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Plomb du Cantal is a French mountain, the highest summit of Mounts of Cantal in the Massif Central, France. It is part of the Regional Natural Park of the Volcanoes of Auvergne ().

It is the highest mountain of the Cantal department and the second highest in the Massif Central, after Puy de Sancy that is  high.

Geography
Plomb du Cantal is in the Mounts of Cantal, a chain of volcanic mountains in the Massif Central, in the centre of the Cantal department. It is at about  to the northeast of Aurillac, the capital of the Cantal department.

The summit is on the border between the communes of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats to the west and Albepierre-Bredons to the east.

Many rivers start on the slopes of the mountain; they flow through three main drainage basins:
 to the west, on the side of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, is the drainage basin of the Cère river that flows to the Dordogne river;
 to the south, on the side of the commune of Brezons, is the drainage basin of the Brezons river that flows to the Garonne river; and
 to the northeast, on the side of Albepierre-Bredons, is the drainage basin of the Alagnon river that flows to the Loire river.

The Plomb du Cantal, with other near mountains, is part of the stratovolcano of Cantal, the largest French stratovolcano and one of the most important of Europe with an area of almost . It had, 4 millions of years ago, an elevation of  or higher.

Because its importance for the movement of migratory birds, the Plomb du Cantal together with the Mounts of Cantal are part of a Special Protection Area since 2005: FR8310066 - Monts et Plomb du Cantal.

Ski resorts 
There are two main ski stations (places where people go to practice skiing) on the slopes of Plomb du Cantal or near it: Le Lioran, also known as Super Lioran, and Prat-de-Bouc.

Climbing 
To get to the summit, there are three climbing routes:
 By cable car to the Lioran station followed by hiking during about 10 minutes;
 Hiking to the Lioran station and then to the mountain during about 1 hour and a half; and
 Hiking from the Prat-de-Bouc parking lot during about 2 hours.

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References

Other websites

 Plomb du Cantal et Puy du Rocher par le col de Prat de Bouc - Altituderando  
 Plomb du Cantal - peakery
 Le Lioran  

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Xin Zhui (213 BC-163 BC) also known as Lady Dai or the Diva Mummy is a 2,100-year-old mummy from the Western Han Dynasty. To date, she is the best preserved ancient human ever found. She was the wife of Li Cang, the marquis of Dai. She had gained fame more than 2,000 years after her death. This was when her tomb was discovered inside a hill in Hunan, China. She and her jewels are located at the Hunan Provincial Museum.

Mummy 
In 1971, her mummified body was found. All her organs and blood vessels were still seen. They found out that she had Type A blood. Her skin was still elastic. Her joints could still be moved. She still had her eyelashes and hair in her nostrils. Lady Dai was overweight. She suffered from diabetes. She also had high blood pressure, clogged arteries and her heart was badly damaged.

Death
Xin died from a heart attack because of poor health conditions at the time. She also suffered internal parasites and had gallstones logged in her gall bladder. She had also suffered a lot of pain from a fused spinal disc.

References

Other websites 
 The 2,000 Year-Old Mummified Body of Lady Xin Zhui, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China; YouTube

 

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A table (landform) is a high rock structure with a flat top. There are many different terms for this landform feature.

The tuya is a structure formed by a subglacial (under ice) volcano. Lava erupts underneath an overlying glacier or ice sheet. It melts through to the surface and pools, producing the flat plateau on top with near-vertical walls along the ice-contact margin as the lava cools and hardens. 

A similar landform is the tepui, which has a rather different origin. A body of hard rock resists erosion. It was originally inside a body of softer rock such as limestone, which got eroded away to form a plain. The more resistant rock is left behind as an isolated mountain. The term is used for the table-top mountains of South America. Auyán-tepui in the Guiana Highlands, Venezuela is the source of the Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world. It is 19 times higher than Niagara Falls.

Tuya
Tepui
Mesa
Potrero
Butte
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Terrace
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Table-topped hill
Table mountain
Tableland

Table Mountain in South Africa is the best-known example of a table landform.

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Chandannagar is a municipal corporation in the state of West Bengal, India. It was formerly spelled Chandranagore. It  was a former French colony along with present Puducherry, Union territory. It is a part of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. Chandannagar is located on the banks of the Hooghly River. The total area of the city is . The total population of the city is 166,867 according to the 2011 Census of India. Chandannagar was a French territory until India gained its  independence from France in 1949. In 1954 it came under the jurisdiction of West Bengal.

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Abenaki, or Abnaki, is an endangered Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England. The language has Eastern and Western forms. They differ in vocabulary and phonology. They are sometimes considered distinct languages.

