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Bruce McCandless II

Bruce McCandless II (June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017), (Capt, USN, Ret.), was an American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. During the first of his two Space Shuttle missions he made the first ever untethered free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit in 1984.  This action was settled amicably on January 14, 2011.

He logged more than 5,200 hours flying time, including 5,000 hours in jet aircraft.

On December 21, 2017, McCandless died in Denver, Colorado at age 80.

References

Other websites

McCandless' official NASA biography 
Astronautix biography of Bruce McCandless
Spacefacts biography of Bruce McCandless
McCandless at Spaceacts 
McCandless at Encyclopedia of Science
McCandless at International Space Hall of Fame 

1937 births
2017 deaths
American astronauts
American military people
Engineers from Massachusetts
Scientists from Boston, Massachusetts
Roswell Rudd

Roswell Hopkins Rudd Jr. (November 17, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist and composer. He was born in Sharon, Connecticut. Although he worked in many genres of jazz (including Dixieland, which he performed while in college) and other genres of music, he was known primarily for his work in free and avant-garde jazz. 

From 1962 until his death in 2017, Rudd had worked extensively with saxophonist Archie Shepp. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999.

Rudd died on December 21, 2017 of prostate cancer in Kerhonkson, New York at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
Roswell Rudd and Verna Gillis feature, nytimes.com, November 23, 2007.
Interview with Roswell Rudd, npr.org, 2002
 Discography , mindspring.com; accessed December 22, 2017.

1935 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in New York
American jazz musicians
American composers
American trombonists
Musicians from Connecticut
Jason Lowndes

Jason Lowndes (14 December 1994 – 22 December 2017) was an Australian cyclist. He was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He rode professionally for Garneau–Québecor, Drapac Professional Cycling and Israel Cycling Academy teams.

Lowndes died after being hit from behind by a car near Bendigo, Victoria at the age of 23.

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1994 births
2017 deaths
Australian cyclists
Road accident deaths
Sportspeople from Western Australia
Gerald B. Greenberg

Gerald Bernard "Jerry" Greenberg (July 29, 1936 – December 22, 2017) was an American movie editor with more than 40 feature movie works. He was born in New York City. Greenberg won both the Academy Award for Film Editing and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the movie The French Connection (1971). In the 1980s, he edited five movies with director Brian De Palma. He also worked on Apocalypse Now and Scarface.

Greenberg died on December 22, 2017 in Santa Monica, California of a stroke at the age of 81.

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1936 births
2017 deaths
Academy Award winners
American movie editors
BAFTA Award winners
Cardiovascular disease deaths in California
Deaths from stroke
People from New York City
Silvia Legrand

María Aurelia Paula Martínez Suárez, known professionally as Silvia Legrand (23 February 1927 – 1 May 2020), was an Argentine movie actress. She co-starred with her twin sister Mirtha Legrand, in many movies and was the sister of director José A. Martínez Suárez. She starred in some 20 movies between 1940 and 1972. Legrand was known for her roles in Educating Niní (1940) and in Seven Women (1944).

Legrand died of cardiac arrest on 1 May 2020 in Buenos Aires, aged 93.

References

Other websites
 Biography .

1927 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Argentine actors
Mirtha Legrand

Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez (born 23 February 1927), known by her stage name Mirtha Legrand is an Argentine actress and television presenter. She is the twin sister of Silvia Legrand. She is known for her roles in Educating Niní and in Los martes, orquídeas (1941).

With a 72-year career, Legrand is one of the most popular entertainment figures in Argentina. Despite having appeared in 36 movies and twelve theatrical performances, Legrand is best known for her television programmes.

Her brother was movie director José A. Martínez Suárez.

References

Other websites

 Mirtha Legrand  at cinenacional.com
 Biography of Mirtha Legrand
 Legend about Mirtha Legrand

1927 births
Living people
Argentine actors
Dick Savitt

Richard Savitt (born March 4, 1927) is a right-handed American former tennis player.

In 1951, at the age of 24, he won both the Australian and Wimbledon men's singles championships. Savitt was mostly ranked World No. 2 the same year behind fellow amateur Frank Sedgman, though was declared World No. 1 by The New York Times and The Owosso Argus-Press following his Wimbledon victory. 

Savitt retired the following year. Savitt is one of four American men who have won both the Australian and British Championships in one year, following Don Budge (1938) and preceding Jimmy Connors (1974) and Pete Sampras (1994 & 1997).

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1927 births
Living people
American tennis players
Sportspeople from New Jersey
People from Bayonne, New Jersey
Reimerswaal

Reimerswaal, Zeelandic: Reimerswaol, is a municipality on the former island of Zuid-Beveland, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 22,000 people were living in Reimerswaal in 2017.

