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Jessica Falkholt (15 May 1988 – 17 January 2018) was an Australian actress. She appeared in 16 episodes of the television series Home and Away as Hope Morrison in 2016. She was born in Sydney.  Her career began after she graduated from the University of New South Wales. 

Falkholt had minor television roles in Tricky Business and Underbelly: Badness. In 2017, she was cast in her first led movie role in the 2018 movie Harmony. She was set to join the cast of Nine Network's drama Bite Club.

On 26 December 2017, Falkholt was involved in a car crash which killed both her parents instantly. As the vehicle burst into flames, both Jessica and her sister Annabelle, aged 21, were pulled out of the vehicle alive, but Annabelle later died in Liverpool Hospital. She was hospitalized and placed under critical condition and life-support. She had surgery to remove her kidney and part of her skull. On 12 January 2018, a spokesperson for St George Hospital confirmed that her life support had been turned off but that she remained in a critical condition. She died five days later on 17 January at the age of 29.

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The flag of Morocco was adopted on 17 November 1915. It has a red field with the green pentagram, a five-pointed linear star.

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The flag of Togo was created in April 1960.

Appearance 
It has five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow. There is a white five-pointed star on a red square in the upper hoist-side corner.

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Ei Chheleta Bhelbheleta (); was a popular Bengali television Soap Opera that premiered on March 28, 2016 and aired on Zee Bangla. Produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures, it started  Prapti Chatterjee and Somraj Maity in lead roles, Nabanita Malakar in a negative role and Sabitri Chatterjee, Anusuya Majumdar, Shankar Chakraborty and Bharat Kaul in supporting roles. The show Got replaced by a Mythology show Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni.

Plot summary 
The show's unique name has been taken from common Bengali childhood rhyme. It truly captures the free-spirited love and chemistry between the protagonists - Abir and Shaluk. Life takes a turn when introvert city-bred boy 'Abir' meets the vivacious village girl 'Shaluk'. Their unusual friendship clicks in an instant and soon a sweet innocent chemistry develops between the two. Soon they realize their feelings towards each other. Thus, starts the story of their 'first love'. 'Eii Chhele Ta Bhelbhele Ta' is a tale of love, which follows the protagonists through myriad of situations and sees them unite against all odds. The story showcases a pure love story between two teenagers and how their love matures over time and rises above the different obstacles of life.

The show however has a lot of exist undertones too. The lead female character Shaluk is characterized as an all virtuous young lady without any faults .The writers and producers of the show, portray female lead characters idealistically instead of celebrating their faults as part of normal human nature. The supporting characters on the other hand are extremely blatant and malleable. They never show any strong or original viewpoints, as if the only reason for their casting is to complete a joint Bengali family. The male lead Abir is a polygamist and also narcissistic. He is a postgraduate student in Physics(it remains to be seen how that is possible because he is really stupid); without any source of income while staying in his parents house and without even trying is able to seduce two women to marry him. This is either because the women married him for the family heirloom or testimony to the dystopian mindset of the writers.

Cast 
 Prapti Chatterjee as Shaluk {Main Female Lead}
 Somraj Maity as Abir {Main Male Lead}
 Nabanita Malakar as Aishwarya / Mimi {Main Antagonist} (Jailed)

 Sabitri Chatterjee as Shaluk's Grandmother {Parallel Female Lead}
 Anusuya Majumdar as Jaan {Parallel Female Lead} 
 Rita Dutta Chakraborty as Shaluk's Aunt
 Shankar Chakraborty as Abir's Father
 Bharat Kaul as Abinash Sen
 Ritoja Majumder as Sonali {Antagonist}
 Rajasree Bhowmik as Kamalini 
 Suchismita Chowdhury as Nilanjana {Antagonist}
 Surajit Banerjee as Pupe's Father
 Diganta Bagchi as Choton
 Samata Das as Choton's wife
 Ayesha Bhattacharya as Pupe {Antagonist}
 Debjani Chakraborty as Nodi/Ranga Dii
 Debolina Mukherjee as Dighi/Ful Dii
Premer Phande (); was a  popular romantic comedy Bengali television Soap Opera that premiered on April 18, 2016 and aired on Zee Bangla, produced by Ravi Ojha Productions and started Mishmee Das as main female protagonist and Rajib Basu as main male protagonist.

