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Qubool Hai (English: I Accept) is a soap opera on Zee TV. The show tells about the Muslim community. It wants to break stereotypes about Islam.

The program has received praise for leading the way for more TV shows about Muslim culture and family life. It was produced by 4 Lions Films and by Divine Multimedia.

The program uses both drama and romance. It tells about the lives of three characters, Zoya, Ayaan and Asad. The three are really different from each other but their lives have been brought together by fate. Producer Gul Khan said, "The show is about a journey of life, its trials and tribulations and acceptance of one's fate. It is said that God gives us the strength to change what we can and the courage to accept what we can't".

The story usually takes place in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It moved to Punjab, India for a month in April 2014. This was because the story jumped ahead 20 years to tell about the life of Asad and Zoya's daughter, Sanam. Production was back in Bhopal in May 2014, because Sanam went back to the city where her mother and father lived.

The program is still airing in June 2015, and has shown more than 680 episodes. With so many episodes and character changes, a number of different actors have played the various roles. The Show ended After 856 Episodes. It was one of the longest Indian soap opera running in this period.

Characters 

 Zoya is a modern and energetic woman who questions stereotypes. She listens to all who give her advice, but decides by what her emotional heart is saying. She has respect for her culture but does not follow rituals. Surbhi Jyoti played the part of Zoya in Season One.
Ayaan is a happy and carefree young man. He falls in love with many pretty women, but will not settle down with any of them. Ayaan is very fond of his mother and his step-brother, Asad. He has a close relationship with Asad. Even though he came from a broken family, he seems emotionally stable.
Asad only wants to become successful in life. He is a perfectionist and is not interested in being in love. His father left the family while he was still growing up. This caused him to have a disturbed and unstable childhood. Even so, he is making a success of himself.

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Wilma Mankiller (November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was the first woman to be the chief of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. She helped the Cherokee with some major problems, including unemployment, health care, and education. Mankiller helped take action on the unemployment issue by supporting new businesses. She also hugely increased the Cherokee nation's membership numbers, which was a great accomplishment. The Cherokee population increased by over 100,000 members. She survived a severe car crash, a kidney transplant, as well as a few illnesses. She died in 2010, at age 65 years from a form of cancer.

References

 "Wilma Pearl Mankiller".  Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2015. Web.
"Wilma P. Mankiller." Newsmakers. Detroit: Gale, 1986. Biography in Context. Web.

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Avi Beker (3 May 1951 – 4 June 2015) was an Israeli writer, statesman, and academic. Beker served as the Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress from 2001 to 2003. He was born in Tel Aviv.

Beker died on 4 June 2015 of cancer, aged 64.

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Leonid Plyushch (Ukrainian: Плющ Леонід Іванович; 26 April 1938 – 4 June 2015) was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident. Plyushch became a dissident by taking a public stance on political hot topics of the time. He was arrested in January 1972 on charges of anti-Soviet activity, and was jailed for a year before his trial began.

Plyushch was born into a Ukrainian working-class family in 1938 in Naryn, Kirghizia. He died on 4 June 2015 in France, aged 77.

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Claudette Colvin was born on September 5, 1939 in Birmingham, Alabama. She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. Colvin was arrested on March 2, 1955 for not giving up her seat to a white woman. She was 15 years old when this happened. Colvin was put on trial on several charges including violating the segregation ordinance. The court found her guilty. She was beaten up and ridiculed by white people after the incident. Colvin was placed on probation. Reverend Johnson bailed her out and when she got back home, everyone was so proud of her. In 1956, about one year after Colvin refused to give up her seat, her lawyer, Fred Gray, filed the landmark federal lawsuit: Browder v Gayle. This case stopped segregation on public transportation in Montgomery Alabama. Claudette’s incident was before Rosa Parks even though she isn’t acknowledged much. Around this time, Colvin was getting involved in the Youth Council of Montgomery of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).Even though the got a light sentence from the court, she was branded a troublemaker. She dropped out of college and could not find a job. Colvin moved to New York City in 1958. There she worked as a nurse assistant in a nursing home while living there. Colvin retired in 2004. She is currently 76 years old. Although she is relatively unknown, Colvin played an important part in the Civil rights movement.

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TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system. It was laid between Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland. Two cables were laid between 1955 and 1956. One cable for each direction. It was inaugurated on September 25, 1956. The cable was able to carry 35 simultaneous telephone calls. A 36th channel was used to carry up to 22 telegraph lines.

History
The first transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid in 1858 (see Cyrus West Field).  It only operated for a month, but was replaced with a successful connection in 1866.  A radio-based transatlantic telephone service was started in 1927. It charged £9 for three minutes.  A telephone cable was discussed at that time. But it was not practical until a number of technological advances arrived in the 1940s.

