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The Loir is a river in central France. It is a left tributary of the Sarthe. It flows through two regions of France: Centre-Val de Loire and Pays de la Loire

The Eure-et-Loir and Loir-et-Cher departments are named after this river.

Geography
The Loir is  long. Its drainage basin covers .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Durtal, Maine-et-Loire (1961 - 2017).

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Durtal

Course
The Loir starts in the former province of Perche, in the commune of Champrond-en-Gâtine, Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire region. It starts at an altitude of about .

The Loir flows, in general, to the southwest. It goes through the following regions, departments and communes:

 Centre-Val de Loire region
 Eure-et-Loir: Alluyes, Illiers-Combray, Bonneval, La Chapelle-du-Noyer, Châteaudun, Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, Donnemain-Saint-Mamès, Douy, Marboué, Moléans, Montboissier, Montigny-le-Gannelon, Romilly-sur-Aigre, Saint-Avit-les-Guespières, Saint-Christophe, Saint-Denis-les-Ponts, Saint-Éman (sources), Saint-Hilaire-sur-Yerre, Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir, Saumeray, Le Thieulin.
 Loir-et-Cher: Areines, Artins, Brevainville, Couture-sur-Loir, Fréteval, Lavardin, Les Roches-l'Évêque, Lignières, Lisle, Mazangé, Meslay, Montoire-sur-le-Loir, Morée, Naveil, Pezou, Saint-Firmin-des-Prés, Saint-Hilaire-la-Gravelle, Saint-Jacques-des-Guérets, Saint-Jean-Froidmentel ; Saint-Martin-des-Bois, Saint-Ouen, Tréhet, Villiers-sur-Loir, Vendôme, Thoré-la-Rochette.
 Pays de la Loire region
 Sarthe: Poncé-sur-le-Loir, Ruillé-sur-Loir, La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, Lhomme, Chahaignes, Marçon, Dissay-sous-Courcillon, Château-du-Loir, Vaas, Le Lude, La Flèche.
 Maine-et-Loire : Durtal, Seiches-sur-le-Loir, Villevêque, Soucelles, Briollay.

At its end, the Loir flows into the Sarthe river at the place called Bec du Loir ("beak of the Cher") in Briollay, Maine-et-Loire department, at  of altitude.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Loir are:

Left tributaries:
 Conie - 32.4 km
 Aigre - 30.8 km
 Houzée - 20.8 km
 Dême - 32.5 km
 Fare - 36.9 km
 Maulne - 29.3 km
 Marconne - 20.9 km

Right tributaries:
 Thironne - 26 km
 Foussarde - 30.5 km
 Ozanne - 44 km
 Yerre - 48.7 km
 Egvonne - 24.2 km
 Braye - 75.1 km
 Veuve - 26.2 km
 Aune - 29.8 km
 Argance - 19.7 km

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Related pages
 List of rivers of France

Notes

References 

Rivers of France
Centre-Val de Loire
Pays de la Loire
Vendôme is a commune in central French, and is a subprefecture in the Loir-et-Cher department. It is also the capital of the arrrondissement of Vendôme and the administrative centre of the Vendôme canton.

Vendôme is one of the main towns along the Loir river. It is the third largest city of the department after Blois and Romorantin-Lanthenay.

Geography
The city of Vendôme is along the Loir river. The commune has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Chinon to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Blois, the departmental capital - ;
 Orléans - the regional capital ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Lyon - ;
 Nantes - ;
 Marseille - .

The commune of Vendôme is surrounded by the communes:

Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Vendôme is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Marine West Coast Climate) and of the subtype Cfb.

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Vendôme is . The month with the most precipitation on average is October with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Vendôme is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

Population
The inhabitants of Vendôme are known, in French, as Vendômois (women: Vendômoises).

With a population of 16,879, Vendôme has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Vendôme

Administration 
Vendôme is a subprefecture of the Loir-et-Cher department, the capital of the arrondissement of Vendôme and the administrative centre () of the canton of Vendôme, with 24,663 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Territoires Vendômois ().

Twinned and partner towns 
Vendôme is twinned with:

  Gevelsberg, Germany, since 1965

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 Arrondissements of the Loir-et-Cher department
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 Ville de Vendôme - Official website 

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Krzysztof Książek (born 5 August 1992) is a Polish classical pianist. He was born in Krakow, Poland. He is a winner of highest prizes at national and international piano competitions. His nomation is Polityka Passport Award for Classical Music. Since 2005, he has trained with Stefan Wojtas, first at music secondary school, now as a student of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. He has won prizes in Polish and international competitions, including the Ricard Vines in Leida, Spain, the Lviv international competitions in Ukraine, the "Città di Avezzano" in Italy (2011, First Prize) and the Polish Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2011, Third Prize; 2015, Second Prize ex aequo), XV International Pianist Ricard Vines (Lleida, Spain 2009), The International Chopin Piano Competition (Lviv, Ukraine 2010), VI Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Citta di Avezzano" (Avezzano, He participated in the 67th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the 18th International Festival of Young Winners of Silesian Music Contests, 5th National Promotion Festival "August Talents" He is a scholarship recipient of the "Sapere Auso" Malopolska Foundation, the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and the Pro Musica Bona Foundation.

