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Padma River is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for  to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is situated on the banks of the river.
The Padma River enters Bangladesh from India near a place named Chapai Nababganj and meets the Jamuna River near a place Aricha and gets its name Padma again, but finally meets with the Meghna near Chandpur and adopts the name "Meghna" before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. It is the "National river of Bangladesh".

Reference

Rivers of Bangladesh
National symbols of Bangladesh
A molecular machine, or nanomachine, is any set of molecules which produce mechanical movements (output) in response to specific stimuli (input).  The term is common in nanotechnology where a number of complex molecular machines have been proposed which might be a way of making a "molecular assembler". Molecular machines can be divided into two broad categories: synthetic and biological.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Biological nanomachines 

The most complex molecular machines are made of proteins, and found in cells.  These include 'motor proteins'. Examples are: myosin, (which does muscle contraction), kinesin (which moves molecules from the nucleus along microtubules), and dynein (which produces the beating of motile cilia and flagella). These proteins are far more complex than any molecular machines that have yet been made by mankind.

Probably the most significant biological machine known is the ribosome. Other important examples include motile cilia: "In effect, the [motile cilium] is a nanomachine [of] over 600 proteins in molecular complexes, many of which also function independently as nanomachines".

References 

Machines
Molecular biology
Trent Robinson (born 15 March 1977) is an Australian professional rugby league coach. He is the coach of the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League (NRL). In 2013, his first year with the club, the Roosters won a premiership. He also coached the French side Catalans Dragons. He played for the Wests Tigers and the Parramatta Eels in the early 2000s.

References

Other websites
 Trent Robinson at the Rugby League Project

1977 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Coaches
This is a list of national parks of Fiji.

On the island of Viti Levu:
 Koroyanitu National Park, Nadi Area
 Nausori Highland, Nadi Area
 Colo-i-Suva Nature Reserve, Suva
 Sigatoka Sandunes National Park

On the island of Taveuni:
 Bouma National Park

On the island of Ovalau:
 Lovoni Trail

National parks in Oceania
Fiji
Lists of national parks
Oceania-related lists
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) was a  1907 cubist painting by Picasso. It represents five women in a brothel. It took him nine months to paint it. Picasso gave up all attempts at traditional painting in this early cubist painting. He distorted the female figures in a way that showed the influence of African art. When the  painting was shown in his studio to a group of painters and critics, they were outraged. Henri Matisse called it a hoax and an attempt to paint the fourth dimension, The art critic André Salmon wrote: "It was the ugliness of the faces that froze with horror the half-converted". Another painter, André Derain, wrote: "One day we shall find Pablo has hanged himself behind his great canvas". It has been called one of the most significant paintings of the 20th century. The two figures on the right are shown with African mask-like features, an interest of Picasso at the time.

References

Other websites 
 Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907; YouTube
 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Washington University Digital Archive

Paintings
Works about prostitution
Dimitrius Solon "James" Vlasto (June 11, 1934 – January 17, 2017) was an American editor, political public relations consultant and public servant. He served in federal, New York state and city senior government positions. He was born in New York City. He served as a Public Relations Representative. 

Vlasto joined the Atlantis in 1956 after his service in the United States Army. In March 1966, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. hired Vlasto to do PR for his campaign for Governor of New York on the Liberal Party ticket in 1966 against the incumbent Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller. 

Vlasto was also New York state public relations advisor for Senator George McGovern in the United States presidential election in New York, 1972, a member of the finance committee for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in the United States presidential election in New York, 1988  and New York State public relations advisor for Morris Udall’s run for Democratic nomination for President in 1976.

Vlasto worked as press secretary for former Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo during his run for mayor.

Vlasto died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in New York City on January 17, 2017, aged 82.

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1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Writers from New York City
John Edwin Pope (April 11, 1928 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist.

Biography 
He was known for his sportswriting at the Miami Herald, where his work appeared from 1956 until his death in 2017. He covered Super Bowl I through Super Bowl XLVII. Some called him as "the best writer of sports in America."

Pope's success with his 1954 book Football's Greatest Coaches, allowed him to leave the Atlanta area and move down to Miami, where he accepted a job at the Miami Herald in 1956. While he retired as the Herald sports editor in 2003, he contributed columns to the newspaper until 2016, when he wrote his last piece eulogizing boxer and former Miami resident Muhammad Ali.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Florida
American journalists
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
The Trettachspitze is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps in Germany. It is made of Dolomite and is  high. It is one of the best-known mountains in the Allgäu Alps. 

It is the only high rocky mountain in the Allgäu Alps that is completely in Germany. With the Mädelegabel () and the Hochfrottspitze () it forms the famous threesome of mountains on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps. It is found north of the Mädelegabel. It was first climbed in 1855 by 3 brothers, Urban, Alois and Mathias Jochum.

