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This is a list of diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan.

Africa

 Algiers (Embassy)

 Cairo (Embassy)

 Addis Ababa (Embassy)

 Tripoli (Embassy)

 Rabat (Embassy)

 Pretoria (Embassy)

Americas

 Buenos Aires (Embassy)

 Brasilia (Embassy)

 Ottawa (Embassy)

 Bogotá (Embassy)

 Havana (Embassy)

 Mexico City (Embassy)

 Lima (Embassy)

 Washington, D.C. (Embassy)
 Los Angeles (Consulate-General)

Asia

 Beijing (Embassy)

 Tbilisi (Embassy)
 Batumi (Consulate-General)

 New Delhi (Embassy)

 Jakarta (Embassy)

 Tehran (Embassy)
 Tabriz (Consulate–General)

 Tokyo (Embassy)

 Amman (Embassy)

 Nur-Sultan (Embassy)
 Aktau (Consulate–General)

 Seoul (Embassy)

 Kuwait City (Embassy)

 Bishkek (Embassy)

 Kuala Lumpur (Embassy)

 Islamabad (Embassy)

 Doha (Embassy)

 Riyadh (Embassy)

 Damascus (Embassy)

 Dushanbe (Embassy)

 Ankara (Embassy)
 Istanbul (Consulate–General)
 Kars (Consulate–General)

 Ashgabad (Embassy)

 Abu Dhabi (Embassy)
 Dubai (Consulate)

 Tashkent (Embassy)

 Hanoi (Embassy)

Europe

 Vienna (Embassy)

 Minsk (Embassy)

 Brussels (Embassy)

 Sarajevo (Embassy)

 Sofia (Embassy)

 Zagreb (Embassy)

 Prague (Embassy)

 Tallinn (Embassy)

 Paris (Embassy)

 Berlin (Embassy)

 Athens (Embassy)

 Budapest (Embassy)

 Rome (Embassy)

 Riga (Embassy)

 Vilnius (Embassy)

 Chişinău (Embassy)

 Podgorica (Embassy)

 The Hague (Embassy)

 Warsaw (Embassy)

 Bucharest (Embassy)

 Moscow (Embassy)
 Saint Petersburg (Consulate–General)
 Yekaterinburg (Consulate–General)

 Belgrade (Embassy)

 Ljubljana (Embassy)

 Madrid (Embassy)

 Stockholm (Embassy)

 Bern (Embassy)

 Kiev (Embassy)

 London (Embassy)

Oceania

 Canberra (Embassy)

Multilateral organisations
 Brussels (Mission to NATO)
 Geneva (Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office and Other International Organisations)
 New York (Permanent Mission to the United Nations)
 Paris (Mission to UNESCO)
 Strasbourg (Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe)

Related pages 
List of diplomatic missions in Azerbaijan

Other websites
Republic of Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
Republic of Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, List of Diplomatic Missions of Azerbaijan  

Politics of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan-related lists
Marisela Morales Ibáñez is a Mexican lawyer.  She was Attorney General of Mexico. In 2011 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the U.S. Department of State.

Life and work 
Morales was born in Mexico City. She got a degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.  She finished a master's degree in criminal science from the National Institute of Criminal Sciences. 

After Morales finished school, she was the Assistant Attorney General for Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime.  On March 31, 2011, President Felipe Calderón named Morales as the Attorney General of Mexico.

Awards 

 International Women of Courage Award, 2011

Other websites 

 2011 International Women of Courage Awards, U.S. State Department photostream on Flickr 
Secretary's International Women of Courage Award (U.S. Department of State)

References  

Women who received the International Women of Courage Award
1970 births
Living people
Politicians from Mexico City
Mexican lawyers
Women lawyers
Southport F. C. is an English football club from Sauthport, Merseyside. Southport F. C was founded in 1881. Nowdays, the football club appear in Conference National. In the 2009-2010 season, the club won Conference Northern. In the 2010-2011 season, the club finished in 21st place and had to leave the league, but remained thanks to disband Rushden & Diamonds.

Source 
 Official website

English football clubs
1881 establishments in England
Bizarro (previously known as Medusa) is a floorless steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure

1999 establishments in the United States
Roller coasters by name
Roller coasters in New Jersey
1990s establishments in New Jersey
Community of İskenderpaşa is a Sufistic community in Turkey. When Mehmed Zahid Kotku was commisioned as imam in Mosque of İskenderpaşa, it started. When he died, the community's leader was Mahmud Esad Coşan. Now, this community's leader is Muharrem Nureddin Coşan.

This community trained very famous politicians. For example. Necmettin Erbakan, Turgut Özal, Recai Kutan, Korkut Özal, Cevat Ayhan, Ahmet Tekdal, Akif Gülle, Hasan Hüseyin Ceylan, Temel Karamollaoğlu, Nevzat Yalçıntaş .