Eastern Abenaki languages were spoken by several peoples, including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot of coastal Maine. The last known fluent speaker of Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot) died during the 1990s. However, several Penobscot elders still speak Penobscot. There is an ongoing effort to preserve it and teach it in the local schools. Only a handful of Western Abenaki speakers remain today.

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Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian National Cricket Team. He was renowned as a destructive and aggressive player. He holds numerous records in international and Indian cricket. He is a right arm batsman and right arm off-spin bowler.

Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to score Triple century in Test cricket. He scored 319 off 278 balls against South Africa in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. It is the fastest triple century since then. He holds the massive Indian record of scoring the fastest 300,250,200 and 150 in Test cricket. Sehwag is the only personality of any nationality to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World twice.

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In phonetics (the study of sounds in human speech), the place of articulation of a sound is where in the mouth the sound is made (articulated). There are at least 13 different places of articulation. They are split into four big types.

Labial (lips)
Labial sounds are made with one or two lips.
They are split into three types:

Bilabial (two lips)
Bilabial sounds are made with both lips.
The bilabial sounds in English are [], [], and [].

Labiodental (lip and teeth)
Labiodental sounds are made with the lips and the teeth.
Almost always the top lip and the bottom teeth are used.
The labiodental sounds in English are [] and [].

Linguolabial (lip and tongue)
Linguolabial sounds are made by the tongue touching the top lip.
There are no linguolabial sounds in English.
Sometimes it is said to be part of the next group (Coronal).

Coronal (tip of the tongue)
Coronal sounds are made with the tip of the tongue. They are split into three types:

Dental (teeth and tongue) 
Dental sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the back of the teeth. The dental sounds in English are [] and [].

Alveolar (gum ridge and tongue) 
Alveolar sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the ridge behind the teeth. The alveolar sounds in English are [], [], [], [], [], and [].

Retroflex (roof of the mouth and tongue)  
Retroflex sounds are made by pressing the tongue flat against the front part of roof of the mouth. There are no retroflex sounds in English.

Palatal (roof of the mouth and tongue) 
Palatal sounds are made by the body of the tongue and the middle part of the roof of the mouth. The only palatal sound in English is [].

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Jaswant Rai Sharma, (24 February 1927 – 22 January 2017) popularly known by his pen name Naqsh Lyallpuri, was an Indian ghazal and Bollywood song writer. He was born in Lyallpur (now called Faisalabad), British India. Lyallpuri worked with many Bollywood music directors including Madan Mohan, Khayyam, Jaidev, Naushad, and Ravindra Jain. He had close association with director B. R. Ishara from their first movie Chetna in 1970.

Lyallpuri was known for his work in Chetna, Gharonda, Dard, Kala Suraj, Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story, and Yatra. 

Lyallpuri died at his home in Mumbai, India on 22 January 2017 from complications of a hip fracture, aged 89.

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Henry Dargan McMaster (born May 27, 1947) is an American politician. He is the 117th and current Governor of South Carolina since January 24, 2017. He became governor when Nikki Haley resigned to become the Ambassador to the United Nations. 

McMaster was born into a wealthy South Carolina family who owned many slaves before the American Civil War. His father John was also a politician. 

He last served as the 91st Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 2015 to 2017, as well as Attorney General of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011. From 1981 to 1985, McMaster served as United States Attorney, where he was known for Operation Jackpot. McMaster served on the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education and chaired the South Carolina Republican Party from 1993 to 2002.

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Lawrence Alan "Larry" Kudlow (born August 20, 1947) is an American conservative commentator, economic analyst, television personality, and newspaper columnist. He was the 12th Director of the National Economic Council from April 2, 2018 to January 20, 2021. He was the host of CNBC's The Kudlow Report. As a syndicated columnist, his articles appear in numerous U.S. newspapers and web sites, including his own blog, Kudlow's Money Politic$.

Kudlow was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey.

He is of Jewish descent, and converted to Roman Catholicism.

In March 2018, President Donald Trump appointed Kudlow to be Director of the National Economic Council, replacing Gary Cohn.

On June 11, 2018, Kudlow suffered a heart attack.

Career 
In 1970, while he was still a Democrat, Kudlow joined Americans for Democratic Action chair Joseph Duffey's "New Politics" senatorial campaign in Connecticut which also attracted an "A-list crowd of young Democrats", including Yale University law student Bill Clinton, John Podesta, and Michael Medved, another future conservative. Duffey was a leading anti-war politician during the Vietnam war era. Duffey's campaign manager called Kudlow a "brilliant organizer". In 1976, he worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, along with Tim Russert, against Conservative Party incumbent James L. Buckley, brother of William F. Buckley, Jr.