Plot 
The story revolves around the lives of Mohor and Rishi. Rishi belongs to a joint family and works for a matrimonial company. Rishi’s family is very supportive. He is a young lad and being the elder among two brothers, he is loved and pampered by everyone in the family. On the other hand, Mohor is a mature orphan girl. Mohor comes to Kolkata for her job. One fine day, much to his disgust, Mohor joins the matrimonial company as Rishi’s boss. Mohor, who is new in the city, ends up becoming a tenant at Rishi’s house. Rishi’s family likes Mohor very much and his grandmother wants that Rishi should fall in love with Mohor. From here, starts the sweet fun chemistry of Rishi and Mohor, who being the boss troubles Rishi at work and Rishi, being the landlord irritates Mohor at home. This creates a hilarious ruckus due to the unconventional role reversal of Mohor and Rishi. Will this unique chemistry give rise to a sweet love story?

Casts
 Mishmee Das as Mohor Roy / Priyanka Majumdar (Main Female Lead)
 Rajib Basu as Rishi Ganguly (Main Male Lead)
 Tanima Sen as Rishi’s Grandmother 
 Anirban Guha as Rishi’s Father 
 Chaitali Dutta Burman as Srimoyee Ganguly
 Kanchana Moitra as Shiuli Ganguly
 Abhijit Deb Roy as Rishi’s Uncle
 Aniket Chakraborty as Jeet Ganguly
 Partha Sarathi Deb as Mishra Ji 
 Sujoy Saha as Bijit 
 Misty Das as Mili Ganguly 
 Piyali Mukherjee as Tithi Ganguly 
 Arnab Banerjee as Jayanta Ganguly
 Koushik Chakraborty as Barin Majumdar

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Bodhu Kon Alo Laaglo Chokhe (); was a Bengali television serial which used to air on GEC Star Jalsha. It was produced by Shree Venkatesh Films and started Payel Dey and Sourav Chakraborty in the lead roles.

Plot 
The serial takes its name from a song from the dance drama Chitrangada,by Tagore.This is a story of a beautiful girl name Aalo and the various ups and downs she goes throughout her life. A failed marriage caused Aalo to attempt suicide but the twist of fate brought Sourav to her. Aalo accepts to nurture Sourav’s daughter Icche, who suffers from an incurable disease. Though Aalo and Sourav care for each other they never represented themselves as ideal married couple as both of them are traumatized with their past experience of marriage.

Present cast 
 Payel Dey as Aalo Moitra
 Sourav Chakraborty as Sourav Moitra
 Chandrayee Ghosh as Debjani Moitra / Debi
 Koushik Roy as Sougata Moitra
 Sagnik Chatterjee as Sourish Moitra
 Sohini Sanyal as Indrani / Indu
 Elfina Mukherjee as Chandrani / Chhutki
 Manoj Ojha as DK
 Ananya Chatterjee as Debi's Mother
 Ashmita Mukherjee as Sharmi
 Tapan Ganguly as Surendranath Moitra
 Sushmita Dey as Malobika Dutta / Mishtu
 Antara as Bonolata / Lata
 Ratna Ghoshal as Pishima
 Ripom Majumdar as Shobuj / Debarshi

Former cast 
 Saayoni Ghosh as Ujjaini Sen / Rini
 Kaushik Chakraborty as Adinath Siddhanth
 Arindam Chatterjee as Angshuman Lahiri
 Arpita Mukherjee as Mallika
 Debdut Ghosh as SK
 Swagata Mukherjee as Surekha
 Rajat Ganguly as Mamadadu
 Bodhisatva Majumdar as Somnath / Shomu
 Shakuntala Barua as Nonibala
 Ratri Ghatak as Angshuman’s younger sister in law
 Koushani Roy as Rupa
 Kaushik Bhattacharya as Rupa’s Husband
 Saugata Bandyopadhyay as Angshuman’s Boss
 Manasi Sinha as Aalo’ s Mother
 Debesh Chattopadhyay as Aalo’ s Father
 Subhajit Bakshi as Aalo’s Brother
 Ekavali Khanna as Rinky
 Joyjit Banerjee as Shambhu
 Animesh Bhaduri as Indu’s Husband
 Indrani Basu as Ujjaini’s Mother.
 Moumi Bose as Ichche Moitra
 Prity Biswas as Suhaani Sharma
 Basanti Chatterjee as Mishtu’s Grandmother

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Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (born 20 April 1960) is a Cuban politician. He is the 19th and current President of Cuba since 10 October 2019. He is also the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba since 19 April 2021. Before He was president of the council state of Cuba from 2018 to 2019. He was also the First Vice President of the Council of State and Council of Ministers from 2013 to 2018. He has been a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba since 2003.