References 

Islam
Istanbul
First normal form (1NF) is a property of a relational model, specifically tables. Within a table that is in first normal form, each row has columns that are each represent one thing and contain one element. Additionally, there are no repeated columns in the table.

First normal form is a minimum criterion of database normalization.

Database modeling
Simcoe County is part of Central Ontario, Canada. It is north of the Greater Toronto Area, between Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay. It is part of the Golden Horseshoe area. The county covers . In 2011, it had a population of 277,614. It was named by John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, for his father John Simcoe.

Agriculture and manufacturing are a big part of Simcoe County's economy. Honda Canada is one of the county's biggest employers.

The County has sixteen municipalities:
 Town of Bradford West Gwillinbury
 Town of Collingwood
 Town of Innisfil
 Town of Midland
 Town of New Tecumseth
 Town of Penetanguishene
 Town of Wusaga Beach
 Township of Adjala-Tosorontio
 Township of Clearview
 Township of Essa
 Township of Oro-Medonte
 Township of Ramara
 Township of Severn
 Township of Springivater
 Township of Tay
 Township of Tiny, Ontario
The cities of Barrie and Orillia are both in Simcoe County but they are politically independent of the county.

Counties of Ontario
This is a list of political parties that are active in the province of Manitoba, Canada.

Registered parties
 Manitoba Liberal Party
 New Democratic Party of Manitoba
 Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba
 Communist Party of Canada - Manitoba
 Green Party of Manitoba

Unregistered parties
 Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) (Manitoba Regional Committee)

Historical parties
These are parties that used to exist in Manitoba but don't any longer. Some merged with other parties in the province.
Canadian Party 1870
Dominion Labour Party (in Manitoba) 1918-1920
Ex-Soldiers and Ex-Sailors Party of Manitoba 1920
First Peoples Party 1995
Freedom Party of Manitoba 2007
Independent Citizen's Party 1920
Independent Labour Party (in Manitoba) (I) 1890s, 1907
Independent Labour Party (in Manitoba) (II) 1920-1943
Independent Native Voice 1995
Labor-Progressive Party 1941-1959
Labour Representation Committee (in Manitoba) 1910s
Libertarian Party of Manitoba, 1980s-2005
Manitoba Confederation of Regions Party 1984-1991
Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 1936-1961
Manitoba Grey Party 2002-2003
Manitoba Labour Party 1910
Manitoba Marijuana Party 2005-2007
Manitoba Party 1998-2003
Manitoba Reform Party 1991-1995
Manitoba Social Credit Party 1935-1981
Patrons of Industry 1890s
Prosperity for Posterity Party 1953
Progressive Party of Manitoba 1921-1948
Progressive Party of Manitoba (II) 1981-1995
Prohibitionists 1903
Provincial Rights Party 1882-1884
Revolutionary Workers League (in Manitoba) 1977
Social Democratic Party of Canada (in Manitoba) 1911-1920
Socialist Party of Canada (in Manitoba) 1904-1922, 1932, 1945
Sound Money Economics System 1941
Union Labour 1922
Western Canada Concept Party of Manitoba 1984-1987
Western Independence Party of Manitoba 1987-1995(?)
Winnipeg into the '90s 1989
Winnipeg Labour Party 1899-1903

Manitoba
The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (or PCP) is the one of the right-wing political parties in Manitoba, Canada. The party was founded in 1882. It formed the government for the province between 1899 and 1915. It lost power in the 1915 general election because of a scandal about the building of the Manitoba Legislative Building.

During the 20th century, the PCP formed the provincial government several times. After the 1988 general election, the party formed a minority government and remained in power for several years. In the Manitoba general election, 1999, it lost power to the New Democratic Party. In the 2011 general election, the PCP formed the opposition in the Legislative Assembly, with eight seats.

On July 30, 2012, Brian Pallister became the party leader. He is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly. After the 2016 elections, the PCP won a majority government and Pallister became the Premier of Manitoba.

References

Other websites

Political parties of Manitoba
Conservative parties
1882 establishments
1880s establishments in Canada
The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is the unicameral assembly of the legislature of Manitoba, Canada. There are fifty-seven members, all from single-member constituencies. Each is elected in provincial general elections in a first-past-the-post voting system. The assembly meets in the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg.

The Premier of Manitoba is usually the leader of the largest party in the Legislative Assembly. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is the presiding officer of the legislature.

Government of Manitoba
Manitoba
The Premier of Manitoba is the head of government for the province of Manitoba, Canada. The Premier is appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, who represents the Queen. The Premier is usually the head of the largest party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. The Premier then appoints the Cabinet of Manitoba.

The current Premier of Manitoba is Brian Pallister of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was sworn in on May 3, 2016.

References

Other websites
 Premier of Manitoba Official Site
This is a list of the general elections to the Canadian province of Manitoba's Legislative Assembly. The number of seats has increased over time, to the present 57. Usually a general election is held every four years. The most recent election was in 2016.

