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Alper Kul (born 5 December 1975, Fatih, Istanbul), Turkish actor and writer.

Biography 
Alper Kul was born on December 5, 1975 in Süleymaniye, Istanbul. Having completed his education at the Theater Department of the Indiana University after MSM, he acted in forms such as City Theaters, DOT, IUSB (USA), BKM. Various movies and series have appeared.

Career 
At the beginning of October 2, 2009, he played in the BKM for one season. His 2010 autographed son of Babamin played for three years in Turkey and Europe. He received the prize of the Year of the Year award with the AUT theater play staged for the first time in 2010. The theater play "Barcelo" written in 2011 was performed in the theater Ikincikat.
After the comedy theater program of 5'er Beşer started in 2011 at ATV, he made and played the project designs of the programs called "İnsanlar Alemi" and "Güldür Güldür" which started at Star TV and continued as the program.

Filmography 
 Dedemin Fişi-  2016 (Hicri)
 Olur Olur! - Ali 2014
 Osmanlı Tokadı - Yeniçeri Şahin 2013
 Güldür Güldür - İsmail 2013-
 Moskova'nın Şifresi: Temel - Temel 2013
 İnsanlar Alemi - İsmail 2012
 Sümela'nın Şifresi: Temel - Temel 2011
 5 er Beşer - İsmail 2011
 Şen Yuva - Nurettin Şenyuva 2010
 Güneşi Gördüm - 2009
 Gecenin Kanatları - Baran 2010
 Mordkomission - 2009 - 2010
 Flugten - 2008
 Ugarit - 2007
 Sessiz Gemiler - 2007
 Gölge - 2007
 Kader - 2006
 Aşka Sürgün - 2005
 Kınalı Kar - Demir 2002
 Yılan Hikayesi - 1999
 Hamam - 1997

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1975 births
Turkish writers
Turkish actors
Living people
François "Swat" Van der Elst (1 December 1954 – 11 January 2017) was a Belgian footballer. He played as a right winger. He played from 1971 to 1986. He played for Anderlecht, New York Cosmos, West Ham United and Lokeren. He was born in Opwijk, Flemish Brabant.

On 1 January 2017, Van der Elst was put in an induced coma because of heart failure. He died from cardiac arrest on 11 January 2017 in Aalst, East Flanders. He was 62.

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This is a list of caravanserais in Azerbaijan.

List of caravanserais

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St Helier railway station opened in 1930. The only operator for the station is Thameslink. The station is in Fare Zone 4.

Platforms
There are two platforms for this station. Platform 1 is for trains towards Luton. Platform 2 is for trains towards Sutton (Surrey).

Frequency
This list shows the frequency of trains on typical off-peak hours.

Up (northbound)
 2 trains to Luton via Wimbledon station

Down (southbound)
 2 trains to Sutton (Surrey)

Buses
London buses route 154 and S4 operates at this station.

Departures
This table shows the departures from this station with the calling points and the time that is taken to get to the end of the line.

Other websites
 
 

1930 establishments in Europe
1930s establishments in England
Bothriospondylus ('excavated vertebrae') is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur known from a handful of vertebrae. it belongs to the family Bothriospondylidae that was coined by Richard Lydekker in 1885. The genus is based on the specimen BMNH R44529-5.

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Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English paleontologist and mammalogist. He wrote a number books on natural history. He was a member of the Geological Survey of India. He later joined the British Museum of Natural History. He was responsible for creating their catalog on their vertebrate fossil collections.

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Martin L. Brandtner (3 July 1938 – 3 January 2017) was an American Marine Corps lieutenant general. He served as the Director for Operations for the Joint Staff until his retirement on 1 June 1993.

Brandtner died on 3 January 2017, at the age of 78, in Reno, Nevada.

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Robert "Bob" McCullough OAM (died 9 January 2017) was an Australian sport administrator in the area of disability sport. He was President of the Australian Paralympic Federation and the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation.

McCullough died in Australia on 9 January 2017.

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Australian sportspeople
David Jonathon Shulkin (born June 22, 1959) is an American physician and politician. Shulkin was the 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from February 14, 2017 to March 28, 2018. He served as Under Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on March 18, 2015 and sworn in on July 6, 2015.

On January 11, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Shulkin to serve as United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Early life
Shulkin was born in Highland Park, Illinois. He was raised in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He studied at Hampshire College and at Drexel University.

Medical career
He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He also served as president of Morristown Medical Center and as vice president of Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization.

He has been Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital.

United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2017–2018)
On January 11, 2017, Shulkin was selected by President-elect Trump as Secretary of Veterans Affairs pending Senate confirmation. Shulkin resigned from a private sector position in 2015 to work in the Department of Veterans Affairs as the undersecretary of health.

