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A tennis court is a court used to play tennis.  It is a rectangle with a net across the middle. During a tennis match there can be both one player (single) or two players (double) on both half.  The surface can be grass, clay or hardcourt.

The dimensions are set as the standard for lawn tennis by the International Tennis Federation and written down in the 'Rules of Tennis' document.  The Tennis court is 78 feet (23.77 meters) long. Its width is 27 feet (8.23 meters) for singles matches and 36 feet (10.97 meters) for doubles matches.  The service line is 21 feet (6.40 meters) from the net.

Surfaces 
Clay Court is primarily made with stone, brick and crushed shale.  The tennis ball on the clay court has the interesting feature of digging into the dirt.  The clay court is the cheapest court to construct but is also is the court that requires the most maintenance.  The water content should be balanced and the courts have to be rolled often to maintain flattened form. 

Grass Courts are the fastest courts.  Before the open era most games were played in grass courts.  Over time, the maintenance and cost have made it less popular.  Grass courts are made by growing grass in hard packed soil.  This can create many micro-variations in the surface type.

Carpet Courts are rollable court surfaces.  They are characterized by their low bounce and fast surface compared to hard courts.  Carpet courts went out of fashion in the late 20th century and have been discontinued from the world tour.

Hard Courts are by far the most popular surfaces, primarily due to the one-time investment and minimum maintenance.  The courts are made up of uniform rigid material, often covered with an acrylic surface layer to offer greater consistency of bounce than other outdoor surfaces.  Hard courts generally vary in speed, being slower than grass courts but faster than clay.

References 

Tennis
The Vézère () is a river of southwestern France that flows through the Corrèze and Dordogne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is a right tributary of the Dordogne river.

The  valley of the Vézère river is known for its prehistoric cave systems, with numerous cave paintings. UNESCO collectively designated these as a World Heritage Site in 1979.

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

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

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Campagne (1968-2017)

Course
The Vézère starts in the Plateau de Millevaches, part of the Massif Central, in the commune of Meymac, Corrèze department, at an elevation of about .

It flows generally southwest through the Corrèze and Dordogne departments before flowing into the Dordogne river in Limeuil at about  of altitude.
 
The Vézère flows through 1 region, 2 departments and 53 communes. The main communes are:

 Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
 Corrèze: Chavanac, Pérols-sur-Vézère, Bugeat, Treignac, Uzerche, Vigeois, Larche
 Dordogne: Terrasson-Lavilledieu, Montignac, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, Le Bugue

Main tributaries 
The main tributaries (more than 20 km long) of the Vézère river are:
 Left tributaries
 Ars - 20.7 km;
 Brézou - 29.6 km;
 Corrèze - 94.6 km;
 Right tributaries
 Soudaine - 25.8 km;
 Bradascou - 33 km;
 Loyre - 45.3 km;

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France
 Vézère Valley

References

Other websites

 Banque Hydro - Station P4271010 - La Vézère à Campagne  
 World Heritage profile

Rivers of France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
AlphaBay Market was an online darknet marketplace operating on the Tor network. It was shut down by the FBI and the United States Department of Justice on July 2017.

History 
It started in November 2014 and officially launched on December 22, 2014. It had 14,000 new users in the first 90 days of its operation. The darknet informer website Gwern.net placed AlphaBay Market in the top tier of markets regarding the 6-month survival probability, and it has proven to be successful. In October 2015, it was recognized as the largest online darknet market according to Dan Palumbo, research director at Digital Citizens Alliance.

Sources

Internet
Luis Ángel Cereceda Parra (27 June 1943 – 11 March 2017) was a Chilean singer and songwriter. He was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He traveled abroad helping to maintain the Nueva Canción tradition in Chilean expatriate communities in Europe, North America, and Australia. He was known for producing his second album, Oratorio para el pueblo, which was about his love for Chile.

Parra died of lung cancer in Paris, France on 11 March 2017, aged 73.

References

1943 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Chilean singers
Chilean writers
Songwriters
People from Valparaíso
Chippis is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Valais
Grimentz is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Grimentz, Ayer, Chandolin, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Villages in Valais
Former municipalities of Valais
Grône is a municipality in the district Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Valais
Icogne is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Valais
[[File:The emblem of the Music School Kosta Manojlovic, Zemun.jpg|thumb|The emblem of the school.]]

The Music School Kosta Manojlovic is one of the largest schools in Serbia. It is located at 9 Nemanjina street in Zemun.
All music and ballet schools of Serbia , Retrieved 12 March 2017 Students and professors of this school have achieved outstanding successes at numerous competition events in Serbia and abroad, which places the school at the very top of the music education in Serbia.