Summary of results
The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. The winning party's total is shown in bold. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

Notes
  Includes results for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (1936 to 1959), Independent Labour Party (1922 to 1936), Labour (1920), Socialists (1920) and Social Democrats (1915 and 1920).
  Includes results for Progressive Conservatives, and also the Independent Conservative candidate elected in 1903.
  Includes results for the Liberal-Progressive party.
  Includes results for the Progressive party in 1927.
  Includes the two Liberal-Conservatives elected, who were members of the government.
  Includes those of unknown party status.

Elections prior to provincial political parties
Until the 1879 election, political parties were not active in the province. However, some candidates declared their support for (or opposition to) the administration of the time. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.

elections
General elections in Canada
Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) was an important French surgeon of the 16th century. He caused a major change in how medicine was practiced. Unlike surgeons before him, he cared about his patients. He worked to promote healing and minimize a patient's pain. His said "I dressed him, God cured him." Paré was a royal surgeon to several French kings including Henry II. He considered by many to be the father of modern surgery.

Career 
Paré was born about 1510 in France. His father was a country artisan. As a youth he was an apprentice to a barber. Then he trained as a barber-surgeon in Paris. This was at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris hospital.

There were three levels of those who practiced medicine. Physicians were at the top and were the only ones who could be members of the Faculty of Medicine. Master surgeons were the next group. Paré belonged to the lowest group, the barber-surgeons. At the time wars were being fought all around him. Battlefield medicine was brutal and dirty. Firearms were a new weapon on the battlefield and were causing new and different wounds. Shrapnel, shot and bullets were a new problem for surgeons. They also believed gunpowder was poisonous. To stop the bleeding, they poured boiling oil over the wound. This burned an already suffering soldier.

In 1536, Paré was a young war surgeon just getting started on the battlefield. He ran out of oil to seal soldiers' wounds after amputations. He made up a mix of egg yolks, oil of roses and turpentine. He applied this to several soldier's wounds. The next morning he was surprised to see those soldiers with the mix he made up were much better than the soldiers who had been scalded. He used ligatures to tie off arteries during amputations to stop bleeding.

Royal surgeon 
In 1552, Paré became the official royal surgeon. He was surgeon to four French kings: Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III.

Paré wrote his first book, Methods of Treating Wounds, in 1545. He wrote it in French because he did not speak Latin. In 1575 he published his collected works. He was severely criticized by the Faculty of Physicians. This was the top school of physicians in France. Paré was called an ignorant fraud by Etienne Gourmelen, the dean of the Faculty. He stated no books on medicine could be published except through the Faculty of Physicians. Paré had the support of the king so his books sold without the Faculty. He wrote three more books. Paré wrote his own story titled The Apology and Treatise of Ambroise Paré.

References

Other websites 

 Pages from Pare's 1575 book at the James Lind Library

1510 births
1590 deaths
French physicians
People from Pays de la Loire
Surgeons
The Manitoba general election of November 17, 1981 was held to elect members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada. The New Democratic Party won the election. They won 34 out of 57 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party won the remaining 23 seats. The Manitoba Liberal Party didn't win any seats for the first time in its history. The Progressive Party (which ran for the first time), the Communist Party, and Western Canada Concept Party also ran candidates in the election. None of these parties won any seats.

Howard Pawley of the New Democratic Party became premier.

1981 elections
1980s in Canada
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1980s elections in Canada
election
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Rhynie () () is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles northwest of Alford.

The Rhynie chert is named after the village, as well as the extinct plant genus Rhynia. The Rhynie chert is a sedimentary rock.  It was deposited during the Devonian period and contains the oldest fossil insect in the world.

The Station Hotel at Rhynie is mentioned as a joke in the sketch "The Will" by Scotland the What. The joke is that there is no railway station at Rhynie, "..but they were aye hopin' for one."

History

Eight Pictish symbol stones have been found at Rhynie. These include the "Rhynie Man", discovered in 1978. It is a six foot tall boulder carved with a bearded man carrying an axe. It may possibly be the Celtic god Esus.

The "Rhynie Man" now stands inside Woodhill House (the headquarters of the Aberdeenshire Council ) in Aberdeen.

In 2011, archaeological excavations at Rhynie, near the site of the "Rhynie Man", dug up a fortified settlement. It dates to the early medieval period.  Among the finds at the site were fragments of a late 5th or 6th century Roman amphora. It is the only known example of a Roman amphora from Eastern Britain that dates to the post-Roman period. This must have been imported from the Mediterranean region. It means that the inhabitants of the settlement must have been of high status.  Archaeologists have said that the settlement may have been a royal family site where Pictish kings lived.

References

Other websites 

 Rhynie in the Gazetteer for Scotland

Towns in Aberdeenshire
Archaeological sites in Scotland
Charles Pasqua (18 April 1927 – 29 June 2015) was a French businessman and Gaullist politician. He was Interior Minister from 1986 to 1988, under Jacques Chirac's cohabitation government, and also from 1993 to 1995, under the government of Édouard Balladur.

