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Osvaldo Fattori (22 June 1922 – 27 December 2017) was an Italian footballer. He played as a defender or midfielder. He was born in San Michele Extra, Italy. At international level, Fattori earned four caps for the national team.

Fattori died on 27 December 2017 in Milan at the age of 95.

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Trenta uomini in barca. I mondiali di calcio Brasile 1950

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Italian footballers
Gonzalo Morales Sáurez (9 July 1945 – 22 December 2017) was a Costa Rican painter. He studied in The San Fernando Academy in Madrid, Spain from 1970 to 1974. He was best known for his hyper-realistic works. He exhibited his art in many museums and art galleries in Europe and the Americas. He was born in San José, Costa Rica.

In Costa Rica, examples of his work are in several public institutions and museums such as the Costa Rican Parliament (Asamblea Legislativa), the National Museum (Museo Nacional), the Museum of Costa Rican Art (Museo de Arte Costarricense), the Central Bank (Banco Central de Costa Rica), among others.

Morales Sáurez died on 22 December 2017 of a heart attack at his home in San José, Costa Rica at the age of 72.

References

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 Museos Bancos Central de Costa Rica exhibit description
Official Website 

1945 births
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JJ Project  is a duo created under 2012, originally meant to be a pre-debut project for GOT7. Their debut single, "Bounce," charted #14 on the US Charts. Despite officially merging with GOT7 in 2014, the group reunited in 2017 due to popular demand from fans.

Discography

Mini-Albums
Tomorrow, Today (2017)

Single Albums
Bounce (2012)
iKON is a South Korean boy-band formed by YG Entertainment, currently consisting of 7 members. iKON was first introduced on WIN: Who is Next, resulting in their debut as a full group with the song,  "My Type." "My Type" charted at  #1 and #3 on the Korean and US charts, respectively.

Discography

Albums
Welcome Back (2015)
Caden Spencer (2018)

Sinigle Albums
New Kids: Begin (2017)

Non-Album Singles
WYD (2016)
Shih Ming-teh (born 15 January 1941) is a Taiwanese stateman. 

Shi has been imprisoned as a political prisoner three times and sentenced to life imprisonment twice. He has served a total of nearly 26 years in prison, so he is known as "Taiwan Mandela."

Shih served as the Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party from 1993 to 1996. 

He was the member of the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2002.

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Hazro is a district of Diyarbakır Province of Turkey.

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Districts of Turkey
European School of Strasbourg () is a European school in Strasbourg, France, serving levels nursery through secondary.

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"2 Faced" is a song recorded by English singer Louise which was released as on 17 July 2000, as the lead single from Louise's third studio album Elbow Beach (2000). It is her highest charting single to date, reaching number three in the UK Singles Chart.

Track listings

UK CD 1 single
"2 Faced"
"Say Yes"
"Lost"
"2 Faced" video

UK CD 2 single
"2 Faced"
"2 Faced" (Agnelli & Nelson Vocal mix)
"2 Faced" (Perfect Phase Vocal)

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Paradiso The Film is a 2018 Indian movie. It was directed by Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar. It was produced by Rita Jhawar Music was by Sanjib Sarkar.

Plot
 Paradiso The Film is set in the 1960s, in a city somewhere resembling Kolkata, in India. A man lives in two worlds, one 'Real', one 'Imagined' till the point where both collide and become one.

Music & Audio
The movie's music, was done  by  Sanjib Sarkar, Lyrics were by Dushyant & Sudeep Ranjan Sarkar. Vocals were by Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhana Sargam, Sukanya & Tirtha,
Song Recorded & Mix From Octave Studio Kolkata, Under the banner of Nez Moving Pixels

Official selection
Nominated in
1. Miami independent Film Festival 2017, Miami

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The Bruche is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left-side tributary of the Ill river, and part of the basin of the Rhine river.

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

Course
The Bruche starts in the Vosges mountains, at the western foot of the Climont mountain, in the commune of Urbeis, (Bas-Rhin department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Bruche flows first to the north and then turns to the northeast.

The Bruche river flows within the Grand Est region, the Bas-Rhin department and 38 communes.

Finally, the Bruche river flows into the Ill river in the city of Strasbourg, southwest of the historic centre.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Bruche river are the Magel, a right tributary  long, and the Mossig, a left tributary  long.

