brendan Byrne was born here in 1924. West Orange was initially a part of Newark township, and remained so until November 27, 1806. It was detached from Orange, New Jersey.

The township is named either after William III of England or William IV, Prince of Orange 

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 12.171 square miles (31.522 km2), including 12.046 square miles (31.198 km2) of land and 0.125 square miles (0.324 km2) of water (1.03%). It is located about  west of downtown Newark and  west of New York City.

Population 
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 46,207, an increase from the 39,103 counted in the 1990 Census.

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Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 29,366.

Livingston was made as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 5, 1813, from portions of Caldwell Township (now Fairfield Township) and Springfield Township (now in Union County, New Jersey).

The township was named for William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey; his family's coat of arms serves as the township's seal.

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Guida Maria (23 January 1950 – 2 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress. Her career lasted 60 years. She was born in Lisbon. She first appeared as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. In 1973, Maria starred in the movie The Vows. She appeared on television shows including A Única Mulher (The Only Woman) and the Brazilian series O Bem-Amado.

Maria died at a Lisbon hospital of pancreatic cancer on 2 January 2018 at the age of 67.

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Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky (Russian: Владимир Борисович Янкилевский) (February 15, 1938 — January 4, 2017) was a Russian artist. He was born in Moscow.

Yankilevsky was known mostly for his work in the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement of the 1960s through the 1980s. His most famous works are his triptychs, works that are hard to classify. His works often create a nightmarish imagery to paint a picture of restrictive mental states about daily life in the Soviet Union, and with the human condition in general. 

Yankilevsky was also known for having participated in the Manezh Art Exhibit of 1962, during which Nikita Khrushchev famously chastised the Nonconformist Art Movement as degenerate. 

Yankilevsky died in Paris of leukemia on January 4, 2018 at the age of 79.

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Mary Anne Krupsak (born March 26, 1932) is an American lawyer and politician. She was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1975 to 1978 during the Governship of Hugh Carey. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She also served on the New York State Senate and on the New York State Assembly.

Early life
Krupsak was born in Schenectady, New York. She was raised in Buffalo, New York. Krupsak studied at the University of Rochester, at Boston University and at the University of Chicago.

Career
Krupsak was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1969 to 1973. She was a member of the New York State Senate from 1973 to 1975. She was elected Lieutenant Governor of New York at the New York state election, 1974.

After being elected Lieutenant Governor, Krupsak became upset with how Hugh Carey treated her in office and felt she was not given enough to do. After saying yes to run for a second term with Carey in 1978, Krupsak decided to withdraw from the ticket and instead challenge Carey for the Democratic nomination for governor. She lost the Democratic primary to Carey, and after running unsuccessfully for Congress in 1980, she retired from politics.

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 Mary Anne Krupsak at NNDB

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Lawyers from New York
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Ryakuji (kanji:略字, kana:りゃくじ) are shorthand and usually unofficial forms of kanji. 

For example, 々 is a shorthand form of the kanji 仝, which itself is another form of the kanji 同, which means "same". For compound words where the same kanji is used twice in a row, 々 is used where the second kanji would be so that it doesn't have to be written again. 

For example, the word tokidoki, which means "from time to time", uses the same kanji for "time" twice, but is written as 時々 instead of 時時 because Japanese would see the second compound as redundant. So 々 implies that the second character is the same as the first.

Other same character compounds include:

This is similar to English ligatures, or letters that combine to make a new letter or symbol such as &, which was a combination of the letters that make the Latin word "et".

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Writing systems
Logan Square is an official community area, historical neighborhood, and public square. It is in northwest Chicago. The Logan Square community area is one of the 77 community areas.  

The Logan Square neighborhood, within the Logan Square community area, is centered on the public square with the same name at the three-way intersection of Milwaukee Avenue, Logan Boulevard and Kedzie Boulevard.

The area is has well known historical boulevards, stately greystones and large bungalow-style homes.

Other websites
 Bucktown Community Organization
 The Northwest Chicago Historical Society's history of Bucktown 
 Logan Square Preservation
 Logan Square Chamber of Commerce
 Logan Square Neighborhood Association
 Wicker Park & Bucktown Chamber of Commerce
 Palmer Square

Community areas of Chicago
West Town, located in Chicago. It is located on Chicago's West Side is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas. 

