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David Ian "Joe" Jackson  (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Jackson's first and second releases, "Sunday Papers" and "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" became a hit in 1979. This was followed by many new wave singles before he started creating more jazz type pop music. He had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with "Steppin' Out". He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 19 studio albums and earned 5 Grammy Award nominations in a career extending from 1978 to today.

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Thomas "Tommy" Gemmell (16 October 1943 – 2 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager. 

He served as a left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. 

Gemmell is best known as one of the Celtic side who won the 1966–67 European Cup; he scored the first Celtic goal in the final. Gemmell played 18 times for Scotland, and also played for Nottingham Forest, Miami Toros and Dundee.  After retiring as a player in 1977, Gemmell managed Dundee and Albion Rovers.

Gemmell died on 2 March 2017, aged 73, after a long illness.

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 Newcastle Fans profile

1943 births
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Joseph Vũ Duy Thống (July 2, 1952 – March 1, 2017) was a Vietnamese prelate, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phan Thiet from July 2009 to his death and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on Cultural Affairs. He was Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city from 2001 to 2009.

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Pau Donés Cirera (11 October 1966 – 9 June 2020) was a Catalan songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of the musical group Jarabe de Palo.

Biography

Early years 
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Donés grew up in Barcelona. He got his first guitar when he was 12 years old.

Along with his brother Marc, they set up their first group: J. & Co. Band, and afterwards Dentaduras Postizas. For a while, he combined locals concerts in Barcelona with his job for an advertising agency.

In 1996 he formed Jarabe de Palo, being La Flaca his first album.

Health 
On 1 September 2015 he had to cancel all his concerts after having an operation for colorectal cancer. On 5 April 2016 he announced via Twitter that he had recovered from his illness. However, he had a relapse a year later. He announced in October 2018 that he was to leave the music world indefinitely from January 2019. A year later, in April 2020, it was reported that Jarabe de Palo was recording a new album, Tragas o escupes, to be launched in September. However, its launch was moved forward to May 2020. He died from the disease on 9 June 2020, aged 53.

Discography 
 1996 - La flaca
 1998 - Depende
 2001 - De vuelta y vuelta
 2003 - Bonito
 2004 - 1 m²
 2007 - Adelantando
 2009 - Orquesta reciclando
 2011 - ¿Y ahora qué hacemos?
 2014 - Somos
 2015 - Tour Americano 14-15 (CD/DVD)
2017 - 50 palos (10-03-2017)
2020 - Tragas o escupes

Compiling 
 2003 - ¿Grandes éxitos?
 2004 - Colección "Grandes"
 2005 - Completo, incompleto
 2006 - Edición 10º aniversario "La Flaca"

References

Other websites

 Jarabe de Palo's official website

1966 births
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Spanish singers
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The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known as CP Rail (CP) is a railway in North America with track in both Canada and the United States. It was built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885. Although it used to go all the way to Atlantic Canada, it does not do so anymore.

When British Columbia became part of Canada in 1871, one of the promises the federal government made was to link it to the rest of Canada by rail. Most of the trains that use the CPR carry freight, and the CPR used to run passenger train services until they were taken over by Via Rail in 1978. For many years, until the airplane was invented, the railway was the only way to move people across the country. Because of this, it had a big role in the settlement and development of Western Canada.

The company that owns the CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, was once one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada. It owns about  of track from Montreal in the east to Vancouver in the west and Edmonton to the north. CP also has track in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States. 

The logo of the CPR company is a beaver, the national symbol of Canada, and it has its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and its U.S. operations are in Minneapolis. It trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP.

References

Further reading

 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Premier's Funeral (11 June 1891). The Woodstock Evening Sentinel Review, p. 1.

Other websites

 Canadian Pacific Railway official website
 Canadian Railway history and stories
 CPR, from Sea to Sea: The Scottish Connection — Historical essay, illustrated with photographs from the CPR Archives and the McCord Museum's Notman Photographic Archives
 
 The Canadian Pacific Railway inception - A rich digital set of unique artifacts, archival and graphic material from the UBC Library Digital Collections
 The Early Chinese Canadians: Working in B.C.: Gold, Railway, Mining, and Salmon
 Royal Canadian Pacific
 , illustrated account of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Rail transport in Canada
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition. It is played by the men's national teams of the members of FIFA, the sport's global body of the sport. 

