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Taxicab stand

A taxicab stand (also called taxi rank, cab stand, taxi stand, cab rank, or hack stand) is a queue area on a street or on private property where taxicabs line up to wait for passengers.

How stands work
Stands are normally located at airports, hotel driveways, railway stations, subway stations, bus depots, ferry terminals, shopping centres, and major street intersections. Usually stands are marked by simple painted signs.  

Stands generally work as a first-come, first-served queue, so that the first taxicab to arrive on the stand (the one at the front of the line) serves the first passenger to arrive, and as the first taxicab leaves, each taxicab behind it moves ahead one spot, with the last taxicab to arrive taking the last spot.

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Street furniture
Request stop

A request stop, flag stop, or whistle stop is a stop, railway station or airport at which buses, trains or airline flights respectively stop only on request; only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off.

Public transport
Eugene Burger

Eugene Burger (June 1, 1939 – August 8, 2017) was an American magician. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was known for his close-up skills and his work in mentalism and bizarre magic. He was also a philosopher and a historian of religion.

Burger died of liver cancer in Chicago on August 8, 2017 at the age of 78.

References

Other websites
 Official Eugene Burger homepage

1939 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Cancer deaths in Chicago
American magicians
American philosophers
American historians
Entertainers from Chicago
Wilson das Neves

Wilson das Neves (June 14, 1936 – August 26, 2017) was a Brazilian percussionist and singer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a key figure in the history of Brazilian music.

Career 
He played with many of Brazil's greatest musicians across many decades and featured on numerous important recordings. He was a very important artist specially for Brazilian Popular Music as a sambista (those who do samba), composer and instrumentist, with over 50 years dedicated to music. He can be heard in over 600 records from the greatest Brazilian artists.

das Neves died of colorectal cancer on August 26, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 81.

References

Other websites
 Wilson das Neves Discogs entry

 

1936 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in Brazil
Brazilian singers
Brazilian musicians
People from Rio de Janeiro
Yitzhak Pundak

Yitzhak Pundak, born Yitzhak Fundik (;  13 June 1913 – 27 August 2017), was an Israeli general, diplomat and politician. He turned 100 in June 2013. He was born in Kraków, Poland.

He moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1933.

Pundak received his first senior diplomatic point in November 1965, when he was made the Israeli ambassador to Tanzania. He later served as the ambassador responsible for Guatemala and El Salvador, and as the head of the Jewish Agency's delegation to Argentina at the height of the Dirty War.

He was also involved in local politics.

Pundak died in Tel Aviv, Israel at the age of 104.

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Rail replacement bus service

A rail replacement bus service are buses that replace passenger train services. Rail replacement bus services are used if railway lines are being repaired or if railway stations are being upgraded.

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Ocean Master

Ocean Master (Orm Marius) is a fictional character, a supervillain published by DC Comics, and the brother of Aquaman. He was created by Nick Cardy and Bob Haney. 

Oceam Master was Aquaman's fully human half-brother, the son of Tom Curry (Aquaman's father) and a woman named Mary O'Sullivan. He becomes a villain because he grows jealous of Aquaman and how he becomes King of Atlantis. Ocean Master is full human. He later has amnesia and disappears. Several years later, the self-named Orm Marius reappeared as the Ocean Master, a high-tech pirate who initially attacked ships but quickly moved on to causing natural disasters in order to hold the world at ransom. 

Ocean Master will make his first movie appearance in the 2018 movie Aquaman played by Patrick Wilson.

References

Other websites
 Biography on Orm 
 Alan Kistler's Profile On Aquaman  - A retrospective by comic book historian Alan Kistler tracing Aquaman's history from 1941 all the way to the present day.

DC Comics characters
Optare CityPacer

The Optare CityPacer was a step-entrance minibus that was built by Optare between 1985 and 1992. It was based on a Volkswagen LT55 van chassis and around 300 were produced.

Related pages 
 List of bus models

Buses
Luis Ocaña

Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía (9 June 1945 – 19 May 1994) was a Spanish road bicycle racer. He won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España. He was born in Priego, Cuenca, Spain.

Ocaña died in Nogaro, France at the age of 48.

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1945 births
1994 births
Optare Soroco

The Optare Soroco was a step-entrance minicoach body that was built by Optare between 2008 and 2012. It was built for Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis.

Related pages 
 List of bus models

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Buses
Christian Reformed Church in North America

The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) includes just over one thousand congregations across the United States and Canada. About 75 percent of the churches are in the United States; 25 percent are in Canada. It is one of only a few binational denominations: rather than split into different churches at the 49th parallel, it is united. Almost 300,000 people belong to the CRCNA—not a large number when you consider the population of the two countries.

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Calvinism
Christianity in the United States
Religion in Canada
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Pedro Pedrossian

Pedro Pedrossian (13 August 1928 – 22 August 2017) was a Brazilian politician. He was born in Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Pedrossian was a member of the Party of National Mobilization. He served two terms as the Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul. The first term, from 1980 to 1983, was an appointed role, before being elected to office in 1991. His term ended in 1994. 