Hydrology 
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Holtzheim in the Bas-Rhin department, for the period 1965 - 2017.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Holtzheim (1965 - 2017)

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

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Grand Est
Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist. He is the main leader of the Democracy Wall Movement in 1979. Wei was sentenced to prison because he has been criticized the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and he has spent more than 18 years in prison. 

Wei was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 1994,  the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1996 and  the National Endowment for Democracy Award in 1997. Wei Jingsheng has been nominated seven times for Nobel Peace Prize since 1993.  

Wei is also the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition and the Chairman of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation. Now Wei lives in Washington, D.C.

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The Moder is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left-side tributary of the Rhine river.

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

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Auenheim.

Course
The Moder starts in the Vosges mountains in the place called Moderfeld in the commune of Zittersheim, (Bas-Rhin department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Moder flows to the north and then turns to the southeast; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.

The Moder river flows within the Grand Est region, the Bas-Rhin department and the following communes ː Zittersheim, Wingen-sur-Moder, Wimmenau, Ingwiller, Menchhoffen, Schillersdorf, Obermodern-Zutzendorf, Schalkendorf, La Walck, Pfaffenhoffen, Uberach, Niedermodern, Dauendorf, Ohlungen, Schweighouse-sur-Moder, Haguenau, Kaltenhouse, Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, Bischwiller, Rohrwiller, Drusenheim, Sessenheim, Dalhunden, Stattmatten, Auenheim, Fort-Louis, Rœschwoog, Neuhaeusel.

Finally, the Moder river flows into the Rhine river in Neuhaeusel.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Moder river areː
 Left tributary
 Rothbach - 22.8 km;
 Zinsel du Nord - 43.2 km;
 Right tributary
 Zorn - 96.7 km;

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Rivers of France
Grand Est
Virgil van Dijk (born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer. He plays as a Center-Back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. He was born in Breda, North Brabant.

Van Dijk began his career with Dutch team Groningen. He played there between 2011 and 2013. Then he moved to Scottish Premiership team Celtic. He won two league titles and a Scottish League Cup in both his seasons at Celtic. In 2015, he moved to Southampton of the Premier League. On 1 January 2018, van Dijk joined Liverpool.

Club Career

International Career

 As of match played on 16 November 2019. Netherlands score listed first, score column indicates score after each Van Dijk goal.

Honours

Club
Celtic
Scottish Premiership: 2013–14, 2014–15
Scottish League Cup: 2014–15

Liverpool
UEFA Champions League: 2018–19; runner-up: 2017–18
UEFA Super Cup: 2019
FIFA Club World Cup: 2019

Netherlands
UEFA Nations League runner-up: 2018–19

References

Other websites

Profile at the Liverpool F.C. website

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Wang Dan (born February 26, 1969) is a Chinese activist involved in Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He is a leader of the Chinese democracy movement. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.

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Jean-François Hory (15 May 1949 – 28 December 2017) was a French politician. He was born in Neufchâteau, Vosges. From 1981 to 1986, he was a member of the French Parliament. In 1989, he became a member of the European Parliament (MEP). While serving as a MEP, he was elected president of the Radical Party of the Left in 1992, a position that he held until 1996. In February 1995, he declared his candidacy for the French presidential election but later withdrew.

Hory died from cancer at the age of 68 on 28 December 2017 in Burgundy.

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Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 28, 2017) was an Argentine filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, critic and theorist. He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He was thought by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema. He was known for his movie Tire dié. Birri debuted with a short movie called La primera fundación de Buenos Aires, which premiered in the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1986 Birri co-founded Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (The International School of Film and Television), in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba.

Birri died in Buenos Aires of respiratory arrest complicated from a fall on December 28, 2017 at the age of 92.

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

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Municipalities of Graubünden
The Zorn is a river in north-eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Moder river.

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

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Hœrdt (Bas-Rhin).

Course
The Zorn starts in the Vosges mountains in the commune of Walscheid, (Moselle department) as the Yellow Zorn (, ) at an altitude of about . The Yellow Zorn becomes the Zorn after its confluence with the right-hand tributary, the White Zorn (, ) at an altitude of about .

From here, the Zorn flows to the north and then turns to the east; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.

The Zorn river flows within the Grand Est region, the Moselle and Bas-Rhin departments and 91communes.