The tournament was created in 1995 as the Beach Soccer World Championship. It took place every year for the next decade controlled by Beach Soccer Worldwide. Because the sport was increasing rapidly in popularity and growth, FIFA was interested in controlling the tournament,  they took over and also changed the name to make it a official FIFA tournament. Since 2009, the tournament has taken place every two years.

The most recent edition was held in Espinho, Portugal. Portugal were crowned as  champions for the second time, the first under being controlled by FIFA, after defeating Tahiti 5–3 in the final.

Football
Arash Sadeghi (Farsi: آرش صادقی) is an Iranian activist and political prisoner. He stated a hunger strike on October 24, 2016 after his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee went to prison for an unpublished story on her computer about a woman watching a movie about a stoning. the government promised to let her out of prison until her case was reviewed, but after Sadeghi ended his hunger strike, they took her back to prison.

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Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was an American broadcaster. He was born in Houghton, Michigan. He was the co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report, a role he held since 1979 through December 31, 2009. He is best known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes").

Kangas died on February 28, 2017 in Miami, Florida from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.

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Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer, and Democratic politician. He is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He became a senator when Ken Salazar was appointed Secretary of the Interior.

Bennet worked as managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver mayor (and former Colorado Governor) John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

On April 3, 2019, Bennet announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had surgery and was later announced cancer-free. A month later on May 2, Bennet launched his 2020 presidential campaign. He ended his campaign on February 11, 2020 after a poor performance in the New Hampshire primaries.

References

Other websites
 Senator Michael F. Bennet official U.S. Senate site
 Michael Bennet for Senator
 
 

 Collected news and commentary at The Denver Post

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Robert Allen "Bob" Iger (; born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020.

Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996.

He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in the year 2015.

On February 25, 2020, Iger announced his retirement as the CEO of Disney.

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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author and educator. She was one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. 

She was born into enslavement. Her mother was Hannah Stanley Haywood, a slave in the home of prominent landowner George Washington Haywood.

Early life 
Anna was born in 1859, right into slavery. She had 2 brothers, Rufus and Andrew. As well as a grandfather. Her grandfather was a carpenter that was sent to the Capital of North Carolina. After the slaves were free Anna’s brothers became good carpenters. Anna was freed at the age of 6. She then went to school.

Education 
Anna went to school and an all-black school called St. Augustine, by the age of ten she was teaching math. She stayed there for 14 years as a student and a teacher of Latin, Greek, and Math. But before, Anna had to beg them to let her in the gentlemen, because she thought that it was unfair that due to her gender Anna was limited with the Classical classes. Thankfully she did not give up and was able to “sit in” on the male greek classes. Anna felt frustrated that she had to fight to get this opportunity, she wanted students to be offered Greek no matter the gender. She kept fighting to make it equal, eventually, the school provided Greek classes for male and female students. After going to St. Augustine she went to the college Oberlin in Ohio, but she had to to the women courses which were really trying to build their domestic skills. The classes for women did not require taking Latin, Greek or even advanced mathematics. Anna asked to be in the gentlemen’s course, and of course she excelled at  full classical education at Oberlin. Anna.J.Cooper got her bachelors degree in Math in 1884.

Career
In 1887 she became part of the M Street High school faculty, she taught mathematics, science, and later latin. 

In the 1890’s Anna was involved in the black women's club, were she and some middle class black women would help the less fortunate black women. Also in that time Anna was becoming a very popular public speaker. She also addressed a wide variety of group, which included the National Conference of Colored Women, this was in 1895. She was also there at the first Pan African Conference in 1900. In 1902 She was the principal of M Street High School. When Anna was Principle she enhanced the academic reputation, plus lots of her graduates entered Ivy leagued schools. The District of Columbia did not renew her contract for working there, but Anna was not scared. After she continued her career by teaching in Lincoln University for four years. In 1910 Anna was rehired by M Street High School. By the age of 67 Anna received her doctorate from Paris.

Death
Cooper died at the age 105 in 1964. Anna. J. Cooper was a fighter for what is right and hopefully her legacy reigns on.

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Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog". 