On his preliminary round he was admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He was stopped in the third stage of the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015. Although Krzysztof Książek was not qualified for the finals of the Chopin Competition, Andrzej Sułek believes that his name may return to the competition in those days.

CD
In November 2016 a CD with Fryderyk Chopin’s Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, performed by Krzysztof Książek with the Santander Orchestra under the baton of José Maria Florêncio was released. In the autumn of this year, Krzysztof Książek's solo album will be released with Fryderyk Chopin’s works.
Krzysztof Książek is represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association.

Chopin Competition 2015

Stage 1
 Songs:

Nocturne in F sharp minor, Opus 48 No. 2

Etude in E minor, Opus 25 No. 5

Etude in F major, Opus 10 No. 8

Scherzo in B minor, Opus 20

 Results: Get into stage 2

Stage 2
 Songs: 

Mazurka in A flat major Op. 7 No. 4 

Polonaise in F sharp minor Op. 44

Mazurka in B flat major Op. 7 No. 1

Waltz in A flat major Op. 42

Mazurka in A minor Op. 7 No. 2

 Results: Get into stage 3.

Stage 3
 Songs:

Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 45 

Rondo in E flat major Op. 16 

Mazurka in C sharp minor Op. 50 No. 3

Mazurka in G major Op. 50 No. 1

Sonata in B minor Op. 58:

Allego maestoso

Scherzo, Molto vivace

Finale, Presto non tanto

 Results: Stopped at stage 3.

Although Krzysztof Książek was not qualified for the finals of the Chopin Competition, but Andrzej Sułek believes that his name may return to the Chopin Competition in one more time. 

He has one more opportunity to return the XVIII Chopin Competition in 2020.

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Rudno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzeszowice in Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is approximately  southwest of Krzeszowice and  west of the regional capital Kraków.

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Flerden () is a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Lake County is a county of Ohio in the United States. In 2010, 230,041 people lived there. The county seat is Painesville.

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"Rock Bottom" is the 2nd part of the 17th episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. It was first broadcast on Nickelodeon on March 15, 2000. The episode is about SpongeBob getting stuck in a dark city named Rock Bottom. The episode was watched by about 2.1 million people when it was first broadcast.

Story 

SpongeBob and Patrick get on a bus after going to an amusement park. They get on the wrong bus that takes them to a 90 degree cliff. The cliff takes them to a dark city named Rock Bottom where many strange animals live. Patrick gets back on the bus but forgets to bring SpongeBob with. SpongeBob is stuck in the city and tries many times to get on another bus. He goes to a bus station and has to wait in a long line. When he gets to the front, there is only one bus left. He misses that bus and will have to wait the next day for another one. He hears a raspberry sound from far away. He runs back to the cliff to get away from the sound. He learns that a nice anglerfish was making the sound to give him a balloon. The anglerfish puts air in the balloon and ties it to SpongeBob's hand. The balloon takes SpongeBob up and back to Bikini Bottom. He sees Patrick getting on another bus thinking that SpongeBob is still at Rock Bottom.

Production 

"Rock Bottom" was written by Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan, and David Fain. Tom Yasumi directed the episode's animation and Tibbitt and Torresan directed the storyboard. Merriwether Williams thought that the episode is one of the best because the story is "so simple". She said "It just stayed with one idea. 'Rock Bottom' was about how he [SpongeBob] keeps missing the bus and how that makes him feel." She said that the story was so small that "you could explore gags (jokes) and opportunities for gags."

Reception 

The episode was watched by about 2.1 million people when it was first broadcast. Nancy Basile from About.com said that "The raspberries and SpongeBob's increasing frustration make this a hilarious episode." She says that the episode is "relatable" for having "SpongeBob running up against Murphy's law" (which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong). Emily Estep from WeGotThisCovered.com said that the episode is "mostly a goofy episode" but "also one of the scarier episodes". She thought that the balance of cuteness and horror makes the episode known well. The roller coaster SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge was made similar to the episode.