Finally, the Zorn river flows into the Moder river in Rohrwiller, (Bas-Rhin department).

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Zorn river areː
 Left tributary
 Zinsel du Sud - 30.9 km;
 Right tributary
 Mossel - 21.2 km;

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Rivers of France
Grand Est
John Thomaides (born September 15, 1965) is the mayor of San Marcos, Texas. He was elected on December 13, 2016.

Career 
Thomaides was a member of the city council from 2003-2010. In 2010 Thomaides ran against Daniel Guerrero who had been elected Mayor of San Marcos in 2010, by a margin of 42 votes  Thomaides served from 2011-2016 on the city council when he ran for mayor again in 2016 against local business owner, Ruben Becerra.  In the 2016 December runoff, Thomaides beat Becerra by a margin of 42 votes- the same number he lost by in 2010.  During his first year in office, Thomaides was the 6th Texas mayor to join the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda.

References 

Mayors
Sue Taylor Grafton (April 24, 1940 – December 28, 2017) was an American author. She mostly wrote detective novels. She was best known for her "alphabet series" of books, featuring the character Kinsey Millhone. The first in the series was "A" Is for Alibi (1982); the final was "Y" Is for Yesterday (2017). She also wrote screenplays for television movies. Crime writer Ross Macdonald was her biggest influence as a writer.

Grafton was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father was crime writer C. W. Grafton (1909–1982). She was divorced twice and had three children. She was married to Steven F. Humphrey until her death.

Grafton died of cancer on December 28, 2017 in Santa Barbara, California. She was 77.

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Jimmie Cristine Holland (9 April 1928 – 24 December 2017) was an American medical researcher and psychiatrist. She was born in Nevada, Texas. She was the founder of the field of psycho-oncology.  

In 1977, she worked with two colleagues to establish a full-time psychiatric service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The program was one of the first of its kind in cancer treatment, and trained its psychologists to specialize in issues specific to people with cancer.

Holland died of a heart attack on 24 December 2017 in New York City at the age of 89.

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Thomas Gregory "Tom" Hunter (December 19, 1932 – December 27, 2017) was an American actor and screenwriter. He was born in Savannah, Georgia. He was known for work in foreign Spaghetti Westerns. 

Hunter began his movie carerr in a small role in Blake Edwards' What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966). He was the star of Dino De Laurentiis's produced The Hills Run Red leading him to a career in European cinema with guest appearances in American television series.

Hunter was also the founder of the New England Repertory Company. He wrote the screenplays for The 'Human' Factor (1975) and The Final Countdown (1980).

Hunter died of pulmonary edema on December 27, 2017 in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 85.

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María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 1st Duchess of Franco, Grandee of Spain, Dowager Marquise of Villaverde (14 September 1926 – 29 December 2017) was a Spanish noble. She was the only child of Spain's Caudillo, dictator General Francisco Franco and his wife Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés.

In Asturian fashion, she was known by many nicknames such as Nenuca, Carmelilla, Carmencita, Cotota and Morita. She was born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. In 1950, she married Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, a well known surgeon. In 1968 he conducted the first heart transplant operation in Spain. The couple had seven children. He died in 1998.

Franco died of lymphoma in Madrid on 29 December 2017 at the age of 91.

References

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 Universal Studios Newsreel for 8 April 1957: "18th anniversary of end of Spanish revolution in Spain, Franco and daughter watch soldiers, the caudillo looks on with pride, 18 years of peace and rebuilding".

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Sid Krofft (born July 30, 1929) and Marty Krofft (born April 9, 1937) are a Canadian brother team of television creators and puppeteers. They were important figures in children's television and variety show programs in the U.S., particularly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s.

They are largely known for a unique brand of fantasy programs, often featuring large-headed puppets, high-concept plots, and largely use of low-budget special effects. The team also dominated the arena of celebrity music/variety programs during the period.

They helped design the characters and sets for Hanna-Barbera's Banana Splits (NBC, 1968-1970), the Kroffts' producing career began in 1969 with the landmark children's television series H.R. Pufnstuf.

Their works have included The Bugaloos (1970), Lidsville (1971), Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973-1975), Land of the Lost (1974), The Lost Saucer (1975), Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (1976), and Wonderbug (1976).