Gallery

Additional reading 

 Ernst Enzenperger: Die Gruppe der Mädelegabel, München, Jos. Köselsche Buchhandlung, 1909
 
 
 Thaddäus Steiner: Die Flurnamen der Gemeinde Oberstdorf im Allgäu, München, Selbstverlag des Verbandes für Flurnamenforschung in Bayern, 1972
 Thaddäus Steiner: Hieß die Trettachspitze einst Giis(t)kopf in Unser Oberstdorf, Blätter zur Oberstdorfer Heimatgeschichte. Heft 9/1986, S. 68.
 
 Alpenvereinskarte 1:25.000, Blatt 2/1, Allgäuer- Lechtaler Alpen, West

References 

Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Mountains of Germany
The sixpence (6d; ), sometimes known as a tanner or half-shilling was a British coin. It was worth 6 pennies or  new pence. It has not been produced since 1970. The coin was first minted in silver during the reign of Edward VI of England. From 1947 it was made from cupronickel. Following decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the coin remained in circulation but was reduced in value. It was taken out of circulation in 1980.

References 

British currency
Bad Hindelang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. From 2008 it has a population of 4,915. It is known for its sulphur springs and pure mountain air. Today the municipality is a health resort. It is  above sea level.

Mayors 
 1900-1919:  Josef Anton Blanz
 1920-1933:  Michael Haas
 1933-1939:  Anton Schmid
 1939-1945:  Karl Blanz
 1945-1947:  Max Zillibiller, CSU
 1947-1948:  Xaver Blenk
 1948-1960:  Alois Haug
 1960-1984:  Georg Scholl, CSU
 1984-2008:  Roman Haug, Freie Wähler
 2008–present: Adalbert Martin, CSU

Photo gallery

References

Additional Reading 
 Wolfgang B. Kleiner/Martin Kluger (Augsburg): Bad Hindelang im Allgäu. Bayerns zauberhafter Süden. context medien und verlag, Augsburg 2009,

Other websites 

 Official site

Spa towns in Germany
Oberallgäu
Oberstaufen is a municipality  in the district of Oberallgäu in Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany. It is on the B 308 road from Lindau to Immenstadt.

History 
It is first mentioned as Stoufun in AD 868. It was originally part of Swabia. It joined Bavaria in 1805 with the Peace of Pressburg.

Oberstaufen was the first town in Germany to be on Google Street View. This was because of a marketing campaign by the Oberstaufen tourist industry.

References

Other websites 
 Webcams in Oberstaufen 
 Fasnatziestag in Oberstaufen; YouTube

Oberallgäu
The Hochvogel is a  high mountain in the Allgäu Alps. The border between Germany and Austria runs over the summit. Climbers can ascend the summit on two marked routes. One of the most interesting climbs is by Hermann von Barth. He stayed overnight at the summit in 1869. On 14 December 1945 an American Flying Fortress crashed on the west of the Hochvogel.

Gallery

References

Sources and maps 
 Anton Spiehler, Die Allgäuer Alpen, in Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen, Volume 1, 1893, pp. 47–48. 
 Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen 9th edition 1974, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, , out of print;
 Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen und Ammergauer Alpen alpin 16th edition 2004, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, ;
 Alpenvereinskarte 2/2 Allgäuer-Lechtaler Alpen – Ost 1:25,000 7th edition 2002;
 Gipfelziele Allgäuer Alpen 1987, Bruckmann Verlag, , out of print
 Kristian Rath und Tobias Burger, Prinz-Luitpold-Haus DAV-Hüttenführer – Wandern, Klettern, Abenteuer rund um den Hochvogel, Kempten 2006, .
 Wanderführer Hinterhornbach. Natur- und kulturkundlicher Wanderführer von Gustav und Georg Dinger, hrsg. v. d. Sektion Donauwörth d. Deutschen Alpenvereins, Verlag Ludwig Auer, 
 Hermann von Barth, Einsame Bergfahrten, Albert Langen Verlag Munich, o.J. (description of the above-mentioned summit crossing)

Other websites

 Prinz-Luitpold-Hütte / The Prinz Luitpold Haus of the German Alpine Club
 Tour report 

Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Tyrol (state)
Mountains of Austria
Mountains of Germany
Shaft is a 1971 crime drama movie. It was directed by Gordon Parks.

Plot
John Shaft, a private detective, is warned that some gangsters are looking for him. Police Lieutenant Vic Androzzi meets with Shaft. Androzzi unsuccessfully tries to get some information on the gangsters. When Androzzi leaves, Shaft sees one of the men waiting for him in his office building. He brings the first gangster into the office. The second gangster is waiting there. After a quick fight, Shaft avoids one of the gangsters, who goes out the window. The other gangster surrenders and tells Shaft that a man named Bumpy Jonas wanted a meeting between him and Shaft. Jonas is the leader of a Harlem-based organized crime family,

Shaft meets with Bumpy. Shaft learns that Bumpy's daughter, Marcy Jonas, has been kidnapped. Bumpy asks Shaft to make sure that Marcy is returned safely.

