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The Town of Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. As of 2004, 9,860 people lived there.

History 
Palm Beach began as a resort town when Henry Morrison Flagler, a founder of Standard Oil, built the Florida East Coast Railway down the coast of Florida. In the center of the community, Flagler built two luxury resort hotels, the Royal Poinciana Hotel and The Breakers Hotel. West Palm Beach was built across Lake Worth as a service town, and is now a major city.

Flagler's land for houses was bought by people active in the Gilded Age, and in 1902 Flagler himself built a Beaux-Arts mansion named Whitehall, designed by the New York–based firm Carrère and Hastings and helped start the Palm Beach winter "season" by entertaining visitors. The town was incorporated on April 17, 1911.

An area known as the Styx housed many of the servants, most of whom were black.  The workers rented their small houses from the landowners.  In the early 1900s the land owners agreed to evict all of the residents of the Styx (who moved to West Palm Beach) and Edward R. Bradley bought up much of this land.

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Towns in Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
Haverhill is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. As of 2004, 1,620 people lived there.

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Towns in Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
Glen Ridge is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.  As of 2004, 276 people lived there.

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Towns in Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
Cloud Lake is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.  167 people lived there in 2000.

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Towns in Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
Palm Springs is a village of Florida in the United States. As of 2004, 14,690 people lived there.

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Villages in Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida
The 1971 Atlantic hurricane season was from June 1, 1971 to November 30, 1971. The strongest storm of the season was Hurricane Edith which was a storm to remember from 1971.

Storm names
This list is names set aside for 1971. Names that were not used are marked in .

Retirement
No names were retired in 1971.

1971
Atlantic hurricane season
The United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department in charge of taking care of the affairs of  war veterans. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at 17th in the line of succession to the presidency (the position was last until the United States Department of Homeland Security was added in 2006). To date, all appointees and acting appointees to the post have been United States military veterans, but that is not a requirement to fill the position. 

When the position of Secretary is vacant, the United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs or another person picked by the President serves as Acting Secretary until the President picks and the United States Senate confirms a new Secretary.

List of Secretaries of Veterans Affairs 
 Parties
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 Status

 Anthony Principi served as Acting Secretary in his capacity as Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs September 26, 1992 – January 20, 1993.

 Hershel W. Gober served as Acting Secretary in his capacity as Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs July 1, 1997 – January 2, 1998 and July 25, 2000 – January 20, 2001.

 West served as Acting Secretary from January 2, 1998 to May 5, 1998.

 Gordon H. Mansfield served as Acting Secretary in his capacity as Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs October 1 – December 20, 2007.

Living former Secretaries of Veterans Affairs 
 Edward Joseph Derwinski
 Anthony Joseph Principi
 Robert James Nicholson
 James Peake
 Robert A. McDonald
 Eric Shinseki
 David Shulkin

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1989 establishments in the United States
Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army four-star general who was serving as the 7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.  His last U.S. Army position was as the 34th Chief of Staff of the Army (1999-2003). Eric Ken Shinseki served in obamas cabinet for veterans affairs for 5 years and 130 days

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1942 births
Living people
United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
American military people
Politicians from Hawaii
Purple Heart recipients
Edward Joseph Derwinski (born September 15, 1926; died January 15, 2012) was an American politician. He was the first Cabinet-level United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving under President George H. W. Bush from March 15, 1989, to September 26, 1992. Before that, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1983, representing the south and southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Politics 
Derwinski served in the United States Army in the Pacific Theater during World War II and in the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 1951. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity. In 1957 he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served one term before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1958. He served 12 terms as a Republican representative from the 4th District of Illinois, a suburban region south and west of Chicago, eventually becoming the ranking member of the House Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1971-1972 and as chairman of the U.S. delegation to the Interparliamentary Union from 1970-1972 and 1978-1980.

A Democratic redistricting plan after the 1980 Census split up the 4th District, with only about 15% of its area remaining and added to various areas from other districts; Derwinski and Republican congressman George M. O'Brien were placed in the same district, and O'Brien won the 1982 primary on the strength of having more of his previous district included in the new change. After Derwinski's loss, President Ronald Reagan picked him to be Counselor to the State Department. In 1987, Reagan picked him to be Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, where he served until the end of Reagan's term. Not long after that, he was picked by George H.W. Bush to head the VA.

Personal Life 
Derwinski lived in Glen Ellyn, Illinois with his wife, the former Bonita Hickey. He had two adult children from his first marriage to Patricia Derwinski, Maureen and Michael.

United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
US Republican Party politicians
Politicians from Chicago
Military people from Chicago
Deaths from Merkel-cell carcinoma
1926 births
2012 deaths
National Museum of Korea (국립중앙박물관, 國立中央博物館) is a national museum in Yongsan District, Seoul. It was opened in Changgyeong Palace in 1909 and reopened in Yongsan District in 2005.

