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Piedmont is a small, mostly-residential, semi-suburban city located in Alameda County, California, United States. Piedmont is completely surrounded by the city of Oakland.

Notable people 
 Richard Carlson, author
 James Clifford, historian
 Peter Cornell, NBA player and agent
 Al Davis, football executive
 Alice Dinnean, puppeteer
 Sonny Dykes, former head coach of the University of California football team, currently an assistant coach at Texas Christian University
 Erin Fetherston, designer
 Alex Hirsch, creator of animated series Gravity Falls
 William F. Knowland, publisher of The Oakland Tribune
 Joan London, writer
 Cuonzo Martin, former head coach of the University of California basketball team, currently head coach of the University of Missouri
 Elsie Whitaker Martinez, artist
 Xavier Martínez, artist
 Robert McNamara, American Businessman and Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy
 Asieh Namdar, television journalist
 Wes Nisker, radio personality
 Gyo Obata, architect
 Ashley Paris, basketball player
 Courtney Paris, basketball player
 Arun Sarin, ex-CEO of Vodafone
 Cynthia Stevenson, actress
 David C. Waybur, decorated soldier
 Herman Whitaker, writer
 Zhaoming Wu, painter
 George Zimmer, businessman, Men's Wearhouse

Settlements in Alameda County, California
Cities in California
Cities in the San Francisco Bay Area
Enclaves
Tajikistan sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.  Two people will be competing in para-Nordic skiing in Tajikistan's first appearance at the Winter Paralympics.  They trained in Germany and China before the start of the Games.

Team 
Two people will compete at the Winter Paralympics in South Korea.  They are both competing in para-Nordic skiing.  Georgia, North Korea and Tajikistan are the three countries making their first appearance at Winter Paralympics.

Russian doping scandal 
15 National Paralympic Committees and the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation signed a letter expressing support for the National Paralympic Committee of Russia in August 2017. The countries included Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Montenegro, and South Korea.  They asked the IPC Governing Board to consider letting Russia compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.  The letter was signed weeks before the IPC Governing Board met in Abu Dhabi. In September 2017, this decision was reviewed and upheld.  The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) still had concerns about doping in Russian sport.  All the conditions the IPC required of the Russians were not met.

History 
Tajikistan had never competed at the Winter Paralympics before 2018. These Games are their Winter Games debut.  The country has only compete at four Summer Paralympics.  They were the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games. Tajikistan has three total people compete at these four Games.  They never won a medal.
The country did not send any competitors to the 2018 Winter Olympics.  They had competed at every Winter Games since 2002.  No one competed in qualifying competitions for the Olympics.

Para-Nordic skiing 
Tajikistan has a skier competing in para-Nordic skiing.  They trained in Germany and China before the start of the Games.

Schedule and results 
On 12 March, the 15 km race takes place, with standing and vision impaired women starting at 10:00 PM.  Thee sprint classic qualification takes place on 14 March from 10:00 AM - 11:25 AM for both men and women in all classes. It is followed in the afternoon by the semifinals and finals.  The classic race takes place on 17 March. The standing and visually impaired women's race takes place from 10:00 AM - 12:30.

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Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
Sport in Tajikistan
American Gold Star Mothers, Inc. (AGSM), is a private nonprofit organization. It is a group of American mothers who lost sons or daughters in service of the United States Armed Forces. It was formed in 1928 for mothers of those lost in World War I. The organization has a congressional charter under Title 36 § 211 of the United States Code. The name came from the custom of families of servicemen hanging a banner called a service flag in the windows of their homes.  The flag had a star for each family member in the Armed Forces.  Living members of the military  were represented by a blue star. Those who died in combat were represented by a gold star.

Membership in the organization is open to any woman who is a U.S. citizen or legal resident. They must have had a child die in active service in the U.S. military. The place or time of the military service does not matter. The circumstances of death do not matter either.Mothers of those missing in action can be a part of the organization.

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"Dance Again" is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez.  It features Cuban-American rapper Pitbull.  The song was released as the lead single from Lopez' first greatest-hits album, Dance Again... the Hits, on April 2, 2012.  The song was produced by RedOne, who also produced Lopez' and Pitbull's collaboration "On the Floor".

The song has reached the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Spain, Finland, Italy, and Canada and the top twenty in countries like the US, Germany, New Zealand. and the UK.

Music video
The music video features Lopez dancing with masked dancers, including her then-boyfriend, Casper Smart.  It has reached over 428 million views on YouTube as of February 2018.

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Jennifer Lopez songs
2012 songs
was a Japanese artist. She worked with sumi ink paintings and prints. Her art was about traditional calligraphy with modern abstract expressionism. Shinoda's works had been exhibited in the Hague National Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum and other leading museums in the world.