North of the municipality lies the Eastern Scheldt, south the Western Scheldt.

Reimerswaal borders the Province of North Brabant, and the Belgian Province of Antwerp (just a small piece).

Yerseke is the biggest village in Reimerswaal. It is famous for its breeding of blue mussels and oysters.

Settlements 
Villages with people in the municipality of Reimerswaal:
 Hansweert: 1,631
 Krabbendijke: 4,439
 Kruiningen: 4,246
 Oostdijk: 551
 Rilland: 3,053
 Waarde: 1,281
 Yerseke: 6,740

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Municipalities of Zeeland
Shinjitai

Shinjitai (kanji: 新字体, kana:しんじたい) literally means "new character forms" in Japanese. These are kanji (the Japanese word for Chinese characters) that were simplified in Japan after World War II. At that time the Japanese government changed the writing system by replacing many kyūjitai (kanji: 旧字体, kana: きゅうじたい, meaning: old character forms) by making simpler characters. These newer characters had the exact same meaning and pronunciations as the older ones, but they could be written with fewer strokes of a pen. For example, the character 樂 simplified to 楽. Some shinjitai characters are also used as simplified Chinese characters. For example, the character 国 is used in both Japanese and simplified Chinese. However, most shinjitai look more like traditional Chinese characters (called kyūjitai in Japanese) than even simplified Chinese characters do, and there are also far fewer shinjitai than simplified Chinese characters. While most Japanese words these days use the shinjitai form, there are a few words where writing the kyūjitai form is still common. For example, the word "dragon" is usually written using the shinjitai character 竜, but writing the kyūjitai character 龍 for it is also still quite common. For most kanji, however, the shinjitai form is unchanged from the kyūjitai form.

Comparison of Kyūjitai, Shinjitai, and Simplified Chinese Characters 

Writing systems
Chinese language
Chinese characters
TFL

TFL can mean: 
 True Forced Loneliness (inceldom movement)
 Transport for London (public transport network)
Jesús Castillo Rangel

Jesús Castillo Rangel (24 October 1896 – 20 December 2017), also known as Don Chuchito, was a Mexican revolutionary leader. He was born in Chiapas, Mexico. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living person in Mexico. His age and date of birth is verified by the Archivo General de la Nación. He fought in the Mexican Revolution in Quintana Roo.

Rangel died at the alleged age of 121 on 20 December 2017 in Quintana Roo, Mexico of respiratory failure.

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1896 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Military people
Mexican people
Supercentenarians
John Joubert

John Pierre Herman Joubert ( ) (20 March 1927 – 7 January 2019) was a South African-born British composer who worked in choral works.

Biography 
A music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement in 1986 to concentrate on composing and has remained active into his 80s. 

Though perhaps his best known for his choral music, were the carols Torches and There is No Rose of Such Virtue and the anthem O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing. Joubert composed over 160 works including two symphonies, four concertos and seven operas.

Joubert was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at Diocesan College, South African College of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music.

Joubert lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 50 years at the time of his death. He died on 7 January 2019 in Moseley at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
Official website of John Joubert
John Joubert's profile on the website of Chester Music and Novello & Co.
John Joubert on the website Classical Music on the Web

1927 births
2019 deaths
South African writers
People from Cape Town
20th-century British composers
21st-century British composers
The Equals

The Equals were a British pop, R&B and rock group. They were formed in North London, England in 1965. They are mainly remembered for their million-selling UK number 1, "Baby, Come Back". Eddy Grant founded the group. The group's members were Grant, John Hall, Pat Lloyd, and twin brothers Derv and Lincoln Gordon. Grant left the group in 1971. The Equals stopped performing in 1979.

The Equals were one of the first racially united bands in the United Kingdom. Grant was born in Guyana, Hall and Lloyd were from London, and the Gordon brothers were born in Jamaica.

References

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1965 establishments in England
English pop music groups
English R&B bands
English rock bands
Musical groups established in 1965
Musical groups from London
Eddy Grant

Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese-born British musician. He was a founding member of The Equals, one of the United Kingdom's first racially united music groups. He left the group in 1971. He is also known for a successful solo career that includes the platinum funk single "Electric Avenue" and the reggae song "I Don't Wanna Dance".

Grant was born in Plaisance, British Guiana (now Guyana). His younger brother, Rudy, is a reggae musician. In 1960, he moved to London to live with his parents.

References

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1948 births
Living people
Black British musicians
English rock guitarists
English singer-songwriters
Reggae musicians
Singers from London
Drea de Matteo

Andrea Donna "Drea" de Matteo (born January 19, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on television such as Adriana La Cerva in the HBO drama series The Sopranos, Angie Bolen in the ABC drama series Desperate Housewives, Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina in the NBC sitcom Joey and Wendy Case in the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role on The Sopranos in 2004. She has starred as Detective Tess Nazario in the NBC crime-drama Shades of Blue since 2016.