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Civil servants
Deaths from myocardial infarction
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Christopher Russell Edward "Chris" Squire (4 March 1948 – 27 June 2015) was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He was best known as the bassist and founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. He was the only member to appear on each of their 21 studio albums, released from 1969 to 2014.

In May 2015, Squire announced a hiatus from Yes after he was diagnosed with acute erythroid leukemia. Squire died on 27 June at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 67.

References

Other websites

1983 audio interview with Trevor Rabin, Alan White, Chris Squire, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman 

1948 births
2015 deaths
Cancer deaths in Arizona
Deaths from leukemia
English singer-songwriters
Singers from London
Musicians from Middlesex
Writers from Middlesex
The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates were discovered missing during a 5:30 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in New York. The inmates were Richard Matt and David Sweat. Both men had been convicted of murder. Nearly three weeks later, Matt was found at Malone, New York, where he was shot and killed. Two days after that, Sweat was shot in Constable, New York and taken into custody.

References

2015 crimes in the United States
2010s in New York (state)
Crime in New York
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC;  ) is an annual political conference in National Harbor, Maryland attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States.  CPAC is hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU). More than 100 other organizations contribute in various ways.

In 2011, ACU took CPAC on the road with its first Regional CPAC in Orlando, Florida. Since then ACU has hosted regional CPACs in Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, and San Diego.

The conference was founded in 1973 by the American Conservative Union and Young Americans for Freedom as a small gathering of dedicated conservatives. Over the years it has grown to thousands of attendees annually. Roughly half of those in attendance in the past few years have been college-aged.

Speakers have included Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Pat Buchanan, Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tony Snow, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Allen West, Michele Bachmann, and other conservative public figures. Before, during, and after his presidency, Ronald Reagan spoke at CPAC a total of 12 times. In 2017, President Donald Trump spoke at the event.

References

Other websites
 CPAC Official site
 Home page for the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs CPAC

Conservatism 
United States Republican Party
1973 establishments in the United States
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. It provides year-round training and competitions to more than 4.4 million athletes in 170 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world. This includes local, national and regional competitions. Combined they add up to more than 70,000 events a year.

These competitions include the Special Olympics World Games. These alternate between summer and winter games. Special Olympics World Games are held every four years. The most recent World Summer Games were the Special Olympics World Summer Games, held in Athens, Greece (The birthplace of the modern Olympic Games). They ran from June 25, 2011 to July 4, 2011. The next summer games will be held in Los Angeles beginning Saturday, July 25 and ending on August 2, 2015. The Flame of Hope is the symbol of the Special Olympics. It was lit on May 14, 2015 at the Pnyx in Athens, Greece. That began the its journey to the World Games. The torch remains lit until the end of the Games on August, 2.

References 

Olympic Games
Silphium was a plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning and as a medicine. It is also known as silphion, laserwort, or laser. It was the essential item of trade from the ancient North African city of Cyrene. Most of the coins from Cyrene show a picture of the plant. The valuable product was the plant's resin (called laser, laserpicium, or lasarpicium).

Silphium was an important species. The Egyptians and the Minoan civilization of Knossos used a special glyph in their writing for the silphium plant. It was used by most ancient Mediterranean cultures. The Romans considered it "worth its weight in denarii" (silver coins). Legend said that it was a gift from the god Apollo.

Which plant species silphium was is unclear. It is commonly believed to be a now-extinct plant of the genus Ferula.  The still-living plant species Ferula tingitana has been suggested as another possibility. Another resin from different Ferula species, asafoetida, was used as a cheaper substitute for silphium. Asafoetida is still available.

References

Further reading
 Herodotus. The Histories. II:161, 181, III:131, IV:150–65, 200–05.
 Pausanias. Description of Greece 3.16.1–3
 Pliny the Elder. Natural History. XIX:15 and XXII:100–06.
 
 Theophrastus. Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs, with an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort, bart (1916). Volume 1 (Books I–V) and Volume 2 (Books VI–IX) Volume 2 includes the index, which lists silphium (Greek σιλϕιον) on page 476, column 2, 2nd entry.

Spices
Extinct plants
Medicinal plants
is a video game series developed and published by Capcom. The games have the player hunt monsters and build new weapons and armour.

List of games

Main Series
Monster Hunter
Monster Hunter 2
Monster Hunter Tri
Monster Hunter 4
Monster Hunter: World
Monster Hunter World: Icebone
Monster Hunter Rise

Freedom Series
Monster Hunter Freedom
Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd

Frontier series
Monster Hunter Frontier Online
Monster Hunter Frontier G

Stories Series
Monster Hunter Stories
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Run

Other series
Monster Hunter Generations
Monster Hunter Diary
Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting
Monster Hunter Orage
Monster Hunter (2020)

Other websites
 Monster Hunter official website for North America
 

Monster Hunter series
Video game series
Streets of Rage 2 is a beat 'em up video game. It was released on the Sega Mega Drive. The game was released in Japan as . In Europe it was titled Streets of Rage II.  It is the second game in the Streets of Rage series. 
The game has been praised for its soundtrack. 