References

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The World of Sid and Marty Krofft

Krofft, Sid
Krofft, Marty
Living people
Sibling duos
Television producers
People from Montreal
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).

Career
Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967, and Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 1978, being the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 Mehta became its permanent Music Director for Life.

In 2016, Mehta has been appointed as Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.

In December 2016, the Israel Philharmonic announced that Mehta is to retire from his permanent position as music director in October 2019.

Awards
The Government of India honoured Mehta in 1966 with the Padma Bhushan and in 2001 with India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan.

In September 2006 the Kennedy Center announced Mehta as one of the recipients of that year's Kennedy Center Honors, presented on 2 December 2006 by President George W. Bush.

References

Other websites

 Official website

 Two interviews with Zubin Mehta by Bruce Duffie, 8 December 1993 and 29 February 1996
 Zubin Mehta interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 6 July 1984

1936 births
Living people
Conductors
People from Mumbai
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, artist and photographer.

Early life
Close was born in Monroe, Washington. He was raised in Everett, Washington. Close studied at the University of Washington and at Yale University. He suffered from dyslexia.

Career
Close achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. Although a spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work that remains sought after by museums and collectors.  Close also creates photo portraits using a very large format camera.

Personal life
Close worked in Bridgehampton, New York and Long Beach, New York. He had two daughters with Leslie Rose. They divorced in 2011. 

Close married artist Sienna Shields in 2013. They divorced before his death.

Close was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2015. He died on August 19, 2021 in Oceanside, New York from congestive heart failure at the age of 81.

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Personal Website
 Pace Gallery Page
 Chuck Close: Process & Collaboration
 Chuck Close at the Walker Art Center

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Alcee Lamar Hastings  (September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021) was an American politician and judge. He was the U.S. Representative for  from January 3, 1993 until April 6, 2021.  The district included most of the majority-black precincts in and around Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.  He was a Democrat.

Hastings served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida until his impeachment and removal due to Hastings being involved in bribery-related actions. He was nominated to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

In January 2019, Hastings was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died from the disease in Boynton Beach, Florida on April 6, 2021 at the age of 84.

References

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Congressman Alcee Hastings official U.S. House site
Alcee L. Hastings for Congress

 
 

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The following is a list of deaths that should be noted in 2018. For deaths that should be noted before the month that the world is in, please see "Months". Names under each date are noted in the order of the alphabet by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are noted here also if it is worth noting.

Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, where they came from, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and a source.

Months
 January
 February
 March
 April
 May
 June
 July
 August
 September
 October
 November
 December

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016
 Deaths in 2017
 Deaths in 2019
 Deaths in 2020

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Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
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The Washington Post obituaries
The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries

Index lists
Rampage is an American science fiction monster movie directed by Brad Peyton. It is loosely based on the video game series of the same name by Midway Games. The movie stars Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Joe Manganiello, Jake Lacy, P. J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

It is produced by Warner Bros. and set in Chicago, Illinois. 

New Line Cinema will release the movie on April 20, 2018 in 3D and IMAX.

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2010s action movies
2010s monster movies
English-language movies
2010s American action movies
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Giant gorilla movies
The Type 56 is a Chinese assault rifle which is a copy of the Soviet AK-47 assault rifle. The Type 56 was first used by the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War along with the Soviet AK-47 and AKM assault rifles. The Type 56 is used by many armies and battlefields in Africa, Middle East and Asia.

Variants 
 Type 56: Copy of the AK-47.
 Type 56-1: Copy of the AKS-47.
 Type 56-2: Same as the Type 56-1 but with a side folding stock instead of a under folding stock.

Users 
The Type 56 assault rifle is used in many countries. These include:

Users

 
  Locally produced under small modification of the Albanian Army needs. Main armament of the army until recently when it's being replaced with ARX-160, and M4A1.

 
 
  Boko Haram : Type 56 and Type 56-1
 
 
 : Burundian rebels.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : Used by Croatia in its war of independence.
 
 
 
 
 : Purchased in the 1990's and used by Finnish Army rerserve personnel. Now in long-term storage.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : Used by the Nepalese Army and formerly by the People's Liberation Army rebels
 : Contras.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 : South Sudan Liberation Movement, South Sudan Democratic Movement, Sudan People's Liberation Army and Lou Nuer militias.
 