De Matteo was born in Queens, New York. She is of Italian ancestry. She dated country musician Shooter Jennings from 2001 to 2013. They have two children. She became engaged to Michael Devin in 2015.

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1972 births
Living people
Actors from Queens
American movie actors
American television actors
Emmy Award winning actors
Cash Levy

Cassius "Clay" Levy is an American stand-up comedian and actor, best known for creating Cashing in with T. J. Miller.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Living people
American stand-up comedians
Comedians from St. Louis, Missouri
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
Edgar Wright

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is a British movie director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing the movies Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), The World's End (2013), Baby Driver (2017), and Last Night in Soho (2021). He has also co-wrote the movies The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Ant-Man (2015).

Wright was born in Poole, Dorset, England. He grew up in Wells, Somerset. He dated American actress Anna Kendrick from 2009 to 2013.

References

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1974 births
Living people
Actors from Somerset
British movie actors
British movie directors
British movie producers
British screenwriters
British television actors
British television directors
British television writers
People from Poole
Writers from Dorset
Writers from Somerset
The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the most printed and sold newspaper in New Zealand. It peaked at over 200,000 copies daily in 2006.

The newspaper was founded in 1863. The current editor is Murray Kirkness.

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1863 establishments
Newspapers
New Zealand
1860s establishments in New Zealand
Paulo Costanzo

Paulo Costanzo (born September 21, 1978) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Rubin Carver in the comedy movie Road Trip (2000), Joey Tribbiani's cousin Michael in the NBC sitcom Joey and as Evan R. Lawson in the USA Network drama series Royal Pains.

Costanzo was born in Brampton, Ontario. He is of Italian and Jewish ancestry. He is color blind.

References

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1978 births
Living people
Actors from Ontario
Canadian Jews
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Jewish actors
Andrey Zaliznyak

Andrey Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (29 April 1935 – 24 December 2017) was a Russian linguist, an expert in historical linguistics and grammar. He was born in Moscow. He was known for his attention to the popularizing of linguistics and to the struggle against pseudoscience. In 2004, he published a study of the Tale of Igor's Campaign.

Zaliznyak lectured in the Moscow University, University of Geneva, and University of Paris. Zaliznyak's first monograph, Russian Nominal Inflection (1967), remains a definitive study in the field. Ten years later, he published a highly viewed Russian Grammar Dictionary.

Zaliznyak died on 24 December 2017 at the age of 82.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
Russian historians
Russian educators
Russian linguists
People from Moscow
Charlotte Mailliard Shultz

Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, RVO (born Charlotte Smith; September 26, 1933 – December 3, 2021) was an American heiress and socialite. She was the Chief of Protocol for the state of California under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Chief of Protocol for the City and County of San Francisco under Mayor Ed Lee. She was born in Borger, Texas.

Mailliard was married to United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz from 1997 until his death in February 2021.

Mailliard died on December 3, 2021 from problems caused by breast cancer in Stanford, California at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
"New York Times Wedding Announcement: George P. Shultz, Charlotte Swig", nytimes.com; accessed August 26, 2015.
"The High Priestess of Partydom", sfgate.com, February 4, 1996; accessed August 26, 2015.

1933 births
2021 deaths
American diplomats
American socialites
Businesspeople from Texas
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Politicians from Texas
Politicians from San Francisco
Women diplomats
Cancer deaths in California
Deaths from breast cancer
Thann, Haut-Rhin

Thann is a commune in Alsace in north-eastern France, in the Haut-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture. It is in the Grand Est region.

The commmune is in the historical and cultural region of Alsace. The name of the town comes from the German word tanne that means fir; there is a fir in the coat of arms of Thann.

Geography
Thann is in the southwest of the Haut-Rhin department at the foot of the Vosges mountains, at the mouth of the valley of the Thur river. The Thur runs through the middle of the town.

It has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

Thann is at  from Strasbourg, the regional capital; at  from Colmar, the departamental capital; and at  from Mulhouse.

The commune of Thann is surrounded by the communes Goldbach-Altenbach, Vieux-Thann, Leimbach and Bitschwiller-lès-Thann.

Climate
The climate of Thann, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population

The inhabitants of Thann are known, in French, as Thannois (women: Thannoises).

With a population of 7,915, Thann has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Thann

Administration
Thann is a subprefecture of the Haut-Rhin department since 1800. It is the capital of the Thann-Guebwiller arrondissement. It is in the Cernay canton.

It is part of the intercommunality Thann-Cernay.

