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A person's next of kin (NOK) is that person's closest living blood relative or relatives. Some countries, such as the United States, have a legal definition of "next of kin". In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, "next of kin" may have no legal definition and may not necessarily refer to blood relatives at all.

In some legal systems, rights regarding inheritance (which imply a decision-making capacity such as in a medical emergency in which no clear will or instructions have been given, and the person has no spouse) flow to the closest relative (regardless of the age, with a representative appointed if a minor), usually a child, a parent or a sibling. However, there are people without any close adult relatives and, in such a case, decision-making power often flows to a niece or nephew, first cousin, aunt or uncle, or grandparent.

For example, if a person dies intestate, the laws of some jurisdictions require distribution of the estate to the deceased's spouse or children. However, if there are none of them, the estate can often be distributed to the next closest group of living relatives, whether they are parents, grandparents, first cousins, aunts and uncles, or second cousins in extreme cases. If a person dies intestate with no identifiable next of kin, the person's estate generally escheats (i.e., legally reverts) to the government.

In cases of medical emergency, if a person is incapable (because of age or mental infirmity, or they are unconscious) of making decisions for themselves and they have no spouse or children, the next of kin may participate in medical decisions made by medical personnel, subject to the specific laws of the jurisdiction.

The inability of persons who are not in a legal marriage to make decisions with respect to the care of a live-in partner has resulted in many jurisdictions giving live-in partners rights equivalent to a spouse in such situations, even though most jurisdictions still do not require non-spouses to be made beneficiaries of estates (it is improper in most jurisdictions to disinherit a spouse). The inability of same-sex partners to have rights with respect to a partner's medical care or funeral arrangements over and above those of the next-of-kin is one of the main reasons behind litigation to require same-sex marriage or its equivalent.

For the purposes of next of kin, adopted children are treated as blood relatives. However, relatives by marriage are never considered next of kin.

Law
Letter case is the difference between uppercase/capital letters and lowercase letters for certain writing systems. The name comes from letters on a printing press, where uppercase letters were stored on top of the lowercase letters in a drawer. Their formal names are "majuscule" and "minuscule" in the same order. Writing systems that have letter case include the Latin alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet.

When the first alphabets were made, they only had capital letters. Overtime, especially during the Middle Ages, lowercase letters were made to write more quickly. Other than Greek and Latin, European languages made no clear differences between capital and lowercase letters until the year 1300.

Different languages have different rules for when to capitalize or not to capitalize letters. For example, German always capitalizes nouns, while English only capitalizes proper nouns, so while German would write "the automobile" as "das Auto", English would not do the same. However, nearly all languages with letter case capitalize the first letter of the first word of every sentence.

Alphabet
Typography
The 2016 United States presidential election in Hawaii was held on 8 November 2016. It was part of the 2016 United States presidential election, in which all other states plus the District of Columbia voted.

In the presidential election, Hillary Clinton easily defeated Donald Trump and received 3 electoral votes.

Presidential

Polling 
Below is a table with the polling results in Hawaii. Hawaii has voted Democrat in the general election since 1988.

Results 
 Turnout was 58.4%.

Results by county

Primaries and caucuses

Democratic 

The Democratic caucus occurred on 26 March 2016.

Republican 

The Republican primary occurred on 8 March 2016.

Related pages
 Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016
 Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016

References

Other websites 
 RNC 2016 Republican Nominating Process 
 Green papers for 2016 primaries, caucuses, and conventions
 2016 Presidential primaries , ElectionProjection.com

21st century in Hawaii
2016 United States presidential election by state
The 2017-18 NHL season is the 101st season of operation (100th season of play) of the National Hockey League. The 31 teams are playing an 82-game regular season. The regular season began on October 4, 2017 and ended on April 7, 2018. The Stanley Cup playoffs began a few days after and the Stanley Cup finals was held between Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights which ended with the Washington Capitals winning their first Stanley cup in their franchise history. The Vegas Golden Knights joined the league for this season and became the first team to win the first three games of their history. They now have five wins and one loss making them the first team to do this since the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL's first season. The two-time defending Stanley Cup and Eastern Conference champions are the Pittsburgh Penguins while Penguins' player Sidney Crosby is the two-time defending Conn Smythe Trophy winner. The Nashville Predators are the defending Western Conference champions. The Washington Capitals are the two-time defending Presidents' Trophy winners. Edmonton Oilers player Connor McDavid is the defending winner of the Hart Memorial and Art Ross Trophies.

Standings

Tie Breakers:
1. Fewer number of games played.
2. Greater Regulation + OT Wins (ROW)
3. Greatest number of points earned in head-to-head play (If teams played an unequal # of head-to-head games, the result of the first game on the home ice of the team with the extra home game is discarded.)
4. Greater Goal differential

2017 in North America
2018 in North America
National Hockey League seasons
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a major fire in October 1991 in west-central California. The fire began on Saturday, October 19, 1991 on the hillsides of northern Oakland and southern Berkeley.