 
 
 
 Lord Resistance Army
 
 : Captured from Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War.

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Sir William Thompson Wright (born 1925) is a Northern Irish business owner and former Unionist politician. Wright grew up in Ballymena.

In the 1970s, Wright joined the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, and was elected as its Chairman.  He stood for the party in North Antrim at the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention election in 1975, and was elected.  He later followed the party leaders in joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and was elected to Ballymena Borough Council.

In the 2011 Birthday Honours, he was awarded the CBE. In the 2018 Queen's Honours list, he received a knighthood.

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Hulst, Zeelandic and East Flemish: ('t) Ulst, is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 27,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ >
About 11,000 people were living in the village in 2017.

The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.

Hulst received city rights in 1180.

The nature reserve of the Drowned Land of Saeftinghe (Dutch: Verdronken land van Saeftinghe) lies in the municipality.

Other websites 
  

Municipalities of Zeeland
Settlements in Zeeland
Cities in the Netherlands
Terneuzen, Zeelandic and East Flemish: Terneuzen or Neuzen, is a municipality and town in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 55,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ >
About 25,000 people were living in the town in 2015.

The municipality borders the Western Scheldt, and the Belgian Province of East Flanders.

Terneuzen received city rights in 1584.

The south entrance of the Western Scheldt Tunnel is in Terneuzen.

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Sluis, Zeelandic and West Flemish: Sluus, is a municipality and village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 24,000 people were living in the municipality in 2017.<br/ >
About 2,400 people were living in the village in 2014.

The municipality borders the Western Scheldt and the North Sea, and also the Belgian Provinces of West and East Flanders.

Sluis received city rights in 1290.

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An action camera is a small video camera made for sticking to a person while playing sport or traveling on a vehicle. This kind of camera is for used for filming an event in a way that people watching the film feel like they are looking from the eyes of person who are doing activities in the event themselves (first-person perspective). While action camera is made for filming, it can also take pictures. All films and pictures it took will be kept on a tiny card that you can pull them out and watch them later.

Action camera is made to be small and very light, so that a person who wear it does not feel its weight while doing his or her things. And it usually uses wide-angle lens to film as many details around as possible. Inside the camera, there is a battery that lasts long enough for you to film for few hours. Action camera is also made to be stronger than normal video camera, so that it keeps filming even when the wearing person moves at high speed or crashes into something.

Camera sellers usually give you a hard clear plastic box that fits with the camera when you buy it. When they do, you should store the camera in this box every time you are going to film something. This box will have holes, a belt, or a metal rod which you can use for tying it to a person, or screwing it on an object that person wears (usually a helmet). Some kind of these boxes can stop water from coming into it when closed, so you may use them to film under water without breaking the camera as well.

Related pages 

 Dashboard camera, which looks like an action camera, but made for sticking on a vehicle instead of person.
 Webcam, a small video camera that is made to be used with a computer.

Cameras
Electronics
Sports equipment
Erica Garner (May 29, 1990 – December 30, 2017) was an American activist. She fought for police reform, especially in the use of force during arrests. Garner became involved in activism after her father, Eric Garner, died in 2014. A New York City police officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest and killed him.

Garner said that she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race, and in 2017, she rejected a meeting with the United States Justice Department to discuss the police killing her father.  

During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Garner supported Bernie Sanders, and appeared in an advertisement for him.

Garner died in a Brooklyn hospital while in a coma after she had a serious heart attack on December 30, 2017. She was 27 years old.

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Jean-Pierre Lehmann (29 August 1945 – 21 December 2017) was an American-born Swiss economist. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He was professor of international political economy at IMD and the founding director of The Evian Group at IMD. In August 2011, he was appointed senior fellow at the Fung Global Institute (FGI).

Lehmann died on 21 December 2017 of a pulmonary embolism in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 72.

References

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 www.imd.org/eviangroup  (Evian Group @ IMD Official Website) 
 www.imd.org
 www.fungglobalinstitute.org

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John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer. He was born in Walhalla, South Carolina. He was known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria.

Portman also had a large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center, Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels.

Portman died on December 29, 2017 in Atlanta of heart failure, aged 93.

References

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  Portmanusa.com: website of the Portman architectural firm
 Portmanholdings.com: website of the Portman real estate development firm
  Johnportmanfilm.com: 'John Portman: A Life of Building'  — film about Portman's life and works, aired on PBS stations in June 2013.