Díaz-Canel Bermúdez served as Minister of Higher Education from 2009 to 2012; he was promoted to the post of Vice President of the Council of Ministers (deputy Prime Minister) in 2012. A year later, on 24 February 2013, he was elected as First Vice President of the Council of State.

Díaz-Canel Bermúdez was close with Raúl Castro and many knew when Castro retired, he would have been the likely successor when he retired in April 2018. He was sworn-in as President a day before his 58th birthday. In April 2021, he replaced Castro as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba.

Has also allowed his country to have WIFI for the first time. This has changed society for the better as well as making him more popular. During the 2021 protest in Cuba, he ordered the police and the Cuban military units to attack the pacific activists and use violence to defend their dictatorship regime. He is also responsible for disappearances, deaths and kidnappings of political activists and protesters.

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Standish Fletcher Thompson (born February 5, 1925) is an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1973 from the 5th Congressional District of Georgia.

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Benjamin Bentley Blackburn  (born February 14, 1927) is an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Georgia, who served from 1967 to 1975.

Career
In 1966, Blackburn was elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress, having narrowly defeated freshman incumbent James MacKay by 360 votes. In that same election fellow Republican Bo Callaway challenged the Democrat Lester Maddox. Blackburn was reelected to Congress in the three succeeding terms but was unsuccessful in a campaign for reelection in 1974.

Blackburn served as president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation from 1976 until 1985. In 1982, he ran for Governor of Georgia, but was defeated in the Republican primary by State Senator Bob Bell. Bell then lost in the general election to the Democrat Joe Frank Harris.

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Jack Thomas Brinkley (December 22, 1930 – January 23, 2019) was an American politician, educator and lawyer.

Brinkley's political career began as a one term in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1965–1966 and eight consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in 1967 and ending in 1983 when he chose not to run for re-election.

Brinkley died on January 23, 2019 in Columbus, Georgia from a heart attack at the age of 88.

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Elliott Harris Levitas (born December 26, 1930) is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative from Georgia's 4th congressional district. Levitas was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1964 and served from 1965 to 1974.

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James Roy Rowland, Jr. (born February 3, 1926) is an American politician and physician. 

Rowland served as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1976 through 1982. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982 when he defeated Billy Lee Evans, who had accepted illegal campaign contributions. Rowland served six terms in Congress, from January 3, 1983, to January 3, 1995, and did not seek renomination in 1994.

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The flag of Norway is deep red with a dark blue cross outlined in white. The red, white and blue colors are inspired by the flags of France, United Kingdom and the United States. The colors represent liberty and independence. The flag was created in 1821 by Fredrik Meltzer, who was a member of Norway's parliament, but it wasn't flown until 1899, when Norway and Sweden ended their union.

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The flag of Iceland has a white-fimbriated red Nordic cross on a blue field.

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Tschiertschen-Praden is a municipality of the district Plessur in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It started on 1 January 2009 when Praden and Tschiertschen combined.

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The flag of Somalia was created in 1954. It has a single white five-pointed star centered on a light blue field.

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Kache Aye Shoi(English: come close my friend) was a Bengali television serial which used to air on Zee Bangla. It Started Chandini Saha and Gourob Roy Chaudhary in Lead roles.

Cast 
 Chandni Saha as Shoi
 Mimi Dutta as Brishti
 Priyam as Ujaan Roy Chowdhury
 Gourab Roy Chowdhury as Roop
 Bhaswar Chatterjee as Tiyash
 Rupsha Chakraborty as Raahi
 Shaon Dey as Shampa
 Pushpita Mukherjee as Mithu
 Shanghamitra Talukdar as Rinku

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Tumi Robe Nirobe () was a Bengali television soap opera which aired on Bengali General Entertainment Channel Zee Bangla. The show telecasted Monday through Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

Plot
The plot revolves around the love story of two special people, Jheel (Shweta Bhattacharya) and Sanju (Shubhankar Saha). They are both deaf and mute. Jheel is the lead dancer of a group called Taal. This dance group is again special because all the performers of this group are deaf and mute. Jheel has a sister Dighi who is also deaf and mute. These two orphan sisters are trying to live their lives against all odds. In the course of time Jheel and Sanju meet through Sanju's father (Arjun Chakraborty). How Jheel and Sanju develop the most special relationship is the story of Tumi Robe Nirobe.