On February 13, 2017, the Senate unanimously confirmed Shulkin as the U.S. Secretary of Veteran's Affairs with a 100-0 vote.

For President Trump's address to a Joint Session of Congress on February 28, 2017, Shulkin served as the designated survivor.

In September 2017, The Washington Post revealed that Shulkin spent nearly half his time on a recent international trip to Europe, covered by taxpayers, sightseeing and shopping with his wife, Merle Bari.

On March 28, 2018, President Trump fired Shulkin.

Personal life
Shulkin is married to Merle Bari.

References

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 Official website
 Academic Curriculum Vitae

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Living people
American physicians
United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
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Warren Allen Smith (October 27, 1921 – January 9, 2017) was an American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist.

Career
In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway, New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90). In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots.

Smith was one of the signatories of the 1973 Humanist Manifesto II as well as the Humanist Manifesto III in 2003.

Death
Smith died on January 9, 2017 at the age of 95.

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LGBT writers
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Tommy Allsup (November 24, 1931 – January 11, 2017) was an American rockabilly and country swing guitarist. 

Allsup was born near Owasso, Oklahoma in 1931. He was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.

He worked with entertainers such as Buddy Holly and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. Allsup was touring with Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he lost a fateful coin toss with Valens for a seat on the plane that crashed, killing Valens, Holly and Richardson on February 3, 1959.

Allsup died on January 11, 2017 at his home in Springfield, Missouri of complications from hernia surgery. He was 85 years old.

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Jean-Jacques Annaud (born 1 October 1943) is a French movie director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1991), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). 

Annaud has received many awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first movie, Black and White in Color (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Mont Aigoual () is a French mountain in the Cévennes, a southern part of the Massif Central in the Occitanie region. It is on the border of the Lozère and Gard departments and is the highest mountain of Gard.

When the sky is clear, it is possible to see the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees, and also the Alps and Mont Blanc in particular.

Name
The word "Aigoual" appears with different meanings: ad stratam Aigoaldi in 1228 refers to a route, marcha Algoaldi in 1238 names the limits of a territory, and mons Aigoaldi in 1249 is the name of the mountain. It seems that Aigoual comes from the word Algwarld, the name of a person in the region.

Geography
Mont Aigoual has an elevation of  and is the highest mountain in the Gard department and the second in the Lozère department and in the Cévennes mountains after Mont Lozère that is  high. Mont Aigoual is within the Cévennes National Park ().

The summit of Mont Aigoual is on plateau with an altitude more than  high and with an area of about  in the communes Valleraugue (Gard) et Bassurels (Lozère). The watershed across the plateau divides the drainage basin in two: the Atlantic to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.

On its southern slopes is the source of the Hérault river, that flows to the south into the Mediterranean Sea.

The mountain is formed by granite from the Palaeozoic era.

On top of the mountain there is a meteorological station built in 1887. It is the last remaining weather station in France which is still inhabited by meteorologists. An exhibition on weather forecasting is open to visitors in the summer months.

Climate
Mont Aigoual has an oceanic climate (Cfc), bordering to a subartic (Dfc) (highland) climate.

Sports
A well-known hiking route is the "Climbing of the 4,000 steps" that begins in Valleraugue and ends in the weather station.

The ski station (a place where people go to practice skiing) of Prat Peyrot is on the sides of the Aigoual. It is the biggest ski station of the Cévennes.

References

Other websites

 Observatoire du Mont Aigoual website
 Office de tourisme Causses Aigoual Cévennes 
 Prat Peyrot - Station de ski du Mont Aigoual website 

Mountains of France
Occitanie
Otis Stanley Russ (August 31, 1930 – January 5, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Arkansas Senate from the 21st (later 30th) district from January 1975 to January 2001. He also served as President pro tempore of the Senate from 1995 to 1997.

Russ was born in Conway, Arkansas. He married Nina Benton in 1951. They had two children, and she died in 2005.

Russ died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 5, 2017 in Conway. He was 86.

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Disease-related deaths in Arkansas
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State legislators of the United States
Mark Andrews (May 19, 1926 – October 3, 2020) was an American politician from the state of North Dakota. He was a member of the United States Republican Party.

Career
During the 1950s he began to enter politics, serving on farmers' organizations and Republican committees. In 1962, Andrews ran for Governor of North Dakota, losing to incumbent William L. Guy by just 2,000 votes out of over 228,500 cast. He ran for one of North Dakota's seats in the United States Senate which was being vacated by the long-serving Republican Milton Young who announced that he would not run for reelection and retire after the election. Andrews won the election with 70% of the vote and served in the Senate for one term, from 1981 to 1987.