Twin towns 
Thann is twinned with:
  - Gubbio, Italy
  - Tonneins, France
  - Bafia, Cameroon

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Other websites

 Ville de Thann - Official site 

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Subprefectures in France
Schortens

Schortens is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has 12 districts: Schortens, Heidmühle, Grafschaft, Accum, Sillenstede, Schoost, Roffhausen, Middelsfähr, Addernhausen, Oestringfelde, Ostiem and Upjever.

References
Cyril Beavon

Cyril Beavon (27 September 1937 – 22 December 2017) was an English footballer. He played in the Football League for Oxford United.

Beavon died on 22 December 2017 at the age of 80.

References 

1937 births
2017 deaths
English footballers
Gotthard Base Tunnel

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT; , , ) is a railway tunnel in Switzerland. With a route length of , it is the longest tunnel in the world. The link consists of two single-track tunnels connecting Erstfeld (Uri) with Bodio (Ticino) and passing below Sedrun (Graubünden). The main purpose of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is to increase local transport capacity through the Alpine barrier, especially for freight, notably on the Rotterdam–Basel–Genoa corridor, and more specifically to shift freight volumes from trucks to freight trains. This both significantly reduces the danger of fatal road crashes involving trucks, and reduces the environmental damage caused by  heavy trucks. The tunnel provides a faster connection between the canton of Ticino and the rest of Switzerland, as well as between northern and southern Europe, cutting the Basel/Zurich–Lugano–Milan journey time for passenger trains by 1 hour (and from Lucerne to Bellinzona by 45 minutes). After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted the NRLA project in a 1992 referendum, first preparatory and exploratory work began in 1996. The official start of construction began on 4 November 1999 at Amsteg. As of 1998, the total projected cost of the project was CHF 6.323 billion; as of December 2015, the final cost is projected as CHF 9.560 billion.

Other websites
AlpTransit Gotthard AG 

Tunnels
Buildings and structures in Switzerland
Canton of Uri
Ticino
Graubünden
Mike Rutherford

Mike Rutherford (born October 2, 1950) is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is known as the bassist and guitarist of Genesis. He also had success with his band Mike and the Mechanics.

1950 births
English guitarists
English songwriters
Trans, Switzerland

Trans is a village in the municipality of Tomils of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. In 2009 Trans joined Feldis/Veulden, Scheid and Tumegl/Tomils to become the municipality of Tomils.

Other websites 

 Official Website 
 

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Villages in Graubünden
Steve Hackett

Stephen Richard "Steve" Hackett is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the guitarist of Genesis from 1971 to 1977.

English guitarists
English singers
Goran Višnjić

Goran Višnjić (born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor. He was born in Šibenik, Croatia.

Višnjić has appeared in American and British movies and television productions. He is best known in the United States for his role as Dr. Luka Kovač on the NBC television series ER. He plays Garcia Flynn on Timeless, also on NBC.

Other websites 
 

1972 births
American movie actors
American television actors
American Roman Catholics
Croatian actors
Stage actors
Living people
Morschwiller-le-Bas

Morschwiller-le-Bas is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. In 2014, 3,621 people lived there.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
TUI Group

TUI Group () is a multinational travel and tourism company headquartered in Hannover, Germany. It is the largest leisure, travel and tourism company in the world and owns travel agencies, hotels, airlines, cruise ships and retail stores. The company was founded in 1923.

The company is jointly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange as a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Other websites 
 Official website

1923 establishments in Europe
Companies of Germany
Tourism
Hanover
1920s establishments in Germany
Putumayo Department

Putumayo Department is a department in southwwest Colombia, bordering Ecuador and Peru.  The capital is Mocoa.

Departments of Colombia
Jerry Kindall

Gerald Donald Kindall (May 27, 1935 – December 24, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Kindall played second base in the major leagues from 1956 to 1965 for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins. He was the former baseball coach of the NCAA's Arizona Wildcats.

Kindall died on December 24, 2017 of a stroke in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
Bio from Cool of the Evening: The 1965 Minnesota Twins 
Retrosheet

1935 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Arizona
Chicago Cubs players
Cleveland Indians players
Minnesota Twins players
Sportspeople from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Diana Athill

Diana Athill OBE (21 December 1917 – 23 January 2019) was a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist. She was born in Norfolk, England. She worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd. She retired from Deutsch in 1993 at the age of 75, after more than 50 years in publishing.

Athill was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

In 2008, she won the Costa Book Award for her memoir Somewhere Towards The End, a book about old age.

Athill died on 23 January 2019 at the age of 101.

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1917 births
2019 deaths
British centenarians
Editors
British novelists
Writers from Norfolk
Stephanie Cole

Patricia Stephanie Cole, OBE (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, radio and movie actress.