Much of this area was historically part of the city's Polish Downtown. The boundaries of the community area are the Chicago River to the east, the Union Pacific railroad tracks to the south, the former railroad tracks on Bloomingdale Avenue to the North, and an irregular western border to the west that includes the city park called Humboldt Park.  

Humboldt Park is also the name of the community area to West Town's west, Logan Square is to the north, Near North Side to the east, and Near West Side to the south. Currently, as well as historically, the collection of neighborhoods in West Town along with the neighborhoods of Bucktown and the eastern portion of Logan Square have been referred to by media as the Near Northwest Side. 

However the media often refer to the area as solely the Northwest Side, most likely to separate it from the image of criminality in the West Side and downtown for the purposes of real estate gentrification tactics.

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Chicago Tonight is a television news program broadcast weeknights on WTTW in Chicago. "Chicago Tonight" reports on local politics, education, business, culture, science and health, with a mix of in-studio panel discussions, one-on-one interviews and short documentary-style packages based in Chicago or the state of Illinois. 

Phil Ponce is the current host.

The show first aired April 24, 1984 and was hosted by popular Chicago broadcast journalist John Callaway for 15 years. He continued to contribute to the show until his death in 2009.

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Air Marshal Asghar Khan (17 January 1921 – 5 January 2018) was Pakistani politician, aviation historian, peace activist, and retired three star rank air force general.

Khan served as the first native Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) under President Iskander Mirza (1956–59) and under President Ayub Khan until resigning in 1965 before the start of the air operations of the PAF during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

In 1970, Asghar Khan founded the secular party, the Tehrik-e-Istiqlal, but performed poorly in 1970 parliamentary elections.

Khan died on 5 January 2018 in Abbottabad, Pakistan of complications from Parkinson's disease at the age of 96.

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Edison Park (formerly Canfield) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, in North Side, Chicago, Illinois.

It is made up entirely of the Edison Park neighborhood, and is named after Thomas Edison, who gave his blessing to this community namesake in 1890. 

According to the 2000 Census, its population is 11,259. Edison Park has one of the highest concentrations of Irish ancestry in Chicago, where they make up over three-fourths of the neighborhood's population.

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River Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,227 at the 2010 census.

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Ludmya "Mia" Love (née Bourdeau; born December 6, 1975) is an American politician. She was the U.S. Representative for Utah's 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2019.

Love was the first black female Republican elected to Congress and the first black American elected to Congress from Utah.

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 Mia Love Haitian Embassy, Pearls of Excellence Exhibit
 Official U.S. House website 
 Mia Love for Congress 
 Mia Love's Positions on the Issues
 
 

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The Range Rover is an SUV based on the British Land Rover. It is assembled in Solihull, Birmingham at the Land Rover plant. Some versions are assembled in Liverpool. The company is now part of Tata's Jaguar Land Rover group. 

The Range Rover's primary market was for general countryside use, especially farmers who needed a four-wheel drive off-road vehicle to get round their estate. The original Land Rover or Jeep was a rugged open vehicle which could take plenty of hard use, and could be washed down with a hose. It was quite unsuitable for family use. The Range Rover, on the other hand, is very suitable for family use (in this way similar to other SUVs). It is often used as a normal road car for larger families and for carrying equipment. Engine capacity for Range Rovers starts at 3 litres V6 engine, and rises to 5 litres V8 engine.

Versions of the Range Rover are sold in other countries under names such as Range Rover Sport, Discovery Sport, Range Rover Velar and Range Rover Evoque. These versions, marketed especially in the US, have a more streamlined shape. The Evoque is designed to appeal to urban buyers. All these new versions are being adapted meet modern requirements for lower CO2 emissions and fuel economy. These version are regarded, in US terms, as "compact SUVs".

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Rover automobiles
Annapolis Royal, formerly known as Annapolis, is a town located in the western part of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Notes

References
 Dunn, Brenda. A History of Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal 1605-1800. Halifax: Nimbus, 2004.
 Faragher, John. A Great and Noble Scheme. Norton, 2005.
 Grenier, John. The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760. Oklahoma University Press.
 Grenon, Jean-Yves. Pierre Dugua de Mons: Fondateur de l'Acadie (1604-5), Co-Fondateur de Québec (1608); Pierre Dugua de Mons: Founder of Acadie (1604-5), Co-Founder of Québec (1608) (English translation by Phil Roberts). Annapolis Royal: Peninsular Press, 2000.
 Griffiths, E. From Migrant to Acadian. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005.
 Lawrence, Ian. Historic Annapolis Royal: Images of Our Past. Halifax: Nimbus, 2002.
 Plank, Geoffrey. An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
 Reid, John, Maurice Basque, Elizabeth Mancke, Barry Moody, Geoffrey Plank, and William Wicken. The 'Conquest' of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions. 2004.