The official name of this wildfire was "Tunnel fire".

Twenty-five people died in this wildfire. Another 150 were injured.

The fire caused $1.5 billion in damage.

More than 2,800 houses and 437 apartments and condominiums were severely damaged or destroyed by the fire.

References

Fires in the United States
1991 in California
Natural disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area
Zapolyarny (Russian: Заполя́рный) is a town in the Pechengsky District of northern Murmansk Oblast. It is about 103 kilometers (64 miles) away from the administrative centre of Murmansk. In 2010, the population was 15,825 people.

The area was owned by Finland between 1920 and 1944. The town was founded in 1956 as Zhdanovsk.

Zapolyarny is the closest settlement to the Koshka Yavr air base.

Related pages 
List of cities and towns in Russia

References

Other websites 

 Official website

Towns in Russia
The People's Party (also known as the Populist Party) was a left-wing political party in the United States.

The party wanted direct election of senators, government ownership of the railroads, telegraph and telephone systems, price support for farmers, a graduated income tax, unilimited silver coinage, an 8-hour work day and more propositions and referendums.

The party was formed in 1891 after a series of conferences involving the leaders of a few agrarian organizations.

The Populists were very popular among farmers in the southwest and Great Plains. The party nominated James B. Weaver as their presidential candidate for the 1892 election, and he would later receive 8.5% of the popular vote and win 5 states. In the 1896 presidential election, the party nominated Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan, who supported many of the Populist ideas. To separate themselves from the Democrats, they nominated Thomas E. Watson as their vice-presidential candidate, instead of Democrat pick Arthur Sewall. During this election, the populist party slowly began to merge into the Democratic party. Bryan would later lose the presidency to Republican William McKinley. Although the Populist party nominated candidates in the next three presidential elections, their support heavily dropped as many began to support the Democrats or Republicans, or follow Eugene V. Debs to his new Socialist Party.

The party also had success in the House of Representatives elections. In 1890 they won 8 seats, in 1892 they won 11 seats, in 1894 they won 9 seats, in 1896 they won 22 seats, in 1898 they won 6 seats and finally, in 1900 they won 5 seats.

The party disbanded in 1908. The last known activity of the official Populist party was in 1913.

References

Other websites 

 People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898 96 p., official party pamphlet for North Carolina election of 1898
 Populist Party timeline and texts; edited by Professor Edwards, secondary and primary sources

Political parties in the United States
1891 establishments in the United States
1908 disestablishments
1900s disestablishments in the United States
The People's Party was a political party in the United States. The party was created by individuals from the Peace and Freedom Party, Human Rights Party, Liberty Union Party and a few more. Their goal was to present an anti-war platform for the upcoming election. The party ran in the 1972 and 1976 presidential elections. The party did not get more than 0.10% of the popular vote in both elections.

In the 1972 election, the party nominated pediatrician Benjamin Spock. Julius Hobson was his vice-presidential running mate. He supported universal health care, removing American troops from other countries (see non-interventionism) and the legalization of abortion and Marijuana. He received 0.10% of the popular vote, or 78,759 votes. In the 1976 election, the party nominated Margaret Wright, and Benjamin Spock ran as her vice-presidential running mate. In the end, she received 0.06% of the vote, or 49,013 votes.

After the elections, the party wanted to become a coalition, but many of the founding parties dissolved, so the People's Party disbanded as well.

References 

Political parties in the United States
Unknown disestablishments
The 2018 CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) tournament was held from 8 October 2015 to 10 October 2017 and was used to determine which South American teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Ten teams participated in the tournament. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) was the top scorer with 10 goals.

Results

Table 

Peru moved on to the inter-confederation play-offs, which is a tournament between 4th and 5th placed teams from other international world cup qualification tournaments.

Matches

Goalscorers 

10 goals

 Edinson Cavani

7 goals

 Lionel Messi
 Alexis Sánchez
 Felipe Caicedo

6 goals

 Gabriel Jesus
 Neymar
 Paulinho
 Arturo Vidal
 James Rodríguez

5 goals

 Eduardo Vargas
 Enner Valencia
 Edison Flores
 Paolo Guerrero
 Josef Martínez
 Luis Suárez

4 goals

 Juan Carlos Arce
 Philippe Coutinho
 Willian
 Darío Lezcano
 Christian Cueva
 Rómulo Otero

3 goals

 Pablo Escobar
 Renato Augusto
 Carlos Bacca
 Edwin Cardona
 Jefferson Farfán
 Martín Cáceres
 Diego Godín

