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Adige

The Adige (; ; ; ; ; ) is an Italian river that starts in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, flowing through most of Northeast Italy to the Adriatic Sea.

It is the second Italian river by length after the Po, the third for its watershed after the Po and the Tiber, and the fourth by its mean yearly discharge after the Po, the Ticino and the Tiber.

Geography
The Adige 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 Boara Pisani, a comune in the Padua province near the mouth of the river.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Boara Pisani (1961 - 1970)

Course
The Adige starts in the Reschen Pass in the comune of Graun im Vinschgau, South Tyrol province, at an altitude of about  close to the borders with Austria and Switzerland. First, it flows to the south until the confluence with the Ram river and then turns to the east. At Merano, the Adige is joined by the Passirio river and turns to the southeast; in Bolzano, it is joined by the Isarco, its main tributary. In the confluence with the Tasso river, the Adige flows to the south and, then, from Badia Polesine, it turns to the east and flows into the Adriatic Sea to the south of the mouth of the Brenta river and to the north of the mouth of the Po river.

The valley of the Adige gets several names: Venosta valley between the source and Merano, Adige valley between Merano and Trento, Vallagarina between Trento and Verona and, last, Padana valley between Verona and the mouth.

Main tributaries 
The main tributaries are:

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of Italy
 List of rivers of Switzerland

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Rivers of Italy
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Veneto
K. R. Mohanan

K. R. Mohanan (11 December 1947 – 25 June 2017) was an Indian movie director. He was best known for his critically acclaimed works, Ashwathama (1978), Purushartham (1987) and Swaroopam (1992). He studied at the Pune Film Institute. Mohanan was the Chairman of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy from 2006 to 2011 and the Director of International Film Festival of Kerala.

Mohanan died on 25 June 2017 of stomach cancer, aged 69.

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1947 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in India
Indian movie directors
Olga Feliú

Olga Feliú Segovia (20 August 1932 – 25 June 2017) was a Chilean politician and lawyer. She was appointed to the Senate in 1990 by the Supreme Court in 1990 and served until 1998, when she was replaced by Enrique Silva Cimma. She was born in Santiago de Chile.

Feliú died on 25 June 2017 in Santiago de Chile from a long-illness at the age of 84.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Chilean politicians
Chilean lawyers
Desh Bandhu Gupta

Desh Bandhu Gupta (1938 – 26 June 2017) was an Indian billionaire businessman. He was born in Rajgarh, Alwar, Alwar State, British Raj (now in Rajasthan, India). He was known for being the founder and chairman of Lupin Limited, a multinational pharmaceutical company.

In 2015, Forbes estimated Gupta's net worth at $7.2 billion, making him the 254th richest person in the world.

Gupta died in Mumbai, India on 26 June 2017, aged 79.

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2017 deaths
Indian businesspeople
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Habib Thiam

Habib Thiam (21 January 1933 – 26 June 2017) was a Senegalese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Senegal on two occasions, from 1 January 1981 to 3 April 1983, and again from 8 April 1991 until 3 July 1998. He was born in Dakar, Senegal. He also served as President of the National Assembly of Senegal from 1983 to 1984.

He was married to Anne Majken née Hessner, a native of Denmark and former member of the Danish parliament for the Social Democratic Party. They had two daughters.

Thiam died on 26 June 2017 in Dakar at the age of 84.

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National Assembly profile 

1933 births
2017 deaths
Prime Ministers of Senegal
People from Dakar
FIFA Arab Cup

The FIFA Arab Cup (Arabic: ), or simply known as the Arab Cup, is a football (soccer) tournament held between countries in the  Arab world. It has been organized by FIFA since 2021.

Iraq has been the most successful team because they won 4 tournaments. The first tournament was played in Lebanon in 1963. Morocco won the most recent tournament, which occurred in 2012.

Results

All-time table 

 Teams highlighted in gold have won a title.

Appearances by team

Other websites 

Arab Cup - Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

 
1963 establishments in Asia
Football competitions in Asia
Football competitions in Africa
1963 Arab Cup

The 1963 Arab Cup was the 1st Arab Cup tournament which took place in Lebanon. Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria and Tunisia participated in the tournament.

Group stage

Other websites 
Details in RSSSF

FIFA Arab Cup
1964 Arab Cup

The 1963 Arab Cup was the 2nd Arab Cup tournament which took place in Kuwait. Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya and Iraq participated in the tournament.

Group stage

Other websites 
Details in RSSSF

FIFA Arab Cup
Comal County, Texas

Comal County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 108,472 people lived there. The county seat is New Braunfels.

