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Yücel Erten

Yücel Erten (born 19 October 1945, Muş), is Turkish actor, director, art director, writer, translator.

Biography 
Born in Muş in 1945, Erten had his primary and secondary education in Antalya and Ankara. In 1969 he graduated from Ankara State Conservatory Theater Department. He started as a trainee artist at the Ankara State Theater. 

In 1970, he went to Federal Germany to study at state universities and completed the Reji Department of the Essen Folkwang High School. At the same time, he finished his education in Interior-Costume interior specialization at school. 

During his studies in Germany; Züricher Schauspielhaus in Switzerland, Staatstheater Hannover in Germany, Stædtische Bühnen Essen and Bühne as assistant director and assistant director in 1964. In 1974 Erten returned to his home country, completing the "Folkwang Award" by playing a performance with his diploma.

From October 1992, Erten worked for 16 months in the State Teatroller as General Manager and Principal. He resigned with the General Directorate in order to implement electoral methods.

Filmography 
 Yorgun Savaşçı, 1979, Halit Refiğ
 Kurtuluş 1996, Ziya Öztan 
 Cumhuriyet, Film 1998, Ziya Öztan 
 Salkım Hanımın Taneleri, Film, 1999, Tomris Giritlioğlu
 Sana Bayılıyorum, TV Series Show TV, 2002, Aram Gülyüz-İlyas İlbey  
 Körfez Ateşi, ATV, 2005, Şafak Bakkalbaşıoğlu
 İlk Aşk, 2006, Nihat Durak  
 Yemin, Dizi Fox TV, 2007 - 08 Sadullah Celen
 Garp, Film, 2008, Emre Mirza
 Elveda Rumeli,, 2009, Serdar Akar
 Kavşak, Film, 2010, Selim Demirdelen
 Bitmeyen Şarkı, , 2010, Sadullah Celen–Yasemin Türkmenli
 Tozlu Yollar,  2013, Özer Kızıltan - Kudret Sabancı
 Karadayı, TV Series, 2013, Uluç Bayraktar - Cem Karcı
 Burhan Bey’in Kısa Bir Hikâyesi, Film,, 2014, Selçuk Özgül
 Bir Cenaze,  film, 2014, Mamikoğlu
 Ses Ver, film, 2015, Gülay Küçük
 Deliormanlı, Film, 2015-16, Murat Şeker

References

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1945 births
Turkish actors
Zeyno Günenç

Zeyno Günenç (born June 22, 1967, İzmit) is a theater, cinema and serialist.

Biography 
Zeyno Günenç graduated from Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory Theater Department. He worked in Bursa State Theater for three years. He resigned from this institution and went to Vancouver. Süheyl Uygur and Behzat Uygur brothers traveled to Turkey for a three-year tour of the game titled "Three Slakers". Famous with the character "Aunt Dominant Gonul" in the series named Çocuklar Duymasın ("Children's Hearing"). He married Okan Bayülgen and worked in the Tiyatrokare community. It was alleged that some of the morning program at TRT broke down due to pressures.

Filmography 

Tatlı İntikam - 2016
 Çocuklar Duymasın - 2010
 Geniş Aile - 2009 
 Paramparça Aşklar - 2008 
 Hayat Apartmanı - 2007 
 Doktorlar - 2006
 Keloğlan Kara Prens'e Karşı - 2005 
 Çocuklar Ne Olacak - 2004 
 Avrupa Yakası - 2004 
 Çocuklar Duymasın - 2002
 En Son Babalar Duyar - 2002
 Dadı - 2001
 Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü - 2000 
 Kuşlu Çorap - 1988

References

Other websites
 

1967 births
Turkish actors
Alper Kul

Alper Kul (born 5 December 1975, Fatih, Istanbul), Turkish actor and writer.

Biography 
Alper Kul was born on December 5, 1975 in Süleymaniye, Istanbul. Having completed his education at the Theater Department of the Indiana University after MSM, he acted in forms such as City Theaters, DOT, IUSB (USA), BKM. Various movies and series have appeared.

Career 
At the beginning of October 2, 2009, he played in the BKM for one season. His 2010 autographed son of Babamin played for three years in Turkey and Europe. He received the prize of the Year of the Year award with the AUT theater play staged for the first time in 2010. The theater play "Barcelo" written in 2011 was performed in the theater Ikincikat.
After the comedy theater program of 5'er Beşer started in 2011 at ATV, he made and played the project designs of the programs called "İnsanlar Alemi" and "Güldür Güldür" which started at Star TV and continued as the program.

Filmography 
 Dedemin Fişi-  2016 (Hicri)
 Olur Olur! - Ali 2014
 Osmanlı Tokadı - Yeniçeri Şahin 2013
 Güldür Güldür - İsmail 2013-
 Moskova'nın Şifresi: Temel - Temel 2013
 İnsanlar Alemi - İsmail 2012
 Sümela'nın Şifresi: Temel - Temel 2011
 5 er Beşer - İsmail 2011
 Şen Yuva - Nurettin Şenyuva 2010
 Güneşi Gördüm - 2009
 Gecenin Kanatları - Baran 2010
 Mordkomission - 2009 - 2010
 Flugten - 2008
 Ugarit - 2007
 Sessiz Gemiler - 2007
 Gölge - 2007
 Kader - 2006
 Aşka Sürgün - 2005
 Kınalı Kar - Demir 2002
 Yılan Hikayesi - 1999
 Hamam - 1997

References

Other websites
 

1975 births
Turkish writers
Turkish actors
Living people
Münibe Millet

Münibe Millet (born January 23, 1980, Elazığ) is a cinema and theater actor, theater and dance instructor.

