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Fred Cole (August 28, 1948 – November 9, 2017) was an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He played with several bands since the 1960s, most notably The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon, and Pierced Arrows.

Cole died of liver disease on November 9, 2017 at his home in Clackamas, Oregon at the age of 69.

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Amanda Friedland (September 23, 1982 – November 9, 2017), better known by her stage name Shyla Stylez, was a Canadian pornographic actress. She was born in Armstrong, British Columbia. She started as a stripper and a webcam model.

She was known for her works in My Plaything: Shyla Stylez and Pirates II. In 2010, she was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top female stars in porn. In 2005, she temporarily left the adult industry. She returned to pornography in 2006

From 2002 through 2003, Stylez was married to Bob Friedland.

Stylez was found dead at her home in Armstrong, British Columbia on November 9, 2017 at the age of 35.

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Sophia is a human-like robot. Sophia was developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. The robot has been designed to learn and adapt to human behavior and work with humans. Sophia has also been interviewed around the world. In October 2017, Sophia became a citizen of Saudi Arabia. This means Sophia is the first robot to receive citizenship of a country. The robot is designed to look like British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993).

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Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, novelist and inventor. She was a newspaper reporter, who worked at various jobs for exposing poor working conditions. Nellie Bly, also, fought for women's right and was known for investigative reporting. She best known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, inspired by the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. In the 1880s, she went undercover as a mentally ill patient in a psychiatric hospital for ten days, with the report being made public in a book called "Ten Days in a Mad-House". She was added to the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.

Bly was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. She married industrialist Robert Seaman in 1895. After his death in 1904, Bly took over his company.

Bly died of pneumonia on January 27, 1922 in New York City. She was 57.

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José Carlos Dívar Blanco (December 31, 1941 – November 11, 2017) was a Spanish government official. He was born in Málaga, Spain. He was President of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court from September 2008 to June 2012.

He was the President of the National Court from 2001 to 2008. He resigned in June 2012 when it was uncovered a scandal of alleged misappropriation of public funds.

Dívar died of pulmonary edema in Madrid on November 11, 2017 at the age of 75.

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Valery Rozov (December 26, 1964 – November 11, 2017) was a Russian BASE jumper. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

On May 5, 2013, Rozov set a world record when he jumped off Changtse (the north peak of the Mount Everest massif) from a height of 7,220 metres (23,690 ft). He glided down to the Rongbuk glacier more than 1,000 meters below.

Rozov died on 11 November 2017 while jumping from a height of 6,812 meters (22,349 ft) off Ama Dablam mountain in Nepal at the age of 52.

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Count Ian Melcher Shering Wachtmeister af Johannishus (; 24 December 1932 – 11 November 2017) was a Swedish businessman and politician. He was a member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 1994. He was born in Nääs, Sweden. Together with record company owner Bert Karlsson he founded the populist political party New Democracy, and as party leader achieved parliamentary representation in the 1991 general election from Örebro County.

Wachtmeister died of lymphoma on 11 November 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 84.

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Tamara Natalie Madden  (August 16, 1975 – November 4, 2017) was a Jamaican-born American painter and mixed-media artist working. Madden's paintings are allegories whose subjects are the people of the African diaspora. After her solo exhibition in 2004, Madden relocated near Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Her first solo exhibition was in 2004, and it got her an interview with the late James Auer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In 2007, Madden debuted a series entitled, "Kings & Queens", which focused on heightening the everyday person. Her work continues to focus on recognizing nobility, honor and respect in those often overlooked by society.

Madden died of ovarian cancer on November 4, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 42.

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Jack Ralite (14 May 1928 – 12 November 2017) was a French politician. He was elected in 1973 to the Seine-Saint-Denis constituency for the French Communist Party. In 1981 he became Minister for Health and Minister for Employment from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 he became Mayor of Aubervilliers, a post he retained until 2003. He was born in Châlons-en-Champagne, France.

Ralite died in Aubervilliers, France of respiratory failure at the age of 89.

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Lionel Frederick "Freddy" Cole (October 15, 1931 – June 27, 2020) was an American jazz singer and pianist. His recording career has spanned over sixty years. He was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, and uncle of Natalie Cole, Timolin Cole, and Casey Cole. He was known for his moderate success of Whispering Grass in 1953.