Texas counties
Comanche County, Texas

Comanche County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 13,974 people lived there. The county seat is Comanche.

Texas counties
Concho County, Texas

Concho County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 4,087 people lived there. The county seat is Paint Rock

Texas counties
Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister

Countess Alice Victoria Trolle-Wachtmeister (née Tornérhielm;  9 May 1926 – 26 June 2017) was a Swedish noblewoman who served the Royal Court of Sweden from the 1970s to 2015, having served as Chief Court Mistress from 1994 to 2015. She was born in Annerstad, Kronoberg County.

Trolle-Wachtmeister died at Trolle-Ljungby Castle in Scania, Sweden on 26 June 2017 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 91.

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1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Swedish nobility
Cottle County, Texas

Cottle County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,505 people lived there. The county seat is Paducah.

Texas counties
Crane County, Texas

Crane County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, 4,375 people lived there. The county seat is Crane.

References 

Texas counties
Suh Yun-bok

Suh Yun-bok (9 January 1923 – 27 June 2017) was a South Korean athlete. He was best known as the winner of the 1947 Boston Marathon. He won the race with a world best time of 2:25:39 under the coach Sohn Kee-chung, the Korean winner of the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was born in Seoul. 

His participation in the Boston Marathon was financed by donations from servicemen in the United States Forces Korea. His win was the first time a world best for the men's marathon was set at the Boston Marathon. The previous world best was set by his coach Sohn in Tokyo, Japan in 1935. 

At 166 cm tall (5'5") and weighing 56 kg (123 lbs), he was said to be the shortest winner ever of the Boston Marathon. In 1948, one year after the Boston victory, Suh raced the marathon in 1948 Summer Olympics held in London. He retired in 1949.

Suh died on 27 June 2017 in Seoul at the age of 94.

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Burlington College

Burlington College was a private, non-profit liberal arts college located in Burlington, Vermont, that offered associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees, as well as several professional certificates. Although regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the college was placed on probation in July 2014 for failing to meet the accreditor's standards regarding financial resources. 

Jane O'Meara Sanders, wife of United States senator Bernie Sanders, served as president from 2004 through 2011.

The college announced on May 16, 2016 that it would close on May 27.

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Colleges and universities in Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
2016 disestablishments in the United States
Subpoena

A subpoena  is a written order that requires a witness to give testimony, or their statement of truth. A subpoena is usually issued by a court. If a person or organization does not respond to the subpoena, they may be punished by the court.

There are two types of subpoena. Subpoena ad testificandum means a person must give testimony directly to the court. This can be in person or by telephone. Subpoena duces tecum means physical evidence must be brought to the court. This type of subpoena is usually used for documents. Sometimes the documents can be mailed to the court.

Legal terms
Danger Mouse

Danger Mouse is a British animated television series. The main character is Danger Mouse who is a secret agent.

The show was originally on television in the United Kingdom from 28 September 1981 to 19 March 1992. It was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television. The series also had a spin-off show, Count Duckula.

Danger Mouse was a parody of British spy fiction, particularly the Danger Man series and James Bond.

A continuation of the original series, under the same name, began airing in September 2015 on CBBC.

History
In 1983, Danger Mouse had an all-time high of 21 million viewers.This is still a record number of viewers for a children's programme.

On 4 June 1984, Danger Mouse was the first British cartoon to appear on Nickelodeon. This made it one of the earliest British cartoons to be in syndication in America.

Danger Mouse took third place in the 100 Greatest Kids' TV Shows by Channel 4 in the UK. It was only beaten by The Muppet Show and The Simpsons.

Characters
Danger Mouse (voiced by David Jason) the world's greatest secret agent.
Penfold (voiced by Terry Scott) Danger Mouse's sidekicks who is reluctant to do any missions.
Colonel K (voiced by Edward Kelsey) The boss of Danger Mouse who sends him on missions.
Baron Greenback (voiced by Edward Kelsey) The main antagonist who hates Danger Mouse and wants to rule the world.
Stiletto (voiced by Brian Trueman) Greenbacks henchman who used to be loyal but is now stupid.
Leatherhead (voiced by Terry Scott) Another one of Greenbacks henchman who likes to read comics.
Narrator (voiced by David Jason) The narrator of the show who hates his job and wants to quit.

Episodes

Pilot (1979-1980)

Season 1 (1981)

Season 2 (1982)

Season 3 (1982)

Season 4 (1983)

Season 5 (1984)

Season 6 (1984-85)

Season 7 (1986)

Season 8 (1987)

Season 9 (1991)

Season 10 (1992)

References

Other websites

 Dangermouse.com 
 

British children's television series
1981 British television series debuts
1992 television series endings
Animated characters
English-language television programs
Nodeul Station

Nodeul Station is a train station of Seoul Subway Line 9, located in Dongjak District, Seoul, South Korea.

