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Roc Casagran or Roc Casagran i Casañas (born 1980) is a Catalonian professor and poet.  He received the XIII Premi de poesia Parc Taulí (Parc Taulí Poetry Prize) for his work L’ombra queixalada on the subject of the May 1968 student protests. He received the 18th Ciutat de Tarragona Prize for his work Austràlia.

Works 
Selected works:
 Els carrers de les fàbriques (2002) 
 Trènicament trennificats (2005)
 Austràlia (2007)
 Un ós pan­da al pas zebra (2011)
 Ara que estem junts (2012) 
 L’amor fora de mapa (2016)
 Direm nosaltres (2018) ISBN 9788416743629.

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Telling You, also known as Love Sucks, is a 1998 romantic comedy movie directed by Robert DeFranco and starring Peter Facinelli, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Matthew Lillard, Judge Reinhold and Dash Mihok. It was distributed by Miramax. Its filming location finds place in North Hollywood. It was released on August 7, 1998.

Plot
Three college graduates find themselves back home in New Jersey stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor and frustrated about their life's perspectives, while their friends move on, struggle to find a new direction for their lives. Dennis feels overtaken by those he outstripped at high school while Phil re-encounters an ex-girlfriend who is Tony's sister he left behind. In the meantime, dealing with problems created by some money missing from the restaurant, the trio begin meeting old acquaintances and trying to pull themselves up and reorganise their plans for the future.

Cast
Peter Facinelli as Phil Fazzulo
Jennifer Love Hewitt as Deb Freidman
Matthew Lillard as Tony Friedman (Deb's brother)
Judge Reinhold as Adam Ginesberg
Dash Mihok as Dennis Nolan
Andy Berman as Howard Gurtler
Robert DeFranco as Steve Fagan
Gary Wolf as John Foley
Richard Libertini as Mr. P
Gina Philips as Kristen Barrett
Jennifer Jostyn as Beth Taylor
Frank Medrano as Sal Lombardo
Jensen Daggett as Susan
Shanna Moakler as Cheryl Tangeray
Charlotte Ayanna as Allison Fazio (as Charlotte Lopez)
Marc Bossley as Tommy Spahn
Stephanie Brown as Michelle Itzo
Gerald Jennke as Michelle Itzo's Neighbor
Michelle Burke as Kristen's Friend (as Michelle Thomas)
Andrea Tiano as Maria (Sal's Sister)
Mike Muldoon as Jerry (Sal's Brother-in-Law)
Jack Rourke as Murph
Rick Rossovich as McQueeney (uncredited)
Lorin Eric Salm as Lettuce Man
John Bachelder as John Batchelder
Stephen 'Bundy' DeFranco as Bundy
Paul Anthony as Rough Stranger
Kerri Kleiner as Allison's Friend
Liz Reese as Telephone Montage
Jennifer Foley as Amy
Jon Cellini as the tough guy
Joe Crusco as the Police Officer

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1998 comedy movies
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English-language movies
NGK is an Indian Tamil language political drama movie. It was written and directed by Selvaraghavan. This was his first time working with Suriya. Yuvan Shankar Raja is the music composer. The movie was produced by S. R. Prakashbabu and S. R. Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures.

The movie stars Suriya, Rakul Preet Singh and Sai Pallavi in the lead roles. The project was officially announced in November 2017 after completion of Thaanaa Serndha Kootam. The movie's pre-production began in January 2018. Principal photography began on 22 January 2018. It was released on 31 May 2019. This movie received mixed to positive reviews.

Cast 
 Suriya as Nandha Gopalan Kumaran
 Sai Pallavi as Keetha Kumari
 Rakul Preet Singh as Vanathi
 Bala Singh
 Mansoor Ali Khan
 Murali Sharma
 Sampath Raj
 Jagapathi Babu

Production 
Principal photography of the movie began on 22 January 2018. The first look of the movie and title NGK were unveiled on 5 March 2018.

Songs

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1000 Forms of Fear is the fourth studio album by Sia Furler, released in June 2014.

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Trichodesmium, or "sea sawdust", is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria. They are found in nutrient-poor tropical and subtropical ocean waters.

They are most common around Australia and in the Red Sea, where they were first described by Captain Cook. 

Trichodesmium is a diazotroph; that is, it fixes atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium, a nutrient used by other organisms. Trichodesmium is thought to fix nitrogen on such a scale that it accounts for almost half of the nitrogen fixation in marine systems globally.