Kudlow began his career as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, taking a position "as a junior economist in a job where a master's degree wasn't required". He worked in the division of the Fed that handled open market operations.

During the first term of the Reagan administration (1981–1985), Kudlow was associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), a part of the Executive Office of the President. In April 2005, New York Governor George Pataki included Kudlow in a six-member state tax commission.

Kudlow's name was floated by Republicans as a potential Senate candidate in either Connecticut or New York in 2016. In October 2015, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, in an email to supporters, attacked Kudlow as "a champion of big corporations and big money" despite Kudlow's not announcing a run. In early December 2015, Jack Fowler of National Review created a 527 organization that encouraged Kudlow to run.

References

Other websites

 Kudlow's Money Politic$ blog
 Kudlow & Company consulting company
 Profile  at CNBC.com
 Column archive  at Townhall.com
 Column archive at National Review Online
 Column archive at Creators Syndicate
 
 

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Grace Martine Tandon (better known as Daya; born October 24, 1998) is an American singer-songwriter. She released her self titled extended play (EP), Daya, on September 4, 2015. The EP included the song "Hide Away". "Hide Away" peaked at #23 on Billboard Hot 100. On October 7, 2016, she released her first studio album Sit Still, Look Pretty.

In 2017, Daya was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for her work on the song "Don't Let Me Down" from the Chainsmokers.

Daya was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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The Australian Blue Tongue lizard or skink is the most common blue tongue lizard in Australia, occupying most of the east coast. This means they are the species that most interacts with people.

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The Soweto Uprising was a series of protests lead by high school students in South Africa against introduction of Afrikaans as official language in education with oppression and neglecting their first languages. The uprising started on the morning of 16 June 1976.

Students from many Sowetan schools began to protest in the streets of Soweto because Afrikaans had been introduced a as the language of teaching in local schools. It is estimated that 20,000 students took part in the protests. The police responded by killing many protesters. The number of people killed in the uprising is usually given as 176, but estimates of up to 700 have been made. In remembrance of these events, 16 June is now a public holiday in South Africa, named Youth Day.

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Fred André (31 May 1941 – 24 January 2017) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a centre-back. He played from the early-1960s to the late-1970s. He was best known for playing for Telstar from 1963 to 1976. He made 328 appearances for the club. He also played for Volendam. He later managed Telstar from 1983 to 1987. He was born in Haarlem, North Holland.

André died on 24 January 2017 at the age of 75.

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Søren Elung Jensen (7 July 1928 – 22 January 2017) was a Danish actor. He was born in Odense. He appeared in 22 movies between 1960 and 1999.

Elung Jensen died from lung cancer on 22 January 2017 in Hellerup. He was 88.

Filmography
 Støv på hjernen (1961)
 Den rige enke (1962)
 Det støver stadig (1962)
 Støv for alle pengene (1963)
 Tænk på et tal (1969)
 King Lear (1971)
 Besat (1999)
 Manden som ikke ville dø (1999)

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Trehafod is a village in the Rhondda Valley between Porth and Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. A former coal mining area, the village is now best known as the site of the Rhondda Heritage Park, visiting site for everyone showing the life of coal mining in Rhondda. Trehafod has many buildings such as the Bed and breakfast and Hafod Primary School. Trehafod primary school is a school for ages 3 to 11 with 8 year groups.

History
About 1850 a map of the area shows a number of farms in the place that was to become Trehafod, these were named, Hafod Uchaf, Hafod Ganol and Hafod Fawr. Trehafod took its name from these farms. Hafod is a Welsh word that can mean "hill farm".

Trehafod is well known for the Rhondda Heritage Park which was once the Lewis Merthyr mine. At the height for coal mining, the Lewis Merthyr mine was one of the highest rated mines in the South Wales Coalfield.

Due to the River Rhondda  flowing very close to a lot of houses within the village there have been a number of floods. The biggest floods were in 1960 which killed one man.

Transport
Trehafod train station is on the Rhondda Line which follows the River Rhondda; the train line and river go through the village. The train leaves to different locations such as Cardiff central , Treherbert, Pontypridd, Porth Cardiff queen street, Treforest and Bridgend and arrives from Hengoed and Treorchy. There are many roads in Trehafod but the main road is the A4058 that leads from Treorchy  and leads to the river Taff. There are also many bus stops.

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There are 1,374 cantons in Bolivia.

The cantons come after the municipalities.

Cantons
Geography of Bolivia
On September 28, 1992 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was approaching Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal after a flight from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, which crashed into a mountain in Kathmandu. All 167 people onboard the flight were killed, in Nepal's worst air-disaster.

