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John Hanson

Sir John Gilbert Hanson (16 November 1938 – 13 January 2017) was a senior British diplomat, senior executive, historian, and academic. He was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire.

Hanson was the Director-General of the British Council between 1992 and 1998. Hanson then became the Warden of Green College, University of Oxford from 1998 to 2006. Under his leadership, Green College merged with Templeton College in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, located at what was previously Green College.

Hanson died in London on 13 January 2017 after a short illness, aged 78.

References

1938 births
2017 deaths
British businesspeople
British historians
British educators
British politicians
British writers
People from Sheffield
Vahit Melih Halefoğlu

Vahit Melih Halefoğlu (19 November 1919 – 21 January 2017) was a Turkish politician and diplomat.

After the general elections held in 1983, Turgut Özal appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs from outside of the parliament. In 1986, he was elected deputy of Ankara from the Motherland Party (ANAP). He did not stand for election in the 1987 general elections and ended his political career.

Halefoğlu died on 21 January 2017 in Istanbul, aged 97.

References

Other websites
 Biyografi.net - Biography of Vahit Halefoğlu

1919 births
2017 deaths
Turkish politicians
Ambassadors of Turkey
The Roches

The Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche) were a vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey. They were known for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances.

The Roches were active as performers and recording artists from the mid-1970s through 2007, at various times performing as a trio and in pairs.

Albums
 The Roches (Warner, 1979)
 Nurds (Warner, 1980)
 Keep On Doing (Warner, 1982)
 Another World (Warner, 1985)
 No Trespassing (Real Live Records, 1986)
 Speak (MCA, 1989)
 We Three Kings (MCA, 1990)
 A Dove (MCA, 1992)
 Will You Be My Friend? (Baby Boom, 1994)
 Can We Go Home Now (Rykodisc, 1995).
 The Collected Works of the Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2003)
 Moonswept (429 Records, 2007)
 Rhino HiFive: The Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2007)

References

Other websites
 
 
 The Roches' MySpace page
 Interview/performance on The Current
 Interview with Robert Fripp about producing The Roches

1973 establishments in the United States
Folk music groups
American rock bands
People from Park Ridge, New Jersey
1970s establishments in New Jersey
Veljo Tormis

Veljo Tormis (7 August 1930 in Kuusalu - 21 January 2017) was an Estonian composer. He was called as one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia.

Internationally, he is known from his extensive body of choral music, which passes 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.

References

Other websites

 The music of Veljo Tormis
 Veljo Tormis Data Bank
 Fennica Gehrman's Tormis page (publisher) with a list of publications 

1930 births
2017 deaths
Estonian composers
John Watkiss

John Watkiss (28 July 1961 – 21 January 2017) was a British artist. He was known for his painting and his work in comics and movie production. His career led him from cover artist for graphic novels to storyboard artist and character designer. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Watkiss' comics illustration work includes DC Comics' The Sandman #39 (1992) and #53 (1993), Sandman Mystery Theatre #5–8 (1993), Starman #18 (1996), and all 13 issues of Deadman.

Watkiss died of cancer at the age of 55.

References

1961 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cancer
British artists
Comics artists
People from Stoke-on-Trent
Dan Caspi

Dan Caspi (December 1, 1945 – January 22, 2017) was an Israeli lecturer, journalist and activist. He worked at the Communication Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel.

Career
Throughout his career, Caspi has combined research with public activity and lively commentary. He published hundreds of articles in the printed daily and online press, including regular columns in a Jerusalem local paper, in the Israel Publishers’ Association monthly Otot ("Signals")' in Haayin Hashviit ("The Seventh Eye", an online media journal)' the op-ed section of ynet (an online newspaper produced by Yedioth Ahronoth) and a blog for Ha'aretz.

Death
Caspi died on January 22, 2017 in Israel, aged 72.

References

Other websites
 Personal website
 דן כספי, לשחרר את רוממה, ynet
 http://blogs.haaretz.co.il/dancaspi/ 

1945 births
2017 deaths
Israeli academics
Israeli activists
Israeli journalists
Jewish academics
Jewish activists
Jewish Israeli writers
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Romanian Jews
İlhan Cavcav

İlhan Cavcav (October 4, 1935 – January 22, 2017) was a Turkish businessman. He served as the chairman of Gençlerbirliği, a Football club in Turkey for almost 40 years until his death. He was born in Ankara.

He was known for his hard negotiation tactics with the big clubs in Turkey and searching for abilities especially for discovering talent from Africa.

Controversies
In November 2014 Cavcav announced that he would be fining bearded players, claiming that they were a bad influence for the youth. Cavcav said that he would fine players that kept their beards  25,000 Turkish Liras and also attacked UEFA for not banning beards in all of its completions.