Other websites 
 National Museum of Korea 

Buildings and structures in Seoul
Korea
1909 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in South Korea
The Embassy of Russia in Copenhagen is the embassy of Russia to Denmark. The embassy building is located at Kristianiagade 5 in Indre Østerbro, Copenhagen. The building is heritage listed.

History of the chancery 
In 1897, Otto Mønsted, a Danish businessman and margarine magnate, purchased three pieces of land in Østerbro, Copenhagen and hired architect Vilhelm Dahlerup to design a villa. Dahlerup, who specialised in Italian Renaissance style design had previously designed the Hotel D’Angleterre, Jesus Church in Valby, National Gallery, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, amongst others. Completed in 1899, the building of the mansion cost Mønsted half a million krone.

The entrance was decorated with a monogram with the initials AOM (for Anna-Otto-Mønsted). The Mønsteds kept a large staff in their mansion. Gardeners creating a large garden. In the garage Mønsted kept Copenhagen's most expensive car. The Mønsteds also bred Scottish hunting dogs and kept race horses in the barn.

In 1934 Anna Mønsted sold the mansion for 265,000 krone to Countess Musse Scheel. Scheel was a Danish actress and became the last private owner of the mansion. Scheel was an animal lover and was regarded as being eccentric. Scheel kept a hen house in the yard and sold eggs to her neighbours.

During the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany the mansion was the headquarters of the Northern Society. The Northern Society promoted cultural co-operation between Nazi Germany and the Nordic countries.

In 1950, the Soviet Union signed a contract leasing the mansion for 20,000 krone per year. In 1982, the mansion, as well as Kristianiagade 3 (consulate) and Bergensgade 11 (embassy school), were granted to the Soviets, on the basis of reciprocity, free of charge for the purpose of embassy requirements for a period of 70 years, until 31 December 2051.

The building and garage are heritage listed buildings. The both were placed on the register of the Heritage Agency of Denmark on 3 December 1991.

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Other websites 
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Copenhagen
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19th century architecture
Buildings and structures in Denmark
International relations
1899 establishments in Europe
19th-century establishments in Denmark
Parthenogenesis is a term in biology. It means virgin birth. It is an asexual form of reproduction. Females lay eggs without fertilization by a male. Growth and development of embryos occurs with all genes inherited from the mother.

It occurs in both plants and animals and is much less common than sexual reproduction. It even occurs in vertebrates:there are over 80 species of unisex reptiles, amphibians and fishes in nature for which males are no longer a part of the reproductive process.

Some plants and animals can reproduce either sexually or asexually. A good example are the aphids, (e.g. greenfly) which multiply parthenogenetically during the height of summer, but turn to sexual reproduction as the weather gets worse. At different times of the year, they can be viviparous (live birth) or oviparous (eggs). During spring and summer, aphids usually produce live young (nymphs) parthenogenetically. These female aphids may or may not have wings. Males only appear in any number at the close of the season. Females then give birth sexually during autumn, laying eggs. Therefore aphids are said to undergo 'cyclical parthenogenesis'.

Another interesting fact is that there is a whole order of rotifers (the Bdelloid rotifers) where males have never been found. This is the largest taxonomic category to reproduce entirely by parthenogenesis.

Other types of asexual reproduction exist. Clones are produced by many Hydrozoa (for example, many corals). Colonies grow, not by laying eggs, but by budding off new individuals. Very similar is reproduction by splitting, common in several phyla such as echinoderms and sponges. These methods are not called parthenogenesis, because they do not work by females laying eggs.

Related pages 
Apomixis

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Methods of reproduction
Insects
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan.

Other websites

1912 births
1990 deaths
British writers
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (September 28, 1841 – November 24, 1929) was a French statesman, physician, and journalist. He also helped Émile Zola defending Alfred Dreyfus against Dreyfus Affair.

1841 births
1929 deaths
French people of World War I
Prime Ministers of France
Hans Gillhaus (born 5 November 1963) is a former Dutch football player. He has played for Netherlands national team.

Club career statistics

|-
|1983/84||rowspan="4"|Den Bosch||rowspan="4"|Eredivisie||12||3||||||||||12||3
|-
|1984/85||26||9||||||||||26||9
|-
|1985/86||34||16||||||||||34||16
|-
|1986/87||34||17||||||||||34||17
|-
|1987/88||rowspan="3"|PSV Eindhoven||rowspan="3"|Eredivisie||26||15||||||||||26||15
|-
|1988/89||34||7||||||||||34||7
|-
|1989/90||7||1||||||||||7||1

|-
|1990/91||rowspan="2"|Aberdeen||rowspan="2"|Premier Division||35||14||||||||||35||14
|-
|1991/92||29||5||||||||||29||5

|-
|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Vitesse||rowspan="2"|Eredivisie||12||6||||||||||12||6
|-
|1993/94||32||22||||||||||32||22

|-
|1995||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||37||20||4||4||colspan="2"|-||41||24
|-
|1996||23||8||4||2||13||4||40||14

|-
|1996/97||AZ Alkmaar||Eredivisie||11||1||||||||||11||1

|-
|1998||Jaro||||7||2||||||||||7||2

|-
|1998/99||Den Bosch||Eerste Divisie||17||2||||||||||17||2
245||99||||||||||245||99
64||19||||||||||64||19
60||28||8||6||13||4||81||38
7||2||||||||||7||2
376||148||8||6||13||4||397||158
|}