During the 1970s, Cole recorded several albums for European and English based labels. He was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Cole Nobody Knows. In June of that year, Cole was added to the Steinway Artist roster.

Cole died from heart disease-related problems in Atlanta, Georgia on June 27, 2020 at the age of 88.

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Freddy Cole: Heir To The Throne by Alex Henderson, The New York City Jazz Record
filmmaker Clay Walker's webpage on Freddy Cole 
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Ray Lovelock (; 19 June 1950 – 10 November 2017) was an Italian actor and rock musician. He was born in Rome, Italy. He performed in a rock band with longtime friend and actor Tomas Milian, where he was discovered by a talent agent.

Lovelock appeared in many movies such as: Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974), Almost Human (1974), Violent Rome (1975), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976), The Cassandra Crossing (1976) and The Last House on the Beach (1978).

Lovelock died in Trevi, Italy on 10 November 2017 of bone cancer at the age of 67.

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The Roman calendar was a lunar calendar used by the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic.

Calendar system 
The year started on 1 March and had only 304 days or 10 months (March, April, May, June, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December). These 304 days were followed by an unnamed 50-day winter period. The Roman king Numa Pompilius (c. 715-673 BC) introduced February and January (in that order) between December and March, increasing the length of the year to 354 or 355 days. In 450 BC, February was moved to its current position between January and March.

In order to make up for the lack of days in a year, an extra month, Intercalaris or Mercedonius, (allegedly with 22 or 23 days) was introduced in some years. In an 8 year period the length of the years were:

1: 12 months or 355 days
2: 13 months or 377 days
3: 12 months or 355 days
4: 13 months or 378 days
5: 12 months or 355 days
6: 13 months or 377 days
7: 12 months or 355 days
8: 13 months or 378 days

A total of 2930 days corresponding to a year of 366¼ days. This year was discovered to be too long, and therefore 7 days were later dropped from the 8th year, yielding 365.375 days per year.

It was the duty of the priesthood not to have any mistake of the intercalary month. However, leap years were considered unlucky. Therefore, they were avoided in time of crisis, such as the Second Punic War. In order to fix the problem, Julius Caesar made his famous calendar reform in 45 BC.

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James Thurman Butts Jr. (born August 1, 1953) is an American politician. He is currently serving as the mayor of Inglewood, California. He started out in law enforcement in Inglewood during the 1970s and 1980s and later became a captain. He worked as Chief of Police in Santa Monica, California from 1991 to 2006. After that,  in 2006, he worked in public safety  with Los Angeles World Airports. In 2010  he was elected mayor of Inglewood. In 2014 he was re-elected  with an 84% vote. He led efforts to renovate and reopen the sports stadium The Forum in Inglewood. He also worked to develop a plan for a new NFL stadium in Inglewood. Butts holds an MBA degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also  holds a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Los Angeles.

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Norman E. Hallendy is an Arctic researcher, writer and photographer.  Hallendy's Arctic journeys began in 1958 at a time when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Federal government. Returning north year after year, he was befriended by Inuit elders who shared with him their perception of their material and spiritual world.

Works 
His previous books include the best selling Inuksuit: 

 Tukiliit: The Stone People Who Live in the Wind
 Wilderness: Arctic Voices from a Land of Vast Horizons

He has been a lecturer at Oxford, Cambridge, UNESCO (Paris) including numerous universities in Canada and abroad. His most enjoyable presentations were to Inuit elders and their children in several Arctic communities.

Awards and recognitions 
Norman Hallendy has been named one of Canada’s 100 greatest modern-day explorers by Canadian Geographic Society.  

His contribution to geographical knowledge through documenting Arctic landscapes and ancient sites earned him the coveted Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2007 placing him among such esteemed persons as Professor Jean Malaurie, Count Eigil Knuth and Thor Heyerdahl. 

In 2001, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society awarded Hallendy the Gold medal for his internationally acclaimed work on inuksuit and ethnographic work in southwest Baffin Island placing him among such outstanding contributors to geography as Michael Palin, Gilbert Grosvenor and Sir Christopher Ondaatje.

His ethnographic documentation of the Inuit of southwest Baffin Island is regarded as a major contribution to the appreciation of Inuit intellectual culture. Dr. William Fitzhugh Director of the Arctic Studies Centre of the Smithsonian Institution regards Hallendy as a modern day Knud Rasmussen.