2 goals

 Ángel Di María
 Gabriel Mercado
 Lucas Pratto
 Marcelo Martins Moreno
 Rodrigo Ramallo
 Douglas Costa
 Filipe Luís
 Ricardo Oliveira
 Esteban Paredes
 Mauricio Pinilla
 Radamel Falcao
 Miller Bolaños
 Romario Ibarra
 Fidel Martínez
 Derlis González
 Cristian Rodríguez
 Diego Rolán
 Mikel Villanueva

1 goal

 Lucas Biglia
 Ramiro Funes Mori
 Gonzalo Higuaín
 Ezequiel Lavezzi
 Nicolás Otamendi
 Gilbert Álvarez
 Rudy Cardozo
 Alejandro Chumacero
 Yasmani Duk
 Ronald Raldes
 Dani Alves
 Lucas Lima
 Marcelo
 Miranda
 Roberto Firmino
 Felipe Gutiérrez
 Abel Aguilar
 Juan Cuadrado
 Teófilo Gutiérrez
 Yerry Mina
 Sebastián Pérez
 Macnelly Torres
 Gabriel Achilier
 Michael Arroyo
 Frickson Erazo
 Ángel Mena
 Arturo Mina
 Jefferson Montero
 Cristian Ramírez
 Antonio Valencia
 Júnior Alonso
 Lucas Barrios
 Édgar Benítez
 Víctor Cáceres
 Óscar Cardozo
 Paulo da Silva
 Richard Ortiz
 Cristian Riveros
 Ángel Romero
 Óscar Romero
 Antonio Sanabria
 Bruno Valdez
 André Carrillo
 Paolo Hurtado
 Christian Ramos
 Raúl Ruidíaz
 Renato Tapia
 Sebastián Coates
 Abel Hernández
 Nicolás Lodeiro
 Álvaro Pereira
 Carlos Sánchez
 Federico Valverde
 Richard Blanco
 Yangel Herrera
 Juanpi
 Jacobo Kouffati
 Jhon Murillo
 Mario Rondón
 Salomón Rondón
 Christian Santos

1 own goal

 Marquinhos ()
 Arturo Vidal ()
 David Ospina ()
 Walter Ayoví ()
 Édgar Benítez ()
 Gustavo Gómez ()
 Rolf Feltscher ()
 Diego Godín ()
 Gastón Silva ()

Other websites 

 
 Qualifiers – South America , FIFA.com
 FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, CONMEBOL.com

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Isabella Helen Karle (née Lugoski; December 2, 1921 – October 3, 2017) was an American scientist. She was instrumental in developing techniques to remove plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide. She worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.

For her scientific work, Karle has received the Garvan–Olin Medal, Gregori Aminoff Prize, Bower Award, National Medal of Science, and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award (which is the Navy's highest form of recognition to civilian employees).

Karle was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at the University of Michigan. In 1942, she married Jerome Karle, a Nobel Prize winner. They had three children. Karle died on October 3, 2017 at a hospice in Alexandria, Virginia of brain cancer at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
2005 Video Interview with Isabella Karle by the Atomic Heritage Foundation Voices of the Manhattan Project

1921 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Cancer deaths in Virginia
Scientists from Detroit, Michigan
Jerome Karle (Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918 – June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist. During World War II, he and his wife Isabella Karle worked on the Manhattan Project.

With Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.

Karle was a former president of both the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) (1972) and the IUCr (1981-1984), as well as a co-recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on direct methods. Among the many additional honors he received for his work, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976 and the American Philosophical Society in 1990.

Karle died of liver cancer at the Leewood Healthcare Center in Annandale, Virginia on June 6, 2013 at the age of 94.

References

Other websites
2005 Video Interview with Jerome Karle by the Atomic Heritage Foundation Voices of the Manhattan Project

1918 births
2013 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Cancer deaths in Virginia
American chemists
Jewish American scientists
Scientists from New York City
Eppelsheim is a village (Ortsgemeinde) in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography 
Eppelsheim  lies on a high plateau in the Rhenish Hesse wine region.

Politics

Municipal council 
The  village has a council that governs it.  The council has 16 members.  These members are elected by the people of the village.  In the 2014 election, 9 members of the FWG and 7 of the SPD were elected.

The honorary mayor is Ute Klenk-Kaufmann.

Coat of arms 
The village’s arms has two halves.  They are divided vertically.  On the left is a crowned lion.  It is standing on its hind legs and facing left.  The right half has a green branch with two green apples.

Culture

Museums

Deinotherium at the town hall 
The Dinotherium-Museum in Eppelsheim holds fossil remains of mammals from deposits about ten million years old from the prehistoric Rhine near Eppelsheim. These deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid deinotherium.