International career statistics

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|1987||2||2
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|1988||0||0
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|1989||0||0
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|1990||5||0
|-
|1991||0||0
|-
|1992||0||0
|-
|1993||0||0
|-
|1994||2||0
|-
!Total||9||2
|}

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1963 births
Living people
Dutch footballers
People from Helmond
Sportspeople from North Brabant
Emmanuel Eboué (born 4 June 1983) is a Côte d'Ivoire football player. He plays for Arsenal and Côte d'Ivoire national team.

Club career statistics 

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|2001||rowspan="2"|ASEC Mimosas||rowspan="2"|Premier Division||0||0||||||||||||||0||0
|-
|2002||25||3||||||||||||||25||3

|-
|2002/03||rowspan="3"|Beveren||rowspan="3"|First Division||23||0||||||||||||||23||0
|-
|2003/04||30||2||||||||||||||30||2
|-
|2004/05||17||2||||||||||||||17||2

|-
|2004/05||rowspan="6"|Arsenal||rowspan="6"|Premier League||1||0||3||0||0||0||0||0||4||0
|-
|2005/06||18||0||0||0||3||1||11||0||32||1
|-
|2006/07||24||0||2||0||3||0||6||1||35||1
|-
|2007/08||23||0||2||0||1||0||10||0||36||0
|-
|2008/09||28||3||5||1||0||0||11||0||44||4
|-
|2009/10||||||||||||||||||||
25||3||||||||||||||25||3
70||4||||||||||||||70||4
94||3||12||1||7||1||38||1||151||6
189||10||12||1||7||1||38||1||246||13
|}

International career statistics 

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|2004||1||0
|-
|2005||4||0
|-
|2006||12||0
|-
|2007||4||0
|-
|2008||16||0
|-
|2009||10||1
|-
|2010||||
|-
!Total||47||1
|}

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1983 births
Living people
Ivorian footballers
Sebastian Larsson (born 6 June 1985) is a Swedish football player. He plays for Birmingham City and Sweden national team.

Club career statistics 

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|2004/05||rowspan="2"|Arsenal||rowspan="2"|Premier League||0||0||0||0||3||0||0||0||3||0
|-
|2005/06||3||0||1||0||4||0||1||0||9||0
|-
|2006/07||rowspan="4"|Birmingham City||League Championship||43||4||3||3||4||2||colspan="2"|-||50||9
|-
|2007/08||Premier League||35||6||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||37||6
|-
|2008/09||League Championship||38||1||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||39||1
|-
|2009/10||Premier League||||||||||||||||||||
119||11||5||3||13||2||1||0||138||16
119||11||5||3||13||2||1||0||138||16
|}

International career statistics 

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|2008||9||0
|-
|2009||10||0
|-
|2010||||
|-
!Total||19||0
|}

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1985 births
Living people
Swedish footballers
Nenad Maslovar (born 20 February 1967) is a former Montenegrin football player. He has played for Serbia national team.

Club career statistics

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|1988/89||rowspan="2"|Spartak Subotica||rowspan="2"|First League||14||1||||||||||14||1
|-
|1989/90||17||0||||||||||17||0
|-
|1989/90||rowspan="3"|Velež Mostar||rowspan="3"|First League||8||0||||||||||8||0
|-
|1990/91||29||2||||||||||29||2
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|1991/92||16||5||||||||||16||5

|-
|1992/93||rowspan="2"|Red Star Belgrade||rowspan="2"|First League||29||5||||||||||29||5
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|1993/94||31||14||||||||||31||14

|-
|1994||rowspan="5"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||15||4||2||1||2||0||19||5
|-
|1995||52||16||1||0||colspan="2"|-||53||16
|-
|1996||17||4||1||0||10||3||28||7
|-
|1997||17||9||2||0||4||3||23||11
|-
|1998||27||8||1||0||6||6||34||14
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|1999||Avispa Fukuoka||J. League 1||22||4||0||0||2||0||24||4
84||8||||||||||84||8
60||19||||||||||60||19
150||45||7||1||24||12||181||58
294||72||7||1||24||12||345||85
|}

International career statistics

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|1997||3||0
|-
!Total||3||0
|}

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1967 births
Living people
Montenegrin footballers
Ha Seok-Ju (born 20 February 1968) is a South Korean professional athlete.  He is best known as an association football player. He was a member of the Korean national team.