Biography 
He began his education at the Pera Fine Arts Theater Department and took part in many plays in Theater Pera. He got his acting aducation from Mimar Sinan University. After finishing Modern Dance Department, Millet played in cinema, serials and commercials as well as the theater. At the same time she is a theater and dance instructor and voice actor.

Filmography 
 Doktorlar - 2007
 Güz Yangını - 2005
 Ah be İstanbul - 2004
 Yeditepe İstanbul - 2001 
 Evdeki Yabancı - 2000 
 Hayat Bağları - 1999

Other websites
 IMDb
 Sinematürk 

1980 births
Turkish actors
François Van der Elst

François "Swat" Van der Elst (1 December 1954 – 11 January 2017) was a Belgian footballer. He played as a right winger. He played from 1971 to 1986. He played for Anderlecht, New York Cosmos, West Ham United and Lokeren. He was born in Opwijk, Flemish Brabant.

On 1 January 2017, Van der Elst was put in an induced coma because of heart failure. He died from cardiac arrest on 11 January 2017 in Aalst, East Flanders. He was 62.

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1954 births
2017 deaths
Belgian footballers
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Belgium
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People from Flemish Brabant
List of caravanserais in Azerbaijan

This is a list of caravanserais in Azerbaijan.

List of caravanserais

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Caravanserais
Caravanserais
Caravanserais
Azerbaijan-related lists
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Egyptian goose

The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) is a member of the duck, goose, and swan family, Anatidae. It lives in Africa, south of the Sahara and the Nile River Valley.

Egyptian geese were thought to be sacred by the people in Ancient Egypt. They appeared in much of their artwork. They have been raised for food and bred in parts of Africa since they were domesticated by the ancient Egyptians. Because of their popularity as an ornamental bird, they often escape. Small feral populations have become established in Western Europe.

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Egyptian goose
Birds of Africa
St. Helier railway station

St Helier railway station opened in 1930. The only operator for the station is Thameslink. The station is in Fare Zone 4.

Platforms
There are two platforms for this station. Platform 1 is for trains towards Luton. Platform 2 is for trains towards Sutton (Surrey).

Frequency
This list shows the frequency of trains on typical off-peak hours.

Up (northbound)
 2 trains to Luton via Wimbledon station

Down (southbound)
 2 trains to Sutton (Surrey)

Buses
London buses route 154 and S4 operates at this station.

Departures
This table shows the departures from this station with the calling points and the time that is taken to get to the end of the line.

Other websites
 
 

1930 establishments in Europe
1930s establishments in England
Bothriospondylus

Bothriospondylus ('excavated vertebrae') is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur known from a handful of vertebrae. it belongs to the family Bothriospondylidae that was coined by Richard Lydekker in 1885. The genus is based on the specimen BMNH R44529-5.

Related pages
Camarasaurus
Dicraeosaurus
Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker

Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English paleontologist and mammalogist. He wrote a number books on natural history. He was a member of the Geological Survey of India. He later joined the British Museum of Natural History. He was responsible for creating their catalog on their vertebrate fossil collections.

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British naturalists
Rubihorn

The Rubihorn is a mountain in Bavaria, Germany. It is  tall and is to the east of Oberstdorf. With the Nebelhorn it makes part of the Daumen Group. On 9 July 1987 there was a rockfall on the north face. The remains can still be seen today.

Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Mountains of Germany
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui

Saeed Uz Zaman Siddiqui (1 December 1938 – 11 January 2017) (pronunciation 'sa'eed -uz- zam'an'; alternatively Saiduzzaman Siddiqui;  was a Pakistani jurist and legislator. He served as the Chief Justice of Pakistan at the Supreme Court of Pakistan from November 11, 2016 until his death in 2017. 

He was the Chief Justice of Pakistan when the 1999 military coup d'état was staged by then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf.

Siddiqui died at the age of 78 on 11 January 2017 in Karachi.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Chief Justices of Pakistan
Martin Brandtner

Martin L. Brandtner (3 July 1938 – 3 January 2017) was an American Marine Corps lieutenant general. He served as the Director for Operations for the Joint Staff until his retirement on 1 June 1993.

Brandtner died on 3 January 2017, at the age of 78, in Reno, Nevada.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
American military people
People from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bob McCullough

Robert "Bob" McCullough OAM (died 9 January 2017) was an Australian sport administrator in the area of disability sport. He was President of the Australian Paralympic Federation and the International Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Sports Federation.

McCullough died in Australia on 9 January 2017.

