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Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell (5 March 1964 – 28 August 2017) was an English singer. From 1993 to 1996, Bell was one of the lead singers of British R&B act Soul II Soul, with whom she released a single titled "Wish". She also created her own band called Soul Explosion, which started in 1999. She also worked with Liza Minnelli, Whitney Houston, and Stevie Wonder.

Early life 
A native of London, Bell was of African, and East Indian descent through her Jamaican-born parents. She was a graduate of Southwark College in London Borough of Southwark. She later began working in customer service for Marks and Spencer from 1982 until 1991.

Career 
In 1987, she featured on Bobby E and the Midi City Crew's single "Walk on the Wild Side". In 1991, she appeared on the song "The Dancer" from the Bingoboys' album The Best of Bingoboys. She released her debut single "Reconsider" in 1992, which received major radio play. In the same year, she released another single titled "Crystal Clear".

In 1993, Bell joined British musical group Soul II Soul after Jazzie B heard her single "Reconsider" and asked her to join the group. She recorded a single called "Wish", which was released on their greatest hits album Volume IV The Classic Singles 88–93 in 1993. The single peaked at number 24 on the UK Singles Chart. The success of the song invited her to perform the song on Top of the Pops. She continued to record and tour with the group as one of their featured singers. In 1995, she performed lead vocals on the song "Be a Man" on their fourth studio album Volume V: Believe. In 1996, she left the group to continue her solo career.

In 1997, Bell released four singles "Rumbled Sex", "Surrender", "Mixed Up", and "Nothing Gonna Stop Me Now"; which featured Potential Bad Boy. In 1999, she formed a new soul band called Soul Explosion. In 2000, she released two singles "Into My World" and "Love's in Need of Love Today" with a group called Dazz. In 2002, she released another single "(No More) Searching".

In June 2010, she released her autobiography Heart and Soul: The Emotional Autobiography of Melissa Bell.

Personal life 
Bell was the mother of four children including singer Alexandra Burke. She suffered from diabetes, a condition which ran in her family. She also suffered kidney failure, and struggled to attend her daughter's live performances during her time on The X Factor. On 29 August 2017, her daughter announced the death of the singer.
 1991: "Walk on the Wild Side" (Bobby E and the Midi City Crew featuring Melissa Bell)
 1992: "Reconsider"
 1992: "Crystal Clear"
 1993: "Wish" (with Soul II Soul)
 1997: "Rumbled Sex"
 1997: "Surrender"
 1997: "Mixed Up"
 1997: "Nothing Gonna Stop Me Now" (featuring Potential Bad Boy)
 2000: "Into My World" (with Dazz)
 2001: "Love's in Need of Love Today" (with Dazz)
 2002: "(No More) Searching"
 2009: "Innocent Till Proven Guilty"

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Weilheim an der Teck (Swabian: Weile) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is 7 km southeast of Kirchheim unter Teck, and 13 km southwest of Göppingen.

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Weil der Stadt is a small town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In 2015, 18,652 people lived there.

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Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (24 August 1932 – 1 September 2017) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Westminster and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. He was created a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. He submitted his resignation as archbishop on reaching his 75th birthday in 2007; Pope Benedict XVI accepted it on 3 April 2009.

Murphy-O'Connor was born in Reading, Berkshire, England. He studied at Presentation College, Reading and at Pontifical Gregorian University. Murphy-O'Connor died on 1 September 2017 in London of bladder cancer at the age of 85.

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Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover (born June 19, 1926) is an American mathematician from Irvington, New Jersey. She is known for inventing a  computerized telephone switching method which "revolutionized modern communication" according to several reports.This architecture used "stored program control" to achieve an unprecedented level of flexibility.

Hoover was awarded one of the first patents issued for software. It gave priority to processes concerned with the input and output of the switch over processes that were less important such as record keeping and billing. This provided more robust service to callers during peak calling times. Some of her work was done while she was recuperating from the birth of her second daughter in the hospital and at home.