Origin of staton name 
Originally, the name "Nodeul" means "The stepping stone that Egret playing with", and now it means the area near Noryangjin(Which is a hanja translation from Nodeul).

History 
 September 18, 2008 : Station name decided
 July 24, 2009 : Opened with opening ofSeoul Subway Line 9 Gaehwa - Sinnonhyeon

Station structure 
Station has 2 side platforms, 2 tracks.

Platform

Passenger count

References

Other websites 

Railway stations in South Korea
Carsten Sieling

Carsten Günter Erich Sieling (born January 13, 1959 in Nienburg) is a German politician of the SPD. He is the current mayor of the city of Bremen and also head of the state of Bremen.

Previously he was among others a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2015.

Since July 15, 2015 he has been the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (head of government of the city-state of Bremen).

References 
 Bremen Senate Chancery 
 Bundestag Website biography

1959 births
Living people
Former members of the German Bundestag
Mayors of Bremen
Members of the German Bundesrat
Politicians from Lower Saxony
Politicians of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
Canton Tower

The Canton Tower, or Guangzhou Tower (), officially the Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower (), is a -tall multi-purpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The tower was finished in 2009 and it was first turned on 29 September 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games.

The tower held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing the CN Tower. It was then passed by the Tokyo Skytree. It was the tallest structure in China before the Shanghai Tower was completed on 3 August 2013. It is now the second tallest tower in China and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

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Gaehwa Station

Gaehwa Station is a train station of Seoul Subway line 9. It is in Gaehwa-dong, Seoul. It is the only station above ground in Line 9. The headquarters of the Seoul Metro Line 9 Corporation is located in the station.

History 
 September 18, 2008 : Station name decided
 July 24, 2009 : Opened with opening of Seoul Subway Line 9 Gaehwa - Sinnonhyeon

Station structure 
Gaehwa Station is the only above ground station in Line 9. The platform is on 1st floor, and the concourse (station lobby) is on the 2nd floor.

Platform

Whole Station structure

Passenger count 
Data of 2009 is calculated from July 24 (First Opened) ~ December 31.

Pictures

References 

Railway stations in South Korea
2009 establishments in Asia
2000s establishments in South Korea
Brazilian National Anthem

"Hino Nacional Brasileiro" (pron. [ˈinu nɐsjuˈnaw bɾɐziˈlejɾu] "EE-noo nuh-syoo-NOU bruh-zee-LEY-roo"), Portuguese for "Brazilian National Anthem", is the national anthem used in Brazil, composed by Francisco Manuel da Silva between 1822 and 1831. It was officially adopted as the country's national anthem in 1831. The lyrics to the anthem were written by Osório Duque-Estrada in 1909. They became official in 1922, with some changes.

Lyrics

Trivia
In sporting events, only the first stanza is played.
According to Brazilian law, non-vocal renditions should only be played once, but could be played twice; in vocal renditions, both stanzas must be sung.
The mention of the Ipiranga river is a reference to the stream in São Paulo where Emperor Dom Pedro I declared the country's independence from Portugal.

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19th-century songs
20th-century songs
National anthems
Brazil
Niederdorf, Saxony

Niederdorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany.

References

Other websites 
 

Erzgebirgskreis Rural District
Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. (born Floyd Joy Sinclair; February 24, 1977) is an American professional boxer. He is undefeated as a professional boxer.

Overview 
He is the son of a boxer, Floyd Mayweather Sr. who introduced him to boxing. His youth was hard because he and his family had drug issues, but later, he left drugs and continued with boxing. He was trained by his uncle Roger Mayweather, who was also a boxer.

Achievements 
Mayweather has won fifteen world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics. He won three U.S. Golden Gloves titles (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight). He also won the U.S. national title at featherweight.

Mayweather was well known for his speed, stamina, defense, and his excellent boxing schema. In 2017, he made a comeback to the ring and defeated MMA fighter Conor McGregor.

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1977 births
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American Olympic bronze medalists
African-American boxers
Sportspeople from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Gwangmyeongsageori Station

Gwangmyeongsageori Station is a train station of Seoul Subway Line 7, in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi-do. This stations was first opened with name "Gwangmyeong Station", but because of KTX Gwangmyeong Station's opening, this station has changed the name.

Gwangmyeongsageori Station is sometimes called as Gwangmyeong Junction Station, because the korean latter "sageori" means 4-way junction.