 Short history of school 
The Music School “Kosta Manojlović” started its work on 1 September 1939, as a separate department of the Music School “Stanković” in Belgrade, in a three-room apartment in Svetosavska Street. In 1949 the school received the status of a regular six-year, gratuitous schools, and since 1954 bears the name of Kosta Manojlović., the famous Serbian composer, musicologist, founder and first rector of the Faculty of Music  in Belgrade.

The School Day is celebrated on December 4 – the day of birth of Kosta Manojlovic''.

Learning music is organized in three educational cycles 
1. Pre-school education (which includes musical nursery, musical kindergarten and the preparatory preschool program)
2. Elementary music education (six years for the piano, the violin, the cello, the guitar, the accordion and the flute; four years for the clarinet, the oboe, the saxophone, the trumpet, the horn, the trombone and the double bass; two years for solo singing)
3. Secondary music education (two courses: vocal-instrumental and music production with sound processing)

Teaching classes are organized in three separate locations – the main (parent) school, in the class for visually impaired children “Veljko Ramadanović” and elementary school “Lazar Savatić”. With around a thousand students and 145 teachers and non-teaching staff, the school is one of the largest in Serbia. Today, there are seven courses established in the school: the piano, string instruments, wind instruments, solo singing, the accordion, the guitar and a course for music production and audio recording. Around 3,000 students have completed elementary education and around 650 students secondary education so far.

Related pages 
 Audio engineer

References

Other websites  

  The official website of the Music School Kosta Manojlovic, Zemun, Retrieved 12 March 2017 
 Music school Kosta Manojlovic, Zemun – School for tallented children, Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Gala Concert of Music School "Kosta Manojlovic", Retrieved 12 March 2017
 List of Music and Ballet Schools of Serbia , Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Music School Kosta Manojlović: Concerts   played at School Day , Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Woodwind and Brass Instruments concert, Retrieved 12 March 2017
 Orchestra of the secondary Music School “Kosta Manojlovic” in Zemun (Serbia), Retrieved 12 March 2017

Music schools
Buildings and structures in Serbia
Artificial leather is a substance used as a replacement for real leather. It is used where the properties or the look of real leather are desired, but real leather is too expensive, unsuitable, or not feasible for ethical reasons. Compared with real leather, artificial leathers are much cheaper to produce. Water resistance is another advantage of many artificial leathers. They are often used for upholstery and fashion and other purposes.

What it is made of 

Usually, there are two components: A kind of textile, and some kind of plastic (such as PVC).  Real leather is produced from the skin of animals.

Problems 
Artificial leather might look like it is better for the environment, since no animals need to be killed to make it. The problem with artificial leather is different: When the item of clothing is no longer used, it is thrown away.  Many plastics take a long time to decay. That way, the plastic part may get into the sea, where animals such as birds and fish eat it. The chemicals used to make artificial leather are toxic, and can lead to pollution.

Materials
Murray Hone Ball ONZM (26 January 1939 – 12 March 2017) was a New Zealand cartoonist. He became known for his Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero (the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine), Bruce the Barbarian, All the King's Comrades (also in Punch) and the long-running Footrot Flats comic series. 

In 2002 Ball became an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist.

Ball was born in Feilding, New Zealand. He studied at Parktown Boys' High School. Ball died on 12 March 2017 in Gisborne, New Zealand from complications of dementia, aged 78.

References

Other websites
 Murray Ball: The man behind Footrot Flats  biography
Footrot Flats by Murray Ball, a Facebook fan-site with a huge photographic catelogue of many Footrot Flats or Murray Ball items / merchandise

1939 births
2017 deaths
Cartoonists
Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Deaths from dementia
People from North Island
Shifa Gardi (Kurdish:Şîfa Gerdî, Arabic:شفاء كردي)(July 1, 1986 - February 25, 2017) also known as Shifa Zikri Ibrahim, was a Kurdish journalist for the Kurdish Rudaw Media Network in Iraq.  She died in a roadside bomb explosion while reporting on the Iraqi advance into Mosul. When she died, Gardi was speaking to Shiite commander Hashd al-Shaabi beside a huge hole where ISIS militants dumped the bodies of people they killed.  Al-Shaabi's feet caught in a wire, which made the bomb explode.   Gardi, commander al-Shaabi, and four fighters were killed. Gardi's cameraman Younis Mustafa and seven fighters were wounded.