Hoover received a B.A. from Wellesley College in classical and medieval philosophy and history in 1948. After graduating with honors in 1948, she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society of liberal arts and sciences, and was honored as a Durant Scholar.  She obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in philosophy and foundations of mathematics in 1951. She was a professor in Swarthmore College from 1951 to 1954. Upon marrying her husband, Hoover found it difficult to secure a tenure track position, so she joined Bell Labs. Later, she worked on the development of the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System and subsequently became the first woman to head a technical department in 1978. She spent the next decade working on software applications with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IMS-IBM/Unix based system communications. In 1987, after three decades of dedication to improving telecommunications as we know it, Dr. Hoover retired.

Dr. Hoover was keen on publicizing the importance of K-12 education, focusing on the lack of female representation in STEM. She created one of the first conferences for the Expanding Your Horizons program in association with the American Association of the University of Women and Girl Scouts of America. She continued with a fervent focus on education as she joined the New Jersey Board of Higher Education in 1983 and has served as a chairperson of the Trenton State College Board of Trustees since 1980.

Hoover was described as an important pioneer for women in the field of computer technology.

Related pages
 Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States

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Irvington is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. 

As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total population of 53,926, having declined by 6,769 (−11.2%) from the 60,695 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 323 (−0.5%) from the 61,018 counted in the 1990 Census.

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Helene Louise "Helli" Stehle (6 December 1907 – 27 August 2017) was a Swiss actress and radio presenter.

Stehle was born on 6 December 1907 in Basel, Switzerland. She began working in radio in the 1920s. In 1939, she became Switzerland's first female newscaster. She was also an actress. Her most notable movie was De Tod uf em Oepfelbaum from 1966.

She turned 100 in December 2007. When she died at the age of 109, she was one of the oldest living people in Switzerland.

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 Reportage über Helli Stehle (2008) 
 Bericht anlässlich von Stehles 103. Geburtstag mit Radiosendung von 1997 
Erste Radiosprecherin der Schweiz feiert ihren 100. Geburtstag 

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James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) was an American actor and businessman. He is best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962–1971.

Drury was born in New York City, New York. He was raised in Oregon. In 1979, he married Carl Ann Head Drury. He had two children. Drury died from natural causes on April 6, 2020 in Houston, at age 85.

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James Drury: The Virginian Official Website

The Virginian Website 
Picture of Drury in Oregon
Interview with Kirby Jonas and James Drury 
Actor James Drury tells of next generation Virginian, newsok.com, June 26, 2014; accessed June 21, 2017.

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Guarda is a former municipality of the district Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Guarda, Ardez, Ftan, Sent and Tarasp merged into the municipality of Scuol.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Yens is a municipality in Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Vaugondry was a municipality in the Jura-Nord vaudois district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the municipalities of Fontanezier, Romairon, Vaugondry and Villars-Burquin joined together to become the new municipality of Tévenon.

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Vaux-sur-Morges is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is found in the district of Morges.

Municipalities of Vaud
Monfero is a municipality found in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain.

Municipalities in Galicia
Salamence is a character of the Pokémon anime and video game series. It is a Dragon/Flying type Pokémon. Salamence is a pseudo-legendary Pokemon. It has two pre evolutions. It has a base stat total of 600, one of the highest of all non legendary Pokemon.

Salamence also has a mega-evolution introduced in the games Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. When transformed, Mega Salamence has a base stat total of 700. This form is stronger than most legendary Pokemon and in competitive battling this Pokemon is in the uber tier, the tier where most legendaries are in.

Appearances 
Salamence first appeared in the Generation III Pokémon games. It is used by Drake of the Hoenn elite four, Cipher Head Evice of Orre, and it is also one of the shadow Pokémon in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness used by Cipher Admin Eldes. It is also used by Tucker in the Battle Frontier.

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Franzi Hato Hasbún Barake (1946 – 30 August 2017) was a Salvadoran politician, sociologist and educator. He was born in San Salvador. He served as Minister of Education from 2012 until his death in 2017. He was a close advisor to former President of El Salvador Mauricio Funes.

Hasbún died in San Salvador of a heart attack on 30 August 2017 at the age of 72.