History
 February 29, 2000 : Opened with opening of Seoul Subway Line 7 Sinpung - Onsu, as Gwangmyeong Station
 March 29, 2004 : Changed name to Gwangmyeongsageori Station with opening of KTX Gwangmyeong Station

Station structure 
The upperbound(For Jangam) side platform (in below diagram, platform on the right side) is not used normally, but used at morning to depart the train from train depot.

Platforms

Passenger Count 
Data of 2000 is calculated from February 29 (First Opened) ~ December 31.

References 

Railway stations in South Korea
2000s establishments in South Korea
Wettswil am Albis

Wettswil am Albis is a municipality of the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Campobasso

Campobasso is a city in southern Italy. It is the capital of the region of Molise and of the province of Campobasso. 49,431 people live there.

References

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Regional capitals in Italy
Cities in Molise
Parikkala

Parikkala is a municipality in south Finland. There were 5,219 people living there on 31 March 2016. It is next to the municipalities of Kitee, Savonlinna and Rautjärvi.

Other websites

 The official Parikkala page 

Municipalities of South Karelia
Chillicothe, Ohio

Chillicothe is a city in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Ross County. 21,901 people lived there in the 2010 census.

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Cities in Ohio
County seats in Ohio
Shubra El-Kheima

Shubra El-Kheima () is a city in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt. It is the fourth largest city in Egypt. 

The city is located on the east bank of the Nile. Muhammad Ali of Egypt built his palace in Shubra El-Kheima.

References
 

Cities in Egypt
Bollwiller

Bollwiller is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

References
 INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Berca

Berca is a commune of Buzău County in Romania.

The Berca Mud Volcanoes are nearby. This area has been protected since 1924.

References

Communes in Buzău County
Le Bonhomme

Le Bonhomme is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Michael Nyqvist

Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist  (8 November 1960 – 27 June 2017) was a Swedish actor. Born in Stockholm, he studied drama in Malmö. He started acting as Officer Banck in the series one of the Swedish movies about Martin Beck in 1997. 

Nyqvist became known internationally as the main character Mikael Blomkvist in the Millenium miniseries opposite Noomi Rapace. He also had a role in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and John Wick.

Nyqvist died on 27 June 2017 in Stockholm from lung cancer at the age of 56.

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2017 deaths
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Cancer deaths in Sweden
Swedish movie actors
Swedish television actors
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Doug Peterson

Douglas Blair "Doug" Peterson (1945 – June 26, 2017) was an American yacht designer. He began with the One Tonner Ganbare in 1973. Peterson's designs have pioneered many innovations in racing and cruising yachts. He was born in Los Angeles, California.

Peterson later entered the America's Cup circle as a key design member of the winning 1992 America and 1995 NZL 32 Black Magic Team New Zealand design teams. In 2000, Peterson designed the winning Louis Vuitton Cup boat for Prada Challenge.

Peterson died on June 26, 2017 in San Diego, California after a long battle with colorectal cancer, aged 71.

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Deaths from colorectal cancer
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American artists
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Piotr Bikont

Piotr Bikont (12 May 1955 – 27 June 2017) was a Polish journalist, publicist, culinary critic and a theatre director. He was born in Łódź, Poland.

Bikont translated Art Spiegelman's "Maus" to Polish. He was a member of editorial staff of the talking magazine Gadający Pies based in Kraków. He was the author of a book Jewish Cooking According to Balbina Przepiórko.

Bikont died on 27 June 2017 in a car accident near Warsaw, aged 62.

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1955 births
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Road accident deaths
Polish writers
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Critics
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Valentín Pimstein

Valentín Pimstein Weiner (August 9, 1925 – June 27, 2017) was a Chilean producer of telenovelas. He was born in Santiago de Chile. He moved to Mexico, where he began to work in producing telenovelas. His most well known works are María la del Barrio, Marimar, and Carrusel.

Pimstein died in Santiago de Chile from respiratory arrest on June 27, 2017 at the age of 91.

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1925 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from respiratory arrest
Television producers
People from Santiago
Ric Suggitt

Ric "Sluggo" Suggitt (October 30, 1958  June 27, 2017) was a Canadian rugby union footballer and a rugby union coach. Suggitt was also the Head Coach of the USA Women's 7's Olympic team. He was the head coach at university of Lethbridge. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta.

Suggitt was the coach of the female Canada national team and the men's national seven-a-side team, when he was appointed to the post of coach of the male Canada national rugby union team, in 2004. 