She returned to Japan and continues to work. She turned 100 in March 2013. Shinoda died on March 1, 2021 in Tokyo, aged 107.

References

Other websites 
 Toko Shinoda Gallery 篠田桃紅美術空間
 Toko Shinoda's Recent Works
 Review of exhibition on occasion of Shinoda's 100th birthday

1913 births
Japanese centenarians
Japanese artists
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2023 (MMXXIII) is .

Predicted and scheduled events 
 January 15 – April 15 – Expo 2023 is scheduled in Buenos Aires.

Date unknown
 SpaceX will send Yusaku Maezawa and his friends to the Moon.
 OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu in the Apollo group.
 Kanal İstanbul will be finished.
 London's new £4.1 billion "super sewer" will be finished, upgrading the existing Victorian infrastructure.
 The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
 According to words of Turkey's president (formerly a prime minister) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, if the countries of the European Union will not accept Turkey as a member before the year 2023, Turkey would no longer be a candidate to the union.

In fiction
 Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (1991)
 Perfect Dark (2000)
 Crysis 2 (2011) The events of this game are set in a post-apocalypse New York City in warfare with aliens.
 Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)
 Gunbuster (1988)
 Click (2006): Michael Newman uses his remote control and is unwillingly sent to 2023, among other years.
 Doomsday (2008): briefly mentions the extension of the Thames Barrier due to torrential floods in 2023
 2023 (2009) Norwegian shortfilm.
 X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): In the Future, Sentinels have been created to hunt down Mutants. They eventually begin targeting Humans with a strong possibility to have mutant children and humans who help the mutants. A majority of the world's population has been killed. From here, the X-Men project Wolverine back to 1973 to prevent Sentinels from ever being created, saving all of mankind in the process.
 The Purge: Anarchy (2014): The events of the movie take place a year after the 2022 Purge.
 Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) (1986): Matthew Forman is put into cold sleep on June 18, 2023, in the hopes that his inoperable cancer can be cured in the future.
 Silent Mobius (1991)
 Batman Beyond (1999): Terry McGinnis to be born on August 18, 2023.
 Burn Up Scramble (2004)
 In episode 3 of season 2 of The Last Man on Earth it is revealed at Gordon's funeral, that the show is set in 2023.
 The novels The Carnival of Immortals (1980), The Woman Trap (1986) and  * Equator Cold (1992) by Enki Bilal are set in 2023.
 The novel Killing Time (2000) by Caleb Carr.
 The novel The Free Lunch (2001) by Spider Robinson The Disney Channel sitcom Good Luck Charlie'' featured an episode, "Future Drama" 10 years into the future (2023).

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Years in the future
James Christian "Jimmy" Hibbert  is an English screenwriter and voice actor best known for his work for Cosgrove Hall, mainly voicing Dr Von Goosewing, Ruffles, Gaston and many other characters in Count Duckula, Victor in Victor & Hugo, Bluey, Harry Slime and Bella in Avenger Penguins and Big Ears, Mr Plod, Mr Sparks, Mr Milko, Clockwork Clown, Gobbo and various male characters in Noddy's Toyland Adventures.

Hibbert studied drama at the University of Manchester. From 1974 until 1982, he was member of the band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, performing with them on records and in the play Sleak produced at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1977.

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English voice actors
People from Oxfordshire
The 2011 World Series is the 107th edition of the World Series, the championship game of Major League Baseball. It was between the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League and the Texas Rangers of the American League. The series lasted seven games and was won by the Cardinals. David Freese was named the World Series MVP.

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2011 in sports
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2010s in St. Louis, Missouri
2010s in Texas
The national flag of Nepal () was created in December 1962. It is the only national flag in the world that doesn't have four sides.

The current flag was adopted on 16 December 1962, along with the formation of a new constitutional government. It borrows from the original, traditional design, used throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and is a combination of the two individual flags used by rival branches of the ruling dynasty.

Appearance 
It has a combination of two red pennants with the large blue border around the unique shape of two overlapping right triangles: the smaller upper triangle bears the white stylised moon (the rising sun on the horizontal crescent moon) and the larger lower triangle displays the white twelve-pointed sun.

Incorrect versions 

Because of the Nepalese flag's unique shape, its large-scale reproduction is difficult. It is sometimes put on a white area to make the flag a rectangle; an example is the Nepalese flag used at some venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics where the flag design was placed on a cloth with the same shape as other flags at the Olympics, with the rest of the flag left white.

During a visit of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Janakpur, a version of the flag with incorrect shape was flown by officials, causing controversy.

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Nepal
Lawrence David Brown (16 December 1940 – 21 February 2018) was an American educator and statistic analyzer. Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1992-93. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013.

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Educators from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Educators from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Waldo Rudolph Tobler (1930 – February 20, 2018) was an American geographer and cartographer. He was born in Portland, Oregon.