Death
Cavcav was taken to hospital after falling and hitting his head, which caused a brain hemorrhage. He was kept in intensive care unit. One day later, on January 22, 2017, he was pronounced dead.

Accomplishments
 In 1978 Gençlerbirliği S.K. had no training facilities and now the team has one of the largest youth programs in Turkey and  of training facilities in Bestepe, Ankara (Beştepe İlhan Cavcav Tesisleri)
 He is the longest serving professional football club chairman in Turkey (1978-2017).

References

Other websites
 
 Genclerbirliği Fans and Statistics site
 Genclerbirligi Fans and Comment site 

1935 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Turkish businesspeople
People from Ankara
Deaths from head injury
Chen Yu-mei

Chen Yu-mei (; 22 July 1966 – 22 January 2017) was a politician in the Republic of China. She served as Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan from 18 September 2013 to 8 August 2014.

On 8 August 2014, Chen officially resigned to attend to other career plans. She was succeeded by Hsin Shih-chang, a professor from National Taiwan Normal University.

References

1966 births
2017 deaths
Taiwanese politicians
Civil servants
Cristina Adela Foișor

Cristina Adela Foișor (7 June 1967, Petroșani – 22 January 2017, Timișoara), née Badulescu, was a Romanian chess player, an Mnternational Master and Woman Grandmaster. She won the Women's Romanian Chess Championship five times.

She had competed for the world championship several times, most recently the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 when she went out in the first round in an Armageddon game. In the season 2016/17 she played for Schachfreunde Deizisau in 2. Bundesliga Süd. 

Foisor died of complications from pneumonia after several days in a coma at County Hospital of Timișoara, Romania, aged 49.

References

1967 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Romanian sportspeople
Chess players
Andy Marte

Andy Manuel Marte (October 21, 1983 – January 22, 2017) was a Dominican professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks. He also played in the KBO League for the KT Wiz. He was born in Villa Tapia, Dominican Republic.

Marte was killed in a car crash near San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic on January 22, 2017, aged 33.

References

Other websites

Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization

1983 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Dominican Republic sportspeople
Atlanta Braves players
Cleveland Indians players
Arizona Diamondbacks players
József Torgyán

József Torgyán (16 November 1932 − 22 January 2017) was a Hungarian lawyer and politician. He was chairman of the Independent Smallholders' Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of Viktor Orbán from 1998 through 2001. He was born in Mátészalka, Hungary.

Torgyán in Budapest, Hungary on 22 January 2017 from heart failure, aged 84.

References

Other websites

 Rövid életrajz
 Választás.hu
 Az 'Antalltól Orbánig' rövid bemutatása

1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Hungarian politicians
Lawyers
Pete Overend Watts

Peter Overend Watts (13 May 1947 – 22 January 2017) was an English bass guitarist. He was known for being the founding member and guitarist of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople. He was born in Birmingham, England. His book "The Man Who Hated Walking" was published in 2013.

Watts died in Birmingham on 22 January 2017 from throat cancer at the age of 69.

References

1947 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from throat cancer
English rock guitarists
Musicians from Birmingham
Yordano Ventura

Yordano Ventura Hernández (; June 3, 1991 – January 22, 2017) was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2013 through 2016. He was twice named to the All-Star Futures Game. He was born in Samaná, Dominican Republic.

Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013. He was known as a power pitcher, his fastball was much valued by the Royals during his tenure with the team. In 2014, Ventura's 96.2 mph average fastball velocity (96.4 for two-seamers) ranked second-best among MLB starters. He helped the Royals win the 2015 World Series.

On January 22, 2017, Ventura was killed in a car accident in the city of Juan Adrián, Dominican Republic, aged 25.

References

Other websites

 

1991 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Dominican Republic sportspeople
Kansas City Royals players
Jaki Liebezeit

Jaki Liebezeit (May 26, 1938 – January 22, 2017) was a German drummer. He was best known as a founding member of Can, who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral". He also played the piano and saxophone. He was born in Dresden, Germany.

Liebezeit died on January 22, 2017 in Dresden, Germany from pneumonia, aged 78.

References

Other websites

1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
German pianists
Saxophonists
Drummers
People from Dresden
Park Ridge, New Jersey

Park Ridge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Park Ridge had a population of 8,645 as of the 2010 United States Census. The mayor of Park Ridge is Terence P. Maguire.

The borough is a part of the Pascack Valley region of Bergen County. It is bounded by the boroughs of Montvale, River Vale, Woodcliff Lake and Hillsdale.

The Hertz Corporation, a car rental company, had been headquartered in Park Ridge and was the borough's largest single taxpayer. Sony Corporation of America has an R&D and engineering facility in Park Ridge.

Famous people were either born or raised here in Park Ridge: James Gandolfini, The Roches, and Pat Nixon.

