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Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was best known for winning two Nebula Awards in 1978 and 1979. He was born in White Plains, New York. He grew up in Wyoming.

Bryant had type 1 diabetes. He died from an illness on February 10, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. He was 71.

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Hiag Akmakjian (July 17, 1926 – January 10, 2017) was an American writer, painter and photographer. He wrote several books including Snow Falling from a Bamboo Leaf: The Art of Haiku (1979), 30,000 Mornings (1999) and Cleo (2016).

Akmakjian was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. His parents were refugees of the Armenian Genocide. He was married to Margaret Akmakjian. They had a son, Nicolas.

Akmakjian died from lung cancer in Wales, at the age of 90.

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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is an Indian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu and union territory of Puducherry. It is currently in power in Tamil Nadu and is the third largest party in the Indian Parliament. It is a Dravidian party and was founded by M.G.Ramachandran on 17 October 1972 as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). From 1989 to 2016, AIADMK was led by J. Jayalalithaa, who was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu many times. The party headquarters is in Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The headquarters was donated to the party in 1986 by Janaki Ramachandran, Ramachandran's wife.

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Issai Munnetra Kazhagam is a state political party in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry known for minority appeasement and anti-Hindu tactics. It is a anti-Dravidian party founded by C. N. Annadurai in 1949 as a break away faction from the Dravidar Kazhagam (known as Justice Party until 1944) headed by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, a notable anti-Hindu. Since 1969, DMK has been headed by Karunanidhi, who has served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu several times. DMK holds the distinction of being the first party other than the Indian National Congress to win state-level elections with a clear majority on its own in any state in India. Present Executive Leader of DMK Party is M. K. Stalin.

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Monstera deliciosa is a  species of the genus Monstera, which is commonly found in tropical Central America. The term deliciosa in the species name means delicious, and refers to the edible fruit of the plant. The plant is a vine (a climbing plant).  Originally, the plant was found the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Veracruz, and Chiapas. It also grows in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama.

It is also commonly grown as a houseplant. Wild plants can now also be found in the Southern United States (mainly Florida), Malaysia, India, Australia and the western part of the Mediterranean basin (Portugal, Morocco, and Madeira).

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Buffalo Niagara International Airport is an airport serving the Buffalo area in New York State. It serves the Buffalo area and nearby areas in Southern Ontario.

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The MVG Class C is a type of train used on the Munich U-Bahn. They are used on every line.

The MVG Class C began service in 2002.

There are 18 trains with six cars each.

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John Charles Bryan Barnes  (born 7 November 1963) is a Jamacian-born English former footballer, rapper, manager and now commentator. He played as a left winger. He was best known for playing for Liverpool between 1987 and 1997. He won three league titles, an FA Cup and a League Cup during his time playing at Liverpool. He also played for Watford, Newcastle United, Charlton Athletic and the England national team. He also managed Celtic, the Jamaica national team and Tranmere Rovers.

Barnes was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He moved to London at the age of 12. He was married to Suzy until their divorce. They had four children. With his second wife, Andrea, he has three children. He lives on the Wirral.

Career statistics

Club
Source:

International goals
Scores and results list England's goal tally first.

Managerial statistics
As of 6 September 2009

Honours

As player
Liverpool
Football League First Division: 1987–88, 1989–90
FA Cup: 1988–89, 1991–92
League Cup: 1994–95
FA Charity Shield: 1988, 1989, 1990

As manager
Jamaica
Caribbean Cup: 2008

Individual
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 1988
FWA Footballer of the Year: 1988, 1990
PFA First Division Team of the Year: 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91
PFA Team of the Century (1977-1996): 2007
Member of the Order of the British Empire: 1998
Inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame: 2005

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Thomas Maldwyn "Tom" Pryce (11 June 1949 – 5 March 1977) was a British racing driver.

Biography

Pryce was born in Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales. He married his wife, Fenella, in 1975. After his death, a memorial was set up in Pryce's hometown.