Suggitt died on June 27, 2017 in Calgary, Alberta from a sudden heart attack, aged 58.

References

Other websites
Profile of Ric Suggit 

1958 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Canada
Rugby union players
Sportspeople from Edmonton
Geri Allen

Geri Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American composer, educator, and jazz pianist. She was born in Pontiac, Michigan and raised in Detroit. 

Allen worked with many jazz musicians, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, and Charles Lloyd. She cited her primary influences to be her parents, Mount Vernell Allen Jr, and Barbara Jean Allen, and her primary musical influences to be mentors Marcus Belgrave, Donald Walden, and Betty Carter, as well as pianists Herbie Hancock, Mary Lou Williams, Hank Jones, Alice Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Bud Powell, and mentor Dr. Billy Taylor. 

Allen was an Associate Professor of Music and the Director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Allen died on June 27, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after suffering from cancer at the age of 60.

References

Other websites
 Official Website
 Geri Allen at Motéma Music
 Geri Allen at All About Jazz
 Geri Allen at NPR Music
 Jazz Conversations with Eric Jackson: Geri Allen  from WGBH Radio Boston
 Geri Allen at Rhapsody

1957 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Pennsylvania
American jazz musicians
American blues musicians
American funk musicians
American gospel musicians
American pianists
Educators frm Michigan
People from Pontiac, Michigan
Musicians from Michigan
Lincoln Almond

Lincoln Carter Almond (born June 16, 1936) is an American attorney and politician. He is a member of the Republican Party. Almond served as United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island from 1969 to 1978 and 1981 to 1993 and later the 72nd Governor of Rhode Island, serving from 1995 to 2003.

References

Other websites
 University of Rhode Island Biography – Lincoln Almond
  Brown University Oral History Project

1936 births
Living people
Lawyers from Rhode Island
Boston University alumni
Governors of Rhode Island
US Republican Party politicians
People from Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Philip W. Noel

Philip William Noel (born June 6, 1931) is an American politician. He was the 68th Governor of Rhode Island. He was elected in 1972, and re-elected in 1974. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

References

Other websites
Philip William Noel at "The Political Graveyard"

1931 births
Living people
Governors of Rhode Island
US Democratic Party politicians
People from Warwick, Rhode Island
Fob James

Forrest Hood "Fob" James, Jr. (born September 15, 1934), is an American politician, and civil engineer. He served two terms as the 48th Governor of Alabama, from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat, and again from 1995 to 1999 as a Republican.

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Living people
Engineers from Alabama
American football players
Episcopalians
Governors of Alabama
US Republican Party politicians
Jere Beasley

Jere Locke Beasley (born December 12, 1935) is an American trial attorney and politician. He served as acting governor of the US state of Alabama from June 5 to July 7, 1972. His law firm has been noted nationally for winning major awards for its clients; among them was an $11.8 billion punitive damage award against Exxon Mobil Corporation in 2003.

Beasley was born in 1935 in Tyler, Texas, the son of Browder Locke and Florence (née Camp) Beasley. He was raised in Clayton, Alabama, where his father ran a small grocery store.

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1935 births
Living people
Lawyers from Alabama
American Methodists
Governors of Alabama
Politicians from Texas
US Democratic Party politicians
Lieutenant Governors of Alabama
Lawyers from Texas
Jane Dee Hull

Jane Dee Hull (nee Bowersock; August 8, 1935 – April 16, 2020) was an American politician and educator.

In 1997, she became Governor of Arizona after the resignation of Fife Symington. She became the state's 20th Governor. Hull was elected in her own right the following year, and served until 2003. 

Hull was the first woman formally elected as Governor of Arizona, and the second woman to serve in the office after Rose Mofford. She was a member of the Republican Party.

Hull died on April 16, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 84.

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1935 births
2020 deaths
Governors of Arizona
Politicians from Kansas City, Missouri
US Republican Party politicians
Educators from Kansas City, Missouri
Educators from Arizona
Bruce Babbitt

Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938) is an American politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Babbitt served as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987, and as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1993 through 2001.

Babbitt was born in Flagstaff, Arizona, the son of Frances B. (Perry) and Paul James Babbitt, Sr. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame.

He married Harriet Coons (known as Hattie) in 1968. She has worked as an attorney in Arizona and Washington, D.C., and served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 1993 to 1997, and as Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development from 1997 to 2001 during the Clinton Administration.

In 1993, after Byron White retired from the Supreme Court, Babbitt was seen as a top pick for his replacement. President Clinton picked Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead.