Andrews was defeated for re-election in 1986 by Democratic-NPL Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad by a mere 2,120 votes in what is still considered an upset.

Personal life
Andrews was born in Cass County, North Dakota. He studied at North Dakota State University. Andrews died on October 3, 2020 in Fargo, North Dakota at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
United States representatives from North Dakota
United States senators from North Dakota
US Republican Party politicians
Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920) is an American essayist. He is known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He has written numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker.

He received a number of awards for his writing, including the George Polk Award for Commentary in 1980, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement in 2005 along with Umberto Eco, and the inaugural PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2011.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and is a long-time ex-officio member of the council of the Authors Guild.

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1920 births
Living people
Writers from New York City
Sir Douglas William Gretton Wass (15 April 1923 – 4 January 2017) was a British civil servant. He served as Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury from 1974 to 1983. Wass was Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury from 1974 to 1983 and served as joint head of the civil service in 1981.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1971, elevated to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1975 and further elevated to Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in 1980. In 1985, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath.

In 1983, the BBC invited Sir Douglas to present the annual Reith Lectures. In a series of six lectures titled Government and the Governed, he examined the role and responsibilities of government.

Wass died on 4 January 2017 in London at the age of 93.

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People from Nottingham
Antonio "Tony" Rosato (December 26, 1954 – January 10, 2017) was an Italian-born Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian. He was best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, Second City Television and Night Heat. He had voice roles in Sailor Moon, Franklin, George Shrinks, Atomic Betty and the video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999).

Rosato was born in Naples. He moved to Canada at the age of four. He grew up in the cities of Halifax, Ottawa and Toronto.

Rosato died from a heart attack on January 10, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario. He was 62.

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1954 births
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Actors from Toronto
Canadian comedians
Canadian movie actors
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People from Naples
Lucina Elena da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws (5 April 1929 – 7 January 2017) was a Dutch Antillean politician for the National People's Party (PNP). She served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, an office her husband Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez previously held, briefly in 1977. She was also the first female to hold the office. Prior to this, she was the Minister of Health and Environment, Welfare, Youth, Sports, Culture and Recreation (1970–1977).

Costa Gomez-Matheeuws died on 7 January 2017 in Willemstad, Curaçao at the age of 87.

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2017 deaths
Dutch women politicians
Netherlands Antilles
The Großer Krottenkopf is the highest mountain in the Allgäu Alps. It is in Austria and is  tall. It is part of the Hornbach chain, which runs along the main branch of the Allgäu Alps for 15km eastwards. There are several routes to climb it from different directions.

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Tyrol (state)
The Party for Freedom, Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid (shortened PVV), is a right-wing political party in the Netherlands.

The party leader is Geert Wilders.

The party was founded on 22 February 2006. In the 2006 Dutch general election, PVV won 6 seats in the House of Representatives with 579,490 votes. In the 2010 elections, PVV won 24 seats with 1,435,349 votes. In the 2012 elections, PVV won 15 seats with 950,263 votes. In the 2017 elections, the PVV won 20 seats (+5) with 1,372,941 votes. In the 2021 elections they have won 17 seats (-3).

PVV is Eurosceptic, meaning they are against the European Union. They are also openly very critical of Islam. Economically, the party supports economic liberalism and wants to lower taxes. It is also a populist party.

The PVV gained a great amount of popularity in 2017, coming second in the election.

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Party for Freedom
 Expatica – 'Turkey in the EU? Never!
 Expatica – Moroccans want Wilders prosecuted

Islamophobia
Nationalist organizations in Europe
Eurosceptic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
2006 establishments in the Netherlands
Anthony Stephen "Tony" King  (17 November 1934 – 12 January 2017) was a Canadian-born British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He was best known for his work at the University of Essex. He was considered a leading expert of democracy. He was also the BBC television analyst on election night from 1983 to 2005. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1950s.

King died on 12 January 2017 at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 Anthony King  profile at the University of Essex website

1934 births
2017 deaths
British academics
British educators
British scientists
Canadian scientists
Political scientists
Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens (born 21 December 1972 in Managua) is a Costa Rican swimmer of German descent.

She competes in the 200 m to 800 m freestyle swimming. 

At the 1996 Summer Olympics she won a gold medal in the 200 meter freestyle.

She is the only gold-medalist Costa Rica ever had.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won two bronze medals, in the 200 meter and 400 meter freestyle.

Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 under coach Francisco Rivas.

No article about Claudia Poll can be complete without mentioning mentioning that she has tested positive for an illegal, performance-enhancing steroid and was suspended from competition for four years, according to an announcement this afternoon by the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) in Lausanne, Switzerland. 6 June 2002"

Ironically, Poll's older sister, Sylvia, was a silver medalist at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, beaten to the wall by East Germany's Heike Friedrich. After the collapse of Communism, East German Secret police (Stasi) files revealed that Friedrich — along with all other East German Olympic swimmers — had systematically been doped as a matter of national policy.