Pedrossian also served as the Governor of Mato Grosso between 1966 and 1971. 

Pedrossian died on 22 August 2017 in Campo Grande, Brazil of heart failure at the age of 89.

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Josef Musil

Josef Musil (3 July 1932 – 26 August 2017) was a Czech volleyball player. He won two Olympic medals, one bronze and a silver medal, in 1964 and 1968. He also won five world and three European championships medals in 1952–1967. He was born in Kostelní Lhota, Okres Nymburk, Czechoslovakia.

Musil died on 26 August 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic of a heart attack at the age of 85.

References

Other websites
 Josef Musil . sports-reference.com

1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Olympic silver medalists
Olympic bronze medalists
Czech volleyball players
Ebrahim Yazdi

Ebrahim Yazdi (26 September 1931 – 27 August 2017) was an Iranian politician and diplomat. He served as deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan, until his resignation in November 1979, in protest at the Iran hostage crisis. From 1995 until 2017, he headed the Freedom Movement of Iran.

Arrests
Yazdi was arrested in December 1997 for "desecrating religious sanctities" and freed on 26 December on bail. On 17 June 2009, during the 2009 Iranian election protests, it was reported that Yazdi was arrested while undergoing tests at the Tehran hospital according to the Freedom Movement of Iran website. On 22 June, he was released back to the hospital for a medical procedure. On 28 December 2009, Yazdi was arrested again in the wake of renewed protests.

Yazdi and several others were arrested on 1 October 2010 in Isfahan for participating in an "illegal Friday prayer." All others were freed within days. He was released in April 2011.

Death
Yazdi died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85 in Izmir, Turkey on 27 August 2017.

References

Further reading
 J D Stempel, Inside the Iranian Revolution, Indiana Univ Press, 1981
 Sadegh Khalkhali, Khateraateh Khalkhaali (Memoirs of Khalkhaali), Sayeh Publications, Tehran, 2003
 Abdolali Bazargan, ed, Moshketaal va Masa’ele Av’valeen Saale Enghelaab Az Zabaane Mohandes Bazargaan (Issues of the First Year of the Revolutions as Explained by Mehdi Bazargan), Tehran, 1981

1931 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Iranian politicians
Vance Trimble

Vance Harrison Trimble (July 6, 1913 – June 16, 2021) was an American journalist and writer. He was born in Harrison, Arkansas. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

Trimble was known for his national reporting about nepotism and payroll abuse in the U.S. Congress. In his life, Trimble has worked in the newspaper business for over fifty years. Trimble was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1974. He has published numerous books since his retirement.

Trimble turned 100 in July 2013. He lived in Wewoka, Oklahoma. Trimble died on June 16, 2021 at the age of 107.

References

Other websites
100 Year Life Oral History Project -- Oklahoma State University Library
Vance H. Trimble Manuscript Collection -- Ohio University Library 

Pulitzer Prize winners
1913 births
2021 deaths
American centenarians
American journalists
Writers from Arkansas
Writers from Oklahoma
Divo

Ivan Andres "Divo" Ramirez is a Canadian hip hop recording artist based in Toronto. Divo has released several albums featuring D. O., Classified, Dan-e-o, Eternia, D-Sisive and DL Incognito. In 2016, Divo's fourth album Transatlantic Soul won East Coast Rap Album of the Year at the Canadian Urban Television Hip Hop Awards.

Career
Divo was born in Guatemala in 1980 and later moved with his family to Canada. In 1999, Divo released his debut hip hop music album, Sparks of Friction. His second album, released in 2003 was titled The Evolution Theory, followed by This Iz Bizness in 2004. In 2015, Divo released his fourth album, Transatlantic Soul which won East Coast Rap Album of the Year at the 2016 Canadian Urban Television Hip Hop Awards. Transatlantic Soul was shown in the Pan Am Path music compilation during the Pan American Games, 2015.

Divo is also known for creating his own album artwork for Transatlantic Soul and Classified's Boy-Cott-In the Industry and Hitch Hikin Music.

Discography

References

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Living people
1980 births
Canadian songwriters
People from Toronto
People from Guatemala City
Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya Gutiérrez (born July 17, 1975) is a Spanish actress.

Her career dates back to 1995. She starred alongside Antonio Banderas in Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In, for which she won the Goya award for Best Actress. She is also known for her roles in Habitación en Roma (Room in Rome) and Wonder Woman as Doctor Poison.

Anaya is a lesbian. In November 2016, it was announced that Anaya was expecting her first child with her partner, Tina Afugu Cordero, a costume designer. In February 2017, Anaya gave birth to their son.