The developments that made TAT-1 possible were coaxial cable, polyethylene insulation, very reliable vacuum tubes for the submerged repeaters and an improvement in carrier equipment.  Transistors were not used, being a recent invention of unknown longevity.

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General Sir Phillip Harvey Bennett (born 27 December 1928) is an Australian politician. He is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 1984 to 1987, and later as Governor of Tasmania from 1987 to 1995.

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James "Duke" Aiona (born June 8, 1955) is a Republican state government official for the U.S. state of Hawaii. He has spent his life trying to make Hawaii a better place to live in his role as Lieutenant Governor. During his first term in 2002, he made a campaign to stop drug abuse including crystal methamphetamine and underage drinking. He was the rival of Democrat David Ige who defeated him in the 2014 election for governor.

Sources
"James (Duke) R Aiona Jr." State Directory. Bethesda, MD: Carroll Publishing, 2009. Biography in Context. Web. 4 June 2015.
Lynne Duke Washington Post Staff Writer. "The Right to Bear Barbs; Court Says 'Hateful' Speech, 'Million Youth March' Are Protected."Washington Post. 03 Sep. 1999: A02. eLibrary. Web. 04 Jun. 2015.

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Evelyn Boyd Granville (born May, 1, 1924) the first African American to get a doctoral degree in math from Yale. She was born in Washington, D.C.. Around this time period, not many Americans acknowledged African Americans, especially African American women. She became a professor at Fisk University. She also worked for IBM and for NASA on the Project Vanguard and Project Mercury space programs.  She also taught at California State University in Los Angeles. She spent most of her career as an applied mathematician for the Diamond Ordinance Fuze Laboratories.

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"Evelyn Boyd Granville." World of Computer Science. Gale, 2006. Biography in Context. Web. 8 May 2015. 
"Evelyn Boyd Granville." Almanac of Famous People. Gale, 2011. Biography in Context. Web. 29 May 2015.

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Jerry Collins (4 November 1980 – 5 June 2015) was a professional New Zealand rugby union player. He played for the All Blacks between 2001 and 2007. At the time of his death, he was playing for RC Narbonne. He also played for the Hurricanes, Wellington, Toulon, Ospreys, Yamaha Júbilo.

Collins was born in Apia, Samoa. He grew up in Porirua, Wellington. He and his partner, Alana, had a daughter, Ayla.

Collins and his partner were killed in a car accident on 5 June 2015 near Béziers, Hérault in southern France. He was 34. His three-month-old daughter was badly injured and was flown to a Montpellier hospital.

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Billa (stylised BILLA) is an Austrian supermarket chain. It has over 1,600 locations in Europe with over a thousand in Austria alone. They also operate in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Croatia and Ukraine. Billa was founded by Karl Wlaschek in 1953, and are owned by Germany's REWE Group.

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Tariq Aziz (born Mikhail Yuhanna; 28 April 1936 – 5 June 2015) was an Iraqi politician for the Ba'ath Party. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 24 January 1983 until 22 March 1991. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 1 August 1965 until 9 April 2003. For decades he was a close adviser to Saddam Hussein.

Aziz was born in the town of Tel Keppe near Mosul to a Chaldean Catholic family. He studied English at Baghdad University. He later worked as a journalist, before joining the Ba'ath Party in 1957. He was married to Violet Yusef Nobud and had children.

Aziz was arrested in 2003 and spent the rest of his life in custody. He died in hospital from a heart attack on 5 June 2015 in Nasiriyah, aged 79. He also suffered from heart disease, depression, diabetes, and ulcers.

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Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He died of leukemia.

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 Timeline of Bukowski's life and publications
 Profile and poems at Poetry Foundation.org
 Profile and poems at Poets.org
 "Hanging with Bukowski at the Gotlieb Center". BU Today. Boston University 26 March 2009 
Guide to the Charles Bukowski Manuscript. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
 "Bukowski Comes to Wormwood", The Wormwood Review 1985
 "Mickey Rourke plays a tough barfly" . Interview with Bukowski 10 February 1987. Chicago Sun Times
 13 August 2000 Bukowski profile (audio, 11 mins) NPR.
 "Smashed:The pulp poetry of Charles Bukowski" by Adam Kirsch at The New Yorker 14-03-2005
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Bengt Berndtsson (26 January 1933 – 4 June 2015) was a Swedish football winger. He was born in Gothenburg. Berndtsson played for the Sweden national football team, and was a member of the squad at the 1958 FIFA World Cup finals.

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Aneesa Ahmed (Arabic: أنيسة أحمد) is a Maldivian women's rights activist. In 2012, she received the International Women of Courage Award. She was the second woman from the Maldivies to receive this award.

Life 

Aneesa studied at Pennsylvania State University from 1985 to 1986. She was a Humphrey Fellow.