Related pages 
 Silvia Poll, sister and also swimmer
 Costa Rica at the Olympics
Swimming World Magazine Jun 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_sport_(P)#cite_note-46

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Olympic bronze medalists
Olympic gold medalists
Swimmers
Graham Taylor  (15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017) was a British football manager and player. He was the chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993. He also managed Lincoln City, Watford, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He played for Lincoln City and Grimsby Town between 1962 and 1972.

Taylor was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He married Rita Cowling in 1965. They had two daughters.

Taylor died from a heart attack on 12 January 2017 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. He was 72.

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Brian Fletcher (18 May 1947 – 11 January 2017) was an English Jockey. He was born in Cockfield, County Durham. 

He was known for riding the horse Red Rum to win the Grand National in 1973 and 1974 and for second place in 1975. He first won the Grand National at the age of 20, in 1968 riding  Red Alligator. He retired in 1976 with a head injury. Fletcher is one of the only jockey to have won the Grand National three times. He won the Scottish National in 1974. His record winning time on Red Rum in the 1973 Grand National was to stand for 17 years till beaten by Mr Frisk ridden by Marcus Armytage. 

Fletcher died on 11 January 2017 in England, aged 69.

References

Other websites
Face to Face with a Superstar, Winning Post, August 2007 (incl photo of Brian Fletcher) 
 Whatever Happened to Brian Fletcher Evening Gazette April 5 2005

1947 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in England
English sportspeople
One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 (OG269), on September 16, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed after an aborted landing. It hit an embankment next to runway 27 at Phuket International Airport. The aircraft burst into flames on impact at about 3:45pm. The crash killed 89 of the 130 persons on board. OG269 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand.

A two-year investigation by the NTSB resulted in a report. It was based in part on the crash report published by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee of the Ministry of Transport. The probable cause of the accident was determined to be crew error.

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2007 in Asia
2000s in Thailand
Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. He was known for his works Le fiamme di Toledo and Assandira . He was born in Guasila, Sardinia.

Angioni died on 12 January 2017 in Cagliari, Sardinia, aged 77.

References

Other websites
OPAC SBN
Giulio Angioni 
Sardegna Digital Library
Wuz
Club Dante

1939 births
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Italian writers
European anthropologists
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Central () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Areguá. Its ISO 3166-2 code  is PY-11.

The department has 2,297,739 inhabitants. That is more than any other department of Paraguay. The department is also the smallest of all the departments.

History
The Central Department, known as “Comarca Asuncena”, was the most populated country region in old times.

The towns of this department had different origin. Domingo Martínez de Irala started the towns of Itá, Ypané and Areguá in 1538 and 1539. Villeta was founded by the governor Juan Gregorio Bazán de Pedraza in 1714. Other towns were founded around chapels.

The towns of Nueva Italia, Colonia Thompson and Villa Elisa were already established as agricultural settlements in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. These were mainly settled by immigrants.

Geography
The Central department is in the central western part of the Oriental region. It is on the southern border of the Western region. It surrounds the capital, Asunción.

The department has an area of . That is  of the area of Paraguay. Its estimated population in 2013 was 2,297,739. That gave a population density of  inhabitants per square kilometre.

The Central department is relatively flat. It has only small hills. It has several rivers, as the Paraguay river, and streams flow through it. The Ypacaraí and Ypoá lakes are on the borders of the department.

Limits
 To the north: Presidente Hayes and Cordillera departments.
 To the east: Paraguarí department.
 To the south: Ñeembucú department.
 To the west: Argentina and the Distrito Capital

Districts
The department is divided in 19 districts:

Economy

Industries include the processing of food, furniture, clothing, pharmaceutical production, metallurgic, plastic and ceramics. The city of Villeta has a large number of industries. Central is the second biggest economy of Paraguay.

Tourism

The Central Department has many attractions for tourism. Among the most famous natural resources at an international level, is the Lago Ypacaraí. This lake is a very important natural attraction and the town of Areguá. The capital of the department is located on the banks of this lake

Related pages
 Departments of Paraguay
 ISO 3166-2:PY

References

Other websites

 Statoids - Departments of Paraguay

Departments of Paraguay
Meir Banai (‎; 5 July 1961 – 12 January 2017) was an Israeli musician, singer, and songwriter. He was a pop, rock and soul musician. He released ten albums, starting in 1984. He was best known his 2007 album Shma Koli, which had traditional Jewish texts and prayers in the music. He was born in Beersheba.