Ranja Jamal, a Rudaw journalist who is embedded with the Iraqi army was with Gardi when she died.  He said she was looking for the deep hole called "Mosul’s Valley of Death", or Al Khafsa, where ISIS threw hundreds of people. The hole is in a valley south of the Mosul near a village called Al Athba. According to the Islamic State's doctrine, Muslims who oppose the group or fighters who leave the group cannot be buried in Muslim cemeteries.  Al Athba is 20 kilometers south of Mosul and five kilometers from the main Baghdad-Mosul road. Gardi had information about the valley but she was not able to find it. On her way back, she met a Popular Mobilization Forces or Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi group, and they took her to the place.

Life 

Gardi was born a refugee in 1986 in the town of Urmia Zêwe, Iran. In 2006, she graduated from Computer Technical Institute.  In 2013, she graduated from the media department at Salahaddin University. In 2006, she started her career in media and worked as a teacher. From 2007 to 2010 she worked as a journalist. Gerdi was with the Rûdaw Media Group from its beginning.  At the beginning of the Mosul offensive she started a program titled “Focus Mosul”. Gerdi followed the events of the war by going to the front as a war correspondent.  Gerdi once brought a rabbit back to her office, because it was malnourished.  She was killed February 25, 2017 in a bomb explosion in Mosul.  Her cameraman Younis Mustafa was injured in the explosion. 

The President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, sent his condolences.  Mesud Tek, the General Secretary Socialist Party of Kurdistan in Turkey also sent condolences. Marie-Claude Bibeau, the Canadian Minister for international development, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, the governor of Kirkuk, and Falah Mustafa, head of Department of Foreign Relations of Kurdistan Regional Government all expressed their condolnces.

Other websites 
 List of news articles written by Gerdi from Rojname Kurdish News.

References  

Kurdish people
Journalists
1986 births
2017 deaths
Rádio BandNews FM is a Brazilian all news radio network. It first started in 20 March 2005. It is owned by Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação.

The network started broadcasting at exactly midnight in 20 March 2005, after at 23:59, Rádio Cidade said goodbye to its listeners after 25 years and played the last top 3 songs. The first on-air journalist was Carlos Nascimento.

Currently, it serves ten cities: Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Vitoria, Joao Pessoa and Salvador. The first 4 cities carry the network's de facto flagship stations.

Campinas and Ribeirao Preto (in 106.7 FM and 96.7 FM) stopped carrying BandNews FM programming in 2014. They are now branded as Band FM.

BandNews FM is well known for its slogan Em 20 minutos, tudo pode mudar (In 20 minutes, everything can happen), which refers to how the news is updated every 20 minutes. This format (that allows listeners to tune in at any time of the day to get the leading stories of the moment) is inspired by 1010 WINS, America's most well-known news station.

From 6:00 to 23:00, on these news blocks, 6 minutes of them being given to each individual affiliate for providing local stories, read by a local announcer. Normally there's a local-only news programme from 9:00 to 11:00. Overnights feature live national announcers, broadcast by all affiliates.

The network also broadcasts selected Brazilian football matches, alongside Bandeirantes and CBN, two likewise-formatted radio networks.

Frequencies 
 96.9 MHz (São Paulo)
 90.3 MHz (Rio de Janeiro)
 89.5 MHz (Belo Horizonte)
 90.5 MHz (Brasília)
 96.3 MHz (Curitiba)
 99.1 MHz (Salvador)
 99.3 MHz (Porto Alegre)
 101.7 MHz (Fortaleza)
 103.3 MHz (João Pessoa)
 90.1 MHz (Vitória)

Brazilian culture
Radio
2005 establishments in South America
2000s establishments in Brazil
Stephen Nicol (born 11 December 1961) is a Scottish former footballer. He played as a full-back. He played for Ayr United, Liverpool, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers and the Scotland national team. He was best known for his time at Liverpool. He won many honours with the Reds, including five league titles and a European Cup (1984). He now works for ESPN.

Nicol was born in Troon, South Ayrshire. He is married to Eleanor and has two children.

References

Other websites
 Steve Nicol at LiverpoolFC.com

1961 births
Living people
Association football defenders
Association football full-backs
Liverpool F.C. players
Scottish football managers
Scottish footballers
BandNews TV is the first Brazilian 24-hour rolling news channel, owned by Grupo Bandeirantes. Its headquarters and newsroom are located in Sao Paulo. It was the second news channel launched in the Brazilian cable/satellite market.

BandNews TV is popular with people who may not have time to watch, or wait for, lengthy news reports. The channel broadcasts live and updated 15-minute news wheels throughout most hours of the day. In these reports there are 12 minutes of news and 3 minutes for other news-based segments, such as sports, fashion and cinema. It also broadcasts Jornal da Band Monday-Saturday nights at 8:30, right after the original broadcast on Band. BandNews is the third most watched Brazilian news channel and it was also the first Brazilian HD news network.