Work 

Aneesa was Deputy Minister of Women's Affairs in Maldives.  She talked about domestic violence, even though it was a taboo subject. After her job in the government, she started the NGO  "Hope for Women".  She talked about violence against women with police, students, and others.

When the national radio of the Maldives had talks by religious students who said female genital mutilation was Islamic, she asked the government to stop them.  She talked about the harm caused by female genital mutilation.

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Hermann Zapf (8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German typeface designer. He was born in Nuremberg. From 1951 until his death, he was married to educator Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse. Typefaces he designed include Palatino, Optima and Zapfino.

Zapf died at his home in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany on 4 June 2015 at the age of 96.

List of typefaces

Zapf designed the following typefaces:

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Santiago Auserón, also known as Juan Perro (July 25, 1954 in Zaragoza, Aragon) is a Spanish singer and lyricist. He was songwriter and vocalist of Spanish rock's Radio Futura.

From 1972 to 1977 he attended the University of Madrid where he studied philosophy. After that he attended the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis, where he stayed one year.

In 1979, Auserón founded Radio Futura, being part of Madrilenian Scene ().

In 1992, he left the group and started his career as a soloist under his pseudonym "Juan Perro".

Discography

Radio Futura 
 Música moderna (1980, Hispavox)
 La estatua del jardín botánico / Rompeolas (1982, single. Hispavox)
 Dance usted / Tus pasos (instrumental) (1983, single. Hispavox)
 La ley del desierto / La ley del mar (1984, Ariola) 
 De un país en llamas (1985, Ariola)
 La canción de Juan Perro (1987, Ariola)
 Escueladecalor. El directo de Radio Futura (1989, BMG Ariola). (In live)
 Veneno en la piel (1990, BMG Ariola)
 Tierra para bailar (1991, BMG Ariola)

As soloist 
 Raíces al viento (1995, Animal Tour/BMG-Ariola)
 La huella sonora (1997, Nueva Sociedad Lírica/BMG Music Spain)
 Mr. Hambre (2000, Nueva Sociedad Lírica/La Huella Sonora)
 Cantares de vela (2002, Nueva Sociedad Lírica/Animal Musik/La Huella Sonora)
 Río Negro (2011, Nueva Sociedad Lírica/La Huella Sonora).

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 Official website 
  Entrevista en la Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP). Summer 2009, Santander] 
Complete discography at discogs.com

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Ludvík Vaculík (23 July 1926 – 6 June 2015) was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov. He was a known samizdat writer. He was the most known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968.

Vaculík died at the age of 88 on 6 June 2015.

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 Website about Vaculík and his work 
 Two Thousand Words 
 How to Make a Boy - an example 
 Our Success Story  columne, , October 2008
 Ludvík Vaculík at Czechoslovak book network Baila.net 

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Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas (October 3, 1934 – June 2, 2015), also known as Michel Cardena, was a Colombian-Dutch, New Realism and Pop Art painter. He was known for his video art in the Netherlands. His works covered many artistic media, including painting, drawing, video, photography, object assemblages and digital art. He was born in Espinal, Tolima, Colombia.

Other websites
  Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas official website
  Collection of video works by Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas

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Mefistofele is an Italian opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue; with music and libretto. It is by Arrigo Boito and is based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. It was first performed in Milan, on March 5, 1868. A revised version was performed in Bologna, on October 4, 1875.

Recent performances 
The opera was performed as part of the 2013/2014 season at the Croatian National Theatre, in Split. The director was Michał Znaniecki and the conductor was Nikša Bareza.

In August 2014, the opera was performed in the 13th Opera Festival of the Theatro da Paz in Belém, Brazil. Mefistofeles was played by Denis Sedov and Faust was played by Fernando Portari.

Principal characters

 Mefistofele - bass
 Faust - tenor
 Margherita - soprano
 Elena - soprano

Discography
 1931: Nazzareno de Angelis (Mefistofele), Antonio Melandri (Faust), Mafalda Favero (Margherita), Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (Elena); Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Lorenzo Molajoli - (Italian Columbia)
 1953: Giulio Neri (Mefistofele), Gianni Poggi (Faust), Rosetta Noli (Margherita), Simona Dall' Argine (Elena); Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Franco Capuana - (Elsa Music)
 1958: Cesare Siepi (Mefistofele), Mario Del Monaco (Faust), Renata Tebaldi (Margherita), Fiorana Cavalli (Elena); Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin - (Decca)
 1973: Norman Treigle (Mefistofele), Plácido Domingo (Faust), Montserrat Caballé (Margherita/Elena); Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Julius Rudel - (EMI Classics)
 1982: Nicolai Ghiaurov (Mefistofele), Luciano Pavarotti (Faust), Mirella Freni (Margherita), Montserrat Caballé (Elena); London Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis - (Decca)

References

Further reading 
Ashbrook, William (1998), "Mefistofele", in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. Three. London: MacMillan Publishers, Inc.   
Ashbrook, William (2001), in Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. 
Borovsky, Victor (1988), Chaliapin, New York: Knopf.  
Harewood, Earl of and Antony Peattie (Eds.) (1997), The New Kobbe's Opera Book, London: Ebury Press.  
Sadie, Stanley, (Ed.)(1997), The New Grove Book of Operas New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Operas
Pavel Kohout (born July 20, 1928 in Prague) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. He was a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in the 1970s until he was expelled to Austria.  He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.