Banai died from cancer on 12 January 2017 in Ganot. He was 55.

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The 2010 Dutch general election to elect the members of the House of Representatives was held on 9 June 2010.

The conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy won the most seats. Mark Rutte became the prime minister shortly after the election. The Christian Democratic Appeal lost the most seats in this election, while the Party for Freedom won the most.

Results

Related pages 
 2012 Dutch general election
 First Rutte cabinet

References

Other websites 
 NSD: European Election Database - Netherlands publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1994–2010
 (nl) Tweede Kamerverkiezingen 2010, Parlement.com

2010 elections
2010s elections in the Netherlands
Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple is one of the most popular and most visited Vaishnavite temple in India. It is in the hills of Tirumala at the city of Tirupati in Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh.This temple is dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, an avatar of Vishnu. This lord is also called by the names: Balaji, Govinda, Srinivasa, and Venkatajalapati. 

The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is on the Venkatadri hill, which is one of the seven hills of the Seshadri hills range. This is why the temple is called Temple of Seven Hills. Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is the second richest temple in the world after the Padmanabhaswamy Temple,  Thiruvananthapuram.

The temple is daily visited by about 50,000 to 1,00,000 devotees. On Special days like Brahmotsava, Tirumala Temple is visited by more than 5 lakhs of devotees making the temple the most-visited holy place in the world.

Reference

Temples in India
The Christian Democratic Appeal,  (shortened CDA), is a political party in the Netherlands. It was the merger of three major former political parties: Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and Catholic People's Party (KVP).

The party was established on 11 October 1980. From 1982 to 2006, the party was very popular in the Netherlands. Their support was strongest in the 1986, 1989, 2002, 2003 and 2006 elections. In the 2010 elections, they lost 20 seats and received less than half of the votes from the previous election. In the 2012 elections, they received 801,620 and lost 8 more seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+6), and in the 2021 elections 15 (-4).

The party leader is Wopke Hoekstra (former leaders Hugo de Jonge and Sybrand van Haersma Buma).

The party supports Christian democracy. The party can also have Jewish, Muslim and Hindu members of parliament. The party heavily supports the European Union and environmentalism. They call themselves a moderate party, but they have been in an alliance with the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The CDA believes that the toleration of "soft drugs" like marijuana should stop, and practices like abortion and prostitution should be limited. They also want a more friendly and open immigration policy. However, they do want immigrants to integrate into Dutch culture.

On 12 June 2021, MP Pieter Omtzigt left the CDA and has become an independent politician.

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian democratic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
Christianity in the Netherlands
1980s establishments in the Netherlands
1980 establishments in Europe
Democrats 66, , official name: Politieke Partij Democraten 66 (shortened D66), is a political party in the Netherlands. They are a social liberal party. The party leader is Sigrid Kaag (former leaders Rob Jetten  and Alexander Pechtold).

The party was formed on 14 October 1966 by a group of young academics led by Hans van Mierlo. The party had their most success in the 1994 election, where they won 24 out of 150 seats. In the 2010 elections, they received 654,167 votes and won 10 seats. In the 2012 elections they received 757,091 votes and won 12 seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+7), and in the 2021 election 24 (+5).

D66 is very supportive of the European Union. They historically supported the legalization of gay marriage, prostitution, and euthanasia. The party supports environmentalism and wants a mixed economy. D66 wants tax-cuts for the lower and middle classes. They also want direct democracy.

References

Other websites 
 Website of Democrats 66
 Website of Democrats 66 International (English)

Liberal parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
1960s establishments in the Netherlands
1966 establishments in Europe
Euroscepticism is the criticism of the European Union (EU). Some observers also say that the total rejection of the EU is euroscepticism. Euroscepticism should not be confused with Anti-Europeanism, which is the dislike or fear of European culture and/or people.

Eurosceptics says that the European Union weakens the nation state. They also say that the European Union is too bureaucratic (meaning that important decisions are made by officials who aren't elected). In 2016, the countries with the most unfavourable view of the EU were Greece, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe have been contributed to their Eurosceptic views. On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union with 52% voting to leave.

Polls 

In November 2015, a poll showed that those with a positive image of the EU went down from 52% in 2007 to 37%. Distrust of the EU was highest in Greece (81%), Cyprus (72%), Austria (65%), France (65%) Germany (63%), the United Kingdom (63%) and the Czech Republic (63%).

Parties 

Some major Eurosceptic parties are shown below (organized by country):

References 

European Union
The Sweden Democrats (Swedish: Sverigedemokraterna, SD) is a political party in Sweden.