Club career statistics

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|1990||rowspan="6"|Daewoo Royals||rowspan="6"|K-League||24||4||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||4
|-
|1991||34||7||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||34||7
|-
|1992||22||5||colspan="2"|-||7||0||29||5
|-
|1993||9||0||colspan="2"|-||2||0||11||0
|-
|1994||16||4||colspan="2"|-||0||0||16||4
|-
|1995||27||3||colspan="2"|-||7||4||34||7
|-
|1996||rowspan="2"|Busan Daewoo Royals||rowspan="2"|K-League||22||1||||||4||0||26||11
|-
|1997||4||0||||||9||4||13||4

|-
|1998||Cerezo Osaka||J. League 1||17||2||0||0||0||0||17||2
|-
|1998||rowspan="3"|Vissel Kobe||rowspan="3"|J. League 1||9||2||2||1||0||0||11||3
|-
|1999||28||7||0||0||1||0||29||7
|-
|2000||28||2||4||0||1||0||33||2

|-
|2001||rowspan="3"|Pohang Steelers||rowspan="3"|K-League||25||3||||||6||0||31||3
|-
|2002||26||0||||||8||0||34||0
|-
|2003||6||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0
215||37||||||29||8||244||45
82||13||6||1||2||0||90||14
297||50||6||1||31||8||334||59
|}

International career statistics

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|1991||5||5
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|1992||4||0
|-
|1993||17||9
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|1994||18||2
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|1995||3||0
|-
|1996||12||1
|-
|1997||19||3
|-
|1998||6||1
|-
|1999||2||0
|-
|2000||5||1
|-
|2001||4||1
|-
!Total||95||23
|}

References

Other websites
 "Seok-Joo Ha, International Appearances" at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF)

1968 births
Living people
South Korean footballers
South Korean football managers
Carlos Alexandre Torres (born 22 August 1966) is a former Brazilian football player. He has played for Brazil national team.

Club career statistics

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|1985||rowspan="7"|Fluminense||rowspan="7"|Série A||1||0||||||||||1||0
|-
|1986||15||0||||||||||15||0
|-
|1987||6||0||||||||||6||0
|-
|1988||8||1||||||||||8||1
|-
|1989||18||0||||||||||18||0
|-
|1990||18||2||||||||||18||2
|-
|1991||18||0||||||||||18||0
|-
|1992||rowspan="3"|Vasco da Gama||rowspan="3"|Série A||17||0||||||||||17||0
|-
|1993||10||0||||||||||10||0
|-
|1994||19||0||||||||||19||0

|-
|1995||rowspan="5"|Nagoya Grampus Eight||rowspan="5"|J. League 1||36||6||4||0||colspan="2"|-||40||6
|-
|1996||29||2||1||0||13||0||43||2
|-
|1997||29||2||1||0||10||1||40||3
|-
|1998||24||0||4||0||4||0||32||0
|-
|1999||24||1||4||1||4||2||32||4

|-
|2000||rowspan="2"|Vasco da Gama||rowspan="2"|Série A||4||0||||||||||4||0
|-
|2001||6||0||||||||||6||0
140||3||||||||||140||3
142||11||14||1||31||3||187||15
282||14||14||1||31||3||327||18
|}

International career statistics

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|1992||1||0
|-
!Total||1||0
|}

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1966 births
Living people
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro
Richard Witschge (born 20 September 1969) is a former Dutch football player. He has played for Netherlands national team.

Club career statistics

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|1986/87||rowspan="5"|Ajax||rowspan="5"|Eredivisie||2||0
|-
|1987/88||10||1
|-
|1988/89||14||0
|-
|1989/90||28||2
|-
|1990/91||33||0

|-
|1991/92||rowspan="2"|Barcelona||rowspan="2"|La Liga||23||0
|-
|1992/93||17||2

|-
|1993/94||Girondins Bordeaux||Division 1||27||1

|-
|1994/95||Blackburn Rovers||Premier League||1||0

|-
|1994/95||rowspan="2"|Girondins Bordeaux||rowspan="2"|Division 1||17||1
|-
|1995/96||33||7

|-
|1996/97||rowspan="5"|Ajax||rowspan="5"|Eredivisie||21||3
|-
|1997/98||29||2
|-
|1998/99||32||2
|-
|1999/00||20||2
|-
|2000/01||15||2

|-
|2001/02||Deportivo Alavés||La Liga||26||1

|-
|2002/03||Ajax||Eredivisie||22||1
|-
|2003/04||Den Haag||Eredivisie||0||0

|-
|2004||Oita Trinita||J. League 1||9||0
226||15
66||3
77||9
1||0
9||0
379||27
|}

International career statistics

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|1990||11||0
|-
|1991||6||1
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|1992||2||0
|-
|1993||0||0
|-
|1994||0||0
|-
|1995||3||0
|-
|1996||7||0
|-
|1997||1||0
|-
|1998||0||0
|-
|1999||0||0
|-
|2000||1||0
|-
!Total||31||1
|}

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1969 births
Living people
Dutch footballers
Sportspeople from Amsterdam
Philippe Senderos (born 14 February 1985) is a Swiss football player. He plays for Everton and the Swiss national team.