Cast
Shweta Bhattacharya as Jheel Mukherjee (née Banerjee)
Shubhankar Saha as Sanjit Mukherjee / Sanju
Arjun Chakraborty as Jashojit Mukherjee
Suchismita Chowdhury as Leela Sen Mukherjee
Anusuya Majumdar as Jaya Bhattacharya
Tonni Laha Roy as Dighi Mukherjee (née Banerjee)
Rajiv Bose as Ranjit Mukherjee / Ranju
Upanita Banerjee as Sneha Roy (née Mukherjee)
Vikramjit Chowdhury as Neel Roy
Kanchana Moitra as Rotee Roy
Raja Chatterjee as Agnidev Roy
Lily Chakraborty as Sunetra Lahiri 
Deerghoi Paul as Arna
Puja Gangopadhyay / Sreemoyee Chattoraj / Piyali Mukherjee as Sneha
Malobika Sen as Malobika Sen
Paean Sarkar as Roosha
Amitabha Bhattacharyya as Doctor

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 http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/Tumi-Robe-Nirobe-First-Ever-Soap-on-the-Differently-Abled/871378

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Yılmaz Onay (April 20, 1937 – January 9, 2018) was a Turkish author, artist, theatre director, playwright and translator. He was born in Gaziantep, Turkey.

He translated plays, which most of them are known plays of Bertolt Brecht, stories, novels, books of poems and non-fiction books from German to Turkish and write plays and novels; all published.

As a director, he staged most of Brecht’s works, in a theatre called Epic Theatre which he was one of the frontiers of this theatre movement in Turkey. He was known for staging a known play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich written by Brecht.

Onay died in Gaziantep of stomach cancer on January 9, 2018 at the age of 80.

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Stephane Gauger (August 30, 1969 – January 11, 2018) was a Vietnamese-born American movie director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City. He was raised in Orange County, California. He was best known for his movies Owl and the Sparrow, Saigon Electric and Chinatown Squad. 

Gauger was a nominee of the Breakthrough Director Award at the 2007 Gotham Awards and the John Cassavetes Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards (for his work with Owl and the Sparrow (2007)). 

On January 11, 2018, Gauger died of a stroke in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at the age of 48.

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The flag of Gabon has three horizontal bands of green, gold, and blue.

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Spanky Manikan (March 22, 1942 – January 14, 2018) was a Filipino actor for theater, movie and television. He was born in Manila. 

Manikan was known for his roles as Orly in Himala (1981) and as NAVA in the 1986 movie Behind Enemy Lines, co-starring David Carradine. He won the Metro Manila Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Himala in 1982. At the time of his death, Manikan was starring as Mr. Jang in the drama series My Love from the Star.

Manikan died of lung cancer on January 14, 2018 in Manila at the age of 75.

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The flag of Rwanda was adopted on October 25, 2001. It has a horizontal tricolour of blue (double width), yellow and green, with a yellow sun in the upper-fly side corner.

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Albert Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American character actor and politician. He was best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1945 through 1947 as a Democrat.

Dekker was found dead at his home in Hollywood, California by his fiancée Jeraldine Saunders on May 5, 1968. He was 62 years old. He was naked, kneeling in the bathtub, with a noose tightly wrapped around his neck and looped around the shower curtain rod. His death was ruled to be an accidental case of erotic asphyxiation.

Dekker has a star, in the motion picture category, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6620 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Stephen David Wyatt Milligan (12 May 1948 – 7 February 1994) was a British Conservative politician and journalist. He was elected to serve as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh in 1992. 

Milligan was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Jonathan Aitken, Minister of State for Defence, and was regarded as a "rising star" of the Conservative Party.

Milligan was found dead in his house in Chiswick, London, in February 1994, apparently self-strangled by the use of an electrical cord during an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.

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Mark Rankin Herring (born September 25, 1961) is an American lawyer. He was the 47th Attorney General of Virginia from 2014 to 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the Senate of Virginia since a 2006 special election.  He represented the 33rd district, made up of parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties.

In December 2018, Herring announced his plans to run for Governor of Virginia in the 2021 election. However; later decided to run for re-election as State Attorney General. He lost his re-election campaign in November 2021 to Republican Jason Miyares.

In the wake of Ralph Northam's controversy over blackface pictures appearing on his yearbook page, Herring admitted to also wearing blackface. Herring, like Northam, resisted calls to resign.

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Victoria is a town in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada.

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Steven Peter Devereux Smith (born 2 June 1989) is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team.
, Smith is the top-ranked Test batsman in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. On 30 December 2017 he reached a Test batting rating of 947, the second-highest of all time only behind Don Bradman's 961. He is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the world. He plays for New South Wales and Sydney Sixers in domestic cricket.

Although he was initially selected for Australia as a right-arm leg spinner, Smith now plays primarily as a batsman. After a few tests in 2010 and 2011, he has been a regular player in the Australian team since 2013, and took over captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015. Since then he has primarily batted at number 4.