Tobler's idea that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things"  is called as the "first law of geography." He has proposed a second law as well: "The phenomenon external to an area of interest affects what goes on inside". 

Tobler was an active Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Geography until his death.

Tobler died in Santa Barbara, California on February 20, 2018 at the age of 87.

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2018 deaths
Educators from Portland, Oregon
American geographers
Scientists from Portland, Oregon
Antonio García-Trevijano Forte (July 18, 1927 – February 28, 2018) was a Spanish political activist, and an author. He was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Granada and a notary, and worked as an attorney in Madrid from 1960 until his death in 2018. He was born in Granada, Spain.

García-Trevijano was called by the University Press of America as "a leading figure in Spanish politics since the late 1960s and probably one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century in political and aesthetic theory".

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Spanish writers
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Spanish educators
Political activists
Conservatives
Ștefan Tașnadi (Hungarian: István Tasnádi, 21 March 1953 – 28 February 2018) was a Romanian heavyweight weightlifter. He won a silver  medal at the 1984 Olympics. He was born in Cluj, Romania. Tașnadi took up lifting in 1970 at a sports school and from 1976 to 1984 was a member of the national team. He retired in 1984 to become a weightlifting coach.

Tașnadi died on 28 February 2018 in Cluj Napoca at the age of 65.

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1953 births
2018 deaths
Romanian sportspeople
Weightlifters
Olympic silver medalists
Luigi Taveri (19 September 1929 – 1 March 2018) was a Swiss motorcycle road racer. He was born in Horgen, Switzerland. He was three times world champion in the Grand Prix road racing championship, in 1962, 1964, and 1966.

Taveri made his world championship debut in the 1954 season. He participated in the Isle of Man TT on several occasions from 1955 to 1966 with three victories and several second placing amongst his results.

During his career he rode for MV Agusta, and became a works rider for Ducati, MZ, Kreidler and in 1961 for Honda.

Taveri died on 1 March 2018 in Zurich of complications from a stroke at the age of 88.

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María Rubio (September 20, 1934 – March 1, 2018) was a Mexican television, movie and stage actress. She worked with Televisa as an actress of telenovelas. She was born in Tijuana, Baja California. She was known for her roles in ¡Vivan los niños!, Salomé, Querida enemiga and in Una familia con suerte as Inés De la Borbolla y Ruiz. She retired in 2012.

Rubio died in Mexico City on March 1, 2018 at the age of 83.

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2018 deaths
Mexican movie actors
Mexican television actors
Mexican stage actors
Antonio Tajani (born 4 August 1953) is an Italian politician. He served as President of the European Parliament from January 2017 to July 2019. He served as European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship between 2010 and 2014. Tajani was also European Commissioner for Transport (2008–2010). He is a member of Forza Italia party.

Tajani studied law at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1994.

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1953 births
Living people
MEPs for Italy
Politicians from Rome
European Commissioners
Presidents of the European Parliament
Kaori Ishibashi (, Ishibashi Kaori; born May 6, 1962) is a Japanese confectionary researcher, baking instructor, and author known for her specialty in cheesecakes. She has written 47 baking cookbooks and over 400 cheesecake recipes.

Biography 
Kaori Ishibashi was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She raised in Nagano Prefecture where she graduated from Suwafutaba High School. She went on to attend Meiji University of Integrative Medicine. She graduated as a practitioner in acupuncture and moxibustion. After graduating, she worked at Tokyo Jiyugaoka Hospital as a chiropractor and practitioner of moxibustion.

Career 
Ishibashi began her confectionary career as a self-taught baker starting off with wholesale business to restaurants and taking request orders for wedding cakes while working as an acupuncturist. Fascinated by the art of baking, she began reading cookbook after cookbook wondering why her finished product never turned out as expected. Unsatisfied with the conventional methods found in the cookbooks she read she decided to learn under confectioner and former house of representatives member Makiko Fujino. After 3 years under the training of Fujino, she received a diploma from Makiko Foods Studio. Thereafter she attended various culinary schools around the world such as Bellouet Conseil in France, the The Culinary Institute of America, Valrhona Chocolate School in France, and received training under various French chefs visiting Japan.

Current Projects 
Ishibashi is currently living and working in Nagano, Japan as a confectionary researcher and author. She regularly publishes recipes in various magazines such as “レタスクラブ (retasukurabu), “Ｓａｉｔａ”, “おはよう奥さん” (ohayō okusan), “天然生活” (tennen seikatsu). She is also president of Cake Freak Inc. Ishibashi is currently focusing her efforts on opening her own cheesecake shop in New York City.

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1962 births
People from Chiba Prefecture
Living people
Researchers
Japanese educators
Japanese writers
Xaver Schlager (born 28 September 1997) is an Austrian footballer who plays as Midfielder for  VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.

Career
After playing for the youth team of SC St. Valentin he came to the FC Red Bull Salzburg Academy in 2011, where he played in all teams. In 2015, he was transferred to FC Liefering, the farm team of FC Red Bull Salzburg. In 2016 he signed a contract with FC Red Bull Salzburg. On May 10th 2016 he played his first match in the Austrian Bundesliga versus SV Grödig. He also was captain of the FC Salzburg U19 team which won the 2016/17 UEFA Youth League. On the 26 June 2019, Schlager signed for VfL Wolfsburg.

National team 
He played for the Austrian U16, U17, U19 and U21 national team. With Austria U19 he played the UEFA U19 European Championship 2015.  In March 2018 he had his first appearance in th Nationalteam of Austria.

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Living people
Austrian footballers
FC Red Bull Salzburg players
Players of FC Liefering
Players of the Austrian national football team
Mario Salieri (born November 29, 1957) is an Italian pornographic movie director and producer. He was born in Naples, Italy.

Salieri started his adult movie career with semi-amateur movies shot in Amsterdam for the Italian market. Since the early 1990s, he has directed and written many adult erotic titles. He was known for his movies La Dolce Vita (2003), Faust (2002), Casino (2001), Clinica della vergogna, La (1995), Eros e Tanatos (1995), Dracula (1994), Sceneggiata napoletana (1994), Adolescenza perversa (1993), Arabika (1992), Discesa all'inferno (1991), Napoli - Parigi, linea rovente 1 & 2 (1991), Roma Connection (1991) and Roman Orgies - Italian Perversions.

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1957 births
Italian movie directors
Italian movie producers
Living people
People from Naples
The flag of the Republic of China is a red flag with a navy blue canton bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays. In Chinese, the flag is commonly described as Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth(青天白日滿地紅) to reflect its property.

The flag was first used in mainland China as the Navy flag in 1912, and was made the official national flag of the Republic of China (ROC) in 1928 by the Kuomintang (KMT). The flag is no longer used in mainland China after the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949.

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Taiwan
The flag of Malaysia, also known as the Stripes of Glory (), was created in May 1950. The flag has 14 horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, a yellow crescent and 14-point star on a blue field.

Malaysia
Malaysia
The flag of Bhutan was created in 1969.

Appearance 
It has divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner to the upper fly-side corner; the upper triangle is yellow and the lower triangle is orange, with a white dragon called the Druk (the Thunder Dragon) holding four jewels (norbu) in its claws centered along the dividing line and facing away from the hoist.

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Bhutan
Bhutan
Bannio Anzino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Italian region Piedmont. It is about  northeast of Turin and about  west of Verbania.

Bannio Anzino is next to these municipalities: Calasca-Castiglione, Carcoforo, Ceppo Morelli, Fobello, Rimella, Vanzone con San Carlo.

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Settlements in Piedmont
24 is an 2016's India's Tamil-language Sci-fi thriller movie. Movies' writer and director is Vikram Kumar. The story is a Time travel fiction, where film's star actor Suriya had played triple roles, alongside with lead actress' Nithya Menen, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Saranya Ponvannan.

Cast 
 Suriya is in three roles
 Dr. Sethuraman, a scientist who invented the watch
 Athreya, Sethuraman's twin brother
 Manikandan "Mani" Sethuraman, Another name is Subramani, who is Sethuraman's son
 Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Sathya
 Nithya Menen as Priya Sethuraman, Sethuraman's wife
 Saranya Ponvannan as Sathyabama, Mani's adopted mother
 Ajay as Mithran, Athreya's assistant
 Girish Karnad as Sathya's Grandfather
 Mohan V. Raman as Sathya's father
 Sudha as Sathya's mother
 Sathyan as Saravanan, Mani's friend
 Charle as Reddiyar
 Appukutty as Reddiyar's staff
 Harsha Vardhan as Kalai, electrician/watchman who works for Athreya
 Natarajan Balkrishna as Sathya's uncle
 T S Ranganathan as Sathya's uncle

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2016 movies
Movies set in the 1990s
2010s Indian movies
Time travel movies
Tamil-language movies
Anatoly Yakovlevich Lein (; March 28, 1931 – March 1, 2018) was a Soviet-born American chess Grandmaster. He was born in Leningrad. 

In 1976 Lein emigrated to the United States, finishing equal first with Leonid Shamkovich in the U.S. Open, and equal first with Bernard Zuckerman in the World Open chess tournament that year. He also played on the U.S. team in the 1978 Chess Olympiad.

In 2005 he was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in Miami.

Lein died on March 1, 2018 in Beachwood, Ohio at the age of 86.

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American chess players
Sportspeople from Ohio
Jesús López Cobos (25 February 1940 – 2 March 2018) was a Spanish conductor. He was born in Toro, Zamora.

From 1981 to 1990 he was general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and from 1984 to 1988 he was music director of the Orquesta Nacional de España. From 1986 to 2001 he served as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and from 1990 to 2000 he was principal conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. From 2003 to 2010 he served as music director of the Teatro Real in Madrid.

López Cobos died in Berlin, Germany of neuroendocrine cancer on 2 March 2018 at the age of 78.

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2018 deaths
Deaths from neuroendocrine cancer
Cancer deaths in Germany
Spanish people
Conductors
William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner; 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Irish director and actor. He was a popular person in the growing Hollywood motion picture business of the 1910s and early 1920s. He directed 59 silent movies between 1914 and 1922 and acted in 27 between 1913 and 1915.

Taylor was shot and killed by an unknown suspect on 1 February 1922 at his Los Angeles home. The murder remains an official cold case (unsolved).

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1922 deaths
Murder in California
Murder victims
Deaths by firearm in the United States
Irish movie actors
Irish movie directors
Irish movie producers
Mabel Normand (November 9, 1892  – February 23, 1930) was an American silent movie actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in his Keystone Studios. She appeared in 12 successful movies with Charlie Chaplin and 17 with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

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1892 births
1930 deaths
Deaths from tuberculosis
Infectious disease deaths in California
American silent movie actors
Actors from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Movie directors from New York City
Movie producers from New York City
Mary Miles Minter (born Juliet Reilly; April 25, 1902 – August 4, 1984) was an American actress. She appeared in 54 silent era motion pictures from 1912 to 1923.
 
In 1922, Minter was involved in scandal surrounding the murder of director William Desmond Taylor, for whom she said she was in love with. Minter's reputation was ruined when her mother became a suspect, and she gave up her movie career in 1923.

Minter died of a stroke on August 4, 1984 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 82.

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1902 births
1984 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in California
American silent movie actors
American child actors
Actors from Louisiana
People from Shreveport, Louisiana
Olive Thomas (October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent movie actress and model. Her first movie, Madcap Madge, was released in June 1917. Thomas' popularity at movie studios grew with performances in Indiscreet Corrine (1917) and Limousine Life (1918). Oliva R. Duffy was born on October 20, 1894, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers. Olive or Ollie, as she was known to family and friends, did not have much of a childhood. Life in industrial Pittsburgh was depressing and grim with its smoky factories and hard living. Olive accidentally ingested bi-chloride of mercury from a French-labeled bottle in a darkened bathroom, believing it to be another medication. Found unconscious, she died five days later. The death made worldwide headlines. Olive was only 25 when she died. She was immediately rushed to a hospital. Blinded and unable to talk due to burned vocal chords, it was hard for her to communicate with the French police, who were investigating the incident. In any case, the police left satisfied the event was an accident. Thomas passed away a day later, with her husband and brother-in-law Owen Moore at her side. She was 25 years old. Olive's final film, Everybody's Sweetheart (1920), was released after her death. Her name lives on, steeped in her scandal, enhanced by fabrications in Hollywood Babylon. Many of her films still reportedly exist (about 12 complete and some in fragments), though they have not as of yet been released on DVD or home video. On September 10, 1920, Thomas died of acute nephritis in Paris five days after consuming mercury bichloride. Although her death was ruled accidental. Thomas' death has been called as one of the first heavily publicized Hollywood scandals. Only daughter in a family of three. Her brothers were Michael James (born February 1893) and William L. (born May 1898).

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 Literature on Olive Thomas

1894 births
1920 deaths
American silent movie actors
Actors from Pennsylvania
Models from Pennsylvania
Accidental deaths in France
Drug-related accidental deaths
Deaths from nephritis
Spalding County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is just south of Atlanta. The county seat is Griffin. Spalding County has two cities, one town, and many unincorporated areas.

1850s establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1851 establishments in the United States
Georgia (U.S. state) counties
Marc Lincoln Marks (February 12, 1927 – February 28, 2018) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. Marks served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district from 1977 to 1983.

In 1994, Bill Clinton nominated Marks as Commissioner of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.

Marks was born in Farrell, Pennsylvania. He studied at University of Alabama and at University of Virginia. Marks died on February 28, 2018 in Chevy Chase, Maryland at the age of 91.

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 The Spokes-man Review, retrieved 2 March 2011
 The Herald, Sharon P.A., retrieved 2 March 2011, retrieved 2 March 2011
 Business Publications: Global Network Privacy, retrieved 2 March 2011

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2018 deaths
United States representatives from Pennsylvania
US Republican Party politicians
The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018. The election was held to elect politicians to the Chamber of Deputies and Senate.

The last election was in 2013. In that election, the social democratic Democratic Party won the most seats.

The populist Five Star Movement won the most votes. Three months after the election, the Five Star Movement formed a coalition with the right-wing Lega Nord. Independent Giuseppe Conte became Prime Minister of Italy on 1 June 2018.

Parties

Major 

 Democratic Party (PD): led by Matteo Renzi. The PD is socially liberal and supports social democracy.
 Five Star Movement (M5S): led by Luigi Di Maio. The M5S is populist, anti-establishment, environmentalist and eurosceptic.
 Forza Italia (FI): led by Silvio Berlusconi. This party is liberal conservative and Christian democratic.
 Democrats and Progressives (MDP): led by Roberto Speranza. The MDP is progressive and left-wing.
 Popular Alternative (AP): led by Beatrice Lorenzin. The AP is centrist, liberal conservative and Christian democratic.
 Lega Nord (LN): led by Matteo Salvini. The LN is regionalist, populist, eurosceptic and anti-immigration.

Polling

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2010s in Italy
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Vanessa Goodwin (22 April 1969 – 3 March 2018) was an Australian politician. She was the Liberal Party member for the seat of Pembroke in the Tasmanian Legislative Council from the Pembroke by-election on 1 August 2009 until her resignation due to health reasons on 2 October 2017.

Goodwin died from brain cancer on 3 March 2018 in Hobart, Tasmania, aged 48.

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Australian lawyers
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Pattan is a town in Lower Kohistan District, Pakistan. It is also the capital of the district.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Towns in Pakistan
On 26 February 2018, at 3:44 a.m. local time (25 February, 17:44 UTC), an earthquake of 7.5 moment magnitude struck in Hela Province, Papua New Guinea. The earthquake's epicenter was  west of the town of Komo. The intensity of the earthquake was IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. At least 31 people were killed and a further 300 were injured.

The main shock struck at a depth of 35 km below the northern slopes of Mt. Sisa, and was followed by a 5.5 Mw aftershock less than 30 minutes later.

A state of emergency was declared on March 1 for the provinces of Hela, Southern Highlands, Enga and Western, together with a promise of 450 million kina (about 136 million US$) to help deal with the aftermath of the quake.

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Other websites
  Main page for this earthquake on ReliefWeb

Papua-New Guinea
Earthquake
History of Papua New Guinea
Chakdara (Urdu and ) is a town in Lower Dir District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Lower Dir District
Towns in Pakistan
Ota Filip (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018) was a Czech novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech.

During the communist era government of Czechoslovakia his works were banned or censored by the authorities, and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in 1968, he was sentenced for his dissident activities, and incarcerated between 1969 and 1971.

After he was released from political prison, he moved to Germany in 1974.

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 Homepage 
 Slovnik ceske literatury
 Medailon na Portálu české literatury 
 Ota Filip a poznámky k jeho takzvaným ostravským románům 

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Asif Ali Zardari (; ) is a Pakistani politician who was the 11th President of Pakistan from 2008 to 2013 and the former co-chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party.
He became famous after he married Benazir Bhutto in 1987, daughter of the former prime minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. His wife became prime minister in 1988. He returned from self-exile from Dubai when his wife was assassinated in 2007. As new co-chairperson he became president after his party won the 2008 general elections. He passed the 18th amendment to constitutionally reduce his powers and allied with the U.S in the war in Afghanistan.

Early life
Zardari was born on 26 July 1955 in Karachi, Sindh.

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Li Boguang (; October 1968 – 26 February 2018) was a Chinese legal scholar and human rights activist. He was the director of the Quimin Research Institute in Beijing. Li supported farmers seeking compensation for confiscated farmland. He was arrested in 2004 following his involvement in the Tangshan protest.

Li died on 26 February 2018 of liver cancer on 26 February 2018 at the age of 49. His death has raised questions as to whether the Chinese government was responsible for his death. His death has been compared to Liu Xiaobo.

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The flag of Papua New Guinea was created in 1971.

Appearance 
It has divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner to the lower fly-side corner: the upper triangle is red with the soaring raggiana bird-of-paradise and the lower triangle is black with the Southern Cross of four white larger five-pointed stars and the smaller star.

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Papua New Guinea
Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper. The first of these reports were published in June 2013. The reports were about the United States and British global surveillance programs. They were based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for these reports.  Greenwald has written several best-selling books, including, No Place to Hide.

Greenwald's work on the Snowden story was featured in the documentary, Citizenfour, which won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Greenwald appeared on-stage with director Laura Poitras and Snowden's girlfriend, Lindsey Mills, when the Oscar was given. In the 2016 Oliver Stone feature film Snowden, Greenwald was played by actor Zachary Quinto.