Club career statistics

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|2001/02||rowspan="2"|Servette||rowspan="2"|Nationalliga A||3||0||||||||||||||3||0
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|2002/03||23||3||||||||||||||23||3

|-
|2003/04||rowspan="5"|Arsenal||rowspan="5"|Premier League||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
|-
|2004/05||13||0||6||0||3||0||1||0||23||0
|-
|2005/06||20||2||2||0||5||0||7||0||34||2
|-
|2006/07||14||0||4||0||5||0||2||0||25||0
|-
|2007/08||17||2||3||0||3||0||9||0||32||2

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|2008/09||Milan||Serie A||14||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0||20||0

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|2009/10||Arsenal||Premier League||0||0||0||0||2||0||0||0||2||0
|-
|2009/10||Everton||Premier League||||||||||||||||||||
26||3||||||||||||||26||3
64||4||15||0||18||0||19||0||116||4
14||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||5||0||20||0
104||7||16||0||18||0||24||0||162||7
|}

International career statistics

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|2005||9||2
|-
|2006||7||1
|-
|2007||8||0
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|2008||7||0
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|2009||7||2
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!Total||38||5
|}

References

1985 births
Living people
Swiss footballers
Sportspeople from Geneva
Stanislaw Wojciechowski was born on March 15, 1869 in Kalisz, and died near Warsaw on April 9, 1953 at the age of 84.

1869 births
1953 deaths
Jesse Brown (March 27, 1944 – August 15, 2002) was the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Early life
Jesse Brown was born on March 27, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in Chicago. He attended The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and Roosevelt University in Chicago, and graduated from the City Colleges of Chicago.

Military service
He joined in the United States Marine Corps in 1963, and served as a Marine in the Vietnam War, where he was seriously injured in 1965 near Da Nang – his right arm shattered and partially paralyzed.

Veterans service

DAV
In 1967, Brown joined the staff of Disabled American Veterans (DAV), a service and advocacy organization.  He served in many different supervisory roles with the DAV in the 1970s and 1980s:
 1973 – supervisor of National Service Office in Washington, D.C.
 1976 – supervisor of National Appeals Office
 1981 – Chief of Claims, National Service and Legislative Headquarters
 1983 – Deputy National Service Director
In 1989, Brown became the DAV's first African-American director, serving until 1993.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs
In January 1993, Brown was picked by President Bill Clinton to the position of Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
serving until 1997. He was the first African American to hold that post. During his time as Secretary, Brown offered more services to female veterans, homeless veterans and veterans who were sick because of chemical exposures in Vietnam or the Gulf War. After he resigned as Secretary, Brown founded a consulting firm, Brown and Associates.

Death
Brown died in Warrenton, Virginia on August 15, 2002 of lower motor neuron syndrome – being diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, since 1999.  He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

References

Other websites 

United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
Politicians from Chicago
Politicians from Michigan
Deaths from motor neurone disease
1944 births
2002 deaths
The Sea of Azov ( - Azovskoye more;  - Ozivs'ke  or Azovs'ke more) is the world's shallowest sea, linked by the Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula. The Don River flows into it.

Other websites

Seas of the Atlantic Ocean
Geography of Ukraine
Geography of Russia
The Neva is a river in northwestern Russia. It is  long. It flows into the Gulf of Finland. The city of Saint Petersburg is on its delta.

Rivers of Russia
The Kariba Dam is a hydroelectric dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is one of the largest dams in the world at 128 m high and 579 m long.

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Dams in Africa
1950s establishments in Africa
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Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) was the mayor of Los Angeles, California from 2005 to 2013. He was elected on May 17, 2005, defeating the mayor in office, James Hahn. He was then re-elected for a second term in 2009. Before his mayoral experience, Villaraigosa was the California State Assemblyman for the 45th District, the Speaker of the California State Assembly, and the Los Angeles City Councilman for the 14th District.

Before being elected to public office, Villaraigosa was a labor organizer. Villaraigosa served as a national co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 Presidential campaign, and as a member of President Barack Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board. In 2013, he could not run for a third term because of term limits under California law. Eric Garcetti succeeded him on July 1, 2013.