Paleontological discoveries 
Besides the dinotherium fossils, the femur of a  Paidopithex rhenanus was found in the area in the 19th century.  This was a now-extinct catarrhine primate.

In 2017, researchers reported finding teeth of an ape dating to about 9.7 million years ago. The teeth seem to belong to a kind of ape similar to Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), but that animal first appeared in Africa more than 4 million years later.

References

Other websites
 Municipality’s official webpage in English 
 The discovery of the Deinotherium of Eppelsheim
Women's History Month is an annual event to celebrate  the contributions of women to  history. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, together with  International Women's Day on March 8. In Canada it is celebrated during October , together with the celebration of Persons Day on October 18.

References 

March events
Women
History
Richard Arvin Overton (May 11, 1906 – December 27, 2018) was an American supercentenarian. He was the oldest verified surviving American World War II veteran, as well as the oldest American man. In 2013 he was honored by President Barack Obama. On that same Memorial Day, Overton met with Texas Governor Rick Perry. He was born in Bastrop County, Texas.

Overton served in the South Pacific from 1940 through 1945, including stops in Hawaii, Guam, Palau and Iwo Jima. He left the U.S. Army in October 1945.

During an NBA game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Memphis Grizzlies on March 24, 2017, Overton was honored during a half-time break.

He lived in Austin, Texas. When he was 82 years old, his wife, Wilma, died in 1988. On May 11, 2016, Overton became a supercentenarian. Overton died in Austin on December 27, 2018 from complications of pneumonia at the age of 112.

References

Other websites

1906 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
African-American supercentenarians
American military personnel of World War II
Disease-related deaths in Texas
Infectious disease deaths in the United States 
Military people from Texas
Gavin Miles McInnes (born July 17, 1970) is a Canadian writer, far-right political commentator, polemicist, actor, and comedian. He is the co-founder of Vice Media and Vice Magazine and host of Get Off My Lawn, formerly on Conservative Review Television. He is a contributor to Taki's Magazine and a former contributor to The Rebel Media, and was a frequent guest on television programs on Fox News and TheBlaze.

McInnes was a leading figure in the hipster subculture while at Vice, being labelled as the "godfather" of hipsterdom. After leaving the company in 2008, he became increasingly known for his far-right political views. He is the founder of the Proud Boys, a chauvinist men's group considered to be a "general hate" organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Early life
McInnes was born Gavin Miles McInnes in Hitchin, England on July 17, 1970 to Scottish parents James and Loraine McInnes. His family migrated to Canada when McInnes was 4 years old. He attended Ottawa's Earl of March Secondary School. As a teenager, McInnes played in the Ottawa punk band Anal Chinook. As an adult, McInnes emigrated to the United States from Canada.

References

Other websites

 
  

1970 births
Living people
English television personalities
The arrondissement of Thiers is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Puy-de-Dôme département, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Thiers.

History
When the Puy-de-Dôme department was created in 1790, the arrondissement of Thiers was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Thiers is in the northeast of the department and borders to the north with the Allier department, to the east with the Loire department, to the south with the arrondissement of Ambert, to the southwest with the arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand, and to the west and northwest with the arrondissement of Riom.

The arrondissement of Thiers is the smallest arrondissement of the department, with an area of . It has a population of 57,956 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km².

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Thiers there are 4 cantons:

 Lezoux (6319)
 Maringues (6320) (partly)
 Les Monts du Livradois (6322) (partly)
 Thiers (6330)

Communes
The arrondissement of Thiers has 44 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Arconsat (63008)
 Aubusson-d'Auvergne (63015)
 Augerolles (63016)
 Bort-l'Étang (63045)
 Bulhon (63058)
 Celles-sur-Durolle (63066)
 Chabreloche (63072)
 Charnat (63095)
 Châteldon (63102)
 Courpière (63125)
 Crevant-Laveine (63128)
 Culhat (63131)
 Dorat (63138)
 Escoutoux (63151)
 Joze (63180)
 Lachaux (63184)
 Lempty (63194)
 Lezoux (63195)
 Moissat (63229)
 La Monnerie-le-Montel (63231)
 Noalhat (63253)
 Néronde-sur-Dore (63249)
 Olmet (63260)
 Orléat (63265)
 Palladuc (63267)
 Paslières (63271)
 Peschadoires (63276)
 Puy-Guillaume (63291)
 Ravel (63296)
 La Renaudie (63298)
 Ris (63301)
 Sainte-Agathe (63310)
 Saint-Flour (63343)
 Saint-Jean-d'Heurs (63364)
 Saint-Rémy-sur-Durolle (63393)
 Saint-Victor-Montvianeix (63402)
 Sauviat (63414)
 Sermentizon (63418)
 Seychalles (63420)
 Thiers (63430)
 Vinzelles (63461)
 Viscomtat (63463)
 Vollore-Montagne (63468)
 Vollore-Ville (63469)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Puy-de-Dôme department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Thiers
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Lech Ordon (24 November 1928 – 21 October 2017) was a Polish actor. In 1948, he graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, at the time located in Łódź. He was born in Poznań. He was known for his roles in Letters to Santa, Der Schimmelreiter, Czterdziestolatek and in Mister Blot's Academy.