Decorations and awards
 1969 Franz Theodor Csokor Award
 1977 Austrian State Prize for European Literature
 1997 Das Glas der Vernunft (The Glass of Reason) (Kassel Citizenship Award)
 1999 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class
 2002 Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
 2004 Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in gold

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"Bad Blood" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song came from her fifth studio album 1989.  The album version of the song only has Swift as the vocalist on verses. The single version has a different instrumental and guest vocals from rapper Kendrick Lamar on verses.

Writing and composition
Swift wrote "Bad Blood" about an undisclosed female artist. She says that the artist attempted to sabotage one of her concert tours by hiring people that worked for her (Swift). There are rumors from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Time and Washington Post that singer-songwriter Katy Perry is the subject of the song. The original album version of "Bad Blood" only has Swift singing.

Commercial performance
"Bad Blood" first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks in November of 2014. It also charted in January of 2015 as an album cut from 1989. It peaked at #78. After the music video premiere at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, the remixed song with Kendrick Lamar re-entered the chart at #53 and #26 on the Digital Songs Chart. It sold over 47,000 digital copies. The song hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending May 24, 2015. It sold 385,000 copies. It became Taylor's fourth #1 single. It was also her third from 1989 (following "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space"). That made Taylor Swift the first artist since Adele to have three Hot 100 chart-toppers from the same record. It was also her fourth consecutive top-ten single from 1989.

Critical reception
The original album version of "Bad Blood" received mixed reviews from music critics. But, the remixed version of the song received mostly positive reviews. Much of the praise was for Lamar's guest verses and the reworked instrumental. George Seabrook, writing for The Edge in Southampton, England, gave the song four-and-a-half stars out of five. He praised the song for "Lamar’s simple, brutally effective verses". He also said that Swift and Lamar made "not just one more meaningless stunt collaboration, but a powerful new duo".

Music video
The music video was directed by renowned director Joseph Kahn, with Swift producing it. He had also directed the music video for "Blank Space". The video was shot in Los Angeles on April 12, 2015. The setting for the video is the City of London. The music video premiered on May 17, 2015, at the start of the Billboard Music Awards.  Several friends of Swift are present in the music video, such as British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding, American entertainer Selena Gomez, and American actresses Lena Dunham and Jessica Alba.  All members of the cast chose their own names for their characters.

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Robert Brian Wilson (born March 8, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, singer, and voice artist. He is best known for portraying Billy Chapman in Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984).

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The volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Kamchatka River and the surrounding central side valley are flanked by large volcanic belts containing around 160 volcanoes, 29 of them still active. The peninsula has  a high density of volcanoes and associated volcanic phenomena, with 29 active volcanoes being included in the six  UNESCO World Heritage List sites in the volcanoes of Kamchatka group, most of them on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The volcanoes of Kamchatka are a large group of volcanoes on the Kamchatka Peninsula. 29 active volcanoes are included in six  UNESCO World Heritage List sites. They are listed as the Volcanoes of Kamchatka group, and most of them are on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The Kamchatka River and the surrounding central side valley are flanked by large volcanic belts containing around 160 volcanoes, including the 29 active ones.  

The highest volcano is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (4,750 m or 15,584 ft), the largest active volcano in the northern hemisphere. The most striking is Kronotsky, whose perfect cone was said by celebrated volcanologists Robert and Barbara Decker to be a prime candidate for the world's most beautiful volcano. 

In the center of Kamchatka is Eurasia's  world famous Geyser Valley which was partly destroyed by a massive mudslide in June 2007.

Deep seismic events and tsunamis are fairly common. Intense volcanism is caused by the subduction of the Pacific Plate. A pair of huge earthquakes occurred off the coast on October 16, 1737, and on November 4, 1952, in magnitudes ~9.3 and 8.2 respectively. More shallow earthquakes were recorded as recently as April 2006.

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Vietnam Airlines is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Vietnam. It was started by the government in 1956. Since June 2010, it has been a member of SkyTeam. As of 2015, Vietnam Airlines goes to 21 cities in Vietnam and 28 international cities.

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Saudia (also known as Saudi Arabian Airlines) is the largest airline of Saudi Arabia. It was started in 1945 with the help of the United States government.  TWA managed the airline until the 1960s. The airline joined SkyTeam in May 2012. As of 2015, Saudia goes to 126 cities worldwide.

Gallery

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James Montgomery Beggs (January 9, 1926 – April 23, 2020) was an American businessman and politician. He served as the 6th Administrator of NASA.  He was nominated by President Reagan on June 1, 1981. Beggs took his oath of office and entered the post on July 10, 1981, serving until December 4, 1985.

Beggs died on April 23, 2020 at the age of 94 at his home in Bethesda, Maryland of congestive heart failure.

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Portions of this article are based on public domain text from NASA.

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Sean Charles O'Keefe (born January 27, 1956) is an American politician. He was the  former chairman of Airbus Group, Inc., former Secretary of the Navy, former Administrator of NASA, and former chancellor of Louisiana State University (LSU). He is a former member of the board of directors of DuPont.

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Theodorus Antoon "Theo" Saat (13 May 1928 – 2 June 2015) was a Dutch sprinter. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. He was born in Arnhem, Gelderland.

Saat died on 2 June 2015 in Noordwijk, South Holland, aged 87.

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Robert Alan Frosch FREng (born May 22, 1928) is an American scientist. He was the fifth administrator of NASA from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter administration.

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Hans Michael Mark (June 17, 1929 – December 18, 2021) was a German-born American physicist and politician. He was the Secretary of the Air Force between 1979 until 1981. He was the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office between 1977 until 1979.

Mark was born in Mannheim, Germany. Because he was partly of Jewish descent his father Herman Francis Mark fled with the family into the United States.

Mark died on December 18, 2021 in Austin, Texas from dementia-related problems at the age of 92.

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Sadun Boro (1928 – 5 June 2015) is an Turkish sailor and writer. He was the first Turkish person to circumnavigate the globe, sailing from 22 August 1965 until 15 June 1968.

Boro was born in Istanbul. He was married to Oda Boro and had a daughter.

Boro died from bladder cancer on 5 June 2015 in Marmaris. He was 87.

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Mario Ngqiuyomizi Saliwa (6 March 1984 – 31 May 2015) was a South African first-class cricketer. He played for teams such as the Eagles and Free State. He was born in King William's Town, Eastern Cape.

Saliwa died after being stabbed on 31 May 2015, aged 31.

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Other websites
 Player profile: Mario Saliwa from ESPNcricinfo

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Ronnie Gilbert (September 7, 1926 – June 6, 2015) was an American folk singer-songwriter, actress and activist. She was one of the original members of The Weavers with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Fred Hellerman.

Gilbert was born in New York City. She was the daughter of Jewish immgrants from Eastern Europe. She had one daughter. She was married twice and was bisexual.

Gilbert died from natural causes on June 6, 2015 in Mill Valley, California, aged 88.

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James Chipman Fletcher (June 5, 1919 – December 22, 1991) was an American civil servant. He was the president of the University of Utah from 1964 to 1971. He also served as the 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA. He first served from April 27, 1971 to May 1, 1977, and again from May 12, 1986, to April 8, 1989.

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Smosh: The Movie is an upcoming 2015 American comedy movie from Lionsgate Films. The movie will star Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, which is part of Smosh from YouTube. It is planned to come out on July 24, 2015.

Plot
An embarrassing video of Anthony surfaces online right before his fifth high school reunion. The Smosh duo then races to pull down the clip before it blows Anthony's chances of reconnecting with his teen crush Anna.

Cast
 Ian Hecox as himself
 Anthony Padilla as himself
 Jillian Nelson as Anna
 Dominic Sandoval
 Brittany Ross
 Jenna Marbles
 Grace Helbig
 Harley Morenstein
 Michael Ian Black
 Shane Dawson
 Mark Fischbach
 Steve Austin

Production
On September 18, 2014, Lionsgate announced that it has picked up global distribution rights to the movie, with production jointly financed by DreamWorks Animation’s AwesomenessTV, and Defy Media, in which Lionsgate has an equity interest. The picture was written by Eric Falconer, creator and executive producer of Blue Mountain State and writer of How I Met Your Mother. The film is executively produced by Padilla, Hecox, Barry Blumberg of Defy Media, Brett Bouttier, Joe Davola and Shauna Phelan. AwesomenessTV founder Brian Robbins serves as producer. It was entirely shot in YouTube Space in Los Angeles, California.

Release
On April 15, 2015, it was announced that the movie will be released on July 24, 2015 and will be having its gala world premiere at Vidcon 2015 in Anaheim, California.

References

Other websites
 

American independent movies
Lionsgate movies
Movies set in California
Jane Briggs (“Janey”) Hart (October 21, 1921 - June 5, 2015) was an American aviator. She was the widow of Senator Philip A. Hart. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. She was a member of the NASA's Mercury 13. Hart was also an avid sailor and has sailed in the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race 15 times as part of an all-women crew.