Shaft tracks down a man named Ben Buford. A big shootout takes place. After the shooting, Shaft is told by Vic that he (Shaft) was the target, and not Ben. But the view is black against white, according to the general public.

Vic shows Shaft two pictures of the Mafia men who arrived in New York City. 

Shaft suspects that gangsters are watching his place from a local bar. He pretends being a bartender. He calls the police to have the gangsters arrested. He later goes to the police station and sets up a meeting. The meeting is about where Bumpy's daughter is being held.

Cast
Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi
Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
Lawrence Pressman as Tom Hannon
Victor Arnold as Charlie
Sherri Brewer as Marcy Jonas
Rex Robbins as Rollie
Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene
Margaret Warncke as Linda
Joseph Leon as Byron Leibowitz
Arnold Johnson as Cul

Awards
The "Theme from Shaft" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The Shaft soundtrack album won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album. It also won a Grammy for Best Original Score, and two other awards

Reception
The movie was one of only three profitable movies in 1971 for MGM.

Shaft was very successful. It helped pull a then-struggling MGM out of danger of bankruptcy.

The critics reviews on the movie were mixed. Roger Ebert gave the movie 2½ stars. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie at 89%.

Themes
Shaft spawned several years of 'blaxploitation' crime movies.

References

1971 crime movies
1971 drama movies
1970s crime drama movies
American crime drama movies
There are 3 arrondissements in the Cantal department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs).  The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of Cantal are:

History
Since its creation, the Cantal department has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the department with four districts: Aurillac, Mauriac, Murat and Saint-Flour.
 1800 : creation of the arrondissements: Aurillac, Mauriac, Murat and Saint-Flour.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Murat is eliminated.

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Cantal
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Sayyid Ahmed Gailani (‎; 1932 – 20 January 2017) was an Afghan Islamic leader and politician. He was the leader (Pir) of the Qadiriyya Sufi order in Afghanistah. He was also the founder of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan. The party was tied with the Mujahideen who led the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He also founded the High Peace Council in 2001. He was born in Surkh-Rōd District, Nangarhar Province.

Gailani died after an illness on 20 January 2017 in Kabul. He was 84.

References

2017 deaths
1932 births
Afghan politicians
Deaths from disease
Muslims
Pashtun people
Charles James "Charlie" Liteky (February 14, 1931 – January 20, 2017), formerly known as Angelo Liteky, was an American peace activist. He received the religious name Angelo as a member of a Catholic religious community of priests and Brothers, the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity.  He studied theology at their major seminary, located near Winchester, Virginia.  He was ordained a priest in May, 1960.  He served as a United States Army chaplain in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Medal of Honor, the U.S. highest military honor. He got the honor for carrying 20 wounded soldiers to safety during a 1967 battle while getting fired at by enemy soldiers. He was a Roman Catholic priest from 1960 until 1975. In 1986, he became the first person to give back the Medal of Honor.

Liteky was born in Washington, D.C. and joined the Army from Brooklyn, New York. He married Judy Balch in 1983.

Liteky died on January 20, 2017 in San Francisco, California. He was 85.

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1931 births
2017 deaths
American activists
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
American Roman Catholics
People from Washington, D.C.
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
Acorn squash (Cucurbita pepo var. turbinata), also called pepper squash or Des Moines squash, is a winter squash with distinctive longitudinal ridges on its exterior and sweet, yellow-orange flesh inside. It is a special kind of pumpkin. The plant originally grew in the southern United States and Mexico, but it has been cultivated worldwide.

Vegetables
The arrondissement of Mauriac is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Cantal département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Mauriac.

History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Mauriac was one of them in the Cantal department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Mauriac is in the northwest of the department and has an area of , the smallest and with fewest people living in it with 26,192 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement is bordered to the north and west by the Corrèze department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), to the northeast by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the arrondissement of Saint-Flour and to the south by the arrondissement of Aurillac.

Composition

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

In the arrondissement of Mauriac, there is only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement, Naucelles and Riom-ès-Montagnes. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