The party was founded on 6 February 1988. In the 1988 Swedish general election, they only received 1,118 votes. However, their support has been slowly increasing since. In 2018, they received 1,135,627 votes and won 62 out of 349 seats in the Riksdag.

Other political parties in Sweden refuse to cooperate with the SD.

Beliefs 

The Sweden Democrats mainly believe in social conservatism and nationalism. They believe that the current immigration policies in Sweden have failed. They also to make it harder for people to become citizens. According to the SD, a person who wants to become a citizen should: live in Sweden for 10 years, show that they are not criminals, be fluent in Swedish and know Swedish history.

The SD wants to ban abortion after 12 weeks unless the mother's life is in danger. They want a restrictive policy towards drugs and alcohol. They are Eurosceptic, meaning they are critical of the European Union. They awknowledge that LGBT people do not chose their sexuality, and believe that discrimination towards them should be illegal. The SD wants to bring back the conscription (meaning the government forces people to join the armed forces). They are supportive of nuclear power. They are against the death penalty.

References

Other websites 
  Sweden Democrats
  Jimmie Åkesson's website
  SD-Kuriren
  Sweden Democratic Youth

1988 establishments in Sweden
Eurosceptic parties
Political parties in Sweden
Ari Rath (‎; 6 January 1925 – 13 January 2017) was an Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer. He was born and grew up in Vienna. After the Anschluss, Rath, who was Jewish, came through a Kindertransport as a thirteen-year-old boy to Palestine. In 1975, he became an editor for The Jerusalem Post. Later, in 1979, he became the chief editor. In 1989, he left The Jerusalem Post, and taught at the University of Potsdam. He supported a peaceful bringing together of Israel and Palestine.

Rath died on 13 January 2017 in Vienna at the age of 92.

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Irfan Khan Pathan is an Indian cricketer from Gujarat. He is a left arm fast bowler and left handed batsman. He started with the India national cricket team in the Border–Gavaskar Trophy. Pathan was the first person to take a hat-trick in the first over. He did this achievement against Pakistan at Karachi.

Irfan Pathan was born on 27 October 1984 in what is now Vadodara. His older brother is Yusuf Pathan. He is also a cricketer who played for the National Team of India. 

Irfan's top score in Test cricket: 102 out. Total wicket:100. ODI Top Score:83 out. Total wicket:173.

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1984 births
Living people
Indian cricketers
Anton Nanut (13 September 1932 – 13 January 2017) was a Slovenian conductor of classical music. From 1981 to 1999, he served as the chief conductor of the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. He was a professor of conducting at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He also had worked with over 200 orchestras and had made over 200 recordings with many labels. He also worked with Milenko Stefanovic. He was born in Kanal ob Soči.

Nanut died after a long illness on 13 January 2017 in Šempeter pri Gorici. He was 84.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Classical musicians
Conductors
Deaths from disease
Slovenian people
Tracer is a fictional video game character. She first appeared in an update for the game Heroes of the Storm. She later appeared in the 2016 video game, Overwatch. These games are made by Blizzard Entertainment, a company that makes and publishes video games.

In Overwatch, the character is known as Tracer, but her real name is Lena Oxton. Her personality is noticeably happy and energetic. She is known as one of the faster characters in the game, but also one with low health. In the game, she is able to teleport and time travel, with her abilities "Blink" and "Recall". She is an "Offense" hero commonly used to flank or distract the enemy team. Her Ultimate Ability, "Pulse Bomb" is commonly used to eliminate high priority targets in a small area, it can also stick to enemies and eliminate others nearby, Tracer herself can also be damaged by this if she is too close. 

In the real world, she is one of the more well known characters from Overwatch. This is because she is seen on the cover of the video game and Blizzard has made animated videos featuring her.

Design
Tracer was first seen in 2014 at Blizzard Entertainment's "BlizzCon 2014" event. The main designer on Overwatch, Scott Mercer, said that Blizzard's canceled project, Titan, had a character with Tracer's abilities. Jeff Kaplan was the main hero designer for  Overwatch; he had a big part in Tracer's design. While the game was still being designed and tested, or its "beta" period, Tracer's health was lowered. 

Her personality was designed as heroic and happy. Overwatch game designer Michael Chu said, "the thing about Tracer is that she has a personality which is out of the norm for most people. She is incredibly optimistic, she is incredibly bubbly - it's part of her hero persona. We love her, I think she is very much one of the main characters of the game [...] [to] really carry the torch of what the game is all about: heroism." She is British and the British actress Cara Theobold voices her in the game.

While the game was still being designed, victory poses were added to the characters. Tracer's "Over the Shoulder" victory pose caused a controversy, because some players thought that the pose's focus on her physical features did not line up with her personality traits. Some players disagreed with this, finding nothing wrong with it, but Jeff Kaplan, the director of Overwatch apologized for the pose. Blizzard then changed the victory pose to better fit Tracer's personality, and while some players were happy with the change, as well as with Blizzard listening to the game's community, other players thought that the game's makers were giving up their creative control to offended players.