The Right Honourable Julie Payette Governor General of Canada has awarded Norman the Polar Medal created by Her Majesty the Queen of England in recognition of his ethnography of the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic.

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Allschwil is a municipality of the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

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Highland County is a county in Ohio in the United States. In 2010, 43,589 people lived there. The county seat is Hillsboro.

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Ayatollah Gholamreza Hassani (, ) (30 August 1928 – 21 May 2018) was an Iranian conservative politician and cleric. He was the previous Friday prayer, first First imam of Masjid-e-Jamé mosque of the city of Urmia. He was born in Urmia, Iran. 

He was a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the first term from electoral district of Urmia and representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei in West Azarbaijan Province.

Hassani died on 21 May 2018 in Tehran at the age of 90.

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 حجت الاسلام قریشی به امامت جمعه ارومیه و نماینده ولی فقیه در آذربایجان غربی منصوب شد/ تقدیر از مجاهدت و خدمات حجت الاسلام حسنی 

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Wojciech Mikołaj Zabłocki (December 6, 1930 – December 5, 2020) was a Polish architect and fencer. He was born in Warsaw.  He was a founding member of the Art of the Olympians.

Zabłocki participated in four Olympic Games: 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome, 1964 Tokyo and won two silver (1956, 1960) and one bronze medal (1964) in team sabre fencing.

In 1963, he married actress Alina Janowska. She died in 2017.

Zabłocki died on December 5, 2020 just one day before his 90th birthday.

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Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu (26 January 1931 – 12 November 2017) ) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Marseille from 1995 until his retirement in 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2003. He was born in Châtellerault, France.

Panafieu died on 12 November 2017 at a hospital in Venasque, France of complications from Parkinson's disease at the age of 86.

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Júlio Carlos Santiago "Ghito" Vernazza (September 23, 1928 – November 12, 2017) was a former Argentine footballer. He was a forward who played for Platense and River Plate until 1956, when he moved to Italy and signed for newly promoted Serie A club Palermo.

He was born in Buenos Aires.

In 1960/1961, Vernazza played for AC Milan, where he obtained a second place. In 1961/1962, he moved to Vicenza, where he played two seasons before retiring in 1963 at the age of 35.

Vernazza died in Buenos Aires on November 12, 2017 at the age of 89.

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David Poisson (31 March 1982 – 13 November 2017) was a French World Cup alpine ski racer. He was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.

Poisson represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. At the 2013 World Championships, Poisson made his first podium, taking bronze in the downhill.

Poisson died in a crash during training in Nakiska, Alberta, Canada on 13 November 2017, aged 35.

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Alex Michael Azar II (born June 17, 1967) is an American politician and businessman. He was the 24th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from January 29, 2018 to January 20, 2021. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. From 2012 to 2017, Azar was President of Eli Lilly and Company. He was a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby.

On November 13, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Azar to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018.

Early life
Azar was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Salisbury, Maryland. He studied at Dartmouth College and at Yale University.

Career
Azar was as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then as a law clerk for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1992 to 1993.

From 1994 to 1996, he served as an Associate Independent Counsel for Kenneth W. Starr in the United States Office of the Independent Counsel.

Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (2005–2007)
On August 3, 2001, Azar was confirmed to be the General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

On July 22, 2005, Azar was confirmed as the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was twice confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate. He worked under Secretary Mike Leavitt. Azar resigned in January 2007.

Business career
In June 2007, Azar joined Eli Lilly and Company as its Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Communications, where he “lead Lilly public affairs and lobbying efforts.”

On January 1, 2012, Azar became President of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest division of Eli Lilly and Company and was responsible for the company's entire operations in the United States. In January 2017, Azar resigned from Eli Lilly.

Secretary of Health and Human Services (since 2018)
On November 13, 2017, President Trump announced via Twitter that Azar was his nominee to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018. He was sworn in on January 29.

Personal life
Azar is married to Jennifer Azar. They have two children. They live in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Samuel Robert Johnson (October 11, 1930 – May 27, 2020) was an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for  serving in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party.

On January 6, 2017, Johnson announced he will not run for reelection in 2018.

He was the last Korean War veteran to serve in Congress.

Johnson died at his home in Plano, Texas on May 27, 2020 of natural causes at the age of 89.