Hart died on June 5, 2015 in West Hartford, Connecticut from Alzheimer's disease, aged 93.

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1921 births
2015 deaths
American activists
American aviators
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Connecticut
People from Detroit, Michigan
Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912December 26, 1976) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a  Democrat. He served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate."

Hart died of skin cancer on December 26, 1976 in Washington, D.C. at the age of 64.

References

1921 births
1976 deaths
Deaths from skin cancer
Cancer deaths in Washington, D.C.
United States senators from Michigan
Lieutenant Governors of Michigan
Politicians from Pennsylvania
People from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
US Democratic Party politicians
TAESA was a Mexican low-cost carrier. It began on April 27, 1988.  It was one of the first low-cost airlines in Mexico.  At times, it became Mexico's 3rd largest airline, after Aeroméxico and Mexicana de Aviacion. On November 9, 1999, a TAESA plane crashed.  It was flying from Uruapan to Mexico City International Airport. The crash killed 18 people.  That crash and other factors led to TAESA declaring bankruptcy in February 2000.

Gallery

References

Transport in Mexico
Airlines of North America
1988 establishments in North America
2000 disestablishments in North America
1980s establishments in Mexico
Disestablishments in Mexico
Adria Airways was the national airline of Slovenia. It began on 14 March 1961 and ended on 30 September 2019. In 1969, it bought its first jet aircraft, the Douglas DC-9. In December 1981, an Adria airplane crashed in Corsica. The crash killed 180 people.  Adria bought its first Airbus A320 in 1989. As of June 2015, Adria has 12 airplanes.

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1961 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Slovenia
2010s disestablishments in Europe
2019 disestablishments
Defunct airlines of Europe
Paul Labile Pogba is a French professional footballer. He plays for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

Pogba began his professional career with Manchester United in 2011. In 2012 he began playing for Juventus. In 2016 he transferred back to Manchester United for a world-record £89m.

International career

He won the World Cup for France against Croatia on 15 July 2018.

References

Living people
French footballers
1993 births
Manchester United F.C. players
UEFA Euro 2016 players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Kazuo Chiba (; 5 February 1940 – 5 June 2015), also known as T. K. Chiba, was a Japanese aikido teacher. He was best known as the founder of Birankai International which includes organizations in the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Greece, Poland, Canada, the United States and many other places worldwide. He was active in aikido for 50 years from 1958 until his retirement in 2008. He was born in Tochigi Prefecture.

Chiba died after a long illness on 5 June 2015 in San Diego, California, United States. He was 75.

References

1940 births
2015 deaths
Disease-related deaths in California
Japanese martial artists
People from Tochigi Prefecture
Albertus Petrus Enricus Gerardus Westelaken (2 September 1949 – 4 June 2015), better known by his stage name Albert West, was a Dutch pop singer and record producer. He was the lead singer of The Shuffles from 1963 to 1973. He was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant.

References

Other websites

  
 

1949 births
2015 deaths
Dutch musicians
People from 's-Hertogenbosch
Pop singers
Record producers
World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year on June 5. On this day, people are supposed to do good things for the environment and sustainability. These acts help to protect nature and the planet Earth. It is run by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The theme in 2021 is “Ecosystem restoration”, 2020 is "Time for nature", in 2019 was “Beat Air pollution” and in 2018 was "Beat Plastic pollution".

Related pages
Earth Day

Other websites 
Official site 

Environmental issues
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, hosted by Canada. The tournament began on 6 June and ended on 5 July. In a rematch of the 2011 final, the defending champions Japan met the United States. The USA scored four goals in the first 16 minutes, with three by Carli Lloyd, on their way to a 5–2 win and their third Women's World Cup title.

Teams

Venues 

The cities of Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Moncton hosted matches.

Artificial turf 

Some believe that artificial turf causes more injuries than normal grass. More than 50 players have protested the use of artificial turf, saying that it is sexist. They filed a lawsuit against FIFA, however, they dropped the lawsuit in January 2015.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Third placed teams

Knockout stage

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Third place play-off

Final

Statistics

Top scorers 

6 goals
  Célia Šašić
  Carli Lloyd

 5 goals
  Anja Mittag

 3 goals

  Kyah Simon
  Gaëlle Enganamouit
  Fara Williams
  Marie-Laure Delie
  Eugénie Le Sommer
  Ada Hegerberg
  Ramona Bachmann
  Fabienne Humm

 2 goals

  Lisa De Vanna
  Madeleine Ngono Mani
  Gabrielle Onguéné
  Christine Sinclair
  Wang Lisi
  Wang Shanshan
  Lady Andrade
  Lucy Bronze
  Karen Carney
  Sara Däbritz
  Lena Petermann
  Ange N'Guessan
  Aya Miyama
  Yūki Ōgimi
  Kirsten van de Ven
  Solveig Gulbrandsen
  Isabell Herlovsen
  Linda Sembrant
  Orathai Srimanee
  Megan Rapinoe