References

Boroughs in New Jersey
ELF/Filecoder.A

ELF/Filecoder.A is a ransomware Trojan that infects Unix systems. There are different versions of the Trojan for several different flavors of Unix, including Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. Like other ransomware, it encrypts files on the system and demands payment for decryption.

Incidents 
The Trojan infected Linux servers using a flaw in the Magento eCommerce platform. Additionally, hackers broke into the hosting site for the Transmission BitTorrent client and infected version 2.90 for MacOS.

References 

Malware
Parliament of India

The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. The Parliament is composed of the President of India and the houses. It is bicameral with two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People).The Rajya Sabha is also known as the Upper house and the Lok Sabha is known as the lower house.But this does not mean that Lok Sabha is less powerful than Rajya Sabha.In fact,the Lok Sabha is much more powerful than the Rajya Sabha.

References

Government of India
Hollywood Sign

The Hollywood Sign (formerly the Hollywoodland Sign) is a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California. It is near on Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains. The sign overlooks Hollywood, Los Angeles.

"HOLLYWOOD" is spelled out in -tall white capital letters and is 350 feet (106.7 m) long. It was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development, but it gained increasing recognition after the sign was left up. 

The sign was a frequent target of pranks and vandalism, but it has since undergone restoration, including the installation of a security system to deter vandalism. The sign is protected and promoted by The Trust For Public Land, a nonprofit organization, while its site and the surrounding land are part of Griffith Park.

References

Buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Jefferson Memorial

The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C.. It was dedicated to the 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson. The neoclassical Memorial building on the Tidal Basin off the Washington Channel of the Potomac River was designed by the architect John Russell Pope. 

Construction began in December 1938. It was complete in 1939 with a ceremony attended by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a National Memorial it was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

References

Thomas Jefferson
Buildings and structures in Washington, D.C.
The World According to Novikoff (novel)

The World According to Novikoff () is a thriller novel by Russian writer Andrei Gusev, published in 2006.

Plot
The novel covers the time period from nineties of the last century to zero years of the present century. We can see a wide panorama of life in Russia. The life of an ordinary man in modern Russia describes in the novel. At the same time The World According to Novikoff is a thriller novel which focuses on a plot to use nuclear materials by Islamic terrorists in Moscow.

The main character, Victor Novikoff is a painter. He works in “The New literary newspaper” in Moscow; later he works as an editor in the Russian Agency "Interteleks", which is easily guessed "Interfax". The last place of Victor Novikoff’ work is Trell publisher, which very similar to famous publishing Astrel, AST group from Moscow. He works here as a literary editor and he receives a manuscript in which the plot of Islamic terrorist acts describes. He must decide what to do with it. From him it depends largely: whether this manuscript will be accepted for publication as a literary story.

Literary features 
The World According to Novikoff is a novel with a non-linear storyline. The angle of view combines all four parts of this novel: two points of view — male and female — on the same vital conflict, moral problems, erotic transactions.

From an other side this novel is a mixt of thriller and fantasy. At the cover of the book we can read: "All the characters of this book, including famous politicians, are a figment of the imagination of the author. If you find some convergence with the Russian reality, then so much the worse for last".

“After reading the book The World According to Novikoff by Andrei Gusev, I'm quite certain that it simply must be done bedside book each President to know how not to do a history, how not to lead the country. Kudos to Herostratus, destroyed one of the seven wonders of the world — the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, this is not the kind of Fame, to which we should aspire”. — Irina Gorunova 

Because of political reasons this novel was removed from some Russian literary portals.

References

Other websites

Сто лет со дня рождения – the main part of the thriller novel The World According to Novikoff in Wikisource 
Мир по Новикову (book's cover) 

2006 books
Novels
Fantasy books
Moshe Gershuni

Moshe Gershuni (11 September 1936 – 22 January 2017) was an Israeli painter and sculptor. He was born in Tel Aviv. He was known for his paintings in the 1980s which recognised The Holocaust. In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his paintings. However, Gershuni wanted to get the award without going to the event. Because of this, his Israel Prize was not given to him.

Gershuni died on 22 January 2017 in Tel Aviv at the age of 80.

References

1936 births
2017 deaths
Israeli Jews
Israeli painters
Israeli sculptors
Jewish artists
People from Tel Aviv
Kasaragod

Kasaragod District () is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India. Kasaragod became part of Kannur district following the reorganisation of states and formation of Kerala in November 1, 1956. Kasaragod was declared as a district on 24 May 1984.

References

Kerala
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, or Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, is also known as Kotte. It is the official capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is in the urban area of Colombo.

References

Settlements in Sri Lanka
Capital cities in Asia
Haldenwang, Oberallgäu

Haldenwang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is one the eastern side of the Iller valley. The mayor has been Josef Wölfle (CSU) since 1 May 2014.