Communes
The arrondissement of Mauriac has 55 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Ally (15003)
 Anglards-de-Salers (15006)
 Antignac (15008)
 Apchon (15009)
 Arches (15010)
 Auzers (15015)
 Barriac-les-Bosquets (15018)
 Bassignac (15019)
 Beaulieu (15020)
 Brageac (15024)
 Chalvignac (15036)
 Champagnac (15037)
 Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal (15038)
 Chaussenac (15046)
 Collandres (15052)
 Drugeac (15063)
 Escorailles (15064)
 Fontanges (15070)
 Jaleyrac (15079)
 La Monselie (15128)
 Lanobre (15092)
 Le Falgoux (15066)
 Le Fau (15067)
 Le Monteil (15131)
 Le Vaulmier (15249)
 Le Vigean (15261)
 Madic (15111)
 Mauriac (15120)
 Menet (15124)
 Moussages (15137)
 Méallet (15123)
 Pleaux (15153)
 Riom-ès-Montagnes (15162)
 Saignes (15169)
 Saint-Bonnet-de-Salers (15174)
 Saint-Chamant (15176)
 Saint-Hippolyte (15190)
 Saint-Martin-Cantalès (15200)
 Saint-Martin-Valmeroux (15202)
 Saint-Paul-de-Salers (15205)
 Saint-Pierre (15206)
 Saint-Projet-de-Salers (15208)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Salers (15218)
 Saint-Étienne-de-Chomeil (15185)
 Sainte-Eulalie (15186)
 Salers (15219)
 Salins (15220)
 Sauvat (15223)
 Sourniac (15230)
 Trizac (15243)
 Trémouille (15240)
 Valette (15246)
 Vebret (15250)
 Veyrières (15254)
 Ydes (15265)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Cantal department
 Communes of the Cantal department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Mauriac
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Not to be confused with Naosaurus, a genus of pelycosaur.

Nurosaurus is the informal name given to a genus of Sauropod dinosaur. It was from the Cretaceous period in Inner Mongolia, China. It was a herbivore or plant-eater. "Nurosaurus" grew to about  long. The proposed binominal name is Nurosaurus qaganensis (Dong 1992).

References 

Sauropods
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Stanley Park is a park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The park opened on September 27, 1888. It was named after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the Governor General of Canada at the time. It is the third largest urban park in North America. The park covers . It attracts about 8 million visitors every year. Stanley Park is larger than New York City's Central Park. In Stanley Park there is a large aquarium, a protected forest, the lost lagoon, totems and other attractions.

Related pages 
 List of botanical gardens

References

Other websites 

 Stanley Park, Vancouver Tour; YouTube
 Stanley Park Ecology Society 

1888 establishments in Canada
Vancouver
Botanical gardens
Zoos
Aquariums
Lída Baarova (born Ludmila Babková 7 September 1914 in Prague – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress. She studied acting at Conservatory and received her first  film role in Pavel Čamrda's Career (Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy), filming was forbidden for students, she made up pseudonym Lída Baarova after her father's friend J.Š.Baar at age 17. The film was successful, so she had to leave the conservatory.

Her life 
Lída was born in family of Karel Babka,an official of the Prague City Hall, his wife Ludmila Babková, opera singer and piano player, occasionally sang in the choir of National Theatre. They also had second daughter Zorka, who was actress as well.In 1934 Lída was chosen by the German UFA to act the lead role in, Barcarolle, . Film that made her huge star overnight. Media marked her as mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On the orders of Hitler himself, however, she had to leave, so she left Germany in 1939. She left to Italy, where before the war returned to Prague. At the end of the war fled to Germany but was interned by the US occupation authorities, was investigated by CIC and September 23, 1945 was handed over to Czechoslovakia. She was in terrogated and imprisoned in Munich for alleged collaboration. She spent 16 months in jail, but she was released on Christmas Eve 1946 after she was not found guilty. Lída married J.Kopecký and in 1948 fled do Austria together. In 1966 she was married again, with doctor Kurt Lundwalle and they lived together in Salzburg. He died in 1972 and till her death she lived alone. Baarova died in 2000 (she suffered from Parkinson's disease) and she's buried in Prague.

, I was foolish, stupid, drunk with glory and against my will I was really badly tangled in history.`` she said about her life.

1914 births
2000 deaths
Czech movie actors
Walter Benz (May 2, 1931 – January 13, 2017) was a German mathematician, an expert in geometry. Benz was born in Mainz, Germany. He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

After a position at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he served as a professor at the Universities of Bochum, Waterloo and Hamburg where he was professor emeritus. Benz was honoured with the degree of a Dr. h.c.

Inner product spaces over the real numbers were the basis of a 2007 book by Benz: Classical Geometries in Modern Contexts.

References

Other websites
 Personal web site
 Oberwolfach Photo Collection

1931 births
2017 deaths
German academics
German mathematicians
People from Mainz
University of Waterloo
Sir John Gilbert Hanson (16 November 1938 – 13 January 2017) was a senior British diplomat, senior executive, historian, and academic. He was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire.

Hanson was the Director-General of the British Council between 1992 and 1998. Hanson then became the Warden of Green College, University of Oxford from 1998 to 2006. Under his leadership, Green College merged with Templeton College in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, located at what was previously Green College.

Hanson died in London on 13 January 2017 after a short illness, aged 78.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
British businesspeople
British historians
British educators
British politicians
British writers
People from Sheffield
Vahit Melih Halefoğlu (19 November 1919 – 21 January 2017) was a Turkish politician and diplomat.