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 Tribute to Sam Johnson, Smithsonian Institution
 Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit: Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies, Washington Post, February 27, 2006

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The President of the Republic of Singapore is the country's head of state. Singapore has a parliamentary system of government. Executive authority is exercised by the Cabinet who was led by the Prime Minister of Singapore. The current president is Halimah Yacob, who is the Singapore's first female president, who was elected unopposed at the 2017 presidential election.

The president's official residence and office is the Istana. However, no presidents since Yusof bin Ishak (1965–1970) have lived there. The current president, Halimah Yacob, had wanted to stay in the HDB flat at Yishun, but if she fails to comply with the security requirements, she will have to move out. She is also the first female President of Singapore and first Malay head of state in 47 years since the death of Mr Yusof bin Ishak who was Singapore's first president.

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Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an interchange MRT station in Singapore. It is one of four stations where commuters can transfer from the Circle MRT Line to Downtown MRT Line,

This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens at the intersection of Bukit Timah Road and Cluny Park Road, hence its name. It is also near the National University of Singapore Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre. 

As Bukit Brown Station will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Botanic Gardens and Caldecott is the longest on the Circle Line. 

As the distance between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms is relatively long, it has travelators, the fourth station after Dhoby Ghaut, Serangoon and Bugis to have travelators within the paid area.

History
The Downtown Line station (DT09) was designed by AEP Consultants and Geoconsult Asia and was constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors. Botanic Gardens station is one of only two MRT stations in Singapore to have an official Malay name. The other station will be the future Gardens by the Bay MRT Station.

Prior to the opening of the station, it was named Adam. Public consultation of the station began in January 2006 and only two names were selected - Botanic Gardens and Cluny Road. Botanic Gardens was eventually selected because this station also goes to the popular UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cluny Road was also selected because it was served by the railway station "Cluny Road" that was closed down in 1930s. On 12 September 2006, the final name is renamed to Botanic Gardens.

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Bugis MRT Station (EW12/DT14) is an underground MRT interchange station on the East West Line and the Downtown Line located at the boundary of Downtown Core and Rochor planning areas, Singapore. 

This station serves Bugis+, Sim Lim Square, Bugis Village, Bugis Junction and many housing retail and food outlets. The station is also nearby to National Library and the Kampong Glam as well as many private educational schools in the area like Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts which also situated nearby. The station is within five minutes walk of Jalan Besar Station on the Downtown Line. It is one of the stations that serves the huge demand when transferring from East West Line to Downtown Line.

History
The East West Line portion of Bugis station is located next to Bugis Junction, which has a direct link to the mall. It has almost the same design as the neighbouring Lavender station. The Downtown Line section is built on the site of the demolished The New 7th Storey Hotel, and opened on 22 December 2013. This station served as the northern terminus of the Downtown Line until 27 December 2015, when it was replaced by Bukit Panjang as the second phase of the line opens. As the distance between the platforms is relatively long, it is one of four stations to have travelators, with the others being Dhoby Ghaut Botanic Gardens and Serangoon.

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Tanjong Pagar MRT Station (EW15) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Downtown Core, Singapore. The station caters to people, especially businessmen and residents, working and living in the Shenton Way and Robinson Road areas. Currently the station is surrounded by recent developments of Tanjong Pagar Centre, of which it is the tallest skyscraper in Singapore (290 metres). Permission is required by the authority and it is exempted from the height restrictions due to Paya Lebar Airbase.

History
The station was first opened on 12 December 1987, as part of the extension of the system to Outram Park.

The station was expanded in 2004 to facilitate disabled access and the new Exit I was later opened. Before the Tanjong Pagar Centre (Exit J) opens, there are several exits in the MRT station, all connected by the underpass:

A: Peck Seah Street
B: Maxwell Road
C: Anson Road
D: Prince Edward Road
E: AXA Tower (formerly Temasek Tower)
F: Robinson Road
G: Telok Ayer (Amoy Street Market)
H: Springleaf Street

The faregates at this station were replaced in 12 October 2012 and the Exit I faregates were replaced on 20 August 2017.

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Kallang MRT Station (EW10) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Kallang, Singapore. It is painted in yellow livery and located next to the Kallang River, which is famous for its water sports. This is the last above-ground station westbound until Redhill. Westward of the station towards Lavender, the tracks lose elevation until they level out when sufficiently underground. This is because of space limitations in the Central Business District.