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Dylan Mills (born 18 September 1984, better known as Dizzee Rascal) is a musician who grew out of the UK Garage music scene, although he has been known to distance himself from this genre. He is also known for being present on pirate radio stations. His music is a combination of both garage and hip-hop beats, also with his own original style of rapping.

History 
Dizzee Rascal's first song to be released was "I Luv U" - a tale of accidental teenage pregnancy. His first album "Boy In The Corner" was released in 2003 with good reviews.

The same year (2003) Dizzee Rascal was stabbed in Ayia Napa. Some newspapers tried to link this to a conflict between Dizzee and a UK-based hip-hop group So Solid Crew.

Dizzee has been described as "the vital unvarnished voice of modern-day inner-city UK", and a social element is usually present in most of his songs. However, Dizzee proves that social commentary does not have to be boring. There is often a funny element to his singing, and some might find this (very British) humour similar to that of Mike Skinner of The Streets.

In September 2003 Dizzee won the Mercury Music Prize for best album, and was the youngest person (at 19) to do so.

He also worked on Basement Jaxx's third album Kish Kash on the track Lucky Star

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Skyscraper is an action movie. It has Dwayne Johnson acting as a FBI agent who has to rescue his family from a very tall skyscraper after it is set on fire. The film was written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and was released in the United States on July 13, 2018.

Release dates

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The British Infrastructure Group (BIG) is a group of Members of Parliament which produces research-based discussion papers and reports. The group has no standing membership and MPs  support BIG's campaigns on a "per campaign" basis. Recent reports have been on broadband, mobile phones, smart meters, electricity supply and airports.

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Alisson Ramses Becker (born 2 October 1992), sometimes shortened to Alisson, is a Brazilian professional footballer. He plays for Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. He plays as a goalkeeper. He was born in Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul.

Counted among one of the best goalkeepers in Europe, Alisson is Brazil's first-choice goalkeeper ahead of Manchester City's Ederson Moraes.

Career

Club
Becker began his career at Internacional. He made over 100 appearances and won the Campeonato Gaúcho in each of his four seasons at the club. In 2016, he signed a €7.5 million transfer to Roma. In July 2018, he signed for Liverpool for a fee of €72.5 million (£66.8m), a world record transfer fee for a goalkeeper at the time. In his first season with Liverpool, he won the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, with Liverpool defeating Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 in the final, and finished second in the Premier League. He also won the Premier League Golden Glove, keeping 21 clean sheets.
In the 2019-2020 season with Liverpool he won the Premier League title and FIFA Club World Cup.

International
Becker has played for Brazil since 2015. He played for them during the Copa América Centenario in 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Honours
Internacional
Campeonato Gaúcho: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Liverpool
UEFA Champions League: 2018–19

Notes

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Alisson Becker profile at the Liverpool F.C. website

1992 births
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2018 FIFA World Cup players
Brazilian association football goalkeepers
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Manoj  is an Indian Sanskrit name. It may refer to:

 Manoj Kumar, famous actor of Hindi movies
 Manoj Katuwal, a Nepali cricketer

Given names
Suriya Sivakumar (born 23 July 1975) is an Indian movie actor who works in Tamil cinema.

Suriya an Indian actor and producer who works primarily in Tamil language movies. He made a commercially successful cinematic debut in Vasanth's Nerrukku Ner (1997). This was followed by roles in a series of critical and commercial failures, including Kaadhale Nimmadhi (1998), Sandhippoma (1998) and Periyanna (1999). Suriya collaborated with Vasanth again in Poovellam Kettuppar (1999), his first movie with future wife Jyothika.

In 2001, Suriya starred in Bala's Nandha as an ex-convict trying to find his place in society. The movie was critically acclaimed and became a turning point in his career..

Filmography
Untitled Hari movie
Untitled Pandiyaraj movie
Untitled Siva movie
Soorarai Pottru (Upcoming)
Kaappaan (Upcoming 2019)
NGK (Upcoming 2019)
Thaanaa Serndha Koottam (2018)
Si3 (movie) (2017)
24 (2016)
7aum Arivu (2011)
Vel (2007 movie) (2007)

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Anna Gunn (born August 11, 1968) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Skyler White on the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). For this role, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2013 and 2014. She has also appeared in the series Deadwood and the movie Sully (2016).

Gunn was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was married to British actor Alastair Duncan from 1990 to 2009. They have two daughters.

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Gender binary is a term referring to a person who identifies as male or female. Not to be confused with gender binarism, which refers to discrimination against non-binary people.