References

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Elena Anaya at AllRovi
Elena Anaya at Yahoo! Movies

Goya Award winners
1975 births
Living people
Lesbians
LGBT actors
Spanish LGBT people
Spanish movie actors
Spanish television actors
Doctor Poison

Doctor Poison is the name of two fictional characters, supervillains who appear in DC Comics publications and related media. Both villains were members of the super-villain team Villainy Inc. and have appeared as major recurring enemies for Wonder Woman.

The Princess Maru incarnation of Doctor Poison first appeared in Sensation Comics #2 and was created by William Moulton Marston and Harry G. Peter. The second Doctor Poison first appeared in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #151 and was created by Eric Luke and Matthew Clark.

The original Princess Maru incarnation of the character made her first movie appearance in Wonder Woman, played by Spanish actress Elena Anaya.

References

Other websites
 Doctor Poison Rapsheet
 Gay League Profile
 The Unofficial Doctor Poison Biography 

DC Comics characters
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (born 18 June 1989) is a Gabonish football player. He plays for Arsenal F.C. and Gabon national team.

Club career statistics

International career statistics

As of match played 12 November 2020. Gabon score listed first, score column indicates score after each Aubameyang goal.

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1989 births
Living people
French footballers
Gabonese people
Borussia Dortmund squad
Afridun Amu

Afridun Amu was the first Afghan athlete to internationally represent Afghanistan in surfing. He participated in the International Surfing Association World Surfing Games in Biarritz, France in May 2017. Amu also won the first official Afghan surfing championship (man) in 2015 in Ericeira, Portugal. He is the reining Afghan surf champion.

Amu was born in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 23, 1987. He spent his childhood in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a diplomate. His family moved to Germany as political refugees in 1992. He graduated in law, cultural science and design thinking. He works as an expert in Constitutional law at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and is a lecturer on Design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute.

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Afghan sportspeople
1987 births
Living people
Surfers
Kven language

The Kven language is a Finnic language spoken in northern Norway by the Kven people. 

In 2005 the language was officially given minority status in Norway. This was for political and historical reasons. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has rules for the signs of a minority language. Linguistically, however, it is seen as a mutually intelligible dialect of the Finnish language. Because of this it is grouped together with the Peräpohjola dialects, such as Meänkieli, spoken in Torne Valley in Sweden.

References

Languages of Norway
Kven people

Kvens (Kven language/Finnish: kveeni, Norwegian: kvener, Northern Sami: kveanat) or Kven people are a Finnic ethnic minority in Norway. They are descendants from Finnish peasants and fishermen who moved from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries. 

In 1996, the government of Norway officially said that Kvens were a minority group. In 2005, Norway officially made Kven language a minority language.

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Norway
Nordic people
Jamie Dimon

James Dimon (; born March 13, 1956) is an American business executive. He is chairman, president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, largest of the Big Four American banks. He served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Dimon was named to Time magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people. He was also named to Institutional Investors Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey from 2008 through 2011.

Dimon was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014. In March 2020, Dimon had “emergency heart surgery.”

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1956 births
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American billionaires
Democrats (United States)
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Lenke Lorán

Lenke Lorán (1 May 1927 – 27 August 2017) was a Hungarian actress. She was born in Győr, Hungary. Her career began in 1935.

Lorán played mostly comedies, but he also had memorable shots in more serious characters. Her best known roles were in Nyári játék, Entanglement, and in 7-es csatorna.

Between 1945 and 1966, she was a member of the Theater of the Hungarian People's Army and the Petőfi Theater. Between 1966 and 1998, she played on the Amusement Stage. Between 1998 and 2011, she was a member of the Microscope Stage. She retired in 2014.

Lorán died of heart failure on 27 August 2017 in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 90.

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1927 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Hungarian movie actors
Hungarian television actors
Hungarian stage actors
Actors from Budapest
Muzaffer İzgü

Muzaffer Izgü (29 October 1933 – 26 August 2017) was a Turkish writer and teacher. He was known for his children's books and works of humour, and had authored 154 books, 98 of which were for children. He was born in Adana, Turkey. His first book, Gecekondu, was published in 1970 by Remzi Kitabevi. This was followed by İlyas Efendi (1971) and Halo Dayı (1972). 

Radical Niyazi Bey is a 2001 collection of his stories by Milet Books, in dual Turkish and English language translation by Damian Croft.

Izgü died on 26 August 2017 in İzmir, Turkey of liver cancer at the age of 83.

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1933 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Turkish writers
Children's writers
Turkish educators
Mireille Darc

Mireille Darc (; Mireille Christiane Gabrielle Aimée Aigroz; 15 May 1938 – 28 August 2017) was a French model, director and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and partner from 1968 to 1982. She was born in Toulon, France.

Darc appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 movie Week End. She was also known for her role as Christine in Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Le retour du grand blond. Darc is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Darc died at a Paris hospital while in a coma after suffering a stroke on 28 August 2017, aged 79.