These frogs are quite common, and researchers think this has been overlooked because of their their small size. They are indeed extremely small, and can sit on a coin or a fingernail. However, they are not so small as Paedophryne, which is the smallest land vertebrate.

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Yesh Atid, Hebrew: יש עתיד , meaning There is a Future, is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is centrist social liberal, secular, and Zionist.

Political leader is Yair Lapid.

Yesh Atid was founded in 2012.

Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 17 (+4).

Participating in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

Other websites 
 

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The World Tamil Badminton Federation (WTBF) (Tamil: அகில உலக தமிழர் பூப்பந்தாட்ட பேரவை) is the international governing body of Badminton for the world Tamils. It conducts the annual international competition. The first ever tournament was held on 2013 in Switzerland.

Tournament Winners

Men's Singles Open

Ladies Single Open

Men's Doubles Open

Ladies Double Open

Victories by nationality (First Place, All Time)

Related pages
 Tamil Eelam national football team

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Qantas Flight 32 was a passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore operated by an Airbus A380. On November 4, 2010 the plane suffered an engine failure over Indonesia, but the plane made an emergency landing at Singapore Changi Airport with no loss of life to the 469 people onboard.

2010 aviation disasters
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Ayer is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Villages in Valais
Former municipalities of Valais
Stephen Peter Kearney  (born 11 June 1972) is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach and former player. He was the head coach of the National Rugby League (NRL) New Zealand Warriors from 2017 to 2020. He has also been head coach of the New Zealand national team and the Parramatta Eels. He also played for the Warriors and Melbourne Storm in the 1990s and 2000s.

Kearney was born in Paraparaumu, North Island. He is Māori.

References

Other websites
 Stephen Kearney at Rugby League Project

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Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English former footballer. He is best known for playing for Liverpool between 1974 and 1985. He won eight First Divisions, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, four European Cups, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup with Liverpool. He also played for Northampton Town and Bolton Wanderers. He later managed Bolton, Coventry City, Cardiff City and Manchester City.

Neal was born in Irchester, Northamptonshire. He has two children, including a son, Ashley (born 1974), also a footballer.

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 Phil Neal at LiverpoolFC.com

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Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson  (22 January 1945 – 1 December 2011) was an Australian rugby league player and coach. He played between the 1960s and 1981. He was known for playing for Easts and captaining Australia. He also played for Queensland and the Parramatta Eels. He was the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport.

Beetson was born in Roma, Queensland. His mother was a member of the Stolen Generation.

Beetson died from a heart attack on 1 December 2011 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He was 66.

References

Other websites
 Arthur Beetson at the Rugby League Project

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Elisabeth Lichtenberger (17 February 1925 – 14 February 2017) was an Austrian geographer. She taught at the University of Vienna. She was born in Vienna. She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1999.

Lichtenberger died on 14 February 2017 in Vienna, aged 91.

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Howard Anthony Schmidt (October 5, 1949 – March 2, 2017) was an American cyber security expert and partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity.

He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month.

Schmidt died in Muskego, Wisconsin on March 2, 2017 from brain cancer, aged 67.

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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She was born in New York City.

She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.

Fox died at age 93 at a hospital in Brooklyn from congestive heart failure on March 1, 2017.

References

Other websites
 Interview by Ramona Koval for The Book Show on ABC Radio National (July 29, 2004).
 Interview with short biography by Jesse Lichtenstein for Loggernaut (no date)
 The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox by Greg Gerke (January 24, 2010)

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Míriam Colón (born Míriam Colón Valle; August 20, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. She was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Colón was known for her roles as Georgina Montana in Scarface (1983), Maria in Gloria (1999), and as Mercedes in Goal! (2005).

Colón died on March 3, 2017 from complications of a lung infection in New York City, aged 80.

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 Miriam Colón bio  at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
 The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 
Miriam Colon's Interview on NBC Latino 

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Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961.

Mengelberg died in Amsterdam on 3 March 2017, aged 81.