The station is within the vicinity of Boon Keng MRT Station on the North East Line, Stadium MRT Station on the Circle Line and Geylang Bahru MRT Station on the Downtown Line. Kallang station is located next to the Lorong 1 Geylang Bus Terminal and within walking distance to the Kallang Riverside Park located at Kampong Bugis.

When Stadium MRT Station was under construction, Kallang station would be crowded when either the Singapore Indoor Stadium or the National Stadium hosted an event. After the opening of the Singapore Sports Hub, a sheltered walkway was built to connect Kallang station to the Singapore Sports Hub to ease overcrowding on Stadium station which only caters to 3-car trains.

It was formerly E3, before 2001.

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Telok Ayer MRT Station (DT17) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Downtown Core, Singapore under Cross Street. This station uses side platforms.

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Jalan Besar MRT Station (DT22) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Rochor planning area, Singapore. The station is under Jalan Besar, at the junction with Weld Road. The station is also called Sungei Road. Sungei Road Thieves' Market was located next to this station, together with Sim Lim Tower.

The station is within five minutes walk of Rochor station on the Downtown Line and Bugis station on both the Downtown Line and East West Line, allowing an out-of-system transfer to those stations and lines. It opened on 21 October 2017.

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Kevin John Cramer (born January 21, 1961) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He is the junior United States senator of North Dakota since January 3, 2019.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for North Dakota from January 3, 2013 to January 3, 2019.

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Earl Pomeroy (born September 2, 1952 in Barnes County, North Dakota) is an American lobbyist for hospitals and a former politician of the Democratic Party.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for North Dakota from 1993 to 2011.

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Eixample, also known as Expansion district in Catalan is the name of second district of Barcelona. 

It takes up  the central area of the city, in a big area of 7,46 km2 . Designed by Ildefonso Cerdà. It is the most populated district of Barcelona and of all Spain in absolute numbers (262.485 inhabitants) and the second to related to the surface (35.586 inhabitants/ km2).

Notable areas 
In the Eixample District, there are the big streets and avenues and popular squares of Barcelona, like: Passeig de Gràcia, Rambla Catalunya, Plaça Catalunya, Avinguda Diagonal, Carrer d’Aragó, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Carrer de Balmes, Ronda Sant Antoni, Ronda de Sant Pere, Passeig de Sant Joan, Plaça de la Sagrada Familia, Plaça Gaudí, and at one end there is Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes and at the opposite end Plaça Francesc Macià.

There are also touristic places like Basílica de la Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Auditori de Barcelona, Plaça de Toros Monumental, la Casa de les Punxes, as well as a lot of movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other leisure places.

Historic context 
During the first half of 19th century Barcelona saw a booming Industrial Revolution. The cities with a medieval street structure and many of them surrounded by walls were collapsing under the expansion of recently born industries. For this reason the population increased a lot.

The city of Barcelona, like many other european cities, was limited in its growth by the its walls. Behind the walls it was considered military zone. This implied the no construction of industries. This zone only could be use to agriculture.

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The Mayor of Coimbatore is the first citizen of the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

List of mayors
 V. Gopalakrishnan 1996-2001
 T. Malaravan 2001-2006
 R. Venkatachalam 2006-2011
 S. M. Velusamy 2011-2014
 Ganapathi P. Raj Kumar 2014-present

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Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District (HEB ISD) is a government organization that runs public schools. HEB ISD has students in pre-kindergarten to grade 12. Almost all students in Bedford, Euless, and Hurst go to HEB ISD schools. Some students in North Richland Hills, Colleyville, Fort Worth, and Arlington go to HEB ISD.

The district runs twenty elementary schools, five junior high schools, two large high schools, and some schools for special purposes. HEB ISD schools offer special classes about foreign language, art, science, and work skills.

In 2018, HEB ISD was rated "A" by the Texas Education Agency.

History 
There were other schools in this area before HEB ISD, including Bedford College, Bedford School, and Euless School.

Mosier Valley School was in the Euless School District. It opened in 1883 and closed in 1949 because it was in bad condition. In 1950, a judge said the Euless School District had to have a separate school for African-American students. The school district opened the old building again for one year. In 1951, Mosier Valley School moved into a new, brick building.