References

Other websites

 
 
 Mireille Darc Official Site 

1938 births
2017 deaths
Actors from Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Cardiovascular disease deaths in France
Deaths from stroke
French models
French movie actors
French movie directors
French stage actors
French television actors
French voice actors
People from Toulon
Fábio Barreto

Fábio Villela Barreto Borges (June 6, 1957 – November 20, 2019) was a Brazilian movie director, actor, screenwriter, and movie producer. He was best known for directing and co-writing Lula, o filho do Brasil, a biography based on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's early life.

Barreto slipped into a coma after being involved in a car accident in Rio de Janeiro in 2009. As of August 2014, is reported to be in a minimally conscious state. He died on November 20, 2019 after almost 10 years in a coma.

References

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1957 births
2019 deaths
Road accident deaths
Brazilian movie directors
Brazilian movie actors
Brazilian screenwriters
Brazilian movie producers
People from Rio de Janeiro
Jean-Pierre Adams

Jean-Pierre Adams (10 March 1948 – 6 September 2021) was a French footballer. He played as a central defender.

Career
Adams started playing with RC Fontainebleau in 1967 as a striker, with whom he won the Championnat de France amateur twice. In 1970, he signed a contract with Nîmes Olympique, going on to remain in Ligue 1 for the following nine seasons, also representing in the competition OGC Nice and Paris Saint-Germain FC.

In the 1971–72 campaign, Adams contributed with four goals in all 38 games to help Nîmes to a best-ever second place, also winning the Cup of the Alps. He added a career-best nine in 1973–74, for a final ninth position.

On 15 June 1972, Adams made his debut for the French national team in an unofficial exhibition game against an African XI selected by the Confederation of African Football.

Coma and death
On 17 March 1982, he slipped into a coma following problems caused by a knee operation in Nîmes. The surgery was to fix a torn knee tendon. He had suffered from oxygen loss in the brain after the anesthesiologist made a mistake. 

Adams died on 6 September 2021 at the age of 73, after being in a coma for almost 40 years.

References

Other websites
French Football Federation profile  

1948 births
2021 deaths
Senegalese footballers
French footballers
Deaths from surgical complications
Elaine Duke

Elaine Costanzo Duke (born 1958) is an American civil servant. On January 30, 2017, she was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under John F. Kelly. She became acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security on July 31, 2017 when John F. Kelly assumed the office of White House Chief of Staff.

On February 23, 2018, she announced plans to retire from her position as Deputy Secretary in April of the same year, after serving in the federal government of the U.S. for over thirty years.

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1958 births
Living people
Politicians from Virginia
Politicians from Ohio
US Republican Party politicians
Schumann resonances

A Schumann resonance is a resonant frequency of a set of several Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) oscillations of the Earth's electromagnetic field between the ground and reflective regions of the ionosphere, triggered by lightning.

Physics
Frank Press

Frank Press (December 4, 1924 – January 29, 2020) was an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. Presidents, and later, for two consecutive terms, was President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993). He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth.

Press served on President's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and was appointed by President Richard Nixon to the National Science Board. 

In 1977 he was appointed President Jimmy Carter's Science Advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, serving until 1981.

Press died on January 29, 2020 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
 Caltech Oral Histories, "Interview with Frank Press" (April 15, 1983).
 American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archive, "Oral History Transcript – Dr. Frank Press"
 
 SEG Virtual Geoscience Center, "Biographies: Frank Press" 
 MIT News, "Press Wins Japan Prize" (March 17, 1993).

1924 births
2020 deaths
American geologists
American physicists
Directors of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Scientists from New York City
Writers from New York City
William Robert Graham

William Robert Graham (born June 15, 1937) is an American physicist.

Graham was Chairman of President Reagan's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control from 1982 to 1985, a Deputy Administrator and Acting Administrator of NASA during 1985 and 1986, and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and concurrently Science Adviser to President Reagan from 1986 to 1989. He then served as an executive in national security-related companies.

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1937 births
Living people
American physicists
Directors of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Scientists from San Antonio, Texas
Educators from San Antonio, Texas
Office of Science and Technology Policy

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is a department of the United States government, part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), established by United States Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.

The director of this office is also known as the President's Science Advisor. It is part of the United States Cabinet since 2021. The current acting director is Alondra Nelson since 2022.

Background
Dr. John Holdren, Director, nominated in December 2008, served as Science Advisor to President Barack Obama. Holdren also co-chaired the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and supported the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).

President Donald Trump nominated Kelvin Droegemeier to become Director. He took office in February 2019.

On January 15, 2021 President-elect Joe Biden said he promoted the office to cabinet-level.

Directors

References

Other websites
 
 Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Federal Register
 The President's Office of Science and Technology Policy: Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service

1976 establishments in the United States
George A. Keyworth II

Dr. George Albert Keyworth II (G. A. Keyworth) (November 11, 1939 – August 23, 2017) was an American physicist. He was a presidential Science Advisor (1981–1985) for President Ronald Reagan.