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Eduardo Humberto del Río García (June 20, 1934 – August 8, 2017), better known by his pen name Rius, was a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer. He was born in Zamora, Michoacán. He was a supporter of the Cuban revolution and was a strong critic of Fidel Castro's rule. His best known works were Cuba for Beginners and It's a Pity, Cuba.

Rius died on 8 August 2017 in Cuernavaca, Morelos at the age of 83.

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 Website about Rius  (in Spanish)
Rius' recent works (in Spanish, last updated August 2006)
 Current articles from Rius from Vinculando.org (in Spanish)
 Webpage about issue #1 of comic book Los Supermachos  from Los Supermachos Remasterizados (in Spanish)
 El Chamuco, official web site of El Chamuco, a comic magazine about Mexican politics and critics founded by Rius (in Spanish)

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Cuernavaca (; "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. It was established by the Olmec, "the mother culture" of Mesoamerica, approximately 3,200 years ago and is designated as the archaeological site of Gualupita I . The city is located south of Mexico City, from which it may be reached after a drive of approximately 1½ hours using the D-95 Freeway.

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Giancarlo Giannini (; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice-over artist. In 1976, he starred in Seven Beauties, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He dubbed Jack Nicholson's voice in the Italian release of both The Shining and Batman; he is the official Italian dubber of Al Pacino.

In 2009, Giannini received a star on the Italian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Kenneth "Ken" Roberts (died 8 August 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain and Lancashire, and at club level for Swinton, Halifax, Bradford Northern, Rochdale Hornets and Salford.

Roberts was born in Atherton, Lancashire. He died on 8 August 2017.

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Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
Photpgraph "A flying tackle" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com
Photograph "Ken Roberts covers" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com
Photograph "A tired looking Ken Roberts" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com
Photograph "Ken Roberts pulled down" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com
Photograph "Roberts on the charge" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com

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Sister Dr Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau (9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a German-Pakistani physician and nun of the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary. She devoted nearly 50 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. She was born in Leipzig, Germany. She founded the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre. 

In 2015, Pfau was awarded the Staufer Medal - the highest award of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Pfau died at a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan on 10 August 2017 from complications of heart disease at the age of 87.

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Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild OM GBE (born 29 April 1936) is a British investment banker and philanthropist of Jewish descent. He is a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family. He is also Honorary President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research. His net worth is at US $5 billion as of 2015.

Rothschild is a known philanthropist who donates his money to art and culture centers. He was Chairman of Trustees of the National Gallery from 1985 to 1991, and from 1992 to 1998, chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund.

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thepeerage.com
geni.com
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Below is a list of the largest stars,  so far discovered, ordered by radius. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (696,392 km; 432,717.927 mi).

Additional methods

A few stars are in the Zodiac, and the Moon sometimes passes in front of them. This allows calculating their size by their angular size and distance. This is not very reliable. Most do not, so astronomers calculate their size by their spectral type (which gives their luminosity), distance, and brightness. This is even less reliable.

Caveats 
These objects are extremely big, thousand to millions of times the volume  of our Sun, and extremely luminous. These stars also have extended atmospheres and  photospheres, and are often shrouded in dust (Like Stephenson 2-18, WOH G64 , UY Scuti and VY Canis Majoris). This makes  their true size uncertain. Many of these stars vary in size and brightness (like Betelguese, Antares, UY Scuti and VY Canis Majoris).

These objects are also far away, sometimes intergalactic (eg: WOH G64 is in the Large Magellanic Cloud). This makes it even harder to calculate their sizes. Most stars found will not be above 1,500 times the Sun's radius. Their mass would hardly hold together, and a lot of material would be ejected by powerful solar winds, forming the nebulae we see around them.

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Lists of stars
The Velino is a river in central Italy that flows through the Lazio and Umbria regions but flows mainly through the Lazio region. It is the main tributary of the Nera river which is tributary of the Tiber river.

Geography
The Velino river has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Course
The Velino river starts on the sides of the Monte Pozzoni at an elevation of about , in the comune of Cittareale, Province of Rieti, Lazio.

The river flows first to the south through the comuni of Cittareale and Posta and goes into a narrow valley with the Monte Terminillo to the west and the Monte Giano to the east; after about , it leaves the valley and gets in the Antrodoco comune. The river then turns to the west and flow through the comuni of Borgo Velino and Castel Sant'Angelo. Then the river gets the water of the "Peschiera Springs".

After getting into the Piana Reatina ("Plain of Rieti"), an important valley, the river flows through the city of Rieti. At the end of the plain, the Velino river joins the Nera river and forms the Cascate delle Marmore falls.

Main tributaries 
Only the tributaries coming from the left of the Velino are of some importance; those coming from the right are small streams.