References 

Oberallgäu
Deinocheirus

Deinocheirus ( ) is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. In 1965, arms and shoulder girdles were found.

More parts were found in 2014, and this large dinosaur was probably omnivorous.

References 

Cretaceous dinosaurs
Dmytro Grabovskyy

Dmytro Grabovskyy (, 30 September 1985 – 23 January 2017) was a Ukrainian-Israeli professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Simferopol, Ukraine. He last competed for UCI Continental team ISD-Lampre. He was second in the time trial for juniors at the 2005 World Championship Cycling in Madrid and he won the road race.

Grabovsky became an Israeli citizen in 2014.

He died from a heart attack on 23 January 2017, aged 31.

References

Other websites

 Profile of Dmytro Grabovskyy at Cycling Archives.com

1985 births
2017 deaths
Ukrainian cyclists
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Soviet Jews
Ukrainian Jews
Gorden Kaye

Gordon Fitzgerald Kaye, known professionally as Gorden Kaye (7 April 1941 – 23 January 2017) was a BAFTA-nominated English comic actor. He was best known for playing René Artois in the British TV comedy series %27Allo %27Allo!. He also was the roadie for Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias.

Kaye was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. When young, Kaye played rugby league for Moldgreen ARLFC before studying at King James's Grammar School, Almondbury, Huddersfield. Kaye died under hospice care in England on 23 January 2017, aged 75.

References

Other websites

 
 Gorden Kaye at bfi.com

1941 births
2017 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English comedians
Actors from Yorkshire
People from Huddersfield
Ruth Samuelson

Ruth Culbertson Samuelson (November 4, 1959 – January 23, 2017) was an American Republican politician. She was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 104th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. She announced on October 15, 2013, that she would not seek re-election for a fifth term and would leave office at the end of her current term, after the 2014 elections.

From 2000 to 2004, Samuelson served as a member of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, representing the Fifth District. In 2004, she ran for an At-Large seat on the Board of Commissioners, but lost in a tight general election race.

Samuelson was born in Charleston, South Carolina. She revealed in June 2016 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Samuelson died on January 23, 2017 under hospice care in Charlotte, North Carolina, aged 57.

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1959 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from ovarian cancer
Politicians from South Carolina
Politicians from North Carolina
US Republican Party politicians
Time in Russia

Russia currently has eleven time zones:

Daylight saving time (DST) is no longer observed in Russia but it was used from when it was part of the Soviet Union until 2011, then President Dmitry Medvedev announced on February 8, 2011, that summer time will be used all year, leaving Moscow Time on UTC+4 year round.

On 22 July 2014, Another bill was re-introduced, forcing all Russian time zones to move an hour back, and Moscow Time is now on UTC+3. However, the 
 Udmurtia and Samara Oblast remained on UTC+04:00, (thus reinstating Samara Time, MSK+1)
 Kemerovo Oblast remained on UTC+07:00 (went from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk Time)
 Zabaykalsky Krai moved back two hours to UTC+08:00 (went from Yakutsk to Irkutsk Time)
 Magadan Oblast moved back two hours to UTC+10:00 (went from Magadan Time, MSK+8 to Vladivostok Time, MSK+7)
 Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai remained on UTC+12:00 (thus reinstating Kamchatka Time, MSK+9)
 The parts of the Magadan Time zone that remained on MSK+8, were given a new time zone name, Srednekolymsk Time, UTC+11.
More time changes occurred in 2016. On March 27, several times were changed:
 Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk oblasts moved forward one hour from UTC+03:00 to UTC+04:00 (from Moscow to Samara time)
 Altai Krai and Altai Republic moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time)
 Zabaykalsky Krai moved forward one hour from UTC+08:00 to UTC+09:00 (from Irkutsk to Yakutsk time)
 Sakhalin Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00 (from Vladivostok to Srednekolymsk time), except Severo-Kurilsky District, which was already in UTC+11:00 (Srednekolymsk Time)
On April 24, another time zone was changed:
 Magadan Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00 (from Vladivostok to Srednekolymsk time)
On July 24, another time zone was changed:
 Novosibirsk Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time)
And, on December 4, another time zone was changed:
 Saratov Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+03:00 to UTC+04:00 (from Moscow to Samara time)

References

Russia
Russia
SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)

Season 1 of the Nickelodeon TV series SpongeBob SquarePants started on May 1, 1999 and ended on March 3, 2001.

Episodes

References

SpongeBob SquarePants seasons
1999 television seasons
2000 television seasons
2001 television seasons
SpongeBob SquarePants (season 3)

SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series. The third season was on television from October 5, 2001 to October 11, 2004. 

Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, stopped making the television series in order to make The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The television series was meant to end after the movie was released. Because the movie was so popular, the television series continued.

The third season won both the 2003 and 2004 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon.