Other websites

 Town of Annapolis Royal website
 Fundy Communities Development Association website
 Annapolis Valley Tourism Information, Real Estate and Business Directory
 

Towns in Nova Scotia
Stewiacke is a town located in southern Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada. The town was incorporated on August 30, 1906.

History
Stewiacke was named in the language of the local Mi'kmaq First Nations and is a word meaning "flowing out in small streams" and "winding river" or "whimpering or whining as it goes". During the French and Indian War, the British built Fort Ellis in the area to protect New England Planters from Mi'kmaq raids.

In the late 1990s, a tourism attraction named Mastodon Ridge opened near the town's highway exit, based on a local discovery of a mastodon skeleton. The Mastodon Ridge Complex features a craft store, toy store, a mini golf and interpretive centre which displays several of the mastodon's bones.

Stewiacke is home to two bars, a pharmacy, a grocery store, a pizza store, numerous fast food restaurants, two gas stations, a hardware store, an audio-visual production company, an 18-hole golf course and a newly built elementary school that replaced two former local schools.

Stewiacke is also home to a volunteer fire department that was the first department in North America to use specialized foam as a fire suppression agent. Alongside other achievements involving the use of certain fire apparatus.

The town is noted as being located halfway between the North Pole and the Equator (Actually in Alton, Nova Scotia).  Controversy in the past over this claim stems from the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, and therefore the halfway mark lies approximately 16 km North of the 45th parallel.

The town's most notorious event occurred on Friday April 12, 2001, when a local teenager, at home on a school in-service day, tampered with a railway switch on the CN Rail Halifax-Montreal mainline, causing Via Rail Canada's Ocean to derail several minutes later when it passed through the centre of the community.  Several buildings and rail cars were destroyed and many people were injured, including some severely, although no fatalities resulted.

The town is located in the Stewiacke Valley at the confluence of the Stewiacke and Shubenacadie River and is a service and support centre for local agricultural communities as well as a service exit on Highway 102.

Demographics 

In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Stewiacke recorded a population of 1,373 living in 629 of its 681 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2011 population of 1,438. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

Parks 
Caddell Rapids Lookoff Provincial Park
•Dennis Park

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Other websites
 Town of Stewiacke
 Central Nova Tourist Association - official website

Towns in Nova Scotia
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1900s establishments in Canada
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan is a Canadian–American animated television series produced by Harringtoons Productions and Nickelodeon Productions. The show was based on the childhood memories of creator Karen Chau, growing up in a bicultural (Chinese-American) household. “Ni hao” means “Hello” in Mandarin, and Kai-Lan is the Chinese name Chau was given at birth, which was later anglicized to Karen. It was also based on the classic short series Downward Doghouse. The show had two different stories in each episode. The series premiered at 11AM ET/PT time on February 7, 2008 on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States.

Characters
Hoho is one of the main characters in the Nickelodeon animated series, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. He is voiced by Angie Wu.

Lulu is a cute and very pretty pink rhino who has a red balloon tied to her horn that helps her fly in the sky. Her best friend is Kai-Lan and other friends. When her friends are in trouble, Lulu is the one in the group who stays calm,, remains positive, and thinks of a solution to the problem. Lulu is always seen as being there to help her friends. Lulu's home is a castle in the sky. Lulu plays the piano in Kai-Lan's music group. Her favorite fruit is the lychee. She likes balloons, tea parties, dancing, playing house and dressing up like a fairy and more. She is very nice, energetic, and sweet.

Rintoo is one of the main characters in the Nickelodeon series, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. He is voiced by Jack Samson.

Tolee is one of the main characters in Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. He is voiced by Khamani Griffin.

2008 American television series debuts
2011 television series endings
Animated television series
Television series by Cookie Jar Entertainment
Nickelodeon television series
2008 Canadian television series debuts
2011 disestablishments in the United States
2010s disestablishments in Canada
English-language television programs
Captain John Byron (7 February 1756 – 2 August 1791) was a British Army officer and writer, best known as the father of poet Lord Byron.

Byron was the son of Vice-Admiral The Hon. John Byron and Sophia Trevanion and grandson of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron of Rochdale. He was educated atWestminster School. He gained the rank of Captain in the Coldstream Guards. Captain John Byron also went by the nickname of "Mad Jack."

