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David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) is an American bankruptcy lawyer. He was the United States Ambassador to Israel from 2017 until 2021.

Friedman joined the law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (then known as Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson & Torres) in 1994, where he met and represented Donald Trump, then chairman and president of The Trump Organization. He served as an advisor to Trump during his successful presidential campaign.

In December 2016, President-elect Trump announced that he was nominee for ambassador to Israel. His nomination was met with support from conservative Israeli and Jewish American activist groups, and opposition from liberal advocacy organizations, particularly J Street.

Friedman was confirmed by the full Senate on March 23 with a 52–46 vote and officially sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on March 29.

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"Shape of You" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.  It is the first single from his third studio album, ÷ ("divide").  It was released on January 6, 2017.  "Shape of You" has reached number one on the charts of several countries, including entering at the top of the charts in the UK, US, Canada, and Australia.  It became Sheeran's first number-one song in the US.  Before, he reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2015 with the single "Thinking Out Loud".

On Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), a website that shows the royalties and songwriters/publishers of songs, Sheeran added the songwriters of TLC's "No Scrubs" (1999).  This is because lines from both songs have a similar rhythm.

The song finished as the number-one song of 2017 in the US.

Music video

The music video for "Shape of You", directed by Jason Koenig, was released on 30 January 2017 and features American actress Jennie Pegouski and retired sumo wrestler Yamamotoyama Ryūta.

Chart performance
"Shape of You" has reached the number one position in 38 countries. It is one of the most successful songs in world history, having charted at the number one position for 10 weeks or more on the national singles charts in 16 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The song has charted for 15 weeks on Australia's ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the longest-running number one single on a national singles chart in Australian history - a record that it held until November 2019. In Canada, the song charted at number one for 16 weeks, becoming one of the two longest-running number one singles in Canadian history, with the other being the Black Eyed Peas' 2009 single "I Gotta Feeling" - a record that both songs were later equalled with by Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" in 2017 and surpassed by Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" in 2019.

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Michael Bruce "Mike" Quigley (born October 17, 1958) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for , serving since April 7, 2009.

The district includes most of Chicago's North Side, as well as several of the city's western suburbs. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Quigley is a former member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners, where he represented Chicago's northside neighborhoods of Lakeview, Uptown and Rogers Park. He also teaches environmental policy and Chicago politics at Loyola University Chicago.

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Dieter Kottysch (30 June 1943 – 9 April 2017) was a German amateur middleweight boxer. He was born in Gliwice, Poland. He competed in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1972. He was a member of BC Sportmann, Hamburg.

Kottysch died on 9 April 2017 in Hamburg, Germany from a long-illness at the age of 73.

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Amory "Amo" Houghton, Jr. (August 7, 1926 – March 4, 2020) was an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of New York. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives serving from 1987 through 2005. He was a member of one of upstate New York's most well known families in business, the Houghton family. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Houghton was born in Corning, New York. He studied at Harvard University. He was married to Priscilla Dewey until her death in 2012. Houghton died on March 4, 2020 in Corning at the age of 93.

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 Jeffrey Smith, The Evening Tribune (Hornell, N.Y.), Wife of Former Congressman Amo Houghton Dies , July 10, 2012

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Leo C. Zeferetti (July 15, 1927 – March 21, 2018) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Democratic Party.

Zeferetti served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1975 through January 3, 1983. 

Zeferetti was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at New York University in 1963, and Baruch College from 1964 until 1966. 

Zeferetti was a  member of the New York State Crime Control Planning Board from 1972 until 1974 and a representative to President’s Conference on Correction, 1971. 

In 1980, he was nearly defeated for reelection. In 1982, his district was eliminated in redistricting, and the bulk of its territory was merged with the Staten Island-based district of freshman Republican Guy Molinari, who defeated him in the general election that year.

Zeferetti died on March 21, 2018 in Davie, Florida at the age of 90.

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Frederick William "Fred" Richmond (November 15, 1923 – December 28, 2019) was an American politician and convicted criminal of Jewish descent. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1975 through January 3, 1982.

In April 1978, Richmond was arrested in Washington for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy. In 1982 Richmond was convicted on federal corruption charges, which included possession of marijuana and payment of an illegal gratuity to a Brooklyn Navy Yard employee. As part of a plea bargain he was forced to resign from office.

Richmond was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Boston University. 

With a personal fortune estimated at $32 million, Richmond was one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

Richmond died on December 28, 2019 at a nursing home in Manhattan from pneumonia, aged 96.