Keyworth was a board member of Hewlett-Packard who was asked to step down in light of the controversy surrounding disclosure of sensitive information to the media.  He resigned on September 13, 2006.

Keyworth died at his home in Monterey, California of prostate cancer on August 23, 2017 at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
Interview with George Keyworth about Star Wars Program from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

1939 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in California
American physicists
Directors of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Scientists from Boston, Massachusetts
John Holdren

John Paul Holdren (born March 1, 1944) is an American physicist and civil servant.

Holdren was the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

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1944 births
Living people
Directors of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
American physicists
Scientists from Pennsylvania
Margaret Moser

Margaret Moser (May 16, 1954 – August 25, 2017), or Margaret Moser Malone, was an American journalist, music enthusiast, critic and historian, groupie and backup singer. 

Moser was best known for her work as the director of the Austin Music Awards (AMA) in the South by Southwest festival and for her over thirty years of music journalism and criticism. Moser also supported young artists, helping them get started and finding appropriate venues where they could play. Moser has been called the "patron saint of Austin music" by the Paramount Theatre.

Moser died of colorectal cancer on August 25, 2017 at her home in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 63.

References

Other websites
 A Margaret Moser Primer: Essential Articles from Austin's Greatest Music Champion 
 2014 Interview

1954 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in Texas
American historians
American music critics
Journalists from Chicago
Singers from Chicago
Costas Simitis

Konstantinos G. "Costas" Simitis (; born 23 June 1936), sometimes called Costas Simitis or Kostas Simitis (Κώστας Σημίτης), is a Greek politician. He served as Prime Minister of Greece and was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) from 1996 to 2004.

References

Other websites

 His profile in Who is Who at Nato
 Simitis' article on Greece's deficit revision in 2004 by the new government as posted in Financial Times
  Website of Costas Simitis

1936 births
Living people
Eastern Orthodox Christians
Government ministers of Greece
Prime Ministers of Greece
David Torrence

David Torrence (November 26, 1985 – August 28, 2017) was a Peruvian-American middle-distance runner and indoor American record holder in the 1000 meters (active). He was born in Okinawa, Japan, Torrence was raised in Tarzana, California. 

Torrence represented Peru at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Torrence was found death at his condo in Scottsdale, Arizona on August 28, 2017 at the age of 31.

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1985 births
2017 deaths
Peruvian people
American Olympians
Sportspeople from Los Angeles
Rich Piana

Richard "Rich" Piana (September 26, 1971 – August 25, 2017) was an American bodybuilder. He was born in Los Angeles, California. 

Piana won the Mr. California title along with competitions in Los Angeles in 2003 and Sacramento in 2009. His admission in 2016 that he used anabolic steroids as part of his regimen was controversial.  Piana often appeared in commercials and television series such as Scrubs and Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Piana died at age 45 on August 25, 2017 in Florida, after spending two weeks in an induced coma following a possible overdose.

References

Other websites
 Official website

1971 births
2017 deaths
Drug-related accidental deaths in the United States
Internet celebrities
Bodybuilders
People from Los Angeles
Senarath Attanayake

Attanayake Mudiyanselage Kithsiri Senarath Bandara Attanayake (5 August 1966 – 28 August 2017) known as Senarath Attanayake was a Sri Lankan politician and lawyer. He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Attanayake was a recipient of the 2016 Henry Viscardi Achievement Award. He is currently a member of the Uva Provincial Council, Sri Lanka and was the Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock, Land and Forestry of the Uva Provincial Council from 2000–2005 as well as the acting Chief Minister for a brief period during this tenure.

Attanayake was a known disabled rights activist because he was paralyzed due to ALS.

Attanayake died on 28 August 2017 at a private hospital of ALS-relate complications in Colombo at the age 51.

References

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http://www.viscardicenter.org/recipients-of-the-2016-henry-viscardi-achievement-awards-announced/
http://www.ft.lk/?s=senarath+attanayake
http://www.backtoearth.lk
http://www.smallbusiness.lk 

1966 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from motor neurone disease
Sri Lankan politicians
Activists
People from Colombo
Killing Reagan (movie)

Killing Reagan is a 2016 American television drama movie. It was directed by Rod Lurie. It was written by Eric Simonson. It was produced by Ridley Scott. It is based on the 2015 book of the same name by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The movie stars Tim Matheson, Cynthia Nixon, Joe Chrest, Geoff Pierson, Joel Murray, Jeff Harlan, Patrick St. Esprit, Kyle S. More and Michael H. Cole. The movie is about the months before and after the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. 

The movie premiered on October 16, 2016, on the National Geographic Channel.

Killing Reagan received three Critics' Choice Television Award nominations in its seventh annual awards.

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2016 drama movies
Movies based on books
Ronald Reagan
American television movies
American drama movies
Movies set in the 1980s
Movies set in Washington, D.C.
Guthrum

Guthrum or Guðrum (died c. 890 AD), christened Æthelstan when he converted to Christianity in 878 AD, was King of the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw, the part of England ruled by the Danes. He is mainly known for his conflict with Alfred the Great.