In 1778 he eloped with Amelia Osborne, Marchioness of Carmarthen, daughter ofRobert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, to Europe and they married after she obtained a divorce from her husband the Marquess of Carmarthen, who in 1789 became Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds. They married on 1 June 1779 at London, England, and had a daughter, Augusta Maria Byron. Amelia Osborne died in 1784.

Byron then married Catherine Gordon, heiress of Gight in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, daughter of George Gordon and Catherine Innes, on 12 May 1785. She was the mother of George Gordon Byron, who would early in his life become the 6th Baron Byron. In order to claim his wife's estate in Scotland, Captain Byron took the surname Gordon.After he had squandered most of her fortune and deserted her, Mrs. Byron took her infant son to Aberdeen, Scotland, where they lived in lodgings on a meager income.

"Mad Jack" died in 1791 at age 35, at Valenciennes. Later, Lord Byron would tell friends that his father had cut his own throat. It is more likely he died from tuberculosis or an overdose.

1756 births
1791 deaths
British Army officers
Urmein () is a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Philipp Jenninger (10 June 1932 – 4 January 2018) was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union and diplomat.

Jenninger was the President of the Bundestag from 1984 to 1988. He also served as Member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag (1969–1990), Minister of State at the German Chancellery (1982–1984), German Ambassador to Austria (1991–1995) and German Ambassador to the Holy See (1995–1997).

Jenninger died on 4 January 2018 in Stuttgart, aged 85.

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Aydın Boysan (17 June 1921 – 5 January 2018) was a Turkish architect, academic, author and essayist. He was born in Istanbul.

In 1954, he became the charter member of  the Chamber  of Architects. He also became the first secretary general of the chamber. Later he served as the representative of the chamber in İstanbul.  Between 1957 and 1972 he taught in the İstanbul Technical University.

In 1984, Boysan founded Bas Printing House and published essay books. His essays are mostly about his memoirs and humor. He was also a columnist.

Boysan died of multiple organ failure in Istanbul on 5 January 2018 at the age of 96.

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Marina Ripa Di Meana (born Maria Elide Punturieri and previously known as Marina Lante della Rovere; 21 October 1941 – 5 January 2018) was an Italian writer, actress, director, stylist and TV personality. She was born in Reggio Calabria.

Ripa di Meana  wrote 14 books over her lifetime, however she is probably best known for her first two autobiographical books, I miei primi quarant'anni (My First Forty Years, 1984) and La più bella del reame (The Most Beautiful in the Realm, 1988), which became bestsellers. 

Ripa di Meana directed the controversial movie Cattive ragazze and starred in Assassinio sul Tevere.

From 1982 until her death, she was married to politician Carlo Ripa di Meana.

Ripa di Meana was suffering from kidney cancer in the years before her death. On 5 January 2018, Ripa di Meana died in Rome after deciding to undergo deep palliative sedation at the age of 76.

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Carlo Ripa di Meana (15 August 1929 – 2 March 2018) was an Italian politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament, a European Commissioner with portfolio for the environment and was environment minister of Italy.

Ripa di Meana was the leader of the Italian Greens and president of the organization Italia Nostra.

From 1982 until her death in 2018, Ripa di Meana was married to actress and socialite Marina Ripa Di Meana.

From 1993 to 1996 Ripa di Meana was the Spokesperson of the Federation of the Greens, in the 1994 European Parliament election he was again elected MEP, while in 2000 regional election he was elected in the Umbrian Regional Council.

Ripa di Meana died in Rome on 2 March 2018 of skin cancer at the age of 88.

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Emily Dole (September 28, 1957 – January 2, 2018) was a Samoan-American athlete, actress and professional wrestler who competed in the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling as Mountain Fiji, abbreviated in publications and her official logo as Mt. Fiji.

At 350 pounds, she dwarfed all of the other members of the cast, the closest competitor being the glamazon queen Matilda the Hun, who she feuded with for the first two seasons. Wrestling led to other appearances, on the short lived Hard Time on Planet Earth, on the Carol Burnett Show spin-off Mama's Family and in the Pauly Shore romp, Son in Law. 

Dole was interviewed and featured in the 2012 documentary film GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

Dole died in Orange, California on January 2, 2018 from a long-illness at the age of 60.