It is the second game in the Streets of Rage series. It is a sequel to Streets of Rage (released in 1991) and it is followed by Streets of Rage 3 (released in 1994).

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Beat 'em ups
1992 video games
Sega Genesis games
Master System games
Game Gear games
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Streets of Rage
Koska Helvacısı or simply Koska is the leading brand and trademark of helva (halva) and Turkish delight production in Turkey.

Name
Koska was a former quarter of Istanbul, near Laleli. The company takes its name from their old location at Koska. Helvacı means producer or seller of sweets in Turkish. "Koska Helvacısı", then, "Sweetshop of Koska".

History
Koska's origins go back to the city of Denizli in the early 1900s. It was founded by Hacı Emin Bey.

His son Halil İbrahim Adil Dindar came to Istanbul in 1931. He started a helva production and sale shop at Koska. In 1982, after the death of their father, the three Dindar brothers inherited the company and divided it into two. They made an agreement to continue to use the brand name of Koska, both of them independently. Nevzat and Mümtaz Dindar established "Merter Helva" under the brand name "Koska". Mahir Dindar established "Mahir Gıda" under the brand name "Koska Helvacısı". Thus both companies market(ed) their products using the traditional name "Koska".

At present
In 2011, Merter added a "nazar boncuğu" (traditional blue and white bead for good luck) image to its logo, with the aim of differentiating the two companies. This was criticised by Mahir Gıda as a violation of their agreement. They announced that no Koska product bore any signs like bugs, flowers or beads. In return, Merter announced that no Koska product without the image of the "Helvacı Dede" (Grandpa Helvacı) is genuine Koska.

Merter Helva drafted a "constitution" or agreement not to have similar divisions in the future. They also received a "kosher food" and a "halal food" certificate.

Both companies produce Turkish delight, fruit preserves and various other sweet confections. This is in addition to the traditional "helva".

References

Other websites

 Official internet page of "Koska Helvacısı" by Mahir Gıda
 Official internet page of "Koska" by Menter Helva

Candy
Companies of Turkey
The Miracle of Bern () is a 2003 movie directed by Sönke Wortmann. It tells the story of a German family (particularly of a young boy and his depressed ex-POW father). It is also about the unexpected West German miracle victory in the 1954 World Cup Final in Bern, Switzerland. The film is a portrait of post-war Germany. With over 6 million visitors, it is one of Germany's best-selling movies.

Plot 
In 1954, Richard (Peter Lohmeyer) returns to his German hometown after seven years as a prisoner of war (ww2). The years have caused some consequences, and he fails to relate to his family. Particularly he does not relate to his soccer-loving son, Matthias (Louis Klamroth). Meanwhile, a journalist (Lukas Gregorowicz) and his wife head to Bern, Switzerland, to write about the World Cup. The stories of these strangers converge when they arrive in Bern. There they witness an uplifting German performance in a game against Hungary.

References 

German movies
2003 movies
Jackson Vroman (June 6, 1981 – June 29, 2015) was an American-born Lebanese professional basketball player. He was naturalized as a Lebanese citizen to play for the Lebanon national basketball team. He was the son of former NBA player Brett Vroman, who played briefly for the Utah Jazz in the 1980-81 NBA season.

Biography 
Vroman was born in Laguna, California. He studied at Snow Community College in Ephraim, Utah and Iowa State University.

Jackson was a second-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 NBA Draft. He played for the Phoenix Suns and the New Orleans Hornets/New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.

Vroman was found dead in a swimming pool at his home in Los Angeles County, California on June 29, 2015, aged 34. His drowning is thought to have been an accident.

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Accidental deaths by drowning in the United States
Accidental deaths in California
New Orleans Hornets players
Phoenix Suns players
Lebanese sportspeople
Sportspeople from California
Sportspeople from Utah
Eddy Louiss (May 2, 1941 – June 30, 2015) was a French jazz musician. His primary instrument is the Hammond organ. As a vocalist, he was a member of Les Double Six of Paris from 1961 through 1963.

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2015 deaths
Jazz musicians
Musicians from Paris
Zvi Elpeleg (1926 – 27 June 2015) was a Polish-born Israeli academic, author, and a senior researcher at the Dayan Institute at Tel Aviv University. He born in Poland. Elpeleg served as a colonel in the Israeli army and later received an ambassadorial appointment.