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Other websites

 
 Mayoral campaign 
 Schmal, John P. "The Four Latino Mayors of Los Angeles ," HispanicVista, May 23, 2005

Mayors of Los Angeles
1953 births
Living people
American Roman Catholics
US Democratic Party politicians
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Father Juan Crespí (March 1, 1721–January 1, 1782) was a Spanish priest who explored what is now the state of California.  He entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. He came to America in 1749, and joined Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra in exploring. In 1767 he went to the Baja Peninsula and was placed in charge of the Misión La Purísima Concepción de Cadegomó. In 1769 he joined the Portola expedition of Gaspar de Portolà and traveled by land, while Father Serra went by boat and got there 8 days later to occupy Monterey; he was the first to write about Franciscan friars meeting with people who already lived there. Later, he went through the area known today as Ventura County, in January and Orange County on July 22 of that year.  He was priest of the expedition to the North Pacific led by Juan José Pérez Hernández in 1774. His diaries, first published in H. E. Bolton's Fray Juan Crespi (1927, repr. 1971), and published in the original Spanish with facing page translations as A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1796-1770 (2001) provided valuable records of these expeditions. One chapel he built, at the Misión San Francisco del Valle de Tilaco in Landa, is reported as still standing.

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1721 births
1782 deaths
Spanish explorers
Spanish Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic priests
Missionaries
People from Palma de Mallorca
Franciscans
Find A Grave is a website that has a database of cemetery records.

History 
It was started by Jim Tipton, in 1995 to help people who wanted to visit the graves of famous people. After some time, an online forum was created on the site. The site claims to have over 121 million burial records from all over the world.

Content and features 
The site's FAQ says they hope to list all the burial places of everyone in the world.

The website has lists of cemeteries and graves from all around the world. The American cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries. Each grave record can contain: dates and places of birth and death, information about the person, cemetery and plot information, photographs (grave marker, the person, etc.), and information about who added it to Find A Grave.

Members can place on-line memorials for family and friends for no cost. Users can edit the memorials. Members may also request photos of graves which Find A Grave volunteers can add.

References

Other websites

Further reading 
 Colker, David, Web site answers grave concerns about stars, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1997
 Johnstone, Nick, Why I love ... findagrave.com, The Guardian, 14 July 2004
 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2001
 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Find VIPs (and others) who R.I.P. through online cemetery, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 August 2005

Websites
Cemeteries
Robert James "Jim" Nicholson (born February 4, 1938) is an attorney, real estate developer, and a former Republican Party chairman. He was the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from January 26, 2005 until October 1, 2007.

Political career
Nicholson has never held elected office, but has long been active in the Republican Party. In January 1986, he was elected committeeman from Colorado for the Republican National Committee (RNC). In 1993, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the RNC, and was the "surprise pick" for GOP national chairman in January 1997. He served in that position through the 2000 presidential election.

Between 2001 and his appointment to the position of Secretary of Veterans Affairs, he served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See (the Vatican).

Business career
Before becoming active in civilian government service, he worked as a lawyer in Denver, Colorado, specializing in real estate, municipal finance and zoning law. In 1978 he founded Nicholson Enterprises, Inc., a developer of planned residential communities, and in 1987 he bought Renaissance Homes, a custom-house builder.  He now works in the Washington, D.C. office of Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck LLP.

Military service
He is a 1961 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and served eight years in active duty.  He was a paratrooper and Ranger-qualified Army officer.  He fought in the Vietnam War, where he earned the Bronze Star, Combat Infantryman Badge, the Meritorious Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry and two Air Medals.

After thirty years of working in the Army, he retired in 1991 with the rank of Colonel.

Personal life
Nicholson was born on a farm near Struble, Iowa.  Nicholson has described his childhood as "growing up dirt poor in a tenant house without plumbing and sometimes without food". His brother is Vietnam War general John W. Nicholson.

Nicholson has a Master's degree in Public Policy from Columbia University.  He received a law degree from the University of Denver in 1972. In May 2005, he was given the Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy Award.

Nicholson is married to the former Suzanne Marie Ferrell of Highland Falls, New York, who is an artist. They are the parents of three adult children.

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Official biography  from the Department of Veterans Affairs website

1938 births
Living people
Real estate developers
Politicians from Iowa
Columbia University alumni
United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
US Republican Party politicians
Lawyers from Iowa
Anthony Joseph Principi (born April 16, 1944) was the 4th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was picked by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2001, and resigned on January 26, 2005. He is a lobbyist for Pfizer and chairman of QTC Management, a company that works on contracts for the Veterans Affairs Department.

Early life
Principi is a 1967 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and first saw active duty aboard the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy. He later served in the Vietnam War, commanding a River Patrol Unit in the Mekong Delta.

Principi earned his Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall in 1975 and was assigned to the United States Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps in San Diego, California. In 1980, he was transferred to Washington as a legislative counsel for the Department of the Navy.

Career
Principi has worked on national policy issues and has held several executive-level positions in federal government throughout his career. He chaired the Federal Quality Institute in 1991, and was chairman of the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance established by Congress in 1996.

Principi served as Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA's second-highest executive position, from March 17, 1989, to September 26, 1992, when he was picked Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs by President George H. W. Bush. He served in that position until January 1993. After that, he served as Republican chief counsel and staff director of the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services.