In December 2008, he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. He died on 21 October 2017 in Warsaw from pneumonia complicated by a stroke at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
 

1928 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Deaths from stroke
Disease-related deaths in Poland
Polish movie actors
Polish television actors
Polish stage actors
People from Poznań
The People's Summit is an annual conference in Chicago held by a group of progressive political organizations in the United States. It is held at the McCormick Place every year around in June. The organizers of the Summit stated that they wanted to get the energy of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.

First summit

Held in June 2016, the first People's Summit was set against the backdrop of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016.  The conference was led by National Nurses United and The People for Bernie Sanders. People's Action, 

Over 3,000 people attended the 2016 People's Summit to hear speakers including Rosario Dawson, Tulsi Gabbard, Gaby Hoffmann, Naomi Klein, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, and Frances Fox Piven

Second summit
The second Peoples Summit was held June 9–11, 2017 at McCormick Place. The conference was sponsored by  People for Bernie, National Nurses United, Our Revolution, and others.  The theme for the 2017 summit was "Beyond Resistance: A People’s Movement for a Just World".  
Bernie Sanders headlined the conference, along with RoseAnn DeMoro, Naomi Klein, Nina Turner, Michael Moore, Linda Sarsour, Christine Pellegrino,  Larry Krasner, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and others.  The conference was attended by over 4,000 people.

Bernie Sanders delivered the keynote speech calling for an agenda "that can enhance and expand issue campaigns and hold all elected officials accountable to popular demands for justice, equality, and freedom."

References

Other websites
 Official website

Chicago, Illinois
Bernie Sanders
The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution is a 2017 bestselling political book authored by former U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, published by Henry Holt and Co. It is aimed at teenage readers.

The book is a YA version of 2016's Our Revolution. Sanders created the book to help young people "to fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment, and provides healthcare for all."

The book features many graphics and illustrations in the hopes of breaking down complex issues like income inequality, climate change, healthcare, law enforcement reform, prison system reform and student loan debt.

References

Bernie Sanders
Non-fiction books
Francis Walter Nye (June 29, 1918 – January 13, 2019) was an American military personnel. He served as a United States Air Force major general who was a B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress combat pilot. He was commander, Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, N.M. During his career, he was awarded the Legion of Merit two times and the Distinguished Flying Cross also two times.

In November 1968, he was appointed chairman of the U.S. delegation of the Inter-American Defense Board, the Joint Brazil-U.S. Defense Commission, and the U.S. section, Joint Mexican-U.S. Defense Commission.

Nye was born in Barton, Vermont. He studied at the University of Vermont. His wife, Nina, died in 2017. Nye died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 13, 2019 at the age of 100.

References

1918 births
2019 deaths
American centenarians
American military personnel of World War II
American military personnel of the Korean War
People from Vermont
People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Doris Isaac Grumbach (born July 12, 1918) is an American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. In 1979, Grumbach published the novel Chamber Music, which was critically well received and helped establish her reputation as a novelist. In six years, three more books followed: The Missing Person (1981), The Ladies (1984), and The Magician's Girl (1987).

Grumbach taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and American University in Washington, DC, and was literary editor of The New Republic for several years. For two decades, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, managed a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine, until 2009 when they moved to a retirement home in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Novels
The Spoil of the Flowers (1962)
The Short Throat, The Tender Mouth (1964)
Chamber Music (1979)
The Missing Person (1981)
The Ladies (1984)
The Magician’s Girl (1987)
The Book of Knowledge (1995)

References

1918 births
Living people
American novelists
Educators from New York City
LGBT writers
American literary critics
American essayists
Lesbians
LGBT people from New York City
Writers from New York City
Educators from Maine
Writers from Maine
Indumati Bhattacharya (born 2 July 1918) is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Hooghly, West Bengal in 1984 as a member of the Indian National Congress.

Bhattacharya was born in Hooghly district, Bengal Presidency, British India. She married Umanath Bhattacharyya. They have one son.

References

1918 births
Living people
Indian politicians
Saint Xavier University (SXU) is a four-year, coeducational institution of higher learning located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The current president is Laurie M. Joyner.

Saint Xavier's  main campus is located in City of Chicago in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the corner of 103rd Street and Central Park Avenue. The university's main campus is made up of several buildings.

It was founded in 1846.