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2017 deaths
Australian sportspeople
David Shulkin

David Jonathon Shulkin (born June 22, 1959) is an American physician and politician. Shulkin was the 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from February 14, 2017 to March 28, 2018. He served as Under Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on March 18, 2015 and sworn in on July 6, 2015.

On January 11, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Shulkin to serve as United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Early life
Shulkin was born in Highland Park, Illinois. He was raised in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. He studied at Hampshire College and at Drexel University.

Medical career
He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He also served as president of Morristown Medical Center and as vice president of Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization.

He has been Chief Medical Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University Hospital, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital.

United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2017–2018)
On January 11, 2017, Shulkin was selected by President-elect Trump as Secretary of Veterans Affairs pending Senate confirmation. Shulkin resigned from a private sector position in 2015 to work in the Department of Veterans Affairs as the undersecretary of health.

On February 13, 2017, the Senate unanimously confirmed Shulkin as the U.S. Secretary of Veteran's Affairs with a 100-0 vote.

For President Trump's address to a Joint Session of Congress on February 28, 2017, Shulkin served as the designated survivor.

In September 2017, The Washington Post revealed that Shulkin spent nearly half his time on a recent international trip to Europe, covered by taxpayers, sightseeing and shopping with his wife, Merle Bari.

On March 28, 2018, President Trump fired Shulkin.

Personal life
Shulkin is married to Merle Bari.

References

Other websites

 Official website
 Academic Curriculum Vitae

1959 births
Living people
American physicians
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Warren Allen Smith

Warren Allen Smith (October 27, 1921 – January 9, 2017) was an American gay rights activist, writer and humanities humanist.

Career
In 1961, Smith started the Variety Recording Studio, a major independent company off Broadway, New York City, with his business partner and longtime companion Fernando Rodolfo de Jesus Vargas Zamora. Smith ran the company for almost thirty years (1961–90). In 1969, Smith participated in the Stonewall riots.

Smith was one of the signatories of the 1973 Humanist Manifesto II as well as the Humanist Manifesto III in 2003.

Death
Smith died on January 9, 2017 at the age of 95.

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LGBT writers
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Takobeya (Japanese bureaucrats)

Takobeya is a room. When Japanese bureaucrats make a new law, they establish a takobeya. In general, 5-6 bureaucrats are gathered in takobeya to make a new law. Mainly a takobeya is changed from a conference room in the buildings of central government ministries.

Originally, takobeya means an accommodation hut for harsh labors at construction sites in the Meiji period. The work of bureaucrats in takobeya for laws are so harsh that bureaucrats call their room "Takobeya".

Government of Japan
Japanese language
Rooms
Manlio Rocchetti

Manlio Rocchetti (28 November 1943 – 10 January 2017) was an Italian makeup artist. He won an Academy Award at the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Makeup for the movie Driving Miss Daisy, which he shared with Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney.

His career started in 1960 and he has continued working on makeup with most recently in 2012. He often works with Martin Scorsese.

He also won an Emmy for the makeup in Lonesome Dove.

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1943 births
2017 deaths
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People from Rome
Tommy Allsup

Tommy Allsup (November 24, 1931 – January 11, 2017) was an American rockabilly and country swing guitarist. 

Allsup was born near Owasso, Oklahoma in 1931. He was an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.

He worked with entertainers such as Buddy Holly and Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys. Allsup was touring with Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he lost a fateful coin toss with Valens for a seat on the plane that crashed, killing Valens, Holly and Richardson on February 3, 1959.

Allsup died on January 11, 2017 at his home in Springfield, Missouri of complications from hernia surgery. He was 85 years old.

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Deaths from surgical complications
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Musicians from Oklahoma
Native American people
American record producers
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Deaths from hernia
Kenny Wharram

Kenneth Malcolm Wharram (July 2, 1933 – January 10, 2017) was a retired professional ice hockey right winger who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League. He played for the Chicago Black Hawks from 1951 through 1952 and again from 1958 until he retired in 1969. He won a Stanley Cup in 1961. He was born in North Bay, Ontario.

Wharram died on January 10, 2017 from heart failure in North Bay, Ontario, aged 83.

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2017 deaths
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
Chicago Blackhawks players
Deaths from heart failure
Lady Byng Memorial Trophy winners
Sportspeople from Ontario
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Jean-Jacques Annaud (born 1 October 1943) is a French movie director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1991), and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). 

Annaud has received many awards for his work, including four César Awards, one David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first movie, Black and White in Color (1976), received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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1943 births
Living people
French movie directors
French movie producers
French screenwriters
People from Ile-de-France
Mont Aigoual

Mont Aigoual () is a French mountain in the Cévennes, a southern part of the Massif Central in the Occitanie region. It is on the border of the Lozère and Gard departments and is the highest mountain of Gard.

When the sky is clear, it is possible to see the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyrenees, and also the Alps and Mont Blanc in particular.

Name
The word "Aigoual" appears with different meanings: ad stratam Aigoaldi in 1228 refers to a route, marcha Algoaldi in 1238 names the limits of a territory, and mons Aigoaldi in 1249 is the name of the mountain. It seems that Aigoual comes from the word Algwarld, the name of a person in the region.