Gender
Peter John O’Rourke is an American government official. He was appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs on May 29, 2018. He left the office on July 23, 2018 when Robert Wilkie was sworn-in.

United States Air Force
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Dean Joseph Norris (born April 8, 1963)  is an American actor. He is best known for his role as DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013).  He also played James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome (2013–2015). He has appeared in movies such as Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Hard To Kill (1990), Total Recall (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Starship Troopers (1997), The Cell (2000), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Evan Almighty (2007) and The Book of Henry (2017).

Norris was born in South Bend, Indiana. He has been married to Bridget Norris since 2001. They have five children.

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Betsy Ann Brandt (born March 14, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Marie Schrader on the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). She has also co-starred as Heather Hughes in the CBS sitcom Life in Pieces since 2015.

Brandt was born in Bay City, Michigan. She has been married to Grady Olsen since 1996. They have two children.

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1973 births
Living people
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The Nepal national cricket team () is also known as The Rhinos. It is a team which plays international cricket matches for Nepal. It is managed by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). They have been an Associate Member of the International Cricket Council since 1996 and were previously an Affiliate Member since 1988. Nepal were awarded Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the ICC in June 2014 until the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. On 15 March 2018, Nepal gained One Day International (ODI) status for the first time. They also regained Twenty20 International status. It was given to them after winning the first playoff match in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. The current captain of this team is Paras Khadka.

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The China Syndrome is a disaster movie about a near-meltdown at a nuclear power plant. It was released on March 16, 1979, twelve days before the Three Mile Island accident. The term "China syndrome" refers to a scenario, not meant to be taken literally, where a reactor core could melt through the Earth "all the way to China".

Plot summary 
News reporter Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) and her cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas) are filming a special on nuclear power at the (fictional) Ventana Nuclear Power Plant when they witness an earthquake followed by a reactor scram. In the control room, Jack Godell (Jack Lemmon) notices that the water level is high and asks another member of the crew to open a relief valve. Ted Spindler (Wilford Brimley) warns him that regulations do not permit opening the relief valve, but he proceeds to open it anyway. The control room crew then notices that the water level is actually dangerously low, and declare an emergency over the intercom ordering all personnel to safety areas. They manage to bring the water level back up to a safe level, meanwhile, Richard secretly films the incident. Richard wants to show the film on television, but the station manager will not allow it. Richard then steals the film and shows it to a group of nuclear engineers who determine that the plant came very close to the China syndrome, where the core would have melted through its containment and down into the Earth, contaminating a large area. Meanwhile, Jack Godell discovers that the welds on the main pump are not safe, and takes over the plant by force, locks himself in the control room, and demands to be interviewed on television. A SWAT team is called in, and proceeds to break into the control room. The other members of the control room crew cut wires in other areas of the plant to intentionally cause a scram. When the scram begins, the main pump fails, and Jack Godell is shot by the SWAT team.

Response of the nuclear power industry 
Upon its release, the movie was criticized by the nuclear power industry, referring to the movie as "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry". Twelve days after the movie was released, however, the Three Mile Island accident occurred in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Both the accident depicted in the movie and the real-world accident at Three Mile Island involved loss of water through a relief valve, as well as the control room crew incorrectly reading water levels.

1979 movies
American disaster movies
Aruba's national flag () was adopted on March 18, 1976. The flag has a field of light blue (called "Larkspur"), two narrow parallel horizontal yellow ("Bunting Yellow") stripes in the bottom half, and a four-pointed white-fimbriated red ("Union Flag red") star in the canton.

Aruba
Aruba
Gusinje (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Гусиње, ),  is a small town and municipality in north-eastern Montenegro. In 2011, it has a population of 4,027 people.

Name 
The name Gusinje (Гусиње) is derived from guska (goose). Its older name was Gousino (Гоусино). In the Ottoman period, it was known as Turkish Gusna (گوسن). In Albanian, it is known as Gucia.

Geography 
The town is in the Plav-Gusinje ravine of the Prokletije, at an elevation of ca. 1,000 m.

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Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960 – July 21, 2018) was an American food critic. He wrote for the Los Angeles Times and wrote for LA Weekly and Gourmet. In 2007, he became the first food critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Gold died on July 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57.

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Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé politician. He was the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until 2022. Previously, he served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and President of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso from 2002 to 2012. He also served as President of the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP). In January 2014, he left the ruling CDP and founded a new opposition party, the People's Movement for Progress.