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"What's Really Wrong with Fred Richmond?", Jim Sleeper, Village Voice, March 30, 1982.
"The Rise and Fall of Fred Richmond", Pete Hamill and Denis Hamill, New York Magazine'', November 22, 1982.

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Richard Ottinger (born January 27, 1929) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1965 through January 3, 1971. After leaving office, he served as a legal educator.

After retiring from Congress, Ottinger became a professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, founding an environmental law program there, and served as the law school dean from 1994 to 1999. He currently serves as Dean Emeritus.

Ottinger was born in New York City. He studied at Harvard University, at Cornell University and at Georgetown University. He is married to June Ottinger. They have four children.

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Ogden Rogers Reid (June 24, 1925 – March 2, 2019) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from January 3, 1963 through January 3, 1975. Before, he served as the United States Ambassador to Israel from July 2, 1959 through January 19, 1961 during the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency.

Reid was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from Deerfield Academy and Yale University.

Reid was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1962. Reid was on the liberal fringe of the GOP and faced repeated challenges in primaries. On March 22, 1972, he switched parties and joined the Democratic Party. Reid said that he could not support Richard Nixon for re-election and the Republican Party had "moved to the right" and was "not showing the compassion and sensitivity to meet the problems of the average American." He turned back a Republican challenge later on in 1972.

Reid declined to seek re-election in 1974 and he ran for Governor of New York briefly, dropping out of the race before the election.

Reid died on March 2, 2019, at his home in Waccabuc, New York, at the age of 93.

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Harris William Fawell (March 25, 1929 – November 11, 2021) was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from 1963 to 1977, and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1968 and 1988. 

In 1976 Fawell ran unsuccessfully for the Illinois Supreme Court. In 1984, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Illinois' 13th district where he served until his retirement in 1999.

In 2008, Fawell endorsed his home state's junior United States Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States, against his party's nominee, Arizona senator John McCain.

Fawell died on November 11, 2021 in Naperville, Illinois from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 92.

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Doctor Samuel Lee Kountz, Jr. (October 30, 1930-December 23, 1981) was an American kidney transplant surgeon from Lexa, Arkansas. He was known for his work in the field of kidney transplants, and in research, discoveries, and inventions in Renal Science. In 1961, He performed the first successful Kidney transplant between humans who were not identical twins. He was also a member of a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who developed  a device that can preserve kidneys for up to 50 hours from the time they are taken from a person's body. It is now used in hospitals and research labs around the world.

Early life and career

Samuel Lee Kountz first became interested in medicine at the age of eight, when he went with an injured friend to a local hospital for emergency treatment. He says he was so moved by the way the doctors' helped his friend, that he decided from that moment to become a doctor. During his senior year of high school, Kountz had met Senator J. William Fulbright, who had once been president of the University of Arkansas. The senator was so impressed by Kountz's energy and enthusiasm, that he urged him to consider the medical school at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. Kountz applied but was turned down. He spent the next two years finishing up his graduate work in chemistry at the university's Fayetteville campus. He did so well that he was awarded a full medical scholarship, and in 1954 became the first black student to be admitted to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.Kountz completed a master's degree in chemistry in 1956; two years later he received his M.D. He spent the next year as an intern with the Stanford Service of San Francisco General Hospital. In 1959, he began his surgical training at the Stanford University School of Medicine. It was at Stanford that he studied in organ transplants, and decided to make transplant surgery his life's work. In 1976 Kountz  performed a kidney transplant on live television, The Today Show and inspired some 20,000 viewers to offer their kidneys to patients who needed them. In 1972 Kountz had been appointed Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He also served as Surgeon-in-Chief of Kings County Hospital. The University of Arkansas awarded him the honorary Juris Doctor in 1973. Doctor Kountz also developed the largest kidney transplant research and training program in the country at the University of California, San Francisco.

Illness and death

Doctor Kountz contracted a brain disease while on a speaking tour in South Africa that left him bedridden and unable to talk or care for himself. His illness was never diagnosed, and he died on December 23, 1981, at the age of 51. At the time of his death, he had personally performed some 500 kidney transplants, the most performed by any physician in the world at that time.

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Naftali Bennett, Hebrew: נפתלי בנט , (born March 25, 1972 in Haifa) is an Israeli politician of HaYamin HeHadash ("New Right") and the Yamina alliance. He has been the 13th Prime Minister of Israel since 2021. Previously he belonged to HaBayit HaYehudi ("The Jewish Home"). He has been active in national politics since 2012 and has been Prime Minister since June 13, 2021, succeeding Benjamin Netanyahu.