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People from South Carolina
Businesspeople from Atlanta, Georgia
Khalid Shameem Wynne (28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017) was a Pakistani four star general. Wynne served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee before retiring on 7 October 2013. 

Before to his promotion, the official statement said that "General Wynne was appointed as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee by President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani."

He also served as field operational Commander of the XII Corps in Quetta from 2007 till 2010, overseeing the Baloch insurgency and the fallout of the war in the Tribal Areas.

Wynne was killed in a car crash near Chakri, Punjab, Pakistan on 30 December 2017. He was 64 years old.

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1953 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Pakistani people
Military people
Yacht chartering is the renting a sailboat or motor yacht for sea traveling. This is a vacation activity, but it can be a corporate event.

There are two main kinds of the charter: bareboat and skippered. Bareboat charters are when a person is renting a boat and skippering it themselves. Skippered charter meaning that boat comes with a skipper but no additional crew.

Water transport
George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an African-American composer, educator and autobiographer. He was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work Lilacs in 1996.

Early life 
Walker was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Oberlin College.

Career 
Walker taught music at Columbia University, Wayne State University, Wellesley College, Temple University, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College and Montclair State University.

In 1946, Walker composed his String Quartet no. 1. A string orchestra arrangement of the second movement of that work received its world premiere in a radio broadcast that was conducted by pianist Seymour Lipkin.

Walker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. The following year, Walker was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.

Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry proclaimed June 17, 1997 as “George Walker Day”. in the nation's capitol.

His autobiography, "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist", was released in 2009 by Scarecrow Press.

Personal life 
Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker, and playwright Ian Walker.

Walker died on August 23, 2018 from a fall at a hospital in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 96.

References

Other websites 
 George Walker official website
 A 2017 Conversation with George Walker (includes video excerpts) 
George Walker interview by Bruce Duffie
2012 George Walker interview by Ethan Iverson
George Theophilus Walker, African American Composer & Pianist at AfriClassical.com
George Walker, Composer  Documentary produced by NJTV

Pulitzer Prize winners
1922 births
2018 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
American autobiographers
American composers
Educators from Washington, D.C.
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Kennington is a London Underground station on Kennington Park Road in Kennington. The station is at the junction of the Charing Cross and Bank branches of the Northern line. It is within the London Borough of Southwark. Its neighbouring stations to the north are Waterloo on the Charing Cross branch and Elephant & Castle on the Bank branch; the next station to the south is Oval. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2.

It is one of the station that has the notable loop, called Kennington Loop, similar to Timothy's Computer on Timothy North Metro and South Ferry on New York City Subway. It would be extended to Battersea Power Station via Nine Elms in the near future, to serve the near-refurbished Battersea Power Station.

Northern line stations
Transport in the London Borough of Lambeth
London Travelcard zone 2
Christine King Farris (born Willie Christine King; September 11, 1927) is the oldest and only living child of Martin Luther King, Sr.. She is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s only sister. 

King Farris teaches at Spelman College and is the author of several books and a public speaker on many topics. For many years, she was the Vice Chair and Treasurer of the King Center and has been active for several years in the International Reading Association, and many church and civic organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 

King Farris held a tenure professorship at Spelman College for 48 years before retiring in 2014.

References

Other websites
Young MLK The Tavis Smiley Show, January 15, 2003
 Education Update Interview with Christine King Farris
Honoring Willie Christine King Farris’ 80th Birthday

1927 births
Living people
Educators from Atlanta, Georgia
American civil rights activists
Martin Luther King Jr.
Writers from Atlanta, Georgia
J. Joseph Curran Jr. (born July 7, 1931) is an American politician. He is the longest serving elected Attorney General (1987 to 2007) in Maryland history, and the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1983 to 1987. His son-in-law, Martin J. O'Malley, served as the 61st Governor of Maryland.

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1931 births
Living people
Lawyers from Maryland
Politicians from Florida
Lieutenant Governors of Maryland
US Democratic Party politicians
Maria Alejandra Vicuña (born 13 February 1978) is an Ecuadorean politician. She is the Vice President of Ecuador under President Lenin Moreno from 2 October 2017 until 2018. She also served as the Housing and Urban Development Minister of Ecuador until 6 January 2018.