He was elected as President of Burkina Faso in the November 2015 general election, winning a majority in the first round of voting.

In November 2021, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré must face demonstrations against the growing insecurity in the country and are in power.

On 23 January 2022, he was arrested by members of the Burkina Faso Armed Forces ​during a coup d'état. The next day, he was removed from office and replaced by the coup's leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

Biography

Early life 
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is the son of Charles Bila Kaboré and Antonine Kaboré who are both training teachers. They are Catholics from the Mossi ethnic group. 

Charles Bila Kaboré was appointed technical advisor to the Minister of the Interior and Security in 1961, before becoming Treasurer General of Upper Volta and member of the Economic and Social Council. From October 1963 to December 1965, he held the post of Minister of Finance, before taking the Ministry of Public Health until the fall of the First Republic, in January 1966. Financial Advisor and Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic until 1975, Charles Bila Kaboré is appointed deputy governor of the BCEAO (Central Bank of West African States) until 1982. He is then technical adviser and secretary general of the Burkinabe presidency before taking his retirement in 1985.

Education 
Kaboré studied at the Ouagadougou Center, a public primary school and Tougan until February 1968. He returned to Ouagadougou in CM2, at the public primary school, center B, where he obtained the certificate of studies. elementary primary. He graduated from Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle College in Ouagadougou, where he obtained BEPC in 1972. He graduated in 1975.

He studied economics at the University of Dijon where, in 1979, he obtained a Master's degree in Economics and Management. In 1980, he finished a DESS in Management which gave him the Certificate of Qualification in Business Administration and Management.

From this period, he fought in the Federation of Black African Students in France (FEANF) which is very active at the time of independence and promotes the idea of ​​a unified Africa.

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Thaddeus C. Radzilowski (4 February 1938 – 20 July 2018) was an American historian, scholar, author, and professor. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was co-founder of the Piast Institute, a national institute for Polish and Polish-American affairs. His work focused on Poland and other Central and Eastern European nations, including Russia. 

Radzilowski taught widely in Europe and North America and published more than 100 monographs, edited collections, journal articles, book chapters and scholarly papers. 

Radzilowski died in Detroit on 20 July 2018 at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
 Piast Institute Website
 Piast Institute International Symposium on FEAR by Jan T. Gross

1938 births
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American historians
Educators from Detroit, Michigan
American political writers
Writers from Detroit, Michigan
Maurice Yaméogo (31 December 1921 – 15 September 1993) was the first President of the Republic of Upper Volta, now called Burkina Faso, from 1959 until 1966.

Biography 

"Monsieur Maurice" incarnated the Voltaic state at the time of independence. As a member of the colonial administration, Maurice Yaméogo began his career in 1946 in the dense political landscape of Upper Volta thanks to his oratory skills. In May 1957, as part of the formation of the first Volta Government established by the framework law Defferre, he joined the coalition government formed by Ouezzin Coulibaly, as Minister of Agriculture under the label of the Movement Voltaic Democratic (MDV) . In January 1958, threatened by a motion of censure, Ouezzin Coulibaly debauched in favor of the Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally (UDV-RDA) Maurice Yaméogo and his allies at the assembly against the insurance of a promotion in the government. Maurice Yaméogo thus raises No. 2 of the government with the portfolio of the Interior, a key position that allows him when in September 1958 Ouezzin Coulibaly dies, to act as interim head of government.

Maurice Yaméogo quickly imposes his choices. After the proclamation of the Republic on December 11, 1958, it operates in 1959 a surprising reversal of position vis-à-vis the proposed Federation of Mali defended by Léopold Sédar Senghor. Although the Voltaic constituent assembly wanted Haute-Volta to join the Federation, Maurice Yaméogo opted for international sovereignty and regional integration limited to the economic sphere with the Entente Council. Then Yaméogo neutralizes any parliamentary opposition. The UDV-RDA purified of its adversaries, imposes in single party. Upper Volta is even before independence, on August 5, 1960, under the yoke of his dictatorship.

In foreign politics, jealous and admiring of the international success of his Ivorian colleague Félix Houphouët-Boigny, he challenged him by establishing an ephemeral customs union (1961-1962) with the very progressive Ghana of Kwame Nkrumah. Houphouët-Boigny quickly became his best ally in December 1965. Yaméogo signed with him an agreement to establish dual citizenship for Ivorian and Voltaic nationals. This project does not have time to succeed. On January 3, 1966, in a context of severe financial austerity measures, his corrupt regime was overthrown by a peaceful demonstration organized by the forces of the Voltaic nation: the unions, the so-called traditional chieftaincy and the clergy. The result is Maurice Yaméogo, an austerity linked to his dubious management of finances. In 1993, he died after being rehabilitated by the President of the Republic Blaise Compaore.