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Mauriac is a commune in south central France in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is a subprefecture of the Cantal department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

History
Mauriac is one of the oldest town in the Cantal department founded about 2,000 years ago.

The town grew around the Saint-Pierre de Mauriac monastery and the Notre-Dame-des-Miracles Basilica.

Geography
Mauriac is in the northwest of Cantal, close to the border with the Corrèze  department, near the Dordogne river. It is along the Auze river, a left tributary of the Dordogne.

Mauriac is in hilly terrain, with the main populated area at an altitude of about , while the surrounding areas rise to about  in the volcanic foothills. The commune has an area of .

The commune of Mauriac is surrounded by the communes Le Vigean, Brageac, Escorailles, Ally, Salins, Jaleyrac, Chaussenac, Sourniac, Drugeac, Chalvignac, Anglards-de-Salers and Méallet.

Climate
The climate of Mauriac, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Mauriac are known, in French, as Mauriacois (women: Mauriacoises).

With a population of 3,682, Mauriac has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Mauriac

Mauriac forms with Le Vigean the urban area of Mauriac, one of the seven urban areas of Cantal, with a population of 4,559 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Mauriac, formed by five communes with a population of 5,277 inhabitants and an area of .

Administration 
Mauriac is a subprefecture of the Cantal department, the capital of the arrondissement of Mauriac and the administrative centre () of the canton of Mauriac.

It is part of the intercommunality Pays de Mauriac ().

Sites of interest 
 Notre-Dame-des-Miracles Basilica.
 Saint-Pierre de Mauriac; ruins of a monastery built in the 12th century.
 Hôtel d'Orcet, built in the 18th century; the headquarters of the subprefecture are here now.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Mauriac
 Communes of the Cantal department

References

Other websites

 City Council website 
 Communauté de communes du Pays de Mauriac 
 Pays de Mauriac Tourism Office 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Cantal
Giovanni Corrieri (7 February 1920 – 22 January 2017) was an Italian road bicycle racer. He was professional from 1941 to 1956. He won seven stages in the Giro d'Italia and three in the Tour de France. He was born in Messina, Sicily.

Corrieri died on 22 January 2017 in Prato, Tuscany at the age of 96.

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 Giovanni Corrieri at Cycling Archives

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Charles Joseph Canfield (March 24, 1932 – January 24, 2017) was an American businessman. He served as the 43rd Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota from January 6, 1996 through January 6, 2003. Before being elected mayor in 1995, he was 2nd Ward Councilman for the city from 1986 until 1996. He owned a Shakey's Pizza restaurant in northwest Rochester along US Route 52 until its closure in the 2000s. He lost the 2002 mayoral election to Ardell Brede.

Canfield was born and raised in Rochester. He served as an Independent. He was a Christian. Canfield died in Rochester on January 24, 2017 from natural causes, aged 84.

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TAM Airlines Flight 3054 was a flight from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil by an Airbus A320 airplane. On July 17, 2007 the plane missed the runway at São Paulo and crashed into a TAM Express building and a Shell gas station. This was because of pilot error and because it was raining. All 187 people on board the plane and 12 people on the ground died. This was Brazil's worst airplane disaster.

Passengers and crew

Flight 3054 carried 181 passengers and six crew members on the plane. Captain Henrique Stefanini Di Sacco, age 53, was flying the plane. He had nearly 13,700 flight hours over his career as a pilot. The co-pilot was First Officer Kleyber Lima, age 54. He had almost 14,800 hours of flying experience. Most of the passengers on the plane were Brazilians, but 17 came from the United States, and eight from Mexico, five came from Taiwan, four each came from Germany and Italy, three each from the United Kingdom and Canada, two each from France, Sweden, Argentina, the Netherlands, one each from Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, China, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and Venezuela.

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Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia.

Wolfe best known for his work with and influence over the New Journalism literary movement. He began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, but achieved national fame in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim, became a commercial success, and was adapted as a major movie (directed by Brian De Palma).

Wolfe died in New York City on May 14, 2018 of an infection at the age of 88.

References

Other websites

 Official website
 Tom Wolfe papers, 1930-2013, held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.

 Article about Wolfe's recent public appearance at the Chicago Public Library from fNews (a publication of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) 

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Sir Nigel Simon Rodley (1 December 1941 – 25 January 2017) was a British human rights activist, lawyer and professor. He was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He was also a commissioner for the International Commission of Jurists. He held academic positions at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics.

He was of Jewish descent.

Rodley died after a short illness on 25 January 2017 in Colchester, at the age of 75.

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The Alagnon is a French river that starts in the Massif Central within the Regional Natural Park of the Volcanoes of Auvergne () and that flows through the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is a left tributary of the Allier.