Military and business career
He performed his military service in an IDF special forces combat unit in which he saw action in several operations. (He is a reservist with the rank of major). Afterwards he studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before entering into politics he worked in software, which has made him very wealthy. He was the CEO of software companies Cyota and Soluto.

Political career
Bennett has been a member of Knesset since 2013. He was Minister of the Economy and Minister of Religious Services in the third Netanyahu government, from 2013 to 2015. Since 2013 he has been Minister of Diaspora Affairs and since 2015 also Minister of Education, both in the fourth Netanyahu government.

As the Education minister he wants more content about Judaism in Israeli schools. This affects the secular public school system as well as religious public schools. Furthermore, he is absolutely against the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Prime Minister
After the 2021 Israel-Palestine crisis, Bennett announced that he agreed to a deal with Yair Lapid to forge a coalition government that would remove Benjamin Netanyahu from his Prime Minister position. This was after the 2021 March election. Mid June he has become Prime Minister, leading the Bennett-Lapid Government, which is the 36th government of Israel.

Personal life
Naftali is an observer of Modern Orthodox Judaism. Until his election into the Knesset he was also a citizen of the United States due to his parents being US citizens who emigrated to Israel.

Related pages 
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Sir John Arnold Clark (27 November 1927 – 10 April 2017) was a Scottish billionaire businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive of Arnold Clark Group. In April 2015, the company celebrated its 60th year in business. He was born in Glasgow. His estimated fortune in 2016 was £1.025 billion.

In the 2004 New Year Honours, Clark was knighted, for services to the motor industry, and for his community work in Scotland.

Clark died on 10 April 2017 from natural causes in his home in Glasgow at the age of 89.

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Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician. She is the 54th and current  Governor of Alabama. She is a member of the Republican Party. 

Ivey served as the 38th Alabama State Treasurer from 2003 to 2011. She then became the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, serving from January 2011 until Robert J. Bentley's resignation on April 10, 2017 in the aftermath of a sex scandal. She beat Walter Maddox in the 2018 Alabama gubernatorial election to complete her full term. Ivey is the first woman to be Alabama's governor since Lurleen Wallace, who succeeded her husband George Wallace in 1967. 

Ivey was born an only child to Boadman Nettles Ivey and Barbara Ivey. The family had been in Alabama for many generations, as her ancestor Ann Johnson Nettles Riley was one of several slave owning Nettles in the state. 

In September 2019, Ivey was diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer. She was cancer-free in January 2020.

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Patricia Fukuda "Pat" Saiki (born May 28, 1930) is an American politician and former school teacher. She is from Hilo in the State of Hawai'i. 

Saiki served as a Republican in United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1991 and then as Administrator of the Small Business Administration under President of the United States George H. W. Bush.

In 1990, she ran and lost the Hawaii United States Senate race to Daniel Akaka. In 2008, she chaired the 2008 presidential campaign of Rudy Giuliani. 

Saiki was born in Hilo, Hawaii to Japanese parents. She studied at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She married Stanley Mitsuo Saiki. They had five children.

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Larry Weil (June 26, 1950 – April 10, 2017) was an American retired professional wrestler, manager and trainer. He was better known under his ring name, "Pretty Boy" Larry Sharpe. Sharpe was perhaps most well known for creating the Monster Factory professional wrestling school.  

Sharpe was born and grew up in Paulsboro, New Jersey. He was the original trainer of Kevin Von Erich, and many other well-known wrestlers. He himself was trained by Mr.Fuji, Gorilla Monsoon and by Nikolai Volkoff.

Sharpe died of liver disease on April 10, 2017 in Woodbury, New Jersey at the age of 66.

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James Paul "Jim" Johnson (born June 2, 1930) is an American politician and lawyer. He served as a Republican in the  United States House of Representatives representing Colorado's 4th congressional district from January 3, 1971 through January 3, 1981.

Johnson was born in Yankton, South Dakota. He earned his B.A. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1952 and later earned an LL.B. from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado in 1959. 

Johnson served in the United States Marine Corps as a jet pilot in Korea from 1952 to 1956. He was named deputy district attorney for the Eighth Judicial District of Colorado from 1959 to 1966. He was the Municipal Judge for Ault, Colorado from 1962 to 1965, and assistant district attorney from 1964 to 1966.

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James Howard "Jim" Weaver (August 8, 1927 – October 6, 2020) was an American politician and environmentalist. He served as the Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon serving from January 3, 1975 through January 3, 1987.