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Artículo  en El Mundo
LaPágina.com 

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The June 2012 derecho was a natural disaster in the United States that occurred on June 29, 2012. A line of thunderstorms formed in the Midwest in the afternoon and tracked across the Ohio Valley and the Mid-Atlantic states. 28 people were killed and thousands were left without power for days due to a heatwave in the area.

Natural disasters in the United States
2012 in the United States
June events
Filippo Maria Pandolfi (born 1 November 1927) is a former Italian politician, minister, and European commissioner. He was born in Bergamo, Italy.

Pandolfi was a member of the Christian Democracy party. He was elected to the Italian parliament in 1968, heading the list in electoral district of Brescia–Bergamo in 1976, 1979, 1983, and 1987.

Pandolfi was finance undersecretary in the Aldo Moro government from 1974 to 1976. In 1976 he became Minister of Finance, in 1978 Minister of the Treasury, then from 1980 to 1983 Minister for Industry and Trade, and finally from 1983 to 1988 Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.

From 6 January 1989 to 5 January 1993 he was the European Commissioner in the Delors Commission, having portfolio for Research and Development.

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Martin Bangemann (born 15 November 1934) is a former German politician. He was leader of the FDP (1985–1988).

Bangemann was the German Federal Minister of Economics from 1984 to 1988.

In 1988, Bangemann joined the European Commission. He was Commissioner for the internal market and industrial affairs in the Delors Commission from 1989 to 1995. He was then Commissioner for Industrial affairs, Information & Telecommunications Technologies in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999.

Bangeman studied law in Tübingen and Munich, earned a Dr. jur. (equivalent to J.S.D.) in 1962, and qualified as an attorney in 1964.

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Gloria Whelan (born November 23, 1923) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. She is known for children's and young adult fiction. Her book Homeless Bird won the National Book Award for Young People's Fiction in 2000.

Early life
Whelan was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at the University of Michigan. In 1948, she married Joseph Whelan.

Writings
Whelan's books include many historical fiction novels, including a trilogy set on Mackinac Island and a quartet series set in communist Russia.  Whelan is also the author of short stories which have appeared in The Ontario Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, and other literary quarterlies. 

Her collection of short stories, Playing with Shadows, was published by the Illinois Press. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies and in Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards. Whelan is, according to Liz Rosenberg in the Chicago Tribune, "an accomplished, graceful, and intelligent writer."

Awards
Whelan won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel Homeless Bird. She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction with her short story "What World Is This?" and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories.

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Other websites
 
 A.S.T.A.L.@R.I.C. author page 
kidsreads.com profile, includes book information 
 Online NewsHour: Conversation with Gloria Whelan – November 23, 2000 

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American children's writers
American novelists
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Denzel Edwin "Denny" Crum (born March 2, 1937) is an American men's college basketball coach at the University of Louisville in Kentucky from 1971 to 2001 with a 675–295 record.

Crum guided the Cardinals to two NCAA championships (1980, 1986) and six Final Fours. Honored in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 1994, Crum is one of the major figures in the history of sports in Kentucky and in college basketball in general.

Crum was born in San Fernando, California. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Szmuel "Sam" Pivnik (1 September 1926 – 30 August 2017) was a Polish Holocaust survivor, author and memoirist. He was the second son of Lajb Pivnik, a tailor, and Feigel Pivnik. He was born in Będzin, Poland.

Pivnik was registered in Auschwitz and tattooed with prisoner number 135913. On 27 December 1943, Pivnik was admitted to the prisoner infirmary in the Quarantine area KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau, B IIa, Block 9, with suspected typhus. On 19 January 1945 the camp at Fürstengrube was evacuated in the face of the advancing Red Army and prisoners who were fit enough to move were, initially, marched to a railhead at Gleiwitz. 

Pivnik spent the next three months on construction work before he – together with approximately 200 other former Fürstengrube prisoners – were evacuated by barge along the River Elbe to Holstein in northern Germany.

Pivnik was liberated by the British Army in Neustadt on 4 May 1945. His memoir Survivor – Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom was published on 30 August 2012. 