 1 goal

  Andressa Alves
  Formiga
  Marta
  Raquel
  Christine Manie
  Ajara Nchout
  Josée Bélanger
  Ashley Lawrence
  Daniela Montoya
  Catalina Usme
  Melissa Herrera
  Raquel Rodríguez
  Karla Villalobos
  Angie Ponce
  Steph Houghton
  Fran Kirby
  Jodie Taylor
  Amandine Henry
  Louisa Nécib
  Élodie Thomis
  Melanie Behringer
  Simone Laudehr
  Melanie Leupolz
  Dzsenifer Marozsán
  Alexandra Popp
  Josée Nahi
  Saori Ariyoshi
  Mana Iwabuchi
  Mizuho Sakaguchi
  Aya Sameshima
  Yuika Sugasawa
  Fabiola Ibarra
  Verónica Pérez
  Lieke Martens
  Rebekah Stott
  Hannah Wilkinson
  Ngozi Okobi
  Francisca Ordega
  Asisat Oshoala
  Maren Mjelde
  Trine Rønning
  Cho So-hyun
  Jeon Ga-eul
  Ji So-yun
  Kim Soo-yun
  Verónica Boquete
  Victoria Losada
  Nilla Fischer
  Sofia Jakobsson
  Eseosa Aigbogun
  Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
  Martina Moser
  Thanatta Chawong
  Tobin Heath
  Lauren Holiday
  Alex Morgan
  Kelley O'Hara
  Christen Press
  Abby Wambach

 1 own goal
  Laura Bassett (playing against Japan)
  Jennifer Ruiz (playing against France)
  Desire Oparanozie (playing against Sweden)
  Julie Johnston (playing against Japan)

 2 own goals
  Angie Ponce (in the same match, playing against Switzerland)

Team rankings

References

Other websites

 FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 , FIFA.com
 FIFA Technical Report 

FIFA Women's World Cup
Lakmé is a French opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on April 14, 1883, libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti Rarahu's Le mariage de Loti. An immediate success, it has remained one of the most popular of French operas.

Principal roles and voice types
 Lakmé - soprano
 Gérald - tenor
 Mallika - mezzo-soprano
 Nilakantha - bass

Discography

 1940: Lily Pons (Lakmé), Armand Tokatyan (Gérald), Ira Petina (Mallika), Ezio Pinza (Nilakantha); New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Wilfrid Pelletier - (The Golden Age; live)
 1952: Mado Robin (Lakmé), Libero de Luca (Gérald), Agnés Disney (Mallika), Jean Borthayre (Nilakantha); Chœurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Georges Sébastian - (Decca)
 1967: Joan Sutherland (Lakmé), Alain Vanzo (Gérald), Jane Berbié (Mallika), Gabriel Bacquier (Nilakantha); Chœurs et Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte Carlo, Richard Bonynge - (Decca)
 1970: Mady Mesplé (Lakmé), Charles Burles (Gérald), Danielle Millet (Mallika), Roger Soyer (Nilakantha); Chœurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique, Alain Lombard - (EMI 
 1998: Natalie Dessay (Lakmé), Gregory Kunde (Gérald), Delphine Haidan (Mallika), José van Dam (Nilakantha); Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson - (EMI Classics)

Sources
 The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Vikings Books, 1989

Other websites 

Operas
The Netherlands women's national football team (Dutch: Nederlands vrouwenvoetbalelftal) is the women's association football team that represents the European country of the Netherlands. They qualified for their first FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015, and two UEFA Women's Championships. As of 27 March 2015, their FIFA ranking is 12.

Tournament record 
As of 8 June 2015

World Cup

European Championship

References 

European women's national association football teams
Football in the Netherlands
Chea Sim (; 15 November 19328 June 2015) was a Cambodian politician. He was the President of the National Assembly of Cambodia from 1981 to 1998 (Vice President from June to October 1993) and President of the Senate from 1999 until his death.

References

1932 births
2015 deaths
Heads of state of Cambodia
Civil servants
The Crazy Ones is an American sitcom created by David E. Kelley. It starred Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The single-camera series aired on CBS on September 26, 2013.

It was based in Chicago, Illinois. It was about Simon Roberts (Williams) who is an advertising executive and his daughter, Sydney Roberts (Gellar) also an executive working together. It was cancelled on April 17, 2014.

Other websites

2013 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
2010s American television series
CBS network shows
American sitcoms
Television series set in Chicago, Illinois
English-language television programs
Neverland Ranch is a property in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. In 1987 Michael Jackson purchased it for an estimated $19.5 million USD. He lost the property by 2007. The 2,700-acre ranch is currently for sale for $100 million.