Geography
Mont Aigoual has an elevation of  and is the highest mountain in the Gard department and the second in the Lozère department and in the Cévennes mountains after Mont Lozère that is  high. Mont Aigoual is within the Cévennes National Park ().

The summit of Mont Aigoual is on plateau with an altitude more than  high and with an area of about  in the communes Valleraugue (Gard) et Bassurels (Lozère). The watershed across the plateau divides the drainage basin in two: the Atlantic to the north and the Mediterranean to the south.

On its southern slopes is the source of the Hérault river, that flows to the south into the Mediterranean Sea.

The mountain is formed by granite from the Palaeozoic era.

On top of the mountain there is a meteorological station built in 1887. It is the last remaining weather station in France which is still inhabited by meteorologists. An exhibition on weather forecasting is open to visitors in the summer months.

Climate
Mont Aigoual has an oceanic climate (Cfc), bordering to a subartic (Dfc) (highland) climate.

Sports
A well-known hiking route is the "Climbing of the 4,000 steps" that begins in Valleraugue and ends in the weather station.

The ski station (a place where people go to practice skiing) of Prat Peyrot is on the sides of the Aigoual. It is the biggest ski station of the Cévennes.

References

Other websites

 Observatoire du Mont Aigoual website
 Office de tourisme Causses Aigoual Cévennes 
 Prat Peyrot - Station de ski du Mont Aigoual website 

Mountains of France
Occitanie
Stanley Russ

Otis Stanley Russ (August 31, 1930 – January 5, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Arkansas Senate from the 21st (later 30th) district from January 1975 to January 2001. He also served as President pro tempore of the Senate from 1995 to 1997.

Russ was born in Conway, Arkansas. He married Nina Benton in 1951. They had two children, and she died in 2005.

Russ died from acute myeloid leukemia on January 5, 2017 in Conway. He was 86.

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1930 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in the United States
Deaths from acute myeloid leukemia
Disease-related deaths in Arkansas
Politicians from Arkansas
US Democratic Party politicians
State legislators of the United States
Russell Trood

Russell Brunell Trood (5 December 1948 – 9 January 2017) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party. He served as a Senator for Queensland from 1 July 2005 until 30 June 2011. He later served as the National President of the United Nations Association of Australia from 2012 to 2016. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria.

Trood died from thyroid cancer on 9 January 2017 in Brisbane, Queensland. He was 68.

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1948 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Queensland
Deaths from thyroid cancer
Liberal Party of Australia politicians
Members of the Australian Senate
Politicians from Melbourne
Politicians from Queensland
Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews (May 19, 1926 – October 3, 2020) was an American politician from the state of North Dakota. He was a member of the United States Republican Party.

Career
During the 1950s he began to enter politics, serving on farmers' organizations and Republican committees. In 1962, Andrews ran for Governor of North Dakota, losing to incumbent William L. Guy by just 2,000 votes out of over 228,500 cast. He ran for one of North Dakota's seats in the United States Senate which was being vacated by the long-serving Republican Milton Young who announced that he would not run for reelection and retire after the election. Andrews won the election with 70% of the vote and served in the Senate for one term, from 1981 to 1987.

Andrews was defeated for re-election in 1986 by Democratic-NPL Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad by a mere 2,120 votes in what is still considered an upset.

Personal life
Andrews was born in Cass County, North Dakota. He studied at North Dakota State University. Andrews died on October 3, 2020 in Fargo, North Dakota at the age of 94.

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1926 births
2020 deaths
United States representatives from North Dakota
United States senators from North Dakota
US Republican Party politicians
Roger Angell

Roger Angell (born September 19, 1920) is an American essayist. He is known for his writing on sports, especially baseball. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years. He has written numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and criticism, and for many years wrote an annual Christmas poem for The New Yorker.

He received a number of awards for his writing, including the George Polk Award for Commentary in 1980, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement in 2005 along with Umberto Eco, and the inaugural PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing in 2011.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007 and is a long-time ex-officio member of the council of the Authors Guild.

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1920 births
Living people
Writers from New York City
Douglas Wass

Sir Douglas William Gretton Wass (15 April 1923 – 4 January 2017) was a British civil servant. He served as Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury from 1974 to 1983. Wass was Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury from 1974 to 1983 and served as joint head of the civil service in 1981.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1971, elevated to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1975 and further elevated to Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in 1980. In 1985, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath.

In 1983, the BBC invited Sir Douglas to present the annual Reith Lectures. In a series of six lectures titled Government and the Governed, he examined the role and responsibilities of government.

Wass died on 4 January 2017 in London at the age of 93.

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2017 deaths
Civil servants
British politicians
People from Nottingham
Tony Rosato

Antonio "Tony" Rosato (December 26, 1954 – January 10, 2017) was an Italian-born Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian. He was best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, Second City Television and Night Heat. He had voice roles in Sailor Moon, Franklin, George Shrinks, Atomic Betty and the video game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999).

Rosato was born in Naples. He moved to Canada at the age of four. He grew up in the cities of Halifax, Ottawa and Toronto.

Rosato died from a heart attack on January 10, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario. He was 62.