Before the Snowden file disclosures, Greenwald was widely considered one of the most influential opinion columnists in the United States. After working as a constitutional attorney for ten years, he began blogging on national security issues before becoming a Salon contributor in 2007 and then moving to The Guardian in 2012. He currently writes for and co-edits The Intercept, which he founded in 2013 with Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.

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Jean-Guy Hamelin (October 8, 1925 – March 1, 2018) was a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Saint-Sévérin-de-Proulxville, Quebec.

Hamelin was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1949 in Trois-Rivières, Québec and was named first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rouyn-Noranda, Canada on November 29, 1973. He retired on November 30, 2001, succeeded by Dorylas Moreau and named Bishop Emeritus.

Hamelin died on March 1, 2018, aged 92 in Rouyn-Noranda.

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Joseph Danlami Bagobiri (8 November 1957 – 27 February 2018) was a Nigerian Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1983, Bagobiri served as bishop of Kafanchan from 1995 until his death in 2018.

Bagobiri died on 27 February 2018 at the age of 61.

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Luckau (Lower Sorbian: Łuków) is a town in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Billy Herrington (July 14, 1969 – March 3, 2018) was an American pornographic movie actor and bodybuilder. He was born in North Babylon, New York. Herrington was  best known for his work in gay pornography. He was bisexual. He was known for his role in HotMen CoolBoyz (2000). Occasionally, Herrington performed striptease acts at gay clubs in the United States.

On March 3, 2018, Herrington was killed in a car accident in California at the age of 48.

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North Babylon is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in Suffolk County, on the south shore of  Long Island, in New York, United States.  The population was 17,509 at the 2010 census.  It is a suburban middle class community located within the Town of Babylon.

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John Charles Kenneth Gärdestad (9 May 1948 – 3 March 2018) was a Swedish lyricist. He was known for writing lyrics for the songs of his brother, Ted Gärdestad. He was head architect at Kunskapsskolan. He designed several of their schools in Sweden and abroad. 

Gärdestad won Melodifestivalen 1979 as a songwriter for the song "Satellit" performed by his brother the singer. He was born in Sollentuna, Sweden.

Gärdestad died on 3 March 2018, in Stockholm of pneumonia caused by influenza while suffering from skin cancer and lymphoma at the age of 69.

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Tommy DeVito (June 19, 1928 – September 21, 2020) was an American musician and singer. He was best known as a founding member, baritone vocalist, and lead guitarist of the rock band The Four Seasons.

DeVito died on September 21, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada from COVID-19 at the age of 92.

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Pakistan sent people  to compete at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. It is the first time Pakistan is competing at the Winter Paralympics.  The team has only one person, para-alpine skier  Insha Asfar.

Team 
It is the first time Pakistan is competing at the Winter Paralympics. The team has only one person, para-alpine skier Insha Asfar.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Pakistan") that will be participating in the 2018 Games.

ter the earthquake, TIME Magazine showed recovery efforts.  Asfar was photographed.  TIME Readers saw photographs of her and wanted to help. Shriners and TIME magazine readers gave Asfar and her father money, so she could go to the United States for medical treatment.  After several trips, Rebecca Lambert and Todd Bent offered to sponsor Asfar, so she could go to school in the United States.  Asfar said yes.  She was spending a lot of time in the United States to get medical treatment.  She said it just made sense.  While in school in the United States, she learned about skiing and started skiing in races.  In 2013, she participated in the Hartford Ski Spectacular.  This was her first important ski race.  She got a scholarship that allowed her to compete. She joined the ski team at her school,  Berkshire School.  She competed with them for three years.  Starting in 2014, she was coached by Erik Petersen.  Her main events are the Slalom and Giant Slalom.

Schedule and results 
The first event on the para-alpine program is the downhill. It starts on 10 March, running from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. The second event on the program is Super-G. All skiers will race between 9:30 AM and 1:00 PM on 11 March.  The super combined takes place on 13 March. The Super-G part of the event is in the morning. The slalom part is in the afternoon. The slalom event gets underway on 14 March and conclude on 15 March. Women and men both race during the same sessions in the morning. The afternoon sessions start with the women doing their second run. Then the men go. The last para-alpine skiing race of the 2018 Games is the giant slalom. It takes place on 17 - 18 March.  Men and women both race at the same time in the morning sessions.  Women race first in the afternoon sessions, with the men racing a half hour after they end.

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Arabinda Muduli (1 September 1961 – 1 March 2018) was an Indian Odia musician and singer-songwriter. Muduli was born in Khanati, Khordha District, Odisha, India. He was the student of Bhikari Bal.
He sang just bhajans and turned down offers to sing commercial movie songs.

Muduli died of cardiac arrest in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 1 March 2018 at the age of 56.

Muduli was awarded the "Swar Srikshetra", at the lion gate of Jagannath temple, by the Governor of Odisha in 2014. He was also honored with a Certificate of appreciation, Mumbai Odia Mahasangh in 2013.

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Maria Antonieta de Farias Portocarrero (August 23, 1922 – March 3, 2018), known professionally as Tônia Carrero, was a Brazilian actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. She was known for her movie role in Tico-Tico no Fubá and for her television roles in Água Viva and in Louco Amor.

Carrero died in Rio de Janeiro on March 3, 2018 of post-surgery cardiac arrest at the age of 95.

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Davide Astori (7 January 1987 – 4 March 2018) was an Italian professional footballer. He played as a central defender. He was born in San Giovanni Bianco, Italy.

Astori started his senior career with Milan, spending loan spells with Pizzighettone and Cremonese. In 2008 Cagliari signed him. He played youth football for Pontisola. He made his international debut for Italy in 2011 and represented his country 14 times, scoring one goal.

Astori died in a hotel room in Udine, Italy of a heart attack on 4 March 2018 at the age of 31.

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 Profile  at official club website 
 Profile at Assocalciatori.it 
 International caps  at FIGC.it 

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Rodrigo de Rato y Figaredo (born 18 March 1949) is a Spanish politician. He served as Minister of the Economy of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of the conservative People's Party (PP). He was also First Deputy Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004. He became Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and served from 2004 to 2007.

Rato was arrested on 16 April 2015 for alleged fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. His name appeared in the Panama Papers. On 23 February 2017, Rato was found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to 4 ½ years' imprisonment.

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Ivar Rooth (2 November 1888 – 27 February 1972) was a Swedish lawyer and economist. He served as Governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1929 to 1948 and as the second Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1951 to 1956. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Bank of International Settlements. 

Rooth died in Sweden on 27 February 1972 at the age of 83.

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The Sentiero del  Viandante (in English the "Wayfarer's Path") is a footpath in Lombardy. It goes along the  eastern side of Lake Como. The path starts near the Church of Saint Martin at Abbadia Lariana in the Province of Lecco and ends at a church called Madonna di Val Pozzo near Piantedo in the Province of Sondrio. The path is about 45 km long.

The path dates from Ancient Roman times. It originally went from Milan to the border with Switzerland. In 1989, the Province of Lecco began to clear and restore the trail. It was given the name "Sentiero del Viandante" in 1992. It is now one of the most popular hiking trails in Northern Italy.

Related pages
 Sentiero di Leonardo
 Anello di Lierna

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H. Wayne Norman Jr. (November 3, 1955 – , 2018) was an American politician. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 35 in Harford and Cecil counties serving from 2014 until his death in 2018. Norman was appointed to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2008 until 2014.

Norman died in Annapolis, Maryland between March 2 and March 4, 2018 of a suspected heart attack at the age of 62.

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Prince Gustaf Adolf (22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince, 2nd in line of succession to the Swedish throne after his father. Born in Stockholm, he was the eldest son of Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his first wife Princess Margaret of Connaught. Prince Gustaf Adolf was the father of the current king, Carl XVI Gustaf.

The prince was killed on 26 January 1947 in an airplane crash at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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France uses Central European Time (CET) (UTC+01:00) during the winter and Central European Summer Time (CEST) (UTC+02:00) in the summer.

French territories observe different time zones:
 French Polynesia- UTC-10:00 (Tahiti Time), UTC-09:30 (Marquesas Time), and UTC-09:00 (Gambier Time)
 Clipperton Island- UTC-08:00 (Easter Island Standard Time)
 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Martin- UTC-04:00 (Atlantic Time)
 French Guiana and Saint Pierre- UTC-03:00 (French Guiana Time and Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time)
 Mayotte- UTC+03:00 (East Africa Time)
 Reunion- UTC+04:00 (Reunion Time)
 French Southern Territories- UTC+05:00 (French Southern and Antarctic Time)
 New Caledonia- UTC+11:00 (New Caledonia Time)
 Wails and Futuna- UTC+12:00 (Wallis and Futuna Time)
France observes daylight saving time (DST) starting at 02:00 local time on the last Sunday in March and ends at 03:00 local time on the last Sunday in October. Saint Pierre and Miquelon is the only French territory that uses DST and follows the schedule as Canada and the United States, starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November.

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Primetime (also known as prime time) is a timeslot on most networks running from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. Eastern and 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Central and Mountain. It is the most watched timeslot on television. It is before late night television.

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Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 through 5 September 2019. Salvini is also the Federal Secretary of Lega Nord since December 2013 and Us with Salvini since December 2014. He has been a Senator in the Italian Senate since March 2018. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North-West Italy constituency from 2004 to 2018. Salvini is nicknamed by his supporters "The Captain" (Il Capitano).

Salvini attended the University of Milan. He served on the Milan City Council from 1993 to 2012. Salvini was first elected to the European Parliament in 2004.

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