Presenters 
 Adriane Galisteu (Face a Face)
 Caroline Nogueira
 Débora Alfano
 Eduardo Barão (BandNews no Meio do Dia)
 Fabiana Panachão
 Fernando Moreira
 Isabela Tacaki
 Luiza Zanchetta
 Marcelo Favalli
 Nelson Gomes
 Paula Valdez
 Rafael Colombo (Jornal BandNews: 1ª Edição)
 Roberta Russo
 Vanessa Cochi
 Antonio Lavareda
 José Simão
 Marina Machado
 Mônica Bergamo
 Paloma Tocci (Jornal da Band)
 Ricardo Boechat (Jornal da Band)
 Salomão Schvartzman
 Sérgio Waib

Type of newscasts 
Since the channel's launch, every single newscast is aired directly from the newsroom, which has a circle table for anchors to speak to the camera.

Programming

Live news bulletins 
 BandNews no Meio do Dia
 Jornal BandNews: 1ª Edição
 Jornal BandNews: 2ª Edição
 Manhã BandNews
 Madrugada BandNews
 Tarde BandNews
 Expresso BandNews
 Fim de Semana BandNews
 Jornal BandNews: Edição da Noite

Magazines (can be recorded) 
 Jornal da Band
 Jornal da Noite
 Canal Livre
 Jornal Terraviva
 Conexão com The New York Times
 Face a Face
 Giro Business
 Salomão Dois Pontos
 Ponto a Ponto
 Feiras $ Negocios
 Capital Natural

News tickers 
 2011-2016: It was divided in 3 blocks: First is a small, long, oval, dark blue bar, which shows the news headlines; Second is a white bar, shows running news headlines; Third is (from left to right): Ibovespa updates, today's date, BandNews logo, the current time, Dollar updates.
 2016-?: The ticker is smaller. It has a small red box and a large blue box connecting to each other for news headlines the anchor speaks. Stick with them is a small white bar, providing short news. The time and date can now be seen at the upper left of the screen, and the logo is on upper right.

Television channels in South America
"After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704).

Other websites
Text of the poem

18th-century British poems
Kleve (Low Rhenish: Kleef or Cleves in English) is the capital of the Kleve Rural District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It had about 52,000 people in 2021.

It was also the capital of the Duchy of Cleves (disestablished in 1795).

Kleve lies on the south bank of the Rhine river and borders the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

Partly on Kleve territory lies the Klever Reichswald, an ancient forest dating from the Middle Ages.

Related pages 
 Bimmen, a hamlet of Kleve

Other websites 
  

Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
"Chained to the Rhythm" is a 2017 disco and dancehall song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. Skip Marley, the grandson of Jamaican singer Bob Marley, raps in the song. It is taken from Perry's fifth studio album, Witness, and is the ninth track on the album. It is about partying and being aware of things in society.

The song hit #1 in Mexico and Hungary. It also hit the top five in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. In the United States, the song entered at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. On April 27, 2017, the song was certified platinum in the United States for sales and streams equal to one million copies.

Production and composition
For her fifth studio album, Perry said she wanted to make purposeful pop music. She had gotten depressed when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016 and was not in the mood to "write a club banger."

Music video 
The video for the song is set in a carnival-type land called Oblivia and shows Perry riding amusement park rides.  It was released on February 21, 2017.

References

Katy Perry songs
2017 songs
Sir Probyn Ellsworth Inniss MBE (18 November 1936 – 12 March 2017) was the Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1975 to 1980. Following the separation of Anguilla, he served as the Governor of Saint Christopher and Nevis from 1980 to 1981.

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1936 births
2017 deaths
Saint Kitts and Nevis people
Governors
Adib Boroumand (or Adīb Borūmand) (; 11 June 1924 – 13 March 2017) was an Iranian poet, politician, and lawyer. He was the head of the leadership council and chairman of central council of the National Front of Iran. He is known as the national poet of Iran.

He was born on 11 June 1924 in Gaz, Borkhar County, Isfahan, Persia (present-day Iran). He received a B.A. in Judicial Law from the University of Tehran, and since then he had been lived in Tehran.

Boroumand died on 13 March 2017 in Tehran at the age of 92.

References

1924 births
2017 deaths
Iranian politicians
Iranian poets
Lawyers
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (April 29, 1965 – March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short filmmaker, and former radio show host.

Early life
Rosenthal was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated at Tufts University. She married Jason Brian Rosenthal. They had three children.

Career
She was best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the movie project The Beckoning of Lovely. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017.

She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ and to the TED conference.

Death
Rosenthal died in Chicago, Illinois from ovarian cancer on March 13, 2017, aged 51.