After the general elections held in 1983, Turgut Özal appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs from outside of the parliament. In 1986, he was elected deputy of Ankara from the Motherland Party (ANAP). He did not stand for election in the 1987 general elections and ended his political career.

Halefoğlu died on 21 January 2017 in Istanbul, aged 97.

References

Other websites
 Biyografi.net - Biography of Vahit Halefoğlu

1919 births
2017 deaths
Turkish politicians
Ambassadors of Turkey
The Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche) were a vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey. They were known for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances.

The Roches were active as performers and recording artists from the mid-1970s through 2007, at various times performing as a trio and in pairs.

Albums
 The Roches (Warner, 1979)
 Nurds (Warner, 1980)
 Keep On Doing (Warner, 1982)
 Another World (Warner, 1985)
 No Trespassing (Real Live Records, 1986)
 Speak (MCA, 1989)
 We Three Kings (MCA, 1990)
 A Dove (MCA, 1992)
 Will You Be My Friend? (Baby Boom, 1994)
 Can We Go Home Now (Rykodisc, 1995).
 The Collected Works of the Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2003)
 Moonswept (429 Records, 2007)
 Rhino HiFive: The Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2007)

References

Other websites
 
 
 The Roches' MySpace page
 Interview/performance on The Current
 Interview with Robert Fripp about producing The Roches

1973 establishments in the United States
Folk music groups
American rock bands
People from Park Ridge, New Jersey
1970s establishments in New Jersey
Dan Caspi (December 1, 1945 – January 22, 2017) was an Israeli lecturer, journalist and activist. He worked at the Communication Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel.

Career
Throughout his career, Caspi has combined research with public activity and lively commentary. He published hundreds of articles in the printed daily and online press, including regular columns in a Jerusalem local paper, in the Israel Publishers’ Association monthly Otot ("Signals")' in Haayin Hashviit ("The Seventh Eye", an online media journal)' the op-ed section of ynet (an online newspaper produced by Yedioth Ahronoth) and a blog for Ha'aretz.

Death
Caspi died on January 22, 2017 in Israel, aged 72.

References

Other websites
 Personal website
 דן כספי, לשחרר את רוממה, ynet
 http://blogs.haaretz.co.il/dancaspi/ 

1945 births
2017 deaths
Israeli academics
Israeli activists
Israeli journalists
Jewish academics
Jewish activists
Jewish Israeli writers
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Romanian Jews
İlhan Cavcav (October 4, 1935 – January 22, 2017) was a Turkish businessman. He served as the chairman of Gençlerbirliği, a Football club in Turkey for almost 40 years until his death. He was born in Ankara.

He was known for his hard negotiation tactics with the big clubs in Turkey and searching for abilities especially for discovering talent from Africa.

Controversies
In November 2014 Cavcav announced that he would be fining bearded players, claiming that they were a bad influence for the youth. Cavcav said that he would fine players that kept their beards  25,000 Turkish Liras and also attacked UEFA for not banning beards in all of its completions.

Death
Cavcav was taken to hospital after falling and hitting his head, which caused a brain hemorrhage. He was kept in intensive care unit. One day later, on January 22, 2017, he was pronounced dead.

Accomplishments
 In 1978 Gençlerbirliği S.K. had no training facilities and now the team has one of the largest youth programs in Turkey and  of training facilities in Bestepe, Ankara (Beştepe İlhan Cavcav Tesisleri)
 He is the longest serving professional football club chairman in Turkey (1978-2017).

References

Other websites
 
 Genclerbirliği Fans and Statistics site
 Genclerbirligi Fans and Comment site 

1935 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Turkish businesspeople
People from Ankara
Deaths from head injury
Chen Yu-mei (; 22 July 1966 – 22 January 2017) was a politician in the Republic of China. She served as Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan from 18 September 2013 to 8 August 2014.

On 8 August 2014, Chen officially resigned to attend to other career plans. She was succeeded by Hsin Shih-chang, a professor from National Taiwan Normal University.

References

1966 births
2017 deaths
Taiwanese politicians
Civil servants
Andy Manuel Marte (October 21, 1983 – January 22, 2017) was a Dominican professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks. He also played in the KBO League for the KT Wiz. He was born in Villa Tapia, Dominican Republic.

Marte was killed in a car crash near San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic on January 22, 2017, aged 33.

References

Other websites

Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization

1983 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Dominican Republic sportspeople
Atlanta Braves players
Cleveland Indians players
Arizona Diamondbacks players
Yordano Ventura Hernández (; June 3, 1991 – January 22, 2017) was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2013 through 2016. He was twice named to the All-Star Futures Game. He was born in Samaná, Dominican Republic.

Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013. He was known as a power pitcher, his fastball was much valued by the Royals during his tenure with the team. In 2014, Ventura's 96.2 mph average fastball velocity (96.4 for two-seamers) ranked second-best among MLB starters. He helped the Royals win the 2015 World Series.

On January 22, 2017, Ventura was killed in a car accident in the city of Juan Adrián, Dominican Republic, aged 25.