Pivnik died in London on 30 August 2017, two days before his 91st birthday of pneumonia-related complications.

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Xiang Shouzhi (; November 28, 1917 – September 2, 2017) was a Chinese general and revolutionist. He was born in Xuanhan County, Sichuan.

Xiang was promoted to the rank of major general (shao jiang) in 1955 and general (Shang jiang) in 1988. He was a member of the 11st National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 12nd CPC Central Committee.

Xiang died on September 2, 2017 in Nanjing, China of heart failure at the age of 99.

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Frantz Yvelin is the current managing director of French airline Aigle Azur, since 2017.

Yvelin started his career in Information technology as consultant. Then, he founded two French airlines : L'Avion in 2006 and La Compagnie in 2013.

Also, he is a teacher in air transport at the French Civil Aviation University (Mastère Spécialisé degrees).

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Aviation in France
French people
Jacques Maillot (born 12 April 1962) is a French movie director and screenwriter. He has directed nine movies since 1993. His movie Nos vies heureuses was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

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Besançon
Kleinbösingen is a municipality of the district See in the Swiss canton of Fribourg.

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Municipalities of Fribourg
Galmiz is a municipality in See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

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Municipalities of Fribourg
FC Sion is a football club which plays in Switzerland.

Other websites

 FC Sion  - Official website 

Sion
Sion, Switzerland
1909 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Switzerland
Haldenstein is a municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Zhao Wei (born 12 March 1976), also known as Vicky Zhao or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer. She is considered one of the most popular actresses in China and Chinese-speaking regions, and one of the highest paid actresses.

Over her 20 years acting career, Zhao has starred in many box-office smash-hits, including Shaolin Soccer (2001), Red Cliff (2008-2009), Painted Skin (2008), Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012), Dearest (2014) and Lost in Hong Kong (2015). She has received numerous awards from the Shanghai International Film Festival, Huabiao Awards, Changchun Film Festival, Hundred Flowers Awards and Shanghai Film Critics Awards for films like A Time to Love (2005) and Mulan (2009). In 2014, after almost 2-year break from acting, she returned to the silver screen in Peter Chan's movie Dearest, and won the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress.

Her directorial debut So Young (2013) broke the box office record for movies directed by female Chinese directors in just a week. The movie also earned her multiple awards in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Golden Rooster Award for Best Directorial Debut, Hundred Flowers Award for Best Director and Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film from Mainland and Taiwan.

Zhao was named as member of the main Jury at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Zhao Wei became a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Programme on 20 November 2016.

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Młoszowa []  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trzebinia in Chrzanów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is 3 km southeast of Trzebinia, 8 km east of Chrzanów, and 33 km west of the regional capital Kraków.

In 2004, 2,610 people lived there.

Villages in Poland
Joseph Deiss (born January 18, 1946) is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC). He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1999 to 2006, heading first the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (1999–2002) and then the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (2003–2006). He was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 65th session in 2010.

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Hinterrhein () was a municipality in Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the municipalities Hinterrhein, Nufenen and Splügen joined together to become the new municipality called Rheinwald.

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Igis () is a former municipality in the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2012 the former municipalities of Igis and Mastrils merged into the new municipality of Landquart.

Other websites

 Official Website  
 

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Hartmannswiller () is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Communes in Haut-Rhin
Seneca County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 56,745 people lived there. The county seat is Tiffin. It is named for the Seneca Indians.

Ohio counties
1824 establishments in the United States
1820s establishments in Ohio
(born Miiko Shikata June 24, 1925), is a Japanese American actress. She is best known for co-starring with Marlon Brando as Hana-ogi in the 1957 movie Sayonara. She also worked  with James Garner, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Toshirō Mifune (whom she also worked alongside of in the 1980 television miniseries, Shõgun). 

Taka was born in Seattle, Washington, but raised in Los Angeles, California.