The Euless and Hurst school districts combined in 1955.  The Hurst-Euless School District had 1,418 students and grew to almost 2,300 students in the next two years. In 1958, people who lived in the Bedford School District voted to combine with the Hurst-Euless School District. HEB ISD had 3,116 students and seven schools during its first year.

Students

In 2016, the school district had 22,780 students.  On tests that year, 85% of HEB ISD students earned good scores. (Only 77% of students near HEB ISD and 75% of students in the state of Texas earned good scores.) Schools in HEB ISD have students of more different races than almost all other schools in the United States.

Other websites 
 HEB ISD official website

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In 1938, Orson Welles produced a radio version of the 1898 book The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Wells only produced one episode of the  American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. This episode was produced as the Halloween episode. It was broadcast on Sunday, October 30, 1938. It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the scale of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.

The first two-thirds of the one-hour broadcast was presented as a series of simulated news bulletins. The first news update interrupted a program of dance music to report that a series of odd explosions had been spotted on Mars, which was followed soon thereafter by a seemingly unrelated report of an unusual object falling on a farm in Grover's Mill, New Jersey. Martians emerged from the object and attacked using a heat ray during the next interruption, which was followed by a rapid series of news reports describing a devastating alien invasion taking place across the United States and the world. The illusion of realism was increased because the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show without commercial interruptions, and the first break in the program came almost 30 minutes into the broadcast. Popular legend holds that all of the radio audience may have been listening to Edgar Bergen and tuned in to "The War of the Worlds" during a musical interlude, thereby missing the clear introduction that the show was a drama, but research beginning in the 2010s suggests this only happened in rare instances.In the days following the adaptation, widespread outrage was expressed in the media. The program's news-bulletin format was described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast and calls for regulation by the Federal Communications Commission. The episode secured Welles' fame as a dramatist.

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Radio programs
1938
Thruepang Palace is a royal dzong (a form of fortress) or palace in Bhutan. It is a historic building in Bhutan.

History

Early History 
The hillside placement of the palace was considered important in establishing control in the early days of the kingdom.

The dzong (fortress) portion was built in 1648. The first and second kings used the fortress to rule the kingdom from this crucial position.

Modern History 
It is the birthplace of the third Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Dorji Wangchuck of Bhutan in 1928. He spent is early days growing up in the palace. 

This was a secondary resident and served as a, but not main, royal palace for the second Druk Gyalpo (king)  Jigme Wangchuck and Queen Ashi Puntsho Choden. The Trhruepang Palace currently is still in use as a winter royal palace for the current king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.

Description

Location 
The dzong is located in Thruepang village section of Nubi gewog (village block) in the District of Trongsa.  Not far from the palace is the local market place.  The palace sits upon a hill that leads straight to the Thruepang village. 

Travel from the capital Thimpu requires 192 kilometers of travel and 8 hours of time.

Architecture 
The palace largely can be attributed a large house rather than a full scale palace. There are 2 stories palace that sits on 10 acres of land.

References 

Buildings and structures
Monika Kørra (born September 5, 1989) is an author and former athlete from Norway.

Biography

Athletics
In 2008, she won the bronze medal in the 3000 metre steeplechase at the Norwegian championships representing the Norwegian club Friidrettsklubben Ren-Eng. She also competed in the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics, finishing twelfth in her heat and failing to reach the final. Kørra won a sports scholarship at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Authorship
On December 5, 2009, she was kidnapped, assaulted and raped by three men living illegally in the United States. Arturo Arevalo and Alfonso Zuniga received life sentences while the third, Luis Zuniga, received 25 years. Instead of staying silent about her ordeal, she chose to come forward with her story and in 2015, she completed a book in English entitled Kill the Silence stating that "It's not what happens to you, but how you respond to it that matters." In her book, she details how she forgave her perpetrators telling them "I don't hate them; I hate what they did to me. Two of them even cried...That really meant a lot to me because then I saw that it is something good in everyone." She went on to graduate from Southern Methodist University. In 2012, she founded the Monika Kørra Foundation dedicated to creating awareness of the prevalence and effects of sexual assault and to provide a place of healing for victims. She has appeared in the media in both the United States and Norway including as a guest on the TV talk show Skavlan on October 9, 2015. In 2009, Kørra was awarded the SMU Athletics' Perseverance Award for her courage. In 2012, she received the Wilma Rudolph Student Athlete Achievement Award.