Awards he has won include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015, 2017; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015, 2018 and Australian One Day International Player of the Year: 2015. He was named by Wisden as one of their Cricketers of the Year for 2015. In 2014, Martin Crowe described Smith as one of the young Fab Four of Test Cricket along with Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Virat Kohli.

In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa. Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from all international and domestic cricket for one year, and will not be considered for a leadership role for another year after that.

Early life
Smith was born in Sydney to an Australian father, Peter, who has a degree in chemistry and works with pigments and waxes, and an English mother, Gillian.

Records
 He holds the record for the most consecutive 50+ scores in World Cup history with 5 such scores in the 2015 Cricket World Cup
 The second highest Test batting rating of 947, only behind Don Bradman's 961.

Suspension
In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa.

Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from international cricket for 12 months, and will not be considered for a leadership role for 12 months after that.

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Steve Smith at Cricket Australia
Steve Smith at Yahoo! Cricket

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Bennie Jean Porter (December 8, 1922 – January 13, 2018) was an American actress. She was born in Cisco, Texas. She was known for her roles in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) and One Million B.C. (1940).

Porter was active throughout the 1940s. She appeared in almost 30 movies with MGM stars like Esther Williams, Mickey Rooney and the comedy duo Abbott & Costello. In the 1950s, Porter appeared mainly in television series such as The Red Skelton Show, Sea Hunt,  and 77 Sunset Strip. She retired from acting in 1961.

Porter died in Canoga Park, California of natural causes, at the age of 95.

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Engels is a city located in Saratov Oblast, Russia. It was founded in 1747.  It's a port connected with Saratov over Volga River with a bridge.

It was previously known as Pokrovskaya sloboda (until 1916), Pokrovsk (until 1931-1933).

Twin cities 
Engels is a sister city of
 Edmond, Oklahoma, United States

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Saratov Oblast (, Saratovskaya oblast) is a  administrative division of Russia.

Geography
Saratov Oblast is located in southeast of European Russia, in northern part of Lower Volga region and borders are:

 Volgograd Oblast to south
 Voronezh and Tambov oblasts to west
 Penza, Samara and Ulyanovsk oblasts to north;
 Republic of Kazakhstan to east.

Demographics 
In terms of people, population of this oblast: 2,521,892 (2010).

Ethnic composition (2010):
 Russians - 87.6%
 Tatars - 2.2%
 others - 2.1%

Religion 
A 2012 survey showed these are the major religions in the oblast:

Related pages
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Nina Turner (born December 7, 1967) is an American progressive politician. Turner, a Democrat, served as a member of the Ohio State Senate from 2008 to 2014, and was elected to be the chamber’s Minority Whip in the 129th General Assembly.

Works
Turner has been seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party. She endorsed Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and became an active supporter for him. 

Turner is President of the Sanders-affiliated group Our Revolution in 2017, taking over from former Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver.

After Marcia Fudge was selected as Biden's nomination for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Turner filed paperwork to run for in the special election for Ohio's 11th congressional district. She lost the election ton Shontel Brown.

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James Allen Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American columnist, progressive  political activist, and author. From 1983 to 1991, he served as elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture during the Governships of Mark White and Bill Clements. He was born in Denison, Texas.

Hightower had endorsed Bernie Sanders for President of the United States in 2016, actively campaigning for the Democratic candidate.

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Birobidzhan (; Yiddish: ביראָבידזשאַן‎) is a town in Russia. It is the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the Chinese border. As of 2019, the population was 73,129.

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Ray Anthony (born January 20, 1922) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

From 1953 to 1954 Anthony was the musical director of the television series TV's Top Tunes, and he also appeared as himself in the 1955 movie Daddy Long Legs.

In 1957, Anthony and his orchestra recorded the music score for the movie This Could Be The Night, with vocals performed by Julie Wilson.

Anthony's compositions include "Thunderbird", "The Bunny Hop", "Trumpet Boogie", "Big Band Boogie", and "Mr. Anthony's Boogie".

Anthony was a close friend of the late Hugh Hefner and appeared in many episodes of The Girls Next Door.

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 The official Ray Anthony Webpage
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 Ray Anthony biography at SpaceAgePop.com
 
 

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Ke Apon Ke Por is a Bengali Drama series that airs on Star Jalsha and Star Jalsha HD at 7:30 PM every day. Pallabi Sharma plays the role of protagonist Joba having garnered momentous viewer appraisal. Bishwajit Ghosh plays Param, the other half of a well-loved screen-couple.

The show comes from Boyhood Productions, one of the leading production houses in Kolkata.

Plot
Ke Apon Ke Por focuses on the journey of a girl that started out as a domestic help and went on to establish herself as someone who’s well suited to be the daughter-in-law of the household and a Lawyer by profession. Alternatively, what forms the core of the show is also reflected in the beautiful love story between Joba and the son of the very affluent family, Param. 

This story also brings to light the trials of a joint family where sons and daughters try to break away. Joba however, still tries to hold the family together. As parents try to build a family with a lot of love and care, sons and daughters grow up to be selfish and remain concerned only about parents’ money and property. As parents fear divisive tendencies in the family, circumstances get Param and Joba to tie the knot. Siblings rot over possibilities of paternal property going entirely to Joba and Param and eventually seize riches and drive the parents out. Param and Joba toil endlessly to hold pieces of the family together.

In the recent past, the story has taken a successful leap as Joba and Param face the bitter-sweet realities of being parents to kids that continue to grow up and grow apart. The show is also simultaneously establishing the position of Itu who happens to resemble Joba in more ways than one. Fate intervenes and Itu gets married to Sarthak, Joba and Param’s Son.

Cast
 Pallavi Sharma as Joba
 Biswajit Ghosh as Param
 Indranil Chattejee as Sarthak
 Titli Aich as Itu
 Simran Upadhyay as Koyel

Crew
 Director - Siddhartha Pal
 Producer - Nispal Singh & Susanta Das
 Screenplay - Sayantani Bhattacharya
 Dialogue - Saurav Sengupta
 Camera - Ashok Pramanik
 Editing - Amitabha Bagchi
 Music Director - Debjit

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is a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the younger brother of Emperor Akihito. He is the second son and sixth born child of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun and is fourth in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne. 

Prince Hitachi is mainly known for philanthropic activities and his research on the causes of cancer.

Prince Hitachi and his wife Princess Hitachi have their official residence in a palace in large gardens off Komazawadori in Higashi, Shibuya. They have no children.

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, formerly , is the widow of Marquis  and fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa and Empress Kōjun. She is the older sister of Emperor Akihito. She married Takamasa Ikeda on 10 October 1952. As a result, she gave up her imperial title and left the Japanese Imperial Family, as required by law.

Titles and styles
 7 March 1931 – 10 October 1952: Her Imperial Highness The Princess Yori
 10 October 1952 – present: Mrs. Takamasa Ikeda

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Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (; 6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician and singer-songwriter. She led the rock band The Cranberries for thirteen years before the band took a break starting in 2003, reuniting in 2009.

Her first solo album Are You Listening? was released in May 2007 and was followed up by No Baggage in 2009. She was known for yodeling and for her strong Limerick accent. 

O'Riordan appeared as a judge on RTÉ's The Voice of Ireland during the 2013/14 season. In April 2014 O'Riordan joined Jetlag (now called D.A.R.K.) and began recording new material. 

In May 2017, O'Riordan said that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

O'Riordan, who was drunk, accidentally drowned in her London hotel room on 15 January 2018 at the age of 46.

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Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23, 1946) is an American politician, civil rights leader and pastor. Rush is the U.S. Representative for . He was first elected in 1992 and took office in 1993. The district was located in the South Side of Chicago. 

A member of the Democratic Party, Rush is the only politician to have defeated Barack Obama in an election, which he did in the 2000 Democratic primary for Illinois' 1st congressional district.

A civil rights activist during the 1960s, Rush became radicalized for a period and founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers.

In 1999, Rush ran for Mayor of Chicago, but lost in the Democratic primary to incumbent Richard M. Daley.

In 2015, Rush endorsed Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Emanuel's run-off reelection campaign against Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.

On January 3, 2022, he announced that he was retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Congressman Bobby Rush official U.S. House site

 

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Daniel K. Davis (born September 6, 1941) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , serving since January 1997. Davis is a member of the Democratic Party.

Davis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Progressive Caucus, and Democratic Socialists of America.

Davis was one of 31 U.S. Representatives who voted against counting the electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.

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Congressman Danny K. Davis  official House site
Danny K. Davis for Congress

 

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Bobby Rush (born November 10, 1933) is a Grammy Award Winning American blues musician, composer and singer. His style is made of elements of blues, rap and funk. He was born in Homer, Louisiana, but was raised in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2007, he became the first blues artist to perform in China, earning him the title “International Dean of the Blues.” He was later named Friendship Ambassador to the Great Wall of China after performing the largest concert ever held at that site.