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Markethill is a village in County Armagh in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

County Armagh
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Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, 10th Duke of Lennox, 10th Duke of Aubigny, 5th Duke of Gordon (19 September 1929 – 1 September 2017), styled Lord Settrington until 1935 and Earl of March and Kinrara between 1935 and 1989, was an English peer and landowner. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of West Sussex from 1975 until 1990, and Lord Lieutenant from 1990 to 1994.

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James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (born 4 July 1934) is a British nobleman, peer, and politician. 

Hamilton became Duke of Abercorn in the Peerage of Ireland on the death of his father in June 1979. He was the son of James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Mary Crichton (daughter of Lt.-Col. Henry William Crichton, Viscount Crichton (1872–1914), eldest son of John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne). He is a former politician and Lord Steward of the Household.

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James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose (born 6 April 1935), known as Earl of Kincardine until 1954 and Marquess of Graham between 1954 and 1992, is a Southern Rhodesia-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland and a British Conservative Party politician.

The Duke of Montrose was a shadow minister for the Scotland Office before the 2010 General Election. He has also spent some time in China promoting renewable energy and environmental measures, and he is a fluent speaker of Mandarin.

Other websites
James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose , Chief of the Grahams
James Graham, 8th Duke of Montrose, thePeerage.com
Conservative Party website 

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Helmut Oberlander (15 February 1924 – 20 September 2021) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian citizen who was a member of the Einsatzgruppen death squads of Nazi Germany in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Oberlander was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals.

Beginning in 1994, the Government of Canada has made repeated attempts to revoke Oberlander's citizenship.

In July 2017 the Government of Canada used an Order in Council to strip Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship for the fourth time.

Oberlander died at his home in Waterloo, Ontario on 20 September 2021, at the age of 97.

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Etan Patz was a boy from New York City who was abducted on May 25, 1979 in the SoHo village. He was declared dead in 2001. His disappearance started the use of milk cartons for missing children in the United States.

1979 deaths
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Jo Frost (born 27 June 1970) is a British nanny who hosted a television program broadcasted in the United Kingdom called Supernanny, first aired in 2004. She later did the United States version, and it first aired in January 2005. Supernanny ended in March 2011 in the United States and 7 September 2012 in the United Kingdom. Frost now does Jo Frost: Nanny on Tour on the UP channel.

Personal life 
Jo Frost has a husband, his name is Darrin Jackson. She married him in 2014.

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A bus garage or bus depot is a place where buses are stored and repaired. Bus garages can also be called a bus depot but in some countries a bus depot can also mean a bus station. In many areas, bus garages are on the site of former tram sheds, where trams were stored, before they were replaced with buses. In other areas, garages were built to replace horse-bus yards.

The largest bus depot in the world is Millennium Park Bus Depot In Delhi India.

Most bus garages will contain:

Internal parking - Buses and recovery vehicles will be parked inside the garages
External parking - Staff cars and some buses can be parked outside of the bus garages
Fueling point - For putting petrol or diesel in buses
Fuel storage tanks - For storing fuel
Engineering section - To fix and repair buses
Inspection pits - A pit in the ground, To look under and fix under buses
Bus wash
Brake test lane - To test the brakes on buses
Staff canteen/break room
Administration office

Garages may also contain recovery vehicles.

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Bus transport
Anyang () is a city in northern Henan in the People's Republic of China.

Cities in China
Hebi () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China.

Cities in China
Jiaozuo () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China. In 2010, 3,540,101 people lived there.

Administration
Jiaozuo administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.

Jiefang District (解放区)
Shanyang District (山阳区)
Zhongzhan District (中站区)
Macun District (马村区)
Qinyang City (沁阳市)
Mengzhou City (孟州市)
Xiuwu County (修武县)
Wuzhi County (武陟县)
Wen County (温县)
Bo'ai County (博爱县)

Other websites

Government website of Jiaozuo  (in Simplified Chinese)
Jiaozuo Travel Bureau  (in English)

Cities in China
Puyang (濮阳) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan province, China. It is on the northern shore of the Yellow River.

Administration 
Puyang administers 1 district and 5 counties.

Hualong District ()
Puyang County ()
Qingfeng County ()
Nanle County ()
Fan County ()
Taiqian County ()

Cities in China
Xinxiang () is a prefecture-level city in northern Henan province, China. In 2010, 5,707,801 people lived there.

Administration 
Xinxiang administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 6 counties.

Weibin District (卫滨区)
Hongqi District (红旗区)
Muye District (牧野区)
Fengquan District (凤泉区)
Huixian City (辉县市)
Weihui City (卫辉市)
Xinxiang County (新乡县)
Huojia County (获嘉县)
Yuanyang County (原阳县)
Yanjin County (延津县)
Fengqiu County (封丘县)
Changyuan County (长垣县)

Cities in China
Kaifeng () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, China. It was once the capital of the Song dynasty, and is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China. About 5 million people lived there in 2010.

Administration
Kaifeng administers five districts and four counties:

Gulou District ()
Longting District ()
Yuwangtai District ()
Xiangfu District ()
Shunhe Hui District ()
Weishi County ()
Qi County ()
Tongxu County ()
Lankao County ()

Other websites

 Government website of Kaifeng (in Simplified Chinese)
 Kaifeng City Portal (in Simplified Chinese)

Cities in China
Luohe () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. In 2010, 2,544,266 people lived there.

Administration
Luohe administers 3 districts and 2 counties.

Yancheng District (郾城区)
Yuanhui District (源汇区)
Shaoling District (召陵区)
Linying County (临颍县)
Wuyang County (舞阳县)

Cities in China
Zhoukou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, China. In 2010, 8,953,793 people lived there.

Administration
Zhoukou administers 1 district, 1 county-level city and 8 counties.
Chuanhui District (川汇区)
Xiangcheng City (项城市)
Huaiyang County (淮阳县)
Shenqiu County (沈丘县)
Dancheng County (郸城县)
Luyi County (鹿邑县)
Taikang County (太康县)
Fugou County (扶沟县)
Xihua County (西华县)
Shangshui County (商水县)

Other websites

Government website of Zhoukou  (in Simplified Chinese)

Cities in China
Pingdingshan (平顶山) is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It is also called Eagle City. In 2010, 4,904,701 people lived there.

Administration
Pingdingshan administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 4 counties.

Xinhua District ()
Weidong District ()
Zhanhe District ()
Shilong District ()
Ruzhou City ()
Wugang City ()
Lushan County ()
Baofeng County ()
Ye County ()
Jia County ()

Cities in China
Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province, China. It has also been spelled Loyang. It is located by the Luo River and Yellow River. In 2010, 6,549,941 people lived there.

Administrative divisions
Luoyang administers 5 "built-up" urban districts, 1 additional district, 1 county-level city, and 9 more rural counties:

Luoyang proper
Jianxi District ()
Xigong District ()
Laocheng District ()
Chanhe Hui District ()
Luolong District ()
Jili District (non-urban, )
Mengjin County ()
Xin'an County ()
Luoning County ()
Yiyang County ()
Yichuan County ()
Song County ()
Luanchuan County ()
Ruyang County ()

Cities in China
Nanyang () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Henan province, China. In 2010, 10,263,660 lived there.

Administration
Nanyang administers 2 districts, 1 county-level city and 10 counties.

Wolong District ()
Wancheng District ()
Dengzhou City ()
Xinye County ()
Sheqi County ()
Tanghe County ()
Tongbai County ()
Fangcheng County ()
Nanzhao County ()
Zhenping County ()
Neixiang County ()
Xixia County ()
Xichuan County ()

Other websites

Government website of Nanyang  (in Simplified Chinese)

Cities in China
Sanmenxia (三门峡) is prefecture-level city in western Henan Province, China. Its name has also been spelled Sanmenhsia. It is on the south side of the Yellow River. In 2010, 2,234,018 people lived there.

Administration 
Sanmenxia administers two districts, two county-level cities and two counties.