Geography
The Alagnon river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of . 

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Lempdes-sur-Allagnon in the Haute-Loire department.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Lempdes-sur-Allagnon (50 years)

Course
The Alagnon river starts  in the Mounts of Cantal (Massif Central), near the Puy Bataillouse mountain, commune of Laveissière, at an altitude of about , in the Cantal department. First, it flows to the east, near the Super Lioran ski resort, and gets into a gorge and, then, into a valley near Murat. The river flows in general to the northeast and gets into deep gorges in Lempdes-sur-Allagnon.

The Alagnon river flows through the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, 3 departments and 23 communes. Two communes are named after the river: La Chapelle-d'Alagnon and Lempdes-sur-Allagnon. It flows through the following communes, among others:
 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
 Cantal department:  Laveissière, Murat, La Chapelle-d'Alagnon, Neussargues-Moissac, Ferrières-Saint-Mary, Molompize, Massiac
 Haute-Loire department: Grenier-Montgon, Torsiac, Lempdes-sur-Allagnon
 Puy-de-Dôme department: Charbonnier-les-Mines, Beaulieu, Auzat-la-Combelle

Finally, it flows into the Allier river in the town of Auzat-la-Combelle, in the place known as Le Saut du Loup, in the Puy-de-Dôme department.

Main tributaries 
The main tributaries, over 20 km long,  of the Cère river are:

Left tributaries:
 Allanche - 30.5 km
 Sianne - 33.1 km
 Bave - 22 km
 Auze - 17.5

Right tributaries:
 Arcueil - 37.8 km
 Alagnonnette - 20 km
 Violette - 15.4 km

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

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Alexander Mikhailovich Kadakin (; 22 July 1949 – 26 January 2017) was a Russian diplomat. He served as the Russian Ambassador to India twice: from 1999 and 2004, and again from 2009 until his death in 2017. He was also the Russian Ambassador to Nepal (1993–1997) and Sweden (2005–2009). He was born in Chișinău, USSR (now Moldova) to Russian parents.

Kadakin died from heart failure on 26 January 2017 in New Delhi. He was 67.

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Katja Ingergard Geiger (born Karin Ingegerd Hallberg; 12 January 1920 – 25 January 2017), better known as Katja of Sweden, was a Swedish fashion designer.

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Drumchapel is a part of Glasgow, Scotland. It became part of Glasgow in 1938. Housing for about 30,000 people was built in the 1950s to help with overcrowding in Glasgow. At first there was only one post office and one telephone box. Drumchapel did not get its first shopping centre until the early 1960s. Local residents call it "The Drum".

References

Other websites 
 Drumchapel Life... Changing Faces; YouTube

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The 2017 Women's March was a global demonstration on 21-22 January 2017. It was in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America. The Women's March on Washington was said to have seen an attedance of over 470,000 people in Washington alone, which was 3 times more than president Trumps inauguration. This demonstration spanned 7 continents, including Antarctica.

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Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American author of short fiction, poet, translator and essayist. He was also a translator of French. He sometimes wrote essays and fiction in the French language. In 1961 and 1962 he wrote articles for the Locus Solus. Mathews is best known for his novels The Conversions (1962) and My Life in CIA (2005). American conductor David Woodard praised his Plaisirs singuliers (1983) as "a long prose piece about masturbation."

Mathews was born in New York City. He was raised in Massachusetts. He studied at Princeton University and at Harvard University. In 1949 he eloped with his childhood friend and artist Niki de Saint Phalle. After having two children together, they separated in 1960. He later married Marie Chaix. Their marriage would last until Mathews' death in 2017.

Mathews died on January 25, 2017 at his home in Key West, Florida from natural causes, aged 86.

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A Conversation with Harry Mathews. By John Ashbery 
Composing: Harry Mathews' Words & Worlds 
Harry Mathews / bibliographie

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Niki de Saint Phalle (Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. 

Saint Phalle created a series of works in the early 1960s called Tirs ("Shots"). These pieces of art included polythene bags of paint in human forms covered in white plaster. After this, Saint Phalle, made life-size dolls of women, such as brides and mothers giving birth. They were primarily made of plaster over a wire framework and plastic toys, then painted all white.

In 1949, Saint Phalle eloped with her childhood friend and American writer Harry Mathews. They had two children. They separated in 1960. 

Saint Phalle died on 21 May 2002 in San Diego, California from emphysema, aged 71.

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Angelino Alfano (; born 31 October 1970) is an Italian politician. He served in the government of Italy as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.

Career
Alfano was also Minister of the Interior from 28 April 2013 to 12 December 2016, serving in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Enrico Letta; from 2013 to 2014. He held the office of Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, as part of the Letta Cabinet, and previously served as Minister of Justice from 2008 to 2011 as part of the Silvio Berlusconi Cabinet. He was the first and only secretary of the centre-right party The People of Freedom (PdL) from 2011 to 2013.

In November 2013 he became leader of the New Centre-Right party which is a split from the PdL.

Personal life
He is married to Tiziana Miceli, a civil lawyer. They have two sons.

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1970 births
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Saint-Flour () is a commune in south central France in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is a subprefecture of the Cantal department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

History
Saint-Flour is the historical capital of the old region of Haute-Auverge ("Upper Auvergne"), one of the two divisions of Auvergne.

After the creation of the Cantal department on 4 March 1790, Saint-Flour was named as the capital (prefecture) of the new department alternating with Aurillac. In 1794, Saint-Flour became the only capital but, in 1795, the capital was moved to Aurillac and Saint-Flour became a subprefecture.

Geography
Saint-Flour is in the eastern part of Cantal. The city is divided in two parts:
 The upper city () is on a volcanic dike
 The lower city () is on the sides of the Ander river, a right tributary of the Truyère river.

The commune of Saint-Flour has an area of  and is surrounded by the communes Alleuze, Andelat, Coren, Roffiac, Saint-Georges and Villedieu.

Climate
The climate of Saint-Flour, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Saint-Flour are known, in French, as Sanflorain (women: Sainfloraine).

With a population of 6,643, Saint-Flour has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saint-Flour

Saint-Flour forms the urban area of Saint-Flour, one of the seven urban areas of Cantal, with a population of 6,626 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Saint-Flour, formed by 17 communes with a population of 13,024 inhabitants and an area of .

Administration 
Saint-Flour is a subprefecture of the Cantal department, the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Flour and the administrative centre () of three cantons: 
 Saint-Flour-1 : 23 communes + part of Saint-Flour, with 9,696 inhabitants  (2014)
 Saint-Flour-2 : 18 communes + part of Saint-Flour, with 9,171 inhabitants (2014)

It is part of the intercommunality Saint-Flour Communauté.

Sister cities
Saint-Flour is twinned with:
  Orléans, France, since 1986
  Haselünne, Germany, since 1992

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Saint-Flour
 Communes of the Cantal department

References

Other websites

 City Council website 
 Office de Tourisme Intercommunautaire des Pays de Saint-Flour 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Cantal
Bernard Cazeneuve (born 2 June 1963) is a French Socialist politician. He was Prime Minister of France from December 2016 to May 2017. He was born in Senlis, Oise.

Career
In 2012, he was appointed Minister of State for European Affairs and in 2013 was named Minister of State for the Budget in the second term of the Jean-Marc Ayrault government.

On 2 April 2014 he was appointed the 42nd Minister of the Interior in the Manuel Valls Government. On 6 December 2016, Cazeneuve was appointed Prime Minister after Valls resigned to concentrate on the upcoming presidential election.

Personal life
Cazeneuve has a wife, Véronique, and two children. The couple divorced and remarried on August 12, 2015.

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Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (9 August 1932 – 26 January 2017), known as Tam Dalyell ( ), was a Scottish Labour Party politician and writer. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. 

He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. He represented West Lothian from 1962 to 1983, then Linlithgow from 1983 to 2005. He is particularly well known for his creating of what came to be known as the "West Lothian question", on whether non-English MPs should be able to vote upon English-only matters after political devolution.

Dalyell died at age 84 after a short illness.

References

Other websites

 Tam Dalyell to step down at 2005 election
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Tam Dalyell
 Tam Dalyell – the longest serving MP
 Tam Dalyell, former MP Linlithgow

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River Edge is a town in Bergen County, New Jersey. The population was 11,515 as of 2013.

Towns in New Jersey
Robert "Bob" Garcia (January 9, 1933 – January 25, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990. Before this, he served in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.

Garcia was born in Bronx, New York. His parents were from Puerto Rico. He had three children.

Garcia died from an infection due to his emphysema on January 25, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was 84.

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Robert Garcia (born December 2, 1977) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He has been the Mayor of Long Beach, California since July 2014.

Garcia was born in Lima, Peru. He moved to the United States at the age of five. He is gay.

In December 2021, Garcia announced that he would be a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022.

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Robert "Bob" Folsom (February 15, 1927 – January 24, 2017) was an American politician and real estate developer. He served as the Mayor of Dallas, Texas from 1976 until 1981. He graduated from the Southern Methodist University. He was born in Dallas.

Folsom died from natural causes on January 24, 2017 at his home in Dallas. He was 89.