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1938 births
Living people
Lawyers from Arizona
United States Secretaries of the Interior
Governors of Arizona
US Democratic Party politicians
Bill Gwatney

Bill Gwatney (August 26, 1959 – August 13, 2008) was an American politician. He served as the State Chair of the Democratic Party of Arkansas. Prior to being State Chair, he was a State Senator for ten years. He had also been the financial chair for Mike Beebe's run for Governor of Arkansas in 2006. He owned three car dealerships in Pulaski County. Gwatney was selected as a superdelegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, but died before the convention. He was replaced by his widow Rebecca Rankin.

On August 13, 2008, Gwatney was killed by Timothy Dale Johnson, who entered Democratic Party headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas and shot Gwatney three times. Gwatney was taken to a hospital, but died later that day.

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Murders by firearm in the United States
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David Pryor

David Hampton Pryor (born August 29, 1934) is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senator from the State of Arkansas. Pryor also served as 39th Governor of Arkansas from 1975 to 1979 and was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1960 to 1966. 

Pryor served as the interim chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, following Bill Gwatney's assassination.

Pryor was born in Camden, the seat of Ouachita County in southern Arkansas, to William Edgar Pryor and the former Susan Newton.

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1934 births
Living people
Lawyers from Arkansas
Governors of Arkansas
United States representatives from Arkansas
United States senators from Arkansas
US Democratic Party politicians
Joe Frank Harris

Joe Frank Harris (born February 16, 1936) is an American Democratic politician. He served as the 78th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1983 to 1991.

References

Other websites
New Georgia Encyclopedia Article .

1936 births
Living people
Governors of Georgia (U.S. state)
US Democratic Party politicians
Julian Carroll

Julian Morton Carroll (born April 16, 1931) is an American politician from the state of Kentucky. A Democrat, he was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 2005 until 2020. 

From 1974 to 1979, he served as the 54th Governor of Kentucky, succeeding Wendell H. Ford, who resigned to accept a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was the first Kentucky governor from the state's far-western Jackson Purchase region, and his running mate Thelma Stovall was the first woman to be elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

References

Other websites
Website of State Senator Julian Carroll 

1931 births
Living people
Governors of Kentucky
US Democratic Party politicians
Lieutenant Governors of Kentucky
John Y. Brown Jr.

John Young Brown Jr. (born December 28, 1933) is an American politician, entrepreneur, and businessman from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the 55th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, although he may be best known for building Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a multimillion-dollar restaurant chain.

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1933 births
Living people
Governors of Kentucky
Businesspeople from Kentucky
US Democratic Party politicians
People from Lexington, Kentucky
Paul E. Patton

Paul Edward Patton (born May 26, 1937) is an American politician. He was the 59th Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1995 to 2003. He was the first governor eligible to succeed himself in office since James Garrard in 1800. Since 2013, he has been the chancellor of the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Kentucky after serving as its president from 2010 to 2013. He also served as chairman of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education from 2009 to 2011.

References

1937 births
Living people
Governors of Kentucky
US Democratic Party politicians
Lieutenant Governors of Kentucky
Joseph E. Brennan

Joseph Edward Brennan (born November 2, 1934) is an American Democratic Party politician from Maine. He served as the 70th Governor of Maine from 1979 to 1987. He is a former commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission.

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1934 births
Living people
Governors of Maine
People from Portland, Maine
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Richard Bryan

Richard Hudson Bryan (born July 16, 1937) is an American attorney and politician. He served as the 25th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 1983-89, and as a United States Senator from Nevada from 1989 to 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Bryan was born in Washington, D.C. and graduated from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1959 where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.  He earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. In 1963 he was admitted to the Nevada Bar.

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James Florio

James Joseph Florio (born August 29, 1937) is a Democratic politician. He served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position (he is of half Italian ancestry). He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for 15 years between 1975 and 1990.

Florio was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Scottish, Irish, and German descent. In Brooklyn, he attended Erasmus Hall High School.

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Phil Murphy

Philip Dunton Murphy (born August 16, 1957) is an American financier, diplomat, former Goldman Sachs executive and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is the 56th and current Governor of New Jersey upon winning the 2017 gubernatorial election and being sworn-in on January 16, 2018. Murphy was the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2009 to 2013 serving during the Barack Obama presidency. He was narrowly re-elected in 2021, beating Republican Jack Ciattarelli. He became the first Democratic governor to win re-election since Brendan Byrne in 1977.

Early life
Murphy was born in Needham, Massachusetts. He was raised in both Needham and nearby Newton, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ambassador to Germany (2009–2013)
Murphy served as United States Ambassador to Germany under President Barack Obama from 2009–2013.