Book
 Kill the Silence

Awards
 Wilma Rudolph Student Athlete Achievement Award

References

Other websites
 Biography
 Monika Kørra Foundation 
 Kill the Silence
 Wilma Rudolph Achievement Award

1989 births
Living people
Norwegian writers
Untervaz is a municipality of the district of Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Graubünden
Leymen is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sindhi language is spoken by more than 50 million people and Sindhi literature is as rich as of any language known to human society, Shah Abdul latif Bhittai, Sachal  Sarmast and Sammi are considered as the legendary trio of Sindhi literature but here in this discussion we will concentrate more on the Sindhi writers from India. This is quite possible that Sindh, presently part of Pakistan may appear in our discussion as this has passed only 70 years since the partition of the country which forced Indian Sindhi community to leave the motherland of many generations of their forefathers. Many of the contributors to Sindhi literature - Sindhi writers were born in Sindh though they live and worked in India. This might be the Rashtriya Kavi Padam Shri Dada Hundraj Dukhayal or unparalleled Sindhi writer poet Padma Shri Prof Ram Panjwani.

When we are discussing about Sindhi writer this become essential to mention contribution of Sindhi women. Sindhi literature have revolutionary woman writer like Popati Hiranandani [Sindhi Sahitya Academy Award 1982] , Indira Vaswani, Maya Rahi and many more who have contributed to enrich the Sindhi literature on Indian soil though many of Sindhi women have contributed through poetry.

We will start list of Sindhi writers from India with Tirth Basant who wrote biography of famous Sindhi Saint Bhagat Kanwarram Sahib with Title "Kanwar" and was first awardee of Sindhi Sahitya Academy award way back in 1959.

Indian culture
Sindh
Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933 – November 13, 2017) was an American composer, scholar, author, impresario, music critic, and record producer. He was born in Queens, New York City.

Life
Salzman studied at Columbia University, Princeton University, and also in Italy and Germany.

He was known for his work advancing the concept of "New Music Theater" as an independent art form. He co-founded the American Music Theater Festival and was, at the time of his death in 2017, Composer-in-Residence at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York City.

Salzman died on November 13, 2017 from a heart attack in New York City, aged 84.

References

Other websites
Eric Salzman's website

1933 births
2017 deaths
20th-century American composers
21st-century American composers
American academics
American music critics
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
Columbia University alumni
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Musicians from Queens
Princeton University alumni
Educators from New York City
Madarsha Union () is a Union of Satkania Upazila in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Location 
Madarsha Union is in the eastern portion of Satkania Upazila approximately ten kilometers distance from the headquarters of upazila.

Area
Madarsha union total area is 21.29 square kilometer or 8.22 square mile.

Population
According to 2011, Madarsha union total  people is 38,266.

Density
Madarsha union are population density is 1600 per square km. or 4200 per square mile.

Administrational Area
Madarsha Union has seven village.
These are:
 Babunagor
 Rupnagor
 East Madarsha
 West Madarsha
 North Madarsha
 South Madarsha
 Middle Madarsha

Education
Madarsha union are Literacy rates 48%.There are three primary school, one high school & three madrasa.
These are:
Primary school
 Madarsha Government Primary School
 Babunagor Government Primary School
 Hajrat Shah Fakir Maulana (Rh.) Academy
High School
 Madarsha Kholil-Sofura Model High School
Madrasa
 Madrasa E Abu Huraira (Rh.) Dhakil
 Baitush Sharaf Adarsha Women Madrasa
 Baitush Sharaf Adarsha Ibtedayee Madrasa

Points of interest

 Madarsha Play Ground.
 Madarsha Hill Tracts.

Notable residents
 Professor Doctor Abu Reja Mohammad Nezamuddin Nadwi (MP of Bangladesh)
 Doctor Kala Miah (Assistant professor of York College of Pennsylvania, USA)
 Dr. Abul Fayez (MBBS)
 Dr. Ayub Ali (MBBS)
 Dr. Ariful Islam (MBBS)

References

Bangladesh
Jean-Pierre Schmitz (Jempy Schmitz; February 15, 1932 – November 14, 2017) was a Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Huldange. Schmitz won the Midi Libre in 1957, the Tour de Luxembourg in 1954 and 1958, and one stage in the 1956 Tour de France. In 1955, Schmitz was second in the World Road race championship after Stan Ockers.