References

Other websites
 

1965 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from ovarian cancer
Cancer deaths in Chicago
American children's writers
American novelists
Writers from Chicago
Movie directors from Chicago
Ed Whitlock (March 6, 1931 – March 13, 2017) was an English-born Canadian long-distance runner. He is the first person over 70 years old to run a marathon in less than three hours with a time of 2:59:10 in 2003.

Early life
Whitlock was born in a suburb of London, England, and later moved to Canada. He wanted to study for an engineering career. He graduated from Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, England.

Running  career
Whitlock, who ran as a teenager and took up the sport again in his forties, first became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than 3 hours in 2000, at the age of 69, with a time of 2:52:47.  

He later extended this record, running a time of 2:58:40 at the age of 74. At 73, he set a world record in the marathon for men 70 to 74, running a 2:54:48, when he was 73, and his fastest time after turning 70. According to an article in The New York Times, if age-graded, this time would be equivalent to a 20-year-old running 2:03:57 and which would have been the fastest marathon ever run in 2010. For an explanation of age-graded tables, see masters athletics. At the time of his death, Whitlock he was still the only person over 70 to run a marathon in less than three hours.

Record
At age 85, he became the oldest person to run a marathon in less than four hours at 3 hours, 56 minutes 34 seconds at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in October, 2016.

Death
Whitlock died of prostate cancer on March 13, 2017 in Milton, Ontario, aged 86.

References

Other websites
 , "Michael McGowan" (film director), 2001 The prime of the ancient marathoner
 Mike Tymn,Running Times, April 2004, Age Group Ace
 RunnersWeb, September 27, 2004, Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon
  , "Amby Burfoot", 2005, Runners World interview
 , "Marc Bloom", New York Times, February 2005, At73, Marathoner runs as if he has stopped the clock
  , "Lawrence Hill", Walrus magazine, April 2005, Marathon man

1931 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
English sportspeople
Canadian sportspeople
Sportspeople from London
"Titanium" is a song performed by French DJ David Guetta.  It features vocals from Australian singer Sia.  The song reached number one in the UK, the top five in Canada, and the top ten in the US, where it was certified double-Platinum for sales and shipments of over two million copies.  It finished at number 24 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 of 2012.  It is the first song on Guetta's album, Nothing but the Beat.

References

2011 songs
David Guetta songs
Jacques Bermon Webster Jr (born April 30, 1992), known professionally as Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Missouri City, Texas. Scott's musical style has been described as a fusion of traditional hip hop, lo-fi and ambient.

In 2012, Scott signed his first major-label deal with Epic Records. In November of the same year, Scott signed a deal with Kanye West's GOOD Music, as part of its production wing Very GOOD Beats. In April 2013, Scott signed a record deal with T.I.'s Grand Hustle imprint. Scott's first full-length project, the mixtape Owl Pharaoh, was self-released in 2013. It was followed with a second mixtape, Days Before Rodeo, in August 2014. His debut studio album, Rodeo (2015), was led by the hit single "Antidote". His second album, Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016) became his first number one album on the Billboard 200. The following year, Scott released a collaborative album with Quavo titled Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho under the group name Huncho Jack. 

In 2018, his highly anticipated Astroworld was released to widespread critical acclaim and produced his first Billboard Hot 100 number one single, "Sicko Mode". In late 2019, Scott's record label Cactus Jack Records released the compilation album JackBoys which became the first number one album on the Billboard 200 of the 2020s. As of 2020, Scott has sold over 45 million certified records in the US alone. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and won a Billboard Music Award.

The Travis Scott meal helped boost McDonald's sales in September 2020.

On November 5, 2021, he took part in the Astroworld Festival crowd crush in which 8 people were killed during his performance.

His side chick is Instagram model YungSweetRo.

Discography

Studio albums
 Rodeo (2015)
 Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight (2016)
 Astroworld (2018)
 Utopia (TBA)

Collaborative albums
 Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho  (2017)
 JackBoys  (2019)

Mixtapes
 Owl Pharaoh (2013)
 Days Before Rodeo (2014)

References

Other websites

 
 
 
 

1992 births
Living people
American singer-songwriters
Rap musicians from Texas
American hip hop musicians
American record producers
Singers from Houston, Texas
Musicians from Houston, Texas
Writers from Houston, Texas
Businesspeople from Houston, Texas
El Cerro Mutún is a place where iron is mined in Bolivia. It contains about 40 billion tons of iron ore. This is about 5% of the world’s iron ore.
Iron
The Civil Marriage Act (full title: "An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes") was legislation legalizing same-sex marriage across Canada. At the time the bill became law, same-sex marriage had already been legalized by court decisions in all Canadian provinces except Alberta and Prince Edward Island, as well as in the territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.