Cole is known for high-profile television roles in shows such as Tenko (1981–85), Open All Hours (1982–85), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990–94), Keeping Mum (1997–98), Doc Martin (2004–09), Still Open All Hours (2013–present) Man Down (2014-present) and as Sylvia Goodwin in  ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2011–13).

In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

References

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1941 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English voice actors
English stage actors
English radio actors
People from Solihull
Olympiacos S.C.

Olympiacos S.C. is the men's volleyball team of the major Greek multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus. It was founded in 1926 and has won two CEV Cups, a record 30 Greek Volley League Championships, a record 16 Greek Cups, 2 Greek Super Cups, a record 6 Greek League Cups and a record 14 Doubles. Olympiacos is ranked among the top European volleyball clubs. From the early 1990s to the mid 2000s they played in 11 European Final Fours and reached six European Finals.

Other websites 
 Olympiacos Volleyball section web site www.olympiacossfp.gr

Volleyball clubs
Sports organizations
Sport in Greece
1926 establishments in Greece
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard (; born 3 October 1938), better known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, politician and public administrator. He is the 66th President of Peru serving from 2016 until his resignation in 2018. He previously served as Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006.

President
Kuczynski was a presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential election, placing third.  Kuczynski went on to stand in the 2016 election, where he narrowly defeated Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori.  He was sworn in as President on July 28, 2016.

On 15 December 2017, the Congress of Peru began impeachment proceedings against Kuczynski, after he was accused of lying about receiving payments from a scandal-hit Brazilian construction firm in the mid-2000s.  However on 21 December 2017 the Peruvian congress lacked the majority of votes needed to impeach Kuczynski.

After further scandals and facing a second impeachment vote, Kuczynski resigned the presidency on 21 March 2018 following the release of videos showing alleged acts of vote buying, presenting his resignation to the Council of Ministers.

On April 10, 2019, he was arrested along with his secretary Gloria Kisic Wagner and his ex-driver José Luis Bernaola for an alleged crime of money laundering in the Odebrecht case. In turn, he authorized the Prosecutor's Office to search for 48 hours the homes linked to their surroundings in search of documents related to that case.

References

Other websites

  
 Pedro Pablo Kuczynski profile - El Mundo newspaper 
 PPK on Twitter
 Newsweek interview with Kuczynski
 Biography by CIDOB 

1938 births
Living people
Presidents of Peru
Prime Ministers of Peru
Economists
Civil servants
People from Lima
Aden

Aden ( ) is a port city in Yemen. It is at the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden). About 800,000 people live there. Aden was controlled by the British Empire from 1839 to 1967.

Cities in Yemen
Port cities in the Arabian Peninsula
Port cities and towns of the Red Sea
Capital cities in Asia
Former national capitals
2019 Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is going to be held in England and Wales. This tournament is going to be a league tournament in the group stage, while it is going to be a knockout after the group matches. The top four teams from each group will qualify for the quarter finals.

The Schedule for the quarter finals will be as follows :
A1 VS B4   
A2 VS B3 
B1 VS A4       
B2 VS A3

Where A and B are the group names of the teams. And 1,2,3,4 are the positions of teams after the league matches. It is expected that 16 teams will participate in this tournament. Eight teams will participate as permanent members who are already qualified and the others as associate members, who will play the qualifier matches.

The date and venue of the matches are yet to be declared but will soon be decided in the coming year.

Cricket World Cup
2019 in sports
2010s in England
Ig Nobel Prize

The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel Prize, which is awarded every autumn to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Since 1991, the Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” The name of the award, the “Ig Nobel Prize” ( ) is a pun on the word ignoble, an achievement “characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness”, and is satirical social criticism that identifies absurd-sounding, yet useful research and knowledge.

Organized by the scientific humor magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater, Harvard University, and are followed by the winners’ public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

References

Parodies
Science awards
Cybercrime

Cybercrime is crime that uses a computer and computer network. There are many types of cybercrimes. These include doxxing, hacking, copyright issues, cyberterrorism and fraud. Many countries have laws against many types of porn such as twincest, fauxcest, child porn, bestiality and others.  Some other actions can also be illegal such as cyberbullying, spying, child grooming or hebephilic behavior. Some governments have agencies that deal with computer crimes.

A primary effect of cybercrime is financial; cybercrime can include many different types of profit-driven criminal activity, including ransomware attacks, email and internet fraud, and identity fraud, as well as attempts to steal financial account, credit card or other payment card information. Cybercriminals may also target an individual's private information, as well as corporate data for theft and resale.

Cybercrime attacks can begin wherever there is digital data, opportunity and motive. Cybercriminals include everyone from the lone user engaged in cyberbullying to state-sponsored actors, like China's intelligence services. Cybercrimes generally do not occur in a vacuum; they are, in many ways, distributed in nature. That is, cybercriminals typically rely on other actors to complete the crime. This is whether it's the creator of malware using the dark web to sell code, the distributor of illegal pharmaceuticals using cryptocurrency brokers to hold virtual money in escrow or state threat actors relying on technology subcontractors to steal intellectual property (IP).

Cyber crimes can generally be divided into two categories:

References

Other page 
Computer security

Computing
Magnetic levitation

Magnetic levitation, maglev, or magnetic suspension is a method by which an object is suspended with no support other than magnetic fields. Magnetic force is used to counteract the effects of the gravitational acceleration and any other accelerations.

The two primary issues involved in magnetic levitation are lifting forces: providing an upward force sufficient to counteract gravity, and stability: ensuring that the system does not spontaneously slide or flip into a configuration where the lift is neutralized.

Magnetic levitation is used for maglev trains, contactless melting, magnetic bearings and for product display purposes.

Physics
Horseland (TV series)

Horseland is a Canadian–American animated television series produced by DIC Entertainment and Cookie Jar Group. A comic mischief program following events in the lives of a group of children riding at Horseland, an equestrian school and stables. Their adventures include riding their horses and entering them in competitions to test their skill and friendships. The show had two different stories in each episode. The show was cancelled after only three season of thirty-nine episodes. The series premiered airs at 8AM ET/PT time on September 16, 2006 on Discovery Channel's Discovery Kids block in the United States.

Episodes

2006 television series debuts
2008 television series endings
Animated television series
Television series by Cookie Jar Entertainment
Heather Menzies

Heather Menzies-Urich (born Heather Margaret Brotherston Menzies; December 3, 1949 – December 24, 2017) was a Canadian-American model, activist and actress. She was best known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 movie The Sound of Music and Jessica 6 in the TV series  Logan's Run. She was born in Toronto, Ontario.

From 1975 until his death in 2002, she was married to actor Robert Urich.

Urich died on December 24, 2017 from brain cancer in Quinte West, Ontario at age 68.

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Other websites
 Official site
 
 

1949 births
2017 deaths
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Rod Sykes

James Rodney Winter "Rod" Sykes (born May 19, 1929) is a Canadian politician. He served as the 30th Mayor of Calgary from 1969 to 1977. He served as leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party from 1980 to 1982. Sykes quit as party leader in 1982, frustrated by Social Credit's internal and financial problems. He was born in Montreal, Quebec.

In 1984, he was nominated by Alan Clarke, Calgary East Federal Liberal Riding Association Vice President, to run for the Liberal Party for a seat in the House of Commons.

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Heather North

Heather Lindsay May North (December 13, 1945 – November 29, 2017) was an American television and voice actress. She was best known for voicing Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise. She was born in Pasadena, California. She began voicing Daphne in season 2 of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. She also appeared as Dr. Sandy Horton on Days of Our Lives from 1967 until 1972. 

North died on November 29, 2017, at her home in Studio City, California at the age of 71. The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by bronchitis.

References

Other websites
 
 
 Heather North  at VoiceChasers 

1945 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Deaths from bronchitis
Disease-related deaths in California
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Pasadena, California
LaToya Cantrell

LaToya Cantrell (born April 3, 1972) is an American politician. She is the mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana since 2018. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Cantrell has represented District B on the New Orleans City Council.

References

Other websites
 New Orleans City Council member profile

1972 births
Living people
Mayors of New Orleans
Politicians from Los Angeles
US Democratic Party politicians
Dimitri (clown)

Dimitri Jakob Muller (September 18, 1935 – July 19, 2016) was a Swiss clown. He was born in Ascona, Switzerland. After graduating from school, Dimitri became an apprentice potter while studying music and theater. He went to Paris to study under Etienne Decroux, then Marcel Marceau. In 1971, Dimitri and his wife Gunda, started their own theatre. In 1975, he founded the Scuola Teatro Dimitri in Verscio. In 1973, he was awarded the Grock prize, and appeared with New York's Big Apple Circus. He was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in 1995.

Dimitri died on July 19, 2016 in Borgnone, Ticino at the age of 80.

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1935 births
2016 deaths
Clowns
Swiss people
Cervelat

Cervelat, also cervelas, servelat or zervelat, is a sausage produced in Switzerland, France and parts of Germany. They contain a mixture of beef, bacon and pork rind. The cervelat is often referred to as the national sausage of Switzerland. Swiss cervelats are prepared and eaten cooked or raw. They are boiled, grilled or fried. They can also be served uncooked, either in a salad or with bread and mustard. The sausages are called cervelas in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, Cervelat in the German-speaking part, and servelat in the Italian-speaking part.

Sausage
German food
Italian food
Swiss food
Stelio De Carolis

Stelio De Carolis (14 November 1937 – 22 December 2017) was an Italian politician. He was born in Fumone, Italy. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 1994. He served on the Senate between 1996 and 2001.

De Carolis was struck by a car on 22 December 2017 while crossing the Viale Primo Maggio in Meldola and died at the age of 80.

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1937 births
2017 deaths
Politicians from Lazio
Road accident deaths
Mortzwiller

Mortzwiller used to be a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new commune Le Haut-Soultzbach.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
Muespach

Muespach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in northeast France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
The Blue Party (Germany)

The Blue Party (German: Die blaue Partei) was a right-wing conservative political party in Germany. It was formed on 17 September 2017 and dissolved in 2019. It split from the AfD after the 2017 election. The party tried to attract moderate former AfD voters.

The Blue Party was eurosceptic (meaning they were critical of the European Union). The party also wanted more restrictions on immigration. Many of the party's policies were similar to those of the AfD.

References

Other websites 
 Official Webpage of "Bürgerforum Blaue Wende" 

Political parties in Germany
Conservative parties
Eurosceptic parties
2017 establishments in Europe
2010s establishments in Germany
2010s disestablishments in Germany
Julio Medina

Julio Medina Salazar (born 16 January 1933) is a Colombian actor.

Early life
Medina was born in Chiquinquirá, Colombia. He studied at Pontifical Xavierian University and later at the Pasadena Playhouse after moving to the United States in 1954. He was enlisted in the United States Navy where he served for two years.

Career
In 1965, he moved to Peru to make small movies, but moved to the United States afterwards. He made his acting debut in the television series Gunsmoke. In his Hollywood career he has worked alongside Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, David Carradine and Sally Field. 

In 1984, Median returned to Colombia where he continued to make movies and telenovelas.

References

Other websites
 

1933 births
Living people
Colombian entertainers
Colombian movie actors
Colombian television actors
Larry Libertore

Lawrence Paul "Lightning" Libertore, Jr. (November 18, 1939 – December 25, 2017) was an American college football player and later Lakeland, Florida real-estate agent as well as a state legislator as a Democrat. He was born in Canton, Ohio. He played for the Florida from 1960 through 1962.

Larry served as a Florida State Representative from 1970 to 1974.

Libertore died on December 25, 2017 of an aortic aneurysm in Lakeland, Florida at the age of 78.

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1939 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from aortic aneurysm
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Florida
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Shahnon Ahmad

Shahnon bin Ahmad (January 13, 1933 – December 26, 2017) was a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a former Member of Parliament serving from 1999 through 2004. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. He was also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang. He was born in Kedah, Malaysia.

One of his most famous books, Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan ("No Harvest but a Thorn", 1966) tells about a peasant family fighting not for life.

Ahmad died of bladder cancer in Kajang, Malaysia on December 26, 2017 at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Shahnon Ahmad's profile from Kakiseni.com 

1933 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from bladder cancer
Malaysian politicians
Novelists
Essayists
Educators
Don Hogan Charles

Donald Hogan "Don" Charles (September 9, 1938 – December 24, 2017) was an American photographer. He was the first African-American staff photographer hired by The New York Times. He was known for his photography during the Civil Rights Movement and of Malcolm X. He was born in New York City.

Death
On December 24, 2017, Charles died in East Harlem, New York City of a currently unknown illness at the age of 79.

References

Other websites
 

1938 births
2017 deaths
American photographers
People from New York City
African-American photographers
William Agee

William McReynolds Agee (January 5, 1938 – December 20, 2017) was an American business executive. He was born in Boise, Idaho. In 1976 at age 38, he was appointed president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bendix Corporation.  From 1988 to 1995, Agee was the chairman, president, and CEO of Morrison-Knudsen.

Agee died of complications of respiratory failure at a Seattle hospital on December 20, 2017 at the age of 79.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
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Willie Toweel

Willie Michael Toweel (6 April 1934 – 25 December 2017) was a South African boxer. He won the bronze medal in the flyweight division (– 51 kg) at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was born in Benoni, Gauteng. He retired in 1960. His partner,Emile Griffith went on to win the Welterweight and Middleweight championships of the world.

As an Amateur, Toweel had won Junior and Senior South African Titles and won a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympic Games.

Toweel died on 25 December 2017 in Cape Town of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
sportspotter.com 

1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
South African sportspeople
Boxers
Olympic bronze medalists
Héctor Morera Vega

Monseñor Héctor Morena Vega (20 February 1926 – 23 December 2017) was a Costa Rican Roman Catholic bishop. Morena Vegas was ordained to the priesthood in 1949. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tilaran, Costa Rica from 1979 to 2002. He was born in Tilarán, Costa Rica.

Morena Vegas died on 23 December 2017 of complications from pneumonia in Tilarán, aged 91.