 Hubin District（湖滨区）
 Shanzhou District（陕州区）
 Lingbao City（灵宝市）
 Yima City（义马市）
 Lushi County（卢氏县）
 Mianchi County（渑池县）

Cities in China
Shangqiu (商丘) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan in the People's Republic of China. Its name has also been spelled Shangkiu. Shangqiu was the first capital of the Shang dynasty. In 2010, 7,362,975 people lived there.

Administration
Shangqiu administers 2 districts, 1 county-level city and 6 counties.

Cities in China
Xinyang (信阳) is a prefecture-level city in southern Henan in the People's Republic of China. It has also been spelled Sinyang. The city is located on the south bank of the Huai River. In 2010, 6,109,106 people lived there.

Administration
Xinyang is divided into two districts and eight counties.

Cities in China
Xuchang () is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. In 2010, 4,307,488 people lived there.

Administration
The prefecture-level city of Xuchang administers 2 district, 2 county-level cities and 2 counties.
Weidu District ()
Jian'an District ()
Yuzhou City ()
Changge City ()
Yanling County ()
Xiangcheng County ()

Cities in China
Zhumadian (驻马店) is a is a prefecture-level city in southern Henan in the People's Republic of China. It has also been spelled Chumatien. In 2010, 7,230,744 people lived there.

Administrative divisions
Zhumadian administers 1 district and 9 counties.

Yicheng District ()
Runan County ()
Pingyu County ()
Xincai County ()
Shangcai County ()
Xiping County ()
Suiping County ()
Queshan County ()
Zhengyang County ()
Biyang County ()

Cities in China
Derek Coates Barber, Baron Barber of Tewkesbury (17 June 1918 – 21 November 2017) was a British member of the House of Lords. He also served as a senior civil servant and agricultural expert. He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England.

He served as Chairman and later President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; President of the Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society; President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England; President of the British Pig Association; and a Vice-President of the Nature in Art Trust. Barber was knighted in the 1984 Birthday Honours and was created a life peer as Baron Barber of Tewkesbury, of Gotherington in the County of Gloucestershire, on 12 August 1992.

Barber was a member of the House of Lords until his retirement on 25 March 2016. He died on 21 November 2017 at the age of 99.

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James Frederick Bridenstine (born June 15, 1975) is an American politician. Bridenstine was the 13th Administrator of NASA from April 2018 to January 2021. He served as the United States Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district, based in Tulsa, from 2013 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party. 

On September 1, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Bridenstine to be the next Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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Ernest Scott Garrett (born July 9, 1959) is an American politician and banker.

Garrett was the U.S. Representative for , serving from 2003 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 to 2003.

Garrett chaired the powerful United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government-Sponsored Enterprises. He lost his 2016 reelection campaign and was succeeded by Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat.

On June 19, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Garrett to become chairman and president of the Export–Import Bank of the United States, a post that requires confirmation by the United States Senate. In a 10-13 vote on December 19, 2017, the Senate Banking Committee declined to advance his nomination.

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The Office of National Drug Control Policy is a part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Background
The Director of National Drug Control Policy, known as the Drug Czar, heads the office. "Drug Czar" was a term first used in the media by then-Senator Joe Biden in October 1982. 

In addition to running the ONDCP, the director evaluates, coordinates, and oversees both the international and domestic anti-drug efforts of executive branch agencies and ensures that such efforts sustain and complement State and local anti-drug activities. The Director advises the President regarding changes in the organization, management, budgeting, and personnel of federal agencies that affect U.S. anti-drug efforts; and regarding federal agency compliance with their obligations under the National Drug Control Strategy, an annual report required by law.

2017 Rumored shutdown
As early as February 2017, The New York Times had reported that the Trump administration was considering eliminating the office, and other programs responsible for a total of $2.5 billion of domestic spending.
In May, the office's website was blanked and Politico and The Washington Post both reported that the office was about to be drastically defunded.

List of Directors
The title of Director, as well as the office, was created by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. The position had cabinet-level status from 1993 to 2009.

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 Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Federal Register
 "NIDA for Teens" at National Institute on Drug Abuse

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Thomas Anthony Marino (born August 13, 1952) is an American politician and attorney. He was the U.S. Representative for  from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party.  