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William J. "Billy" Simpson (12 December 1929 – 27 January 2017) was a Northern Irish footballer. He played as a centre forward professionally from 1946 to 1961. He played for Linfield, Rangers, Stirling Albion, Partick Thistle, Oxford United and the Northern Ireland national team. He was born in Belfast.

Simpson died on 27 January 2017 in Glasgow, Scotland at the age of 87.

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Valery Dmitrievitch Bolotov (, ; 13 February 1970 – 27 January 2017) was a Ukrainian pro-Russian militant leader. He was known for his actions in the Donbass War in eastern Ukraine. He served as the leader of the unrecognised state Lugansk People's Republic from May to August 2014. He was born in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast.

Bolotov died on 27 January 2017 in Moscow Oblast at the age of 46.

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Northeast Italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a NUTS1 level region.

Geography
Northeast Italy borders to the north with Switzerland and Austria; to the east with Slovenia; to the south with Liguria (Northwest Italy), Tuscany (Central Italy), Marche (Central Italy) and San Marino; and to the west with Lombardy (Northwest Italy) and, for a very short distance, with Piedmont (Northwest Italy).

Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto have a coast in the Adriatic Sea

The Alps are in the northern part of the region and the northern Apennines in the south. The highest point, in the region, is Ortles (), in the Alps (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol); it is  high.

Northeast Italy has the most part of the valley of the Po river (). The Po is the longest river of Northeast Italy and of Italy.

Regions
Central Italy encompasses four of the 20 regions of Italy, including 36 provinces and 934  comuniː

The 10 comuni with more people living in them areː

Related pages
 NUTS level 1:
 Northwest Italy
 Northeast Italy
 Central Italy
 South Italy
 Insular Italy
 Northern Italy
 Southern Italy

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A cupbearer is traditionally the person who fills the cups and serves the wine. In a medieval court (royal), the cupbearer brought his lord's ale or wine and tasted it to make sure it was not poisoned. The cupbearer was often a person of high rank. It was a distinct honor to be a cupbearer to a king. In the Bible, Nehemiah was cupbearer to the Artaxerxes I of Persia.

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Occupations
The Liao dynasty also called Khitan empire, the  was an empire in Asia. It was formed by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people after the fall of the Tang Dynasty. They ruled from 907 AD to about 1125.  The first ruler was Yelü Abaoji, Khan of the steppe Khitan peoples.It was originally called the "Qidan Kingdom" until about 947. Its capital was the present day Bairin Left Banner in Inner Mongolia. Its territory included parts of Northern China, middle Mongolia, and Tianjin and 
Hebei to the south.

Emperors 
 Liao Taizu (907–926)
 Liao Taizong (926–947)
 Liao Shizong (947–951)
 Liao Muzong (951–969)
 Liao Jingzong (969–982)
 Liao Shengzong (983–1031)
 Liao Xingzong (1031–1055)
 Liao Daozong (1055–1101)
 Tianzuo Di (1101–1125)

References

Other websites 
 Mongolian history and culture - Khitan empire

Chinese dynasties
Luciano Ravaglia (Forlimpopoli; 13 December 1923 – Dovadola; 26 January 2017) was an Italian engineer. He was born in Forlimpopoli, Italy.

Career
He was a member of the Rotary Club of Forlì. He was known for his cutting-edge city-planning and building solutions. When Sergio Mulitsch di Palmenberg was appointed as chairman of the national PolioPlus committee of the Italian Rotary Club, Ravaglia became his deputy. Over the next few years, Ravaglia worked with dedication and enthusiasm to gain recognition from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for polio vaccination.

Death
Ravaglia died on 26 January 2017 in Dovadola, Italy, aged 93.

More reading
 Baroukh M. Assael, "Il favoloso innesto. Storia sociale della vaccinazione", Editori Laterza, Bari, 1995.
 Franco Pellaschiar, “Corrispondenza, atti, attestati e stralci di documenti sull’impegno di Sergio Mulitsch per l’Operazione PolioPlus”, In “Realtà Nuova”, anno LXVII, n.3, Milano, 2003.
 Luciano Ravaglia, "L’eredità di Sergio Mulitsh: Nuovi spazi al servire, l’Istituto Ong fra rotariani italiani” In “Realtà Nuova”, anno LXVII, n.3, Milano, 2003.

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Rayville is the parish seat of Richland Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Towns in Louisiana
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Iran Standard Time (IRST), also called Iran Time (IRT), is a time zone used in Iran. The standard time is 3.5 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+03:30). During its daylight saving time, it uses Iran Daylight Time (IRDT), which is 4.5 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+04:30), but however, from 2006 to 2007, IRDT was not used in Iran, but was re-introduced on March 21, 2008.