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Comics characters
Fictional lesbians
Fictional British people
Video game characters
Dronten is a town and municipality of Flevoland, the Netherlands. 

In 2016 about 41,000 people were living in the municipality and 28,000 in the town of Dronten.

Other websites 
 Dronten website

Settlements in Flevoland
Municipalities of Flevoland
Zeewolde is a village and municipality of Flevoland, the Netherlands. 

In 2016 about 22,000 people were living here.

Other websites 
 Zeewolde website

Settlements in Flevoland
Municipalities of Flevoland
Jallikattu is a traditional event in Tamil Nadu. It is an ancient Tamil event where participants try to embrace a bull, when the bull try to knock them off. It displays the bravery of a person who embraces the bull. The person who wins the event was awarded with money in the ancient Tamil period

The earliest history of Jallikattu was from about 2500 years ago. It is held on the day of third day of Pongal festival and second day of Thai month of the Tamil calendar which is known as Maatu Pongal.

The Supreme Court ordered a ban on this event on 7th of May,2014 because of animal welfare issues.And the Tamil nadu youngsters protested against the Supreme Court's decision at the Marina beach .Despite being banned more than 2 million people participate in this annual event. The ongoing protests forced the government of India to issue a  special ordinance for jallikattu and hence the ban was lifted by the Union Government on 8th of Januar,2018. Organisations like PETA protested against this order and the people of Tamil Nadu asked for the banishment of this organisation from the state.

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Events in India
History of Tamil Nadu
A scallion is a vegetable. Scallions are also called spring onions, green onions, and salad onions. 

Vegetables
Stadskanaal is a village and municipality of the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. 

About 32,000 people were living in the municipality in 2016, and about 20,000 in the village of Stadskanaal in 2012.

Other websites

 

Settlements in Groningen (province)
Municipalities of Groningen (province)
Milton Metz (c. 1921 – January 12, 2017) was an American radio and television personality in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He occasionally did commercial work for local radio and television stations until he was unable to due to his health in the last year of his life.

Metz was inducted into the University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989. He was also named as a Gold Circle Honoree in 2009 by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Metz died in Louisville, Kentucky at a retirement facility from complications of a fall on January 12, 2017, aged 95.

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1921 births
2017 deaths
American radio personalities
American television personalities
People from Cleveland, Ohio
People from Louisville, Kentucky
Paleoconservatism (sometimes called paleocon) is a conservative idea that stresses tradition, limited government and civil society, along with religious, national and Western identity. The idea is mainly found in the United States.

According to scholar Michael Foley, paleoconservatives want more restrictions on immigration, cuts in multicultural programs, protectionism (basically meaning that foreign goods will be taxed more), isolationism, and to bring back traditional societal roles.

Paul Gottfried created the term in the 1980s. It was used to refer to conservative traditional Catholics and agrarian Southerners who turned against Communism during the Cold War.

Leading paleoconservatives 
 Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States, Political researcher Bruce Wilson said about Trump, "[He] advances core paleoconservative positions laid out in "The Next Conservatism" — rebuilding infrastructure, protective tariffs, securing borders and stopping illegal immigration, neutralizing designated internal enemies and isolationism."
 Pat Buchanan – Journalist
 Robert Novak – Journalist
 Virgil Goode – Politician
Nick Fuentes – Presenter

Related pages
 Antiglobalization
 Liberal conservatism

References

Other websites
 Breaking All the Rules (BATR)
 Conservative Heritage Times
 James Kalb's Conservatism FAQ

Conservatism
Political movements
Gilberto Agustoni (26 July 1922 – 13 January 2017) was a Swiss Roman Catholic prelate. He served as the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura from 1994 to 1998. He was later a Cardinal-Priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Schaffhausen.

Agustoni died on 13 January 2017 at the age of 94.

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1922 births
2017 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic priests
Swiss people
Schaffhausen
Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo (15 May 1925 – 13 January 2017), better known as Horacio Guarany, was an Argentine singer, musician and writer. He was called one of the most important Argentine folklore singers. He won a Platinum Konex Award in 1985. He began his career in the 1940s. He released around 57 solo albums. He was signed with the record labels Philips and EMI. He was born in Las Garzas, Santa Fe Province.

Guarany died from a cardiac arrest on 13 January 2017 in Luján, Buenos Aires Province. He was 91.