References

Other websites

 

1991 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Dominican Republic sportspeople
Kansas City Royals players
Jaki Liebezeit (May 26, 1938 – January 22, 2017) was a German drummer. He was best known as a founding member of Can, who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral". He also played the piano and saxophone. He was born in Dresden, Germany.

Liebezeit died on January 22, 2017 in Dresden, Germany from pneumonia, aged 78.

References

Other websites

1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
German pianists
Saxophonists
Drummers
People from Dresden
Park Ridge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Park Ridge had a population of 8,645 as of the 2010 United States Census. The mayor of Park Ridge is Terence P. Maguire.

The borough is a part of the Pascack Valley region of Bergen County. It is bounded by the boroughs of Montvale, River Vale, Woodcliff Lake and Hillsdale.

The Hertz Corporation, a car rental company, had been headquartered in Park Ridge and was the borough's largest single taxpayer. Sony Corporation of America has an R&D and engineering facility in Park Ridge.

Famous people were either born or raised here in Park Ridge: James Gandolfini, The Roches, and Pat Nixon.

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Boroughs in New Jersey
The World According to Novikoff () is a thriller novel by Russian writer Andrei Gusev, published in 2006.

Plot
The novel covers the time period from nineties of the last century to zero years of the present century. We can see a wide panorama of life in Russia. The life of an ordinary man in modern Russia describes in the novel. At the same time The World According to Novikoff is a thriller novel which focuses on a plot to use nuclear materials by Islamic terrorists in Moscow.

The main character, Victor Novikoff is a painter. He works in “The New literary newspaper” in Moscow; later he works as an editor in the Russian Agency "Interteleks", which is easily guessed "Interfax". The last place of Victor Novikoff’ work is Trell publisher, which very similar to famous publishing Astrel, AST group from Moscow. He works here as a literary editor and he receives a manuscript in which the plot of Islamic terrorist acts describes. He must decide what to do with it. From him it depends largely: whether this manuscript will be accepted for publication as a literary story.

Literary features 
The World According to Novikoff is a novel with a non-linear storyline. The angle of view combines all four parts of this novel: two points of view — male and female — on the same vital conflict, moral problems, erotic transactions.

From an other side this novel is a mixt of thriller and fantasy. At the cover of the book we can read: "All the characters of this book, including famous politicians, are a figment of the imagination of the author. If you find some convergence with the Russian reality, then so much the worse for last".

“After reading the book The World According to Novikoff by Andrei Gusev, I'm quite certain that it simply must be done bedside book each President to know how not to do a history, how not to lead the country. Kudos to Herostratus, destroyed one of the seven wonders of the world — the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, this is not the kind of Fame, to which we should aspire”. — Irina Gorunova 

Because of political reasons this novel was removed from some Russian literary portals.

References

Other websites

Сто лет со дня рождения – the main part of the thriller novel The World According to Novikoff in Wikisource 
Мир по Новикову (book's cover) 

2006 books
Novels
Fantasy books
Kasaragod District () is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India. Kasaragod became part of Kannur district following the reorganisation of states and formation of Kerala in November 1, 1956. Kasaragod was declared as a district on 24 May 1984.

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Kerala
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, or Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, is also known as Kotte. It is the official capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is in the urban area of Colombo.

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Settlements in Sri Lanka
Capital cities in Asia
Ruth Culbertson Samuelson (November 4, 1959 – January 23, 2017) was an American Republican politician. She was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 104th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. She announced on October 15, 2013, that she would not seek re-election for a fifth term and would leave office at the end of her current term, after the 2014 elections.

From 2000 to 2004, Samuelson served as a member of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, representing the Fifth District. In 2004, she ran for an At-Large seat on the Board of Commissioners, but lost in a tight general election race.

Samuelson was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She revealed in June 2016 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Samuelson died on January 23, 2017 under hospice care in Charlotte, North Carolina, aged 57.

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1959 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from ovarian cancer
Politicians from South Carolina
Politicians from North Carolina
US Republican Party politicians
Russia currently has eleven time zones:

Daylight saving time (DST) is no longer observed in Russia but it was used from when it was part of the Soviet Union until 2011, then President Dmitry Medvedev announced on February 8, 2011, that summer time will be used all year, leaving Moscow Time on UTC+4 year round.