Solo albums
 1979: Pech Onderweg (BV Haast)
 1982: Musica Per 17 Instrumenti / 3 Intermezzi /Omtrent Een Componistenactie Composer's Voice
 1994: Impromptus (FMP)
 1997: Misha Mengelberg (I Dischi Di Angelica)
 1997: The Root Of The Problem (hatOLOGY)
 1999: Two Days In Chicago (hatOLOGY)
 2000: Solo (Buzz)
 2005: Senne Sing Song (Tzadik)

References

Other websites

1996 Mengelberg interview conducted by Dan Warburton
Discography from the European Free Improvisation Pages 
ICP Orchestra Homepage
FMP releases

1935 births
2017 deaths
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21st-century Dutch composers
Jazz pianists
Musicians from Kiev
Chalais is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Chalais 

Municipalities of Valais
Chandolin is a village in the  municipality of Anniviers in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Until 2009 it was a municipality.

History
On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Chandolin, Ayer, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Culture
It has at least one museum: the Ella Maillart Museum previously was the home of travel writer Ella Maillart (en:).

Other websites

 Official website 

Villages in Valais
Former municipalities of Valais
Pierre Guénin (19 February 1927 – 1 March 2017) was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He was the founder of LGBT movie awards in France. He was the founder of the Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists. He was a journalist for Cinémonde.

Guénin was born in Étampes, France on 19 February 1927. 

Guénin founded Editions S.A.N., a publisher of LGBT magazines, in 1967. He was the founding editor of Eden and Olympe, whose writings were forbidden under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1978.

Guénin died on 1 March 2017 from complications from pneumonia in Paris at the age of 90.

List of books

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Fitzroy Edwards (17 November 1955 – 4 March 2017), better known by his stage name Edi Fitzroy, was a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter. His career began in 1975 but best known for his work in the dancehall era. He was known for his songs "Miss Molly Colly" and "Deep in Mi Culture". He has been a regular performer at annual Peter Tosh memorial concerts in Jamaica.

Personal life
Fitzroy was born in Chapelton, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. He studied at Chapelton All-Age and Clarendon College. Fitzroy was a Rastafarian, stating that he has been "from birth".

Fitzroy died on 4 March 2017 at a hospital in May Pen, Claredon Parish, Jamaica, aged 62.

Songs
Youthman Penitentiary (1982), Alligator
Check For You Once (1982), Musical Ambassador
Coming Up Strong (1984), Musical Ambassador
Eclipse (1987), RAS
Pollution (1990), VP
Deep in Mi Culture (1993), Henry K
We a Lion (2000)
Hold the Vibes (2006), King Step
Compilations
First Class Citizen (2001), Musical Ambassador
The Best Of Edi Fitzroy Featuring Sly and Robbie and The Roots Radics (2010), Musical Ambassador

References

Other websites
Edi Fitzroy on Myspace

1955 births
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Jamaican singers
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Reggae musicians
John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is a British-born American diplomat of Greek descent.  He served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State, and the first ever Director of National Intelligence.

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John Michael "Mike" McConnell (born July 26, 1943) is a former vice admiral in the United States Navy. 

During his naval career he served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996. His civilian career includes serving as the United States Director of National Intelligence from 20 February 2007 to 27 January 2009 during the Bush administration and seven days of the Obama administration.

McConnell was born and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral. He was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region. 

Blair was a career officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the White House during the presidencies of  both President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan. Blair retired from the Navy in 2002 as an Admiral. In 2009, Blair was selected as President Barack Obama’s first Director of National Intelligence, but after a series of bureaucratic battles, he resigned on May 20, 2010.

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Gerald Michael Charlebois (born April 17, 1929), better known as Michael Forest, is an American actor and pilot. He played the voice of Prince Olympius in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue. 

In his earlier years, Michael was a movie and television actor, notably playing the part of Apollo in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" and most recently reprised this role in the Star Trek Continues episode "Pilgrim of Eternity" 47 years later.

Personal life
Forest was born in Harvey, North Dakota. He moved with his family at a very early age to Seattle, Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in English and drama from San Jose State University. He is married to Diana Hale.

References

Other websites

 
 
 
 Michael Forest at the English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database

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The National High School of Chemical and Technological Engineers (French: École nationale supérieure des ingénieurs en arts chimiques et technologiques) is a renowned graduate engineering school in France. It is in a campus of the University of Toulouse.

Its different curricula lead to the following French & European degrees :
 Ingénieur ENSIACET (ENSIACET Graduate engineer Masters level program)
 Master of Science
 Mastères Spécialisés 
 Massive Online Open Course

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at ENSIACET.