Legislation
Canada
Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin; 29 October 1934 in Giessen, Germany – 13 March 2017 in Berleburg) was the head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

In July 2003, he underwent surgery for treatment of prostate cancer. He had undergone treatment for skin cancer.

Prince Richard died on the evening of March 13th, 2017 at castle of Berleburg in Germany from a suspected heart attack. Prince Richard's death was sudden.  He was 82.

References

1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
German people
Princes and princesses
Eligio “Kika” de la Garza, II (September 22, 1927March 13, 2017) was an American politician. He served as the Democratic representative for the 15th congressional district of Texas from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1997. 

De la Garza died on March 13, 2017 in McAllen, Texas from kidney failure, aged 89.

References

1927 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in Texas
United States representatives from Texas
US Democratic Party politicians
Chokecherries (Prunus virginiana), also known as the bitter-berry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry, are shrubs or small trees that are native to The United States, Canada, and some parts of Mexico. They grow to be around 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in).

Description 
Chokecherry classifies as a suckering shrub or a tree. They grow quite tall, around 1 - 6 meters.  

Their leaves are oval with coarse, sharp edges. The flowers grow about 38.1–76.2 cm (15–30 in) long in late spring (well after chokecherry leaves appear). 

The fruits are about 1 cm (3⁄8 in) across.  They range in color from bright red to black.  They have a very astringent taste, both somewhat sour and somewhat bitter. The fruits are sweetest when they are very ripe "berries" (actually drupes). These are dark in color.

Characteristics 
Chokecherries are very high in antioxidants, sharing this trait with chokeberries. This does contribute to confusion between the two. The wild chokeberry is often considered a weed, since it hosts the tent caterpillar. This caterpillar eats tree leaves, robbing trees of energy and heightening the chance that they die. Often people enjoy the cultivars of the plant,  such as "Canada Red" and "Schubert". Both have purple leaves when mature and "Goertz", another cultivar, has a palatable taste in it's fruit. The chokecherry is closely related to the well-known black cherry of eastern North America. The name chokecherry is also used for the related Manchurian cherry, or Amur chokeberry.

Food use 
For many Native American tribes, chokecherries are very important and are part of pemmican, an Indian staple food. The bark of the root is used to ward off or treat colds, fevers and stomach maladies by Indians. It's also used in a ceremonial smoking mix known as kinnikinnick. The chokecherry fruit can be eaten when fully ripe, but if not, the fruit contains a toxin. It can also be used to make jam or syrup, with the use of sugar. The Plains Indians pound up the whole fruit in a mortar, from which they make cakes.

The stone of the fruit is poisonous. Chokecherry is toxic to most animals with segmented stomachs, especially after the leaves have wilted. This action produces cyanide, which is very toxic to most living things. It also makes the plant sweet, making farmer's lives harder by keeping their cows away from it. However, birds and game animals eat the berries when they're ripe. It's also used to craft wine in the Western United States.

Ecology 
The plant does host many types of moths and butterflies.

References 

Plums
Trees
Symsyn is a simple syntax programming language and real time multitasking runtime environment.

History
Named for its SIMple SYNtax, Symsyn is based on Free Pascal, which is based on Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth and named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

Language
Symsyn has a simple syntax and short learning curve.  It provides access to functionality found in more sophisticated languages, such as the free version of the Pascal programming language, Free Pascal.  The language's primitives, or basics, are Pascal procedures which, in some cases, access the Free Pascal Run Time Library.

These primitives provide the normal testing, arithmetic, move, and string handling capabilities as well as the following additions:
 Inter program synchronization and data passing.
 Bit manipulation, or changing.
 DES encryption instructions.
 Re assignable instruction opcodes, or lower level codes to inhibit reverse engineering, or determination of source code from compiled code.

It is extensible, in that it can be extended.  Algorithms can be added to the collection of primitives. Many programs can be written in SymSyn. Like most programming languages, SymSyn can say hello to the world.

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Jack Henry Harris (November 28, 1918 – March 14, 2017) was an American movie producer. He produced many blockbuster Hollywood movies including The Blob (1958), 4D Man (1959), and Equinox (1970).

Harris died March 14, 2017, at his home in Beverly Hills, California from complications of pneumonia, aged 98.

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Peter Manfred Gruber (28 August 1941 – 7 March 2017) was an Austrian mathematician. He worked in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry. He was born in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Career
From 1971, he was Professor at the University of Linz, and from 1976, at the TU Wien. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Death
Gruber died on 7 March 2017 in Vienna, Austria, aged 75.