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1993 deaths
Presidents of Burkina Faso
This is a list of heads of state of Burkina Faso since the Republic of Upper Volta gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day.

A total of eight people have served as head of state of Upper Volta/Burkina Faso (not counting three Transitional Heads of State/Presidents and one Acting President in rebellion).

The current head of state of Burkina Faso is the President of the Republic Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba since 2022.

List of heads of state of Burkina Faso

References

Other websites
World Statesmen – Burkina Faso
Paul Kaba Thieba (born 28 July 1959) is a Burkinabe economist. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 2016 to 2019. Thieba was appointed by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on 6 January 2016.

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1959 births
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Christoph Westerthaler (11 January 1965 – 20 July 2018) was an Austrian football coach and former football player. He was born in Silz, Austria. He made his debut for Austria in an October 1989 friendly match against Malta. He was a small-built striker who started his professional career at FC Wacker Innsbruck and stayed with them for 9 years.

Westerthaler died on 20 July 2018 from a heart attack, aged 53.

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Deaths from myocardial infarction
Austrian footballers
Roy Frank "RJ" Mitte III (born August 21, 1992) is an American actor, producer and model. He is best known for his role as Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Like his character on the show, he has cerebral palsy. He has also appeared in Switched at Birth, Hannah Montana and Robot Chicken.

Mitte was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He was adopted as a baby. He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 2006.

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George Vincent "Vince" Gilligan Jr. (born February 10, 1967) is an American television writer, producer and director. He is best known for creating the AMC drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and its spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–present). He also wrote and produced for the science fiction series The X-Files and was one of the creators of its spin-off The Lone Gunmen (2001).

Gilligan was born in Richmond, Virginia. He has been with his girlfriend, Holly Rice, since 1991. He is an agnostic.

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In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat. It is done to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. 
Any player who is currently batting is called a batsman even if they are better in any other skills in cricket. Batsmen have to adapt to various conditions when playing on different cricket pitches, especially in different countries. A top-level batsman has good reflexes, decision-making and strategy with excellent physical batting skills.

During an innings two members of the batting side are on the pitch. The one facing the current delivery from the bowler is called 'the striker', while the other is the non-striker. When a batsman is out, he is replaced by a teammate. This continues until the end of the innings or until 10 of the team members are out. After the batting of first team is over the other team gets a turn to bat.

Batting tactics and strategy depends on the type of match being played. It also depends on the current state of play. Batsmen try to score many runs quickly without losing their wicket. To score quickly, risky shots must be played which increases the chances of batsman being out. Batsman's safest choice is to guard  the stumps but this may result in scoring fewer runs.

As with all other cricket statistics, batting statistics and records are given much attention. It helps to know how effectively a batsman is playing. The main statistic for batting is a player's batting average. This is calculated by dividing the number of runs he has scored by the number of times he has been out (dismissed).

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Typhoon Maria (called Typhoon Gardo in the Philippines) was a severe Western Pacific tropical cyclone in July 2018. The storm struck East China. Maria (Gardo) was an unusual Category 5 super typhoon when it hit Taiwan and China.

At her peak, Maria had winds of .

July 2018 events
Pacific typhoons
Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1975) is a Scottish actress. She is best known for playing Door in the series Neverwhere, Kate in the movie A Knight's Tale, Cat MacKenzie in the drama series Lip Service and Lydia Rodarte-Quayle in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul.

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Scottish movie actors
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Actors from Glasgow
Tor Erling Staff (22 February 1933 – 22 July 2018) was a Norwegian lawyer. Staff was born in Oslo. Staff started working for barrister Olaf Trampe Kindt. From 1967, he worked as a barrister in Oslo and at the Supreme Court.

Staff died in Oslo on 22 July 2018 at the age of 85.

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Jesse Lon Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights, Todd Alquist in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad, and Ed Blumquist in the second season of the FX anthology series Fargo. He has also appeared in movies such as Like Mike (2002), Observe and Report (2009), Battleship (2012), The Master (2012), Black Mass (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017). In 2017, he starred in the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister".

Plemons was born in Dallas, Texas. He is engaged to actress Kirsten Dunst. They have a son.