Weaver was born in Brookings, South Dakota. He enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen and served in World War II on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Weaver moved to Oregon from Iowa, in 1947 to attend the University of Oregon.

Weaver died on October 6, 2020 in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 93.

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Claude George Michael "Mike" McCormack (December 14, 1921 – November 7, 2020) was an American politician. He served as U.S. Representative from the State of Washington's Fourth Congressional District from 1971 to 1981. He was a Democrat.

McCormack was born in Baltimore, Ohio. He studied at the University of Toledo and at Washington State University. 

In 1980, at age 59, in the midst of the "Reagan landslide", McCormack unsuccessfully sought a sixth term against Sid Morrison.

McCormack died in Medford, Oregon on November 7, 2020 at the age of 98.

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Doris J. Johnson (born June 23, 1923) is an American former politician. She was born in the state of Washington. 

Johnson served in the Washington House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 16th District, as well as the 8th District. 

A school counselor, Johnson studied at Western Washington State College and earned a master's degree in education. She was raised in Bellingham, Washington. She married Harold Johnson and had a daughter. She lives in Kennewick, Washington.

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Daniel Sexton Gurney (April 13, 1931 – January 14, 2018) was an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner who reached racing's highest levels starting in 1958.

Early life
Gurney was born in Port Jefferson, New York, but moved to California as a teenager.

Racing career
Gurney won races in the Formula One, Indy Car, NASCAR, Can-Am, and Trans-Am Series. Gurney is the first of three drivers to have won races in Sports Cars (1958), Formula One (1962), NASCAR (1963), and Indy Car (1967) (the other two being Mario Andretti and Juan Pablo Montoya).  

In 1967, after winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans together with A.J. Foyt, he spontaneously sprayed champagne while celebrating on the podium. Apart from starting this tradition, he also was the first to put a simple right-angle extension on the upper trailing edge of the rear wing. This device, called a Gurney flap, increases downforce and, if well designed, imposes only a relatively small increase in aerodynamic drag. 

At the 1968 German Grand Prix he became the first driver ever to use a full face helmet in Grand Prix racing.

Death
Gurney died from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California on January 14, 2018, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife Evi and their four sons, Justin, Alex, Dan Jr. and Jimmy.

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Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive "Mathematical Games" columns for the magazine Scientific American.  The first one was in January 1957. The last one was in December 1980.  After 1980 other people wrote some of the columns.  Gardner created 9 more columns during that time.  The last Mathematical Games column appeared in June 1986.  The list below shows all the 297 columns that Gardner wrote.

Sometimes Scientific American put pictures about the columns on the front cover of the magazine. There were twelve such covers. The list shows the word [cover] when there is a such a picture.  Click on the word [cover] to see the picture.

Gardner wrote 5 other articles for Scientific American. He wrote an article about flexagons in December 1956.  It was really the first article about mathematical games; but it was not called that. The series of Mathematical Games columns began the following month. These five articles are listed below.

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Irish English is the dialect of the English language spoken in Ireland.

Accent

Vowels 
 /ʌ/ as in "cut" or "run" is centralized and more rounded
 "any" and "many" rhyme with "nanny"
 /eɪ/ as in "rain" or "bay" becomes [eː] ou even /ɛ/ as in "gave" or "came"
 the distinction between /ɔːr/ and /oʊr/ is maintained ; hence "horse" and "hoarse" are pronounced differently

Consonants 
 ð/ and /θ/ are often pronounced [d] and [t] respectively
 /t/ at the end or between two vowels is often flapped
 /l/ is non-velarised (unlike in American English)
 "r" is always pronounced (unlike in RP) and very often as /ɻ/

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Peter Franklin Hansen (December 5, 1921 – April 9, 2017) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as lawyer Lee Baldwin on the soap opera General Hospital playing the role from 1965 to 1976, 1977 to 1986, briefly in 1990, and again from 1992 to 2004. 

Hansen won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1979.

In 1997, he began playing the character on the sister show Port Charles until his retirement in 2004. 

Hansen died on April 9, 2017 at his home in Santa Clarita, California from natural causes at the age of 95.

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Linda Hopkins (December 14, 1924 – April 10, 2017) was an African-American stage actress and blues and gospel singer. She has recorded classic, traditional, and urban blues, and performed R&B and soul, jazz, and show tunes since the 1950s.

During the 1970s, Hopkins performed in the Broadway musical, Purlie, and with Sammy Davis, Jr. for nine months. In addition, she performed at President Jimmy Carter's 1977 inaugural ball.