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Lens is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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Crans-sur-Sierre, Flanthey, Chelin, Vaas, Les Condémines, Saint-Clément and Valençon.

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Wrexham () is the largest town in north Wales. It is an administrative, commercial, retail and educational centre. 

Wrexham is between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley along the border with England. Historically part of Denbighshire, the town became part of Clwyd in 1974. Since 1996 it has been the centre of the Wrexham County Borough.

At the 2011 Census, Wrexham had a population of 61,603, the fourth largest urban area in Wales.

The town has a professional football club, Wrexham FC, who currently compete in the English football league system.

It has two train stations, these are Wrexham General and Wrexham Central.

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The Zionist Union, Hebrew: המחנה הציוני‎‎ - HaMahaneh HaTziyoni, literally meaning The Zionist Camp, was an Israeli political cooperation. Its ideology is left-wing centrist, and Zionist.

The Zionist Union was formed in 2014 as a cooperation of HaAvoda (Israeli Labor Party), HaTnu'a ("The Movement"), and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") in an effort to prevent Likud continuing its governing position after the Knesset elections of 2015.
Because its attempt was unsuccessful, party head Yitzhak Herzog became leader of the opposition. When Herzog left the Knesset in June 2018 to become head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, he was replaced by Tzipi Livni.

There were two political leaders. The party head was Avi Gabbay (HaAvoda). As Gabbay was not a Knesset member, Tzipi Livni (HaTnu'a) leaded this faction in the Knesset.

Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: 24 (HaAvoda: 19, HaTnu'a: 4, HaTnu'a HaYeruqa 1).

The Zionist Union was dissolved in 2019.

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Alexandra "Alice" Teodorescu (born 2 May 1984) is a Swedish jurist with the Företagarna organisation of Swedish entrepreneurs and a commentator on social and political issues.

Teodorescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, but came to Sweden as a child in 1989 and was raised in Lund.

She did attended the Sture Academy, a training programme for young people owned and runed by the company Timbro and named after Sture Eskilsson.

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Iris Mittenaere (born 25 January 1993) is a French runway model and the winner of the beauty pageant Miss Universe 2016 on 30 January 2017 in Manila, Philippines.

Early life and education
Mittenaere was born on 25 January 1993 in Lille, to Yves Mittenaere, a professor of history and geography, and Laurence Druart, a schoolteacher and lecturer. She has a brother, sister, and half-sister. Her parents separated when she was three years old.

Mittenaere attended school in Steenvoorde, where she lived with her mother. In 2011, she graduated lycée with a degree in science. After graduating, she moved back to Lille, where she attended Lille 2 University of Health and Law, studying dentistry. She plans on becoming a dental surgeon after graduating.

Pageantry

Miss France 2016
After winning the Miss Flandre title in Bailleul, Mittenaere entered the Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2015 pageant in Orchies, which she won. Mittenaere represented Nord-Pas-de-Calais at the Miss France 2016 pageant. On 19 December 2015, she was crowned Miss France by Miss France 2015 Camille Cerf in Lille.

Miss Universe 2016
She competed in Miss Universe 2016 where she succeeded Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines. The last European titleholder to complete her year as Miss Universe was Miss Universe 1990 Mona Grudt of Norway.

Personal life
Mittenaere is in a relationship with fellow dentistry student Matthieu Declercq.

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HaReshima HaMeshutefet, Hebrew: הרשימה המשותפת‎‎ , or: al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah, Arab: القائمة المشتركة‎‎ , both meaning The Joint List (often called like that) is an Israeli political cooperation of four, mainly Arab parties, established in 2015.

Its ideology depends on its members' ideology. Common objective are the interests of the Arab Israelis.

Its political leader is Ayman Odeh (Hadash).

HaReshima HaMeshutefet / al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah was founded in 2015 as a cooperation of Hadash (communist), Balad (social democratic, secular), Ra'am (Islamist), and Ta'al (right-wing centrist, secular). Especially the last three parties are fully Arab and anti-Zionist.

The Joint List was established to prevent the Arab parties from disappearing from the Knesset due to the raise of the election threshold (the minimum percentage of votes for a party to get one parliamentary seat), and also to support the Zionist Union in its effort to replace the third Netanyahu government.

The number of seats won by the Joint List in the 24th Knesset: 6 (Hadash: 3, Ta'al: 2, Balad: 1).

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In algebra, a montonic function is any function whose gradient never changes sign. In simple words, it is a function which is either always increasing or decreasing. For example,  sin x=f(x) isn't a monotonous function or simply, non monotonous function. That is to say there are no turning points but there may be stationary points where the gradient is momentarily zero.  The derivative function  of a monotonic function which describes its gradient will never change sign.