References

Other websites

Mountain Fiji online biography 

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2018 deaths
Disease-related deaths in California
American professional wrestlers
American track and field athletes
American movie actors
American television actors
Samoan people
Actors from Orange County, California
Sportspeople from California
In mathematics, the Fourier inversion theorem says that for many types of functions it is possible to recover a function from its Fourier transform. Intuitively it may be viewed as the statement that if we know all frequency and phase information about a wave then we may reconstruct the original wave precisely.

Mathematical theorems
Tartar is a former municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2010 the former municipalities of Portein, Präz, Sarn and Tartar merged into the municipality of Cazis.

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 Official website 
 

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Tschappina is a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Graubünden
The flag of Nigeria is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and green. It was adopted on 1 October 1960.

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Nigeria
The flag of Ghana has three equal horizontal bands of red, yellow, and green, with a five-pointed black star in its center.

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Ghana
Carlos Heitor Cony (March 14, 1926 – January 5, 2018) was a Brazilian journalist and writer. He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Portuguese: Academia Brasileira de Letras). He was born in Rio de Janeiro.

Cony was a center-leftist and faced persecution under the military government in the 1960s.  Four of his works were adapted to movies. He was a columnist at the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.

Cony died in Rio de Janeiro on January 5, 2018 of multiple organ failure at the age of 91.

References

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Folha
Mertin-litag 
BBC

1926 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Brazilian writers
Brazilian journalists
People from Rio de Janeiro
Gossau is a municipality in St. Gallen in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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 Official website of the city of Gossau 

Municipalities of St. Gallen
Cities in Switzerland
Volzhsky () is an industrial city in Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is located on the east bank of the Volga River and its distributary the Akhtuba,  northeast of Volgograd. In 2010, 314,255 people lived in the city.

Cities in Russia
"Finesse" is a song recorded by American singer Bruno Mars.  It is the eighth track on his third studio album, 24K Magic.  On January 4, 2018, a remix of the song, featuring American rapper Cardi B, was released.  It has reached number one on the iTunes charts of eight countries. The song and its video are noted for its 1990s style.

Charts 
The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 35 but rose to number three the following week. It also reached number three in Canada and the top five in the UK.

Music video 
The music video contains various influences of the 1990s, including the background dancers, which appear to mimic the "Fly Girls" from the TV series In Living Color.

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R&B songs
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Antonio Valentín Angelillo (; 5 September 1937 – 5 January 2018) was an Argentine-born Italian football forward. He was born in Buenos Aires. He played the majority of his professional career in the Italian Serie A. He was a member of both the Argentine and the Italian national teams.

Angelillo died on 5 January 2018 in Siena, Italy of lung cancer at the age of 80.

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Other websites

Inter Archive 
 Angelillo with Boca Juniors
 Biography 

1937 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Italy
Italian footballers
Argentine footballers
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
Elk Grove Village is a village located in northeastern Illinois near the O'Hare International Airport and is a near northwest suburb, touching the city of Chicago. 

It is one of the Chicago metropolitan area's principal villages due to its large industrial park, located on the eastern border of the village. 

The village is located primarily in Cook County with a small portion in DuPage County. The population was 33,127 at the 2010 census. 

Elk Grove Village is home to a small herd of elk kept in a grove at the eastern edge of the Busse Woods forest preserve for which the grove is named. The elk are currently maintained by the Chicago Zoological Society veterinary staff and the Busse Woods Forest Preserve wildlife biologists.

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Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
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Settlements in DuPage County, Illinois
Merrionette Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,900 as of the 2010 census.

Merrionette Park is located at  (41.684, -87.701).

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Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
Settlements in Cook County, Illinois
The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) provides both firefighting and emergency medical services to the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The Chicago Fire Department is the third largest municipal fire department in the United States after the New York City Fire Department and Cal Fire. It is also one of the oldest major organized fire departments in the nation.

The Chicago Fire Department receives over 500,000 emergency calls annually, most of which are medical calls.

Other websites
 Chicago Fire Department

Chicago, Illinois
The 2018 Northern Cyprus parliamentary election was held on 7 January 2018. It was held to elect the 50 members of the Assembly of the Republic.

The election was a victory for the National Unity Party and other right-wing parties.