On 22 July 2014, Another bill was re-introduced, forcing all Russian time zones to move an hour back, and Moscow Time is now on UTC+3. However, the 
 Udmurtia and Samara Oblast remained on UTC+04:00, (thus reinstating Samara Time, MSK+1)
 Kemerovo Oblast remained on UTC+07:00 (went from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk Time)
 Zabaykalsky Krai moved back two hours to UTC+08:00 (went from Yakutsk to Irkutsk Time)
 Magadan Oblast moved back two hours to UTC+10:00 (went from Magadan Time, MSK+8 to Vladivostok Time, MSK+7)
 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai remained on UTC+12:00 (thus reinstating Kamchatka Time, MSK+9)
 The parts of the Magadan Time zone that remained on MSK+8, were given a new time zone name, Srednekolymsk Time, UTC+11.
More time changes occurred in 2016. On March 27, several times were changed:
 Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk oblasts moved forward one hour from UTC+03:00 to UTC+04:00 (from Moscow to Samara time)
 Altai Krai and Altai Republic moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time)
 Zabaykalsky Krai moved forward one hour from UTC+08:00 to UTC+09:00 (from Irkutsk to Yakutsk time)
 Sakhalin Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00 (from Vladivostok to Srednekolymsk time), except Severo-Kurilsky District, which was already in UTC+11:00 (Srednekolymsk Time)
On April 24, another time zone was changed:
 Magadan Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00 (from Vladivostok to Srednekolymsk time)
On July 24, another time zone was changed:
 Novosibirsk Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time)
And, on December 4, another time zone was changed:
 Saratov Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+03:00 to UTC+04:00 (from Moscow to Samara time)

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Russia
Russia
Season 1 of the Nickelodeon TV series SpongeBob SquarePants started on May 1, 1999 and ended on March 3, 2001.

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SpongeBob SquarePants seasons
1999 television seasons
2000 television seasons
2001 television seasons
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series. The third season was on television from October 5, 2001 to October 11, 2004. 

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, stopped making the television series in order to make The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The television series was meant to end after the movie was released. Because the movie was so popular, the television series continued.

The third season won both the 2003 and 2004 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon.

Episodes

References

Other websites
IMDB

SpongeBob SquarePants seasons
2000s television seasons
2001 television seasons
Andrew Telegdi, PC (András Telegdi; May 28, 1946 – January 23, 2017) was a Hungarian-born Canadian politician.  He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2008, representing Waterloo and the successor riding of Kitchener—Waterloo.

In 2014, Telgedi ran and lost in the 2014 Waterloo Regional Elections.  He came in third place to become one of two councillors for Waterloo on the Waterloo Regional Council.

Telegdi was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the University of Waterloo in the 1970s. Telegdi died on January 23, 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario, aged 70.

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1946 births
2017 deaths
Hungarian politicians
People from Budapest
Politicians from Ontario
Privy Councillors (Canada)
FAW Group Corporation is a Chinese Government-owned corporation automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Changchun, Jilin, China. Its principal products are automobiles; buses; light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks; and auto parts. FAW became China's first automobile manufacturer when it unveiled the nation's first domestically produced passenger car, the Hong Qi, in 1958.

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China
Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American businessman. He was known for being the co-founder of Amway along with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.

In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th richest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion. At one point, he was one of the 10 richest Americans.

DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at Calvin College. He served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. He was married to Helen June Van Wesep from 1953 until her death in 2017. Together, they had four children. His son, Dick DeVos, is married to Betsy DeVos the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education.

He was a Reformed Christian.

DeVos died on September 6, 2018 from complication of an infection in Ada, Michigan at the age of 92.

References

Other websites
Profile at Forbes

Richard DeVos' campaign contributions  at Newsmeat
Excellence in Philanthropy, Updates on Past Winners 2001-2013: Richard and Helen DeVos 
 Miller, John J. Contesting Art. Philanthropy Magazine. Summer 2011. 

1926 births
2018 deaths
Infectious disease deaths in the United States
American Calvinists
Businesspeople from Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Cère  is a French river, in the Massif Central, that flows through the Cantal, Corrèze and Lot departments. It is a left tributary of the Dordogne (river) and is the main river of the Cantal department.

For about , the Cère forms the border between, first, the Corrèze and the Cantal departments and, later, between the Corrèze and the Lot departments.

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

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Biars-sur-Cère in the Lot department.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Biars-sur-Cère

Course
The source of the Cère river is in the southwestern Massif Central, in Col de Font de Cèrein the commune of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, at an altitude of about , in the Cantal department.

The Cère river flows to the west, in general, through 3 regions, 3 departments and 29 communes. Several communes are named after the river: Vic-sur-Cère, Arpajon-sur-Cère, Laval-de-Cère, Gagnac-sur-Cère, Biars-sur-Cère. It flows through the following communes, among others:
 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
 Cantal department:  Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, Thiézac, Vic-sur-Cère, Polminhac, Arpajon-sur-Cère, Sansac-de-Marmiesse, Saint-Étienne-Cantalès, Laroquebrou
 Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
 Corrèze department: Camps-Saint-Mathurin-Léobazel
 Occitanie region
 Lot department: Laval-de-Cère, Bretenoux, Biars-sur-Cère, Prudhomat.

Finally, it flows into the Dordogne river in the town of Girac in the Marne department.