Rush has been awarded 17 blues music awards in his lifetime, and in 2006 he was added into the Blues Hall of Fame.

Grammy Awards 
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Rush has won one award from four nominations.

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Bobby Rush at AuthenticBlues.com

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The flag of Sudan () was adopted on 20 May 1970. It has a horizontal red-white-black tricolour, with a green triangle at the hoist.

The flag is based on the Arab Liberation Flag received by Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, that uses a subset of the Pan-Arab colours in which green is less significant.

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Erling Mandelmann (18 November 1935 – 14 January 2018) was a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1960s. He was born in Copenhagen. He took more than 500 portraits of people, including the 14th Dalai Lama, Noël Coward, Gertrude Fehr, Nina Hagen, Johnny Hallyday, and Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein. His photo-archives have been deposited at the Historical Museum of Lausanne.

Mandelmann died on 14 January 2018 in Paris of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 82.

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Viktor Anpilov (; 2 October 1945 — 15 January 2018) was a Russian hardline Communist politician and trade unionist. He was born in Belaya Glina, Krasnodar Krai. Anpilov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972. He worked as a Soviet journalist in Latin America. 

In 1990, Anpilov was nominated as candidate for the Congress of People's Deputies and Moscow city Soviet. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Anpilov became the leader of the movement  Labour Russia.

During the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, he was one of the leaders of the anti-Boris Yeltsin uprising. In 2007 he took part in the Dissenters March organized to protest against president Vladimir Putin policies. 

Anpilov died in Moscow of complications from a stroke on 15 January 2018 at the age of 72.

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"Working Russia" site
 

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Ogun State is one of the 36 states in Nigeria. It is presently governed by Ibikunle Amosun and its capital is Abeokuta. The state consists of 20 local government areas including:

 Abeokuta North
 Abeokuta South
 Ado-Odo/Ota
 Ewekoro
 Ifo
 Ijebu East
 Ijebu North
 Ijebu North East
 Ijebu Ode
 Ikenne
 Imeko Afon
 Ipokia
 Obafemi Owode
 Odogbolu
 Odeda
 Ogun Waterside
 Remo North
 Sagamu(Shagamu)
 Yewa North(formerly Egbado North)
 Yewa South(formerly Egbado South)

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Bruno Latour (born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher.  Known for his work in science and technology, Latour has taught at several universities, including École des Mines de Paris, Sciences Po and London School of Economics.  Latour has also authored several books, including Laboratory Life (1979), Science in Action (1987) and We Have Never Been Modern (1991).  In 2007, he was the tenth most-cited author in the field of social sciences.

Biography
Latour received a Ph.D. in theology from Université de Tours.  He became interested in anthropology and went to Ivory Coast to do fieldwork for a paper on race and colonies.

In 1982, Latour started teaching at École des Mines de Paris.  In 2005, he took the position of Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.  He finished teaching at École des Mines de Paris in 2006 to become a scientific director at Sciences Po.  In 2017, he retired from most university activities.

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Prithvi Vallabh - Itihaas Bhi, Rahasya Bhi is an Indian television historical drama. The series will be broadcast on from Sony Entertainment Television (India).

The show will be produced by Anirudh Pathak and the production company Writer's Galaxy.  The story is based on the book of Gujarati writer Kanhayalal Munshi  This show is the first production of Sony Pictures Networks India's sub-branch SET originals. The show will premiere on 20th January 2018.

Plot
The story follows the life journey of two kings. Prithvi Vallabh, king of Avantipur, a kind of peaceful man and Tailap, the neighboring King, who is very cruel.

Prithvi is captured and imprisoned. He falls in love with Tailap's sister Mrinalvati.

Cast
 Ashish Sharma as Prithvi Vallabh
 Sonarika Bhadoria as Mrinalvati

References
The Battle of the Dnieper involved about four million troups (Soviet and German). They fought over land and the Dnieper River totalling 870 miles for four months. Soviet army won.

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Louis James Barletta (born January 28, 1956) is an American politician. In 2011, he became the U.S. Representative for . He left the office on January 3, 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party. He served as Mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, from 1999 to 2010.

In August 2017, Barletta announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. He lost the general election to incumbent Bob Casey, Jr..

In May 2021, he announced his candidacy for Governor of Pennsylvania in the upcoming 2022 election.

References

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Lou Barletta for Senate 

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Óscar Alberto Pérez (7 April 1981 – 15 January 2018) was a Venezuelan political activist and CICPC investigator, Venezuela's investigative agency. He was a harsh critic of president Maduro's rule in Venezuela politics. He started to be a rebel (as he was defined by the NYTimes) against Maduro since the mid 2010.