Episodes

References

Other websites
IMDB

SpongeBob SquarePants seasons
2000s television seasons
2001 television seasons
Samhain

Samhain is the Gaelic celebration at the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. It is pronounced SOW-in. This festival is also celebrated in Paganism and Wicca. It is now known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve and celebrated on the 31st of October.

Legends 

A common legend on Samhain is that it is easy to talk to the dead. One way to do this is by using a Ouija board, a wooden board with numbers and letters on it.

Festivals
Andrew Telegdi

Andrew Telegdi, PC (András Telegdi; May 28, 1946 – January 23, 2017) was a Hungarian-born Canadian politician.  He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2008, representing Waterloo and the successor riding of Kitchener—Waterloo.

In 2014, Telgedi ran and lost in the 2014 Waterloo Regional Elections.  He came in third place to become one of two councillors for Waterloo on the Waterloo Regional Council.

Telegdi was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at the University of Waterloo in the 1970s. Telegdi died on January 23, 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario, aged 70.

References

1946 births
2017 deaths
Hungarian politicians
People from Budapest
Politicians from Ontario
Privy Councillors (Canada)
FAW Group

FAW Group Corporation is a Chinese Government-owned corporation automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Changchun, Jilin, China. Its principal products are automobiles; buses; light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks; and auto parts. FAW became China's first automobile manufacturer when it unveiled the nation's first domestically produced passenger car, the Hong Qi, in 1958.

Sources

China
Richard DeVos

Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American businessman. He was known for being the co-founder of Amway along with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.

In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th richest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion. At one point, he was one of the 10 richest Americans.

DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at Calvin College. He served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps. He was married to Helen June Van Wesep from 1953 until her death in 2017. Together, they had four children. His son, Dick DeVos, is married to Betsy DeVos the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education.

He was a Reformed Christian.

DeVos died on September 6, 2018 from complication of an infection in Ada, Michigan at the age of 92.

References

Other websites
Profile at Forbes

Richard DeVos' campaign contributions  at Newsmeat
Excellence in Philanthropy, Updates on Past Winners 2001-2013: Richard and Helen DeVos 
 Miller, John J. Contesting Art. Philanthropy Magazine. Summer 2011. 

1926 births
2018 deaths
Infectious disease deaths in the United States
American Calvinists
Businesspeople from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Cère

The Cère  is a French river, in the Massif Central, that flows through the Cantal, Corrèze and Lot departments. It is a left tributary of the Dordogne (river) and is the main river of the Cantal department.

For about , the Cère forms the border between, first, the Corrèze and the Cantal departments and, later, between the Corrèze and the Lot departments.

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

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Biars-sur-Cère in the Lot department.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Biars-sur-Cère

Course
The source of the Cère river is in the southwestern Massif Central, in Col de Font de Cèrein the commune of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, at an altitude of about , in the Cantal department.

The Cère river flows to the west, in general, through 3 regions, 3 departments and 29 communes. Several communes are named after the river: Vic-sur-Cère, Arpajon-sur-Cère, Laval-de-Cère, Gagnac-sur-Cère, Biars-sur-Cère. It flows through the following communes, among others:
 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
 Cantal department:  Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, Thiézac, Vic-sur-Cère, Polminhac, Arpajon-sur-Cère, Sansac-de-Marmiesse, Saint-Étienne-Cantalès, Laroquebrou
 Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
 Corrèze department: Camps-Saint-Mathurin-Léobazel
 Occitanie region
 Lot department: Laval-de-Cère, Bretenoux, Biars-sur-Cère, Prudhomat.

Finally, it flows into the Dordogne river in the town of Girac in the Marne department.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries, over 20 km long,  of the Cère river are:

Left tributaries:
 Roannes - 20.1 km
 Escalmels - 24.7

Right tributaries:
 Jordanne - 40.6 km
 Authre - 42 km

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Rivers of France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Occitanie
California National Party

The California National Party (CNP) is a political party in the state of California. The party was founded in 2015. It has been described by California legislative historian Alex Vassar as "the biggest-promising political party you haven't heard of". It is currently chaired by Theo Slater. The party's main goal is achieving California's independence from the United States of America.  Their platform also includes a wide range of proposed reforms. This includes health care, schools and welfare. Many of their proposals are generally left of center and reflect the party's "pragmatic progressive" ideology.

References

Other websites 

Political parties in the United States
2015 establishments in California
Politics of California
Yes California

The Yes California Independence Campaign is an American political action committee. It promotes the secession of the state of California from the United States via a referendum proposed for 2019. The campaign president is Louis J. Marinelli. He is a former New Yorker who lives in Russia He has received help from the Russian government to promote his efforts. Marinelli was encouraged by the news of Brexit, the United Kingdom plan for leaving the European Union. The group has been nicknamed "Calexit" for California exit. The left-wing group was allowed to set up a makeshift embassy in Moscow under the name the “Embassy of the Independent Republic of California". The Kremlin has been known for supporting secessionist movements in Europe and the United States.