Parties 

 Republican Turkish Party (CTP): led by Tufan Erhürman. This party supports Cyprus reunification and social democracy.
 National Unity Party (UBP): led by Hüseyin Özgürgün. This party is nationalistic and conservative.
 Democratic Party (DP): led by Serdar Denktaş son of Rauf Denktaş. This party is nationalistic and conservative.
 Communal Democracy Party (TDP): led by Cemal Özyiğit. This party supports Cyprus reunification and social democracy.
 People's Party (HP): led by Kudret Özersay. This party supports Cyprus reunification and is centrist.
 Rebirth Party (YDP): led by Erhan Arıklı. This party is nationalistic.
 Communal Liberation Party-New Forces (TKP-YG): led by Mehmet Çakıcı. This party supports Cyprus reunification and social democracy.

The United Cyprus Party (BKP) was in an alliance with the TKP-YG. As such, BKP members ran for Parliament under the TKP-YG name. The New Cyprus Party refused to join the alliance.

Results

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January 2018 events
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2010s elections in Asia
Dina Titus (born May 23, 1950) is an American politician. She was born in Thomasville, Georgia. She is a member of the United States Democratic Party.

Political career
Titus was a United States Representative from Nevada's 3rd congressional district from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, Titus was defeated by Republican Joe Heck.

Titus became a U.S. Representative from Nevada's 1st congressional district in 2013.

Titus received a 100% rating from the Planned Parenthood 2014 Congressional Scorecard for opposing a nationwide abortion ban after 20 weeks.

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1950 births
Living people
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Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas. It is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side. Twelve miles from the Chicago Loop. It is named after Chicago industrialist George Pullman.

Since the late 20th century, the Pullman neighborhood has been gentrifying. Many residents are involved in the restoration of their own homes, and projects throughout the district as a whole. Walking tours of Pullman are available.

Pullman has many historic and architecturally significant buildings; among these are the Hotel Florence; the Arcade Building, which was destroyed in the 1920s. The area is home to churches in Chicago built in Polish Cathedral style, the former church of St. Salomea. It is now used by Salem Baptist Church of Chicago.

In a contest sponsored by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Pullman was one of seven sites nominated for the Illinois Seven Wonders.

Other websites
Official City of Chicago Pullman Community Map
Pullman State Historic Site

Community areas of Chicago
The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. The victims had all taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that had been laced with potassium cyanide. A total of seven people died in the original poisonings, with several more deaths in subsequent copycat crimes.

Effects
These incidents led to reforms in the packaging of over-the-counter medications and to federal anti-tampering laws. The actions of Johnson & Johnson to reduce deaths and warn the public of poisoning risks have been widely praised as an exemplary public relations response to such a crisis.

No suspect was ever charged or convicted of the poisonings. New York City resident James William Lewis, who was considered the prime suspect, was convicted only of extortion for sending a letter to Johnson & Johnson that took credit for the deaths and demanded $1 million to stop them.

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Horace Ashenfelter III (January 23, 1923 – January 6, 2018) was an American athlete. He competed in international athletics from 1947 to 1956. He was born in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Ashenfelter was the surprise winner of the steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics at Helsinki with a devastating surge following the final water jump. He was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1975.

Ashenfelter died in West Orange, New Jersey on January 6, 2018 at the age of 94.

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Other websites
 Running Past profile

1923 births
2018 deaths
American Olympic gold medalists
American track and field athletes
American military personnel of World War II
Sportspeople from New Jersey
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
is a Japanese businessman.

Toyoda served as chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation between 1992 to 1999 and also serving as chairman of the powerful , beginning in May 1994 through May 1998.

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Other websites
Toyota Motor Corporation:  official bio 

1925 births
Living people
Japanese businesspeople
Toyota
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne "France" Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018) was a French singer. She was born in Paris.

Gall was known for her songs "Laisse tomber les filles", "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", and "Ella, elle l'a". She was a Eurovision Song Contest winner for the 1965 contest. Gall was married to Michel Berger, until his death.

Gall died of an infection complicated from cancer of unknown primary origin at a Paris hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 7 January 2018 at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
 Clips from INA archives
 Official website managed by WEA Music  (offline)
 France Gall biography on RFI (offline)
 A Tribute to Gainsbourg: France Gall  (offline)
 French forum of France Gall & Michel Berger 

1947 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cancer of unknown primary origin
Cancer deaths in France
Eurovision Song Contest winners
French pop singers
Infectious disease deaths in France
Musicians from Paris
Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg (born 1 January 1928) is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian. He is known for his studies in the history of World War II. He was born in Hanover, Germany. He is known for his book A World at Arms : A Global History of World War II.

Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the history faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974. Previously he served on the faculties of the University of Michigan (1959–1974) and the University of Kentucky (1957–1959).

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Other websites
Dr. Gerhard Weinberg: World War II Scholar and Teacher (Metro Magazine, January 2006) 
Revealed: The Amazing Story behind Hitler's Second Book
Over There, and There, and There Review of A World In Arms
He Meant What He Said: Review of Zweites Buch
Review of Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History

Pritzker Prize winners
1928 births
Living people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
German historians
American historians
Educators from Michigan
People from Hanover
Educators from North Carolina
Educators from Kentucky
Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (; born February 26, 1928) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. He was born in Davydovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR.

After leaving the space programme in 1982 Filipchenko became the Deputy Director of the OKB in Kharkiv.

He was awarded: Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration", State Prize of the USSR, Order of the Banner of the Bulgarian People's Republic, Medal "For the Strengthening Military Cooperation" (Czechoslovakia) and Medal "Brotherhood in Arms" (GDR).

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Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American activist and former United States military analyst who was known for releasing the classified Pentagon Papers to The Washington Post.

Pentagon Papers
While employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Charge
Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to governmental misconduct and illegal evidence gathering, and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.

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Other websites
 
 

1931 births
Living people
American activists
American economists
American political writers
Writers from Chicago
Raymond "Ray" Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English musician. He was best known as a flautist, singer and composer in the rock band, The Moody Blues.

Works
Some of his compositions are; "Another Morning" and "Twilight Time" (from Days of Future Passed), "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" and "Legend of a Mind" (from In Search of the Lost Chord), "Dear Diary" and "Lazy Day" (from On the Threshold of a Dream), "Eternity Road", and "Floating" (from To Our Children's Children's Children), "And the Tide Rushes In" (from A Question of Balance), "Our Guessing Game" and "Nice to Be Here" (from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour), "For My Lady" (from Seventh Sojourn), and the medley "Painted Smile/Reflective Smile/Veteran Cosmic Rocker" (from Long Distance Voyager).

Death
Thomas died on 4 January 2018 of prostate cancer in Surrey at the age of 76.

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Other websites
Official Ray Thomas website

1941 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
English singer-songwriters
English rock musicians
English rock singers
Keyboardists
Musicians from Worcestershire
The flag of Serbia has three horizontal stripes of red, blue, and white. The Coat of arms of Serbia is in the centre. The current form of the flag was officially adopted on 11 November 2010.

Serbia
Serbia
2010 establishments in Europe
Establishments in Serbia
The flag of Moldova is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and red. The Coat of arms of Moldova is in the centre.

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Moldova
Moldova
Craig Shoemaker (born November 15, 1958) is an American comedian, writer, and voice actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He is best known for his baritone-voiced character, The Lovemaster, which he routinely portrays in his comedy act. In 1997, he was named Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic at the American Comedy Awards.

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1958 births
Living people
American game show hosts
Comedians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mohammad Manzarpour (Born 8 March 1972, Tehran) () is an Iranian journalist, presenter and producer.He also is Former Exacutive Editor of VOA Persian

Career 
He started his career as a social reporter for Peyk-e Azadi student weekly publication, in 1996.In 1998, Manzarpour joined the English daily, Tehran Times and was soon promoted to the Economic editor of this newspaper.
In 2002, Manzarpour Joined BBC Persian Radio as a producer. He was promoted to Senior producer in 2007 and joined BBC Persian Television in 2008 as their Middle East Correspondent.

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1972 births
Living people
People from Tehran
Iranian writers
Iranian journalists
BBC television presenters
BBC newsreaders and journalists
A bicycle path is a way marked for people on bicycles to use.  

Many bicycle path networks can be found in countries such as Denmark or Netherlands, which has had a national system of cycle routes since 1993. These networks may use routes dedicated exclusively to cycle traffic or minor rural roads whose use is otherwise restricted to local motor traffic and agricultural machinery. A safe way to go on a bicycle is when you have a bicycle path. These are made in places where bicycle safety is given consideration, so you do not have to cycle in busy traffic on dangerous roads

The Dutch word Fietspad means Bicycle Path in English. In the Netherlands you can go on the bicycle path to the shops, housing, stations, schools, and workplaces. 

The more sensible approach is based on efforts to increase Utility cycling. In countries like Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany the high levels of utility cycling also includes shopping trips e.g. 9% of all shopping trips in Germany are by bicycle.

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Cycling