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2015 deaths
Colonels
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Ambassadors of Israel
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Israeli scientists
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Jewish military people
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Naturalized citizens of Israel
Polish Jews
Obergefell v. Hodges was a landmark decision United States Supreme Court case. The Court held that the recognition and provision of same-sex marriage is a fundamental right. They ruled it is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Not one lawsuit 
The U.S. Supreme Court case, Obergefell v. Hodges, is not the result of one lawsuit. Instead, it is the result of a consolidation of six lower-court cases originally representing sixteen same-sex couples, seven of their children, a widower, an adoption agency, and a funeral director. The original cases hail from the four states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. All six federal district courts ruled for the same-sex couples and other claimants. The lead plaintiff in the case was Jim Obergefell. He had challenged Ohio's ban on same-sex marriage. He filed the lawsuit because he could not put his name on his partner, John Arthur's death certificate. Ohio would not recognize their marriage in Maryland.

Decision 
The dissents in the Obergefell case argued that this decision was not based in law. Chief Justice Roberts, in his dissenting opinion, explained the Obergefell plaintiffs’ “‘fundamental right’ claim falls into the most sensitive category of constitutional adjudication.” The claim is not based on a right mentioned in the constitution. Instead, it was argued that it discrimination against “a right implied by the Fourteenth Amendment’s requirement that ‘liberty’ may not be deprived without ‘due process of law.’”

On June 26, 2015, Obergefell requires all states to issue a license to marry between all people of the same sex. It requires all states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.

Notes

References 

 

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United States law
LGBT in the United States
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Pat Toomey (born November 17, 1961) is an American politician. On January 3, 2011, he became the junior U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. He was in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.

On October 4, 2020, Toomey announced that he will not run for re-election to a third term in 2022 or for Governor.

Toomey was born on November 17, 1961 in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Harvard University. He is married to Kris Toomey. They have three children.

On February 13, 2021 Toomey voted that no longer Republican President Donald Trump was guilty of starting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. He and six other Republican senators also voted that Trump was guilty. This was after the House of Representatives Second impeachment of Donald Trump.

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United States senators from Pennsylvania
United States representatives from Pennsylvania
Harvard University alumni
Politicians from Rhode Island
1961 births
US Republican Party politicians
People from Providence, Rhode Island
Pennsylvania Republicans
Jon Heidenreich is an American retired wrestler. He is best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment.

Prior to professional wrestling, Heidenreich played American football. He played in the Canadian Football League for the Shreveport Pirates. He also played for the Frankfurt Galaxy of NFL Europa in 1997.

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American wrestlers
Living people
American football players
Shelley Moore Capito (born November 26, 1953) is an American politician. On January 3, 2015, she became the junior U.S. Senator from West Virginia. She was in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2015. She was in the West Virginia state legislature from 1996 to 2000.

Capito was born on November 26, 1953 in Glen Dale, West Virginia. Her father was former Governor of West Virginia Arch A. Moore, Jr.. She was educated at the Holton-Arms School, Duke University, and the University of Virginia. She is married to Charles Capito. They have three children.

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Bill Cassidy (born September 28, 1957) is an American politician. On January 3, 2015, he became the junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana. He was in the United States House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015. He was in the Louisiana Senate from 2006 to 2009.

Cassidy was born on November 17, 1961 in Highland Park, Illinois. He graduated from the Louisiana State University and A&M College. He is married to Laura Layden. They have three children.

On February 13, 2021 Cassidy voted that no longer Republican President Donald Trump was guilty of starting the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol. He and six other Republican senators also voted that Trump was guilty. This was after the House of Representatives Second impeachment of Donald Trump.

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Kelly Ayotte (born June 28, 1968) is an American politician. From 2011 to 2017 she was the junior U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. She was Attorney General of New Hampshire from 2004 to 2009.

During the 2016 New Hampshire senate elections, Ayotte narrowly lost her seat to Governor Maggie Hassan by less than 720 votes.

Ayotte was born on June 28, 1968 in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated from the Pennsylvania State University. Ayotte later graduated from Villanova University School of Law. She is married to Joseph Daley. They have two children.

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There are 2 arrondissements in the Lozère 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 Lozère are:

History
Since its creation, the Pyrénées-Orientales department, first with the name of Roussillon, has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the department with seven districts: Mende, Marvejols, Florac, Langogne, Villefort, Meyrueis, Saint-Chély); the capital was Mende alternating with Marvejois. In that same year, Mende remain as the only capital.
 1800 : creation of the arrondissements: Mende, Florac and Marvejols.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Marvejols was eliminated.

Related pages
Arrondissement of Florac
Arrondissement of Mende
List of arrondissements of France

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Lists of arrondissements of France
Bob Corker (born August 24, 1952) is an American politician. From 2007 to 2019, he was the U.S. Senator from Tennessee. From 2001 to 2005, he was Mayor of Chattanooga.

Corker was born on August 24, 1952 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of Tennessee. He and his wife Elizabeth have two daughters.

On September 26, 2017, Corker announced that he would not run for re-election in 2018.

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The arrondissement of Florac is an arrondissement of France; it is part of the Lozère département in the Occitanie region.

