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The 2016 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A will be the 60th season of the Série A, the top-level of professional football in Brazil. Corinthians come in as the defending champions having won the title in the 2015 season.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Number of teams by state

Foreign players

Results

First Round
This are the Results of the first round of 2016 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.

2nd round

3rd round

4th round

5th round

6th round

7th round

8th round

9th round

10th round 

Note: The match was interropted in 46 minutes, due to heavy fog in Chapecó. The confrontation was resmued in June 23rd, in 3:00 p.m.

11th round

12nd round

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

References 

2016 in association football
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Cyril Edel Leonoff (February 22, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was a Canadian civil engineer, historian and author. He was the founding president of the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

Leonoff died on April 17, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia from natural causes, aged 91.

More reading
 Bridges of Light: Otto Landauer of Leonard Frank Photos, 1945-1980 (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1997)
 A Dedicated Team:  Klohn Leonoff Consulting Engineers 1951-1991 (Bi-Tech Publishers, Richmond, 1994)
 An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895-1944 (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 1990)
 "The Sylvesters of British Columbia", The Scribe Volume 4 (The Jewish Historical Society of BC, Vancouver, 1980)
 Pioneers, Pedlars and Prayer Shawls: The Jewish Communities in British Columbia and the Yukon (Sono Nis Press, Victoria, 1978)

References

Other websites
 The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia

1925 births
2016 deaths
Canadian writers
Canadian historians
People from Winnipeg
Canadian scientists
Avril K. Henry (5 April 1935 – 20 April 2016) was an English activist. She wanted the legalization of assisted suicide by euthanasia. She was a retired professor of English medieval culture at the University of Exeter.

Henry committed suicide by euthanasia at her home in Brampford Speke, Devon on 20 April 2016, aged 81. She illegally bought a euthanasia kit online before her death.

Some of her works
Biblia Pauperum. Scolar, Aldershot, 1987. (Editor) 
The Eton Roundels: Eton College MS 177 'Figurae Bibliorum' A Colour Facsimile With Transcription, Translation and Commentary

References

1935 births
2016 deaths
British academics
Deaths by euthanasia
Drug-related suicides
English activists
Euthanasia activists
Suicides in the United Kingdom
The Arauco War was a conflict between colonial Spaniards and Mapuche people of Araucanía region, of modern Chile. This conflict began at Reynogüelén in 1536, near the confluence of the Ñuble and Itata rivers. It was between an expedition of Diego de Almagro and a large, well organized group of Mapuche soldiers. Since 1609, each governor of Chile held "Parlamentos" with Mapuche chiefs. At these, they discussed maintenance of a treaty between both parties. Violations of the treaty were frequent.  In 1881, these finally ended, with a process known as the Pacification of Araucanía.

References

Other websites 

 Serindígena.org - Maps  
 Maps of battles of Arauco War 

History of Chile
Wars involving Spain
Vincent Matthew Darius, OP (6 September 1955 – 26 April 2016) was Grenadian Roman Catholic official. He was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada from 2002 until his death in 2016. He was born in the village of Crochu. He was ordained on 28 June 1987.

Darius died from cancer in Bellevue, New York on 26 April 2016, aged 60.

Other websites
 Bishop Vincent Darius, Catholic Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada
 Rinuncie e Nomine, 10.07.2002 (B0362), Press Office of the Holy See (in Italian)
 Bishop Vincent Matthew Darius, O.P. †, Hierarchy of the Catholic Church (Catholic-Hierarchy.org)
 Coat of arms (of the Bishop), Catholic Diocese of Saint George's in Grenada
 Death of Bishop Vincent Darius OP, NOW Grenada, 26 April
 Caribbean Bishops meet , Catholic News (Trinidad and Tobago), 10 April (front page)

1955 births
2016 deaths
Cancer deaths in New York
Grenadian people
Roman Catholic bishops
Harry Wu (February 8, 1937 – April 26, 2016; ) was a Chinese-born American human rights activist.  Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps. He was born in Shanghai. He was a resident and citizen of the United States. In 1992, he founded the Laogai Research Foundation. 

Among Wu's supporters was the AFL-CIO. In 1990, Senators Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) invited Wu to testify before the Senate on the laogai. In November 2008, Wu opened the Laogai Museum in Washington, D.C.. He called it the first ever United States museum to talk about human rights in China.

Wu died from a heart attack while on a trip in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on April 26, 2016, aged 79.

References

Other websites

The Laogai Research Foundation 

1937 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American human rights activists
People from Shanghai
Tropical Storm Erika in August 2015 was a very damaging and deadly tropical cyclone. The storm struck the Leeward Islands on August 27. More than USD$500 million in damage was caused by the storm.

More than 30 people died when the storm passed through the Caribbean.

Resulting from Erika's impact over the northeast Caribbean, the name Erika was retired in April 2016. The name was replaced with Elsa for 2021. Erika became the second storm name that was retired. Allison was the first one.

References

2015 in weather
Hurricanes in the United States
August events
2015 in North America
2010s in Florida
2010s in the Bahamas
V. T. Thomas (6 June 1929 – 27 April 2016) also known as Toms, was an Indian cartoonist. He was born in  from Kuttanad, India. He was as the creator of the cartoon characters Boban and Molly. He joined Malayala Manaorama, a popular daily in Kerala, in 1961.