Most of the 1000 graduate engineer students at ENSIACET live in dedicated residential buildings nearby research labs and metro public transports on a campus that is shared with students from University of Toulouse.

Research labs 
Research activities at ENSIACET relate to the following topics:
 Engineering of materials
 Agro-industrial chemistry
 Coordination chemistry
 Chemical Engineering

References

Further reading 

 Official website

Technical colleges and universities in Toulouse
1906 establishments in France
A collect call, also called a "reverse charge call", is a type of telephone call. Usually, when a telephone call is made, the person who makes the call pays for the call, rather than the person who receives the call at the other end. In a collect call, though, the person making the call wants the person they are calling to pay for the call instead.

In the past, these kinds of calls could only be done with a operator, who would need to ask the person receiving the call if they want to be charged for it. If the person receiving it does not want to be charged, the call cannot go through. Today, computers have made it possible to make or receive collect calls without talking to a person.

Collect calls used to be made a lot using payphones, but they are becoming less used since mobile phones and VoIP technology has come around and made long-distance calls cheaper to make.

It has been found out that the day of the year in which the most collect calls are made is Father's Day, even though the day when the most phone calls are made altogether is Mother's Day.

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Telephone
Jay Lynch (January 7, 1945 – March 5, 2017) was an American cartoonist. He was known for his key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. He was best known for his comic strip Nard n' Pat. His work is sometimes signed Jayzey Lynch. Lynch was the main writer for Bazooka Joe comics from 1967 to 1990; he has contributed to Mad, and in the 2000s has expanded into the children's book field.

Lynch was born in Orange, New Jersey. He died on March 5, 2017 in Candor, New York from complications of lung cancer, aged 72.

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Louis Wade Sullivan (born November 3, 1933) is an American health policy leader, minority health advocate, author, physician, and educator. He served as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during President George H. W. Bush‘s Administration from 1989 through 1993 and was Founding Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine.

Other websites

 Official Website for Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
 Official Website for The Sullivan Alliance
 Excerpt from Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions
 

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Herbert H. "Herb" Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is an American businessman and politician. He is a former United States Senator from Wisconsin serving from January 3, 1989, through January 3, 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Kohl is also a philanthropist and the former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. He did not seek reelection in 2012 and his term ended on January 3, 2013. He was succeeded by fellow Democrat Tammy Baldwin.

References

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 Herb Kohl Educational Foundation

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Tommy George Thompson (born November 19, 1941) is an American Republican politician. He was a state legislator in Wisconsin, and 42nd Governor of Wisconsin from 1987 to 2001.

Thompson is the longest serving governor in the state's history. During his term as governor he was the chairman of Amtrak, the nation's passenger rail service.  He served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001 through 2005, appointed by George W. Bush. 

After his time in the Bush Administration, Thompson was a partner with the law-firm Akin Gump and Chairman of Deloitte's global healthcare practice and has served on the board of 22 other organizations.

Thompson was a candidate for the U.S. Presidential election in 2008, though he withdrew from the race before the primaries. 

In 2012, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat in Wisconsin, hoping to replace retiring Democrat Herb Kohl, but was defeated by Tammy Baldwin, making it his first statewide loss.

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Michael Okerlund "Mike" Leavitt (born February 11, 1951) is an American Republican politician. He served as the 14th Governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003, as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2005 to 2009.

Leavitt serves as a co-leader of the Prevention Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

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Thomas Joseph "Tom" Ridge (born August 26, 1945) is an American politician.

Ridge served as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003, and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. 

Ridge was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and the 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party.

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Michael Chertoff (born November 28, 1953) is an American attorney. He was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act. He served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U.S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15, 2005.

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John Albert "Jack" Riley Jr. (December 30, 1935 – August 19, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for playing Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show, and for voicing Stu Pickles in the Rugrats franchise. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Riley died in Los Angeles, California on August 19, 2016 from pneumonia, aged 80.

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Tonawanda (officially known as the  City of Tonawanda) is a small city in New York, USA.  It is located in Erie County, near Buffalo, New York.

Tonawanda borders the Niagara River and the Erie Canal.

Cities in New York
Taygetus is a mountain range in Peloponnese peninsula of Southern Greece. The highest mountain of this range is known as the "Profitis Elias" or the "Prophet Elias".