Left tributaries:
 Salto - 55 km
 Turano - 70 km

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Related pages
 List of rivers of Italy

References

Other websites

 Fiumi Italiani: Fiume Velino 

Rivers of Italy
Rieti is a comune and city in the Lazio region, in central Italy. Rieti is the capital of the province of Rieti and of the historical region of Sabina.

Geography
The town centre is on top of a small hill, in the southern edge of the plain of Rieti, at the bottom of Sabine mountains and of monti Reatini. The plain was once a large lake, drained by the ancient Romans, and is now the fertile basin of the Velino river.

The comune of has an area of , the largest comune in the province, and its altitude is  above sea level.

Rieti borders with the  comuni Belmonte in Sabina, Cantalice, Casperia, Cittaducale, Colli sul Velino, Concerviano, Contigliano, Greccio, Longone Sabino, Micigliano, Monte San Giovanni in Sabina, Montenero Sabino, Poggio Bustone, Rivodutri, Roccantica, Torricella in Sabina and two comuni of the province Terni in the Umbria regionː Stroncone and Terni.

Frazioni
The following frazioni (hamlets) are part of Rietiː Castel San Benedetto, Case San Benedetto, Casette, Castelfranco, Cerchiara, Chiesa nuova, Cupaello, Lisciano, Lugnano, Maglianello, Moggio, Piè di Moggio, Poggio Fidoni, Piani Poggio Fidoni, Poggio Perugino, San Filippo, Piani San Filippo, San Giovanni Reatino, Sant'Elia, Piani Sant'Elia, Setteponti, Vaiano, Vazia.

Population
, there are 47,552 persons (22,679 males and 24,873 females) living in the comune, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Population evolution

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Twinned and partner towns
Rieti is twinned with:
 Ito, Japan, since 1985;
 Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France, since 2000;
 Nordhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany, since 2010.

Related pages
 List of comuni of the Province of Rieti

References

Other websites

 Rieti official website 

Capital cities in Italy
Cities in Lazio
Francisco Núñez Olivera (13 December 1904 – 29 January 2018), age 113 years, 47 days, for a brief time was recognized as the oldest man in the world. He was born at Extremadura, and joined the army at 19 to fight in the Rif War.

Núñez Olivera had his kidney removed when he was 90 and a cataract operation aged 98, and is a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He was nicknamed "Marchena" after Pepe Marchena, due to his resemblance to the singer. With the death of Israeli supercentenarian Yisrael Kristal on 11 August 2017, Núñez became the world's oldest living man. He died on 29 January 2018.

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"What About Us" is a song by American singer-songwriter Pink, taken from her seventh studio album, Beautiful Trauma.  The song was released on August 10, 2017, along with the preorder of Beautiful Trauma.  The song is a dance ballad that speaks of people who are forgotten or left out.

The song reached number one in Australia and Switzerland, while reaching the top twenty around the world. It reached number three in the UK, number six in Canada, and number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

It was certified platinum in the US for sales and shipments of one million copies there.

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Eberhard "Ebbo" von Koerber (11 June 1938 – 3 August 2017) was a German manager. He was a member of the Board of Management of BMW. He was responsible for sales and marketing from 1984 to 1986. Between 1988 and 1998, he was responsible for the activities of Asea Brown Boveri in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as Vice President of the Group Executive in Zurich. From 2007 to 2012, he was co-president of the Club of Rome.

Von Koerber died on 3 August 2017 at the age of 79.

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Wolfgang "Wolf" Helmut Berger (5 October 1937 – 6 August 2017) was a German-American oceanographer, geologist, micropaleontologist and emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He was born in Erlangen, Germany. His research interests comprise "micropaleontology, marine sedimentation, ocean productivity, carbon cycle, ocean history, climate history, and history of oceanography."

Berger died in San Diego, California on 6 August 2017 at the age of 79.

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 List of publications by Wolfgang H. Berger, ucsd.edu 
 "Innovative Tools for Educators: An Interactive Online Atlas of Ocean Productivity", Wolfgang H. Berger, Director of California Space Institute

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Chris Hesketh MBE ( – 10 August 2017) from Wigan, was an English professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer of the 1960s, and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England, and Lancashire representative, and at club level for Wigan and Salford. He was born in Wigan, England.

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Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
World Cup 1970
World Cup 1972
When Great Britain won the World Cup
Tracking down the heroes of 1972
Photograph "Bill Ramsey forces his way over" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com

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Ana María Vela Rubio (29 October 1901 – 15 December 2017), was a Spanish supercentenarian. She was the oldest verified Spaniard ever from 6 June 2016 when, aged 114 years, 221 days until her death. and was also the oldest Spanish-born person starting in 4 April 2017 when, aged 115 years, 157 days.