The property has been renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch. The Normandy-style mansion and the train station with the floral clock are still there. The amusement park has been removed. Also the zoo animals have been relocated. The private fire department on the ranch is no longer staffed with firemen. The property is being sold by the real estate investment company, Colony Capital.

References 

Settlements in California
Santa Barbara County, California
1988 establishments in California
Air Seychelles is the national airline of Seychelles. It started in 1978. In 1983, it began international flights to Frankfurt and London. Its head office is at Seychelles International Airport on the island of Mahé. As of 2015, Air Seychelles flies to 10 cities and has 10 airplanes.

References

Airlines of Africa
Seychelles
1977 establishments in Africa
Sedition is a term from law, which is used for people who act  and speak openly against the government and those in power, to cause an uprising or a rebellion. In many countries, such behaviour is a criminal offence. 

Crime
Gaëlle Deborah Enganamouit (born on 9 June 1992 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian association football midfielder and forward who currently plays for Eskilstuna United DFF and the Cameroon women's national football team. She has also played for Lorema Yaoundé and ŽFK Spartak Subotica. She can play a variety of positions, but normally she plays as a midfielder or forward.

References 

Cameroonian footballers
1992 births
The Frauen-Bundesliga (English: Women Bundesliga) is the main women's football league competition in Germany. The league was formed in 1990, and the most successful team has been 1. FFC Frankfurt, while the current champions are Bayern Munich.

2018–19 teams

Results

Record

Other websites 

 DFB.de Official Website 

Football leagues
1990 establishments in Germany
A matross was a soldier of artillery. He was a member of an artillery (gun) crew. A matross ranked next below a gunner. The duty of a matross was to assist the gunners in loading, firing and sponging the guns. They were armed with muskets and bayonets. They marched with the store-wagons, acting as guards. In the American army a matross ranked as a private of artillery.

History 
Matrosses were first used in the British Army in 1639. Before that they were called gunner's assistants. In the German language a matrose means a sailor. The work assigned to the matross was considered sailor's work on a ship. It was an effort to give the assistant a respectable title. But their pay rate remained the same. In 1873 all matrosses were promoted to the rank of gunner. The rank of matross was no longer used.

A soldier's manual for artillery used by Americans in the Revolutionary war gave a detailed instruction for a matross. In part it said:
 

By the War of 1812 an ideal gun crew could be up to 15 men. Each man would have a specific task in the sequence of loading and firing the artillery piece. Often a non-commissioned officer would commanded the gun crew and aimed the gun. Like the other gun crew members, the matross had a specific place to stand as he performed his duties.

References 

Military ranks
Artillery
Bahamas national football team is the national football team of Bahamas.

References

Caribbean national football teams
The Bahamas
David Rotem (‎; 11 January 1949 – 8 June 2015) was an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2007 and 2015. He was born in Bnei Brak to a Orthodox Jewish family, and grew up in Jerusalem.

Rotem died from cardiac arrest on 8 June 2015 in Efrat, West Bank, aged 66.

References

1949 births
2015 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Israel
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Former Members of Knesset
Jewish Israeli politicians
Yisrael Beiteinu politicians
Katrín Jónsdóttir (born on 31 May 1977 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is former Icelandic association football defender who played for various clubs throughout Norway, Iceland and Sweden, most notably Valur. She was a regular in the Iceland women's national football team, and she now has the record for the most appearances for the team.

Club career 

She has played for the Icelandic clubs of Valur, Breiðablik UBK, Stjarnan; the Norwegian club of Kolbotn Fotball; and the Swedish clubs of Umeå IK and Djurgårdens IF.

International career 

Jónsdóttir played for the Under-17 and Under 21 Icelandic youth teams. She made her senior team debut in May of 1994 in a exhibition game against Scotland. 

She helped Iceland qualify for the UEFA Women's Championship in 2009, however, her team lost all three group stage matches against Norway, France and Germany.

She appeared in the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 and helped her team advance to the knockout stage, where Iceland would eventually get knocke out in the quarter-finals against Sweden.

Honours

Breiðablik 

 Úrvalsdeild kvenna (premier league) 4:
 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996
 Bikarkeppni KSÍ (FA-Cup) 3:
 1994, 1996, 1997
 Deildarbikarinn (League-cup) 2:
1996, 1997

Kolbotn 

 Toppserien 3:
 2004, 2005, 2006

Valur 

 Úrvalsdeild kvenna (premier league) 6:
 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
 Bikarkeppni kvenna (Icelandic woman's cup) 3:
2006, 2009, 2010

Other websites 

 KSÍ Player profile

References 

Icelandic footballers
1977 births
Living people
People from Reykjavík