890s deaths
Denmark
Śruti (scripture)

Śruti (Devanagari श्रुति, "what is heard") are the collection of vedic literature in Hinduism.

Śruti is a canon of Hindu sacred texts. They do not date to a particular period, but rather stretch across the entire history of Hinduism, beginning with the some of the earliest known Hindu texts, spanning into the modern period with the Upanishads.

Śruti has no author; rather, it is divine recording of the "cosmic sounds of truth", heard by rishi. They are timeless teachings transmitted to rishis, or seers, directly by God thousands of years ago. Sruti is thus said to be apaurusheya, "impersonal," or rather "suprahuman."

Śruti consists essentially of the Vedas and the agama, preserved initially through oral tradition and eventually written down in Sanskrit. Among the many sacred books of the Hindus, these two bodies of knowledge are held in the highest esteem. For countless centuries Śruti has been the basis of philosophical discussion, study and commentary, and this attention has given rise to countless schools of thought. It is also the subject of deep study and meditation, to realize the wisdom of the ancients within oneself.

Most mantras are drawn from Śruti, used for rites of worship, both public and domestic, as well as personal prayer and japa. It is a remarkable tribute to Hindu culture that so much of Śruti was preserved for thousands of years without alteration by means of oral instruction from guru to shishya, generation after generation. In the Veda tradition this was accomplished by requiring the student to learn each verse in eleven different ways, including backwards. Traditionally Śruti is not read, but chanted according to extremely precise rules of grammar, pitch, intonation and rhythm. This brings forth its greatest power. In the sacred language of Śruti, word and meaning are so closely aligned that hearing these holy scriptures properly chanted is magical in its effect upon the soul of the listener.

Hindu texts
Used to Love You

"Used to Love You" is a song recorded by American singer Gwen Stefani for her third studio album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like (2016). It was written by Stefani, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, Jonathan "J.R." Rotem and Teal Douville, and produced by Rotem.

Track listing

Credits and personnel 
Recording
Recorded at Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, California

Personnel

 Gwen Stefani – vocals, songwriting
 Teal Douville – additional drum programming
 Chris Gehringer – mastering
 Serban Ghenea – mixing
 John Hanes – mixing engineering

 Samuel Kalandjian – engineering
 Julia Michaels – songwriting
 Jonathan "J.R." Rotem – production, songwriting
 Phil Seaford – mixing engineering assistance
 Justin Tranter – songwriting

Credits adapted from the liner notes of This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certification

Release history

References

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2015 songs
Gwen Stefani songs
Pop songs
Dance-pop songs
R&B songs
Friderico-Francisceum

The Friderico-Francisceum is a secondary school (“gymnasium”). It is in Bad Doberan, a town in Germany. The short name of the school is FFG.

Students from grade 7 to grade 12 go to the school.

History 
The school was founded in 1879. Its name is Friderico-Francisceum, because the founder was named Frederick Francis II. He was the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Only boys went to the school until 1927.

From 1947 to 1991 (during GDR times) the school was named “Goethe School”.

Birgit Hacker is the head teacher of the school since 2011.

Building 
The main building of the school was built in 1889. The architect of the building was Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel.

A new school building behind the old one opened in 2001. It was needed, because the number of students got bigger.

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Schools in Germany
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
1879 establishments in Europe
1870s establishments in Germany
Dmitri Kogan

Dmitri Pavlovich Kogan (, October 27, 1978 – August 29, 2017) was a Russian violinist and an Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation. He was born in Moscow. He began playing the violin at the age of 6 in the Central Music School of Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Kogan has been a participant of world festivals of high prestige such as the Corinthian Summer Festival (Austria), Menton Music Festival (France), Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Perth Festival (Scotland), and music festivals in Athens, Vilnius, Shanghai, Ogden and Helsinki. He has also participated in the Chereshnevy Les Open-Art Festival, Russian Winter (Russkaya Zima) Festival, Music Kremlin Festival, Andrey Sakharov International Art Festival and many others.

In September 2014 the maestro was an Artistic Director of the First Arctic Classical Music Fest in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. In September 2014 he was appointed as the Counsellor for Cultural Affairs to the Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Kogan died in Moscow on August 29, 2017 of lymphoma at the age of 38.

References

Other websites
 BIOGRAPHY DMITRI KOGAN 
 Dmitriy Kogan (Violin soloist)
 The Four Seasons. Dmitri Kogan, Russian Philharmonic 
 Dmitri Kogan & Moscow Camerata Chamber Orchestra
 To the 90th anniversary of Leonid Kogan 
 Dmitri Kogan / Marianna Vassilieva Two Violins
 Guarneri violin finds Russian virtuoso custodian

1978 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lymphoma
Violinists
Musicians from Moscow
Natasha Yarovenko

Natalia "Natasha" Yarovenko (; born 23 July 1979) is a Ukrainian actress and model. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine.