Vela Rubio was also the third oldest living person in the world. She became the oldest European since the death of oldest person Emma Morano on 15 April 2017. She is the third oldest person ever from Europe, after Jeanne Calment and Emma Morano.

Vela Rubio was born 29 October 1901 in Puente Genil, Andalusia. She used to work as a dressmaker. She never married her partner as her parents did not agree to their marrying, but the couple had two children. Her daughter, also named Ana, lives with her. She died on 15 December 2017.

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Frank Bacon (January 16, 1864 – November 19, 1922), was an American character actor and playwright. After years of relative low success he achieved great success as he entered the twilight of his career. The 1918 play Lightnin', which Bacon co-wrote and starred in, set a Broadway record for the day of 1,291 performances and was still going strong on tour after more than 700 shows when Bacon was forced to bow out due to fatigue.

A week after his retirement, Bacon died of a heart attack in Chicago on November 19, 1922 at the age of

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 Frank Bacon - New York Public Library Digital GalleryLightnin' (1920 book), by Frank Bacon and Winchell Smith

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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born November 26, 1931) is an Argentine activist, community organizer, art painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his criticism of the Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983). He was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months; during that period he also received, among other distinctions, the Pope John XXIII Peace Memorial.

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 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel official site, edited by Juan Varni
  (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese)
 'The Military Did Not Do It Alone'- a video interview with Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
 

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The Flag of Croatia is three equal size red, white and blue horizontal stripes. In the middle is the coat of arms of Croatia. It was adopted on 21 December 1990.

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Segun Bucknor (29 March 1946 – 11 August 2017) was a Nigerian journalist and musician active during the 1960s. He was a pianist and guitarist specializing in genres ranging from Soul music to Pop music and to Funk. He was the father of media personality Tosyn Bucknor. He was the bandleader of Segun Bucknor and the Assembly. The group recorded a couple of soul songs such as Lord Give Me Soul and I Will Love You No Matter How.

Bucknor died in Lagos on 11 August 2017 after suffering from multiple strokes at the age of 71. At the time of his death, he was suffering from hypertension and diabetes.

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 Segun Bucknor's discography at Discogs

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Bobby Ray Inman (born April 4, 1931) is a retired United States admiral. He held many important positions in the U.S. Intelligence Community. 

He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from September 1974 to July 1976, then moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency where he served as Vice Director until 1977. He next became the Director of the National Security Agency. Inman held this post until 1981. His last major position was as the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, a post he held from February 12, 1981 to June 10, 1982.

Inman was announced as President Bill Clinton's choice to replace Les Aspin as Secretary of Defense on December 16, 1993, receiving broad bipartisan support. He accepted the post at first, but withdrew his nomination during a press conference on January 18, 1994.

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Biography of Bobby R. Inman—FAS.org
University of Texas Biography

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NoFap or fapstinence is a group that tries to stop masturbating and watching porn. The NoFap website was founded in 2011 by Alexander Rhodes. People who try out the programme sometimes call themselves fapstinents, fapstronauts or nofappers. Some people try out the NoFap plan because it makes them feel more confident. Along with red pillers, incels, MGTOWs and PUA it is a part of the manosphere.

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Flims is a municipality of the district Imboden in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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 Summer Tourism 
 

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News Radio UK is a British digital radio station that is owned by Radio NewsHub, Radio Today and Radio Response. News Radio UK features news, weather, traffic, sports, showbiz and business summaries on a continuous loop. In addition to its availability on DAB (in Aldershot, Cambridge, Glasgow, Norwich and Portsmouth), the station's programming is streamed live on the network's website, and through apps for Apple, Android, and Kindle devices; plus on Radioplayer and Tunein.

Overview 
In September 8, 2016, Radio NewsHub had a plan to launch UK's first rolling news station. Its format would be designed for occasional listens during the day, and covered all the day's most important news every 10 minutes. The contents are produced by three owners, with the traffic information presented from INRIX.

In October 10, 2016, the station was officially launched at 10am on DAB service in Portsmouth first.

Contents 
News Radio UK maintains a "wheel" schedule, which repeats itself every ten minutes, refreshed continuously between 6am and 11pm London time. Overnights feature a loop of different newscasts broadcast that day. The order of broadcast includes the following:

 National news (at :00, :10, :20, :30, :40 and :50 past the hour)
 Sport (at :02, :12, :22, :32, :42 and :52 past the hour)
 International news (at :03, :13, :23, :33, :43 and :53 past the hour)
 Showbiz (at :05, :15, :25, :35, :45 and :55 past the hour)
 Business (at :06, :16, :26, :36, :46 and :56 past the hour)
 Advert break (at :07, :17, :27, :37, :47 and :57 past the hour)
 Weather forecast (at :08, :18, :28, :38, :48 and :58 past the hour)
 Travel information (at :09, :19, :29, :39, :49 and :59 past the hour; except during overnight slots)

The presenters are rotated depending on the current time period.