From 1984 to 1988, he served as Republican chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. He was the Veterans Administration's assistant deputy administrator for congressional and public affairs from 1983 to 1984, following three years as counsel to the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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1944 births
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American lobbyists
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Politicians from New York City
United States Secretaries of Veterans Affairs
People from Teaneck, New Jersey
Abou Diaby (born 11 May 1986) is a French football player. He plays for Arsenal.

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French footballers
Sportspeople from Paris
Tranquillo Barnetta (born 22 May 1985) is a Swiss football player. He plays for Bayer Leverkusen and Switzerland national team.

Club career statistics

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1985 births
Living people
Swiss footballers
Cha-cha-cha is the name of a Latin American music and dance, of Cuban origin. It is dance music introduced by Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrín in 1953. The rhythm was developed from a previous dance, the danzón, by a split fourth beat. The name is  derived from the shuffling of the dancers' feet.

Music 
Many consider the Orquesta Aragón and the orchestra of José Fajardo to have been particularly influential in the development of the cha-cha-cha. Outside Cuba, the big bands of Tito Puente (in New York), and Pérez Prado (in Mexico City and California) introduced the Cha-cha-cha to a much wider audience.

Dance 
Musically, the Cha-cha-cha was perhaps not a great innovation. However, it became hugely popular because people found it easy to dance to. Monsieur Pierre and his colleagues went to Cuba in the early 1950s to study it. They came back to London and codified the dance (sorted it out and wrote it down). It became a standard dance in Latin American ballroom dancing. It is one of the five Latin dances in international competitions governed by the World Dance Council. Today it is still popular as a dance, and is still danced in Cuba.

Other web-sites 
Former Latin World Champions Bryan Watson and Karen Hardy give a demo.

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Dance music
Latin dances
Parlour (or parlor), comes from the French word parloir, from parler, which means "to speak". The parlour is a room in a house where people could meet. In Turkey it is called a kiosk. The Bible (Judges 3:20), talks about the "summer parlour", a small room built on the roof of the house, with open windows to catch the breeze. It has a door to the outside by which visitors can enter.

In parts of Great Britain and the United States, parlour is a common name for certain types of restaurants such as "ice cream parlour" and "pizza parlour". There are also "Beer parlors", wine parlors, or, in at least one case, a "spaghetti parlor." The word parlour has even been used to describe a coffee shop as the "coffee parlor." It can also mean a special service business, such as a tattoo parlour.

The "inner parlours" in 1 Chronicles 28:11 in the Bible were the small rooms or chambers which Solomon built all round two sides and one end of the Temple (1 Kings 6:5). Some people think the inner parlours may have been the porch and the holy place.

In medieval Christian usage, the parlour was one of two rooms in a monastery. The 'outer parlour' was the room where the monks or nuns could meet a visitor and do business with people from outside the monastery. It was generally in the west range of the buildings of the cloister, close to the main entrance. The 'inner parlour' was found off the cloister, next to the chapter house in the east range of the monastery. Most religious orders wanted silence in the cloister, which was the place where the monks studied. The inner parlour was a place where the monks could talk without disturbing the others in the cloister.

In modern use, the parlour is a formal sitting room in a large house or mansion. In the late 19th century, it was often a formal room used only on Sundays or special occasions, and closed during the week. The family kept their best furniture, works of art and other things on display in the parlour. The body of someone who died would be put on show in the parlour while funeral was being organized. During the 20th century, architects and decorators have changed the use of the room. In most homes the parlour has been replaced by the living room.

References

Other websites
 Victorian Parlour,  Oxford, Ohio
 Interior of Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati parlour in 1886 

Rooms
Celluloid is the name of a group of compounds made from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents. It was the first thermoplastic. It was first called Parkesine in 1856,  then Xylonite in 1869 and then Celluloid in 1870. Celluloid is easily molded and shaped. 

It was first widely used as an ivory replacement, in billiard balls for example. In the early 20th century it was used in most photographic film. Celluloid catches fire very easily and also easily breaks down, and is no longer widely used. Its most common uses today are for making table tennis balls and guitar picks.

References

Chemical compounds
Dune is a fictional story set in a space empire far in the future. It is written by Frank Herbert. The book focuses on how politics, religion, technology and many other things interact.

In the world of the Dune series, computers are banned (they are not allowed anywhere). Some humans are taught how to think as fast as computers; they are known as 'Mentats'. The ruler of a planet is controlled by a House. The Houses must obey House Corrino, because the leader of House Corrino is also the Emperor.

Dune focuses on Paul Atreides, the 15-year-old heir to House Atreides. His family is forced by the Emperor who rules the Known Universe to leave the planet Caladan and to take control of the planet Arrakis. Arrakis is currently controlled by House Harkonnen, and is the only place that a spice called Melange is found. Melange is the most important thing in the universe. It lets you see the future and think much faster. If you take melange, you live much longer, sometimes even hundreds of years longer. It also lets you travel far distances at great speeds.