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The 19th South Korean presidential election was held on 9 May 2017. The election was called after the impeachment and dismissal of President Park Geun-hye. The election was held in a single round on a first-past-the-post basis.

The election was originally scheduled to be held on 20 December 2017, but was moved earlier after the decision of the Constitutional Court on 10 March 2017 to uphold the parliament's impeachment of Park Geun-hye.

Opinion polling before April showed the Democratic Party's candidate, Moon Jae-in, runner-up in the 2012 election, as the front-runner and would later go on to win the election.

Candidates

Polling

Results

Notes

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Presidential elections
Sim Sang-jung (born 20 February 1959) is a South Korean politician. She was one of the five major presidential candidates in the 2017 South Korean presidential election. She ran as the Justice Party's nominee.

She is a member of the 20th National Assembly and the leader of the Justice Party.

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Living people
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Salimatou Fatty (born 2 February 1994) is a Gambian educator and gender advocate. She is currently a Global Partnership for Education  Youth Advocate and a Youth ambassador for international organizations including A World at School. She also serves as CEO of a Girls Education Foundation.

Personal life 
Fatty was born in Kerewan village in the North Bank Division of the Gambia in 1994 to Aja Fatoumatta Jarra Ceesay and Alhajie Saikou Fatty. She is the seventh of her mother's nine children.  She attended Oustass Keita Dara, where she learned to practise her religion, Islam.

Awards 
Fatty received the “African Leadership Award” in 2016 for her work in girls' education. She was also included in the list of the 2017 100 most influential young Africans across the continent.

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The Sykes–Picot Agreement , officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France. It was approved by the Russian Empire. It allowed the European powers to divide parts of the Middle East for themselves after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire.

1916 in France
1910s in the United Kingdom
1910s treaties
Ottoman Empire
World War I
Imperialism
Boudry District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It has a population of  (as of ). The district capital is the town of Boudry.

Municipalities 
The district has the following municipalities:

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La Chaux-de-Fonds District is one of the six districts of the largely French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
La Chaux-de-Fonds has three municipalities:

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Le Locle District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is the town of Le Locle. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
The district has the following municipalities:

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Districts of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is the town of Neuchâtel. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
The district has nine municipalities:

Mergers 
 On 1 January 1966 the municipality of Landeron-Combes changed its name to Le Landeron.
 On 1 January 2009, Marin-Epagnier and Thielle-Wavre merged to form the new municipality of La Tène.

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Val-de-Ruz District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, consisting of the region of Val de Ruz and the surrounding Jura Mountains. The district capital is the town of Cernier. It has a population of  (as of ).

Municipalities 
Val-de-Ruz has the following municipalities:

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Val-de-Travers District is one of the six districts of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The district capital is Val-de-Travers. It has a population of  (as of ).

It is famous for its watch industry. It is also famous for being the historical birthplace of absinthe which is now once again being distilled in the region.

Municipalities 
The district has three municipalities:

Merger 
 On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form Val-de-Travers.

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Cressier is a municipality of the district of Neuchâtel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Lignières is a municipality of the district of Neuchâtel in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Ronald Houston Griffith (March 16, 1936 – July 18, 2018) was an American general in the United States Army. He was Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army (VCSA) from 1995 to 1997. He was born in LaFayette, Georgia. He fought in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. 

Griffith died on July 18, 2018 in Lexington, Virginia at the age of 82.

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Allied Defense Group bio 
Military Professional Resources bio
Virginia Military Institute bio 

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People from Georgia (U.S. state)
LaFayette ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Walker County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 6,702, which rose to 7,121 in 2010. It was founded as Chattooga.

Other websites
 City of LaFayette
 catwalkchatt.com The website for the Walker County Messenger, the county newspaper since 1877.
 WQCH Radio

Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
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Khalid Salleh (29 February 1948 – 23 July 2018) was a Malaysian actor and poet. He was born in Kajang, Selangor. He was known for his roles in Penghujung Malam, Azizah The Legend, Jogho, Kaki Bakar, Buai Laju-Laju, and Hanyut. 

Salleh died on 23 July 2018 in Kuala Lumpur from respiratory failure at the age of 70.

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The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unknown serial killer. It was active in Cleveland, Ohio, USA in the 1930s. The killings were defined by the cut-off pieces of twelve known victims and the disposal of their remains in the poor neighborhood of Kingsbury Run.

The official number of murders caused by the Cleveland Torso Murderer is thirteen, although recent research has shown there could have been as many as twenty. The twelve known victims were killed between 1935 and 1938. 