On September 1, 2017, The White House announced that President Donald Trump nominated Marino as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He withdrew on October 17, 2017 following reports that he championed a bill that protected opioid manufacturers and prevented DEA agents from being able to battle the Opioid Epidemic.

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.

Background
President John F. Kennedy created USAID from its predecessor agencies in 1961 by executive order.  USAID's programs are authorized by Congress in the Foreign Assistance Act, which Congress supplements through directions in annual funding appropriation acts and other legislation. Although it is technically an independent agency, USAID operates subject to the foreign policy guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council. 

USAID operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

List of Administrators

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Mark Andrew Green (born June 1, 1960) is an American politician and diplomat. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Green was in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, representing . He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Wisconsin in 2006. He was the United States Ambassador to Tanzania from August 2007 until January 2009.

In 2014, he became the president of the International Republican Institute, and sits on the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

On May 10, 2017, President Donald Trump chose Green to lead the United States Agency for International Development. Green was confirmed on August 3, and sworn in on August 7, 2017. He resigned in April 2020.

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards.

In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), quality standards in long-term care facilities (more commonly referred to as nursing homes) through its survey and certification process, clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, and oversight of HealthCare.gov.

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1965 establishments in the United States
United States Department of Health and Human Services
Seema Verma (born September 27, 1970) is an American health policy consultant. She was the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, serving under the Trump Administration from 2017 to 2021. She is the founder and CEO of SVC Inc., a health policy consulting firm.

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Ajit Varadaraj Pai (born January 10, 1973) is an American attorney. He served as the Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2017 to 2021. He is the first Indian American to hold the office.

Early life
Pai was born in Buffalo, New York. He was raised in Parsons, Kansas. Pai studied at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago.

Early political career
He has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.

Chairman of the FCC
In January 2017, President Donald Trump named Pai as Chairman of the agency.

In March 2017, Trump announced that he would renominate Pai to serve another five-year term at the FCC, which will require confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Before his appointment to the FCC, Pai held positions with the Department of Justice, the United States Senate, the FCC's Office of General Counsel, and Verizon Communications.

On May 18, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission took the first formal step toward dismantling the net neutrality rules.

Pai was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for an extra five-year term as FCC Chairman on October 2, 2017.

He became well known in 2017 in his criticism and attempt to end the Obama-era policy net neutrality. It received wide criticism.

On November 30, 2020, Pai announced his plans to leave the FCC. He resigned from his post as FCC Chairman on January 20, the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States.

Personal life
Pai lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Janine Van Lancker, daughter Annabelle Malathi Pai, and son Alexander Madhav Pai.

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Scott Gottlieb is an American physician. Gottlieb was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019.

Gottlieb was a clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine, a resident fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, and an internist at Tisch Hospital.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

Purpose
The SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States.

In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and other statutes.  The SEC was created by Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as  and commonly referred to as the Exchange Act or the 1934 Act).

Chairs
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. was the first Chair of the SEC. Later SEC commissioners and chairmen include William O. Douglas, Jerome Frank (one of the leaders of the legal realism movement), and William J. Casey (who later headed the Central Intelligence Agency under President Ronald Reagan).

The current chair is Gary Gensler serving since 2021 after being nominated by President Joe Biden.

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Walter J. "Jay" Clayton III (born July 11, 1966) is an American attorney. He was the 32nd Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 4, 2017 until December 23, 2020.

From 1993 to 1995, Clayton clerked for Marvin Katz, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

At Sullivan & Cromwell, Clayton was co-managing partner of the firm's General Practice Group.

On January 4, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Clayton to be SEC Chairman. On May 2, 2017, the U.S. Senate voted 61-37 to confirm Clayton as Chairman of the SEC. Votes cast in favor of Clayton's confirmation included nine Democrats and one Independent alongside 51 Republican votes. On May 4, 2017, Clayton was sworn in, marking the official beginning of his role as Chairman.

On June 19, 2020, United States Attorney General Bill Barr announced that President Trump would nominate Clayton to replace Geoffrey Berman as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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