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1978 births
Living people
Vice Presidents of Ecuador
People from Guayaquil
Hans Frauenfelder (born June 28, 1922) is a Swiss-American physicist and biophysicist. He was known for his discovery of perturbed angular correlation (PAC) in 1951. In the modern day, PAC spectroscopy is widely used in the study of condensed matter physics.  

Frauenfelder was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He studied at ETH Zurich.

Within biophysics, he is known for experiment and theory in understanding the dynamical behavior of protein tertiary structure. In 1992, Frauenfelder won the Max Delbruck Prize.

Frauenfelder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Other websites
 References on Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC)
 PAC Spectroscopy 
 Frauenfelder's homepage
 Frauenfelder's math genealogy

1922 births
Living people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American physicists
American biologists
Swiss scientists
Schaffhausen
Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mundell was also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect.

He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell is known as the "father" of the Euro, as he laid the groundwork for its introduction through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics which inspired Reaganomics.

Mundell died on April 4, 2021 in Siena, Tuscany from problems caused by bile duct cancer, aged 88.

References

Other websites
 Robert Mundell's homepage 
 Single Global Currency Association – Bretton Woods 2024 
 his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas.
 Economista canadiense. Profesor en la Columbia University de New York.
  The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
 The Kiel Institute Global Economy Prize
 Nobel biography for laureate Mundell 
 
 IDEAS/RePEc
 

1932 births
2021 deaths
Deaths from cholangiocarcinoma
Canadian economists
Writers from Ontario
University of Waterloo
Canadian Nobel Prize winners
Columbia University faculty
Adrienne is a female first name. It is the female form of Adrien. The name can be also spelled Adrianne.

The meaning of the name is "from the city of Hadria." It also means "the dark one."

There are a few fictional characters with the name, such as Adrienne Johnson from Days of our Lives.

People named Adrienne
 Adrienne Albert (born 1941), composer
 Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American actress
 Adrienne Arsenault (born 1967), Canadian journalist
 Adrienne Bailon (born 1983), member of girl group The Cheetah Girls
 Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945), American actress
 Adrienne Beames (born 1942), Australian long-distance runner
 Adrienne Bolland (1896–1975), French test pilot and first woman to fly over the Andes
 Adrienne Clarke (born 1938), Australian botanist and former Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
 Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939), Canadian journalist and former Governor General of Canada
 Adrienne Corri (born 1933), Scottish actress
 Adrienne Fazan (1906–1986), American Academy Award-winning film editor
 Adrienne Frantz (born 1978), American actress and singer-songwriter
 Adrienne Goodson (born 1966), American former professional basketball player
 Adrienne Kennedy (born 1931), African-American playwright
 Adrienne Krausz (born 1967), Hungarian pianist
 Adrienne de La Fayette (1759–1807), wife of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
 Adrienne Lau, American singer and actress
 Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730), French actress
 Adrienne Maloof (born 1961), American businesswoman and television personality
 Adrianne Palicki (born 1983), American actress
 Adrienne Posta (born 1948), English actress
 Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet and essayist
 Adrienne Roy (born 1953), comic book colorist
 Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006), Russian-American filmmaker and actress
 Adrienne Du Vivier (1626–1706), one of the first white women settlers in Montreal

Given names
Adrienne Shelly (also known as Adrienne Levine; June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006) was an American actress, movie director and screenwriter. Shelly was born in Queens, New York.

She wrote, co-starred in and directed the 2007 movie Waitress. She was also known for her roles in independent movies.

In 2000, Shelly won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award. She won the award for the 1999 movie I'll Take You There. Shelly also guest-starred in Law & Order and Oz.

Death 
On November 1, 2006, Shelly was found hanging in the shower of her Greenwich Village work studio apartment. It was originally thought she had killed herself. But an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, a construction worker, confessed to killing Shelly. He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.

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People murdered in North America
Murdered entertainers
Actors from New York City
1966 births
2006 deaths
MusicBrainz is an music database. It is similar to the freedb project that aims to create an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and create the relationships between them.