Most victims had cut off heads and sometimes other limbs were cut off as well. The men were sometimes castrated as well.

Most of the victims were homeless or sex workers.

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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 14 or 15, 1947), known as "the Black Dahlia", was an American woman who was found murdered in a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime. Her corpse was chopped into pieces and severed at the waist.

Short's unsolved murder and the details surrounding it have had caused many theories and public speculation. It is one of the oldest unsolved cases in Los Angeles County.

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The Axeman of New Orleans was an American serial killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 1918 to October 1919. The killer was never identified, and the murders remain unsolved.

The victims usually were attacked with an axe, which often belonged to the victims themselves. In most cases, a panel on a back door of a home was removed by a chisel, which were both left on the floor near the door, followed by an attack on one or more of the residents with either an axe or straight razor.

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Other websites
Vice interview of Miriam C. Davis about the Axeman murders
Prairie Ghosts: The Axeman of New Orleans 
1919: A serial killer had New Orleans on edge Times-Picayune

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Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida with an elevation of  above sea level. The hill is located in Walton County, near the town of Lakewood, Florida.

Geography of Florida
Hills
Parks in the United States
The "Boy in the Box" is the name given to an unknown murder victim, 3 to 7 years old, whose naked, abused body was found in a cardboard box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957. He is also commonly known as  "America's Unknown Child." His identity has never been discovered, and the case remains open.

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Brian Douglas Wells (November 15, 1956 – August 28, 2003) was an American man who died after a homemade neck-bomb exploded while being involved in a plot involving a bank robbery in Erie, Pennsylvania. Before his death, Wells was a pizza delivery man who, shortly before his death, made a delivery stop outside of Erie.

Investigated by a task force led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was described as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI". The Wells story was the subject of significant attention in the mass media. The question of whether Wells was a victim or a mastermind behind the robbery plot is debated.

In a July 2007 indictment, federal prosecutors said that Wells had been involved in the planning of the botched bank robbery. Two of his alleged co-conspirators, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Kenneth Barnes, were indicted. In 2008, U.S. District Judge Sean J. McLaughlin sentenced Barnes to 45 years in federal prison. Two years later, Diehl-Armstrong was also found guilty and, in 2011, was sentenced to life in prison, where she died from cancer in 2017.

Other websites
 The 30 Strangest Deaths in History
  (Newspaper articles, audio clips)
 
  Website created by Brian's brother; contains reproductions of the nine page letter, along with photos of the cane gun and collar bomb.
 
 Collarbomber FBI Profile August 27, 2004 press release from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania FBI website.
 

1956 births
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People from Erie, Pennsylvania
Skumin ( is a Lithuanian, Polish and Russian masculine nobleman surname, its feminine counterpart is Skumina.

Notable people with the surname
 Alexander Skumin (1748–1775), statesman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
 Andrew N. Skumin  (1909–1984), WWII Veteran, officer of KGB, Chairman of the Military Tribunal of the Internal Internal Troops of the Volga Military District
 Anna Skumina (1730–1772)
 Anthony Skumin (1899–1965), WWI Veteran US Army
 Edward A Skumin (1898–1935), WWI Veteran US Army
 Ivan Skumin (?–1566)
 Janusz Skumin (1570–1642), Polish nobleman and politician
 Jerzy Skumin (1596–1656), religious leader and statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 John Skumin Sr (1935–2014) was a graduate of Berkshire Community College with an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice. He served in the Massachusetts National Guard.
 Józef Skumin (1716–1790), knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
 Katarzyna Eugenia Skumina (1610–1648), Polish noble lady
 Ludwik Skumin (1748–1808), Field Lithuanian Hetman, Grand Treasurer of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He received the Russian Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky and of St. Andrew
 Theodore Skumin (1538–1618), Royal nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 
 Victor A. Skumin (born 1948), Russian scientist, philosopher and writer
 V. L. Skumin

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 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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Gloria Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) was an American woman dubbed "the Toxic Lady" by the media when several hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. She was from Riverside, California.

Ramirez had been admitted to the ER while suffering from late-stage cervical cancer. While treating Ramirez, several hospital workers fainted and others experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and muscle spasms.

Five workers required hospitalization, one of whom remained in intensive care unit  for two weeks. 

Shortly after arriving at the hospital, Ramirez died from complications related to cancer. The incident was initially thought to be a case of mass hysteria. 