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1954 births
2017 deaths
Actors from Toronto
Canadian comedians
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian voice actors
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Canada
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Disease-related deaths in Ontario
People from Naples
Gavin Whittaker

Gavin Whittaker (13 January 1970 – 6 January 2017) was an Australian professional rugby league player. He played as in the front row during the 1990s. He played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the Gold Coast Chargers and the Western Suburbs Magpies. He retired in 1998. He was born in Pittsworth, Queensland.

Whittaker died from stomach cancer on 6 January 2017 at his home in Parkwood, Queensland. He was 46, and would of turned 47th a week after his death.

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Other websites
 Gavin Whittaker at the Rugby League Project

1970 births
2017 deaths
Australian rugby league players
Cancer deaths in Queensland
Deaths from stomach cancer
Sportspeople from Queensland
Allgäu Alps

The Allgäu Alps are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps. They are located in Bavaria in Germany, and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range is directly east of Lake Constance. 

There are relatively high levels of rain and it is the rainiest place in Germany. While there are some permanent snowfields, there are no glaciers. Most mountains have grassy faces on one side, and sheer cliffs on the other. Further south the mountains begin to look Dolomite, as they have crevices and gullies. The main river in the region is the Iller, which splits the mountains in half. The high peaks are all on the east of the Iller. On the west they are usually not taller than 2200m. Many activities occur in them, including hiking and skiing.

The ten highest peaks 
The highest peaks of the Allgäu Alps are either on Austrian soil or on the Austro-German border.

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Mountain ranges of the Alps
Mountain ranges of Germany
Mountains of Austria
Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws

Lucina Elena da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws (5 April 1929 – 7 January 2017) was a Dutch Antillean politician for the National People's Party (PNP). She served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, an office her husband Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez previously held, briefly in 1977. She was also the first female to hold the office. Prior to this, she was the Minister of Health and Environment, Welfare, Youth, Sports, Culture and Recreation (1970–1977).

Costa Gomez-Matheeuws died on 7 January 2017 in Willemstad, Curaçao at the age of 87.

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1929 births
2017 deaths
Dutch women politicians
Netherlands Antilles
Großer Krottenkopf

The Großer Krottenkopf is the highest mountain in the Allgäu Alps. It is in Austria and is  tall. It is part of the Hornbach chain, which runs along the main branch of the Allgäu Alps for 15km eastwards. There are several routes to climb it from different directions.

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Allgäu Alps
Mountains of Austria
Tyrol (state)
Tony Booth (artist)

Anthony "Tony" Booth (22 June 1933 – 11 January 2017) was a British artist. He was best known as the original poster artist for The Beatles and other bands in the Merseybeat era. He also worked with The Cavern Club. He was known as Brian Epstein's "right-hand man" in the 1960s in Liverpool. He was born in Merseyside and grew up in Moreton.

Booth died from cancer on 11 January 2017 in Upton, Merseyside, aged 83.

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1933 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in England
English artists
People from Merseyside
Party for Freedom

The Party for Freedom, Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid (shortened PVV), is a right-wing political party in the Netherlands.

The party leader is Geert Wilders.

The party was founded on 22 February 2006. In the 2006 Dutch general election, PVV won 6 seats in the House of Representatives with 579,490 votes. In the 2010 elections, PVV won 24 seats with 1,435,349 votes. In the 2012 elections, PVV won 15 seats with 950,263 votes. In the 2017 elections, the PVV won 20 seats (+5) with 1,372,941 votes. In the 2021 elections they have won 17 seats (-3).

PVV is Eurosceptic, meaning they are against the European Union. They are also openly very critical of Islam. Economically, the party supports economic liberalism and wants to lower taxes. It is also a populist party.

The PVV gained a great amount of popularity in 2017, coming second in the election.

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Party for Freedom
 Expatica – 'Turkey in the EU? Never!
 Expatica – Moroccans want Wilders prosecuted

Islamophobia
Nationalist organizations in Europe
Eurosceptic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
2006 establishments in the Netherlands
Anthony King (professor)

Anthony Stephen "Tony" King  (17 November 1934 – 12 January 2017) was a Canadian-born British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He was best known for his work at the University of Essex. He was considered a leading expert of democracy. He was also the BBC television analyst on election night from 1983 to 2005. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1950s.

King died on 12 January 2017 at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
 Anthony King  profile at the University of Essex website

1934 births
2017 deaths
British academics
British educators
British scientists
Canadian scientists
Political scientists
Claudia Poll

Claudia Maria Poll Ahrens (born 21 December 1972 in Managua) is a Costa Rican swimmer of German descent.

She competes in the 200 m to 800 m freestyle swimming. 

At the 1996 Summer Olympics she won a gold medal in the 200 meter freestyle.

She is the only gold-medalist Costa Rica ever had.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won two bronze medals, in the 200 meter and 400 meter freestyle.

Claudia Poll began swimming in 1979 under coach Francisco Rivas.

No article about Claudia Poll can be complete without mentioning mentioning that she has tested positive for an illegal, performance-enhancing steroid and was suspended from competition for four years, according to an announcement this afternoon by the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) in Lausanne, Switzerland. 6 June 2002"

Ironically, Poll's older sister, Sylvia, was a silver medalist at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, beaten to the wall by East Germany's Heike Friedrich. After the collapse of Communism, East German Secret police (Stasi) files revealed that Friedrich — along with all other East German Olympic swimmers — had systematically been doped as a matter of national policy.