Arrakis is a planet that is almost covered in desert. This large desert is very dangerous because it does not have potable (drinkable) water, but mainly because giant worms live in the sand. There are many groups of native humans living there - they are called the Fremen. The Fremen have many rituals that keep water safe. This is important, or they would all die of dehydration (too little water to stay alive).

After his father is killed, Paul and his mother escape and take refuge with the Fremen. They use their abilities to achieve power over the Fremen and eventually use them to attack the Harkonnen armies, who have taken back control of the planet.

In the books, there are the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, a religious group with only women as its members. This is because men do not have the right kind of mind to learn their ways correctly. They have much more control over their minds and bodies than normal people. Their goal is to protect the human race forever. They have a secret goal, which they want to achieve by their breeding program. It is to make a man that can be a Bene Gesserit. They call him the Kwisatz Haderach. They want to use the Kwisatz Haderach to control people more easily. Paul's mother, Lady Jessica, is a member of the sisterhood and trains her son to use mental and physical powers.

Multiple films and TV series have been based on the Dune series, such as the 1984 film version directed by David Lynch.

Other websites

 Official website for Dune and its sequels
 DuneAudio.com - The Official Dune Audiobook Site  ~ news and contests for Dune audiobooks
 Complete Book Summary of Dune .

1965 books
Dune universe
Hugo Award winning books
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American novels
English-language novels
The Jim Crow laws were a number of laws requiring racial segregation in the United States. These laws were enforced in different states between 1876 and 1965. "Jim Crow" laws provided a systematic legal basis for segregating and discriminating against African Americans. The laws first appeared after the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era and were enforced through the mid-twentieth century. They were about segregating black and white people in all public buildings. "Jim Crow" was a racist term for a black person. Black people were usually treated worse than white people. This segregation was also done in the armed forces, schools, restaurants, on buses and in what jobs blacks got. In 1954, the US Supreme Court ruled that such segregation in state-run schools was against the US Constitution. The decision is known as Brown v. Board of Education. The other Jim Crow laws were abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) fought against the Jim Crow laws.

Background

After the Civil War, the U.S. government tried to enforce the rights of ex-slaves in the South through a process called Reconstruction.  However, in 1876, Reconstruction ended.  By the 1890s, the Southern states' legislatures were all-white again.  Southern Democrats, who did not support civil rights for blacks, completely ruled the South.  This gave them a lot of power in the United States Congress.  For example, Southern Democrats were able to make sure that laws against lynching did not pass.

Starting in 1890, Southern Democrats began to pass state laws that took away the rights African Americans had gained.  These racist laws became known as Jim Crow laws.  For example, they included:
 Laws that made it impossible for blacks to vote (this is called disenfranchisement).  Since they could not vote, blacks also could not be on juries.
 Laws that required racial segregation - separation of blacks and whites.  For example, blacks could not:
 Go to the same schools, restaurants, or hospitals as whites
 Use the same bathrooms as whites or drink from the same water fountain

In 1896, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a case called Plessy v. Ferguson that these laws were legal.  They said that having things be "separate but equal" was fine.  In the South, everything was separate.  However, places like black schools and libraries got much less money and were not as good as places for whites.  Things were separate, but not equal.

Photo gallery

References

 "Jim Crow Laws". Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Student Resources In Context. Web. November 7, 2013.

African-American history
Discrimination
United States federal legislation
History of the United States
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a small breed of dog of the spaniel type. Unlike their larger spaniel cousins, they are not now used for hunting and are mostly kept as pets.

History
These dogs were developed in England about 100 years ago and are closely related to their even smaller relation the King Charles Spaniels (known in the United States of America as Toy Spaniels).  One of the main people involved in creating this breed was the British general and politician John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. They were developed to resemble dogs  that were kept as pets and hunting dogs by many members of the royal family in England during the 16th century. King Charles II liked that breed, so this is how the dog was named.

Colour
There are four different colours that this dog breed come in which are:
 Black and a brown colour called Tan in dogs.
 Ruby, which is a dark red.
 Blenheim, which is brown and white.
 Tricolour, which is black, white with some tan markings.

Temperment
Cavaliers are usually happy dogs that like to stay very close to their human minders, they also like lots of exercise as they still keep some of their gundog family instincts.

Health issues and lifespan
Cavaliers typically live about ten years. Heart problems are common in Cavaliers.

References

Spaniels
The national flag of Angola came into use at independence on November 11, 1975. It is split horizontally into an upper red half and a lower black half.

References 

Angola
Angola
Ville Peltonen (born May 24, 1973 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward. He plays for the HC Dynamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

1973 births
American Hockey League players
Finnish ice hockey players
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
Living people
Swedish Hockey League players
Vantaa
Alexei Valeryevich Yashin (; born November 5, 1973) is a former Russian professional ice hockey player. Yashin played in the NHL for the Ottawa Senators and the New York Islanders.

Other websites

 

1973 births
Ice hockey centres
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
Living people
New York Islanders players
Ottawa Senators players
Russian ice hockey players