Radio stations in the United Kingdom
The Rivera department () is a department of Uruguay. The capital is the city of Rivera.

Its ISO 3166-2 code  is UY-RV.

Name 
The department and its capital city are named after Fructuoso Rivera (1784–1854), first president of Uruguay.

Geography

The Rivera department is in the northern part of the country. It has an area of , the 11th largest in the country. It is the eighth department with more people living in it, with a population of 103,493 inhabitants (2011 census) for a population density of .

There are three chains of low and rounded hills in the department. These chains of are known as cuchillas in the country. At the northwest end of the department is the Cuchilla de Haedo, one of the most important cuchilla of the country, coming from the south; it meets the Cuchilla Negra that comes from the north. Between these two hill ranges is the Cerro de los Peludos hill. Along the borders with Brazil, to the north, runs the Cuchilla de Santa Ana.

In the middle of the department is the hill Cerro de la Cruz, while on its eastern end are the hills Cerro del Hospital and Cerro Bonito.

Limits 
 To the north: Brazil
 To the east: Brazil, and Cerro Largo department separated by the Río Negro river.
 To the south: Tacuarembó department separated by the Río Tacuarembó river.
 To the west: Tacuarembó and Salto department.

Rivers
Along the eastern borders of the department with Cerro Largo Department flows the Río Negro river, with its tributaries flowing through the easternmost part of the department.

The western part of its southern border with the Tacuarembó Department is formed by the Tacuarembó river (a tributary of the Río Negro river, with its tributaries flowing through most of the department.

Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Rivera is a "Humid subtropical climate" and of the subtype Cfa.

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Rivera is . The month with the most precipitation on average is October with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is June with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Rivera is . The warmest month, on average, is January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is June, with an average temperature of .

Demographics
The inhabitants of the Rivera department (and of the city of Rivera) are known, in Spanish, as Riverenses.

Evolution of the population in Rivera

Rural population

According to the 2011 census, the Rivera department has a rural population of 7,602.

Main towns

Gallery

Related pages
 Departments of Uruguay
 ISO 3166-2:UY

References

Other websites

 Intendencia Departamental de Rivera website 
 Statoids - Departments of Uruguay
 Enciclopedia Geográfica del Uruguay: Rivera 

Rivera
1884 establishments
19th-century establishments in Uruguay
The national flag of the Czech Republic () has two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side.

Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Sales de Llierca is a municipality found in the province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain.

References

Municipalities in Catalonia
Tolochenaz is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is found in the district of Morges.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Gollion is a municipality of the district Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Vaud
The Tibetan Spaniel is a breed (type) of small, intelligent dogs. They were first bred more than 2,500 years ago in the Himalayan mountains of Tibet. They share genetic history with many other small dogs from Asia, like the Pekingese, Japanese Chin, Shih Tzu, Lhasa Apso, Tibetan Terrier and Pug. 

Even though they are called a Tibetan Spaniel, this dog is not like a "true" spaniel. Spaniels are gun dogs, for hunting. Tibetan Spaniels are companion dogs, and are not useful for hunting. No one is sure how they got the name "spaniel" if they are not gun dogs, but it may be because Tibetan Spaniels look very similar to the small, "lapdog" versions of the hunting spaniels, such as the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

Description

Appearance

The Tibetan Spaniel has a round head that is small for their size. It has a short muzzle (nose), which is smooth, without wrinkles. The nose is black. The eyes are medium-sized and oval, and are far apart from each other. The Tibetan Spaniel does not have extra skin around the eyes; this helps to tell the difference between the Tibetan Spaniel and its close relative, the Pekingese. The ears hang down either side of the head to cheek level, with furry ends, called "feathered." The neck is covered in a mane of hair. Male Tibetan Spaniels have larger manes. Like their ears, their tails are feathered with fur. Their hair is "double coated," with long, silky hair covering short, soft hair. 

Tibetan Spaniels come in all colours and can be solid, shaded and multi-coloured. Often there are white markings on the feet. Tibetan Spaniels usually weigh between 9lbs and 15lbs, although they are sometimes bigger,

Temperament
Extremely intelligent, the Tibetan Spaniel is one of the most cat-like dog breeds. They will climb on the sofa, table, dresser, etc., to see what is going on outside.  