In 2011 Yarovenko won two awards for the Best New Actress for her role in the movie Room in Rome, one at the Turia Awards and the other at the 25th Goya Awards.

References

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Goya Award winners
1981 births
Living people
Movie actors
Television actors
Models
People from Odessa
Peerage of France

The Peerage of France () the exclusive prestigious title and position of Peer of France was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the French nobility, was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 in the Middle Ages, and only a small number of noble individuals were peers. The title of 'Peer of France' was an extraordinary honour granted only to a small number of princes, dukes, counts of the Roman Catholic Church.

French peerage thus differed from British peerage (to whom the term "baronage", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense), for the vast majority of French nobles, from baron to duke, were not peers.  It was analogous to the rank of Grandee of Spain in this respect.
It was abolished in 1789 during the French Revolution.

References

Bibliography
 Richard A. Jackson, "Peers of France and Princes of the Blood", French Historical Studies, volume 7, number 1 (Spring 1971), pp. 27–46
La Chanson de Roland, edited and translated by Ian Short, Paris: Livre de Poche, 1990, 

French nobility
Ununennium

Ununennium, or element 119, is a predicted chemical element. Its symbol is Uue. Ununennium and Uue are substitute names made by the IUPAC, (meaning "one-one-nine-ium" in Latin) until permanent names are made. Ununennium is the element with the smallest atomic number that has not been created yet. Qualities of Ununennium are unknown, but many are predicted. It is predicted all isotopes will be radioactive. It is thought to be an alkali metal.

Many attempts have been made by American, German, and Russian teams to make ununennium but all have failed. Japanese and Russian teams plan to work on it in 2019 and 2020.

Predicted chemistry 
Ununennium's spot on the periodic table is a sign that it may be similar to lighter elements such as lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, and francium; however, some of its properties may be different from what is expected. For example, ununennium might be less reactive than caesium and francium and will behave more like potassium or rubidium.

Uses 
As of 2021, it has yet to be created and therefore has no use.

References

Alkali metals
Chemical elements
Bill Skarsgård

Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (born 9 August 1990) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his roles in Simple Simon, Allegiant, the TV series Hemlock Grove and for his role as the title character in  It: Chapter One (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019).

Early life
Skarsgård was born on 9 August 1990 in Vällingby, Sweden. He is the son of actor Stellan Skarsgård and his first wife, My Sonja Marie Agnes.

It

In June 2016, Skarsgård was cast as popular horror villain Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 movie It after another actor, Will Poulter, dropped out due to other projects. He is also the role in the sequel It – Chapter Two.

Family
Skarsgård has seven brothers and sisters: Alexander, Gustaf, Sam, Valter, Ossian, Kolbjörn, and Eija. Three of these, Alexander, Gustaf, and Valter, are actors. Ossian and Kolbjörn are half-brothers from a later marriage between Stellan Skarsgård and Megan Everett.

References

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1990 births
Living people
Swedish movie actors
Swedish television actors
Swedish voice actors
Geoff Pierson

Geoffrey "Geoff" Pierson (born June 16, 1949) is an American actor. He is known for his role on The WB series Unhappily Ever After as Jack Malloy. He is also known for his roles on Ryan's Hope and Dexter and as James Baker in the 2016 television movie Killing Reagan.

In 2005 and 2006 he appeared in two episodes of Veronica Mars as Stewart Manning, the father of Meg Manning.

Pierson married Cali Timmins in 1997.

References

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1949 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Chicago
Hello Internet

Hello Internet is a podcast made by YouTube content creators CGP Grey and Brady Haran. It was started in January of 2014 and currently has 136 episodes, two bonus episodes, one episode which was released only as a vinyl record and one as a wax cylinder. Grey said that the podcast had 600,000 to 900,000 downloads per episode in August of 2017.

The podcast features discussions having to do with their lives as professional creators for YouTube, the content of their most recent videos as well as their interests and annoyances. Typical topics include how to behave on the internet, movie and TV show reviews, plane accidents, flags, future studies, Apple devices, and the differences between Grey's and Haran's personalities and lifestyles. Listeners can talk about the podcast in CGP Grey's subreddit, the Hello Internet subreddit, or Twitter, where the hosts are often active. Usually, each episode usually starts with feedback from listeners. The podcast has an official flag called the "Nail & Gear" which was decided by postal referendum.

References

Podcasting
SModcast

SModcast is a weekly podcast featuring filmmaker Kevin Smith and his long-time producing partner Scott Mosier, although guests are occasionally featured. Released each Sunday night/Monday morning, the episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier discussing current events and other non-sequitur topics.