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Dr. Sok An (; April 16, 1950 – March 15, 2017) was a Cambodian politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Office of the Council of Ministers from 2004 to his death, and started serving in the Cabinet in 1993. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Takéo and a member of the central committee of the Cambodian People's Party.

An was born in Kirivong, Takéo, Cambodia. He studied at University of Phnom Penh. He was married to Theng Ay Annie at the time of his death. They had five children.

An died at a hospital in Beijing on March 15, 2017 from a short-illness at the age of 66. An suffered from diabetes and was seeking medical treatment in Beijing since December 2016.

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Enrique Jorge Morea (11 April 1924 – 15 March 2017) was an Argentine tennis player. He was born in Buenos Aires.

Morea won the mixed doubles title of the 1950 French Championships. He also won two Gold medals at the inaugural men's tennis competition at the 1951 Pan American Games. Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph ranked Morea as World No. 10 in 1953 and 1954. 

Until his death, Morea was the honorary president of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis (AAT).

Morea died in Buenos Aires from natural causes on 15 March 2017, aged 92.

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Richard Harvey Solomon (June 19, 1937 – March 13, 2017) was an American diplomat. He served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992, after which he was Ambassador to the Philippines.

In September 1993, he became president of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held until September 2012. He later joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.

Solomon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Solomon died on March 13, 2017 in Bethesda, Maryland from brain cancer, aged 79.

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Henri Cueco (19 October 1929 – 13 March 2017) was a French painter, essayist, novelist and radio personality. 

His work was exhibited internationally. He was the author of several books, including collections of essays and novels. He was also a contributor to France Culture. 

He was a communist-turned-libertarian, he was a co-founder of Coopérative des Malassis, an anti-consumerist artists collective. He was best-known for The Red Men, a series of figurative paintings depicting aspects of the Cold War like the May 1968 events, the Vietnam War and Red Scare, and his 150 still lifes, or "portraits," of potatoes.

Cueco died of Alzheimer's disease on 13 March 2017 in Paris, aged 87.

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John Van de Kamp (February 7, 1936 – March 14, 2017) was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1975 until 1981, and then as the 28th Attorney General of California from 1983 until 1991.

Van de Kamp died at his Pasadena home on March 14, 2017 from a short-illness, aged 81.

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Rodrigo Valdez (December 22, 1946 – March 14, 2017) was a boxer from Colombia who was a World Middleweight Champion and Undisputed World Middleweight Champion whose rivalry with Carlos Monzón has long been considered among the most legendary boxing rivalries. 

Valdez was trained by International Boxing Hall of Fame coach Gil Clancy. Many people consider him, Antonio Cervantes and Miguel "Happy" Lora to be the three greatest boxers ever to come from that country. He is 29th on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.

Valdéz died on March 14, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia from a heart attack, aged 70.

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James "Jim" McAnearney (20 March 1935 – 14 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager.

McAnearney played for Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Bradford City, who he also briefly managed in 1968 with Tom Hallett. 

He later managed Rotherham United, Frickley Athletic, Scarborough and Hallam, and worked as a coach at Sheffield Wednesday (where he was also caretaker manager) and Leeds United. In later life he established and ran a tool/engineering business.

McAnearney died on 14 March 2017, at the age of 81.

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Royal Robbins (February 3, 1935 – March 14, 2017) was one of the pioneers of American rock climbing.

After learning to climb at Tahquitz he went on to make first ascents of many big wall routes in Yosemite. As an early proponent of boltless, pitonless clean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s by encouraging the use and preservation of the natural features of the rock.

He went on to become a well-known kayaker.

Robbins died on March 14, 2017 in Modesto, California from a long-illness, aged 82.

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The Intouchables ( , UK: Untouchable) is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama movie  directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. 

The movie is about a quadriplegic Philippe (François Cluzet) and his caretaker and later best friend Driss (Omar Sy) going on adventures throughout Paris while Philippe is going through challenges of being quadriplegic.

Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 movie Welcome to the Sticks. 

The movie was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The movie has received several award nominations. In France, the movie won César Award for Best Actor for Omar Sy, and seven nomination for César Awards include the César Award for Best Film But losing to the Academy Award for Best Picture winner The Artist.

In 2019, an English-remake titled The Upside (2019) was released with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart.

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Marcelino dos Santos (20 May 1929 – 11 February 2020) was a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and statesman. He was born in Lumbo.

He was a founding member of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO—Mozambican Liberation Front), in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s.

He also was Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remains a member of the Frelimo Central Committee.

Santos died on 11 February 2020 at the age of 90.

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