Geography of Greece
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Michael McFoster Ryan (March 19, 1929 – March 1, 2017) was an American actor. Ryan was best known for his long-running role as John Randolph on the serial Another World (1964-1979). He was also known for his movie roles in Tootsie and Slayground''.

Ryan died on March 1, 2017 under hospice care in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 87.

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Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian geneticist, politician and international administrator. From 2007 to 2013, he was a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Career
He was known for his Deebak role in India's Green Revolution a program under which high-yield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers. Swaminathan is also known as "Indian Father of Green Revolution" for his leadership and success in creating and further developing varieties of wheat in India. He is the founder and chairman of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation.

From 1972 to 1979 he was director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture from 1979 to 1980. He served as Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (1982–88) and became president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1988.

Honors
In 1999, Time magazine placed him in the 'Time 20' list of most influential Asian people of the 20th century.

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Islamic banking may solve farmer suicide crisis: Swaminathan – TCN News
 Listen:(8:46) to Dr. M. S. Swaminathan speaking at U. N. World Summit on Sustainable Development, p.83 27 August 2002
Prof MS Swaminathan's Inspiring Talk on Biotechnology and Food Security at BITS Pilani Rajasthan
Green Revolution Champion Prof MS Swaminathan at BITS Pilani

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Arthur Bruce McDonald (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute. He holds the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. 

McDonald was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.

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 Arthur B. McDonald and Oscillating Neutrinos
 Arthur B. McDonald Quotes With Pictures 

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Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA (born  July 14, 1938) is an Israeli-Canadian architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. He is known for designing the Habitat 67, which paved the way for his international career. He won the Wolf Prize in 2019.

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 The Safdie Hypermedia Archive-- McGill Univ. 
 Safdie Architects
 Historic Places in Canada
 CBC Digital archives-- "Moshe Safdie: Hero of Habitat"
 Moshe Safdie at the TED (conference), 2002
 Fallout  Zvi Elhyani, Maayan Magazine, 2005
 Power People: Moshe Safdie  Zvi Elhyani, Volume, 2005
 Salt Lake City Library on ARCHUtah 
 Interview on Charlie Rose August 23, 2011 
 Kauffmann Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, MO 
 http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-architecture-of-moshe-safdie-a-man-of-the-world/

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The British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is an academic society. Members are professional applied linguists, language teachers, and other people interested in these topics. BAAL is in the United Kingdom. BAAL has more than 800 members. They meet at different places in the UK. The association publishes conference proceedings and a regular newsletter. It also gives scholarships to students. Tess Fitzpatrick, Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, is the chair from 2015-2018.

BAAL's Annual Meeting happens every September in the UK. BAAL is part of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (International Association of Applied Linguistics, AILA). In the UK, it is a registered charity. BAAL meetings usually have a theme.The theme of the 40th conference at the University of Edinburgh was 'Technology, Ideology and Practice in Applied Linguistics'.

History
The association started in the 1960s. At that time, more people were becoming interested in the new science of modern linguistics and they were especially interested in practical results. One important area of applied linguistics is language teaching and learning. Also at this time, the European Union was becoming more important, so people in Europe needed better language teaching.

Peter Strevens, the Chair in Applied Linguistics at the University of Essex first had the idea to start BAAL. At a meeting at Birkbeck College in July 1965, the original idea for BAAL was to study mainly language teaching and machine translation. However, at the first full meeting in 1967 in Reading, Berkshire the group decided to study many different topics. BAAL became the UK member of AILA, and Pit Corder was its first Chair. At first, membership was only for academics because BAAL wanted people to think it was a group of experts, not a teachers' meeting. However, by the early 1970s it became easier to join BAAL. Since 1985, anyone can join. There are no requirements to become a member. In 1980, the Association began to publish a journal called, Applied Linguistics.

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British Association for Applied Linguistics (1997) Notes on the History of the British Association for Applied Linguistics 1967-1997.
Trim J (1988) Applied Linguistics in Society. In Grunwell P (ed.) Applied Linguistics in Society: British Studies in Applied Linguistics 3. London: Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research. .