The name was derived from taking the first letters of "Smith" and "Mosier" and replacing the "P" in podcast. The podcast was originally distributed through Smith's entertainment website Quick Stop Entertainment. New episodes were made available for download each Sunday night or Monday morning, and are then released through the RSS feed the following Friday in order to ease bandwidth strains on the Quickstop Entertainment. On January 1, 2010, the host site was sold, the SModcasts were removed and a dedicated site was started. In addition, the one-week delay for iTunes subscribers was dropped starting with SModcast 101.

In September 2009, a book of Smith's favorite SModcasts called Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith was released.

SModcast guests
While the show is primarily hosted by Smith and Mosier, there have been several occasions when Mosier was unable to record, and his place was filled by one or more guests, though sometimes guests appear with Smith and Mosier.

Awards and recognition
The podcast has been nominated for several awards,  and has gained a great deal of recognition from various sources. In 2007, the podcast was named one of the best new podcasts by iTunes. In 2010, several of the podcasts were placed upon iTunes' Best Podcasts of 2010 list which included: Jay & Silent Bob Get Old, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!, Hollywood Babble-On, and Highlands: A Peephole History.

References

Podcasting
The Memory Palace

The Memory Palace is a monthly historical podcast hosted by Nate DiMeo. The program features interesting historical narratives concerning such subjects as the Cardiff Giant and the CIA project Acoustic Kitty. It is currently distributed online by Radiotopia.

History 
In 2009, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art commissioned a version of the episode "A Brief Eulogy for a Consumer Electronics Product" for its Rewind Remix Replay exhibit.

In July 2011, design podcast 99% Invisible commissioned the episode "A Stretch".

In August 2011, Slate commissioned a series of "Civil War Stories" in conjunction with their Slate Daily Podcast.

In July 2012, Maximum Fun began supporting The Memory Palace. The two parted ways in early 2015. The podcast joined Radiotopia in June 2015.

Reception 
99% Invisible's Roman Mars described The Memory Palace as "sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hysterical, and often a wonderful mix of both."

The A.V. Club called The Memory Palace a "brisk and sadly infrequent podcast" whose episodes feature "a kind of precious, deadpan delivery similar to This American Life, but more humorous, backed by a surprisingly evocative and effective musical score."

Boing Boing's David Pescovitz called The Memory Palace "terrific," "excellent," and "one of my favorite podcasts." While guest blogging for Boing Boing, Douglas Rushkoff described The Memory Palace as "highly textured historical narratives about stuff we might not know or remember." Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder called The Memory Palace one of his "favorite podcasts of 2012" comparing it to Paul Harvey's radio program The Rest of the Story.

References

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The Memory Palace on Feedburner

Podcasting
Institut Mines-Télécom

Institut Mines-Télécom is a renowned graduate engineering school in France. It is in a campus of the University of Paris-Saclay (Northern France).

Its different curricula lead to the following French & European degrees :
 Ingénieur (Graduate engineer Masters level program)
 Bachelor's degree
 Master's degree
 Doctor of Philosophy
 Mastères Spécialisés (MS)
 Massive Online Open Course

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at IMT.

Research labs 
Research activities at Institut Mines-Télécom relate to the following topics:
 Energy
 Advanced Materials
 Natural Resources and the Environment
 Economics, management and Society

References

Further reading 

 Official website

Technical colleges and universities
Colleges and universities in France
1996 establishments in Europe
Paris
1990s establishments in France
Spider-Man: Homecoming

Spider-Man: Homecoming is an American 2017 superhero movie based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It was the second Spider-Man reboot, and the first Spider-Man solo movie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The movie stars Tom Holland as Spider-Man (Peter Parker), with supporting roles played by Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Zendaya, Robert Downey Jr, Marisa Tomei, Jon Faverau, and Michael Keaton. The movie was directed by Jon Watts, who wrote the screenplay with Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, and Erik Sommers. It was followed by two sequels: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2019 and 2021.

Cast
 Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider Man
 Michael Keaton as Adrian Tommes/Vulture
 Jon Faverau as Harold "Happy" Hogan
 Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts
 Zendaya as Michelle Jones
 Donald Glover as Aaron Davis
 Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
 Laura Harrier as Liz Allan
 Tony Revolori as Eugene "Flash" Thompson
 Bokeem Woodbine as Herman Schultz/Shocker
 Tyne Daly as Anne Marie Hoag
 Marisa Tomei as Aunt May Parker
 Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark/Iron Man

References

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2017 movies
2010s superhero movies
Spider-Man movies
English-language movies
Reboot movies
Marvel Cinematic Universe movies
Drone movies
Superhero crossover movies
Spider-Man (2017 movie series)
Arrondissements of the Drôme department

There are 3 arrondissements in the Drôme department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of Drôme are:

History
Since its creation, the Drôme department has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the Drôme department with six districts: Romans, Valence, Die, Buis, Montélimar and Crest; Chabeuil was the capital but in the same year the capital was moved to Valence.
 1800 : the six districts were changed into four arrondissements: Valence, Die, Montélimar and Nyons.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Montélimar was eliminated.

References

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

Drome
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes