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John M Shifflett (March 22, 1953 – April 27, 2017) was an American Jazz musician, player of the Double bass and also an arranger, composer, and educator, with his last teaching job at San Jose State University.

John Shifflett was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated in 1976 from Iowa State University. Later, while at the University of Iowa, John was it's big band and it's jazz combo bass player, appearing at festivals such as the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festivals in April 1979 and in March 1980.

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Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in California
American jazz musicians
Educators from Iowa
Musicians from Iowa
People from Dubuque, Iowa
Janelle (Jane Ellen) Kirtley Godfrey (December 8, 1943 - April 28, 2017) was an American former World Champion water skier. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2001 she was recognized with the Award of Distinction from the Water Ski Hall of Fame, and she was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2009.

Tournaments
 1956 Overall, Slalom, and Tricks National Champion (La Porte, Indiana), Girls Division
 1957 Slalom National Champion (San Diego, CA), Girls Division 
 1959 Slalom and Tricks National Champion (Laconia, New Hampshire), Girls Division 
 1960 Overall and Slalom National Champion (Minneapolis, MN), Girls Division
 1960 Overall Masters Water Ski Tournament Women Division
 1961 Overall and Tricks National Champion (Austin, Texas), Women Division
 1961 World Water Skiing Champions Women Slalom and Women Overall
 1963 Slalom and Tricks National Champion (Long Beach, California), Women Division 
 1964 Slalom National Champion (Webster, Massachusetts), Women Division
 1964 Slalom Masters Water Ski Tournament Women Division

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1943 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from Birmingham, Alabama
Julius S. Youngner (24 October 1920 – 27 April 2017) was an American Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Medicine and Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at University of Pittsburgh responsible for advances necessary for development of a vaccine for poliomyelitis and the first intranasal equine influenza vaccine.

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Educators from New York City
Scientists from New York City
Scientists from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Educators from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Komaravolu S. Chandrashekhar (21 November 1920 – 13 April 2017) was an Indian-Swiss professor at ETH Zurich. He was a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He was known for his work in number theory and summability and was given numerous awards including Padma Shri, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Ramanujan Medal, and Honorary fellow of TIFR.

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 – India's who is who 

1920 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Swiss scientists
Indian educators
Swiss mathematicians
Indian mathematicians
Number theorists
Altikon is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Andelfingen is the capital of the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Bachenbülach is a municipality in the district Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Bachs is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Bäretswil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Leila Seth (October 20, 1930 – May 5, 2016) was an Indian judge. She was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and she became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court on August 5, 1991. She retired from the court on October 20, 1992. Seth was born in Lucknow, British India.

Seth died on May 5, 2017 at her home in Noida, India from cardio-respiratory arrest at the age of 86.

Notes
Seth, Leila. On Balance. New Delhi: Viking, 2003.  
Seth, Vikram. Two Lives. HarperCollins, 2005.

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Deaths from respiratory failure
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The 2012 French presidential election was a presidential election in France that took place on 22 April 2012 and 5–6 May 2012. The incumbent president, Nicolas Sarkozy, ran for a second term.

The main candidates were Nicolas Sarkozy from the Union for a Popular Movement, François Hollande from the Socialist Party, Marine Le Pen from the National Front, Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the Left Front, François Bayrou from the Democratic Movement, Eva Joly from The Greens, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan from Debout la France, Philippe Poutou from the New Anticapitalist Party, Nathalie Arthaud from Lutte Ouvrière and Jacques Cheminade from Solidarity and Progress.

On 22 April 2012, François Hollande won 29% of the vote with Nicolas Sarkozy winning 27%. Both candidates advanced to the second round of the election, which Hollande later won with 52% of the vote.

Results

References

Other websites 

 The Constitutional council's duties relating to the presidential election 
 Opinion poll tracker with data
 NSD: European Election Database – France publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1990–2012
 A clickable map showing elections results by region, department, and commune on the website of L'Humanité

2012 in Europe
2012 elections
2010s in France
Presidential elections in France
The National Rally (French: Rassemblement national or RN) is a political party in France. It used to be called the National Front until 2018.

The party was founded on 5 October 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen. The party was first called the National Front for French Unity (Front national pour l'unité française). Their most successful performance in the legislative elections was in 1997, where they received 14.9% of the vote in the 1st round and 5.7% in the 2nd round. Recently, they won the 2014 European Parliament election with 24.85% of the vote.

In the presidential elections, the National Front has only had two candidates advance to the second round, Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2002 and his daughter Marine Le Pen in 2017. Jean-Marie Le Pen heavily lost the second round, as he only received 17.8% of the vote; Marine Le Pen also lost the second round, only receiving 33.9% of the vote.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was leader of the party from 1972 until 2011. In 2011, the party voted to make Marine Le Pen leader. She wanted to soften the party's image. Marine Le Pen expelled her father from the party in 2015 after he made some controversial statements. On 24 April 2017, a day after the first round of the 2017 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen stepped down from her position. Steeve Briois is now the temporary leader.

The party is patriotic. The party is very Eurosceptic (meaning they are against the European Union) and wants to limit immigration. Marine Le Pen supports letting the government control health, education, transportation, banking and energy.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 
 FNinfos, the official website of National Front activists 
 Nations Presse Info, an information Website near the National Front
 Has Marine Le Pen made France's Front National respectable? RFI English
 Marine Le Pen's Protectionist Economics and Social Conservatism

Political parties in France
Eurosceptic parties
The 2007 French presidential election was a presidential election in France that took place on 21–22 April and 5–6 May 2007. The incumbent president, Jacques Chirac, decided not to run for a third term.

The main candidates were Arlette Laguiller from Lutte Ouvrière, Nicolas Sarkozy from the Union for a Popular Movement, Ségolène Royal from the Socialist Party, François Bayrou from the Union for French Democracy, Jean-Marie Le Pen from the National Front, Olivier Besancenot from the Revolutionary Communist League, Philippe de Villiers from the Movement for France, Marie-George Buffet from the French Communist Party, Dominique Voynet from the The Greens, José Bové, Frédéric Nihous from Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition and Gérard Schivardi from the Workers' Party.

On 22 April 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy won 31.2% of the vote and Ségolène Royal winning 25.9% of the vote. Both candidates advanced to the second round of the election, which Nicolas Sarkozy later won with 53.1% of the vote.

Results

References

Other websites 

French Elections 2007 from Britain's Daily Telegraph
Royal, Sarkozy and Bayrou: The policies, BBC
Explanation of the French presidential election on the site of the French Embassy to the United Kingdom 
 Polarisation and crisis – the French elections and the radical Left
AngusReid (French election polls in English) 
BBC News: Q&A: French presidential vote
  2007 Presidential Vote Results by Commune

2007 in France
2007 elections
Presidential elections in France
Sophie Louise Howard (born 17 September 1993) is a football defender who plays for 1899 Hoffenheim of Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga. Since 2017, she has been a member of the senior Scotland national team.

International career

Howard played twice for the Germany women's national under-20 football team in 2012. She was named in Germany's squad for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan, but did not get to play in any matches. In 2016 she was called into a training camp for England's new "Next Gen" team. She said: "Although I was born and brought up in Germany it’s always been my ambition to play for England, and hopefully I’ve now taken my first step."

In March 2017 she was called up into the Scotland national team. The Scots had three injured defenders and were allowed to pick Howard because her grandfather is Scottish. She made her senior international debut on 11 April 2017, as a 64th-minute substitute in a 5–0 friendly defeat by Belgium in Leuven.

References

Other websites
Profile  at FIFA
Profile at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 
Profile at German Football Association 

1993 births
Living people
People from Hanau
Scottish footballers
Sportspeople from Hesse
Anubias afzelii is a plant in the Araceae family. It was first described for science in 1857 by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott. That description was based on material collected in Sierra Leone by Adam Afzelius. Schott named the species after him. The genus Anubias was described at the same time. Only A. afzellii belonged to it. This is therefore the type species of the genus. A. afzelii was the first species of this genus known to science.

Where it grows
The plant is found in West Africa: Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Mali.

Description
The plant's leave blades are elongated (long and thin) and leathery. They can be up to  long and  wide. The leaf stems are generally shorter than the blade. The leaves are set on a creeping and rooting rhizome. It is  thick. The spathe is  long (sometimes up to 9 cm long). It has a  long peduncle. The spadix is  long (sometimes up to 12 cm long). It is a little bit longer than the spathe. Therefore, the tip of the spadix sticks a little bit out of the spathe. The upper part of the spadix is covered with male flowers. Their 5-6 stamens are fused. The anthers (also called thecae) are on the sides. The lower part of the spadix is covered with female flowers. These are reduced to the ovary and stigma.

Ecology
The plant grows in wet, shady places. It flowers from the end of March to July. It fruits from April to September. The plant grows above water, but can sometimes be completely under water.

Growing conditions
This plant grows best when only partly under water and when not crowded by other plants. It is most suited for the paludarium. It can also be used in larger aquariums, where it grows very slowly. It does not need much light. It prefers a temperature range of 22-26 °C. It can be propagated by dividing the rhizome. Propagation by seed is also easy.

References

Anubias
Bauma is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2015 the former municipality of Sternenberg merged into the municipality of Bauma.

Villages
Bauma, Sternenberg, Saland, Dillhaus, Dürstelen, Neuthal, Wolfensberg, Wellenau, Lipperschwändi and Schindlet.

References

Other websites

 Official Website  
 Gymnastics Club http://www.tvbauma.ch 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Steven Holcomb (April 14, 1980 – May 6, 2017) was an American bobsledder. She competed from 1998 until his death in 2017. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver, he won the 4-man bobsled event for the United States, its first gold medal in that event since 1948. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he finished sixth in the four-man event and 14th in the two-man event.

Holcomb attained the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

Holcomb was found dead in his room at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York, on May 6, 2017. He was 37. A preliminary report from the local coroner said that Holcomb died in his sleep from a possible case of pulmonary congestion, with further tests still waiting.

References

Other websites

 
  
 Steven Holcomb at the United States Olympic Committee

1980 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pulmonary edema
Disease-related deaths in New York
American Olympic gold medalists
Sportspeople from Utah
Milites is the Latin word for "soldiers". In Ancient Rome the milites were the foot soldiers of the Roman army. There were many different types and ranks of milites in the Roman army 

In the early Middle Ages the word "milites" was used to describe free men using weapons. Later, the term applied to soldiers on horseback, then to the social class of knights, and finally to the nobility in general. The Knights Templar were known as "Milites Templi".

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Ancient Rome
Latin words and phrases
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Ustad Rais Khan (25 November 19396 May 2017) was a Pakistani sitarist from Karachi, Pakistan. Rais Khan was awarded the Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 2005.

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Pakistani people
Musicians
Min Bahadur Sherchan (20 June 1931 – 6 May 2017) was a Nepalese mountaineer and former British Gurkha soldier. In 2008, the 76 year old became the oldest climber to summit Mount Everest. He lost the record five years later to 80 year old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura. 

Sherchan died of a suspected heart attack at Everest Base Camp on 6 May 2017 while trying to reclaim his title at the age of 85.

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Nepalese people
Mountain climbers
Elon Lages Lima (July 9, 1929 – May 7, 2017) was a Brazilian mathematician. His research concerns differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil.

Lima was professor emeritus at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada of  which he was the director during three separate periods.

Related pages
 List of Brazilian scientists

References

Other websites
 Silva, C. P. . "Sobre o início e consolidação da pesquisa matemática no Brasil, Parte 2", Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática (RBHM), Vol. 6, n. 12, p. 165-196, 2006 

1929 births
2017 deaths
Brazilian educators
Differential geometers
Brazilian scientists
Gholamreza Pahlavi (15 May 1923 – 7 May 2017) was a Persian prince and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty, as the son of Reza Shah and half-brother of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 

Following the death of his half-sister Ashraf Pahlavi on 7 January 2016, Gholamreza became the only living child of Reza Pahlavi. He resided in Paris with his family.

In 2005, he published a book titled Mon père, mon frère, les Shahs d'Iran ("My father, my brother, the Shahs of Iran"), in 2005, dealing with both his experience and thoughts about the future of Iran.

Prince Gholam Reza died at the age of 93 from pneumonia-related complications at the American Hospital of Paris on May 7, 2017.

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Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Paris
Princes and princesses
Persian people
Writers
People from Tehran
In five-dimensional geometry, a demipenteract or 5-demicube is a semiregular 5-polytope, constructed from a 5-hypercube (penteract) with alternated vertices removed.

It was discovered by Thorold Gosset. Since it was the only semiregular 5-polytope (made of more than one type of regular facets), he called it a 5-ic semi-regular. E. L. Elte identified it in 1912 as a semiregular polytope, labeling it as HM5 for a 5-dimensional half measure polytope.

Coxeter named this polytope as 121 from its Coxeter diagram, which has branches of length 2, 1 and 1 with a ringed node on one of the short branches,  and Schläfli symbol  or {3,32,1}.

It exists in the k21 polytope family as 121 with the Gosset polytopes: 221, 321, and 421.

The graph formed by the vertices and edges of the demipenteract is sometimes called the Clebsch graph, though that name sometimes refers to the folded cube graph of order five instead.

Geometry
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi (1972 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country) is a Spanish novelist.

Career 
She moved out to Alicante, Valencian Community, when she was 15. She lives there since then. After getting a degree as optometrist, she got a job at University of Alicante into the optical sector.

In 2012 wrote La saga de los longevos being this one her first novel. The book was published via Amazon.com by her own after she tried to contact with several publishing houses without success. However La saga de los longevos became a hit.

Two years later she wrote Los hijos de Adán and Pasaje a Tahití, also with a good reception.

In 2016 she published her fourth book: El silencio de la ciudad blanca settle in her home town. In this one, she joined into a police academy, where she took two courses of crime scene investigation and reveal of footprints.

Bibliography 
 (2012) La saga de los longevos
 (2012) La vieja familia
 (2014) Los hijos de Adán
 (2014) Pasaje a Tahití
 (2016) El silencio de la ciudad blanca
 (2017)  Los ritos del agua

References

Other websites
 Eva García Sáenz de Urturi's official website 

Novelists
The Eagle originally opened as the Eagle and Child. It is one of the larger pubs in Cambridge. The pub is managed by Greene King Brewery and owned by Corpus Christi College. Apart from the main pub, it has a beer garden. There are drawings and words made by people in the army from World War II in the ceilings and walls. On February 28, 1953 Francis Crick and James Watson discovered "the secret of life" in The Eagle: they had come up with their proposal for the structure of DNA. Today the pub serves a beer to remember this discovery, named Eagle's DNA.

Pubs
Cambridge
Benken is a municipality of the district of Andelfingen in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Berg am Irchel is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Bonstetten is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Boppelsen is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Brütten is a municipality of the district of Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

References

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Bubikon is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Gallery

Villages
Bubikon, Wolfhausen, Barenberg, Berlikon, Bürg and Wändhüslen

References

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 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga, S.J. was a Jesuit priest who was canonized (recognized as a Catholic saint) on October 23, 2005, by Pope Benedict XVI.  

He was born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga on January 22, 1901, in Viña del Mar, Chile.  He was of Basque origin.

Along with being a Jesuit priest, he was also a lawyer, social worker, and writer.  He founded the Hogar de Cristo Foundation.  In Chile, he was popularly known as Padre Hurtado (which means "Father Hurtado" in Spanish).  

He died from cancer on August 18, 1952 in Santiago, Chile.  In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI canonized him.

Early life and education 
Alberto's father died when he was four years old.  After this, his mother had to sell, at a loss, their modest property in order to pay the family’s debts.  Because the family was so poor, Alberto and his brother had to go to live with relatives and were often moved from one family member to another.

However, Alberto got a scholarship that allowed him to study at the famous all-boys Jesuit school of St. Ignacio, Santiago.  He studied there from 1909 to 1917.  At the parish and school, Hurtado assisted in the office and was librarian.  During this time, he also volunteered at the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Andacollo, a Catholic parish and school in a poor neighborhood of Santiago.

Fernando Vives, a teacher at the St. Ignacio school, was one of the most important people in Hurtado's life.  Even during Vives' exile in Spain (1918–1935), they stayed in contact with each other.  Vives was a great influence on Hurtado.

Law school and military service 
From 1918 to 1923, Hurtado attended the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.  He studied in its law school and wrote his thesis on labour law.  He had to interrupt his education because he was required to serve in the military.  However, he was able to go back to school afterward, and earned his degree early in August 1923.

Priesthood and studies 
Rather than starting a career in law, Hurtado entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1923. 

In 1925, he went to Córdoba, Argentina, where he studied humanities. 

In 1927 he was sent to Barcelona, Spain, to study philosophy and theology, but because of the suppression of the Jesuits in Spain in 1931, he went on to Belgium and continued his studies in theology at Louvain. He was ordained a priest there on 24 August 1933, and in 1935 obtained a doctorate in pedagogy and psychology.

Canonization 
Hurtado was canonized on October 23, 2005, by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint.

1901 births
1952 deaths
Chilean people
Jesuits
Saints
Buch am Irchel is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Buchs is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Bülach is the capital of the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official webpage of the city of Bülach 
 Spital Bülach 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Cities in Switzerland
The 2002 French presidential election was a presidential election in France that took place on 21 April and 5 May 2002. The incumbent president, Jacques Chirac, decided to run for a second term.

On 21 April 2002, Jacques Chirac from the Rally for the Republic won 19.9% of the vote and Jean-Marie Le Pen from the National Front won 16.9% of the vote. Both candidates advanced to the second round of the election, which Jacques Chirac later easily won with 82.2% of the vote.

Results

References

Other websites 

 Official results from the Constitutional Council of France : 1st round , 2nd round  
 Analysis of the voting anomaly on FindLaw
 Fascism in France? Commentary on the 2002 French Presidential Elections
 Philosophical considerations of the very singular custom of voting: an analysis based on recent ballots in France

2002 elections
Presidential elections in France
2002 in Europe
2000s in France
Bruno Mégret (born 4 April 1949 in Paris) is a French politician. He was the leader of the National Republican Movement, but retired from politics in 2008.

He holds a master's degree from University of California, Berkeley. He is also a reserve army captain.

In 1985, he joined the right-wing political party National Front. In 1986, he was elected to the National Assembly, representing Isère. He organized Jean-Marie Le Pen's 1987 election campaign. From 1989 to 1999, he was also a member of the European Parliament.

Mégret did not agree with Le Pen's extreme political views, believing that it did not help with their public image. In 1998, Bruno Mégret left the Front National and founded the National Republican Movement (Mouvement National Républicain).

He ran for president in the 2002 French presidential election. He received 2.33% of the vote, and did not advance to the second round. He endorsed Le Pen in the second round.

Mégret was sentenced to 8 months of probation and was fined 8,000 Euros after he used public funds to fund his presidential campaign.

References

Other websites 
 Bruno Mégret's official website 

1949 births
Living people
Former MEPs
MEPs for France
National Front (France) politicians
Politicians from Paris
The Party for Japanese Kokoro (Japanese: 日本のこころを大切にする党 Nippon no Kokoro wo Taisetsu ni Suru Tō, which literally means "The party that cares for Japan's heart") is a political party in Japan.

The Japan Restoration Party was formed on 12 September 2012 and was led by mayor of Osaka, Tōru Hashimoto, and Shintaro Ishihara. The party split in 2014 due to a disagreement over a merger with another party. Ishihara left to form the Party for Future Generations (Japanese: 次世代の党 Jisedai no Tō) on 1 August 2014.

The party lost many seats in the 2014 Japanese general election. They received 2.65% of the vote. Ishihara announced that he would be leaving politics two days after the election.

According to Ayako Mie, the party's policies are "a mix of conservative security policies, stricter immigration laws and advocacy of traditional values on the one hand, and 'liberalism' in economic areas on the other, such as pursuing regulatory reform." The party is also patriotic. The party is seen as right-wing or far-right.

Dissolved on 1 November 2018. Last party leader is Kyoko Nakayama.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Political parties in Japan
Conservative parties
Kheer is Indian rice pudding made with only three basic ingredients- rice, milk and sugar. Sometimes it is also flavoured and spiced with clove, saffron, kewra or rose water. Rice kheer is made across India and a popular variation of this is the South Indian Rice payasam. The South Indian version uses ghee and jaggery.

Rice kheer is garnished with like nuts and raisins. Various nuts like cashews, almonds and pistachios can be used.

Indian food
The 2014 Japanese general election (Japanese: 第47回衆議院議員総選挙 Dai-yonjūnanakai Shūgiin giin sōsenkyo, literally: the 47th House of Representatives general election) was the 47th general election in Japan which took place on 14 December 2014. The election also led to the appointment of Shinzō Abe as Prime Minister of Japan.

Results 

Below are the election results.

References 

2014 elections
2014 in Japan
December events
2010s elections in Asia
General elections
Anubias gigantea is a plant in the Araceae family. It was first mentioned by Auguste Chevalier in 1920. This was based on material that he had collected in Guinea. The first description for science was in 1939 by John Hutchinson. It is closely related to A. afzelii from which it differs only by the form of the leaf-blade.

Other names
A. gigantea var. tripartita Chevalier, 1920 and A. hastifolia var. robusta Engler, 1915 are invalid names (synonyms) for A. gigantea.