Other websites
British Association for Applied Linguistics - official site
Applied Linguistics - journal published by Oxford University Press, in collaboration with BAAL, the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the International Association for Applied Linguistics

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Applied linguistics
Language acquisition
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Kulanu, Hebrew: כולנו , meaning All of Us, was an Israeli political party.

Overview 
Its ideology was centrist social liberal, and Zionist. It was interested mainly with economic matters. Its political leaders were Yifat Shasha-Biton and then Moshe Kahlon.

Kulanu was founded as a branch of Likud in 2014 and rejoined Likud in July 2019. It participated in the Fourth Netanyahu Government with 10 seats, and since April 2019 with 4 seats.

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Henri Pirenne (December 23, 1862 in Verviers – October 25, 1935 in Uccle) was a Belgian historian and academic. Pirenne is considered as one of the most important historians of Belgium.

Biography 
He studied at the University of Liège and was a professor at the University of Ghent. His focus was on Medieval history, the history of Belgium and economic history.

He developed the so-called Pirenne thesis (nowadays out of date) in his book Mohammed and Charlemagne (published after his death in 1937). According to this opinion Mediterranean economics were disturbed by the early Islamic conquests and not by the barbarian invasions some centuries before.

Pirenne resisted the Dutchification of the University of Ghent. When this university had completely become Dutch-language spoken in 1930, he moved to the Brussels region where died in 1935, aged 72.

Works 
 Histoire de Belgique (7 volumes) (1899-1932)
 The Formation and Constitution of the Burgundian State (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries), The American Historical Review (1909)
 Belgian Democracy, Its Early History (1910, 1915)
 The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism, The American Historical Review (1914)
 Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade (1927)
 A History of Europe (1936)
 Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe (1936)
 Mohammed and Charlemagne (1937)

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Alberto Zedda (2 January 1928 – 6 March 2017) was an Italian conductor and musicologist. He was known for his work relating to the 19th-century Italian repertoire. He was born in Milan.

Zedda studied the works of Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, and most notably Gioachino Rossini. He was known for his research on vocal ornamentation and his aim at authentic performing style.

Zedda died on 6 March 2017 in Pesaro, Italy, aged 89.

More readings
 Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, Le guide de l'opéra, Fayard, 1986.

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Clara Hughes, OC OM MSC  was born on September 27, 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won more than one Olympic medals in both events. She won two bronze medals in the 1996 Summer Olympics and four medals (one gold, one silver, two bronze) over the course of three Winter Olympics. She is known as a Canadian with the most Olympic medals.

Hughes is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. Hughes is the only person ever to have won multiple medals in the winter and summer Olympics. Hughes is also the only Canadian to have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. Hughes was the first Canadian woman to win a medal in road cycling at the Olympics, winning two in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Hughes was named to both the Order of Manitoba and as an Officer of the Order of Canada because of her work in sports and for the help she had given to others. She works with Right to Play, a sports program that helps youth all over the world. After winning her gold medal in 2006, she donated $10,000 to Right to Play.

Throughout her career, Hughes received many other awards and trophies. She was named Female Athlete of the Year by Speed Skating Canada in 2004 for the long track. In 2006 she received a Sport and Community Trophy. She was then named to the 2006 List of Most Influential Women in Sport and Physical Activity. In the summer of the year 2010, she would receive a star on the Canada's Walk of Fame and on November 15, 2010, she was put into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

She works for the Bell Let's Talk Mental Health program, including Bell Let's Talk Day. Hughes uses her past problems with depression to help others. "Hughes battled deep depression, which [almost ruined] her life, after winning two bronze medals in cycling at the 1996 Olympics." Since 2013, Hughes has started yearly bike rides across Canada to talk about mental health. In 2015, the CTV-produced documentary Clara's Big Ride premiered on the fifth annual Bell Let's Talk Day. Her memoir, Open Heart, Open Mind, was published in 2015.

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Anthony Charles "Tony" Beilenson (October 26, 1932 – March 5, 2017) was an American Democratic Congressman from Southern California. He served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1997.

Beilenson was born in New Rochelle, New York. He studied at Harvard University. He was Jewish. Beilenson died on March 5, 2017 in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack, aged 84.

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Lois Ragnhild Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938) was the U.S. Representative for , serving in Congress from 1998 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Capps served on the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where she was a member of the Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Health. She was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.

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