Client software 
 Amarok — KDE audio player
 Banshee — multi-platform audio player
 Beets — automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
 Clementine — multi-platform audio player
 CDex — Microsoft Windows CD ripper
 Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using a CLI
 iEatBrainz — Mac OS X, deprecated
 foo_musicbrainz component for foobar2000 — music library/pudio Player
 Jaikoz — Java mass tag editor
 Max — Mac OS X CD ripper and audio transcoder
 Mp3tag — Windows metadata editor and music organizer
 MusicBrainz Picard — cross-platform album-oriented tag editor
 MusicBrainz Tagger — deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor
 puddletag — a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3
 Rhythmbox music player — an audio player for Unix-like systems
 Sound Juicer — GNOME CD ripper
 Zortam Mp3 Media Studio — Windows music organizer and ID3 tag editor

Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shut down on March 18, 2019.

References

Other websites 

  – official site
 MusicBrainz info at the BBC Music site

Music media
Entertainment websites
The International Biographical Centre is a publisher that specializes in producing biographical publications such as the Dictionary of International Biography, Great Men and Women of Science and the other Vanity Awards. It owned by Melrose Press Ltd. It is in Ely, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.

Biographical reference books
2000 Outstanding Europeans of the 21st Century
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century
2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century
2000 Outstanding Scientists - 2010
The Cambridge Blue Book
Dictionary of International Biography
Great Men and Women of Science
International Who's Who in Music
Men of achievement
Outstanding People of the 20th Century
Outstanding People of the 21st Century
Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century
Who’s Who in the 21st Century
World Who's Who of Women

References

Other websites
 International Biographical Centre website
 Photos of some of the IBC medals
The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a conflict over farmland that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming between 1889 and 1893. The conflicts began when cattle companies started ruthlessly persecuting alleged rustlers in the area, many of whom were innocent settlers that competed with them for land, livestock and water rights. As tensions swelled between the large established ranchers and the smaller settlers in the state, violence finally culminated in Powder River Country, when the ranchers hired armed gunmen to invade the county. The gunmen's initial incursion in the territory aroused the small farmers and ranchers, as well as the state lawmen, and they formed a posse of 200 men that led to a grueling stand-off. The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months.

The events have since become a highly mythologized and symbolic story of the Wild West, and over the years variations of the storyline have come to include some of its most famous historical figures. In addition to being one of the most well-known range wars of the American frontier, its themes, especially class warfare, served as a basis for numerous popular novels, films, and television shows in the Western genre.

19th century in Wyoming
Benjamin Harrison
Payerne is a municipality of the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the capital of the district of Payerne, and is now part of the district of Broye-Vully.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Cities in Switzerland
Rongellen is a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Gerd Cintl (11 December 1938 – 26 December 2017) was a German rower. He competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1960, he was a crew member of the German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event.

Cintl died on 26 December 2017 at the age of 79.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia
German people
Rowers
Didier Burkhalter (born April 17, 1960) is a Swiss politician. He was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Burkhalter is a member of FDP.The Liberals. He was elected as a member of the Swiss Federal Council on 16 September 2009. He succeeded Pascal Couchepin on 1 November 2009 when he became head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (the Swiss interior minister). Since 1 January 2012, he serves as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2014, he was President of the Swiss Confederation. He served as Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in 2014. He left the Federal Council on 31 October 2017 (replaced by Ignazio Cassis).

References

Other websites

Presidential year 2014 
Swiss OSCE Chairmanship 2014 
Curriculum Vitae of Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter 
FDFA Homepage 

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1960 births
Living people
Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
Arson in royal dockyards was a crime in the United Kingdom and the British Empire. It was  one of the last crimes that were punishable by execution in the United Kingdom. The crime was made by the Dockyards etc. Protection Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3 c.24) passed by the Parliament of Great Britain and was made to protect Royal Dockyards and ships from arson attacks.

It remained one of the few crimes punished with death after reform of the death penalty in 1861, and stayed in effect even after the death penalty was stopped for murder in 1969. However, the crime was then removed from law by the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

Case of John the Painter 

Only one prosecution was brought under the Act. In that case, the Scottish saboteur John the Painter (also known as James Hill or John Aitken) was prosecuted and executed in 1777 for setting the rope house at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard on fire. He was hanged from the mizzenmast of the frigate , the highest gallows erected in British history. It was set up at Portsmouth Royal Dockyards in view of the damage he had caused. The crowd of witnesses numbered some 20,000.

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Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
1772
1770s in the Kingdom of Great Britain