Related pages 
 Silvia Poll, sister and also swimmer
 Costa Rica at the Olympics
Swimming World Magazine Jun 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_doping_cases_in_sport_(P)#cite_note-46

1972 births
Living people
Costa Rican sportspeople
Olympic bronze medalists
Olympic gold medalists
Swimmers
Silvia Poll

Sylvia Poll Ahrens (born September 24, 1970 in Managua) is a Costa Rican swimmer of German descent.

She is a backstroker and freestyle swimmer.

At the 1988 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle. It was the first medal for a Costa Rican athlete.

Related pages
 Claudia Poll, sister and also swimmer
 Costa Rica at the Olympics

1970 births
Living people
Costa Rican sportspeople
Olympic silver medalists
Swimmers
Yelko Gómez

Yelko Gómez (born March 9, 1989 in Chiriquí Province) is a Panamanian cyclist.

He has been riding for Hyundai-Momi-Continental since 2015.

In 2014 and 2015 he won the National Time Trial Championships.

1989 births
Living people
Cyclists
Panamanian sportspeople
Igloofest

Igloofest is a yearly music festival. It is held outside in Montreal, Canada at the Old Port of Montreal. It began in January 2007 with about 4,000 people attending. In 2012 about 70,000 people attended.

References

Other websites

 Igloofest 2013, Montreal; YouTube 
 Official website

Music festivals
2007 establishments in Canada
Graham Taylor

Graham Taylor  (15 September 1944 – 12 January 2017) was a British football manager and player. He was the chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993. He also managed Lincoln City, Watford, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He played for Lincoln City and Grimsby Town between 1962 and 1972.

Taylor was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He married Rita Cowling in 1965. They had two daughters.

Taylor died from a heart attack on 12 January 2017 in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire. He was 72.

References

Other websites

1944 births
2017 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in England
Deaths from myocardial infarction
English footballers
England national football team managers
English football managers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Sportspeople from Nottinghamshire
Dash

The dash is a punctuation mark that is usually written in the middle of a line of text. A hyphen is sometimes called a dash, but it is used differently. Dashes are used to add more drama to writing. The two main forms of dashes are:
 The en dash (–) is the shorter of the two. It is longer than a hyphen but shorter than an em dash. In normal text it is about the width of the letter "n". An en dash is used to connect two numbers that make up a range (for example pages 3–6). It is also used to show a range of dates (2010–2011) or of time (11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.). 
 The em dash (—) is so-named because it is about the length of an uppercase M. They are best used to show emphasis or for an interruption in thought. They can also be used in place of a comma, parentheses, or a colon. But they are less formal than the punctuation marks they replace.

References

Other websites 
 English Grammar Basics: How to Use a Dash; YouTube

Punctuation
Hohes Licht

The Hohes Licht is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps. It is  high. It is the second highest in the Allgäu  range after the Großer Krottenkopf. The summit is in Tyrol, Austria.

Hohes Licht is 14km south of Oberstdorf. It was first climbed in 1854, and a "survey signal" was left on top for triangulation. On 6 August 1869 it was first climbed for leisure purposes by Hermann von Barth. When he arrived the signal was still there.

References 

Allgäu Alps
Mountains of Austria
Tyrol (state)
Oil refining

Oil refining is the name for a number of processes from chemical engineering, which transform crude oil into useful products such as different fuel oils, Liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, kerosene or  diesel oil. These transformation occur in plants called petroleum refineries. The transformations are done in many steps. The refineries are large industrial complexes, that have many different sub-units, and facilities. Each refinery has its own unique arrangement and combination of refining processes. The exact setup of the refinery is largely determined by the its location, desired products and economic considerations.

Modern petroleum refineries process as much as 800,000 to 900,000 barrels (127,000 to 143,000 cubic meters) per day of crude oil.

Industries
Barbary

From about the 16th to the 19th century, barbary was a name for a region in North Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic, and from the Mediterranean to the Sahara. The states were called barbary states or berbery states, after the people of the Berbers, who lived there. The coastal regions were commonly called barbary coast.

During the era of Colonialism, names were introduced or re-used, to split this area into single states: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

Today, this region is commonly called Maghreb.

History of Africa
16th-century establishments
19th-century disestablishments
New Braunfels, Texas

New Braunfels (i/ˌnjuː ˈbrɔːnfəlz/ newbrawn-fəlz) is a city in Comal and Guadalupe counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the seat of Comal County. New Braunfels is a principal city of the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan statistical area. The city's population was 57,740 at the 2010 census. In 2015, its estimated population is 70,543.

New Braunfels is  northeast of downtown San Antonio. It is  southwest of San Marcos, and  southwest of Austin.

New Braunfels was established in 1845 by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels. Prince Solms named the settlement in honor of his home in Solms-Braunfels, Germany. The city has a strong German influence. This is seen in the downtown area architecture. The city uses ZIP codes 78130–78133 and telephone area code (830).