His formal nomination to the position was made by President Barack Obama on July 9, 2009. It was then confirmed by the United States Senate on August 7, 2009. Murphy promoted American trade and focused on engaging Germany’s youth through town hall meetings, exchange programs, and social media communication.

On May 29, 2013, it was announced that Murphy was stepping down from the ambassadorship. He formally left the position on August 26, 2013.

Governship (since 2018)

2017 election

Murphy was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in the 2017 gubernatorial election. He faced Republican Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno in the general election. He won the election on November 7, 2017.

Tenure
In December 2019, Murphy became the chairperson of the Democratic Governors Association, a position he held for a year.

2021 election

On October 1, 2020, Murphy announced he would seek reelection, with Oliver as his running mate. He faced Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the general election. He was re-elected by a small margin and was declared the winner the next day.

Personal life
Murphy moved to Middletown Township, New Jersey in 2000. He is married to Tammy Snyder and they have four children.

On March 4, 2020, Murphy had surgery in New York City to remove cancerous tumors in his kidneys. He made a full recovery shortly afterward.

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Other websites

Education Task Force website
New Jersey Benefits Task Force final report
United States Diplomatic Mission to Germany: The Ambassador 
June 2013 interview in Frankfurter Rundschau (in German)

 Official campaign website
 Primary Night - narrative photo essay

1957 births
Living people
People from Newton, Massachusetts
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Jerry Apodaca

Raymond S. "Jerry" Apodaca (born October 3, 1934) is an American politician. He served as the 24th Governor of New Mexico from 1975 through 1979.

Apodaca graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1956 with a bachelor of science degree, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Apodaca would later enter the insurance business.

Honours and awards 
The New Mexico Department of Education, which was previously was known simply as the Education Building, was later renamed Jerry Apodaca Building to honor the former governor in 2004.

Known for his reorganization of state government, President Jimmy Carter named him the chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness in 1978.

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Other websites
 National Governors Association profile 
 New Mexico General Services Department profile 

1934 births
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Jim Hunt

James Baxter "Jim" Hunt Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is a retired American politician who was the 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina (1977–1985, and 1993–2001). 

He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history. Hunt is tied for the fourth-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at  days.

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James G. Martin

James Grubbs "Jim" Martin (born December 11, 1935) is an American politician. He served as the 70th Governor of the state of North Carolina. He served from 1985 to 1993.  He was the second Republican elected to the office after Reconstruction, and the fifth overall.  He is also the only Republican to serve two full terms as governor.

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Dick Celeste

Richard Frank "Dick" Celeste (born November 11, 1937) is an American politician from Ohio. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the 64th Governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991.

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Barbara Roberts

Barbara Kay Roberts (born December 21, 1936) is an American politician from the state of Oregon. She served as the 34th Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995. She was the first woman to serve as Oregon governor, and the only woman elected to that office until 2016. 

A Democrat, Roberts was also the first woman to serve as majority leader in the Oregon House of Representatives. She also won two terms as Oregon Secretary of State, and served in local and county government in Portland. 

Roberts was married to Oregon state Sen. Frank L. Roberts from 1974 until his death in 1993. From February 2011 until January 2013, she served on the council of Metro, the regional government in the Portland metropolitan area.

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1936 births
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Edward D. DiPrete

Edward Daniel DiPrete (born July 8, 1934) is an American Republican Party politician from Rhode Island. He served as the 70th Governor of Rhode Island for three two-year terms, serving from 1985 to 1991.

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1934 births
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Harvey L. Wollman

Harvey Lowell Wollman (born May 14, 1935) was the 26th Governor of South Dakota.  He was the first Lieutenant Governor in the history of South Dakota to move into the Governor's office. As of 2017, he is also the most recent Democrat to hold the title of South Dakota governor.

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Don Sundquist

Donald Kenneth Sundquist (born March 15, 1936) is a former American businessman and politician. He was the 47th Governor of Tennessee from 1995 to 2003.  Prior to his governorship, he represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995.

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Thomas P. Salmon

Thomas Paul Salmon (born August 19, 1932) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician. He served as the 75th Governor of Vermont from 1973 to 1977.

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Madeleine Kunin

Madeleine May Kunin (born September 28, 1933) is an American diplomat and politician. She was the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party.

She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor as well as the first Jewish governor of Vermont. She was also the first Jewish woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state. Kunin is currently a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.

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1933 births
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Tony Earl

Anthony Scully Earl (born April 12, 1936) is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party.

Earl served as the 41st Governor of Wisconsin from 1983 until 1987. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1958 and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago. After four years in the Navy, including two years as a legal officer, Earl made his way to Wisconsin in 1965.