Daylight saving dates for Iran 
Daylight saving time (DST) starts on March 21 or 22 (Farvardin) and ends on September 21-22 (Shahrivar).

References 

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Iran
Northwest Italy ( or just ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a NUTS1 level region.

Northwest Italy is defined only for statistical and for some elections.

Geography
Northwest Italy borders to the west with France, to the north with Switzerland and to the east with Northeast Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna). To the south is Toscana (Central Italy), a short distance, and the Ligurian Sea.

The Alps are in the northern part of the region and the northern Apennines in the south. The highest point in the region and in Italy is Mont Blanc (), in the Alps (Valle d'Aosta) on the border with France; it is  high.

Northwest Italy has an important part of the valley of the Po river (). The Po is the longest river of Northeast Italy and of Italy.

Regions
Central Italy encompasses four of the 20 regions of Italy, including 24 provinces and 1,789  comuniː

The comuni with more than 100,000 persons living in them areː

Related pages
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 Northwest Italy
 Northeast Italy
 Central Italy
 South Italy
 Insular Italy
 Northern Italy
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Kevin Scully Geer (November 7, 1952 – January 25, 2017) was an American actor. He appeared on stage and screen. He began his career in 1975. His best known stage performances included A Streetcar Named Desire (1988), The Rose Tattoo (1995), Flyovers, Side Man (both 1998) and Twelve Angry Men (2004). His television appearances included Oz, Law & Order, Homicide, China Beach, M*A*S*H and MacGyver. He also appeared in the movies A Force of One (1979), The Pelican Brief (1993), The Contender (2000), American Gangster (2007), Bunker Hill (2008) and The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009).

Geer was born in Reno, Nevada. He grew up in Los Angeles, California. He died from a heart attack on January 25, 2017 in Manhattan, New York. He was 64.

References

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 Kevin Geer on Broadway at Playbill.com

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Henri "Heng" Freylinger (23 September 1926 – 17 January 2017) was a Luxembourgian wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman welterweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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Bob Holiday (November 12, 1932 – January 27, 2017) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Superman in the Broadway musical It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! (1966). He had the most appearances as Superman than any other actor, making over 140 performances. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Holiday died on January 27, 2017 at his home in Hawley, Pennsylvania, aged 84.

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Alexander Grigorievich Tikhanovich (; 13 July 1952 – 28 January 2017) was a Belarusian pop singer. He was best known as a member of the band Verasy. He was awarded the Meritorious Artist and People's Artist honours of Belarus. He was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union.

Tikhanovich died on 28 January 2017 in Minsk at the age of 64.

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Lauda Air Flight 004 was a passenger flight from Hong Kong to Vienna, Austria via Bangkok, Thailand. On May 26, 1991 the Boeing 767-3Z9ER operating this flight experienced an uncommanded left engine thrust reverser deployment in mid air at 23:17 UTC (ICT) while flying over Burma-Thai border, and broke up at 5,500 feet, killing all 213 passengers and 10 crew members on board, making this the deadliest complete loss involving the Boeing 767 series, and Thailand's worst aviation accident.

The aircraft took off at 23:02 ICT, and everything was routine until 5 minutes and 45 seconds into the flight, where the pilots discussed a "REV ISLN VAL" warning for about 5 minutes, a warning indicating that the reverser may deploy in flight, and that the reverser may not work on landing. At 23:17 ICT, while climbing through 24 thousand feet, and 15 minutes and one second into the flight, the left engine thrust reverser activated, causing an asymmetrical stall on the left wing side by compromising all of its lift. Almost immediately, this sent the aircraft into a diving left turn with a value of 28 degrees per second, inverting the plane in less than 4 seconds, and causing the air frame to shudder.

The captain and first officer were startled, reacting a few seconds after deployment by giving the aircraft's yoke maximum right aileron deflection and maximum left rudder, putting stress on the aircraft's vertical stabilizer composites with little to no effect on the roll. During the descent, the aircraft entered a vertical dive, continuing to roll to the left slowly until it was completely inverted, rolling over still to about 45 degrees, upside down. Massive yaw and torsional overload forces ensued after the left engine was shut down within 10 seconds of reverser activation, and desperately trying to pull the aircraft out of its descent, the aircraft, already having passed it's maximum mach operating speed, began to break up in the air, the vertical and horizontal stabilizers disintegrating first.

The aircraft entered a diving speed of Mach 0.99, or very close to the speed of sound, when the heat from the air resistance caused the fuel in the tanks to heat up and explode, sending the aircraft into the ground engulfed in a fireball. All 213 passengers and 10 crew members died.

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