References

Other websites 
 New Braunfels official website
 New Braunfels History; YouTube

Cities in Texas
County seats in Texas
1845 establishments in the United States
1840s establishments in Texas
Brian Fletcher

Brian Fletcher (18 May 1947 – 11 January 2017) was an English Jockey. He was born in Cockfield, County Durham. 

He was known for riding the horse Red Rum to win the Grand National in 1973 and 1974 and for second place in 1975. He first won the Grand National at the age of 20, in 1968 riding  Red Alligator. He retired in 1976 with a head injury. Fletcher is one of the only jockey to have won the Grand National three times. He won the Scottish National in 1974. His record winning time on Red Rum in the 1973 Grand National was to stand for 17 years till beaten by Mr Frisk ridden by Marcus Armytage. 

Fletcher died on 11 January 2017 in England, aged 69.

References

Other websites
Face to Face with a Superstar, Winning Post, August 2007 (incl photo of Brian Fletcher) 
 Whatever Happened to Brian Fletcher Evening Gazette April 5 2005

1947 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in England
English sportspeople
Partisan

A partisan is an armed fighter, who is not part of the regular troops of a country or state. The term comes from Italian, where it meant member of a political party.  There is no separate legal status for partisans in international law.  The law of war uses four criteria to legally define someone as a prisoner of war, if the person is captured:
 There is someone at the head of the organisation, who assumes liability
 They can be identified by a sign or mark, which is visible from far away
 They carry their weapons openly
 They adhere to the customs and laws of war, during their operation.
In 1977, there were two additional protocols: They clarified that it is sufficient to carry the weapons openly only on some occasions, to be titled armed combatant.

References 

International law
Nikolay Neprimerov

Nikolay Neprimerov (1 May 1921 – 11 January 2017) was a Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor of physics at the Kazan State University. Neprimerov was Head of the Department of Radioelectronics of the Kazan University for 32 years and is author of more than 150 scientific papers and 9 monographs. 

He also authored a book about the everyday life of military pilots during World War II. He was awarded numerous honours and medals. Neprimerov dedicated more than 40 years to and is internationally known for physical research in oil recovery.

References

1921 births
2017 deaths
Russian academics
Russian physicists
One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269

One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 (OG269), on September 16, 2007, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed after an aborted landing. It hit an embankment next to runway 27 at Phuket International Airport. The aircraft burst into flames on impact at about 3:45pm. The crash killed 89 of the 130 persons on board. OG269 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand.

A two-year investigation by the NTSB resulted in a report. It was based in part on the crash report published by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee of the Ministry of Transport. The probable cause of the accident was determined to be crew error.

References 

2007 aviation disasters
2007 in Asia
2000s in Thailand
Giulio Angioni

Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. He was known for his works Le fiamme di Toledo and Assandira . He was born in Guasila, Sardinia.

Angioni died on 12 January 2017 in Cagliari, Sardinia, aged 77.

References

Other websites
OPAC SBN
Giulio Angioni 
Sardegna Digital Library
Wuz
Club Dante

1939 births
2017 deaths
Italian writers
European anthropologists
People from Sardinia
Central Department

Central () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Areguá. Its ISO 3166-2 code  is PY-11.

The department has 2,297,739 inhabitants. That is more than any other department of Paraguay. The department is also the smallest of all the departments.

History
The Central Department, known as “Comarca Asuncena”, was the most populated country region in old times.

The towns of this department had different origin. Domingo Martínez de Irala started the towns of Itá, Ypané and Areguá in 1538 and 1539. Villeta was founded by the governor Juan Gregorio Bazán de Pedraza in 1714. Other towns were founded around chapels.

The towns of Nueva Italia, Colonia Thompson and Villa Elisa were already established as agricultural settlements in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. These were mainly settled by immigrants.

Geography
The Central department is in the central western part of the Oriental region. It is on the southern border of the Western region. It surrounds the capital, Asunción.

The department has an area of . That is  of the area of Paraguay. Its estimated population in 2013 was 2,297,739. That gave a population density of  inhabitants per square kilometre.

The Central department is relatively flat. It has only small hills. It has several rivers, as the Paraguay river, and streams flow through it. The Ypacaraí and Ypoá lakes are on the borders of the department.

Limits
 To the north: Presidente Hayes and Cordillera departments.
 To the east: Paraguarí department.
 To the south: Ñeembucú department.
 To the west: Argentina and the Distrito Capital

Districts
The department is divided in 19 districts:

Economy

Industries include the processing of food, furniture, clothing, pharmaceutical production, metallurgic, plastic and ceramics. The city of Villeta has a large number of industries. Central is the second biggest economy of Paraguay.

Tourism

The Central Department has many attractions for tourism. Among the most famous natural resources at an international level, is the Lago Ypacaraí. This lake is a very important natural attraction and the town of Areguá. The capital of the department is located on the banks of this lake

Related pages
 Departments of Paraguay
 ISO 3166-2:PY

References

Other websites

 Statoids - Departments of Paraguay

Departments of Paraguay
Meir Banai

Meir Banai (‎; 5 July 1961 – 12 January 2017) was an Israeli musician, singer, and songwriter. He was a pop, rock and soul musician. He released ten albums, starting in 1984. He was best known his 2007 album Shma Koli, which had traditional Jewish texts and prayers in the music. He was born in Beersheba.