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

Left tributaries:
 Roannes - 20.1 km
 Escalmels - 24.7

Right tributaries:
 Jordanne - 40.6 km
 Authre - 42 km

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Rivers of France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Occitanie
The Yes California Independence Campaign is an American political action committee. It promotes the secession of the state of California from the United States via a referendum proposed for 2019. The campaign president is Louis J. Marinelli. He is a former New Yorker who lives in Russia He has received help from the Russian government to promote his efforts. Marinelli was encouraged by the news of Brexit, the United Kingdom plan for leaving the European Union. The group has been nicknamed "Calexit" for California exit. The left-wing group was allowed to set up a makeshift embassy in Moscow under the name the “Embassy of the Independent Republic of California". The Kremlin has been known for supporting secessionist movements in Europe and the United States.

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Political activists
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956 in New York City) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Viola was the nominee for United States Secretary of the Army after being nominated by Donald Trump in December 2016. He withdrew his name from consideration on February 3, 2017.

He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team.

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1956 births
Living people
American philanthropists
American military people
Businesspeople from New York City
Heather Ann Wilson (born December 30, 1960) is an American politician. Wilson was the 24th United States Secretary of the Air Force from May 16, 2017 through May 31, 2019. She served as President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing  from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.

After leaving Congress she was leading consulting firm Heather Wilson & Company.

On January 23, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intentions to nominate Wilson as Secretary of the Air Force. The United States Senate confirmed her nomination on May 8, 2017.

On March 8, 2019, Wilson said that she would resign as Secretary, on May 31, 2019, in order to become President of the University of Texas at El Paso.

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1960 births
Living people
Businesspeople from New Hampshire
Businesspeople from New Mexico
American military people
Educators from New Hampshire
Politicians from New Hampshire
United States representatives from New Mexico
United States Secretaries of the Air Force
US Republican Party politicians
Educators from New Mexico
Educators from South Dakota
The Mirage is a 3,044 room hotel and casino resort located on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casino is owned by MGM Mirage. 

The Mirage has a 20,000-gallon saltwater aquarium with over 450 species of fish. It has an indoor tropical rainforest housed in its  tall atrium. In front of the Mirage is a volcano that erupts nightly depending on the season. Every hour there is a fire show. The huge balls of fire are choreographed to music and light up the lagoon next to it. 

The Mirage is connected by a free tram to Treasure Island, its sister property immediately to the north.

References

Other websites 
 Mirage website
 Mirage Volcano Show in Las Vegas; YouTube

Hotels
Buildings and structures in Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Marta Kubišová (1 November 1942 České Budějovice, then in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) is a Czech singer most popular in Czechoslovakia in 1960s. She won Zlatý slavík TV award in 1967.

Life 
Family

Marta Kubišová’s father was a cardiologist and her mother a housewife. Her family moved to Poděbrady in 1952. She married Jan Něměc, who later emigrated and they got divorced. Her second husband was director Jan Moravec. Her daughter Kateřina was born on 1 June 1979.

Career 
Her singing career started with a dance group in Nymburk. She reached the finals in Hledáme nové talenty in 1961. In 1963 she moved to Plzeň to perform. In September 1964 she performed in theater Rokoko. She won Silver Lyre of Bratislava with Helena Vondráčková in 1966. She created the group 'Golden Kids' with Václav Neckář and Vondráčková in 1967. Her song Prayer for Marta became a symbol of national resistance against the occupation of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968. During the Prague Spring, she recorded over 200 SP records and one LP (Songy a Balady), which was immediately banned from stores. The government unjustly banned her from performing in February 1970. She signed the Charter 77 and she became their speaker.  

She suffered a miscarriage and survived clinical death. Marta was also an actress and she met her husband Jan Němec while filming. In 1990s and 2000s she also took part in concerts to promote human rights. She was awarded the Honorary Medal of T. G. Masaryk in 1998 and in October 2002 she got the St. Wenceslas Honours.

1942 births
Living people
Czech singers
The Ouija (pronounced wee-jee or wee-jah) is a game board supposedly used to talk to the dead. It is designed to be a fun activity based on self-deception. They are also called "spirit boards" or "talking boards. It is a flat board with the numbers 0-9 and all the letters of the alphabet. It has the words "yes" and "no" at the top with the word "goodbye" on the bottom. The board uses a planchette, which is a small wooden plank in the shape of an upside down heart. It has a glass circle (or plain hole) in the top. The player asks a question.   Then one or more players guide the planchette to the letters or numbers to spell out a message. However, Scientists know the game is based on the ideomotor effect. A participant believes they are not controlling the message, that it comes from ghosts or spirits. It can seem very mysterious. But anyone can test a Ouija board by blindfolding or hiding the board from the ones moving the planchette. What usually results is gibberish and no message.

References

Other websites 
 Do You Believe? | Brain Games; National Geographic
 The Truth About Ouija Boards / How to make your own!:YouTube
 How Ouija Boards Work; HowStuffWorks

Board games