Toms died in Kerala, India on April 27, 2016, aged 86.

References

Other websites
 Bobanum Moliyum Cartoons 
 Cartoon window 
 Artist Directory
 The Hindu 
 Managing Intellectual Property 
 On TV 

1929 births
2016 deaths
Indian cartoonists
Mustafizur Rahman () is a Bangladeshi international cricketer. He is a Left-arm fast-mediumand a left-handed batsman.He was born in Satkhira, Khulna in Bangladesh.

References

Other websites
 Mustafizur Rahman from ESPNcricinfo
 Mustafizur Rahman from CricketArchive

Living people
1995 births
Bangladeshi cricketers
Bangladeshi Muslims
Gordon Peter Wilkinson, known professionally as Gordon Peters (born 29 November 1926 in Durham) is a British television actor who has had a long career.  

He starred in a BBC TV comedy series in 1973 called The Gordon Peters Show. He is known for his roles in Hi-de-Hi!, Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, Grace & Favour, One Foot in the Grave as Ronnie, Never the Twain, Little Britain, Keeping Up Appearances and HBO's Tales from the Crypt.

Other websites
 Official Website

1926 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series. He was created by Ian Fleming. His mission is world domination. He was born in Poland. He is known for having a scar on his eye, for wearing his grey suit and for having a pet cat. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organization SPECTRE and is commonly referred to as Number 1. 

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball; On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and You Only Live Twice. He was famously played by Donald Pleasence in You Only Live Twice (1967) and by Christoph Waltz in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

Some of Blofeld's characteristics have become popular as a supervillain in fiction and media. It includes the parodies Dr. Claw (and his pet, M.A.D. Cat) from the Inspector Gadget animated series (1983–86), and Dr. Evil (and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth) from the Austin Powers movie series (1997–2002).

References

Characters in written fiction
Fictional characters introduced in the 1960s
Fictional criminals
Fictional European people
Bond villains
Chen Zhongshi (; 3 August 1942 – 29 April 2016) was a Chinese author. He started writing in 1965. His best known work is White Deer Plain which was published in 1993. He won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997. 

In 1966, Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party. He was interested in writing and soon began to work on a writing career. In 1979, he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

Chen died in Xi'an, Shaanxi from oral cancer on 29 April 2016, aged 73.

Related pages
List of Chinese writers

References

1942 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from oral cancer
Chinese writers
Renato Tirso Antonio Coronado Corona (October 15, 1948 – April 29, 2016) was a Filipino jurist. He was the 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He served as chief from 2010 until his resignation in 2012.

Early life
Corona was born on October 15, 1948 in the Santa Ana area of Manila. He studied at Ateneo de Manila University, at Harvard University and at the University of Santo Tomas.

Career
He served as an Associate Justice after being appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on April 9, 2002. He was appointed as Chief Justice on May 12, 2010 after the retirement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno.

Corona was a law professor and member of the Cabinet under two Presidents, Fidel V. Ramos and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, before being appointed to the court.

Impeachment
On December 12, 2011, he was impeached by the House of Representatives. On May 29, 2012, he was found guilty by the Senate of violating some laws of the Constitution of the Philippines. He resigned as a result.

Death
Corona died on April 29, 2016 at The Medical City in Pasig due to complications of a heart attack, aged 67. He suffered from kidney disease.

References

Other websites
 Was Corona Honest?: An Interactive Properties Map of Chief Justice Renato Corona's Asset Declarations  on Rappler.com
 Special Coverage of the Corona Trial on Rappler.com 
 Justice Renato C. Corona (Official Supreme Court Webpage) 
 Corona is next SC chief, www.mb.com.ph 12 May 2010
The Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona

1948 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Filipino lawyers
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
People from Manila
The Punggol LRT Line is the third line of the LRT system in Singapore. Its first phase comprises a 10.3 km line with 15 stations.

The Punggol LRT Line serves the residents in the town and urban planning area of Punggol.

Punggol LRT station, the centerpiece of the line, is located directly above the Punggol MRT station, thus linking up the Punggol LRT Line to the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) system that spans the entire island of Singapore.

History 
Plans for the Punggol LRT Line were drawn up and announced in January 1999 with the development of Punggol New Town.

Construction began in June 2000 by a consortium comprising SembCorp Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corporation, at a cost of S$354 million. Construction of the first phase was completed in June 2004, and underwent testing by the Land Transport Authority. The system was handed over to SBS Transit on 1 December 2004, who conducted more trial runs and staff training before the opening of the East Loop on 29 January 2005. The West Loop opened on 29 June 2014.

Timeline
29 January 2005: Line opened on East Loop except Oasis and Damai
15 November 2007: Oasis (PE6) Opened.
20 June 2011: Damai (PE7) Opened. East Loop become bidirectional whole day.
29 June 2014: West Loop opened between Nibong (PW5) and Soo Teck (PW7), in unidirectional manner.
29 February 2016: Sam Kee (PW1) opened.

Stations
There are 15 Stations on this line, in the future we will have North Loop (PN) in the future. The 'PE' means Punggol LRT East Loop.

Punggol (PTC/NE17), Interchange with North East Line

East Loop (PE)
Cove (PE1)

Meridian (PE2)

Coral Edge (PE3)

Riviera (PE4)

Kadaloor (PE5)

Oasis (PE6)

Damai (PE7)

West Loop
Sam Kee (PW1)

Teck Lee (PW2), Station Not in Service

Punggol Point (PW3)

Samudera (PW4)

Nibong (PW5)

Sumang (PW6)

Soo Teck (PW7)

Improvements 
On 31 October 2012, LTA announced that by 2016, Sengkang and Punggol LRT systems will be upgraded to a two-car system for the 41 existing train cars, allowing double the number of passengers to board at any one time. Each train car can take up to 105 passengers. 16 more train-cars will also be procured. This will bring the total fleet size to 57 train-cars. Hence, there is also the need to modify the signalling and communication system.

Rolling stock 
Trains operating on the line are Mitsubishi Crystal Movers (C810) manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. These trains operate from the Sengkang Depot which serves maintenance and train overhaul facilities for trains along the Sengkang and Punggol LRT lines.

Related pages
Light Rail Transit (Singapore)
Bukit Panjang LRT Line
Sengkang LRT Line

References 

Light Rail Transit (Singapore)
Bras Basah MRT Station (CC2) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is along the Circle MRT Line. 

The station is located near Singapore Art Museum and a few minutes walk to National Museum of Singapore.

Prior to the opening of the station, it was supposed to be called Museum.

Following Stations
Previous: Dhoby Ghaut (CC1/NS24/NE6)Next: Esplanade (CC3)

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Pasir Ris MRT station (EW1/CR5) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the East West line in Pasir Ris, Singapore. The station serves as a terminus for the East West MRT Line. It was the first station to be fitted with platform screen doors.

History
This station opened on 16 December 1989, and it was one of the last to open along the East West MRT line. On 1 November 2009, platform screen doors were installed along with Jurong East as part of a trial programme.

Incidents
The Pasir Ris rail accident was a train accident that occurred on 22 March 2016, at the track switch on the East West MRT Line. A C151 train ran into two SMRT Trains trainee track workers at around 60 km/h, which resulted in their deaths. The two deceased workers were working on a track signalling issue at that time as part of a team of 15 track personnel. This incident was "the worst train accident" in Singapore MRT's history.

SMRT Trains and one SMRT management staff were charged for violating the Workplace Safety and Health Act that led to this accident, and were fined $400,000 and $55,000 respectively. The SMRT engineer who led the track team at the scene of the accident was dismissed from SMRT Trains and charged with negligence causing death under the Penal Code.

Related pages
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

References

Other websites

 

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
1989 establishments in Singapore
Summer school (or summer university) is a school or a program usually sponsored by a school or a school district. It provides lessons and activities during the summer vacation.

United States
In the United States, high school, college or university students can enroll in summer school for credit. Generally, this credit is in one of two categories: remediation or advancement. For remediation, the summer school is used to make up credits lost through absence or failure. For advancement, the summer school is used to obtain credit for classes to accelerate progress toward a degree or to lessen the load of courses during the regular school year. Many universities offer short-term summer courses to attract both local and international students, and these programs are often surrounded by social activities.

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, Lite Regal summer school which is based in Cambridge provides teaching for 13 to 18 year olds for courses on medical preparation, law preparation etc. Currently last summer and this summer they have students from 50 + nationalities staying and learning courses in Cambridge University.

References

Education
Schools
The superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), also known as the blue wren, is a passerine bird of the family Maluridae. It is common and familiar across southeastern Australia. 

Each pair has a territory, also shows obvious sexual dimorphism. The male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue throat. However, non-breeding males, females and juveniles are mostly grey-brown in colour. 

Like other fairy-wrens, it has several peculiar behavioural characteristics. The birds are socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous. They form pairs between one male and one female, but each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings. Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display.

The superb fairy-wren can be found in almost any area that has at least a little dense undergrowth for shelter, including grasslands with scattered shrubs, moderately thick forest, woodland, heaths, and domestic gardens. It has adapted well to the urban environment and is common in suburban Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. The superb fairy-wren eats mostly insects and supplements its diet with seeds.

References 

Passeri
Merve Safa Kavakçı (born 19 August 1968, Ankara) is Turkish politician, who was elected as a Virtue Party deputy for Istanbul on April 18, 1999.

Works
Kavakci is the Director of Postcolonial Studies Research Center (PAMER) at Uskudar University. She is also an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations. Kavakçı is a Hafiz-al Qur'an. She received her master's degree from Harvard University and her PhD from Howard University. Kavakçı is currently a professor at George Washington University and Howard University in Washington D.C. She is the mother of two, Fatima Abushanab, 21 and Mariam Kavakci, 20.
Kavakçı is a consultant for U.S. Congress on the Muslim world and a columnist for Turkish conservative daily Yeni Akit newspaper.

She is the author of Headscarf Politics in Turkey: A Postcolonial Reading, and five other books some of which are translated to Arabic and Persian. She is the editor author of International Relations in the Global Village: Changing Interdependencies.
Her most recent book is The Unnamed Coup at Scarfless Democarcy (Basortusuz Demokrasi’de Adi Konmamis Darbe). A book on her political life The Day Turkey Stood Still: Merve Kavakci's Walk in to the Turkish Parliament authored by American author Richard Peres was recently released.