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Jaroslav Kořán

Jaroslav Kořán (January 17, 1940 – June 2, 2017) was a Czech translator, writer, screenwriter, and politician. He is a signatory of Charter 77 during Czechoslovakia's Communist era, Kořán translated over seven dozen books, mostly by American writers, from English into Czech, including major works by Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Roald Dahl, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, and John Wyndham.  

Kořán was one of the co-founders of the Civic Forum (OF) political movement in November 1989. In February 1990, Kořán was elected Mayor of Prague, becoming the city's first non-Communist since 1948. He served as mayor until September 1991.

Jaroslav Kořán died in June 2, 2017, at the age of 77.

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Paul Bocuse

Paul Bocuse () (11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef. He was raised in Lyon. He was famous for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine.

Bocuse was one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality. Paul Bocuse claimed that Henri Gault first used the term, nouvelle cuisine, to describe food prepared by Bocuse and other top chefs for the maiden flight of the Concorde airliner in 1969.

Bocuse died of Parkinson's disease on 20 January 2018 in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or in France at the age of 91

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Gustavo Pareja Cisneros

Gustavo Pareja Cisneros (born 10 January 1947) is an Ecuadorian politician. He was born in Otavalo, Ecuador. He served as Governor of the Imbabura Province from 1997 through 2009. In December 2014, he was elected Mayor of Otavalo. He left office in May 2019.

Early life
Pareja Cisneros was born on 10 January 1947 in Otavalo in the Imbabura Province. His father was a carpenter and his mother was a housewife. He studied at the Central University of Ecuador, where he majored in political science and sociology.

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La République En Marche!

En Marche! (; English translation: "Forward!", "Onward!", "Working!" or "On The Move!") is a centrist and liberal political party in France. It was founded on 6 April 2016 by Emmanuel Macron, a former Minister of Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs, who was later elected President of France in the 2017 presidential election by a landslide 66.1% of the second-round vote.

The party ran candidates in the 2017 legislative elections as La République En Marche! (English translation: "The Republic Onwards!"), including members of the Democratic Movement, as well as dissidents from the Socialist Party, The Republicans and minor parties. It won an absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly, securing 308 under its label and 42 for the MoDem.

Macron thinks En Marche! to be a progressive movement, uniting both the left and the right.

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Jordan Henderson

Jordan Brian Henderson (born 17 June 1990) is an English professional footballer. He plays and captains Premier League club Liverpool. He also plays for the England national team since 2010. He is a midfielder. He joined Liverpool in 2011. Before this, he played for Sunderland (2008–2011) and on loan at Coventry City (2009). He won the 2012 Football League Cup Final with Liverpool. Best midfielder of his generation.

Henderson was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

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Jordan Henderson profile at the Liverpool F.C. website
Jordan Henderson profile at The Football Association website
Jordan Henderson career stats at Soccerbase

1990 births
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Ostrogoths

The Ostrogoths were the eastern branch of the later Goths. The other major branch was the Visigoths.

The Ostrogoths started with the Greutungi, a branch of the Goths that moved southward from the Baltic Sea during the 3rd and the 4th centuries.

They built an empire that stretched from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea and traded with the Roman Empire. Its peak was under King Ermanaric.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Ostrogoths built a new kingdom in northern Italy centred in Ravenna.

Germanic tribes
Böblingen

Böblingen (; Swabian German: Beblenga) is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is the capital of the district Böblingen.

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 Official website of the town of Böblingen
Wetzikon

Wetzikon is a small town of the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is near Lake Pfäffikon in the Zürcher Oberland, between Uster and Rapperswil-Jona.

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 Official website 

Cities in Switzerland
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Rainham, Kent

Rainham is a town in Medway, North Kent. It has a small shopping centre.

It has a railway station, Rainham railway station and it also has a leisure centre, Splashes Leisure Pool.

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Wiesendangen

Wiesendangen is a municipality of the district of Winterthur of the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014 the former municipality of Bertschikon bei Attikon merged into the municipality of Wiesendangen.

Villages
Wiesendangen, Attikon, Wallikon, Menzengrüt, Buch, Bertschikon, Gundetswil, Kefikon, Liebensberg, Stegen, Gündlikon and Zünikon

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 Official website of Wiesendangen 

Municipalities of Zürich
Wila, Switzerland

Wila is a municipality in the district Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official website of Wila 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Wildberg, Switzerland

Wildberg is a municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Wil, Zürich

Wil is a municipality in the district Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Winkel, Switzerland

Winkel is a municipality of the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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