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Robert Charles Sproul ( ; February 13, 1939 – December 14, 2017) was an American apologist, author, and pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries.

Sproul was heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally.  Renewing Your Mind with Dr. R. C. Sproul was also broadcast on Sirius and XM satellite radio.

In late July 2012, a new Christian internet radio station called RefNet (Reformation Network) was also announced by Ligonier Ministries in an effort to reach "as many people as possible" where Internet access is available.

Sproul died at a hospital in Altamonte Springs, Florida on December 14, 2017 of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 78.

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In American politics, a Conservative Democrat is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party who has conservative views.

The term "Democrat in Name Only" is sometimes used by Democrats on the left to refer to conservative Democrats.

In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic Party ran moderate Democrats and a few conservative Democrats for at-risk Republican seats.

References

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Kyle Mark Takai (July 1, 1967 – July 20, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 1st district from January 3, 2015 until his death. He was also a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1994 to 2014. He became a lieutenant colonel in the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2013.

Takai was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was of Japanese ancestry. He was married to Sami and had two children.

Takai was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October 2015. He died on July 20, 2016 in Aiea, Hawaii. He was 49.

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1967 births
2016 deaths
Cancer deaths in the United States
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
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Politicians from Honolulu
United States representatives from Hawaii
William Alex "Bill" Hudson (July 9, 1935 – December 13, 2017) was an American football player. He played as a defensive tackle. He played professionally in the American Football League for the San Diego Chargers and the Boston Patriots. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes. He was a member of the South Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. He was born in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Hudson died on December 13, 2017 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was 82.

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American football defensive tackles
San Diego Chargers players
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Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie (born 28 October 1978) is a British actress and model. She is known for playing Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones and Captain Phasma in the Star Wars movies The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017).

Christie was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England. She has been dating fashion design Giles Deacon since 2013.

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1978 births
Living people
English models
English movie actors
English stage actors
English television actors
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Byron Dorgan (born May 14, 1942) is a former United States Senator and United States Congressman. He was a congressman for twelve years and a U.S. Senator for eighteen.

Dorgan was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for sixteen years. He was first an Assistant Democratic Floor Leader. He was later a Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. Then, he was Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs.

In 2010, Dorgan said he wasn't seeking re-election in the 2010 North Dakota Senate election.

Dorgan later worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm Arent Fox LLP. He was a senior policy advisor there.

Furthermore, Dorgan is a New York Times writer of four books: two on economic and political issues, two as eco-thrillers.

Dorgan was born in Dickinson, North Dakota.

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US Democratic Party politicians
United States senators from North Dakota
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1942 births
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Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author and television talk show host. He won an Emmy Award for writing in 1978.

Grodin is best known for his appearances on The Tonight Show and The Late Show. Grodin's movie roles include Catch-22 (1970), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Midnight Run and The Couch Trip (both 1988), Beethoven (1992) and Dave and Heart and Souls (both 1993).

Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He had a daughter with his first wife, Julie Ferguson. He married Elissa Durwood in 1983. They had a son.

Grodin died of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, on May 18, 2021. He was 86.

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1935 births
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Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Jewish American actors
Jewish American writers
Jewish American comedians
Writers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Emmy Award winners
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is an American multinational financial services corporation specializing in retail brokerage. It is the wealth & asset management division of Morgan Stanley.

In the late 1980s the retail brokerage firm Smith Barney was owned by Primerica Financial Services. Commercial Credit purchased Primerica in 1988, for $1.5 billion. In 1992, they paid $722 million to buy a 27 percent share of Travelers Insurance. By the end of 1993, the merged company was known as Travelers Group Inc. In September 1997, Travelers acquired Salomon Inc. (parent company of Salomon Brothers Inc.), for over $9 billion in stock, and merged it with its own investment arm to create Salomon Smith Barney.

In April 1998 Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake a $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, creating the largest single financial services company in the world.

On January 13, 2009, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup announced that Citigroup would sell 51% of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management. The combined brokerage house has 17,649 financial advisors and manages $2 trillion in client assets.

References

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Morgan Stanley Wealth Management website
Smith Barney

2009 establishments in New York (state)
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There are 4 arrondissements in the Haut-Rhin department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of Haut-Rhin are:

History
Haut-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was divided in three districts: Altkirch, Belfort and Colmar, with Colmar as is capital.

In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the three districts were changed into five arrondissements: Colmar, Altkirch, Belfort, Delémont and Porrentruy. The arrondissements Delémont and Porrentruy were eliminated in 1814 and transferred to Switzerland.

The subprefecture of Altkirch was moved to Mulhouse in 1857.

The Haut-Rhin department was eliminated in 1871 when the territory became part of Germany except for a part that forms the Territoire de Belfort.

In 1919, Haut-Rhin is again an department when the territory became part of France with the arrondissements Colmar-Ville, Colmar-Campagne, Altkirch, Guebwiller, Mulhouse, Ribeauvillé and Thann. Its capital is Colmar.

The arrondissements Colmar-Ville and Colmar-Campagne were combined in 1934 to form the arrondissement of Colmar.

The arrondissement of Guebwiller was eliminated in 2015 and its territory combined with Tharn to form the arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller. In that same year, the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé was also eliminated and its territory combined with Colmar to form the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé.

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Haut-Rhin
Grand Est
Black Mamba is a street drug which is Legal in much of the world.  It is an artificial cannabinoid. It can cause some very serious side effects, including mental health problems, psychosis and sometimes a deep zombie-like state which takes a long time to recover from. It has also been known to cause death.

There are some countries where this and similar drugs like spice are still available and legal, although in most cases they are very heavily controlled.

References

Drugs
Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937 – December 14, 2017) was an American sports shooter. In his shooting career, he won 111 medals, including three Olympic medals. He won a gold and silver medal at the 1964 Olympics and a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics. He was also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. He was born in Great Falls, Montana.

Wigger died of pancreatic cancer on December 14, 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 80.

References

Other websites
 Lones Wigger  at Sports-Reference.com

1937 births
2017 deaths
American Olympic gold medalists
American Olympic silver medalists
Cancer deaths in Colorado
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
People from Great Falls, Montana
Sportspeople from Montana
Sport shooters
Georges Loinger (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018) was a French resistance fighter during World War II. He began fighting against Nazi Germany in 1939 but was captured in 1940. He escaped soon after, and rescued hundreds of Jewish children over then next few years. Until September 1943, that part of frontier was guarded by Italian army: Loinger remembers one day Italian high officer secretly told him he approved what Loinger did, that's his rescue activity. After September, there was German invasion and the activity became harder.

He was awarded the medal of honorary citizen of the city of Strasbourg in 2014. In July 2016, he was made an officer in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He was Jewish. He turned 100 in August 2010. Loinger died in Paris on 28 December 2018 at the age of 108.

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A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury (1 December 1944 – 15 December 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was a member of the Bangladesh Awami League (BAL). He served as the mayor of Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh, from 1994 to 2009. He was born in Chittagong District.

Chowdhury died on 15 December 2017 in Chittagong, at the age of 73.

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1944 births
2017 deaths
Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
Mayors
The Military Rabbinate (of Israel), Hebrew: חיל הרבנות הצבאית - Heil HaRabanut HaTzvait, is a unit of the Israel Defense Forces, which takes care of the religious needs of the Israeli soldiers, especially the Jewish soldiers among them.

The Chief Military Rabbi presides the Military Rabbinate, and has the rank of brigadier general.

Related pages 
 List of Chief Military Rabbis

References 
 Military Rabbinate  

Israel Defense Forces
Judaism in Israel
OS X El Capitan ( ) (version 10.11) is the twelfth major release of OS X (now named macOS), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. It was released after OS X Yosemite and focuses mainly on performance, stability and security. Starting with OS X Mavericks, future operating systems of OS X were named after regions of Northern California. El Capitan was named after a rock formation in Yosemite National Park, to highlight a refined version of its predecessory, OS X Yosemite. 

El Capitan is the final version to be released under the name OS X. Its successor, Sierra, was announced as macOS Sierra. El Capitan received much better reviews when compared to Yosemite.

The first beta of OS X El Capitan was released to developers shortly following the WWDC keynote on June 8, 2015. The first public beta was made available on July 9, 2015. There were multiple betas released after the keynote. OS X El Capitan was released to end users on September 30, 2015, as a free upgrade through the Mac App Store.

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MacOS
Bruce Gray (September 7, 1936 – December 13, 2017) was a Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor. 

Gray was probably best known as investment banker Adam Cunningham on the Global series Traders, the father of the groom in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, as Judge J.E. Reilly on the soap opera Passions and the ghost of Joe's father on the hit television show Medium. 

Gray died on December 13, 2017 of brain cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81.

References

Other websites
Official Bruce Gray Website: http://www.bruce-gray.com 

Bruce Gray at the American Film Institute Catalog
Bruce Gray at AllMovie

1936 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Puerto Rican actors
John Gerald O’Brien (2 December 1924 – 13 December 2017), known as Gerald O'Brien, was a New Zealand soldier and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He represented the Island Bay electorate from 1969 to 1978.

O'Brien died in Wellington on 13 December 2017 at the age of 93.

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O'Brien and his wife Fausta in 1978

1924 births
2017 deaths
New Zealand politicians
Military personnel of World War II
People from Wellington
Marilyn Ware (November 4, 1943 – December 14, 2017) was an American politician, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the United States Ambassador to Finland from March 2006 to March 2008 after being nominated by George W. Bush. She was a member of the Republican Party. Ware was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ware died on December 14, 2017 in Denver, Colorado of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 74.

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1943 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Ambassadors of the United States
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
US Republican Party politicians
Heinz Siegfried Wolff (29 April 1928 – 15 December 2017) was a German-born British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series The Great Egg Race. He was born in Berlin, Germany.

Because they were of Jewish descent, he and his family fled to the United Kingdom in September 1939.

He studied physiology and physics at University College London. He specialized in biological engineering, and was  a professor at Brunel University.

A familiar face in the 1970s and early 1980s, well known to British television audiences with his memorable bow tie and pronounced German accent.

Wolff died in London of heart failure on 15 December 2017 at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 
 Official 'Heinz Wolff Gravity' game site

1928 births
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Alumni of University College London
British biologists
British engineers
British radio personalities
British television presenters
Cardiovascular disease deaths in London
Deaths from heart failure
Entertainers from Berlin
German Jews
Jewish British academics
Jewish British scientists
Jewish entertainers
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Refugees from Nazism
Scientists from Berlin
Sharon Laws (7 July 1974 – 16 December 2017) was a British professional cyclist and environmental consultant. She gained support in conservation and worked both before and during her cycling career as an environmental consultant to organisations including the British Government, the United Nations and for mining company Rio Tinto in Australia.

Early life
Laws was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but was raised in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

Career

Her first victory in the team came was the Cheshire Classic stage race, which she won after coming second on the first and second stages. Her addition to the British team, which included Cooke and Emma Pooley, was expected to improve chances of a medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but Laws crashed twice and came 35th of 62 finishers. 

Laws retired in August 2016 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer one month later.

Death
Laws died on 16 December 2017 of cervical cancer, aged 43.

References

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 Sharon Laws signs for Team Halfords Bikehut  (15 April 2008) British Cycling (Palmarès)

1974 births
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British cyclists
Environmentalists
This is a list of areas and neighbourhoods in Chennai by region. The city is divided on the basis of composition into four major parts: North, Central, South and West.

North Chennai
 Manali new town
 Kodungaiyur East
 Kodungaiyur West
 Madhavaram
 Madhavaram Milk Colony
 Mathur MMDA
 Puzhal
 Moolakadai
 Kolathur
 Parry's Corner
 Royapuram
 Villivakkam
 Perambur
 Pudhupakkam 
 Tiruvottiyur
 Vyasarpadi
 Manali
 Tondiarpet
 Vallalar Nagar
 Ennore
 Old Washermenpet
 Kavangarai
 New Washermenpet
 Korukkupet
 Mannadi
 George Town
 Seven Wells
 Basin Bridge
 Sowcarpet
 Park Town
 Periametu
 Choolai
 Veppery
 Pattalam
 Pulinanthope
 M.K.B Nagar
 Sharma Nagar
 Selavoyal
 Edapalayam
 MAnjambakkam
 Ponniammanmedu
 Sembiam
 T.V.K Nagar
 ICF Colony north
 Central
 Padi
 Korattur
 Lakshmi puram
 Ambattur north
 Oragadam
 Ayapakkam
 Pattravakkam
 Thirumullaivoyal north
 Avadi north
 Redhills
 Ajax
 Kathivakkam
 Ernavur
 WIMCO
 Sathangadu
 Rajakadai
 Kadambakkam
 Kathirvedu
 Moolakothiram
 Erukanchery
 Broadway
 Jamalia
 Kallikuppam 
 Pattabiram
 Kosapet

West Chennai

 Alapakkam
 Anna Nagar
 Annanur
 Agathiyar Nagar
 Ambattur
 Bhuvaneshwari Nagar
 Chinmaya Nagar
 C.M.D.A Colony
 Defence Colony
 Padi
 Ayappakkam.
 Thiruvallur
 Arakkonam
 
 Korattur
 Mogappair East
 Mogappair West
 Arumbakkam
Avadi
 Pudur
 Maduravoyal
 Koyambedu
 Ashok Nagar
 KK Nagar
 KK Nagar West
 KK Nagar East
 Karambakkam
 Vadapalani
 Saligramam
 Shakthi Nagar
 Sri Iyyappa Nagar
 Virugambakkam
 Alwarthirunagar
 Valasaravakkam
 Thirunindravur
 Thirumangalam
 Thirumullaivayal
 Thiruverkadu
 Nandambakkam
 Nerkundrum
 Nesapakkam
 Nolambur
 Ramapuram
 Mugalivakkam
 Mangadu
 M.G.R Nagar
 M.G.R Garden
 Pallavan Nagar
 Porur
 Poonamallee
 Moulivakkam
 MMDA Colony

South and East Chennai

 Mylapore
 Perungudi
 Sholinganallur
 Alandur
 Adyar
 Besant Nagar
 Triplicane
 T. Nagar
 Thiruvanmiyur
 Saidapet
 Guindy
 Madipakkam
 Nanganallur
 Velachery
 Taramani
 Pallikaranai
 Keelkattalai
 Kovilambakkam
 Thoraipakkam
 Neelankarai
 Injambakkam
 Chromepet
 Pallavaram
 Tambaram
 Perungalathur
 Palavanthangal
 Peerkankaranai
 Mudichur
 Vandalur
 Kolappakkam
 Kandigai
 Mambakkam
 Pudhupakkam
 Palavakkam 
 Varadharajapuram
 Medavakkam

Suburban Chennai

Suburban Chennai includes almost half of the places in the districts of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur. Suburban Chennai is commonly called as Greater Chennai.

Northern Suburbs of Chennai

 Pazhaverkadu
 Ponneri
 Athipattu
 Sholavaram
 Minjur
 Red Hills
 Ennore

Western Suburbs Chennai

 Avadi
 Pattabiram
 Thirunindravur
 Iyyappanthangal
 Kattupakkam
 Poonamallee
 Thirumazhisai
 Thiruvallur

Southern-western Suburbs of Chennai

 Pallavaram
 Pozhichalur
 Anakaputhur
 Pammal
 Kundrathur
 Mangadu
 Chrompet
 Thiruneermalai

 Keelkattalai
 Chitlapakkam
 Tambaram
 Selaiyur
 Madambakkam
 Medavakkam
 Sithalapakkam
 Kovilambakkam
 Nanmangalam

Suburbs along ECR and OMR of Chennai

 Karapakkam
 Kanathur
 Muttukadu
 Kelambakkam
 Kovalam
 Siruseri

India-related lists
Taramani is an area in the metropolitan area of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is known for the IT parks and research institutions.

IT Parks in Taramani
Famous Tidel Park, an information technology (IT) industrial park is situated here . It is South India's first IT park. The area is also known for its other IT parks including Ascendas IT Park, Ramanujam IT Park, Elnet Software City and TICEL Biotech Park.

MGR Film city
The MGR Film City was constructed in Tharamani in 1996.  The Film City was a major project of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha. This was made during her first term in office as Chief minister. Recently, there have been news reports that it is being made into a "Knowledge Park".

Reference

Neighbourhoods of Chennai
The Flag of Slovakia is the flag of the European country, Slovakia. It has three horizontal Slavic tricolour of white, blue and red. It has a white double cross on a red background.

Slovakia
Slovakia
Pangasinan language or Salitan Pangasinan is one of the main languages of the Philippines. It is the language spoken in the province of Pangasinan.

References

Other websites 

 Bansa Pangasinan-English Dictionary 
 Pangasinan Wiktionary
 Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database 
 Sunday Punch
 Sun Star Pangasinan
 Pangasinan Star 
 Pangasinan: Preservation and Revitalization of the Pangasinan Language and Literature 
 Globalization killing Pangasinan language 
 Pangasinan language is alive and kicking (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 8, 2007) 
 Dying languages
 Pangasinan-Spanish Dictionary, by Lorenzo Fernandez Cosgata, published in 1865.

Austronesian languages
Languages of the Philippines
Justin Andrew Honard (born May 6, 1985), known by his drag name Alaska Thunderfuck, is an American drag queen,  rapper, singer, and songwriter. Thunderfuck moved to Erie, Pennsylvania at age 10. In early 2013, She then joined the cast of fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, where she was a runner-up. In October 2013, Thunderfuck signed to Producer Entertainment Group with distribution from Sidecar Records. Her debut album, Anus, was released on June 23, 2015.  It produced the singles "Your Makeup Is Terrible", "Nails", "Hieeee", "This Is My Hair" and "Anus".  "Your Makeup Is Terrible" managed to peak at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and peaked in the top ten around the world.  She released a single, "Puppet", on 16th of September 2016, before releasing her second studio album, Poundcake, on October 14, 2016. She has recently been featured as a contestant on Scared Famous alongside American reality TV personalities Don Benjamin, Sky Days, Erica Mena, Safaree Samuels, Eva Marcille, Tiffany "New York" Pollard, Drita D'Avanzo, Yung Joc and Nikki Mudarris.  In 2016, she returned for the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, where she was crowned the winner. On the 24th of May 2019, Thunderfuck released her third studio album Vagina.

Thunderfuck is the first and only drag queen to be on Scared Famous. She is known for her funny voices, weird styles and her "obsession" with PayPal.

Music Records 
 Mixtapes
 Glamtron (2010)

Extended plays
 The William Show Presents Alaska 5000 (2012)

 Studio albums
 Anus (2015)
 Poundcake (2016)
Vagina (2019)

 Collaboration albums
 Access All Areas (2017)

References

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Living people
American musicians
Rap musicians from Pennsylvania
American R&B singers
American pop singers
Grammy Award winners
LGBT musicians
LGBT singers
Gay men
Drag queens
Musicians from Pennsylvania
Singers from Pennsylvania
On 15 March 1986, in one of Singapore’s worst civil disasters, the Lian Yak Building (better known as Hotel New World) collapsed. 33 people died and 17 were rescued alive from the rubble.

The Singapore Fire Service (SFS) (present-day Civil Defence Force), the Armed Forces and the police all assisted in the rescue operation. Passers-by and nearby residents also joined in, helping to clear the rubble and pull out survivors. SAF medical officers and MOH doctors present took turns to crawl through narrow spaces inside the rubble to try and provide assistance to trapped survivors, giving glucose and saline drips to them. At first, power saws and drills were used to cut through the rubble and reach survivors; however the use of heavy machinery posed a risk to people trapped under the rubble. 

This led to concern among tunnelling experts from Britain, Ireland and Japan who were involved in nearby construction for the Mass Rapid Transit, which included Thomas Gallagher, Thomas Mulleary, Patrick Gallagher, Michael Prendergast, and Michael Scott; as well as Tan Jin Thong, Deputy Director (Operations) SFS.

They volunteered to dig 4 tunnels under the rubble, which resulted in the rescue of another eight survivors. They later received the Pingat Gagah Perkasa (Conspicuous Gallantry Medal) for their actions.

The investigation found that during the calculation of the building’s structural load, only the LIVE LOAD (weight of people in the building, and additional fixtures and fittings, such as furniture) was factored in. The DEAD LOAD (weight of the building itself) was completely omitted from the calculation. This meant the building was not designed to support its own weight. It was later discovered that an unqualified draftsman, instead of a professional structural engineer, did the calculations for the building. The owner (which died in the collapse) also requested to use inferior materials in construction, in order to reduce the cost.

After the incident, Singapore’s building safety regulations were updated. Since 1989, all structural designs/calculations must not only be prepared by a Professional Engineer, but also counter-checked by an independent Accredited Checker.

20th century in Singapore
1986 in Asia
Takeshi Kitano (北野 武 Kitano Takeshi; born 18 January 1947), also known as Beat Takeshi, is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. He was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Kitano is known for his roles as Outrage (2010) as Otomo and as Chief Daisuke Aramaki Ghost in the Shell (2017). He directed Violent Cop (1989) and Sonatine (1993). He won a Golden Lion in 1998.

References

Other websites

 
 Office Kitano – Kitano's Production Company 
 

1947 births
Living people
Japanese movie directors
Japanese movie actors
Japanese comedians
Japanese television personalities
Novelists
Designers
Japanese screenwriters
Japanese television actors
Japanese voice actors
Actors from Tokyo
Josephine Gail "Jo" Baer (born August 7, 1929) is an American painter. She was born in Seattle, Washington. Baer is known for her works which are minimalist art. She began showing her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s.

In the late 1960s, Baer was experimenting with color and shifting the visual focus of her work. While working on the series The Stations of the Spectrum (1967-1969), Baer painted over their white surfaces to make them gray. In 1975 Baer was the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, showcasing her Minimalist work.

References

Other websites

 artforum
 bombsite
 contemporary art daily
 Galerie Barbara Thumm 
 Oral history interview with Jo Baer, 2010 Oct. 5-7 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
 Official website 

1929 births
Living people
American painters
Writers from Washington
People from Seattle, Washington
Ewing Hunter Harrison (November 7, 1944 – December 16, 2017) was an American railway executive. He served as the CEO of Illinois Central Railroad (IC), Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and served as CEO of CSX from January 2017 until his death 12 months later.

Harrison died on December 16, 2017, two days after taking medical leave from CSX, in Wellington, Florida of a suspected heart attack.  He was 73 years old.

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1944 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Florida
Businesspeople from Memphis, Tennessee
Leonard Stanley "Len" Ceglarski (June 27, 1926 – December 16, 2017) was an American ice hockey player. He was an All-American left wing on Boston College's 1949 NCAA championship team, and was captain of the 1950–51 squad. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic hockey team that won the silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games in Oslo, Norway. He was born in East Walpole, Massachusetts.

Ceglarski died on December 16, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 91.

References

1926 births
2017 deaths
American ice hockey players
American Olympic silver medalists
Sportspeople from Massachusetts
Rodels () used to be a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Since 2015, became a part of the new municipality of Domleschg.

Other websites

 Official website 

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Rothenbrunnen () is a municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition, was a cultural synthesis that emerged between the Mongol and Turkic rulers in the early twentieth century. The countries that followed the Central Asia Turko-Mongol traditions, including the Timurid Empire,the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, the Nogai Horde, the Crimean Khanate, and the Mughal Empire.

Related pages 
 Mongols
 Turkic peoples
 Timurid Empire
 Tamerlane
 Mughal Empire

Ethnology
Mongol peoples
Turkic peoples
Gorno-Altaysk (; , Tuulu Altay) is the capital city of the Altai Republic, Russia. In 2020, 64,478 people lived in the city.

Siberia
Capitals of republics of Russia
Byrsonima crassifolia is a slow growing tree native to the Tropical America. Common names include changunga, muruci, murici, nanche, nance, nancite, chacunga, craboo, kraabu, savanna serrette (or savanna serret) and golden spoon. In Jamaica it is called hogberry (plural hogberries). It is primarily cultivated in Peru, Southern Mexico, Pacific side of Central America, Guadeloupe, Barbados, Brazil, St. Martin, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Curacao, Isle of Pines, Puerto Rico, Dominica and The Dominican Republic. It belongs to the acerola family of Malpighiaceae.
It is suitable to the tropical and subtropical climates. The tree bears yellow to dull orange or red flowers during spring to fall and fruits on August and September. The white and juicy flesh of yellow fruit has pungent and distinct flavor. It attracts butterflies, bees and birds.

Plant 

Byrsonima crassifolia is the slow growing, large shrub or tree which grows up to 33 feet high. The leaves are opposite, ovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic; 3.2–17 cm long and 4–7 cm wide. The flowers are 10–20 cm long and 1.25–2 cm wide; yellow or dull orange, red with five petals. Fruit is small ball shaped, round, ovate to globose; 8–12 cm wide and 0.8-1.5 cm in diameter. The fruit has white and juicy flesh, pungent, distinct aroma and thin skin. The fruit include 1 to 3 white seeds which is 0.5-1.2 cm in diameter. The tree has dark brown, fissured and rough bark. The inner bark is pinkish. It has tall or short and straight or crooked trunk

Nutritional value 

The serving size of 112 grams of Nance fruit grants 90.32 g of water, 82 calories, 0.74 g of protein, 1.3 g of fat, 0.64 g of ash, 19.01 g of carbohydrate, 8.4 g of dietary fiber, 9.31 g of total sugars, 4.01 g of glucose and 5.3 g of fructose. It offers 115.11% of Vitamin C, 12.09% of manganese, 11.08% of Vitamin K, 9.33% of Vitamin E, 5.81% of potassium, 5.38% of iron, 5.24% of magnesium, 5.20% of calcium and 5.11% of copper.

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Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of black slaves running away in 1851. It has since been debunked as pseudoscience and part of scientific racism.

Etymology 
The term derives from the Greek δραπέτης (drapetes, "a runaway [slave]") and μανία (mania, "madness, frenzy").

Description 
In Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race, Cartwright points out that the Bible calls for a slave to obey his master, and that if he does, the slave won't want to run away.

He claimed that the disease happened when masters "made themselves too familiar with [slaves], treating them as equals".

References

Sources 
 Samuel A. Cartwright, "Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race", The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 1851:691–715 (May).
 Reprinted in DeBow's Review XI (1851). Available at Google Books and excerpted at PBS.org.
 Reprinted in Arthur Caplan, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., and James McCartney, eds, Concepts of Health and Disease in Medicine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1980).
 Reprinted in Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney, Dominic A. Sisti, eds, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004) 

Pseudoscience
Walter Mafli (May 10, 1915 – December 11, 2017) was a Swiss painter. He was born in Rebstein, Canton of St. Gallen. He was known for his work Le chant de la matière (1985) which hangs in Lausanne. In 2010, Mafli was accused of tax fraud. He was the student of well known French painters Casimir Reymond and Marcel Poncet.

Mafli died on December 11, 2017 in Lutry, Vaud at the age of 102.

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Ye Zhengda (; 22 August 1927 – 14 December 2017) was a Chinese aircraft designer. He was a professor and senior engineer at Northwestern Polytechnical University. In 1988, he was awarded the military rank of lieutenant general (Zhongjiang) by the Chinese government. 

He was a member of the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a delegate to the 5th National People's Congress. He was born in Guangdong, China.

On December 14, 2017, Ye died in Beijing at the age of 90.

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Bernard Charles "Barry" Sherman,  (February 25, 1942 – December 13, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Toronto. He was the chairman and CEO of Apotex Inc. With an estimated net worth of US$3.2 billion at the time of his death, according to Forbes, Sherman was the 12th-wealthiest Canadian. Another publication, Canadian Business, said his fortune at $4.77 billion (CAD), ranking him the 15th richest in Canada.

On December 15, 2017, police officers entered Sherman's home in North York, Toronto, where they discovered the bodies of Sherman and his wife hanging side by side next to their indoor pool. Sherman was 75 years old. Post-mortem examinations showed the cause of death for both deceased was "ligature neck compression".

In response, the couple's four children said their deaths may be murder-suicide theory.

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Johnny Fox (November 13, 1953 – December 17, 2017) was an American professional sword swallower and sleight of hand expert. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was raised in Hartford, Connecticut.

Fox began performing magic and comedy while working as a waiter in Saint Petersburg, Florida. He was inspired by Harry Houdini. Fox could swallow up to 22 inches of steel. Fox was the resident sword-swallower at the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crownsville, and performed there from 1981 through 2017.

Fox was diagnosed with liver cancer in October 2016. He died on December 17, 2017 in Hartford from the disease at the age of 64.

References

Other websites
 The Johnny Fox Official Homepage
 Freakatorium - El Museo Loco
 Maryland Renaissance Festival

1953 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
American magicians
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People from Hartford, Connecticut
Kim Jong-hyun (April 8, 1990 – December 18, 2017), better known by the mononym Jonghyun, was a South Korean singer-songwriter, and radio host. He was a vocalist of the South Korean boy group Shinee. Jonghyun debuted as a solo artist on January 12, 2015, with his first EP, titled Base.

In the same year, on September 17, Jonghyun released a compilation album, Story Op.1. On May 24, 2016, Jonghyun released his first studio album, She Is, followed by his second compilation album, Story Op.2 on April 24, 2017. After his death, his final album Poet | Artist was released.

Jonghyun died in Seoul on December 18, 2017 of carbon monoxide poisoning in an act of suicide at the age of 27.

Discography

Album
She Is (2016)
Poet | Artist (2018)

Mini-Album
Base (2015)

Compiliations
Story Op.1 (2016)
Story Op.2 (2017)

References

1990 births
2017 deaths
Suicides by poison
Deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning
South Korean actors
South Korean singers
Radio personalities
K-pop singers
Kevin Mahogany (July 30, 1958 – December 17, 2017) was an American jazz vocalist. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His career began in the 1990s. He was known for his scat singing, and his singing style has been compared with jazz singers Joe Williams and Johnny Hartman. His best known work was his album It Don't Mean a Thing (1993) which he performed with Elvis Jones.

Mahogany died of heart failure on December 17, 2017 in Kansas City at the age of 59.

References

Other websites
 Kevin Mahogany's official site

1958 births
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Deaths from heart failure
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American jazz musicians
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Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature.

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 1960 to 1969 is given.

1960 
 Farrukh Ahmed (poetry)
 Abul Mansur Ahmed (short story)
 Abul Hashem Khan (novel)
 Abdullah Hel Kafi (essay-research)
 Mohammad Barkatullah (essay-research)
 Askar Ibne Shaikh (drama)
 Khan Mohammad Moinuddin (juvenile literature)

1961 
 Ahsan Habib (poetry)
 Syed Waliullah (novel)
 Mobin Uddin Ahmed (short story)
 Muhammad Abdul Hai (essay-research)
 Nurul Momen (drama)
 Begum Hosney Ara (juvenile literature)

1962 
 Sufia Kamal (poetry)
 Abul Fazal (novel)
 Shawkat Osman (short story)
 Akbar Ali (novel)
 Munier Choudhury (drama)
 Bonde Ali Mia (juvenile literature)

1963 
 Abul Hussain (poetry)
 Abu Ishaque (novel)
 Abu Rashid Matin Uddin (short story)
 Abdul Kadir (essay-research)
 Ibrahim Khan (drama)
 Kazi Kader Newaj (juvenile literature)

1964 
 Sanaul Haque (poetry)
 Benzir Ahmed (poetry)
 Shamsuddin Abul Kalam (novel)
 Shahed Ali (short story)
 Muhammad Enamul Huq (essay-research)
 Akbar Uddin (drama)
 Ashraf Siddiqui (juvenile literature)
 Habibur Rahman (juvenile literature)

1965 
 Talim Hossain (poetry)
 Mahbub Ul Alam (novel)
 Alauddin Al-Azad (short story)
 Muhammad Mansuruddin (essay-research)
 Obaidul Huq (drama)
 Mohammad Modabber (juvenile literature)

1966 
 Mahmuda Khatun Siddiqua (poetry)
 Kazi Afsaruddin Ahmed (novel)
 Syed Shamsul Haque (short story)
 Qazi Motahar Hossain (essay-research)
 Sikandar Abu Zafar (drama)
 Abu Zoha Nur Ahmed (juvenile literature)

1967 
 Syed Ali Ahsan (poetry)
 Sarder Jayenuddin (novel)
 Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (short story)
 Mazharul Islam (essay-research)
 A. N. M. Bazlul Rashid (drama)
 Mohammad Nasir Ali (juvenile literature)

1968 
 Al Mahmud (poetry)
 Abujafar Shamsuddin (novel)
 Shawkat Ali (short story)
 Ahmed Sharif (essay-research)
 Anis Chowdhury (drama)
 Rokanuzzaman Khan (juvenile literature)

1969 
 Shamsur Rahman (poetry)
 Shahidullah Kaiser (novel)
 Borhan Uddin Khan Jahangir (short story)
 Nilima Ibrahim (essay-research)
 Ali Mansur (drama)
 Golam Rahman (juvenile literature)

Lists of award winners
Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature.

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 1970 to 1979 is given.

1970 
 Ataur Rahman (poetry)
 Satyen Sen (novel)
 Hasan Azizul Huq (short story)
 Anisuzzaman (essay-research)
 Ibrahim Khalil (drama)
 Atoyar Rahman (juvenile literature)
 Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (translation)

1971 
 Hasan Hafizur Rahman (poetry)
 Zahir Raihan (novel)
 Jyoti Prakash Dutta (short story)
 Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (essay-research)
 Anwar Pasha (essay-research)
 Ekhlasuddin Ahmed (juvenile literature)

1972 
 Abdul Gani Hazari (poetry)
 Mohammad Maniruzzaman (poetry)
 Rashid Karim (novel)
 Shahid Saber (short story)
 Badruddin Umar (essay-research)
 Kalyan Mitra (drama)

1973 
 Fazal Shabauddin (poetry)
 Shahid Qadri (poetry)
 Rabeya Khatun (novel)
 Rahat Khan (short story)
 Syed Murtaza Ali (essay-research)
 Bulbul Osman (juvenile literature)
 Kabir Chowdhury (translation)

1974 
 Sufi Motahar Hossain (poetry)
 Razia Khan (novel)
 Syed Atiqullah (short story)
 Abdul Haque (essay-research)
 Mobashwer Ali (essay-research)
 Sazedul Karim (juvenile literature)

1975 
 Abul Hasan (poetry)
 Shams Rashid (novel)
 Minnat Ali (short story)
 Ali Ahmed (essay-research)
 Sayeed Ahmed (drama)
 Abdullah-Al-Muti (juvenile literature)
 Abdus Sattar (translation)

1976 
 Matiul Islam (poetry)
 Dilara Hashim (novel)
 Sucharit Chowdhury (short story)
 Sirajuddin Kasimpuri (essay-research)
 Momtazuddin Ahmed (drama)
 Foyez Ahmed (juvenile literature)
 Sardar Fazlul Karim (translation)

1977 
 Abdur Rashid Khan (poetry)
 Mohammad Mahfuzullah (poetry)
 Mahmudul Haque (novel)
 Mirza Abdul Hai (short story)
 Hasnat Abdul Hye (short story)
 Mamtazur Rahman Tarafdar (essay-research)
 Zia Haider (drama)
 Sukumar Barua (juvenile literature)
 Abdul Hafiz (translation)

1978 
 K. M Shamser Ali (poetry)
 Imaul Haque (poetry)
 Razia Mazid (novel)
 Rizia Rahman (novel)
 Nazmul Alam (short story)
 Shahid Akhand (short story)
 Sirajul Islam Chowdhury (essay-research)
 Abdullah Al Mamun (drama)
 Kazi Abul Kashem (juvenile literature)
 Moniruddin Yusuf (translation)
 Abdur Rashid (translation)

1979 
 Zillur Rahman Siddiqui (poetry)
 Abu Zafar Obaidullah (poetry)
 Abdus Shakur (short story)
 Zahrul Haque (essay-research)
 Ahmed Rafiq (essay-research)
 Shamsul Haque (juvenile literature)
 Abu Shahriar (translation)

Lists of award winners
Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature.

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 1980 to 1989 is given.

1980 
 Dilwar Khan (poetry)
 Selina Hossain (novel)
 Humayun Kadir (short story)
 Abu Mohamed Habibullah (essay-research)
 Al Kamal Abdul Ohab (juvenile literature)
 Neyamal Basir (translation)

1981 
 Omar Ali (poetry)
 Rafiq Azad (poetry)
 Humayun Ahmed (novel)
 Laila Samad (short story)
 Abdul Mannan Syed (essay-research)
 Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque (essay-research)
 Halima Khatun (juvenile literature)
 Razia Mahbub (juvenile literature)
 Sunil Kumar Mukhopaddhay (juvenile litereature)

1982 
 Nirmalendu Goon (poetry)
 Akhtaruzzaman Elias (short story)
 Ghulam Murshid (essay-research)
 Mustafa Nurul Islam (essay-research)
 Mamunur Rashid (drama)

1983 
 Mahadev Saha (poetry)
 Subrata Barua (short story)
 Khalekdad Chowdhury (novel)
 Selim Al Deen (drama)
 Abul Hasna Md Ismail (essay-research)
 Mohammad Abdul Zabbar (essay-research)
 Hayat Mahmud (juvenile literature)
 Gazi Shamsur Rahman (translation)

1984
 Belal Chowdhury (poetry)
 Rashid Haider (novel)
 Muhammad Habibur Rahman (essay-research)
 Rafiqul Islam (essay-research)

1985
None

1986
 Mohammad Rafiq
 Humayun Azad

1987
 Asad Chowdhury
 Dwijen Sharma

1988 
 Abubakar Siddique
 Mohammad Nurul Huda

1989 
 Azizul Haque
 Syed Akram Hossain

Lists of award winners
Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature.

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 2000 to 2009 is given.

2000
None

2001
 Kaysul Haque (poetry)
 Shamsuzzaman Khan (essay-research)
 Ali Imam (juvenile literature)

2002
 Zahidul Haque (poetry)
 Mobarak Hossain Khan (research)
 Abu Saleh (juvenile literature)

2003
 Abdul Hye Sikder (poetry)
 Saeed-Ur-Rahman (research)
 Musharraf Karim (juvenile literature)

2004 
 Amjad Hossain (novel)
 Mojammel Hossain Mintu (short story)
 Asaddor Ali (research)
 Zafar Alam (translation)
 Muhammad Zafar Iqbal (science)
 Faridur Reza Sagar (juvenile literature)

2005
 Rezauddin Stalin (poetry)
 Mokbula Manzoor (novel)
 Abul Kalam Mohammed Zakaria (research)
 Fakhruzzaman Chowdhury (translation)

2006
 Shamsul Islam (poetry)
 Haripada Datta (novel)
 Ali Anwar (essay)
 Mohammad Ibrahim (science)
 Mannan Hira (drama)
 Amirul Islam (juvenile literature)

2007 
 Monzure Mowla (poetry)
 Jatin Sarker (essay-research)
 Lutfor Rahman Riton (juvenile literature)

2008 
 Mahbub Sadik (poetry)
 Karunamoy Goswami (essay-research)
 Helena Khan (juvenile literature)

2009 
 Arunabh Sarkar (poetry)
 Rabiul Hosain (poetry)
 Anwara Syed Haq (folk literature)
 Shushanta Mazumdar (folk literature)
 Abul Ahsan Chowdhury (research)
 Rafiqul Haque (juvenile literature)

Lists of award winners
Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature.

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year from 2010 to 2019 is given.

2010 
 Rubi Rahman (poetry)
 Nasir Ahmed (poetry)
 Bulbul Chowdhury (folk literature)
 Khan Sarwar Murshid (essay and research)
 Ajoy Roy (science and technology)
 Shahjahan Kibria (juvenile literature)

2011 
 Ashim Shaha (poetry)
 Kamal Chowdhury (poetry)
 Anisul Hoque (folk literature)
 Abdullah Abu Sayeed (essay)
 Biswajit Ghosh (research)
 Khaliquzzaman Ilias (translation)
 Belal Muhammad (literature on liberation war affairs)
 Baren Chakrabarti (travel story)
 Ali Ajgar (science, technology and environment)
 Akhter Hossain (juvenile literature)

2012 
 Sanaul Haque Khan (poetry)
 Abid Anwar (poetry)
 Harishanker Jaldas (folk literature)
 Sanat Kumar Saha (essay)
 Khondokar Sirajul Haque (research)
 Fakrul Alam (translation)
 Mahbub Alam (Liberation War-related writings)
 Tapan Chakrabarty (science, technology and environment)
 Mahbub Talukder (juvenile literature)

2013 
 Helal Hafiz (poetry)
 Purabi Basu (folk literature)
 Mofidul Haq (essay)
 Jamil Chowdhury (research)
 Provangshu Tripura (research)
 Kaiser Haq (translation)
 Harun Habib (Liberation War-related writings)
 Mahfuzur Rahman (autobiography and travel story)
 Shahidul Islam (science, technology and environment)
 Kaiser Chowdhury (juvenile literature)
 Aslam Sunny (juvenile literature)

2014 
 Shihab Sarkar (poetry)
 Zakir Talukder (fiction)
 Shantanu Kaiser (essay)
 Bhuyian Iqbal (research)
 Abu Mohammad Delwar Hossain (literature on liberation war)
 Moynus Sultan (travel story)
 Khaleque bin Zainuddin (juvenile literature)

2015 
 Altaf Hossain (poetry)
 Shaheen Akhtar (fiction)
 Abul Momen (essay)
 Atiur Rahman (essay)
 Moniruzzaman (research)
 Abdus Selim (translation)
 Tajul Mohammad (literature on liberation war)
 Faruq Ahmed Choudhury (biography and travel story)
 Masum Reza (drama)
 Sharif Khan (science, technology and environment)
 Sujan Barua (juvenile literature)

2016 
 Abu Hasan Shahriar (poetry)
 Shahaduzzaman (fiction)
 Morshed Shafiul Hasan (essay and research)
 Niaz Zaman (translation)
 MA Hasan (literature on the liberation war)
 Noorjahan Bose (autobiography/memoir)
 Rashed Rouf (juvenile literature)

Lists of award winners