Banai died from cancer on 12 January 2017 in Ganot. He was 55.

References

1961 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Israel
Israeli pop singers
Israeli singers
Jewish Israeli musicians
People from Beer Sheba
Pop musicians
Rock musicians
Rock singers
Singer-songwriters
Soul musicians
2010 Dutch general election

The 2010 Dutch general election to elect the members of the House of Representatives was held on 9 June 2010.

The conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy won the most seats. Mark Rutte became the prime minister shortly after the election. The Christian Democratic Appeal lost the most seats in this election, while the Party for Freedom won the most.

Results

Related pages 
 2012 Dutch general election
 First Rutte cabinet

References

Other websites 
 NSD: European Election Database - Netherlands publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1994–2010
 (nl) Tweede Kamerverkiezingen 2010, Parlement.com

2010 elections
2010s elections in the Netherlands
Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala

Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple is one of the most popular and most visited Vaishnavite temple in India. It is in the hills of Tirumala at the city of Tirupati in Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh.This temple is dedicated to Lord Venkateswara, an avatar of Vishnu. This lord is also called by the names: Balaji, Govinda, Srinivasa, and Venkatajalapati. 

The Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is on the Venkatadri hill, which is one of the seven hills of the Seshadri hills range. This is why the temple is called Temple of Seven Hills. Tirumala Venkateswara Temple is the second richest temple in the world after the Padmanabhaswamy Temple,  Thiruvananthapuram.

The temple is daily visited by about 50,000 to 1,00,000 devotees. On Special days like Brahmotsava, Tirumala Temple is visited by more than 5 lakhs of devotees making the temple the most-visited holy place in the world.

Reference

Temples in India
Christian Democratic Appeal

The Christian Democratic Appeal,  (shortened CDA), is a political party in the Netherlands. It was the merger of three major former political parties: Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and Catholic People's Party (KVP).

The party was established on 11 October 1980. From 1982 to 2006, the party was very popular in the Netherlands. Their support was strongest in the 1986, 1989, 2002, 2003 and 2006 elections. In the 2010 elections, they lost 20 seats and received less than half of the votes from the previous election. In the 2012 elections, they received 801,620 and lost 8 more seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+6), and in the 2021 elections 15 (-4).

The party leader is Wopke Hoekstra (former leaders Hugo de Jonge and Sybrand van Haersma Buma).

The party supports Christian democracy. The party can also have Jewish, Muslim and Hindu members of parliament. The party heavily supports the European Union and environmentalism. They call themselves a moderate party, but they have been in an alliance with the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The CDA believes that the toleration of "soft drugs" like marijuana should stop, and practices like abortion and prostitution should be limited. They also want a more friendly and open immigration policy. However, they do want immigrants to integrate into Dutch culture.

On 12 June 2021, MP Pieter Omtzigt left the CDA and has become an independent politician.

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian democratic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
Christianity in the Netherlands
1980s establishments in the Netherlands
1980 establishments in Europe
Democrats 66

Democrats 66, , official name: Politieke Partij Democraten 66 (shortened D66), is a political party in the Netherlands. They are a social liberal party. The party leader is Sigrid Kaag (former leaders Rob Jetten  and Alexander Pechtold).

The party was formed on 14 October 1966 by a group of young academics led by Hans van Mierlo. The party had their most success in the 1994 election, where they won 24 out of 150 seats. In the 2010 elections, they received 654,167 votes and won 10 seats. In the 2012 elections they received 757,091 votes and won 12 seats. In the 2017 elections they won 19 seats (+7), and in the 2021 election 24 (+5).

D66 is very supportive of the European Union. They historically supported the legalization of gay marriage, prostitution, and euthanasia. The party supports environmentalism and wants a mixed economy. D66 wants tax-cuts for the lower and middle classes. They also want direct democracy.

References

Other websites 
 Website of Democrats 66
 Website of Democrats 66 International (English)

Liberal parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
1960s establishments in the Netherlands
1966 establishments in Europe
Euroscepticism

Euroscepticism is the criticism of the European Union (EU). Some observers also say that the total rejection of the EU is euroscepticism. Euroscepticism should not be confused with Anti-Europeanism, which is the dislike or fear of European culture and/or people.

Eurosceptics says that the European Union weakens the nation state. They also say that the European Union is too bureaucratic (meaning that important decisions are made by officials who aren't elected). In 2016, the countries with the most unfavourable view of the EU were Greece, France, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe have been contributed to their Eurosceptic views. On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union with 52% voting to leave.

Polls 

In November 2015, a poll showed that those with a positive image of the EU went down from 52% in 2007 to 37%. Distrust of the EU was highest in Greece (81%), Cyprus (72%), Austria (65%), France (65%) Germany (63%), the United Kingdom (63%) and the Czech Republic (63%).

Parties 

Some major Eurosceptic parties are shown below (organized by country):

References 

European Union