Awards
Kavakçı is recognized among the World's Most Influential 500 Muslims. She was recognized among "Women of Excellence" by NAACP and GWU in 2004. She was awarded the Public Service Award in Tribute and in Recognition of efforts for the advancement of human rights and Muslim Women's empowerment by International Association for Women and Children in 2000. She was awarded Service to Humanity Award by Haus Der Kulturellen Aktivität und Toleranz in Vienna, Austria in 1999. She was granted Mother of the Year Award by Capital Platform of Ankara and National Youth Organization in 1999.

Family
She is married and has two children.

References

Other websites
 Muslim Girl Style 

1968 births
Living people
Politicians from Ankara
Harvard University alumni
MediaCorp Channel 8 is a television channel in Singapore. It is owned by MediaCorp. 

The Chinese language channel was launched in 1963. It broadcasts news, dramas and variety shows. It operates 24 hours a day, every day. It used to be SBC 8. The channel shows programs from Singapore, Taiwan and China.

Television channels in Asia
Singaporean culture
Promiscuity is the practice of having casual sex frequently with different partners. In cultures where sexual activity happens only in exclusive committed relationships, promiscuity is criticized as a bad activity. A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous is a one-night stand.

What sexual behavior is considered promiscuous varies between cultures, as does the frequency of promiscuity. A study published in 2005 found that promiscuous men and women are judged equally harshly. A recent poll showed that both genders tend to express strong preference for sexually conservative partners. However, later studies show evidence for a double standard.

Promiscuity is common in many animal species. Some species have promiscuous mating systems, ranging from polyandry and polygyny to mating systems with no stable relationships. Many species form stable pair bonds, but still mate with other individuals outside the pair.

References 

Sexuality
Below is a list of all Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems in Singapore. 

The LRT systems are intra-town loops, shuttle services, or both. The routes may not run in sequence of the stations' alpha-numeric codes.

LRT stations

References

Other websites 
 Train System Map

Rail transport lists
Irena Stanisława Sendler (15 February 1910 – 12 May 2008) was a nurse and social worker in Warsaw, Poland. During World War II, when Poland was occupied by Nazis, she took about 2,500 Jewish children out of Poland with help from other members of the Żegota (pl) (The Polish Council to Aid Jews). She was caught, and the Nazis tortured her.

The Nazis were planning on killing her, but she avoided death.

References

Other websites

Victims of Nazism
Nurses
Polish people
Righteous Among the Nations
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (born 29 December 1962) was the President of Catalonia. His party, Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya, CDC) won the elections in 2016.

Removal
His status as President is a matter of dispute following Catalonia's declaration of independence from Spain on 27 October 2017. From the perspective of the Government of Catalonia, he remains Catalan President. From the perspective of the Government of Spain, he was removed from office by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on 28 October 2017. Puigdemont did not recognize his removal from office, stating that he will "work to build a free country".

On 30 October 2017, Puigdemont fled to Belgium in a move to avoid action from the Spanish judiciary. A month later, he was re-elected to the Parliament.

Arrest
On 2 November, Spanish courts issued an European Arrest Warrant against Puigdemont and four other cabinet members to Belgian authorities. Two days later, they turned themselves in to the Belgian police. Hours later, he was released.

On 25 March 2018, while returning to Brussels from a trip to Finland, Puigdemont was stopped near the Danish border with Germany and arrested pursuant to the European warrant that had been reissued against him two days previously. On 5 April 2018, the Oberlandesgericht in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein ruled that Puigdemont would not be extradited on the charges of rebellion, and released him on bail.

Notes

References

1962 births
Living people
Journalists
Presidents of the Government of Catalonia
Hurricane Odile was a hurricane (tropical cyclone) that happened in mid-September 2014. It made landfall in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. On September 15, 2014, Odile damaged several luxury resorts in Cabo San Lucas. Parts of several hotels collapsed and about 135 people were injured. Fifteen people were killed in the storm. At the time of the damage it had wind speeds of 140 miles per hour. Damage from Odile was 16.6 billion Mexican pesos ($1.22 billion in 2014 US dollars).

The name Odile was later retired. It was replaced with Odalys for the 2020 Pacific hurricane season.

References

Hurricanes in Mexico
2014 in weather
Hurricanes in the United States
2014 in the United States
2010s in Texas
2010s in Mexico
House of Fortune () is a Singaporean drama television series. It is produced and shown on Mediacorp Channel 8. It began its run from 19 January 2016. There are 20 episodes. It stars Zhu Houren, Thomas Ong, Kym Ng, Tong Bing Yu, Yao Wenlong, Xiang Yun, Shane Pow, Ya Hui, Bonnie Loo and Sora Ma as the main characters. The series revolves around a creative director and his wife, who are beset by financial trouble and move in with an elderly relative, with their eye on his bungalow. With the same goal in mind, his sister and her failed songwriter husband move in too and vie for control of the house.

Cast
Zhu Houren as Qian Laoshi
Thomas Ong as Qian Renjie
Kym Ng as Qian Meiling
Tong Bing Yu as Luo Shuping
Yao Wenlong as Wu Guolun
Xiang Yun as Chen Xiulian
Shane Pow as Bai Zhengyu
Ya Hui as Wu Xixi
Bonnie Loo as Qian Ningning
Aden Tan as Wu Jiaming
Sora Ma as Hu Simin
Daren Tan as Bobby
Bukoh Mary as May
Wendy Tseng as Mary
Nico Chua as Helen
Ong Ai Leng as Gao Lishen
Zen Chong as Henry
Anthony Png as Lawrence

References

Singaporean television programs
Chinese language
2010s television series
Drama television series
Peace & Prosperity (Chinese: 富贵平安) is a Singaporean drama television series. It is produced and shown on Mediacorp Channel 8. It began its run from 4 April 2016. There are 170 episodes. It stars Xiang Yun, Desmond Tan, Julie Tan, Zhang Wei, Belinda Lee, Tong Bing Yu, Dawn Yeoh, Tracy Lee, Michelle Wong, Terence Cao, Ben Yeo, Jeffrey Xu, Romeo Tan, Shane Pow, Marcus Chin, Lin Meijiao, Yao Wenlong, Ling Xiao, Jayley Woo, Zhu Houren, Priscelia Chan and Seraph Sun as the main characters. The story revolves around the lives of the Huang family who have been running a TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) clinic for three generations. The family-run business is searching for its next successor, as the young generation of Huangs are not interested in TCM and have yet to prove themselves capable of running the business.

Cast
Xiang Yun as Shen Ping An
Desmond Tan as Hong Yingxiong
Julie Tan as Huang Zihong
Zhang Wei as Huang Datong
Belinda Lee as Huang Ziting
Tong Bing Yu as Huang Zishan
Dawn Yeoh as Huang Zijun
Tracy Lee as Huang Ziyu
Michelle Wong as Huang Zixin
Terence Cao as He Sheng
Romeo Tan as Lan Baojie
Ben Yeo as Bryan Li
Jeffrey Xu as Lu Xiaoqiang
Shane Pow as Huang Zihao
Marcus Chin as Huang Yuanhao
Lin Meijiao as Lin Shuzhi
Yao Wenlong as Xiao Tiantian
Ling Xiao as Xiao Fangfang
Jayley Woo as Megan Yeo
Zhu Houren as Ouyang Yixiu
Priscelia Chan as Ouyang Fengying
Seraph Sun as Xu Cuihua

References

Singaporean television programs
Chinese language
2010s television series
Drama television series
The Katur dynasty ruled the ancient kingdom of Chitral and parts of the Hindukush region Afghanistan. The name mehtar or mitar is used for the ruler in ancient Erina language.

History of Afghanistan
History of Pakistan
The Golden Temple, or Golden Gurudwara is the holiest shrine of Sikhs. It was built in late 16th century by Sri Guru Arjan Dev ji
, and a copy of the Sikh scripture was placed inside the Gurudwara in 1604. Its sanctum walls were covered in marble and the dome was decorated with gold foil by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in the 19th century. More than 100,000 people visit this monument every month

Sackhkhand Sri Harmandir Sahib is the official and original name of the Golden Temple.[1] It is in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. The Gurudwara is surrounded by a sacred pool called "sarover"and group of buildings important to the Sikh religion. The complex is the most important pilgrimage site in Sikhism and it is also called Sri Darbar Sahib. One of these buildings in the complex is the Sri Akal Takht, the highest religious authority for Khalsa Sikhs. Another building is the langar, where a free simple vegetarian meal is served to all without any discrimination. The Gurudwara is a place of worship for men and women from all walks of life and all religions to come and worship God. The four entrances (representing the four directions) to get into the Harmandir Sahib also symbolise the openness of the Sikhs towards all people and religions.

The present-day gurdwara was rebuilt in 1764 by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia with the help of other Sikh Misls. In the early nineteenth century, Maharaja Ranjit Singh founded the Sikh Empire and covered the upper floors of the gurdwara with gold, which gives it its distinctive appearance and its English name.[10] It contains the  Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji, the Sikh scripture. On 4th July 1955, Indian Army entered the complex wearing shoes and caused destruction in the complex. Also, in June 1984 the Golden Temple complex was blown apart by tanks, snipers, grenades and rocket launchers by the Indian military and government and Sri Akal Takht Sahib was destroyed and then rebuilt later. It was once again attacked at a smaller scale by the Punjab Police, National Security Guard and Border Security Force in 1986 as part of Operation Black Thunder 1 from April-July 1986 and Operation Black Thunder 2 in May 1988.

References 

Sikhism
Temples
Punjab, India
Joo Koon MRT Station (EW29) is a MRT Station in Singapore. It is along the East West MRT Line. It was the terminus station until the Tuas West extension is completed. The station code was originally W14 before the opening.

However every alternate trains will still terminate here despite the opening of the TWE. The other half of the westbound train will then proceed to Tuas after Joo Koon.

History
This station was announced in 2004. Construction began on May 2006 and was completed in 28 February 2009.

Joo Koon rail accident
The Joo Koon rail accident occurred on 15 November 2017, when two trains met into accident causing 36 injuries. The stationary train was in the process of being detrained due to a train fault. This incident is the second train collision in Singapore MRT's history, after the Clementi rail accident in 1993. Both trains were operating under the recently installed Thales SelTrac CBTC signalling system at time of incident, and the Minister of Transport Khaw Boon Wan expressed that he was "disturbed" by an initial finding that a "critical safety software" was inadvertently removed from the stationary train, possibly due to a malfunctioning signalling circuit, had led to the accident.

References

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Expo MRT Station (CG1/DT35) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It  is an interchange station along the East West MRT Line and Downtown MRT Line. It is located near the Singapore Expo.

History
The station was opened 10 January 2001 for the East West Line and on 21 October 2017 for the Downtown line. It was originally named Somapah. This station was the last station to use the old MRT station coding, E13 before it eventually phased out on 31 July 2001.

The station has been connected from the East West Line to the Downtown Line through the former public underpass from 2001 to 2011. Exit A is a unpaid linkway from the East West Line to the Downtown Line.

Design
The station is designed with a titanium structure and a cantilevered roof with a modern, space-age look.

References

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
2001 establishments in Asia
2000s establishments in Singapore
Papanasam is a town in Tirunelveli district. This town is where the Thamirabarani River rises. In one of Papanasam's temples, a ritual is held to wash away sins. People throw the clothes they wear into the Thamirabarani River. The movie acted by Kamalahaasan was shot in and named Papanasam.

Tirunelveli district
Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India. He was born in a humble family, was picked up, taught and counselled by Chanakya (also known as Kautilya) – a Hindu Brahmin who wrote the Arthashastra. Together, Chandragupta and Chanakya built one of the largest empires on the Indian subcontinent. 

Chandragupta Maurya defeated Seleucus I Nicator, one of the successful satrapies of Alexander the Great and married Seleucus I Nicator daughter Helena . He was the ruler until 297 BC. He became a Jain monk and died at Shravanabelagola of Karnataka in the same year. 

Emperors and empresses
Indian monarchs

Maurya Empire
Ramanathapuram district is one of the 37 districts in Tamil Nadu. Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was born there. It is located in south east direction of tamilnadu.It is coastal area with more palmyra trees. It is famous for its fishing and Production of palm sap, palm sugar,palm jaggery etc.It is one of the biggest districts in tamilnadu by area space.Most of the people doing agriculture as their main occupation.

Main cities 

Paramakudi, Kamuthi, Sayalkudi,Ramanathapuram, Uchipuli, Mandapam, Rameswaram area the main cities of Ramanathapuram district.

Pilgrim centres

● Sri Ramanathaswamy temple, Rameswaram

● Sri kothandaramar temple, Dhanushkodi road, Rameswaram

● Sri bhadrakali amman temple, Rameswaram

● Sri Nambunayaki amman temple, Rameswaram

●Sri Mangalanathar temple, Thiru uthirakosamangai

●Sri Aadhi jaganathaperumal temple, Thirupullani

● Sri Sethu bandhana Aanjaneyar temple, Sethukarai

● Erwadi dargha, Erwadi

● Sri Veiluganatha Vinayar temple, Uppoor

●Sri Muthalamman Temple, Paramakudi

Tourist places

Agni theertham,Rameswaram, Arichalmunai,Dhanushkodi, Pamban bridge, Kundhukal, Villoondi theertham, Kushi beach, Thalaithoppu beach,Ramar patham etc.

Railway stations in Ramanathapuram district 

 Sudiyur-சூடியூர்-सूडियूर्
 Paramakudi-பரமக்குடி-परमक्कुडि
 Sathirakudi-சத்திரக்குடி-सत्तिरक्कुडि
 Ramanathapuram-இராமநாதபுரம்-रामनाथपुरम्
 Valantharavai -வாலாந்தரவை-वालान्तरवै
 Uchippuli-உச்சிப்புளி-उच्चिप्पुळि
 Mandapam Camp-மண்டபம் கேம்ப்-मण्डपम् केम्प्
 Mandapam-மண்டபம்-मण्डपम्
 Pamban-பாம்பன்-पाम्बन्
 Rameswaram -இராமேஸ்வரம்-रामेश्वरम्
The Teesta River (or Tista) is a river in the Indian state of Sikkim. It is  long.

Course 
The Teesta river starts at Pahunri glacier, and flows south through rapids in the Sikkim Himalaya. The river goes by the town of Rangpo. It changes course southwards flowing into West Bengal, before joining the Brahmaputra River.

Sikkim
Rivers of West Bengal
Rangpo is a town in East Sikkim in the Indian state of Sikkim. The town borders West Bengal. It is on the Teesta river. All vehicles entering Sikkim have to stop here.

Industrialization 
 
Rangpo is now the center for almost all the pharmaceutical companies. The town is one of the fastest growing towns in the state.

Settlements in Sikkim
Towns in India
Tampines MRT station (EW2/DT32) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the Downtown line and East West line in Tampines, Singapore. The station is close to Tampines Bus Interchange and the new Tampines Concourse Bus Interchange. It is also one of the few interchange stations where the MRT lines are not connected.

In Tampines, the other two stations are Tampines West and Tampines East.

At Tampines MRT Station (DTL), the passenger service centre (control station) is only available at the exit to Tampines Bus Interchange. While preparing for the closure of the station at overnight, passengers are not allowed to use Tampines Concourse faregates, and the shutters at the Tampines Concourse will be closed first, following by shuttering the bus interchange entrance.

History
The station was opened on 16 December 1989. The Downtown Line Stage 3 station started construction in September 2011 and completed on 21 October 2017.

Incidents
On August 8, 2003, a train travelling towards Boon Lay lost traction current at 10.13 pm and could not move along the track between Pasir Ris and Tampines. An empty train was used to push the train towards Tampines and service resumed at 10.35 pm. The same issue occured 21 minutes later and it was only fixed shortly before the end of the train service.

On 7 May 2007, a man in his 50s hit his head against a train that was entering the station and got his foot was stuck in the platform gap. Train services towards Boon Lay were disrupted for about 8 minutes.

On 21 January 2008, a maintenance works train which was carrying out repairs between Tampines and Simei broke down. It caused a service disruption from the start of service until 12.45pm and affected 57,000 passengers.

Exits
There are several exits in Tampines MRT Station. However, some will not be linked together when Downtown Line opens in 2017. Station name with respective exits signs have been put up for Tampines station for the Downtown Line in August 2017 therefore there are 7 exits for the entire station with letters ranging from A to G.

East West Line:

A: Eastlink Mall , Tampines Bus Interchange, Transfer to Downtown Line
B: Tampines 1
C: Tampines Mall, Century Square

Downtown Line:

D: Eastlink Mall, Tampines Bus Interchange, Transfer to East West Line Concourse
E: Tampines Concourse Bus Interchange, Tampines Concourse
F: Tampines Bus Interchange, Tampines Central 1, Our Tampines Hub
G: Lift access for Exit F

Services and Connections
The East West Line provides connection from Tampines to Simei and Pasir Ris as feeder services besides a major throughfare to Tuas Link, Joo Koon, city, Expo and Changi Airport. The Downtown Line provides connection from Tampines to Tampines West and Tampines East stations as feeder services besides a major thoroughfare to the city and Bukit Panjang.

Tampines station is connected to Tampines Bus Interchange and there are a lot of bus services that provides connection to other parts of Singapore.

Former codes
Formerly the code was: E11

Related pages
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

References

Other websites

 

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
1989 establishments in Singapore
Karaikal district is one of the 4 districts of the Puducherry union territory. It is the 2nd biggest district of the union territory after the Puducherry district. The capital is Karaikal port city. The district is made of communes Kottucherry, Nedungadu, Thirunallar, Neravy and Thirumalairajanpattinam.

The Karaikal district formed an integral part of the Pallava kingdom in the 8th century. Thirunallar Saniswaran Temple and Karaikal Ammaiyar Temple can be found in the district.

The rivers Arasalar, Veerasolan River, Kodamurutti River, Kaveri River's other tributaries reach the sea here. The Karaikal Port is one of the biggest in South India. The Karaikal Airport is being constructed. It will be the first airport built entirely with private capital.

Districts of India
Puducherry
Karaikal District
Johann Ambrosius Bach (22 February 1645 – ) was a German musician and the father of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Ambrosius was born in Erfurt, Germany. His father, Christoph Bach (1613–1661) was also a musician, as was his twin brother Johann Christoph Bach (1645–1693). Ambrosius was employed as a violinist in Erfurt.

In 1671, Ambrosius moved his family to Eisenach, where he was employed as a court trumpeter and director of the town musicians. He married his first wife Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt on 1 April 1668, and they had eight children. Four of these children became musicians, including Johann Sebastian. Marie died and was buried on 3 May 1694. On 27 November 1694 Ambrosius married Barbara Margaretha. This was her third marriage; both her former husbands, including Johann Günther Bach, had died. She had two young daughters. Ambrosius became very sick, and died in Eisenach less than three months later. Barbara was unable to look after all the children, so Johann Jacob Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach, moved in with the eldest son, Johann Christoph Bach.

References

Other websites
Johann Ambrosius Bach on the Sojurn Web site
Johann Ambrosius Bach on the Bach Cantatas Web site

1645 births
1695 deaths
Johann Ambrosius
Baroque composers
German composers
People from Erfurt
Chinatown MRT Station (NE4/DT19) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is an interchange station along the North East MRT Line and Downtown MRT Line.  It was the first MRT station with both lines operated by SBS Transit.

On the North East Line, it lies between the Outram Park and Clarke Quay MRT stations and between Telok Ayer and Fort Canning MRT stations on the Downtown Line. It is directly below and serves the ethnic district of Chinatown. The construction of the station was considered an engineering achievement, due to the busy traffic on the roads above and a number of nearby historical buildings that had to be preserved during the construction. The section of track between Telok Ayer and this station is the shortest between any two stations on the MRT network; it takes around 35 to 40 seconds for a train to travel between the stations. The distance between Chinatown and the next station, Clarke Quay, is the shortest distance between two MRT stations in Singapore, a mere 360 metres.

History
This station is said to be the most challenging station to build on the North-East line, due to the large number of buildings above ground, most with reinforced concrete or timber piles and all in marine clay. Another feat was that they had to preserve Garden Bridge, a large overhead bridge on bore piles, while building the station below. The tidal Eu Tong Sen Canal was also diverted into four two-meter diameter steel pipes slung under the temporary traffic decks (two on each side). Part of the New Bridge Road was often closed between 12 January 1998 and 20 October 2001 for the construction of Chinatown MRT Station. This station was named People's Park before it was renamed in 1999. It was originally H3 / C3 before opening.

References

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Peter Thomas (June 28, 1924 – April 30, 2016) was an American announcer and narrator of television programs, including Nova, Forensic Files and Medical Detectives.

Early life
Thomas was born in Pensacola, Florida, to Dr. John D. Thomas and Sibyl Addenbrooke. He had two younger brothers, John and David.

Thomas began his career at fourteen as an announcer on a local radio show. The station could not pay him due to his age, so they arranged for the sponsor, Piper Aircraft, to give him flying lessons in a Piper Cub.

After World War II started, Thomas left The Stony Brook School and volunteered for the United States Army in 1943. He served with the First Infantry Division in five major campaigns. This included the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He was issued a Battle star for each of the five campaigns. He was also awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the French Croix de guerre.

Career
Thomas received many awards for his work. He said that one of his best was the Oscar won by a documentary he narrated, One Survivor Remembers. That documentary, produced by HBO, talks about the personal experience of Gerda Weissman Klein, who was imprisoned at the Nordhausen Concentration Camp when she was a teenager. Thomas' unit helped free the prisoners at Nordhausen. Klein and Thomas met during the making of the documentary, and again at its premiere. Thomas also participated in an HBO movie on the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, in which he fought with the 1st Infantry Division (United States). Thomas was also the narrator for a show that ran on The Discovery Channel in 1993 that was called How the West was Lost. Thomas was the narrator for the two-hour Nova episode entitled D-Day's Sunken Secrets, broadcast May 28, 2014, just before the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings; he participated in the original D-Day landing on Omaha Beach.

Personal life
Thomas was married to Stella (Barrineau) Thomas until her 2014 death, and lived in Naples, Florida. He was involved in work with veterans, having served on the board of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation and in other similar roles.

He worked out of his home for recording studios all across the country. Also he continued narrating at recording studios in New York City, where he worked for most of his career. Prior to pursuing narration full-time, he was a New York anchor for CBS News.

Death
Thomas died on April 30, 2016 of natural causes at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
 
 Peter Thomas Tribute - from truTV's Forensic Files.
 We owe our freedom to GIs who fought  by Peter Thomas, veteran of Hurtgen Forest and Battle of the bulge

1924 births
2016 deaths
American military personnel of World War II
American voice actors
People from Pensacola, Florida
People from Naples, Florida
Sean Burke (born January 29, 1967) is a Canadian retired NHL goalie. He played 18 seasons in the NHL. He is a 3-time All-Star in the NHL. He announced his retirement on September 18, 2007.

He was born in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario.

Other websites
 

1967 births
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Carolina Hurricanes players
Florida Panthers players
Hartford Whalers players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
Los Angeles Kings players
New Jersey Devils players
Olympic silver medalists
Philadelphia Flyers players
Phoenix Coyotes players
Sportspeople from Ontario
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Vancouver Canucks players
American Hockey League players
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
Ontario Hockey League players
The Basseri  are a Persian nomadic and pastoral tribe of the Fars Province in Iran.Their migratory area is around Shiraz.The Basseri are a tribe of Khamseh confederation.

Basseries are Persian.They are the survivors of Pasargadean tribe, the biggest tribe of Persia in Achaemenid Empire period.They speak Persian with a different accent.They are Shia Muslims.

Sources

Ehsan Yousefi,nomads of Persia:The Basseri tribe;2014;Shiraz 

Iran
Ethnic groups in the Middle East
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic is when an outbreak of laughter occurred in Tanganyika (which is modern day Tanzania), in 1962. It spread throughout nearby villages, infecting mostly young girls.

1962
1960s in Africa
Tanzania
Shiraz or Syrah is a variety of grape that is used to produce red wine. Originally, these grapes grew in the Rhone valley, but they are now cultivated all over the world to produce red wine.

Fruits
Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner, 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist.

Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He spent a large part of his career at the University of Sussex, where he was an emeritus professor. Kroto was an early supporter of Asteroid Day.

Kroto died on 30 April 2016 in Lewes, East Sussex from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of 76.

References

Other websites

Harry Kroto personal website
Florida State University page 
University of Sheffield page

1939 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
British Nobel Prize winners
English chemists
People from Cambridgeshire

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Outram Park MRT Station (EW16/NE3/TE17) is an MRT Station in Singapore. It is an interchange station on the  East West MRT Line and North East MRT Line. It will also be an interchange for the Thomson-East Coast MRT Line, where it would become one of three triple line interchanges in Singapore by 2022.

Timeline
12 December 1987: Station opened along East West Line
20 June 2003: North East Line opened, making Outram an interchange station
29 August 2012: Thomson-East Coast Line was announced, making a triple interchange station
2021: Thomson-East Coast Line will begin operation

Following Stations
East West Line
Previous: Tanjong Pagar (EW15)Next: Tiong Bahru (EW17)

North East Line
Previous: HarbourFront (NE1/CC29)Next: Chinatown (NE4/DT19)

Thomson-East Coast Line (U/C)
Previous: Havelock (TE16)Next: Maxwell (TE18)

Former Codes
East West Line: W2 (1987 - 2001)
North East Line: H2 (before opening)
Thomson-East Coast Line: N/A

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
1987 establishments in Singapore
The splendid astrapia (Astrapia splendidissima) is a bird-of-paradise about 39 cm long. The male is black with an iridescent yellow-green mantle (cloak). It has a blue-green throat, dark green below. The tail feathers are short, broad and white with black tips. The female has a brown plumage and dark head.

Little is known about this bird. It lives in the mountain forests of the west central highlands of New Guinea. Its diet is fruit, insects, lizards and frogs.

References 

Paradisaeidae
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B is the third generation rolling stock used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the East West Line and North South Line.

The trains began operation on 28 January 2000. They were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Nippon Sharyo. 21 six-carriage trains were built in Japan.

Related pages
Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151
Siemens C651
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151B

MRT Singapore
Rolling stock