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1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Costa Rican people
Bishops
Wyśmierzyce

Wyśmierzyce is a town in Białobrzegi County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland. In 2004, 884 people lived there.

It lies along National Road Nr. 48, on the right, southern bank of the Pilica River. Historically Wyśmierzyce belongs to the province of Lesser Poland, and is on the border with Mazovia.

Other websites 

Official town and commune webpage
 Jewish Community in Wyśmierzyce  on Virtual Shtetl

Towns in Poland
Eco-nationalism

Eco-nationalism (or ecological nationalism) is the belief that a country should not use any foreign energy source, and should instead make their own clean energy. Eco-nationalism could also be a belief that a country's native species and landscapes are a part of it's cultural identity, and should be protected.

Examples 

Eco-nationalist ideas were used in Estonian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian independence movements in the 1980's. Supporters were particularly against nuclear energy.

References 

Nationalism
Haguenau

Haguenau is a commune in Alsace in north-eastern France, in the Bas-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture. It is in the Grand Est region.

It is second in size in the Bas-Rhin only to Strasbourg, some  to the south.

Geography
Haguenau is in the northern part of the Bas-Rhin department. The Moder river, a left tributary of the Rhine river, flows through the commune.

It has an area of , the commune of Alsace with the largest territory. Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Haguenau to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Strasbourg, the regional capital - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Lyon - ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nice - .

The commune of Haguenau is surrounded by 25 communes and so it is one of the communes in France with more surrounding communes. The nearest communes are:

Climate
The climate of Haguenau, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Haguenau are known, in French, as Haguenoviens (women: Haguenoviennes).

With a population of 34,761, Haguenau has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Haguenau

Administration
Haguenau is a subprefecture in the Bas-Rhin department since 1790. It is the capital of the Haguenau-Wissembourg arrondissement and is also the administrative centre () of the canton of Haguenau formed by 14 communes, with 49,203 inhabitants (2014).

Twin towns 
Haguenau has been twinned with Landau (Germany) since 1963.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Haguenau-Wissembourg
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Other websites

 Ville d'Haguenau - Official site 
 Office de Tourisme Haguenau Forêt et Terre de Potiers 

Communes in Bas-Rhin
Subprefectures in France
Gualtiero Marchesi

Gualtiero Marchesi (; 19 March 1930 – 26 December 2017) was an Italian chef. He was thought to be the founder of modern Italian cuisine. He was born in Milan. He then opened his first restaurant on Via Bonvesin de la Riva in Milan. Within a year he earned his first Michelin star, with another following the next year. It took another seven years, but then he eventually won the distinction of a third Michelin star – the first chef in Italy to do so.

In 2011, Marchesi became the first celebrity chef to design two hamburgers and a dessert for McDonald's.

In May 2017, Marchesi and Director Maurizio Gigola presented the Documentary "Marchesi: The Great Italian" at the Cannes Film Festival.

Marchesi died in Rome on 26 December 2017 of cardiac arrest at the age of 87.

References

Other websites
 
 ALMA - Scuola di Cucina

1930 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Italian chefs
People from Milan
Molsheim

Molsheim is a commune in north-eastern France, in the Bas-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture. It is in the Grand Est region.

The commmune is in the historical and cultural region of Alsace.

Geography
Molsheim is in the central part of the Bas-Rhin department,  to the west of Strasbourg. The Bruche river, a left tributary of the Ill river, flows through the commune.

The commune has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Molsheim to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Strasbourg, the regional capital - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Lyon - ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nice - .

The commune of Molsheim is surrounded by the following communes:

Climate
The climate of Molsheim, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Molsheim are known, in French, as Molsheimois or Molshémiens (women: Molsheimoises).

With a population of 9,263, Molsheim has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Molsheim

Administration
Molsheim is a subprefecture in the Bas-Rhin department since 1919. It is the capital of the Molsheim arrondissement and is also the administrative centre () of the canton of Molsheim formed by 31 communes, with 54,596 inhabitants (2014).

Twin towns 
Molsheim is twinned with Gerbrunn (Germany).

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Molsheim
 Communes of the Bas-Rhin department

References

Other websites

 Ville de Molsheim - Official site 
 Office de Tourisme de Molsheim-Mutzig 

Communes in Bas-Rhin
Subprefectures in France
Linda Hunt

Lydia Susanna Hunter (born April 2, 1945), better known by her stage name Linda Hunt, is an American actress. She first appeared on screen as Mrs. Oxheart in Popeye (1980).

Hunt's breakthrough came playing the male character Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first person to win an Oscar portraying a character of the opposite sex.

Hunt currently plays Henrietta "Hetty" Lange on the CBS television series NCIS: Los Angeles, a role she has held since the 2009 debut.

Hunt is a dwarf. She is openly lesbian.

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