History
When the Lozère department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Florac was part of that original department.

Geography
It is the smallest and southernmost of the two arrondissements of the department, with an area of . It has 13,313 inhabitants and a density of  inhabitants/km²

The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Mende, to the east and south by the Gard department, and to the west by the Aveyron department.

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 Florac, there are 2 cantons whose communes are in the arrondissement: Le Collet-de-Dèze and Florac. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

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

 Barre-des-Cévennes (48019)
 Bassurels (48020)
 Bédouès-Cocurès (48050)
 Les Bondons (48028)
 Cans-et-Cévennes (48166)
 Cassagnas (48036)
 Le Collet-de-Dèze (48051)
 Florac Trois Rivières (48061)
 Fraissinet-de-Fourques (48065)
 Gabriac (48067)
 Gatuzières (48069)
 Hures-la-Parade (48074)
 Ispagnac (48075)
 La Malène (48088)
 Mas-Saint-Chély (48141)
 Le Massegros (48094)
 Meyrueis (48096)
 Moissac-Vallée-Française (48097)
 Molezon (48098)
 Montbrun (48101)
 Le Pompidou (48115)
 Pont-de-Montvert-Sud-Mont-Lozère (48116)
 Quézac (48122)
 Le Recoux (48125)
 Rousses (48130)
 Le Rozier (48131)
 Saint-André-de-Lancize (48136)
 Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Française (48144)
 Sainte-Enimie (48146)
 Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française (48148)
 Saint-Georges-de-Lévéjac (48154)
 Saint-Germain-de-Calberte (48155)
 Saint-Hilaire-de-Lavit (48158)
 Saint-Julien-des-Points (48163)
 Saint-Martin-de-Boubaux (48170)
 Saint-Martin-de-Lansuscle (48171)
 Saint-Michel-de-Dèze (48173)
 Saint-Pierre-des-Tripiers (48176)
 Saint-Privat-de-Vallongue (48178)
 Saint-Rome-de-Dolan (48180)
 Vebron (48193)
 Ventalon-en-Cévennes (48152)
 Vialas (48194)
 Les Vignes (48195)

There is only a town with more than 1,000 inhabitants, and it is the subprefecture, Florac Trois Rivières, with 2,107 inhabitants.

Related pages
Arrondissements of the Lozère department
Arrondissement of Mende
List of arrondissements of France

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Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American politician. On January 3, 2013, he became the junior U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He was in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2013.

Scott was born on September 19, 1965 in North Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Presbyterian College. Scott graduated from Charleston Southern University. He is unmarried.

He is the only African-American senator as of the 115th United States Congress. More specifically, he is the first Republican African-American senator since Edward Brooke, of Massachusetts, in the 1970s.

Political Positions

Civil Rights 
Scott is a Republican, and conservative overall, but has a liberal stance on civil rights for African-Americans.

George Floyd Protests 
When Donald Trump, a fellow conservative, controversially Tweeted When the looting starts, the shooting starts,about the  protests of the death of George Floyd, Scott reprimanded him, saying the tweet was not constructive.

He spoke out against Floyd´s murder.

Environment 
Scott was in 2017 one of 22 senators sending a letter to Donald Trump asking him to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. He is a lobbyist for oil/gas/coal interests, having received over $54,000 from them since 2012.

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Samira Salih al-Nuaimi (also Samira Saleh Ali al-Naimi, Sameera Salih Ali al-Nuaimy, or سميرة صالح النعيمي in Arabic) (1963 – 22 September 2014) was an Iraqi lawyer and human rights activist. 

She had criticized Islamic State on Twitter because they destroyed mosques, churches, and shrines. She was then kidnapped by men in masks. She was tortured for five days and then was killed by Islamic State (ISIS or Daish).

The United Nations spoke out strongly against the killing.

Work 

Samiraa al-Nuaimi was a lawyer.  According to the Gulf Centre For Human Rights, she worked on detainee rights and poverty.  She worked as a volunteer for women's rights.  She was one of the leading activists in Iraq, especially in the defense of people in jail, and in helping families with little money. 

Samira lived in the northeastern part of Mosul with her husband and three children.  On September 17, 2014, when she was at home with her husband and children, the ISIL group took Samira from her home.  They said she was guilty of apotasy under Sharia law. They tortured her for 5 days. Then they killed her.   Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations human rights commissioner, said her familiy was not permitted to give her a funeral. 

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq said she was arrested because of her Facebook messages.  She posted criticism of ISIL's destruction of religious places in Mosul. After her death, the Facebook page was removed.

International reaction 

The United States Department of State condemned Samira's murder. They said she was brave because she helped people when she was in danger. 

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq (SRSG), Mr. Nickolay Mladenov, also spoke strongly against the killing of al-Nuaimi.  He said it was a "sickening crime committed against the people of Iraq".   United Nations Commissioner Prince Zeid bin Raad, from the High Commissioner office in Geneva and New York, said Samira's death was terrible.  He said she had courage because she defended the human rights of others.