Tibetan Spaniels are a social breed that needs to spend a lot of time with people. They do not like to be left alone for long periods of time.
They are protective of their family. Even if they have met many different people, they are typically not very friendly with strangers. If startled or scared, a Tibetan Spaniel will express their distrust with loud alarm barking. 

While they love their families, Tibetan Spaniels are independent. Even though they are intelligent, and good at learning tricks and commands, they do not like to listen to instructions.

Health
The Tibetan Spaniel is a generally healthy dog. This type of dog usually lives between 13 and 16 years.

Related pages 
 Companion dog

References

 Miccio, Susan W. The Tibetan Spaniel: A Gift From The Roof of the World, OTR Publications, 1995.

Other websites

 

Tibet
The Tacuarembó department () is a department of Uruguay. The capital is the city of Tacuarembó.

Its ISO 3166-2 code  is UY-TA.

Name 
The department and its capital city are named after Tacuarembó river, the main tributary of the Río Negro river.

History 
The first division in departments of Uruguay was in 1816. At that time, the Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, including the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro. On 16 June 1837 a new division of Uruguay was made and this territory was divided in three parts; one of these parts was the Tacuarembó Department that included also the actual department of Rivera, until it was split from it in 1884.

Geography

The Tacuarembó department is in the north central part of the country. It has an area of , the largest in the country. It is has a population of 90,053 inhabitants (2011 census) for a population density of .

To the west of the department there is a chains of low and rounded hills in the department, the Cuchilla de Haedo.

Limits 
It borders Rivera Department to its north and northeast, the departments of Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro to its west and Durazno and Cerro Largo to the south separated by the Río Negro.

Rivers
The Río Negro river forms the southern border of the department but the most important river that is completely within the department is the Tacuarembó river, the main tributary of Río Negro.

Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Paso de los Toros, in the southwest of the department, is a "Humid subtropical climate" and of the subtype Cfa.

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Paso de los Toros is . The month with the most precipitation on average is January with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is December with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Paso de los Toros is . The warmest month, on average, is January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of .

Demographics
The inhabitants of the Tacuarembó department (and of the city of Rivera) are known, in Spanish, as Tacuaremboenses.

Evolution of the population in Tacuarembó

Rural population
According to the 2011 census, the Tacuarembó department has a rural population of 9,660.

Main towns

Gallery

Related pages
 Departments of Uruguay
 ISO 3166-2:UY

References

Other websites

 Gobierno Departamental de Tacuarembó website  
 Statoids - Departments of Uruguay
 Enciclopedia Geográfica del Uruguay: Tacuarembó 

Tacuarembo
1837 establishments
19th-century establishments in Uruguay
1830s establishments in South America
Stephanie Braganza is a Canadian pop singer based in Toronto. In 2012, Stephanie won a Toronto Independent Music Awards. In April 2016, Stephanie was nominated for a Marty Awards.

Early life
Braganza was born in Kingston, Ontario and moved to Toronto. She graduated from Humber College with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2008 and was featured in the cover story of Humber College's EtCetera publication.

Career
Stephanie is known for pop, Electronic dance music and RnB. She released her first album Unexpected in 2010. She co-wrote the entire album with Kolin Stewart. In 2013, She created the anthem Time To Shine for SIPO Foundation. Later she released her first single 2 Good 2 Be. In 2014, Stephanie released another single When We Last Kissed collaborated with Drega. She was invited to perform at Casino Rama, BLC Artist Cafe Stage, Mississauga Celebration Square and Yonge-Dundas Square.

Awards and honors
 Toronto Independent Music Awards, 2012
 Nominated for MARTY Awards (The Mississauga Arts Council), 2016

Discography

References

Other websites 
 
 Stephanie Braganza in AllMusic

Canadian songwriters
Living people
People from Toronto
Canadian musicians
Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (; ; ; February 4, 1921 – September 6, 2017) was an Azerbaijani-born American mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. His parents had the Iranian nationality, and his mother was of Russian-Jewish descent.

The family moved to Iran when he was ten years old. He moved to the United States in 1943-1944.

He studied at the University of Tehran and Columbia University. He is married to Fay Zadeh and they had two children.

He was best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics relating of those fuzzy related concepts such as fuzzy logic. He was a founding member of Eurasian Academy.

Zadeh died on September 6, 2017 in Berkeley, California at the age of 96.

Related pages
List of Asian scientists by country

References
Fuzzy Logic: The discovery of a revolutionary computer technology - and how it is changing our world. Daniel McNeil, and Paul Freiberger. Simon & Schuster - New York. 1993.