The medical staff injected her with diazepam, midazolam, and lorazepam to sedate her. When it became clear that Ramirez was responding poorly to treatment, the staff tried to defibrillate her heart. Many people saw an oily substance covering Ramirez's body. Others noted a fruity, garlic-like odor that they thought was coming from her mouth.

An investigation by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said that Ramirez had been self-injecting dimethyl sulfoxide as a treatment for pain, which converted into dimethyl sulfate, an extremely poisonous agent via a series of chemical reactions in the emergency department. Although the medical sector of Riverside supports this claim, scientists still believe it is not the case.

Two months after Ramirez died, her badly decomposed body was released for an independent autopsy and burial. On April 20, 1994—ten weeks after her death—Ramirez was buried at Olivewood Memorial Park in Riverside.

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Cairo is a city in Grady County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 9,607. The city is the county seat of Grady County.

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City of Cairo official website
City of Cairo from georgia.gov 

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County seats in Georgia
Keddie is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States. The population was 66 at the 2010 census.

Keddie is located at  (40.005901, -120.956899).

Keddie was also the site of the Keddie murders, a notorious quadruple homicide.

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Plumas County, California
Dorothy A. Brown (born September 4, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer. Brown is the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County in the First Judicial District of Illinois since 2000.

In April 2018, while under federal investigation, Brown announced her plans to run for Mayor of Chicago in the 2019 election. In January 2019, the Chicago Board of Elections rejected her petitions and will not be on the ballot in the February 2019 election.

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Neal Sáles-Griffin (born July 28, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and educator. He co-founded the first coding bootcamp program in 2011 and is the CEO of CodeNow.

Sales-Griffin is running for Mayor of Chicago in 2019.

In 2011, Sales-Griffin and McGee launched Code Academy, the first ever coding bootcamp, offering three-month intensive courses in web development and design. In 2012, Code Academy changed its name to The Starter League to eliminate confusion with a competing New York-based program called Codecademy. It was one of the first tenants of 1871,

In 2016, Sales-Griffin joined CodeNow as its CEO, a nonprofit coding school that focuses in on high school students in low income areas interested in coding, design and entrepreneurship.

Sales-Griffin was named to Crain’s Chicago Business’s "40 Under 40" in 2013.

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Willie L. Wilson (born June 16, 1948) is an American businessman and politician. He has owned and operated many different McDonald's restaurant franchises and owns Omar Medical Supplies. He worked and lives in Chicago.

He also produces the nationally syndicated gospel music television program Singsation, which won a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award in 2012.

Wilson ran for Mayor of Chicago in the 2015 election and currently in the 2019 election. Wilson announced on June 1, 2015, that he would be running as a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He ran as a Democrat.

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An election happened on February 24, 2015 to elect the Mayor of Chicago. The election was non-partisan and no candidate got a majority.

A runoff election happened between the top two finishers (both Democrats) on April 7, 2015, and Rahm Emanuel won the election and stayed as mayor.

Emanuel was in the election, wanting to win a second term. In the first round, Emanuel got 46% of the vote and Democratic Cook County Commissioner Chuy García received 34%. In the runoff, Emanuel got 55.7% of the vote, winning the election. Garcia got 44.3% of the vote.

The runoff was very rare in the history of Chicago's mayoral races.

Candidates
 Rahm Emanuel, incumbent mayor
 Robert Fioretti, Chicago City Alderman
 Chuy García, Cook County Commissioner and former State Senator
 Willie Wilson, medical supply company executive

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The city of Chicago, Illinois held a non-partisan mayoral election on Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Mayor Richard M. Daley, a member of the Democratic Party who had been in office since 1989, did not seek a seventh term as mayor.

Candidates needed to collect 12,500 petition signatures by November 22, 2010 to qualify for a place on the ballot. April 5, 2011 was scheduled to be a runoff election date if no candidate received a majority.

Rahm Emanuel won the race for mayor with more than 55% of the vote. He was inaugurated on May 16, 2011.

Six candidates appeared on the February 22 ballot:
Gery Chico, former chief of staff to mayor Richard M. Daley and former chairman of the City Colleges of Chicago
Miguel del Valle, City Clerk of Chicago and former Illinois State Senator
Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and former U.S. Representative from Illinois's 5th district
Carol Moseley Braun, former U.S. Senator from Illinois and former United States Ambassador to New Zealand
Patricia Van Pelt Watkins, non-profit administrator and activist
William "Dock" Walls, community activist, businessman, former aide to Mayor Harold Washington and perennial candidate

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