Saint Xavier also has a campus located in Orland Park. In September 2015, Saint Xavier University opened their third campus with technology that allows its students improved educational capabilities. It had a full simulation center for advanced nursing careers as well as numerous huddle spaces and an auditorium.

Saint Xavier University has one of the most diverse undergraduate student bodies in Chicago, and qualified as a Hispanic-serving institution in 2015.

References

Other websites
 
 Official athletics website
 About SXU 
 National League for Nursing - Centers of Excellence 
 Visual Arts Center at Saint Xavier University 
 Conference for Mercy Higher Education
 Online programs 

1846 establishments in the United States
Colleges and universities in Chicago
1840s establishments in Illinois
Judith McGrath (21 April 1947 – 21 October 2017) was an Australian actress. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She was best known for her television soap roles as Colleen Powell in Prisoner (1979–1984) on Network Ten, Bernice Hudson in A Country Practice on Network Seven between 1992 and 1993 and Von Ryan in the medical drama All Saints (1998–2009) on Network Seven.

McGrath died on 21 October 2017 at a hospice in Sydney of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
 

1947 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from aortic aneurysm
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Australia
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Australian stage actors
Actors from Brisbane
Emilio D'Amore (26 November 1915 – 21 October 2017) was an Italian writer, journalist, and politician. He was born in Montefalcione, Italy. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948 as a representative of the Monarchist National Party. D'Amore joined the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (PDIUM) and won reelection in 1953. He served a final term in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1968, again as a member of the PDIUM.

D'Amore died in Avellino, Italy on 21 October 2017 of congestive heart failure at the age of 101.

References

1914 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from congestive heart failure
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
Italian politicians
Italian centenarians
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, formerly Bellevue Hospital Center and  Bellevue Hospital, is the oldest public hospital in the United States. It was founded on March 31, 1736. It is on First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is also home to FDNY EMS Station 08, formerly NYC*EMS Station 13.

The hospital handles nearly 460,000 non-emergency outpatient clinic visits, nearly 106,000 emergency visits and some 30,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. The hospital currently occupies a 25-story patient care facility with an ICU, digital radiology communication and an outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and an in-house staff of about 5,500.

Bellevue was renamed in November 2015 as a reflection of its parent organization's rebranding.

In 2014 Bellevue was ranked 40th overall in the New York metro area and 29th in New York City by US News and World Report.

References

Hospitals in the United States
Buildings and structures in Manhattan
Maidstone West railway station is one of three railway stations which serve Maidstone in Kent. It is on the Medway Valley Line.

Related pages
Maidstone Barracks railway station
Maidstone East railway station

Other websites 
Train times and station information for Maidstone West railway station from National Rail

Railway stations in England
Kent
Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States located on an island of the same name in the southern portion of Lake Washington. Mercer Island is in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, with Seattle located to its west and Bellevue located to its east.

Mercer Island is connected to the mainland on either side via bridges carrying Interstate 90.

he population was 22,699 at the 2010 census.  The population was 22,720 at 2013 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. This makes Mercer Island the most populated island in a lake within the United States.

References

Other websites
 Mercer Island Reporter Local newspaper

Cities in Washington (U.S. state)
Islands of the United States
Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 until 2021.

Babiš, the second richest man in the Czech Republic, is a former CEO and sole owner of the Agrofert group with a net worth of about $4.04 billion according to Bloomberg.

Political career
Babiš served as Finance Minister of the Czech Republic and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the economy from January 2014 to May 2017 until he was fired by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka due to rumors of financial irregularities. Babiš has led ANO 2011 party since 2012 when he founded it as a protest movement against established politics. He has been Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 2013.

Scandals
Babiš has been under investigation since December 2015 due to allegations that an anonymous company he controlled unlawfully received subsidies from the European Union. In September 2017, his parliamentary immunity was stripped after police request in connection with the case and Babiš was formally charged on 9 October 2017.

Prime Minister
Babiš was elected Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his victory in the 2017 legislative election when his party won 78 seats winning the majority party in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.

References

Other websites

 
 Official blog
 Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic website
 Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic website
 Curriculum Vitae on Government website
 Curriculum Vitae on ANO 2011 website

1954 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
Czech businesspeople
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and a novel. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.

Awards
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

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References

Other websites
 "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year", Joel Lovell, The New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2013
2014 George Saunders interview with Jon Niccum, Kansas City Star
10 Free Stories by George Saunders Available on the Web

1958 births
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American novelists
American children's writers
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Stan Kowalski (May 13, 1926 – October 20, 2017) was an American professional wrestler. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was one half of the tag team Murder Incorporated with partner Tiny Mills in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1960 to 1975.

Career 
Kowalski turned to professional wrestling, debuting as Buddy Marco for a NWA promotion run by Tony Stecher.

