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Lafayette Parish () is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 221,578. The parish seat is Lafayette. The parish was founded in 1823. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette.

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Mandeville is the second-largest city in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Cities in Louisiana
Mark Walter Olson (March 17, 1943 – September 12, 2018) was an American economist and politician. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 2001 to 2006. He resigned on June 21, 2006 in order to run the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Olson was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He died on September 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 75.

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San Clemente is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 63,522 at the 2010 census.

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The San Clemente Sun Post News, the town's oldest newspaper

Cities in California
Settlements in Orange County, California
Thomas Kevin Beattie (18 December 1953 – 16 September 2018) was an English footballer. He played as a central defender. At a club level, he played most famously for Ipswich Town 307 times. He won the FA Cup in 1978 and UEFA Cup in 1981 with Ipswich. He has been called Ipswich Town's best ever player. He played nine times for the England national team, scoring one goal. Other clubs he played for include Colchester United and Middlesbrough.

Beattie was born in Carlisle. He died of a heart attack on 16 September 2018 in Ipswich, Suffolk, aged 64.

Honours
Ipswich Town
FA Cup (1): 1977–78
UEFA Cup (1): 1980–81

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Louise Johanna "Anneke" Grönloh (7 June 1942 – 14 September 2018) was a Dutch singer. She had a successful career starting in 1959. It lasted throughout the 1960s. She became famous with the song "Brandend Zand", one of the best-selling Dutch songs of all time. She was born in Tondano, North Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia).

Grönloh died on 14 September 2018 from leukemia in Amsterdam at the age of 76.

Discography
"Asmara" (1960, in Indonesian)
"Flamenco Rock"
"Brandend Zand" (1961) – gold
"Paradiso" (1962) – went platinum
"Soerabaja" (1963)
"Cimeroni" (1963)
"Oh Malaysia" (1963)

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1942 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
Dutch singers
Zienia Merton (11 December 1945 – 14 September 2018) was a Burmese-British actress. She was raised in Singapore, Borneo, Portugal, and England. She was probably best known for playing Sandra Benes in Space: 1999.

Merton also starred in Grange Hill, Return of the Saint (1979), Bergerac (1983), Tenko (1984), Dempsey & Makepeace (1985), Lovejoy (1986), Crime Traveller (1997), Doctors (2001), Dinotopia (2002), Casualty (1986 – 2002), EastEnders (1998 – 2003), The Bill (1999 – 2005), Judge John Deed (2006), Coronation Street (2008) and Wire in the Blood (2008). 

Morton died on 14 September 2018 at the age of 72.

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Burmese people
British movie actors
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(15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress. She was known for her work in Japanese cinema and television. Kiki was born in Tokyo. Kiki was known for her roles in Ballad of Orin, The Triple Cross and in Half a Confession.

Kiki died of breast cancer in Tokyo on 15 September 2018 at the age of 75.

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1943 births
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The United States Senate has 100 members. There are two senators from each of the 50 states. Below is a list of the current U.S. Senators, sitting in the 117th United States Congress.

Party affiliation

Leadership

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Zhu Xu (, April 15, 1930 – September 15, 2018) was a Chinese actor. He was well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks. He was born in Shenyang.

Zhu died on September 15, 2018 from mesothelioma in Beijing at the age of 88.

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James Burdette Thayer (March 10, 1922 – September 16, 2018) was an American brigadier general. He was born in Portland, Oregon. He was on active duty during World War II.

His son, Tommy Thayer, is a member of Kiss.

After the war he worked at a business supply company in Beaverton, Oregon.  He was later appointed Oregon's civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army and then re-activated as commander of the Oregon State Defense Force.

Thayer died on September 16, 2018 in Lake Oswego, Oregon at the age of 96.

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 Brigadier General James B. Thayer biographical video
  Oregon Military Museum 
 Oregon Military Department 

1922 births
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Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov (; ; born 20 September 1988) is a Russian mixed martial artist. He started his career in 2008. He is signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is the UFC Lightweight Champion at the moment. He holds the longest streak in MMA history without losing, with 29 wins. He defended his title, beating Conor McGregor by submission at UFC 229 in October 2018. He is the first Russian and the first Muslim to win a UFC title. He is also a two-time Combat Sambo World Champion. He formerly fought as a welterweight.

Nurmagomedov was born in the village of Sildi, Tsumadinsky District in Dagestan. He is an Avar. He married in June 2013. He has a daughter and a son. He lives in Makhachkala, Dagestan. He is a Sunni Muslim.

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 Khabib Nurmagomedov profile at UFC.com
 

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Makhachkala (; Lak: Гьанжи; Avar: МахӀачхъала; Lezgian: Магьачкъала; Rutul: МахаӀчкала) is the capital city of the Republic of Dagestan, southwestern Russia. As of the 2010 census, the city had 572,076 people living there.

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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister,  (5 April 182710 February 1912) was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery.

He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds.

Applying Louis Pasteur's advances in microbiology, Lister championed the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic, so that it became the first widely used antiseptic in surgery. 

He knew it was used to ease the stench from fields irrigated with sewage waste.  He thought it was safe because fields treated with carbolic acid had no ill-effects on the livestock that grazed on them.

Lister's work led to a reduction in post-operative infections (infections after an operation). This made surgery safer for patients. So he became known as the "father of modern surgery".

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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin,  (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a Scots-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer. He was born in Belfast in 1824. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formed the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

Works
Kelvin did much to unify physics in its modern form. He also had a career as an electric telegraph engineer and inventor, which propelled him into the public eye and gave him wealth, fame and honour. 

For his work on the transatlantic telegraph project he was knighted in 1866 by Queen Victoria, becoming Sir William Thomson. He was noted for his work on the mariner's compass. This had been rather unreliable owing to the iron in ships' hulls.

Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honour. The existence of a lower limit to temperature (absolute zero) was known before his work, but Lord Kelvin found its correct value as approximately −273.15 degree Celsius or −459.67 degree Fahrenheit.

He was made Lord Kelvin in 1892 in recognition of his achievements in thermodynamics, and of his opposition to Irish Home Rule. He became Baron Kelvin, of Largs in the County of Ayr. 

He was the first British scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords. His title refers to the River Kelvin, which flows close by his laboratory at the University of Glasgow.   Despite offers from several world-renowned universities, Lord Kelvin refused to leave Glasgow, remaining Professor of Natural Philosophy for over 50 years, until his eventual retirement.  The Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow has a permanent exhibition on the work of Lord Kelvin.

Always active in industrial research and development, he was recruited around 1899 by George Eastman to serve as vice-chairman of the board of the British company Kodak Limited, affiliated with Eastman Kodak.

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San Joaquin County () is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 685,306. The county seat is Stockton. It was founded in 1850.

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San Luis Obispo County, officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county located in California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 269,637. The county seat is San Luis Obispo. It is located along the Pacific Ocean in Central California, between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Santa Cruz County, California, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 262,382. The county seat is Santa Cruz. It was created in 1850.

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Secretin is a peptide hormone that regulates water balance throughout the body. It is produced in secretory glands of the duodenum. In humans, the secretin peptide is encoded by the SCT gene, which sits on chromosome 11.  

In 2007, secretin was discovered to play a role in osmoregulation by acting on the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and kidney.

Secretin was the first hormone to be identified.
The crucial experiments were done at University College London in 1902. The term 'hormone' was invented in 1905.

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Sierra County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 3,240 making it California's second-least populous county. The county seat is Downieville, and the only incorporated city is Loyalton. The county is in the Sierra Nevada, northeast of Sacramento on the border with Nevada. Sierra County was founded in 1852. The county derives its name from the Sierra Nevada.

Geography 
The county has a total area of .

Bordering counties 
 Nevada County, California - south
 Yuba County, California - west
 Plumas County, California - north
 Lassen County, California - northeast
 Washoe County, Nevada - east

Communities

City 
Loyalton

Census-designated places

Alleghany
Calpine
Downieville
Goodyears Bar
Pike
Sattley
Sierra Brooks
Sierra City
Sierraville
Verdi

Unincorporated communities 
Forest
Gibsonville
Bassetts

Ghost towns 

Eureka City
Howland Flat
Pine Grove
Poker Flat
Potosi
Shady Flat

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 Sierra County Official Website

1850s establishments in California
1852 establishments in the United States
Stanislaus County ( or ) is a county in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 514,453. The county seat is Modesto.

Stanislaus County was founded in 1854.

Communities

Cities 

 Ceres
 Hughson
 Modesto
 Newman
 Oakdale
 Patterson
 Riverbank
 Turlock
 Waterford

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Sutter County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 94,737. The county seat is Yuba City. The county is located along the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley.

Sutter County was founded in 1850.

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Trinity County is a county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,786, making it the fourth least-populous county in California. The county seat and largest community is Weaverville. Trinity County was founded in 1850. The county takes its name from the Trinity River.

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Tuolumne County (), officially the County of Tuolumne, is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,179. The county seat and only incorporated city is Sonora. The county is in the Sierra Nevada region.

The northern half of Yosemite National Park is in the eastern part of this county.

Tuolumne County was founded in 1850.

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Yolo County, officially the County of Yolo, is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 200,849. The county seat is Woodland. It is in the Sacramento Valley.

Yolo County was founded in 1850.

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Yuba County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 72,155. The county seat is Marysville. The county is in the Central Valley, along the Feather River.

Yuba County was founded in 1850.

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Adams County is the westernmost county of the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 67,103. Its county seat is Quincy. Its name is in honor of the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams.

Adams County was founded in 1825.

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Alexander County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 8,238 people lived there. The county seat is Cairo.

1810s establishments in Illinois
1819 establishments in the United States
Illinois counties
Bond County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 17,768 people lived there. The county seat is Greenville.

Illinois counties
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 54,165 people lived there. The county seat is Belvidere.

Illinois counties
Joseph William Calzaghe  (born 23 March 1972) is a Welsh former professional boxer. His boxing nicknames include "The Pride of Wales" and "The Italian Dragon".

Calzaghe competed from 1993 to 2008. He was trained by his father Enzo. The younger Calzaghe was a champion in two weight classes. He was the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO and Ring magazine super-middleweight champion. He was also the Ring light-heavyweight champion. BoxRec.com ranks him as the best British super-middleweight boxer of all time. He went undefeated in his professional career, having a record 46–0. He had famous wins against boxers such as Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. (in his final fight). He retired on 5 February 2009. In 2007, Calzaghe won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

Calzaghe was born in Hammersmith, London, England. His father, musician-turned-trainer Enzo (1949–2018), was from the island of Sardinia, Italy. His mother is Welsh. He grew up in Newbridge, Wales. He has two sons with his former wife Mandy Davies.

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Enzo Calzaghe  (1 January 1949 – 17 September 2018) was an Italian-born British boxing trainer. He was best known for training his son Joe in an undefeated career. He ran a boxing training centre in Newbridge, Wales. He was also a musician.

Early life 
He was born in Sassari on the Italian island of Sardinia. He also had two other children with his wife, Jackie.

Death 
Calzaghe died after an illness on 17 September 2018, at the age of 69.

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Bureau County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 34,978 people lived there. The county seat is Princeton.

Illinois counties
Carroll County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 15,387 people lived there. The county seat is Mount Carroll.

Illinois counties
Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 13,642 people lived there. The county seat is Virginia.

Illinois counties
Champaign County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 201,081, making it the 10th-most populous county in Illinois. The county seat is Urbana.

Champaign County was founded in 1833.

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Christian County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 34,800. The county seat is Taylorville. It was founded in 1839 and named for Christian County, Kentucky.

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Lord Maximus Farquaad is the main antagonist of the 2001 animated feature movie Shrek, as well as Shrek 4-D and the musical. He is voiced by John Lithgow. He does not appear in William Steig's original picture book of the same name.

Biography
Lord Farquaad is the ruler of the kingdom of Duloc. He was given a choice by the Magic Mirror to pick either Cinderella, Snow White or Princess Fiona for his future wife. He picked Fiona and wanted to give one of his knights the assignment to rescue her from the Dragon's Keep.

Fictional characters introduced in 2001
Shrek characters
Clark County is a county in the southeastern part of U.S. state of Illinois, along the Indiana state line. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,335. The county seat is Marshall. The county was founded in 1819 and named for George Rogers Clark, an officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.

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Clinton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 37,762 people lived there. The county seat is Carlyle.

Illinois counties
Coles County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 53,873 people lived there. The county seat is Charleston.

Illinois counties
Crawford County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 19,817 people lived there. The county seat is Robinson.

Illinois counties
Cumberland County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 11,048 people lived there. The county seat is Toledo.

Illinois counties
DeWitt County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,561. Its county seat is Clinton. The county was founded on March 1, 1839 from Macon and McLean counties and named in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton.

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Illinois counties
Douglas County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 19,980 people lived there. The county seat is Tuscola.

Illinois counties
Edgar County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 18,576 people lived there. The county seat is Paris.

Illinois counties
Ayr (; , "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a large town on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland.

Towns in Scotland
Ayrshire
Edwards County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 6,721 people lived there. The county seat is Albion.

Illinois counties
The Busy World of Richard Scarry is an American/Canadian/French animated TV show. It was produced by CINAR Animation (now known as DHX Media, previously Cookie Jar Entertainment) and France Animation with Paramount Television. It was shown from 1993 to 1997, first on Showtime, and later on Nickelodeon, and ran for 65 episodes. The show was based on the books drawn and written by Richard Scarry. Reruns of the show formerly aired in syndication as part of the Cookie Jar Kids Network block, but then continued to air on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV until October 26, 2013. Reruns of the show aired on Qubo from May 13, 2013, to September 25, 2016. It later returned to Qubo on March 28, 2017, as part of the network's Night Owl block until May 26, 2018 and returned again to Qubo for the second time on March 6, 2021, and currently airs on Light TV and Qubo.

Other websites 
 The Busy World of Richard Scarry at Cookie Jar Entertainment
 
 

1990s American animated television series
Canadian animated television series
French television series
1990s Canadian television series
1993 television series debuts
1997 television series endings
Animated adventure television series
Fantasy television series
Nickelodeon television series
Martin Olson (born April 2, 1956) is an American comedy writer, television producer, author and composer. He is known as an original member of the Boston Comedy Scene. He is the father of actress Olivia Olson. He is also known for his voice role as Hunson Abadeer, father of Marceline the Vampire Queen, on Adventure Time.

Olson has received five Emmy Award nominations, three for television writing and two for song writing. Olson also received an Ace Award for television writing.

Olson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In his early years, he worked as a comedy writer for Rodney Dangerfield.

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Maartin Allcock (born Martin Allcock; 5 January 1957  – 16 September 2018) was an English multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer. He was born in Middleton, England. He was known for his works with Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, and Robert Plant.

Allcock died September 16, 2018 from liver cancer at the age of 61.

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Violinists
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Musicians from Manchester
Cecil James McNeely (April 29, 1927 – September 16, 2018), better known as Big Jay McNeely, was an American rhythm and blues saxophonist. He was born in Los Angeles, California. McNeely's first hit was "The Deacon's Hop,"  an instrumental which topped the Billboard R&B chart in early 1949. He was added into The Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.

McNeely died on September 16, 2018 from prostate cancer in Moreno Valley, California at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
Official Website Big Jay McNeely
Big Jay McNeely MySpace page
Big Jay McNeely  page at This is Vintage Now
 Dozens of vintage photos and album covers
McNeely stage performance photograph at Soulpatrol.com
Big Jay McNeely and "Detroit" Gary Wiggins - Saxomania Tour Europe
NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Interview with Big Jay McNeely May 23, 2013

1927 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in California
American saxophonists
American R&B musicians
American soul musicians
Musicians from Los Angeles
Moreno Valley is a city located in Riverside County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 193,365. Moreno Valley is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Other websites
 Moreno Valley Chamber of Commerce
 Moreno Valley School District

Cities in California
Settlements in Riverside County, California
Hope Charlotte Hicks (born October 21, 1988) is an American public relations consultant and model. She was the White House Communications Director for U.S. President Donald Trump from August 2017 until March 29, 2018.

From January to September 2017, she was White House Director of Strategic Communications. She was an employee of The Trump Organization.

On February 27, 2018, Hicks testified to a Congressional committee that she had told "white lies" on Trump's behalf. The next day, Hicks announced her resignation as White House Communications Director. She left the White House a month later.

On October 1, 2020 she tested positive for COVID-19. This raised concerns whether or not Trump, too, had COVID-19, as she had been on Air Force One recently and had travelled with the president to Cleveland, Ohio, for the first presidential debate. 

Aside from working with Trump, Hicks also worked with Fox News.

Personal life 
Hope grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, to a family involved in politics. Both her parents worked for congressmen, her father working for a Connecticut Republican congressman, and her mother a Tennessee Democrat congressman (Ed Jones).  She was also a model and, for a short time, an actress (performing in just one film) before joining the Trump administration. She also worked with Fox News.  Hope met the president through his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, who Hope knew.

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Politicians from Connecticut
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US Republican Party politicians
White House Communications Directors
Mercedes Schlapp (née Viana) (born December 15, 1972) is an American lobbyist and columnist. She was born in Miami, Florida. Schlapp is a Republican. From September 2017 to July 2019, she was the second White House Director of Strategic Communications during the Donald Trump presidency, replacing Hope Hicks. Before being a member of the Trump administration, Schlapp was a critic of Trump.

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American lobbyists
American columnists
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Writers from Miami, Florida
Port Washington is an affluent hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the community population was 15,846.

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Census-designated places in New York (state)
Narvik is an Norwegian town and municipality located in Nordland county. It has a population of 18,756 inhabitants in 2017. The area covers 2,023.03 square kilometres.

Other websites 
 Narvik Kommune official website 

Cities in Norway
Towns in Europe
Municipalities of Norway
Raju Daniel (27 June 1950 – 17 September 2018), known by his stage name Captain Raju, was an Indian army officer and actor. He was born in Omallur, Kerala. He acted in more than 500 movies. He was best known for his performances in character roles, and as a villain. His best known roles were in Nalla Naal, Rowdy Alludu, and in Cotton Mary.

Raju died of complications from a stroke on 17 September 2018 in Kochi, Kerala at the age of 68.

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Cardiovascular disease deaths in India
Indian movie actors
Indian television actors
Indian military people
People from Kerala
Andrew R. Wheeler (born December 23, 1964) is an American lawyer, former lobbyist. He was the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 28, 2019 to January 20, 2021. He was the acting head of the agency from July 9, 2018 to February 28, 2019.

Wheeler was an aide to U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe. Wheeler is a critic of limits on greenhouse gas emissions, denies Global Warming and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In October 2017, Wheeler was nominated by President Donald Trump, renominated in January 2018 and confirmed as Deputy Administrator of the EPA in April 2018.

On July 9, 2018, Wheeler became the Acting Administrator after the resignation of Scott Pruitt. On November 16, 2018, President Trump announced he would nominate Wheeler to serve as the EPA's permanent administrator. His nomination was confirmed by the Senate on February 28, 2019.

In January 2022, Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin has announced his intention to nominate Wheeler to serve as the Virginia secretary of natural resources.

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Administrators of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Lawyers from Ohio
Politicians from Ohio
US Republican Party politicians
Lawyers from Virginia
Politicians from Virginia
Danica Roem ( ; born September 30, 1984) is an American journalist and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party. In the 2017 Virginia elections she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. 

She is the first openly transgender person to be elected to the Virginia General Assembly, and in January 2018 became the first to both be elected and serve while openly transgender in any U.S. state legislature.

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Transgender and transsexual people
LGBT politicians
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Politicians from Virginia
US Democratic Party politicians
Rashida Harbi Tlaib (born July 24, 1976) is an American politician and attorney. She is a Democratic former member of the Michigan House of Representatives. She represented the 6th District. 

Tlaib became the first Muslim American woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature, and the second Muslim woman in history to be elected to any U.S. state legislature. 

In 2018, Tlaib won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives seat from Michigan's 13th congressional district. She was unopposed in the general election and became the first Muslim woman in Congress and the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress. 

She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

According to Aktualita.co: "(S)he is the first Palestinian-born congressman in the United States legislature" 

Tlaib is a member of "The Squad" along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley. In 2020, she endorsed Bernie Sanders for President.

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United States representatives from Michigan
American Muslims
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Detroit, Michigan
US Democratic Party politicians
Stephen James "Steve" Doocy (; born October 19, 1956) is an American network-television personality. He works on Fox News and is a best selling author. He is known for being a co-host of Fox & Friends.

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1956 births
Living people
American television personalities
American novelists
American conservatives
American political commentators
Fox News people
Writers from Iowa
Ainsley Earhardt (born September 20, 1976) is an American television personality and broadcast journalist. She works for Fox News. She is the co-host of Fox & Friends and also reported for Hannity with her own segment called "Ainsley Across America".

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Other websites

 FoxNews.com bio
 Ainsley Earhard on Twitter 
 Ainsley Earhardt on Facebook
 

1976 births
Living people
American television personalities
American journalists
American television news anchors
American political commentators
Fox News people
Writers from South Carolina
People from Spartanburg, South Carolina
Peter Brian Hegseth (born June 6, 1980) is an American Fox News Channel presenter. He was in the U.S. military with deployments to Cuba and Iraq.

He was considered to be the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under the Donald Trump presidency, but major veterans' groups objected, and in January 2017, David Shulkin was selected instead.

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1980 births
Living people
American television personalities
American political commentators
Fox News people
American military people
Writers from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Politicians from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Abigail Haight Huntsman (born May 1, 1986) is an American television personality. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is currently a co-host of ABC's The View.

Huntsman was a reporter for Fox News Channel and co-host of Fox & Friends. She was a host on MSNBC. She is a daughter of former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr..

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Vanessa Marquez (December 21, 1968 – August 30, 2018) was an American actress and singer. She was known for her recurring role on the first three seasons of ER as nurse Wendy Goldman, as well as her role as Ana Delgado in the 1988 teacher drama Stand and Deliver. She was born in Los Angeles, California.

Marquez, aged 49, was shot and killed by police during an incident at her home in South Pasadena, California on August 30, 2018. Police officials found Marquez having a seizure at her home and after recovering and talking to officers for 90 minutes, Marquez aimed a BB Gun at the officers where they opened fire.

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South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 25,619, up from 24,292 at the 2000 census.

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Effingham County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 34,242. Its county seat and largest city is Effingham.
Some other cities in Effingham County, Illinois include Altamont, Teutopolis (T-Town), Beecher City, Montrose, Dieterich, Shumway, Watson, Mason, Edgewood, and Funkhouser.

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Ford County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 14,081 people lived there. The county seat is Paxton.

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Fulton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 37,069. Its county seat is Lewistown, and the largest city is Canton.

Fulton County was founded in 1823 and named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.

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Gallatin County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 5,589, making it the fifth-least populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Shawneetown. Gallatin County was founded in 1812 and named for Albert Gallatin.

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Hamilton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 8,457. Its county seat is McLeansboro. Hamilton County was founded in 1821 and named for Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary War hero and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.

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Hancock County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 19,104. Its county seat is Carthage, and largest city is Hamilton. The county is made up of rural towns with many farmers.

Hancock County was founded in 1825 and named in honor of John Hancock, who clearly signed the Declaration of Independence.

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Hardin County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 4,320, making it the least populous county in Illinois. The county seat is Elizabethtown.

Hardin County was founded in 1839 and named for Hardin County, Kentucky, which was named in honor of Colonel John Hardin, an officer in the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War.

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William Goldwyn "Bill" Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's movie Do the Right Thing and Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie trilogy. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Nunn died of leukemia at his home in Pittsburgh's Hill District on September 24, 2016, aged 62.

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Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 7,331 people lived there. The county seat is Oquawka.

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Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 78,532 people lived there. The county seat is Athens.

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Henry County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 50,486 people lived there. The county seat is Cambridge.

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Iroquois County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 29,718 people lived there. The county seat is Watseka. It is along the border with Indiana.

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Jackson County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 60,218 people lived there. The county seat is Murphysboro.

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John Richard Owens (7 January 1956 – 4 November 1980), better known as Johnny Owen, was a Welsh professional boxer. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan. He was nicknamed "The Merthyr Matchstick" (after his hometown and size) and "The Matchstick Man" (also after his size). He turned pro in 1976. He boxed as a bantamweight. He held the bantamweight championship titles in Great Britain and Europe. Before his final bout, he had a record of 25 wins (11 by knockout), one loss and one draw. Owen's only loss was against Spaniard Juan Francisco Rodríguez in 1979. He later beat Rodríguez in rematch in February 1980.

On 19 September 1980, Owen went up against Mexican Lupe Pintor at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, United States. He fought hard but was knocked out by Pintor in the 12th round, giving victory to the Mexican. Despite surgery, Owen went into a coma and never regained consciousness. He died seven weeks later on 4 November 1980, at the age of 24.

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Lake Lugano  is a Swiss-Italian lake.

It is at the border between Switzerland and Italy. About 2/3 of the lake is in Switzerland, and 1/3 in Italy. The lake, named after the city of Lugano, is between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como.

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Jasper County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 9,698 people lived there. The county seat is Newton.

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Paul Virilio (; 4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He was best known for his writings about technology and movie culture. He was born in Paris. He was best known for his book War and Cinema (1989).

Virilio died of a heart attack on 10 September 2018 in Paris, aged 88.

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 Paul Virilio. Faculty page at European Graduate School. Biography, bibliography, photos and video lectures.
 Paul Virilio. 'Red Alert in Cyberspace' in Radical Philosophy. November/December 1995
 Paul Virilio and Louise Wilson. "Cyberwar, God and Television".  Interview. In: ctheory. December 1, 1994.
 Paul Virilio and Jérôme Sans. "Game Of Love & Chance". Discussion. In: virtually2k. 1995.

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Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein. 

Woodward and Bernstein were reporters for The Washington Post, and Deep Throat gave key details about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal. 

In 2005, 31 years after Nixon's resignation and 11 years after Nixon's death, a family attorney stated that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Associate Director Mark Felt was Deep Throat. By then, Felt was suffering from dementia and had denied being Deep Throat, but Woodward and Bernstein then confirmed the attorney's claim.

Hal Holbrook played Deep Throat in the 1976 political thriller All the President's Men.

Other websites
 Ann Coulter (June 8, 2005), "Woodward does Washington".
 "In the Prelude to Publication, Intrigue Worthy of Deep Throat", a June 2, 2005 article from The New York Times
 Special Reports page on Deep Throat from The Washington Post
 Former FBI agent says 3 FBI officials helped W. Mark Felt leak information about Watergate probe to the press, a June 5, 2005 article from the Albany Times-Union

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Gery J. Chico ( ; born August 24, 1956) is an American lawyer and politician.

Chico is a former Democratic primary candidate for United States Senate and former candidate for Mayor of Chicago. 

Chico was the Chief of Staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley from 1992 to 1995, and board president of the Chicago Public Schools from 1995 to 2001. From 2007 to 2010, he was board president of the Chicago Park District, and in 2010 he was board president of the City Colleges of Chicago.

On June 7, 2011, Chico was named Chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn.

In September 2018, Chico announced his candidacy for mayor again for the 2019 election. He lost in the first round of the election in February 2019.

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 Gery Chico for Mayor

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Marceline Loridan-Ivens (19 March 1928 – 18 September 2018) was a French writer and movie director. She was married to Joris Ivens. Her memoir But You Did Not Come Back details her time in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was born in Épinal, France.

Loridan-Ivens died on 18 September 2018 in Paris at the age of 90.

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Jean Piat (23 September 1924 – 18 September 2018) was a French actor and writer. He was born in Lannoy, Nord, France. Piat was known for his roles in many French classic movies in the 1940s to 1960s such as The Lame Devil, The Milky Way, Rider on the Rain. He retired in 2017.

Piat died on 18 September 2018 in Paris from a short-illness at the age of 93.

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was a Japanese mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

Yamamoto competed in the bantamweight division of the UFC. He became popular in the Shooto organization due to his aggressive persona. He moved on to K-1 Hero's, where he became the K-1 Hero's 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Champion in December 2005. 

On September 18, 2018, Yamamoto died of stomach cancer in Guam; he was 41 years old.

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Southbury is a town in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. Southbury is north of Oxford and Newtown and east of Brookfield. 

Its population was 19,904 at the 2010 census.

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Oxford is a residential town located in western New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 12,683 at the 2010 Census.

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Relevance is the idea that one topic may be useful to another topic: so consider the second topic when considering the first. 

The concept of relevance is studied in many fields, including cognitive sciences, logic, and information science. It is studied in epistemology (the theory of knowledge).

Definition
"Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it makes it more likely that the goal (G) can be reached. Similarly, understanding one concept often means understanding other concepts beforehand. This is the main reason why educators work from a syllabus which guides the order in which topics should be taught.

Epistemology 
If schizophrenia is caused by bad communication between mother and child, then family interaction studies become relevant. If it is inherited genetically, then the study of family trees becomes relevant. If you are an empiricist, then only carefully designed observations are relevant. If you are a feminist, then the sex of the observer becomes relevant.

Epistemology is not just one domain among others. Epistemological views are always at play in any domain. Those views determine or influence what is regarded relevant.

Relevance logic
Relevance is argued to depend upon the "remoteness relationship" between an actual world in which relevance is being evaluated and the set of possible worlds within which it is true.

Politics 
During the 1960s, relevance became a fashionable buzzword, meaning roughly 'relevance to social concerns', such as racial equality, poverty, social justice, world hunger, world economic development, and so on. The implication was that some subjects, e.g., the study of medieval poetry and the practice of corporate law, were not worthwhile because they did not address pressing social issues.

The contrary view is that the social world is not our only concern. We can be (and are) concerned also about many other things. Also, real-world problems are problems because there is no obvious way to solve them. Increases in crop production in the 20th century were all fuelled by developments in basic science, not by social movements.

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Further reading 
 Gorayska B. & R. O. Lindsay (1993). The Roots of Relevance. Journal of Pragmatics 19, 301–323. Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press.
 Hjørland, Birger (2010). The foundation of the concept of relevance. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61(2), 217-237.
 Lindsay, R. & Gorayska, B. (2002) Relevance, Goals and Cognitive Technology. International Journal of Cognitive Technology, 1, (2), 187–232
 Sperber, D. & D. Wilson (1986/1995) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell.
 Sperber, D. & D. Wilson (1987). Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Behavioral and Brain Science, 10, 697–754.
 Sperber, D. & D. Wilson (2004). Relevance Theory. In Horn, L.R. & Ward, G. (eds.) 2004 The Handbook of Pragmatics. Oxford: Blackwell, 607-632. http://www.dan.sperber.fr/?p=93

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Jeffrey William Titford (born 24 October 1933, West Mersea, Essex) is a British politician. He served as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2000 until 2002. He served again as a temporary leader in September to November 2010. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2009.

Before becoming a politician he was a businessman. He was president of the National Association of Funeral Directors.

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Jefferson County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, the population was 38,827. The county seat is Mount Vernon.

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Jersey County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 22,985 people lived there. The county seat is Jerseyville.

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Jo Daviess County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. In the 2010 census, 22,678 people lived there. The county seat is Galena.

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