Hopkins starred in Me and Bessie, a one-woman show paying homage to blues singer Bessie Smith.

Hopkins died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 10, 2017 at the age of 92.

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Harry Douglas Huskey (January 19, 1916 – April 9, 2017) was an American computer designer pioneer.

Early life
Huskey was born in Great Smoky Mountains, North Dakota. He studied at Ohio State University and at the University of Idaho.

Career
Huskey designed and managed the construction of the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC) at the National Bureau of Standards in Los Angeles (1949–1953). He also designed the G15 computer for Bendix Aviation Corporation, which could perhaps be considered as the first "personal" computer in the world.

Huskey was the Professor Emeritus at the University of California, after his retirement at the age of 70 in 1986. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Death
Huskey died at his home in Santa Cruz, California on April 9, 2017 at the age of 101.

Selected works 
 Huskey, H. D. Harry D. Huskey: His Story. BookSurge Publishing, 2004. .
 Huskey, H. D. The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big ACE, and the Bendix G15. In Copeland, B. J., Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, chapter 13, pages 281–295. Oxford University Press, 2005. .
 Huskey, H. D. The state of the art in electronic digital computing in Britain and the United States (1947). In Copeland, B. J., Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, chapter 23, pages 529–540. Oxford University Press, 2005. .
 (with Huskey, Velma R). Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage. 1980 Annals of the History of Computing  (Volume:2 ,  Issue: 4 )

Awards 
In 2013, the Computer History Museum named him a Museum Fellow "for his seminal work on early and important computing systems and a lifetime of service to computer education."

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Charles Francis "Chuck" Feeney (born April 23, 1931) is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations in the world.

Feeney made his fortune as a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, which pioneered the idea of duty-free shopping. Feeney gave away his fortune in secret for many years, until a business dispute resulted in his identity being revealed in 1997. Over the course of his life, Feeney has given away more than $8 billion.

Feeney is known for his frugality, living in a rented apartment, not owning a car or a house, and flying economy-class.

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Vlieland is an island and municipality of the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. In 2016 the municipality had about 1,100 people. The municipality covers an area of 316 km², the island an area of 36 km².

Vlieland makes part of the West Frisian Islands (Dutch: Waddeneilanden).

It lies southwest of the island of Terschelling and northeast of the island of Texel.

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Saint-Léonard is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The Saint-Léonard underground lake situated there is a tourist attraction.

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Saint-Luc is a village and former municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Saint-Luc, Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

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Venthône is a municipality of the district Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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The Piave () is a river in northern Italy. It begins in the Alps and flows southeast for more of  into the Adriatic Sea near the city of Venice. It is the longest river of the Veneto region.

Geography
The Piave river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .  It is the fifth river of Italy for length among those which flow directly into the sea.

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Nervesa della Battaglia in the Treviso province.

Course

The Piave river starts on the Eastern Alps (the Carnic Alps), on the southern slopes of the Monte Peralba, in the comune of Sappada, province of Belluno, at an elevation of about , near the border with the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.

The river flows only through the Belluno, Treviso and Venice provinces in the Veneto region and flows into the Adriatic Sea to the northwest of Venice, next to the port of Cortellazzo, between the comuni of Eraclea and Jesolo. To the left of the mouth, there is a lagoon called Laguna del Mort formed by an old branch of the river.

After flowing, from northeast to southwest, through the Belluno province, the Piave flows through the following comuni:

Province of Treviso:
 Segusino
 Valdobbiadene
 Vidor
 Nervesa della Battaglia
 Susegana
 Mareno di Piave
 Cimadolmo
 Spresiano
 Maserada sul Piave
 Ponte di Piave

Metropolitan City of Venice:
 Noventa di Piave
 Fossalta di Piave
 San Donà di Piave
 Musile di Piave
 Eraclea
 Jesolo

Main tributaries 

The main tributaries of the Piave river are:

Left tributaries:
 Vajont - 34.6 km
 Soligo - 24.0 km

Right tributaries:
 Ansiei - 37.4 km
 Boite - 45.0 km
 Maè - 33.4 km
 Cordevole - 78.9 km
 Caorame - 20.8 km

History 
There was an important battle in 1809 along the river during the Napoleonic Wars where the Franco-Italian army fought against Austrian troops.  
 
In 1918, during World War I, it was the place of the "Battle of the Piave River", the last major Austro-Hungarian attack during the Italian Campaign, which failed. The Battle of the Piave was the decisive battle of World War I on the Italian Front.

Related pages
 List of rivers of Italy

References

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 Fiumi Italiani: Fiume Piave 

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