Where it grows
The plant is found in West Africa, including the countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Togo.

Description
The plant's leave blades are large and arrow-shaped. They can be up to  long and  wide. The leaf stems are a little bit shorter till up to 2.5 times longer than the blade. The leaves are set on a creeping and rooting rhizome. It is  thick. The spathe is  long and has a  long peduncle. The spadix is up to  long. It is a little bit longer than the spathe. Therefore, the tip of the spadix sticks a little bit out of the spathe. The upper part of the spadix is covered with male flowers. Their of which the 4-6 stamens are fused. The anthers (also called thecae) are on its sides. The lower part of the spadix is covered with female flowers. These are reduced to the ovary and stigma.

Ecology
The plant is grows in wet rocky places at the banks of rivers or in the riverbed. It flowers from February to April.

Growing conditions
This plant grows best when only partly under water and when not crowded by other plants. It is most suited for the paludarium. It can also be used in larger aquariums, where it grows very slowly. It does not need much light. It prefers a temperature range of . It can be propagated by dividing the rhizome. Propagation by seed is also easy.

References

Anubias
Dachsen is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Zürich
Moon Jae-in (; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean politician. He is the 12th and current President of South Korea since 10 May 2017 after winning the majority vote in the 2017 presidential election.

Moon most recently served as the opposition leader of the Minjoo Party of Korea from 2015 to 2016. He was a member of the 19th National Assembly. He was the Democratic United Party's candidate for the 2012 presidential election after winning a majority in the party primaries. However, lost the election to Park Geun-hye.

He was formerly a lawyer and chief of staff to late President Roh Moo-hyun prior to getting into politics.

In April 2018, Moon and Kim Jong-un formerly attended the inter-Korean summit of 2018. They both agreed to formally end the Korean War before 2019.

References

Other websites

 
  Moon Jae-in Camp

1953 births
Living people
Presidents of South Korea
Current national leaders
Dägerlen is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Lewis Thomas Charles "Lou" Richards (15 March 1923 – 8 May 2017) was an Australian rules footballer. He played 250 games for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1941 and 1955.  e captained the team from 1952 to 1955, including a premiership win in 1953. He later became a hotel manager and a highly well known sports journalist. He was born in Collingwood, Victoria.

Richards was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981, received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000, and was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001.

On 8 May 2017, Richards died at his nursing home in the Melbourne suburb of Windsor from dementia-related complications at the age of 94.

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1923 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from dementia
Australian footballers
Australian journalists
Writers from Victoria (Australia)
Sportspeople from Victoria (Australia)
Dällikon is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

History
In 1843 the village of Dänikon left Dällikon become an independent municipality.

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Dänikon is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

History
Until 1843 it was part of the municipality of Dällikon.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Dättlikon is a municipality of the district of Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

References

Other websites

 Official Homepage of Dättlikon 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Dielsdorf is the capital city of the district of Dielsdorf in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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Dietikon is the fifth largest city of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of Dietikon.

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 Official Website of the city of Dietikon 
 

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Bosque County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 12,812 people lived there. The county seat is Meridian. The county is named for the Bosque River.

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Bowie County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 92,565 people lived there. The county seat is Boston.  The county is named for James Bowie, a famous knife fighter who died at the Battle of the Alamo.

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Brazoria County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 313,166 people lived there. The county seat is Angleton. The largest city in the county is Pearland.

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Brazos County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 194,851 people lived there. The county seat is Bryan. The county is named for the Brazos River.

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The original North American Soccer League (NASL) was the highest major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It existed from 1968 to 1984.

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Andrew George McCabe (born May 5, 1968) is an American attorney. He was the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from February 1, 2016 to January 29, 2018.

On May 9, 2017, McCabe became Acting Director after James Comey was fired from duties as Director by U.S. President Donald Trump. President Trump sent a letter to Comey informing him of his dismissal, referring to a recommendation to remove Comey from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.

In the absence of a Senate-confirmed Director, the Deputy Director automatically becomes Acting Director.

McCabe became Deputy Director again after Christopher A. Wray was sworn-in as the new FBI Director on August 2, 2017.

On March 16, 2018, Sessions fired McCabe only 26 hours before his scheduled retirement. Sessions said he based his action on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that McCabe had made unauthorized releases of information to the media and had "lacked candor" in talking about it. McCabe denied that he had ever been dishonest and charged that his firing was politically motivated.

On April 19, 2018, the Department of Justice Inspector General had earlier sent a criminal referral to federal prosecutors for possible criminal charges against McCabe associated with allegations of lying to internal investigators.

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Christopher "Big Black" Boykin (January 13, 1972 – May 9, 2017) was an American entertainer and musician. He was best known for his role on MTV's Rob & Big, which followed him and his co-star, skateboarder Rob Dyrdek. He was born in Raleigh, Mississippi.

Boykin died on May 9, 2017 in Plano, Texas from heart failure after being hospitalized for a heart attack at the age of 45.

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Petrozavodsk (Russian: Петрозаводск, Karelian/Vepsian/Finnish: Petroskoi) is a city in northwestern Russia. The city has a population of around 280,170 people.

History 
Evidence shows that people have lived in the Petrozavodsk region since seven thousand years ago. At the end of the sixteenth century, there was a settlement in the region that was named Onegaborg.

During the Finnish occupation of Petrozavodsk, the city was named Äänislinna (or Ääneslinna). The city was retaken by the Soviet army on 28 June 1944. The Finns set up concentration camps in the city for people of non-Finnic ethnicity. In total, six camps were set up; which in total held 23,984 civilians of Russian ethnicity.

In 1977, the Petrozavodsk phenomenon occurred. This was an incident where a glowing object showered the city with many rays. Many people now believe that it was caused by the launch of the Soviet satellite Kosmos 955.

The Petrozavodsk State University is located in the city. The university is made up of 9 faculties and 6 institutes, and was founded on 1 September 1940.

There are many popular landmarks in Petrozavodsk. One of them is "Lenin Square," which is an oval space with a large Vladimir Lenin statue in the center. The suburb of Martsialnye Vody is the oldest spa in Russia. It was founded in 1714 by Peter the Great. Petrozavodsk is home to the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karelian Musical Theater, the National Library of Karelia, the National Theatre of Karelia and a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Climate 
According to the Köppen climate classification, Petrozavodsk experiences a subarctic climate. However, the city has much milder temperatures than other cities in that climate. This is mainly because of the city's position next to the Baltic Sea. The average annual temperature is 3.1 °C. Temperatures in winter range from 0 to -15 °C, in summer from +5 to +25 °C. The record high temperature was 33.9 °C (93.0 °F), and the record low temperature was −41.6 °C (−42.9 °F).

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Official website of Petrozavodsk
Official website of Petrozavodsk 
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Official website of the Board of Culture of Petrozavodsky Urban Okrug 
Kizhi Museum

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Allan Howard Meltzer (February 6, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was an American economist and professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Jewish family. 

Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System, and has authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of central banking in the US. Together with Karl Brunner, he created the Shadow Open Market Committee: a monetarist council that deeply criticized the Federal Open Market Committee.

Meltzer served as president of the Mont Pelerin Society for the 2012–2014 term.

Meltzer died on May 8, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.

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 Allan Meltzer's home page at Carnegie-Mellon
 Interview  with Meltzer from the Minnesota Fed's webpage
 Transcript of Meltzer's appearance on PBS's Think Tank program
 Source documents for Meltzer's A History of the Federal Reserve, Volumes I and II, at the FRASER historical documents site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
 interview on National Public Radio's broadcast of September 26. 2008.
 

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Guadalupe Victoria, born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, (29 September 1786 - 21 March 1843) was a Mexican general and political leader. He fought for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence. He was Mexico's first president.

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Kevin Allen Hassett (born March 20, 1962) is an American economist and the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from September 13, 2017 to June 28, 2019. He is known for his work on tax policy and for co-authoring the book Dow 36,000, published in 1999.

Hassett is the State Farm James Q. Wilson Chair in American Politics and Culture and Director of Research for Domestic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

Hassett was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election of 2008. He was among Mitt Romney's economic advisers for the 2012 presidential campaign.

In early 2017, Hassett was nominated by U.S. President Donald Trump to become the 29th chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. The United States Senate confirmed him with a 81-16 vote on September 12, 2017. He was sworn in on September 13, 2017. On June 2, 2019, Hassett announced his resignation.

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Dietlikon is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Dinhard is a municipality of the district Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Dorf is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. The German word Dorf means village.

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Avigdor Lieberman, Hebrew: אביגדור ליברמן , born as Evet Lvovich Liberman, Russian: Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман, (born July 5, 1958 in Chișinău) is an Israeli politician. He is a political leader and also founder of Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel Our Home").

Early life and education 
Lieberman studied hydrology in his native country. He migrated from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Israel in 1978. After serving in the army he studied political science and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Career 
In the 1980s he was involved in Zionist activities on behalf of Soviet Jews and also a leading member of economic and trade union organizations in Jerusalem. 

In the 1990s he was an important assistant to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of HaLikud.

In 1999 he entered the Knesset with Yisrael Beiteinu, a nationalist political party focused on Israeli Jews from the former Soviet Union, founded in the same year.

Lieberman participated in several cabinets, among others as deputy prime minister in the Olmert Government and the Second Netanyahu Government, and as foreign minister in the Second and Third Netanyahu Government.

From 2016 to 2018 he was defense minister in the Fourth Netanyahu Government.

Since 2021 he has been finance minister in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

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 Bio at Knesset Website

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Dübendorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

It is a suburb of Zürich with a population of about 26,000 (2014). It is the fourth largest city in the canton, after Zürich, Winterthur and Uster.

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Dübendorf, Dübelstein, Geeren, Gfenn, Gockhausen, Hermikon and Stettbach.

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Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist.

He was born in 1787 in Bavaria. When he was 11 years old, he had no father and no mother. Because of that, he had to work to survive. He worked making glass objects for a man called Philipp Anton Weichelsberger.

One day, in 1801, the place where Fraunhofer was working fell down and was destroyed. Fraunhofer was inside when this happened. Luckily, some people found him in the middle of the bits of the house and saved him. The Prince of Bavaria was with these people and he decided to help Fraunhofer.

The prince decided to give Fraunhofer money and books to study. He studied for five years and one day he was invited to work for a man called Joseph Utzschneider. This man had a company that made glass lenses to be used in scientific instruments. And this company had a secret laboratory in a monastery called Benediktbeuern. In this laboratory people were trying to discover how to make better glass lenses. Glass lenses at that time was a very complicated technology. After three years, Fraunhofer was one of the directors of this company. And after eight years he was a partner of the owner.

Fraunhofer died very sick in 1826, probably because of the time he worked as a child.

Spectroscopy 
During his time in Benediktbeuern, Fraunhofer did experiments with glass. He discovered very important things about light. One day Fraunhofer was playing with a piece of glass called a prism and a telescope in a room full of sunlight. When he used the telescope to look at the glass, he discovered that he could see all colours of the rainbow. But there were black lines between the colours.  Fraunhofer never discovered what the black lines were; he suggested they might be boundaries between different colors. Many years later, scientists discovered that these black spectral lines existed because some materials that exist in the sun and in the sky can absorb parts of the light.  Today scientists use a similar technique to discover what chemicals are in stars and planets.  The scientists who tried to find out what was happening call this part of science "spectroscopy".

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Nick Galifianakis (born July 22, 1928) is an American attorney and politician. He was the former Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina. He served as a representative from 1967 through 1973. 

Galifianakis was born in Durham, North Carolina. He studied at Duke University, and was an assistant professor at this university.

Galifianakis is the uncle of comedian Zach Galifianakis.

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Arthur Ravenel Jr. (born March 29, 1927) is an American businessman and a Republican politician. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina's 1st congressional district. He served from 1987 through 1995.

Ravenel Jr. decided not to run for re-election in 1994, to run for Governor instead, but lost in the Republican primaries to David Beasley.

In 2005, Ravenel Jr. suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome. The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, near the Cooper River, is named after him.

Ravenel is a member of Moultrie Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and is a supporter of the Confederate flag being flown at the South Carolina statehouse. He made controversy at a rally for the flag in 2000 when he referred to the NAACP as the “National Association for Retarded People”. Ravenel upset even more people after he apologized to mentally handicapped people for comparing them to the NAACP.

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William Edwin Dannemeyer (September 22, 1929 – July 9, 2019) was a conservative American politician, activist, and author. He was known for his criticism of homosexuality. He was the honorary national chairman of Citizens For a Better America. He served as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993.

Dannemeyer died of dementia in Thousand Palms, California on July 9, 2019, aged 89.

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  Retrieved on 2008-07-23
 TakeBackOurRights.org Dannemeyer's website
 Speech on Sodomy in 1990

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