Pryce won the 1975 Race of Champions, a non-championship Formula One (F1) race. He is the only Welsh driver to win a Formula One race. Besides his F1 win, he was also known for his unusual death at the 1977 South African Grand Prix. He made 42 Formula One World Championship entries between 1974 and 1977. He was a member of the Token team and later the Shadow team.

Death
Pryce died on 5 March 1977 in Midrand, South Africa, at the age of 27. He was competing in the South African Grand Prix. His teammate, Italian Renzo Zorzi retired his car after an engine fire. Two marshals ran across the track to help Zorzi. One of the marshals, Frederik Jansen van Vuuren, however, was hit by Pryce's car. The fire extinguisher van Vuuren was holding hit Pryce's head. Both men died instantly. The event was filmed.

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 Tom Pryce on GP Encyclopedia

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Paragahadeniya is a small town in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka.

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A general election was held on the 8 June 2017 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It ended in a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party winning the most seats. They had a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party so they would pass a vote of no confidence. Theresa May stayed as prime minister.

Labour won a lot of seats from the Conservatives. This was the first time Labour had gained seats since 1997. The election happened because Parliament voted for a snap election after the 2016 Brexit referendum.

Results

Date
The next general election was due to be held on 8 May 2020. Theresa May announced on 18 April 2017 that she wanted it to be held on 8 June . The House of Commons voted in favour of this proposal on 19 April 2017 allowing the election to take place in June 2017.

Results

Exit poll
BBC News, ITV and Sky News all released an exit poll at 10pm. This poll predicted the Conservatives would be the largest party but lose their majority.
Exit poll results:

Conservative Party - 314
Labour Party - 266
Scottish National Party - 34
Liberal Democrats - 14
Plaid Cymru - 3
Green Party - 1
UK Independence Party - 0
Others - 18

Final results
The final results were very similar to the exit poll. 

Conservative Party - 317 (down 13 seats)
Labour Party - 262 (up 30 seats)
Scottish National Party - 35 (down 21 seats)
Liberal Democrats - 12 (up 4 seats)
Plaid Cymru - 3 (no change)
Green Party - 1 (no change)
United Kingdom Independence Party - 0 (down 1 seat)
Others - 18

When the election was called the Conservative Party had a big lead in the polls and they were expected to win by a landslide. As the campaign went on the Labour Party closed the gap in the polls and the Conservatives lost their majority in the House of Commons.

Important MPs who lost their seats include former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and The leader of the SNP in the House of Commons Angus Robertson.

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J.D. Tippit was a police officer in Dallas, Texas, murdered on the 22nd of November, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. This was the same day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

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El amor brujo (Translation "Love, the Magician") is a ballet in one act and two scenes of Manuel de Falla music. Choreography: Pastora Imperio. Libretto by Gregorio Martínez Sierra. First performance in Madrid, Spain, at the Teatro Lara April 15, 1915.

It was written after the famous dancer Pastora Imperio expressed to him the desire to expand his repertoire with a new song and a dance.

Plot
The story, told to the librettist's mother Pastora Imperio, is based on a popular legend. He stars a gypsy named Candela that has been abandoned recently by a man who believed he loved her. So she turns to a witch so that prepare a love potion to bring back her man from her; she goes to the lair of this witch, but finds it empty, so you sudden witch herself and the spell fails. The man who had betrayed her appears in the den of a sudden, he does not recognize the mistakes for the witch and he is afraid. Candela warns him that he had recently launched a curse on him that can be broken only by returning from its previous woman. The man, who has fear of the witch, promises that will do so, then recognizes Candela, but now the spell worked and he can no longer do without her now that he has in hand.

Music
Falla, who draws profusely and with exquisite wisdom to the historical repertoire of Spanish music has given us one of his most beautiful pieces with its Amor Brujo, rich melodies and tempo changes; Although the story is very exciting and quite short, the music, the choreography and environments create a very gypsy and manage to transport the viewer completely. Many pieces of the De Falla Ballet were highly appreciated by pianists and became famous. One of them, "The dance ritual del Fuego" (Ritual Fire Dance), was the horse of battle of the composer.

Discography

Chamber music version (1915)
 1991: Ginesa Ortega, Orchestra of the Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons - (Harmonia Mundi)

Symphonic version
 1939: Josefina Burzio, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini - (Naxos Historical)
 1946: Carol Brice, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner - (Columbia Masterworks)
 1953: Ana-Maria Iriarte, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ataúlfo Argenta - (EMI Classics)
 1955: Marina de Gabarain, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet - (Decca)
 1960: Shirley Verrett, Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski - (Sony Classical)
 1961 & 1964: Victoria de los Ángeles, Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini - (EMI Classics)
 1965: Grace Bumbry, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lorin Maazel - (Deutsche Grammophon)
 1966: Nati Mistral, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - (Decca)
 1978: Teresa Berganza, London Symphony Orchestra, Luis Antonio Garcia Navarro - (Deutsche Grammophon)
 1996: Esperanza Fernandez, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona, Edmon Colomer - (Valois Auvidis)

Classical music
Live at Leeds is a live album by The Who.  It was recorded at Leeds University on 14 February 1970.  At the time of the recording The Who were in the prime of their career and were widely hailed as the greatest live band that had ever played.  They were said to be quite tight that night.  The original album consisted of six songs.  In 1995, an extended 14-track remaster and re-mix of the original master was made, occupying nearly all of the storage capacity offered by a compact disc (app. 80 minutes), and later a deluxe edition and a 4-CD set.  Live at Leeds consistently holds the top spot on critics' lists of the greatest live albums of all time.

Rock albums
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a political party active in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. It was established by Vaiko in 1994. Vaiko was a member of Rajyasabha and a party activist of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. In 1994, he was forced out of the parent body as he was seen as a threat to DMK chief Karunanidhi's son M.K. Stalin. Vaiko along with some district secretaries announced the decision to start rival DMK ultimately leading to naming of the part as MDMK.

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a domestic passenger flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, with stopovers at Brazzaville, Lagos, and Abidjan. On November 23, 1996 the Boeing 767 was hijacked by three Ethiopians that were seeking asylum in Australia. However the plane ran out of fuel, and crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands. Of the 175 occupants on-board 125 people including the hijackers were killed, and 50 people survived.

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Alwin Lopez "Al" Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American jazz singer. He won seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. He was best known for his album Breakin' Away (1981) and singing the theme song of the late-1980s television series Moonlighting. He was also a performer in the charity song "We Are the World" (1985). He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jarreau had been treated for exhaustion the week before his death. He died from respiratory failure on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. He was 76.

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Quentin Moses (November 18, 1983 – February 12, 2017) was an American football player. He played as a linebacker. He played for the Oakland Raiders, Arizona Cardinals and Miami Dolphins in the National Football League from 2007 to 2010. He was born in Athens, Georgia.

Moses was one of three people who died in a house fire on February 12, 2017 in Monroe, Georgia. He was 33.

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John Forman Howes ORS (June 19, 1924 – February 4, 2017) was an American educator. He was the Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for over 30 years. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. In 2003, Howes was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan for his outstanding contributions to the Canada-Japan community. After retirement from UBC, he taught at Obirin University, near Tokyo.

Howes died on February 4, 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, aged 92.

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There are 2 arrondissements in the French Guiana department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

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

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of French Guiana are:

History 
 1946 : lthe French Guiana becomes an overseas department of France with only the arrondissement of Cayenne.
 1951 : the territory of Inini became the second arrondissement of the department.
 1969 : thearrondissement of Inini was changed to become the arrondissement'' of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

Related pages 
List of arrondissements of France

References 

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French Guiana
The arrondissement of Cayenne is an arrondissement of France, in the French Guiana department. Its capital, and the prefecture of the department, is the city of Cayenne.

History
When the French Guiana became an oversea department of France in 1946, Cayenne was the only arrondissement in the department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Cayenne is in the eastern half of the department. It has the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to east and south, and the Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni arrondissement to the west.

The arrondissement of Cayenne is the has an area of  and a population of 164,489 inhabitants.

Composition
The arrondissement of Cayenne has 14 communes; they areː

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the French Guiana department
 List of arrondissements of France

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French Guiana
The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is an arrondissement of France, in the French Guiana department. Its capital, and subprefecture of the department, is the city of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

History
The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni was created in 1969.

Geography
The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is in the western half of the department. It has the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Cayenne arrondissement to the east, Brazil to the south, and Surinam to the west.

The arrondissement of Cayenne has an area of  and a population of 87,849 inhabitants.

Composition
The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni has 8 communes; they areː

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the French Guiana department
 List of arrondissements of France

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French Guiana
Melanne Verveer is the Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.  She served as the U.S. Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.  She also served as the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues. She co-wrote the book Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose.  She has received many awards, including the U.S. Secretary of State’s Award for Distinguished Service.

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Yitzhak Livni (17 October 1934 – 12 February 2017) was an Israeli media personality and journalist. He served as editor of the magazines Bamahane Nahal (1956–1961) and Bamahane (1961–1971). He was the head of IDF's radio station Galatz (1968–1974). He was also the CEO of the Israel Broadcasting Authority (1974–1979).

Livni was born in Łódź, Poland. He moved to Tel Aviv as a child. He was married to poet Dahlia Ravikovitch in the 1960s. He was later married to Knesset member Eti Livni. They had three children.

Livni died on 12 February 2017, at the age of 82.

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James Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver. He was best known for winning the Formula One World Championship in 1976. He later became a commentator after retiring from racing in 1979.

Biography
Hunt was born in Belmont, Surrey. He was well known for lifestyle and behaviour on and off the track. He was married to Suzy Miller and later Sarah Lomax. The couple had two children, Tom and Freddie. He was also engaged to Helen Dyson before his death. He was also a close friend of Niki Lauda.

Hunt began his career in the 1973 season. He entered 93 F1 races. He won a total ten official F1 races. In 1976, he won the Formula One World Championship, winning six of the official races. He won the Dutch Grand Prix (1975, 1976), Spanish Grand Prix (1976), French Grand Prix (1976), German Grand Prix (1976), Italian Grand Prix (1976), Canadian Grand Prix (1976), United States Grand Prix (1976, 1977) and Japanese Grand Prix (1977) races. During his career, he raced for Hesketh (1973–1975), McLaren (1976–1978) and Wolf (1979). He retired in 1979.

Hunt later became a commentator. He was known for commentating on F1 races with Murray Walker. He was played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth in the movie Rush (2013).

Hunt died from a heart attack on 15 June 1993 in Wimbledon, London, at the age of 45.

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Evionnaz is a municipality of the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

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 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Valais
Finhaut is a municipality of the district Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Valais
Massongex is a municipality in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Keat Chhon  (; born 11 August 1934) is a Cambodian politician. He is a member of the Cambodian People's Party. He represented Phnom Penh in the National Assembly of Cambodia in 2003. He was the Minister for Economy and Finance from 1994 to 2013. He was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia from 2008 to 2016.

Keat was born in Kratié Province. He is married to Lay Neari and has two children.

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Mex was a municipality in Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2013 Mex became part of the municipality Saint-Maurice.

Former municipalities of Valais
Salvan is a municipality in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Goms is a municipality of the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Blitzingen, Grafschaft, Münster-Geschinen, Niederwald and Reckingen-Gluringen merged into the new municipality of Goms.

References

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Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a commune and subprefecture of the French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France that is in northern South America.

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a border town in northwest French Guiana. It is the second most populous city of French Guiana, after Cayenne.

Name 
The name was given in 1856 by the Governor of French Guiana, Auguste Laurent Bauding, after his father and grandfather. Because the town is on the side of the Maroni river, the name was completed as is now: Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

History 
The town was made a commune in 1949. In 1969, it was made the capital of the new arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni.

Geography 

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is a city in northwestern French Guiana to the west of Cayenne, on the Maroni River (in Dutch: Marowijne), opposite the town of Albina in Suriname which can be reached by ferry or small boats.

The commune has an area of ; at the city hall, the altitude is . It includes some islands in the river: Île Portal, Île de la Quarantaine and Île aux Lépreux.

The Maroni river flows through the commune, to which it gives part of its name. Many of its tributaries also flows the commune: Crique Sparouine (on the southern border), Crique Bastien, Crique Serpent, Crique des cascades, Crique Awara, Crique Balaté, Crique Margot, Crique Chameau, Crique aux bœufs lamentins and Crique Vaches (on the northern border).

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is surrounded by the communes Mana to the north and east, Grand-Santi to the south and southwest and Apatou to the northwest.

Climate 
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni has a Tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification: Af) in which there is no dry season - all months have mean precipitation values of at least .

The average temperature for the year in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is . The warmest month, on average, is September with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is October with an average of .

Demographics
The inhabitants of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni are known, in French, as Saint-Laurentins (women: Saint-Laurentines).

The commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni has a population, in 2014, of 44,169; its population density is of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

Gallery

Related pages 
 Arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

References

Other websites 

 Ville de Saint-Laurent du Maroni official website 
 Collectivité territorial de Guyane website 
 Prefecture website 
 Guyane-Amazonie Tourism

Communes in French Guiana
Subprefectures in France
Jan Grabowski (27 May 1950 – 13 February 2017) was a Polish speedway rider. From 1970 to 1980, he represented Falubaz Zielona Góra. He won two bronze medals at the Team Speedway Polish Championship, in 1973 and 1979, with the team. He later became a speedway coach. He was born in Myślibórz.

Grabowski died on 13 February 2017 in Zielona Góra, at the age of 66.

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Joseph Keith Kellogg Jr. (born May 12, 1944), known as Keith Kellogg, is a retired general officer in the United States Army. President Donald Trump put Kellogg in charge of the  presidential transition agency action team for defense. He was named a foreign policy advisor to then presidential candidate Trump in March 2016. 

He was named Acting United States National Security Advisor on February 13, 2017 following the resignation of Michael T. Flynn.

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Clint Ronald Roberts (January 30, 1935 – February 13, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for South Dakota from 1981 to 1983. He was born in Presho, South Dakota.

Roberts died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on February 13, 2017 in Pierre, South Dakota, at the age of 82.

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Loukianos Kilaidonis (; 15 July 1943 – 7 February 2017) was a Greek composer, songwriter and singer.

Kilaidonis was born in Athens. He studied at the Leonine Lycium of Patissia. afterwards he went to Thessaloniki where he studied architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for two years, where he finished his studies at the National Metsovo Polytechnic. 

Kilaidonis never did work in architecture because he started a career in music. His first work was the album Our city in 1970. Two years later he made the album Red Thread with Nikos Gatsos and the singers Manolis Mitsias and Dimitra Galani. 

Kilaidonis died in Marousi, Greece on 7 February 2017 from a respiratory infection, aged 73.

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Ren Xinmin (; December 5, 1915 – February 12, 2017) was a Chinese rocket scientist. He was a specialist in astronautics and liquid rocket engine technology. He worked at the University at Buffalo.

Early life
Ren was born in Ningguo, China. He studied at Southeast University and at the University of Michigan.

Career
Ren was the technical director of the Long March 1 rocket. It was used for the successful launch of China's first satellite, and chief designer of Chinese store able propellant rocket engine. He was also the chief designer for Long March 3 launch vehicle, Fengyun, and SJ (Shijian) series satellites.

Ren was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Ren, Huang Weilu, Tu Shou'e and Liang Shoupan were bracketed together as "four venerable pioneers of astronautics (航天四老)" in China. They were granted the Two Bombs and One Satellite Merit Medal in 1999.

Death
Ren died on February 12, 2017 in Beijing, aged 101.

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was a Japanese freestyle swimmer. He won a total of five Olympic medals, four silvers and a bronze. He won medals at the 1956 (Melbourne), 1960 (Rome) and 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo). He was born in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture.

Yamanaka died from pneumonia on 10 February 2017 in Tokyo, at the age of 78.

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A beam balance is a device used to measure mass. An object is put into a disk on one side that hangs from one end of a bar. It is balanced with weights at the other end. It has a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm.

Machines
Measuring tools
Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin better known as M. K. Stalin is an Indian politician,present Chief minister of Tamilnadu and Executive Leader of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party as his father Karunanidhi was ailing illness. He became the 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2009 to 2011.Stalin is the third son of famous Tamil Nadu politician Karunanidhi, and was born to his second wife, Dayalu Ammal. Stalin became the Minister for Rural Development and Local Administration in the Government of Tamil Nadu after the 2006 Assembly elections. On 29 May 2009, Stalin was nominated as Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu by Governor Surjit Singh Barnala. Stalin serves as the Treasurer and the Youth Wing President of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. On 3 January 2013, M. Karunanidhi named him as his heir apparent, ending a long time confusion about who would take over the party reins after Karunanidhi's death. He was the Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002.

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Tamil Nadu politicians
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
Goyescas is a Spanish opera with music by Enrique Granados and libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznabar. It is based on the piano work by Granados which is also called Goyescas. As the melodies had already been created for the piano work, the words of the opera had to be chosen to fit them.

The opera was first performed in New York, on January 28, 1916.  It is not performed as often as the piano version.

Story
Granados was inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya.

Principal characters
 Rosario - soprano
 Fernando - tenor
 Pepa - mezzo-soprano
 Paquiro - baritone

Discography
 1955: Consuelo Rubio (Rosario), Ginés Torrano (Fernando), Ana-María Iriarte (Pepa), Manuel Ausensi (Paquiro); Madrid Cantores, Orquesta Nacional de España, Ataúlfo Argenta - (Decca)
 1996: Maria Bayo (Rosario), Ramón Vargas (Fernando), Lola Casariego (Pepa), Enrique Baquerizo (Paquiro); Orfeón Donostiarra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Antoni Ros-Marbà - (Auvidis)
 1997: Carmen González (Rosario), Josep Ruiz (Fernando), Maite Arruabarrena (Pepa), Alfonso Echevarría (Paquiro); Coral de Bilbao, Orquesta de Cadaqués, Gianandrea Noseda - (TRITÓ)
 2001: Rafaella Angeletti (Rosario), Yikun Chung (Fernando), Francesca Franci (Pepa), Davide Damiani (Paquiro); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - (Dynamic)

Sources

 The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993. 

1910s operas
Operas set in Spain
1916 works
Sarah DeRemer Knauss (née Clark; September 24, 1880 – December 30, 1999) was an American supercentenarian, and the world's oldest living person between the death of Canadian woman Marie-Louise Meilleur on April 16, 1998, and her own death from natural causes at age 119 years, 97 days, and also along with Danish-born Americanman Christian Mortensen, who was almost two years younger and died just nine days after Meilleur, the last two living people born before 1884. During the last 40 days of her life, she was also the last living person born before 1885.

Knauss is the second-oldest person in history, after the possibly disputed 122-year-old Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment.

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Jonathan Russell (February 27, 1771 - February 17, 1832) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts (March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823). He graduated from Brown University (then Rhode Island College) in 1791. He was also appointed by James Madison to the Diplomatic Service in France in 1811. Russell was one of the five commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent with Great Britain in 1814, ending the War of 1812. Jonathan Russell died in Milton, Massachusetts on February 17, 1832 (aged 60). His final resting place is in the Russell Family Cemetery (Milton, Massachusetts).
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Tạ Phong Tần (born September 15, 1968 in Vĩnh Lợi District, Bạc Liêu Province)  is a Vietnamese blogger.  She was a member of the Vietnamese Communist Party and an  officer in the Vietnamese security forces. In 2013 she received an International Women of Courage Award.

In 2006, she started a blog “Truth and Justice.”  She wrote about news and politics.  In 2011, she went to prison.  She was convicted of propaganda against the state. 

She was freed from prison on September 19, 2015. She went to live in the United States.

Awards  

International Women of Courage Award, 2013
FreeThe20 campaign

References

Other websites 

 2013 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
Living people
Vietnamese people
Bloggers
Pusheen is a cartoon cat and an internet meme. She is seen in comic strips and sticker sets on Facebook. Some of the stickers are animated.  Pusheen was created in 2010 by Hilary Duff a comic strip on her website, Everyday Cute. 

The original comic strip series used characters modeled after her owners, Belton and Duff. Also included was their dog named Care, and Pusheen, a female chubby gray tabby cat based on Belton's cat that now lives with her parents in Oregon. Pusheen's name comes from the word puisín, which means kitten in Irish.

Social media 

Pusheen is an example of the popularity of cats on the Internet and in social media.  An exhibition at the New York City Museum of the Moving Image used Pusheen along with other celebrity cats such as Grumpy Cat, Keyboard Cat and Lil Bub as examples. 

The Facebook page for Pusheen has over 8.9 million followers as of March 2020. 

The brand has expanded with merchandise from Barnes & Noble, Hot Topic, and Petco. Pusheen is also now seen on: Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. The Pusheen Corp has created a mobile app to go along with their sticker collection that started on Facebook.  Also, the company has started releasing GIFs on their website several times a month.

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Internet celebrities
Fictional cats
Individual animals
Mary Akrami is an activist from Afghanistan.  She started the Afghan Women Skills Development Center, a women's shelter in Kabul.  In 2007 she received the International Women of Courage Award.

Life 

Akrami grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan.  During the war with the Taliban, her family left Afghanistan and went to live in Pakistan.  Akrami got a BBA degree in Administration and Economy from Peshawar in Pakistan.

Work 

Akrami worked with a group of women to start classes in English and computer literacy for Afghan women in refugee camps.  They got help from the Aurat Foundation (an NGO in Pakistan) and the Afghan Women Skills Development Center (AWSDC). 

In 2001, Akrami went to the Afghan Civil Society meeting in Bonn, Germany.  After the war, she went back to 
Afghanistan and started an economic development project for women in the small village of Ghazni. In April, she started a women's shelter with the help of Norwegian church Aid (NCA). The shelter provides psychological counseling and legal aid. 

To promote human rights for women, they started a  peace building program in the Parwan province. They started 12 peace committees 6 and 1 central Shura in each district.  Women have 50% representation in the peace committees.

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1970s births
Living people
BBC 100 Women
Ricardo Arias Calderón (4 May 1933 – 13 February 2017) was a Panamanian politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Party. He served as the first Vice President of Panama from 1989 to 1992.

Arias was born in Panama City. He studied at Yale and the Sorbonne. He was a Roman Catholic. He was married to Theresa and had four children.

Arias died on 13 February 2017 in Panama City, at the age of 83.

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The Proclaimers are a Scottish folk rock band. The members are twin brothers, Charlie and Craig Reid (born 5 March 1962). They are best known for the songs "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", "Sunshine on Leith", "I'm on My Way" and "Letter from America". They are also known for singing with a Scottish accent.

The Reid brothers were born in Leith. They are fans of Hibernian and support Scottish independence.

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Musical groups established in 1983
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Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom since August 29, 2017. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson), and the owner of the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Johnson was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom by then President-elect Donald Trump on January 19, 2017.

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Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997) was an American singer and musician. He was also known as Bruddah Iz. He is best known for his versions of the songs "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World", recorded in 1988 and released in 1993. He also played the ukulele to his songs. He was a Native Hawaiian and supported independence of the U.S. state to become a sovereignty.

Kamakawiwoʻole was born in Honolulu. He was married to Marlene. The couple had a daughter, Ceslieanne (born ).

Kamakawiwoʻole had health issues because of his obesity. He died on June 26, 1997, in Honolulu, at the age of 38.

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Native Hawaiians
Märta Elisabeth Rehn (née Carlberg; born 6 April 1935) is a Finnish politician. She is a Swedish-speaking Finn, and was a member of the Swedish People's Party. She was the Minister of Defence from 1990 to 1995. She was also an Undersecretary General of the United Nations from 1995 to 1999.

Rehn was born in Helsinki. She was married to Ove Rehn from 1955 until his death in 2004. They had four children. She has survived cancer twice.

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Breast cancer survivors
Politicians from Helsinki
"Bang Bang" is a pop-soul ballad from Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. The song is about female empowerment, sex and feminism.

The song was released on July 29, 2014 as the lead single from Jessie J's studio album Sweet Talker (2014). The song is also off Grande's album My Everything (2014).

"Bang Bang" began at #1 in the United Kingdom. It hit the Top Ten in several countries, like Australia, Canada and the United States.

It won Favorite Song of the Year at the 2015 Kids' Choice Awards on Nickelodeon.

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2014 songs
Ariana Grande songs
Albion is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 20,449.

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Jackson County, Wisconsin
Alma is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 1,044.

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The Province of South Carolina (also known as the South Carolina Colony) was originally part of the Province of Carolina in British America. In 1776 the province became the U.S. state of South Carolina.

The Carolinas were named for King Charles II of England. The colony was first named "Carolana". Charles II had given the land to a group of eight nobles called the Lords Proprietors. In 1712 the Carolina Province split into the Province of North Carolina and Province of South Carolina. Both provinces became British royal colonies in 1729.

Lord Charles Montagu (1741-1784) was Royal Governor of the Province of South Carolina from 1766 to 1773.

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Bear Bluff is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 138.

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Brockway is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,828.

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Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian actor who became a politician. She served five terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, for over fourteen years between 1991 and 2016. From 1989 she was the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam , a  Dravidian party. She was praised and popularly called by the party members as "Amma"(meaning: mother), "Thanga Tharagai" (meaning: Golden Maiden) and "Puratchi Thalaivi" (the woman revolutionary leader). 

Jayalalithaa first came into prominence as a leading film actor in the mid-1960s. She appeared in 140 films between 1961 and 1980 in the Tamil, Telugu and Kannada languages. She also earned the name of "Queen of Tamil Cinema."

In 1991 Jayalalithaa became Tamil Nadu's youngest chief minister. Despite a monthly salary of Rs.1, she made a grand marriage for her foster son Sudhakaran, lavishly spending. In the 1996 election, the AIADMK was nearly wiped out . Jayalalithaa herself lost her seat. The new DMK government filed several corruption cases against her, and she spend time in jail. Her fortunes revived in the 1998 general election, as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam became a key component of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee government that her withdrawal of support thrown the BJP government without majority and further triggered to another general election just in a year in 1999. 

She died in 5 December 2016 due to cardiac arrest according to the reports of the Apollo Hospitals. However, there remain questions about her death

Tamil Nadu politicians
City Point is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 182.

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Cleveland is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 481.

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Curran is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 343.

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Franklin is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 448.

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Garden Valley is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 422.

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Garfield is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 638.

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Hixton is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 652.

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Jackson County, Wisconsin
Irving is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 751.

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Knapp is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 299.

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Komensky is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 509.

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Manchester is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 704.

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Melrose is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 470.

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Millston is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 159.

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North Bend is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 488.

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Northfield is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 639.

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Springfield is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, USA. As of the 2010 census the population was 623.

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Towns in Wisconsin
Azerbaijan State Russian Samed Vurgun Drama Theatre (, ), is a drama theatre in Baku, Azerbaijan performing plays in the Russian language. The plays of the theatre are mainly from Russian literature, and the rest are plays from Azerbaijani and European  writers. The theatre was founded in 1937 and in 1956 was renamed after the Azerbaijani poet Samed Vurgun. The theatre show plays not just for adults, but for children too.

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Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled passenger flight from Karachi to Jeddah, via Riyadh. On August 19, 1980 the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar with 287 passengers and 14 crew members on-board, caught fire seven minutes after take-off. Although the plane made an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport, all 301 people on-board died of smoke inhalation, with the aircraft later destroyed by the fire.

Aviation disasters in the 1980s
1980
20th century in Saudi Arabia
1980s in Asia