Schmitz died on November 14, 2017 in Luxembourg City of multiple myeloma at the age 85.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from multiple myeloma
Luxembourgian sportspeople
Tour de France cyclists
Serangoon MRT station (NE12/CC13) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North East Line and Circle Line in Serangoon, Singapore. Located at the intersection of Upper Serangoon Road and Serangoon Central, this station is directly linked to Nex and Serangoon Bus Interchange.

History

Construction for this station, Woodleigh station  and its connecting tunnels began in July 1997. Wayss & Freytag – Econ Piling – Chew Eu Hock Construction Joint-Venture was responsible to build these infrastructures for S$316.7 million.

Before the station opened, the Singapore Civil Defence Force conducted the second ever Shelter Open House on 15–16 February 2003, together with Chinatown, Farrer Park and Hougang stations.

Circle Line
The Circle Line portion of the station opened on 28 May 2009. nex shopping mall and the Serangoon Bus Interchange is built directly above the Circle Line part of this station.

Station sinking incident
Trains travelling to Punggol had to travel at a lower speed as the existing North East line station platform sank a distance of . This was due to the excavation of the Circle Line interchange station meeting a large amount of groundwater. By the first few months of 2007, train speeds gradually went back to normal after the excavation was near completion.

Art in Transit 
The artwork in the North East Line side of the station under the Art in Transit programme is Memories of Childhood by Eng Joo Heng. The artwork featured in the Circle Line side is called View of Life by Sarkasi Said. The author used 18 original batik paintings on cloth which were photographed and printed onto a sheet of glass.

References

Related pages
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

Other websites

 

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Begich Sr. (April 6, 1932 in Eveleth, Minnesota - October 16, 1972 in Alaska) was an American politician of the Democratic Party.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Alaska from 1971 to 1972. He was also a member of the Alaska Senate from 1962 to 1970.

Begich died (probably) in an aircraft accident at the age of 40. He was declared dead in absentia in December 1972.

Related pages

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

References 
 100years.akleg.gov

1932 births
1972 deaths
People declared dead in absentia
Aviation deaths in the United States
Missing American people
Politicians from Minnesota
United States representatives from Alaska
US Democratic Party politicians
20th-century American politicians
Howard Wallace Pollock (April 11, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois - January 9, 2011 in Coronado, Colorado) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

He was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Alaska from 1967 to 1971. He was also a member of the Alaska Senate from 1961 to 1963. and from 1965 to 1966.

During World War II Pollock was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

References 
 100years.akleg.gov

1920 births
2011 deaths
American military personnel of World War II
Politicians from Chicago
United States representatives from Alaska
US Republican Party politicians
The People of the Book (Ahl al-Kitāb) is a phrase in Islam to refer to people who worship the "One True God": the God of the Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Sabian. Zoroastrian faith is sometimes included. 

People of the Book were historically respected by Muslim leaders, starting with the Prophet Muhammed.

References 
 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ahl-al-Kitab

Islam
The Communist Party USA is a political party in the United States that follows the far left ideology of communism.

Political parties in the United States
CommunismThe Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America, is a far-left communist party in the United States established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.It gets no votes
so dont bother with it.
On the evening of 14 November 2017, the Zimbabwe National Army gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and got control of the Zimbabwe's national television station and other areas of the city.

The next day, they issued a statement saying that it was not a coup d'état and that President Robert Mugabe was safe, although the situation would only return to normal after they had dealt with the "criminals" around Mugabe responsible for the socio-economic problems of Zimbabwe. Jacob Zuma, the President of South Africa, phoned Mugabe and confirmed that he was "fine", but under house arrest.

The coup took place amid troubles in the ruling ZANU–PF party between former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was backed by the army, and First Lady Grace Mugabe, backed by the younger G40 section, over who would replace the elderly President Mugabe. Grace Mugabe warned to a coup in October 2017.

A week after Mnangagwa was fired and forced to flee the country, and a day before troops moved into Harare, army chief Constantino Chiwenga issued a statement that purges of senior ZANU-PF officials like Mnangagwa had to stop. On November 21, 2017, Mugabe resigned as president. Emmerson Mnangagwa became the President of Zimbabwe on November 24, 2017.

References

2017 in Africa
November 2017 events
Coups d'état
History of Zimbabwe