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George Shrinks was a Canadian–Chinese animated television series. It is based on the children's book by William Joyce. The show is about a ten-year-old boy named George. After a dream one night, he wakes up and is only three inches tall. He has adventures with his friends and family. He also drives mini machines that he made with his father.

The series started on 30 September 2000 on PBS Kids.

Content
Because of George's very small size, everyday activities, such as working around the house or playing outside, often become exciting adventures. He mostly uses the Zooper Car to travel. It can change into a submarine or a helicopter.

The show has a retro-1940s look, with simple animation and colors. Most of the background music is jazz.

Characters
 George Shrinks — George is the main character of the series. George wakes up from a dream to discover he is small. He is voiced by Tracey Moore.
 Junior Shrinks — George's baby brother. Junior helps George with things that are too difficult for him. He is voiced by Robbi Jay Thuet.
 Becky Lopez — George's best friend and neighbor. She goes on many of George's adventures. She is voiced by Bryn McAuley.
 Perdita "Mom" Shrinks — Mom is a sculptor. She is voiced by Kathleen Laskey.
 "Dad" Harold Shrinks — Dad is an inventor and a musician in a jazz band. He makes musical instruments and vehicles. He is voiced by  Paul O'Sullivan.

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George Shrinks Episode Guide at Big Cartoon DataBase

Retrojunk: George Shrinks

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The rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata) is a snake of the Boidae family. The other is the rubber boa (Charina bottae). The rosy boa is native to southwest America, and Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. It is one of only two boas native to the territory claimed by the United States.

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Petar Bojović (, ; 16 July 1858 in Miševići, Nova Varoš – 19 January 1945 in Belgrade) was a Serbian military commander. He fought in the Serbo-Turkish War, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balkan War, World War I and World War II. Following the breakthrough on the Thessaloniki Front he was promoted to fourth Serbian Field Marshal (Voivoda).

In World War I as commander of the First Army, he broke through the lines on the Salonika front. His army advanced deep into enemy territory. For this he was given the title of Duke. In 1945, after World War II ended, he was beaten severely by partisans. They decided to take his house for themselves. He died soon after of his injuries.

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La Siberia is a Spanish local administrative division located in Badajoz, Extremadura. 
To the southeast is Caceres province. Castile-La Mancha is to the east.

Geography

Topography 
This area is part from the Toledo Mountains range and reaches until the Las Villuercas mountains. About 90 percent of its terrain ranges from  above sea level. Its highest mountain ranges are: the Umbría, Castrejones, Cantonegros, Santana and Pico Montilla. The last is the highest, at  above sea level.

Climate 
Due its location between Castilian Plateau and the Atlantic Area, its climate is inside continental climate with warm summers and slightly cold winters. The average temperature is about . The coldest month is January with  depending on its zone (north or south). On the other hand, July is the warmest month, with  as minimum to  as maximum.

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Extremadura
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Patricia Lynn "Patty" Murray (née Johns; October 11, 1950) is the senior United States Senator from Washington. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

Murray was first elected to the Senate in 1992, becoming Washington's first female senator. She was re-elected in 1998, 2004 and 2010.

Other websites
 
 Senator Patty Murray official U.S. Senate site
 Patty Murray for Senate
 
 

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John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (December 28, 1944 – December 19, 2021) was an American politician. He was the United States Senator from Georgia from 2005 through 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he represented Georgia's 6th Congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.

In June 2015, Isakson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and a kidney tumor.

On August 28, 2019, due his bad health, Isakson announced that he would resign from the Senate officially on December 31, 2019.

Isakson died on December 19, 2021 at his home in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 76.

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Vermont has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a single at-large congressional district since the 1930 census, when the state lost its second seat. 

There were once six districts in Vermont. Bernie Sanders (Independent) held the seat from 1991 until 2007, when he became a U.S. Senator. Democrat Peter Welch has represented the state since 2007.

Vermont
The Liberty Union Party of Vermont, founded in 1970 by former Congressman William H. Meyer, Peter Diamondstone, Dennis Morrisseau and others, originated in the anti-war and People's Party movements of the late 1960s and defines itself as a non-violent socialist party. Famous members include Bernie Sanders, John Parker, and Brain Moore.

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The Vermont Progressive Party is a political party in the United States.  It was founded in 1999 and is active only in the U.S. state of Vermont. 

The party is largely social democratic and progressive. The Progressives received 9,470 votes (2.96% of the vote) in the 2010 Vermont House of Representatives Elections, and five seats, compared to the Democrats' 55.11% and 96 seats, the Republicans' 38.04% of the vote, and 46 seats. 

Independents received 3.81% and three seats. As of 2012, the party controls 10% of the Vermont Senate seats, and 3.3% of the seats in the Vermont House of Representatives.

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