Data
He was born in Caracas in 1981 and since young he was an activist in the Venezuela politics. He did not like the "Chavism" since the early 2010s, when president Chavez started to show full alliance with Castro's Cuba.
Óscar Pérez was better known for being responsible for the 2017 Caracas helicopter attack during the 2017 Venezuelan protests and the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis.

On 15 January 2018, the Venezuelan army and the Venezuelan National Guard launched an operation to capture Óscar Pérez, who was held up in the western Caracas neighborhood of El Junquito. Pérez resisted the attack. After three hours of shooting, Pérez wanted to surrender but he was shot dead along with his men. His death was confirmed by the Venezuelan police one day later.

Worldwide reactions to his death
The international media and some politicians & citizens all over the world defined what has happened in El Junquito as a «massacre»» and did harsh critics to Maduro & his government. 

Some of the countries were: Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, with critics from ex-president Andrés Pastrana, USA, with senator Marco Rubio angry comments, Guatemala, Paraguay, Uruguay, Spain and France. Additionally, the main media in Italy (Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Repubblica, Il Giornale, etc..) for a full week showed in first page the El Junquito massacre news.

Related pages
 Nicolás Maduro
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Manasha is a  Mythological Bengali television soap opera that   Premiered on 29 January 2018  and  airs on Colors Bangla. It is produced by Subatra Roy,Manas it Stars Chandi Saha as the Main Female Protagonist and Aditi Chatterjee,Fahim Mirza,Neil Chatterjee, and Indrajit Majumdar in Supporting Roles. Manasha took    the time slot of Colors  Bangla's Popular show *Roopkatha.

Plot
It will narrate the story of Goddess Manasha. It is not the story of a vindictive venomous snake-goddess alone but a sad saga of a lonely woman who perpetually gets hurt by the closest male members of her life—her father, her husband and all other celestial men folk, who censor her right to be worshiped as a Goddess.Manasha is the goddess of snakes.
She is the daughter of shiva.Her legends emphasize her erratic temper and despondency deep-rooted by her father loRd shiva's rejection ,her stepmother's hatred and her husband's rejection .Follow the journey of this lonely goddess who perpetually falls victim to male chauvinistic behaviour prevalent among gods.Fighting her own can Manasha win her right to be worshipped as a goddess

Cast
Chandi Saha as Goddess Manasha
Aditi Chatterjee as Parvati
Indrajit Majumdar as Shiv
Fahim Mirza as Indra
Neil Chatterjee as Manasa's Father
Kunal Banerjee as God Biswakarma
Rajib Bose as Vishnu
 Manisankar Banerjee as Bramha
Nabanita Malakar as Saraswati
Samantak as Kartik
Saurav Chatterjee as Narad
Sayan Karmakar as Agni
 Saugata Bandyopadhyay  as Paban
Bipul Patra as Aswini dev
Debraj Mukherjee as Sesh Naag
Nayana Bandyopadhyay as  Devi Jaya
Samata Chatterjee as Kaal Naagin
Manoj Ojha as Basuki
Swagata Mukherjee as Kadru
Rahul Ghosh as Pola

Other websites
 tellychakkar.com news

2018 Indian television series debuts
Indian television series
Madalena Lucília Iglésias do Vale de Oliveira (24 October 1939 – 16 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress and singer. She represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, with the song "Ele e ela". She was born in Lisbon. She also appeared in movies such as Uma hora de Amor (1964), Canção da Saudade (1964) and in Sarilho de fraldas (1966).

Iglésias died in Barcelona, Spain on 16 January 2018 at the age of 78.

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Hugh Hamilton Wilson (August 21, 1943 – January 14, 2018) was an American movie and television director and television writer. He was best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the popular movie comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club. He was born in Miami, Florida. 

In 1988, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.

Wilson died on January 14, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 74 of emphysema.

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Oliver Ivanović (1 April 1953 – 16 January 2018) was a Kosovo Serb politician. He was the president of the civic initiative SDP operating in Kosovo.

Ivanović served as the State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija from 2008 to 2012. He was also member of the Coordinating Center for Kosovo and Metohija.

Ivanović was arrested in January 2014 on suspicion of war crimes and sentenced to nine years in jail on 21 January 2016 for war crimes by judges from the EULEX Kosovo. However, the Appeals Court in Pristina annulled the guilty verdict on 12 February 2017 and ordered a new trial.

Ivanović was shot six times in a drive-by shooting at 08:15 on 16 January 2018 while entering his office in North Mitrovica. He was 64 years old.

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