In 1970, he went to New York to wrestle in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) as Krippler Karl Kovacs. In Pennsylvania, Kowalski and Bruno Sammartino set a record attendance and gate of $86,000.

Personal life 
Kowalski died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on October 20, 2017 in Minneapolis at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
The Biography of Minnesotan Wrestler Stan Kowalski

1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Minnesota
American wrestlers
Sportspeople from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Richard John "Dick" Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American retired professional wrestler who was best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.

Beyer was born in New York City. He studied at Syracuse University. 

eyer began as a "babyface" wrestler in the mid-1950s. His career as a "masked" wrestler, The Destroyer, began in 1962 in Los Angeles. He used the “figure-four-leg-lock” on his way to the Worldwide Wrestling Associates (WWA) championship on July 27, 1962.

Beyer went into semi-retirement in 1984. From 1984-95, Beyer taught physical education in the Akron, New York Central School District, where he also coached football, wrestling and swimming.

On November 4, 2017, it was announced that Beyer would be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, by the Japanese government for "a lifetime spent promoting goodwill and bi-cultural exchanges between Japan and the United States".

Beyer died on March 7, 2019 in Akron, New York, aged 88.

References

Other websites
"THE DESTROYER"

1930 births
2019 deaths
American wrestlers
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Sportspeople from New York City
Juan Kachmanian (April 6, 1930 – January 9, 2020), better known as Pampero Firpo, was an Argentine-American professional wrestler of Armenian descent.

Career
An early pioneer of hardcore wrestling, Kachmanian usually wrestled as a heel, although he would go on to have a run as a face after being fireballed by The Sheik. Other notable feuds in his career would include Nick Bockwinkel, Alberto Madril and Apollo Jalisco.

Titles
Among the titles he held in his career were the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version), the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version), the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship, as well as being the inaugural holder of the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship.

Moves
Using the bear hug and the El Garfio as his signature moves, Kachmanian popularized the drawn-out catchphrase 'ohhh yeah!' which would later become associated with Randy Savage. He retired in 1986 and then worked for the United States Postal Service in San Jose, California.

Death
Firpo died on January 9, 2020 in San Jose, California at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 Online World of Wrestling profile 

1930 births
2020 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American wrestlers
People from Buenos Aires
William Anderson "Bill" Mercer (born February 13, 1926) is an American sportscaster, educator and author. He was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 2002, he was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Mercer's best-known work in the field of exhibition wrestling was when he provided play-by-play announcing for the internationally acclaimed World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW,) based in Dallas, from 1982-87.

Mercer is best known as a play-by-play radio announcer for baseball, football, basketball and wrestling.  He was also a news  reporter for Dallas, Texas, television station KRLD, covering the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963.  He and fellow reporters George Phenix, Wes Wise and Bob Huffaker wrote, When the News Went Live, about their experiences during that time.

In his 60-year career, Mercer provided play-by-play broadcasting for several minor league teams: First, the Muskogee Giants of the Class C Western Association, then the Dallas Rangers (Triple A baseball) from 1959–64, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs (Texas League baseball) from 1965 to 1971.  He then moved up to broadcast for major league baseball's Texas Rangers (major league baseball) in 1972 (with Don Drysdale) and Chicago White Sox in 1974.

Mercer has retired to Durham, North Carolina after a long residence in Richardson, Texas.

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"El Siglo de Oro," literally "the century of gold," was the Golden Age of Spain. It was a period of flowering in Spanish art and literature. It happened at about the same time that the Spanish Habsburg dynasty ruled the country. El Siglo de Oro does not have precise dates and is generally considered to have lasted more than a century. It began no earlier than 1492, with the end of Reconquista (Reconquest), Christopher Columbus's first sea voyage to the New World, and the publication of Gramática de la lengua castellana by Antonio de Navarre. Politically, it ended no later than 1659, with the Pyrenees Treaty, which was ratified between France and Hapsburg Spain. The last great writer of the period, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, died in 1681, and his death is generally considered the end of El Siglo de Oro in art and literature.

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History of Spain
Diorite ( /ˈdaɪ.əˌraɪt/) is an melted rock that has cooled made mostly of the silicate minerals (materials made of silicon and oxygen). Diorite is in between that of basalt and granite. Diorite is usually grey to dark-grey in color, but it can also be black or bluish-grey, and often has a greenish cast. It is distinguished from gabbro (basalt) because the materials in diorite has more sodium and less calcium. Diorite may have small amounts of quartz, microcline, and olivine. Tiny amounts of muscovite may also be found.  If there is a lot of quartz it makes the rock type quartz-diorite (>5% quartz) or tonalite (>20% quartz). 

Diorite has an often speckled, texture of coarse grain size.