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1925 births
2017 deaths
Argentine singers
Argentine writers
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Disease-related deaths in Argentina
Folk singers
Guitarists
Yanni (later John) Alexis Mardas (; 2 May 1942 – 13 January 2017) was better known as Magic Alex, was a Greek electrical engineer and businessman. His nickname, "Magic Alex", was given to him by The Beatles when he worked with the group between 1965 and 1969, including being head of Apple Electronics. He was born in Athens, Greece.

Mardas died from complications of pneumonia in his apartment in Athens on 13 January 2017, aged 74.

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Other websites
Lennon's artwork put on sale by Mardas
Chris Hunt interview with Cynthia Lennon
Life of The Beatles

2017 deaths
1942 births
The Beatles
Deaths from pneumonia
Engineers
Greek businesspeople
People from Athens
The Nationalist Movement Party (sometimes called Nationalist Action Party; Turkish: Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) is a political party in Turkey.

The MHP was founded on 9 February 1969 by Alparslan Türkeş. Their most successful performance in an election was in 1999, where they received 5,606,634 votes and won 129 out of 550 seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In the last election, they received 5,599,600 votes and won 40 out of 550 seats.

The Nationalist Movement Party has been called a neo-fascist party, and has been linked to some violent militias. They are cultural nationalists, and moved from supporting secularism to having a pro-Islamic stance. They are Eurosceptics, meaning they are against the European Union.

Their slogan is: Ülkenin Geleceğine Oy Ver (meaning "Vote for the country's future").

The MHP refuses to have any form of dialogue with the left-wing Kurdish nationalist Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

References

Other websites 

Official Web site
Official Site of Ulku Ocaklari (Turan idealists)
Nationalist Movement Party Multimedya 

Political parties in Asia
The National Alliance (officially called the National Alliance "All For Latvia!" or "For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK"; Latvian: Nacionālā apvienība „Visu Latvijai!” or „Tēvzemei un Brīvībai/LNNK”; NA) is a political party in Latvia.

The current party was founded on 23 July 2011. The party is a merger of All For Latvia! and For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK. Their support has been rising since their creation, and in the last parliament election they received 151,567 votes and won 17 out of 100 seats in the Saeima. In the 2014 European election, they received 63,229 votes and won 1 out of 8 seats.

The party is based on nationalism and conservatism. They are Eurosceptic, meaning that they are against the European Union. The party also wants the government to have a stricter anti-Russia stance.

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Other websites 
  Official website 

Political parties in Europe
Eurosceptic parties
2011 establishments in Europe
Establishments in Latvia
Epsom Downs railway station is a station in the borough of Reigate and Banstead. It opened in 1865. The only operator for this station is Southern.

Platforms
There is only one platform for this station and it is used for trains towards London Victoria via Norbury. There is no Sunday service for this station.

Frequency
This list shows the frequency of trains on typical off-peak hours.

Up (northbound)
 2 tph to London Victoria via Norbury

Departures
This table shows the departures from this station with the calling points and the time that is taken to  get to the end of the line.

Other websites
 
 

Railway stations in England
1865 establishments in England
Prayagraj ( formerly called as Allahabad), is a city in Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is located where Ganges and Yamuna rivers join. This city is a holy city for Hindus. It is best known for Kumbh fair. This fair occurs every 12th year in Prayagraj.

Previously Prayagraj known as Allahabad. The name has changed in Yogi Government Uttar Pradesh in 2018.

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Allahabad district
Cities and towns in Uttar Pradesh
Udo Konstantin Ulfkotte (20 January 1960 – 13 January 2017) was a German journalist and political scientist. He was an assistant editor for the main daily Frankfurt newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Between 1986 and 1998, Ulfkotte lived in the Middle East mostly, inlcuding Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan. He was became a Muslim while living in Afghanistan. He later became a born-again Christian. He later held conservative and anti-Muslim views and was against immigration. He was born in Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia (then in West Germany).

Ulfkotte died from a heart attack on 13 January 2017 at the age of 56.

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1960 births
2017 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Germany
Deaths from myocardial infarction
German journalists
German Protestants
German political scientists
Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia
Jupiter Ghosh is a cricketer from Bangladesh. He was born on 22nd July 1989 in Bagerhat, Khulna. Jupiter Ghosh is a Bangladeshi first-class and List A cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and right-arm bowler. Ghosh is an all-rounder and plays as a right-handed batsman. He is currently playing for Khulna Division.

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1989 births
Living people
Bangladeshi cricketers
Mexicana Flight 940, was flying from Mexico City to Los Angeles the plane was operated by a Boeing 727 with 159 passengers and 8 crew members on-board. On March 31, 1986  the plane suffered an in-flight fire and crashed near Michoacán, all 167 people on-board were killed, in Mexico's worst air-disaster.

Aviation disasters in the 1980s