Other websites
 

1921 births
2017 deaths
American computer scientists
Engineers from California
American mathematicians
Iranian Jews
Jewish American academics
Jewish American scientists
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from Baku
Scientists from Berkeley, California
Soviet Jews
Educators from Berkeley, California
George Bundy Smith (April 7, 1937 – August 5, 2017) was a lawyer and judge in New York State. While he was a law student at Yale University, he was part of the Freedom Ride from Atlanta, Georgia to Montgomery, Alabama. 

Smith was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Phillips Academy and at Yale University.

Smith was a judge of the New York City Civil Court from 1975 to 1979 and a justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1980 to 1986. In 1986, Governor Mario Cuomo appointed Smith to the Appellate Division, First Department, where he served from 1986 to 1992. Smith's best-known opinion for the Court was People v. LaValle, a 4-to-3 decision holding that New York's death penalty statute was unconstitutional due to the structure of its sentencing procedures.

In 2006, Governor George Pataki was urged to reappoint Smith to another term on the Court of Appeals, although Smith would have served only another 16 months on the Court before mandatory retirement at age 70.

Smith died on August 5, 2017 in Harlem, New York at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
 Ben Smith, "Judgement Day Approaches for George Bundy Smith", New York Daily News online, August 18, 2006 
 Remarks of Chief Judge Judith M. Kaye on presentation of Cromwell Award, December 13, 2005

1937 births
2017 deaths
American judges
Lawyers from New Orleans
American civil rights activists
Politicians from New Orleans, Louisiana
Politicians from Washington, D.C.
US Democratic Party politicians
Yale University alumni
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
The Unite the Right rally was a militant gathering of alt-right, neo-Nazi, white nationalist, and far-right groups in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 11 and 12, 2017. The participants protested the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from public spaces, specifically the Robert Edward Lee Sculpture in Emancipation Park.

Speakers scheduled to appear included Tim Treadstone, David Duke, Richard Spencer, Mike Enoch, and League of the South founder Michael Hill. Speakers claimed that Jews are ruining the West, and hailed Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. During the rally, David Duke stated that the rally intended to fulfill the "promises of Donald Trump." 

During the rally, a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one person, Heather Heyer, and injuring at least 24 others.  A nearby police helicopter monitoring the response to the rally violence crashed, killing the two troopers on board. One of the troopers took aerial video footage of the car's impact with the crowd, this footage was used to file charges against Fields and then sealed by Prosecutor Platania to prevent the public from viewing it.

Witnesses described the violence as having originated from white nationalists.

President Donald Trump said: "We all must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let's come together as one!" He added that he condemned "in the strongest possible terms" what he called an "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides." Trump added that "What is vital now is a swift restoration of law and order."

Legacy

During the 2020 George Floyd protests, the United States Marine Corps made a rule against showing the Confederate flag at their bases.  In the announcement, they said "events like the violence in Charlottesville in 2017 highlight the divisiveness the use of the Confederate battle flag has on our society."

References

August 2017 events
Neo-Nazism
2017 in Virginia
Geoff James Nugent (born 14 February 1977), better known as Jim Jefferies, is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is well known in the United Kingdom and the United States. He also has a number of Netflix specials. In 2017, he began starring in the Comedy Central talk show The Jim Jefferies Show.

Early life 
Jefferies was born in February 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. His father was a cabinet maker and maintenance worker, his mother was a teacher. He moved to Perth to study musical theatre and classical music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. James began his career in stand-up comedy several months before completing his degree. He relocated to Sydney and then to the UK.

Familly 
He has two older brothers: Scott, an investment banker, and Daniel, an inspector in the New South Wales Police Force's Public Order and Riot Squad.

He has a son, Hank, with actress Kate Luyben.

References

Other websites
 
 

1977 births
Living people
Actors from Sydney
Australian comedians
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Writers from Sydney
Alive is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. It was released on 23 September 2013 through Lava Music. Musically, Alive is a pop, dance-pop and R&B album that features influences from pop rock, soul and hip hop in its production. For the album's promotion Jessie J had shaved her hair and dyed it blonde.

Critical reception

Alive received mainly positive reviews from music critics.

Commercial performance
Alive debuted and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart, selling 39,270 copies in its first week of release. The album then slipped to number seven selling 14,574 copies the following week. Altogether, Alive spent a total of 12 weeks inside the top 40 of the chart, and by November 2013 had been certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for shipments of 100,000 copies.

Track listing

Notes
All vocals were produced by Claude Kelly except deluxe edition bonus track "Magnetic", where vocals were produced by Lorne Alistair Tennant and STL.
 indicates additional production.
 indicates remix production.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

2013 albums
Jessie J albums
Pop albums
Dance-pop albums
R&B albums