Diorites may be associated with either granite or basalt intrusions, into which they may merge. Diorite results from the partial melting of a rock above the area where two tectonic plates merge under each other. It is commonly produced in volcanic arcs, and in cordilleran mountain building, such as in the Andes Mountains, as large batholiths. The extrusive volcanic equivalent rock type is andesite.

Occurrence

Diorite is a relatively rare rock; source localities include Leicestershire (one name for microdiorite—markfieldite—exists due to the rock's being found in the village of Markfield) and Aberdeenshire, UK; Guernsey; Sondrio, Italy; Thuringia and Saxony in Germany; Finland; Romania; Northeastern Turkey; central Sweden; the Darrans range of New Zealand; the Andes Mountains.

An orbicular variety found in Corsica is called corsite.

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Parenthesomes or  septal pore caps  are special parts of the cells of fungi. In many cases they look like parentheses. Their function  has not yet been studied fully. They do not alwys look the same, and their appearance is useful for differentiating between different species of fungi

Cell biology
Changqing Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Hefei, Anhui, China.

References

Subdivisions of China
A Different World was an American sitcom. The series was of the Hillman College, a fictional African American college in Virginia. The show aired on NBC.

The show was aired from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993.

There were many actors on the show, like Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Marisa Tomei, Loretta Devine, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Jada Pinkett.

The show looked at strong topics, like LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS, the Equal Rights Amendment, race and class relations.

In season 2, it came to the attention of Bill Cosby and the producers that the show wasn't truly looking at a historically black college. That's when Debbie Allen was hired as the chief creative force to revamp the series.

American comedy television series
1980s American black sitcoms
1987 American television series debuts
1990s American television series endings
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English-language television programs
Anya Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996 in Miami, Florida) is an Argentine-British actress. She starred as Casey Cooke in the 2017 film Split, and will reprise her role in the film's 2019 sequel, Glass. In 2018, she will star in the film The New Mutants.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Other websites
 Anya Taylor-Joy at the Internet Movie Database
 Anya Taylor-Joy on Twitter

1996 births
Living people
Actors from Florida
Jeanne Brousse (maiden name: Maurier; April 12, 1921 – October 19, 2017) was a French resistance member. She was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. 

Jeanne Brousse was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. In 1973 she was awarded the title of a Righteous Among The Nations. In 1981, Brousse was one of the founding members of the French chapter of the association of the Righteous Among The Nations. In 1987, she joined the French Yad Vashem committee, of which she remained the Vice President for several years.

In 2005, Jeanne Brousse was awarded the Legion of Honour.

Brousse died on 19 October 2017 in Annecy, France at the age of 96.

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Alberto Nelson Sanchez (July 10, 1936 – October 22, 2017), known professionally as Al Hurricane, was an American singer-songwriter. He was dubbed "The Godfather" of New Mexico music. He released more than thirty albums, and was best known for his works to New Mexico’s unique style of Spanish music.

His signature look, which included an eye-patch, was due to an automobile accident that occurred during the 1960s.

Sanchez died of complications from prostate cancer on October 22, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the age of 81.

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Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is best known for playing Whitley Marion Gilbert in the 1987-93 sitcom A Different World. She also played Erica in K.C. Undercover.

For her work, Guy was nominated for and won 4 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series from 1990 to 1993.

Guy was born in Boston, but raised in Atlanta.

Sources differ on Guy's birthdate. Some sources say she was born in 1962. Other sources mention 1964.

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1962 births
American television actors
American stage actors
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Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
Living people
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and movie director and producer. His career lasted for fifty years. In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the movie Tom Jones.  He also directed The Loved One, during which he worked with established stars including John Gielgud, Rod Steiger and Robert Morse.

He helped pay for the escape of a Wormwood Scrubs prison-imprisoned spy and double agent George Blake in 1966.

References

Other websites
 
 BFI: Tony Richardson
 

Academy Award winning directors
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1928 births
1991 deaths
Deaths from AIDS
Disease-related deaths in California
English movie directors
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English LGBT people
People from Yorkshire
Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British Labour politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover between 1970 and 2019. He was Chairman of the Labour Party for one year from 1988–89 and served as a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, with brief breaks, for thirty years.

References

Other websites
 This much I know, Skinner runs down some matters of importance to him, hosted by The Guardian

 Giving George Osborne a line of wit in December 2005
 Junction 29A in December 2004
 Heart bypass in March 2003

1932 births
Living people
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Melissa Marie Benoist (born October 4, 1988 in Houston, Texas) better known simply as Melissa Benoist is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying Kara Danvers / Supergirl in the superhero television series, Supergirl.She also portrays Marley Rose in Glee

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Other websites
 
 Melissa Benoist on Twitter

1988 births
Living people
Actors from Houston, Texas
American movie actors
American television actors