References 

Political activists
Administrator of the Small Business Administration

The Administrator of the Small Business Administration is the head of the Small Business Administration of the United States Government.

Background
President Obama announced in January 2012 that he would elevate the SBA into the Cabinet. This is a position that last held during the Clinton administration. The position was established in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

List of administrators

References

1953 establishments in the United States
Vincent Viola

Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956 in New York City) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. Viola was the nominee for United States Secretary of the Army after being nominated by Donald Trump in December 2016. He withdrew his name from consideration on February 3, 2017.

He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial. Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team.

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1956 births
Living people
American philanthropists
American military people
Businesspeople from New York City
Heather Wilson

Heather Ann Wilson (born December 30, 1960) is an American politician. Wilson was the 24th United States Secretary of the Air Force from May 16, 2017 through May 31, 2019. She served as President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing  from 1998 to 2009. She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.

After leaving Congress she was leading consulting firm Heather Wilson & Company.

On January 23, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intentions to nominate Wilson as Secretary of the Air Force. The United States Senate confirmed her nomination on May 8, 2017.

On March 8, 2019, Wilson said that she would resign as Secretary, on May 31, 2019, in order to become President of the University of Texas at El Paso.

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1960 births
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Businesspeople from New Hampshire
Businesspeople from New Mexico
American military people
Educators from New Hampshire
Politicians from New Hampshire
United States representatives from New Mexico
United States Secretaries of the Air Force
US Republican Party politicians
Educators from New Mexico
Educators from South Dakota
The Mirage

The Mirage is a 3,044 room hotel and casino resort located on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. The casino is owned by MGM Mirage. 

The Mirage has a 20,000-gallon saltwater aquarium with over 450 species of fish. It has an indoor tropical rainforest housed in its  tall atrium. In front of the Mirage is a volcano that erupts nightly depending on the season. Every hour there is a fire show. The huge balls of fire are choreographed to music and light up the lagoon next to it. 

The Mirage is connected by a free tram to Treasure Island, its sister property immediately to the north.

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Other websites 
 Mirage website
 Mirage Volcano Show in Las Vegas; YouTube

Hotels
Buildings and structures in Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Marta Kubišová

Marta Kubišová (1 November 1942 České Budějovice, then in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) is a Czech singer most popular in Czechoslovakia in 1960s. She won Zlatý slavík TV award in 1967.

Life 
Family

Marta Kubišová’s father was a cardiologist and her mother a housewife. Her family moved to Poděbrady in 1952. She married Jan Něměc, who later emigrated and they got divorced. Her second husband was director Jan Moravec. Her daughter Kateřina was born on 1 June 1979.

Career 
Her singing career started with a dance group in Nymburk. She reached the finals in Hledáme nové talenty in 1961. In 1963 she moved to Plzeň to perform. In September 1964 she performed in theater Rokoko. She won Silver Lyre of Bratislava with Helena Vondráčková in 1966. She created the group 'Golden Kids' with Václav Neckář and Vondráčková in 1967. Her song Prayer for Marta became a symbol of national resistance against the occupation of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968. During the Prague Spring, she recorded over 200 SP records and one LP (Songy a Balady), which was immediately banned from stores. The government unjustly banned her from performing in February 1970. She signed the Charter 77 and she became their speaker.  

She suffered a miscarriage and survived clinical death. Marta was also an actress and she met her husband Jan Němec while filming. In 1990s and 2000s she also took part in concerts to promote human rights. She was awarded the Honorary Medal of T. G. Masaryk in 1998 and in October 2002 she got the St. Wenceslas Honours.

1942 births
Living people
Czech singers
Ouija board

The Ouija (pronounced wee-jee or wee-jah) is a game board supposedly used to talk to the dead. It is designed to be a fun activity based on self-deception. They are also called "spirit boards" or "talking boards. It is a flat board with the numbers 0-9 and all the letters of the alphabet. It has the words "yes" and "no" at the top with the word "goodbye" on the bottom. The board uses a planchette, which is a small wooden plank in the shape of an upside down heart. It has a glass circle (or plain hole) in the top. The player asks a question.   Then one or more players guide the planchette to the letters or numbers to spell out a message. However, Scientists know the game is based on the ideomotor effect. A participant believes they are not controlling the message, that it comes from ghosts or spirits. It can seem very mysterious. But anyone can test a Ouija board by blindfolding or hiding the board from the ones moving the planchette. What usually results is gibberish and no message.

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Other websites 
 Do You Believe? | Brain Games; National Geographic
 The Truth About Ouija Boards / How to make your own!:YouTube
 How Ouija Boards Work; HowStuffWorks

Board games
Plomb du Cantal

Plomb du Cantal is a French mountain, the highest summit of Mounts of Cantal in the Massif Central, France. It is part of the Regional Natural Park of the Volcanoes of Auvergne ().

It is the highest mountain of the Cantal department and the second highest in the Massif Central, after Puy de Sancy that is  high.

Geography
Plomb du Cantal is in the Mounts of Cantal, a chain of volcanic mountains in the Massif Central, in the centre of the Cantal department. It is at about  to the northeast of Aurillac, the capital of the Cantal department.

The summit is on the border between the communes of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats to the west and Albepierre-Bredons to the east.

Many rivers start on the slopes of the mountain; they flow through three main drainage basins:
 to the west, on the side of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, is the drainage basin of the Cère river that flows to the Dordogne river;
 to the south, on the side of the commune of Brezons, is the drainage basin of the Brezons river that flows to the Garonne river; and
 to the northeast, on the side of Albepierre-Bredons, is the drainage basin of the Alagnon river that flows to the Loire river.

The Plomb du Cantal, with other near mountains, is part of the stratovolcano of Cantal, the largest French stratovolcano and one of the most important of Europe with an area of almost . It had, 4 millions of years ago, an elevation of  or higher.

Because its importance for the movement of migratory birds, the Plomb du Cantal together with the Mounts of Cantal are part of a Special Protection Area since 2005: FR8310066 - Monts et Plomb du Cantal.

Ski resorts 
There are two main ski stations (places where people go to practice skiing) on the slopes of Plomb du Cantal or near it: Le Lioran, also known as Super Lioran, and Prat-de-Bouc.

Climbing 
To get to the summit, there are three climbing routes:
 By cable car to the Lioran station followed by hiking during about 10 minutes;
 Hiking to the Lioran station and then to the mountain during about 1 hour and a half; and
 Hiking from the Prat-de-Bouc parking lot during about 2 hours.

Gallery

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Other websites

 Plomb du Cantal et Puy du Rocher par le col de Prat de Bouc - Altituderando  
 Plomb du Cantal - peakery
 Le Lioran  

Mountains of France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Xin Zhui

Xin Zhui (213 BC-163 BC) also known as Lady Dai or the Diva Mummy is a 2,100-year-old mummy from the Western Han Dynasty. To date, she is the best preserved ancient human ever found. She was the wife of Li Cang, the marquis of Dai. She had gained fame more than 2,000 years after her death. This was when her tomb was discovered inside a hill in Hunan, China. She and her jewels are located at the Hunan Provincial Museum.

Mummy 
In 1971, her mummified body was found. All her organs and blood vessels were still seen. They found out that she had Type A blood. Her skin was still elastic. Her joints could still be moved. She still had her eyelashes and hair in her nostrils. Lady Dai was overweight. She suffered from diabetes. She also had high blood pressure, clogged arteries and her heart was badly damaged.

Death
Xin died from a heart attack because of poor health conditions at the time. She also suffered internal parasites and had gallstones logged in her gall bladder. She had also suffered a lot of pain from a fused spinal disc.

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Other websites 
 The 2,000 Year-Old Mummified Body of Lady Xin Zhui, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China; YouTube

 

Emperors and Empresses of China
Chinese royalty
Deaths from hypertension
Table (landform)

A table (landform) is a high rock structure with a flat top. There are many different terms for this landform feature.

The tuya is a structure formed by a subglacial (under ice) volcano. Lava erupts underneath an overlying glacier or ice sheet. It melts through to the surface and pools, producing the flat plateau on top with near-vertical walls along the ice-contact margin as the lava cools and hardens. 

A similar landform is the tepui, which has a rather different origin. A body of hard rock resists erosion. It was originally inside a body of softer rock such as limestone, which got eroded away to form a plain. The more resistant rock is left behind as an isolated mountain. The term is used for the table-top mountains of South America. Auyán-tepui in the Guiana Highlands, Venezuela is the source of the Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world. It is 19 times higher than Niagara Falls.

Tuya
Tepui
Mesa
Potrero
Butte
Plateau
Terrace
Table
Table hill
Table-topped hill
Table mountain
Tableland

Table Mountain in South Africa is the best-known example of a table landform.

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Landforms
Meierijstad

Meierijstad (literally Bailiwick City) is a municipality in North Brabant, a province in Netherlands. It is the largest municipality in the province and in the eastern part.

About 79,000 people live tehre, on an area of about 185 km².

Meierijstad is established in 2017. Two municipalities, Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and Veghel, joined to become Meierijstad.

Biggest settlement is the town of Veghel, also containing the town hall. However, council meetings are held at Dommelrode Castle in Sint-Oedenrode.

Both the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal and the A50 motorway cross municipality.

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2017 establishments in the Netherlands
Chandannagar

Chandannagar is a municipal corporation in the state of West Bengal, India. It was formerly spelled Chandranagore. It  was a former French colony along with present Puducherry, Union territory. It is a part of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. Chandannagar is located on the banks of the Hooghly River. The total area of the city is . The total population of the city is 166,867 according to the 2011 Census of India. Chandannagar was a French territory until India gained its  independence from France in 1949. In 1954 it came under the jurisdiction of West Bengal.

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Cities in India
Abenaki language

Abenaki, or Abnaki, is an endangered Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England. The language has Eastern and Western forms. They differ in vocabulary and phonology. They are sometimes considered distinct languages.

Eastern Abenaki languages were spoken by several peoples, including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot of coastal Maine. The last known fluent speaker of Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot) died during the 1990s. However, several Penobscot elders still speak Penobscot. There is an ongoing effort to preserve it and teach it in the local schools. Only a handful of Western Abenaki speakers remain today.

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Languages of North America
Stencil

A stencil is a blocking material used to mask a surface. In it there are holes for ink or paint to pass through. That way an image is made on the material behind the stencil. Stencils are used when many copies are needed of the same image. It is used in street art, and many public notices.

Screen printing is a printing technique using a fine mesh. Ink is applied except in areas blocked by a stencil.

Printing
Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian National Cricket Team. He was renowned as a destructive and aggressive player. He holds numerous records in international and Indian cricket. He is a right arm batsman and right arm off-spin bowler.

Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to score Triple century in Test cricket. He scored 319 off 278 balls against South Africa in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium. It is the fastest triple century since then. He holds the massive Indian record of scoring the fastest 300,250,200 and 150 in Test cricket. Sehwag is the only personality of any nationality to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World twice.

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of articulation

In phonetics (the study of sounds in human speech), the place of articulation of a sound is where in the mouth the sound is made (articulated). There are at least 13 different places of articulation. They are split into four big types.

Labial (lips)
Labial sounds are made with one or two lips.
They are split into three types:

Bilabial (two lips)
Bilabial sounds are made with both lips.
The bilabial sounds in English are [], [], and [].

Labiodental (lip and teeth)
Labiodental sounds are made with the lips and the teeth.
Almost always the top lip and the bottom teeth are used.
The labiodental sounds in English are [] and [].

Linguolabial (lip and tongue)
Linguolabial sounds are made by the tongue touching the top lip.
There are no linguolabial sounds in English.
Sometimes it is said to be part of the next group (Coronal).

Coronal (tip of the tongue)
Coronal sounds are made with the tip of the tongue. They are split into three types:

Dental (teeth and tongue) 
Dental sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the back of the teeth. The dental sounds in English are [] and [].

Alveolar (gum ridge and tongue) 
Alveolar sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the ridge behind the teeth. The alveolar sounds in English are [], [], [], [], [], and [].

Retroflex (roof of the mouth and tongue)  
Retroflex sounds are made by pressing the tongue flat against the front part of roof of the mouth. There are no retroflex sounds in English.

Palatal (roof of the mouth and tongue) 
Palatal sounds are made by the body of the tongue and the middle part of the roof of the mouth. The only palatal sound in English is [].

Anatomy
Linguistics
Human voice
Naqsh Lyallpuri

Jaswant Rai Sharma, (24 February 1927 – 22 January 2017) popularly known by his pen name Naqsh Lyallpuri, was an Indian ghazal and Bollywood song writer. He was born in Lyallpur (now called Faisalabad), British India. Lyallpuri worked with many Bollywood music directors including Madan Mohan, Khayyam, Jaidev, Naushad, and Ravindra Jain. He had close association with director B. R. Ishara from their first movie Chetna in 1970.

Lyallpuri was known for his work in Chetna, Gharonda, Dard, Kala Suraj, Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story, and Yatra. 

Lyallpuri died at his home in Mumbai, India on 22 January 2017 from complications of a hip fracture, aged 89.

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1927 births
2017 deaths
Indian writers
Songwriters
Henry McMaster

Henry Dargan McMaster (born May 27, 1947) is an American politician. He is the 117th and current Governor of South Carolina since January 24, 2017. He became governor when Nikki Haley resigned to become the Ambassador to the United Nations. 

McMaster was born into a wealthy South Carolina family who owned many slaves before the American Civil War. His father John was also a politician. 

He last served as the 91st Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 2015 to 2017, as well as Attorney General of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011. From 1981 to 1985, McMaster served as United States Attorney, where he was known for Operation Jackpot. McMaster served on the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education and chaired the South Carolina Republican Party from 1993 to 2002.

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Other websites
 Official Website of Henry McMaster
 

1947 births
Living people
Governors of South Carolina
US Republican Party politicians
Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina