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Bill Pascrell

William James Pascrell Jr.  (born January 25, 1937) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for .  He represented  from January 1997 until the redistricting of January 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

References

Other websites
Congressman Bill Pascrell official U.S. House site
Bill Pascrell for Congress 

1937 births
Living people
United States representatives from New Jersey
American mayors
American Roman Catholics
People from Paterson, New Jersey
US Democratic Party politicians
Samanabad

Samanabad (Urdu: سمن آباد‬‎) is neighborhood town located in Samanabad Tehsil of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Academic institutions 
 Government College for Women
 Government Central Model High School
 Government Islamia High School
 Government Girls Higher Secondary School
 Government Institute of Commerce
 Government Sulemania High School
 Government Junior Model School
 KIPS
 Lahore Grammar School

Sports 
Samanabad Sports Arena has been established which provides facilities such as Badminton, Gym, Squash, Table Tennis, Taekwando, Aerobics and Snooker to the members.

Roads 
 Main Boulevard Samanabad
 Poonch Road
 Ghazali Road

References 

Towns in Lahore
Anatoly Glushenkov

Anatoly Glushenkov (November 20, 1942 – January 16, 2018) was a Russian politician. He served as the Governor of Smolensk Oblast from 1993 to 1998. He was the first popularly elected Governor of Smolensk Oblast. He was born in the Smolensk Oblast.

Glushenkov died on January 16, 2018 in Smolensk, Russia at the age of 75.

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1942 births
2018 deaths
Russian politicians
Károly Palotai

Károly Palotai (11 September 1935 – 3 February 2018) was a Hungarian association football player and referee. He was an Olympic Gold winner as a player before turning to refereeing. He was a referee at three World Cup tournaments and officiated in two European Cup finals. He also served as an official referee for FIFA.

Palotai died in Budapest on 3 February 2018 of a stroke at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
Referee profile on worldfootball.net

1935 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Hungarian footballers
Olympic gold medalists
Referees
Miguel León-Portilla

Miguel León-Portilla (February 22, 1926 – October 1, 2019) was a Mexican anthropologist and historian. He was the prime authority on Nahuatl thought and literature. He was thought to have helped revive the Nahuatl language through his books.

León-Portilla was important in bringing to light the works of Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, a 16th-century primary source on the Aztec civilization and whose works have become one of the major references for cultural and historical information on Postclassic central Mexico.

On December 12, 2013, León-Portilla received the Living Legend Award from the U.S. Library of Congress.

He died on October 1, 2019 in Mexico City at the age of 93.

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1926 births
2019 deaths
Mexican historians
Philosophers
Mexican anthropologists
Writers from Mexico City
Hazar Khan Bijarani

Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani  (Urdu: میرہزار خان بجارانی‬‎) (10 July 1946 – 1 February 2018) was a Pakistani politician. He served as a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from June 2013 to February 2018 and before served from 1974 to 1977. He was also a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1990 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2013. He was born in Karampur, Kashmore District.

Bijarani was found dead in his home in Karachi on 1 February 2018 along with his second wife Fariha Razzaq Haroon. Police say that Bijarani shot and killed his wife and committed suicide afterwards.

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Flag of Nicaragua

The flag of Nicaragua was created in 1971.

Appearance 
It has a horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) and white, it is the coat of arms of Nicaragua centered on the white band.

Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Riquewihr

Riquewihr is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est of eastern France.

Riquewihr looks today more or less as it did in the 16th century.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Synthetic division

Synthetic division is a way to divide polynomials. It takes up less space than polynomial long division.  It is mostly used to divide a polynomial by a binomial that looks like this:
 
but it can be divided by any polynomial with one variable.

Synthetic division can be used to make calculations without writing variables. It also uses a small number of calculations, and takes less room on paper than long division. The subtractions in long division are changed to additions by changing the signs at the very beginning, which keeps sign errors from happening.

Synthetic division for linear denominators is also called division in Ruffini's rule.

Regular synthetic division 
The first example is synthetic division with only a single-variable linear denominator  .
 
The coefficients of the polynomial to divide are put at the top (the zero is for the invisible 0x).
 
Make the coefficients of the denominator negative.
 
Put every coefficient of the divisor except the first one on the left.
 
Put the first number after the bar, 1, at the bottom.
 
Multiply the dropped number by the number before the bar, and put it under the next coefficient, 12.
 
Add the numbers in the second column (which equals -9 in this example).
 
Do those last two steps again to get this:
 
Count the terms to the left of the bar.  Since there is only one, the remainder has degree zero, which means it is a constant that is more than zero. Put an up and down line next to the last number, -123.
 
The terms are written with a rising degree from right to left. It begins with degree zero for both the remainder and the result.
 
The last part of the division is:
 

Algebra
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Elizabeth Hamilton (née Schuyler ; August 9, 1757 – November 9, 1854), also called Eliza or Betsey, was a socialite and philanthropist. She was from the wealthy and slave owning Van Rensselaer and Schuyler families. She was married to American founding father Alexander Hamilton.  

She was a defender of his works, a mother, and co-founder and deputy director of Graham Windham, the first private orphanage in New York City.

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Hukum Singh

Hukum Singh (5 April 1938 – 3 February 2018) was an Indian politician. He served as the Member of Parliament from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of the Panel of Chairpersons of the 16th Lok Sabha, and the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Water Resources. He was born in Kairana, Uttar Pradesh.

Singh died of respiratory arrest in Noida, Uttar Pradesh on 3 February 2018 at the age of 79.

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1938 births
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Deaths from respiratory arrest
Disease-related deaths in India
Politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Rolf Zacher

Rolf Zacher (28 March 1941 – 3 February 2018) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 160 movies and television shows from 1961 until his retirement in 2017. He starred in the 1971 movie Jaider, der einsame Jäger. It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. He was born in Berlin. Zacher starred in the lead role as Angelo in the 1984 television series Angelo und Luzy.

Zacher died at a nursing home in Hamburg, Germany on 3 February 2018 of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 76.

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1941 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Disease-related deaths in Germany
German movie actors
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German stage actors
Actors from Berlin
William Joseph Bauer

William Joseph Bauer (born September 15, 1926) is an American judge. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is the Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since October 31, 1994. He served as Chief Judge of the court from 1986 through 1993. He was nominated to serve by President Gerald Ford.

References

Other websites
 DCBA Brief Online 

1926 births
Living people
American judges
DePaul University alumni
Politicians from Chicago
Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse

The Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, commonly referred to as the Dirksen Federal Building, is a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1964. The building is 384 feet (117 m) tall, with 30 floors. It was named for U.S. Congressman and Senator Everett Dirksen. 

The building houses the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States Bankruptcy Court, the United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and local offices for various court-related federal agencies, such as the Federal Public Defender, United States Probation Service and United States Trustee.

Other websites

Dirksen Federal Building on Emporis
General Services Administration  Website

1964 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Illinois
Diane Wood

Diane Pamela Wood (born July 4, 1950) is an American judge. She is the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

Wood then clerked for Judge Irving Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1975 to 1976 and for Associate Justice Harry Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court from 1976 to 1977. She was among the first women to clerk at the Supreme Court.

In 2010, she was on the short list of potential nominees to take retiring Justice John Paul Stevens's seat, but that nomination instead went to United States Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

References

Other websites
FJC Bio
 http://news.uchicago.edu/static/wood.php  Photos of Judge Wood at the University of Chicago
The Long, Clear, Inspiring Record of Diane Wood, by Glenn Greenwald, 4-19-2010

1950 births
Living people
American judges
Educators from Chicago
Politicians from Chicago
Politicians from New Jersey
People from Hinsdale, Illinois
People from Plainfield, New Jersey
Women judges
Educators from New Jersey
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in case citations, 7th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts:
 Central District of Illinois
 Northern District of Illinois
 Southern District of Illinois
 Northern District of Indiana
 Southern District of Indiana
 Eastern District of Wisconsin
 Western District of Wisconsin

The court is based at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of thirteen United States courts of appeals.  It is made-up of eleven appellate judges.

References

Other websites
 United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
 Recent opinions from FindLaw
 Official wiki of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit  — Launched April 18, 2007
 The Seventh Circuit Review 

United States courts of appeals
Government of Illinois
1869 establishments in the United States
1860s establishments in Illinois
Samsung Galaxy S7

The Samsung Galaxy S7 is a smartphone created by Samsung Electronics. It runs the Android software.
The phone was officially revealed on 21 February 2016, during a Samsung press conference at Mobile World Congress, with a European and North American release on 11 March 2016.

The device has an improved camera and is protected against ingress of water. The amount of internal storage can be increased using memory cards known as "MicroSD cards". This was also the case on the Samsung Galaxy S5, but not on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Related pages
 Samsung Galaxy

References

Samsung mobile phones
Mobile phones released in 2016
Samsung Galaxy S8

The Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy S8+ (shortened to S8 and S8+, respectively) and Samsung Galaxy S8 Active are Android smartphones produced by Samsung Electronics as part of the Samsung Galaxy S series. The S8 and S8+ were unveiled on 29 March 2017 and directly succeed the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, with a North American release on 21 April 2017 and international rollout throughout April and May. The S8 Active was announced on 8 August 2017, and is exclusive to certain U.S. cellular carriers.

Sales 
The sales saw 720,000 units sold in one week, an increase from 100,000 units of the Galaxy S7 and 200,000 units of the Note 7.

Related pages
 Samsung Galaxy

References

Samsung mobile phones
Mobile phones released in 2017
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Robert J. Shiller

Robert James Shiller (born March 29, 1946) is an American Nobel Laureate, economist, academic, and best-selling author. He serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance.

Early life
Shiller was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Kalamazoo College and the University of Michigan where he received his B.A. degree in 1967.  He received the S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1972.

Career
Shiller has been a researcher of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since 1980, was vice president of the American Economic Association in 2005, and president of the Eastern Economic Association for 2006–2007.

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Shiller received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.

References

Other websites
 Article on Robert J. Shiller (German language) 
 Robert Shiller's interview on the housing crisis with The Politic
 Video conversation on the economy with Shiller and Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv.
 "Finance and the Good Society – Irreconcilable or Inseparable?"  Presentation by Robert J. Shiller for the CFO Insight Magazine, August 2012
 Link to podcast lecture at London School of Economics on Sub Prime Crisis 
 RSA Vision webcasts – Robert Shiller in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein on "How Human Psychology Drives the Economy" 

1946 births
Living people
American economists
Scientists from Detroit, Michigan
Writers from Detroit, Michigan
People from Kalamazoo, Michigan
Yale University faculty
Educators from Detroit, Michigan
Greektown, Chicago

Greektown is a dining and nightlife district on the Near West Side in Chicago, Illinois. It  is one of many neighborhoods that make up the Near West Side community area. It is popular with tourists and Chicago residents alike.

Greektown's bars and restaurants lie roughly between Van Buren and Madison Streets, along Halsted Street, west of the Loop.

The Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line to the UIC-Halsted station can travel to Greektown.

References

Other websites
Greektown Chicago 

Neighborhoods in Chicago
Aligarh

Aligarh is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the headquarters of the Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh state. This city is famous for lock industries and Aligarh Muslim University. Aligarh is one of the largest cities of the state. It is also the 55th largest city of the nation.

The Battle of Aligarh was fought on 1 September 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) at Aligarh Fort. Aligarh district is divided into five tehsils, namely Kol Tehsil, Khair Tehsil, Atrauli, Gabhana and Iglas. These tehsils are further divided into 12 blocks.2011 census showed the Aligarh urban area with a population of .

References

Cities and towns in Uttar Pradesh
Mainpuri district

Mainpuri district is one of the districts in Agra division of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Mainpuri town is the district headquarters. It consists of six tehsils, namely Mainpuri, Bhongaon, Karhal, Kishni, Kurawali and Ghiror.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census Mainpuri district has a population of 1,847,194.This gives it a ranking of 255th in India (out of a total of 640). In Mainpuri district, 35% of the 12.3 lakh voters are Yadavs. The other dominant castes are the Shakya, Rajputs, Bhrahmins, SCs and Muslims.

References

Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Aligarh district

Aligarh district is a district in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district belongs to Aligarh Division, Uttar Pradesh.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census Aligarh district has a population of 36,73,849,This gives it a ranking of 76th in India (out of a total of 640).

References

Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Duty

Duty  is a term that conveys a sense of moral commitment or obligation to someone or something. The moral commitment usually results in action and is not a matter of passive feeling or mere recognition. When someone recognizes a duty, that person theoretically commits himself to its fulfillment without considering their own self-interest. This is not to suggest that living a life of duty entirely precludes a life of leisure; however, its fulfillment generally involves some sacrifice of immediate self-interest. Typically, "the demands of justice, honor, and reputation are deeply bound up" with duty.

Cicero discusses the concept of  duty in his work “On Duty". There, he suggests that duties can come from four different sources:
 as result of being human
 as a result of one's particular place in life (one's family, one's country, one's job)
 as a result of one's character
 as a result of one's own moral expectations for oneself

Other uses of the word have sprung from the root idea of obligation, a concept involved in the notion of duty. For example, the concept  is used to describe the services performed by a minister of a church, by a soldier, or by any employee or servant.

Many schools of thought have debated the idea of duty. Many assert mankind's duty on their own terms, but some philosophers have absolutely rejected a sense of duty.

Duty has to be accepted and understood on the basis of one's foundation of sense and knowledge. Therefore, duty and its manifestations vary with values from culture to culture. On one hand duty may be seen as terms of reference, job description, or behavior - and it is all of that ... but duty is not only about doing things right, it is about doing the right thing.

References 

Ethics
Bonaire national football team

Bonaire national football team is the national football team of Bonaire.

Caribbean national football teams
Football in the Netherlands
National football team
Vatican City national football team

Vatican City national football team is the national football team of Vatican City.

European national football teams
Vatican City
Mesocco

Mesocco is a municipality in Moesa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

This municipality is the farthest north in the Misox valley. It is one of the largest in the canton. The secondary school for the area, the local district courts, and many government offices are in Mesocco. It consists of the village of Mesocco with eleven sections, including the mountain village of San Bernardino.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Soazza

Soazza is a municipality of the district Moesa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Automobile Dacia

Automobile Dacia S.A. is a Romanian car company. The company was founded in 1966, and has been a subsidiary of the French car manufacturer Renault since 1999. It is Romania's top company by revenue and the largest exporter, constituting 7.3% of the country's total exports in 2014. The Dacia manufacturing plant in Mioveni, Argeș County is Europe's fifth biggest car manufacturing facility by volume producing 584,219 units (cars and CKD kits) delivered in 2016 and 550,912 units in 2015.

References

Other websites 

 

Automobile companies
1966 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Romania
Roderen

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

Related pages 
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References 
INSEE commune file
Logement

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Flag of Honduras

The flag of Honduras was created in 1866.

Appearance 
It has a horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) and white, with five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an "X" pattern centered on the white band.

References 

Honduras
Honduras
Flag of Syria

The flag of Syria has a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and black; charged with two green star at the centre.

The flag of Syria was used between 1958 and 1961, and readopted in 1980.

References 

Syria
Syria
Ramzan Chhipa

Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa, is a humanitarian and a social worker from Karachi, Pakistan. He is the founder of Chhipa Welfare Association.

References 

Humanitarians
Living people
Asian philanthropists
Pakistani people
Subho Drishti

Subho Drishti is a popular Bengali television soap opera. It premiered on 1 January 2018. It airs on Colors Bangla. It stars Gourab Roy Chowdhury and Aishwarya Sen in lead roles and Bidipta Chakraborty and Sukanya Goswami in  a negative role. The show is produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures.

Plot
It is a bittersweet tale of two pairs of siblings – Abir-Drishti and Subho-Antara, the show encapsulates their intertwined destinies as Drishti and Subho cross paths time and again leading to series of explosive coincidences and happenstances.

Cast
Gourab Roy Chowdhury as Subhojit Mukherjee (Subho) / Main Male Lead
Aishwarya Sen as Drishti Subhojit Mukherjee / Main Female Lead
Deborshi Banerjee/Rajib Basu as Abir Basu / Parallel Male Lead
Oindrilla Bose as Antara Abir Basu / Parallel Female Lead
Bidipta Chakraborty as Annapoorna Mukherjee / Main Female Antagonist
Raj Bhattacharya as Rahul Gupta / Main Male Antagonist
Sandip Dey as Drishti 's Father
Niladri Lahiri as Rajat Deb Roy
Abanti Dutta as Krishna Deb Roy
Saurav Chakraborty as Abhik
Saurav Ghosh as Subho's Assistant
Sukanya Goswami as Sana / Parallel Female Antagonist
Indrakshi Nag as Debjani Chowdhury / Antagonist

Guest appearances
Prosenjit Chatterjee as Bumba Daa
Rituparna Sengupta as Ritu Di

References
 http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/tv-news/read-know-more-about-colors-banglas-subho-drishti-171223
 http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/tv-news/raj-bhattacharyya-play-key-role-subho-drishti-171228
 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/bengali/subho-drishtis-team-celebrates-as-the-show-completes-100-episodes/articleshow/63715302.cms

Indian television series
2018 Indian television series debuts
Resham Jhapi

Resham Jhapi is  a popular Indian Bengali  Television series which airs on Colors Bangla. It stars Prayusha Paul and Subhankar Saha in lead roles and June Maliah in a negative role.

 
Indian television series
2017 Indian television series debuts
Star Bharat

Star Bharat () is a Hindi language Indian television channel. It is a part of Star India which is fully owned by 21st Century Fox.

Current TV programs

Currently broadcast

Comedy series
 Kya Haal, Mr. Paanchal
Excuse Me Maadam

Drama series

 Jiji Maa'Mayavi MaalingMuskaan
 Nimki Mukhiya Saam Daam Dand Bhed Savdhaan India 
ChandraShekhar (TV Series)

Formerly broadcast
Drama series
 Ayushman Bhava Kaal Bhairav RahasyaComedy series
Jai Kanhaiya Lal Ki

Reality/non-scripted programmingGolden Divas Baatein With the Baadshah Om Shanti Om''

References

Television channels in India
2017 establishments in Asia
Maaz ibn Jabal

Muaz ibn Jabal () (603 – 639) was one of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad. He belonged to the tribe of Banu Khazraj. He accepted Islam before the Second pledge at al-Aqabah. He was known as the one with a lot of knowledge. He was called by Prophet Muhammad, "the one who will lead the scholars into Paradise". Prophet Muhammad sent Muaz to Yemen to teach its people about Islam. He also helped in collecting the Quran in written form.

References 

Sahaba
Muslims
Navaid Aziz

Shaykh Navaid Aziz is an Islamic scholar and marriage counsellor based in Calgary, Canada, who is better known for saving Muslim men from radicalization.

Career
In 2012, Aziz started working as an Imam at the Islamic Information Society of Calgary.

Aziz strongly opposes radicalization and terrorism. According to Calgary Herald, "Navaid Aziz says the experience with local radicals was a traumatic experience for his Mosque community. Extremism wasn’t a reality until this happened". Also, CBC News reported that Aziz briefly knew Farah Mohamed Shirdon, a jihadi who left Calgary to join The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Philanthropy
Navaid Aziz organized several TV programs which raised money for charity work. In 2017, Aziz launched a campaign called Feed Our World to deliver food packages for the people in need.

References

Other websites
 

Muslims
Religious leaders
Hadejia River

The Hadejia River (known as kogin Haɗeja in Hausa language) is a river in northern Nigeria and is a part of the Yobe River (Komadugu Yobe). 
The river flows through Hadejia and Nguru. 
Water from the river has been held back in a process called damming for the purposes of irrigation. This has reduced the amount of water in the Hadejia-Nguru wetlands, which the river forms along with Nguru Lake. 
The Hadejia river is now 80% controlled by the Tiga and Challawa Gorge dams in Kano State.

References

Other websites

Rivers of Nigeria
Ogun River

The Ogun River is a waterway in Nigeria that discharges into the Lagos Lagoon.

The river starts in Oyo State near Shaki and flows through Ogun State into Lagos State.
The river is crossed by the Ikere Gorge Dam in the Iseyin local government area of Oyo State.
The river passes through the Old Oyo National Park, providing recreational facilities for tourists.
In rural and local areas where the river flows through, the river is used for bathing, washing and drinking. It is also used as a drain for mostly organic wastes from abattoirs located along the river's course.

References

Rivers of Nigeria
Lagos Lagoon

Lagos Lagoon is a lagoon in Nigeria. It is named after the city of Lagos, Nigeria. The city is on the southwestern side of the lagoon.

Description
The lagoon is more than  long. It is  wide. It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a long sand spit  wide. The sand spit has swampy margins on the lagoon side. The lagoon's surface area is about .  It is fairly shallow. Ocean-going ships don't go through it. Smaller barges and boats do.

References

Geography of Nigeria
Bodies of water of Africa
Lagoons
Anupriya Kapoor

Anupriya Kapoor is an Indian television Actress from Delhi. She known for her role as Taani Bannerjee in Tere Liye.

Television

Awards

References

1991 births
Living people
Indian television actors
The Boring Company

The Boring Company is a tunnel boring company founded by Elon Musk, who earlier started SpaceX. It aims to reduce traffic congestion in urban areas. It is involved in the building of the Hyperloop in Los Angeles.

Elon Musk complained via Twitter about Los Angeles traffic and the same day, December 17, 2016, founded the company. It built a short test tunnel in Los Angeles.

To raise money for the expensive project, Elon Musk started selling promotional merchandise - first caps and then flamethrowers (branded as 'Not a flamethrower' to stop customs) and then fire extinguishers to go with. The company website is written in a lighthearted tone, for example describing the fire extinguishers as 'overpriced'.

References 

American technology companies
Elon Musk
Companies based in California
Flag of Jamaica

The flag of Jamaica was created in 1962 in anticipation of its independence day in August 6. It was agreed by the deciding committee that the flag should include the colours black, yellow, and green. It is currently the only country flag without red, white or blue.

Appearance 
It has a gold diagonal cross divides the field into four triangles of green (top and bottom) and black (hoist-side and fly-side).

References 

Jamaica
Jamaica
1962 establishments in North America
1960s establishments in Jamaica
Flag of Guatemala

The flag of Guatemala was created in 1871.

Appearance 
It has a vertical band of light blue (hoist-side and fly-side) and white, with the national emblem centered on the white band.

Guatemala
Guatemala
Munich RE

Munich Re Group or Munich Reinsurance Company () is a reinsurance company based in Munich, Germany.

The co-founder and Europe CEO is Mark Dennis.

In 2021, the company had EUR 589 million of profit.

Other websites
 Official website

Companies of Germany
Insurance companies
Munich
1880 establishments in Europe
1880s establishments in Germany

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Chen Dixiu

Chen Dixiu (October 8, 1879 – May 27, 1942) was a Chinese revolutionary from Anhui. He was the founder of the Communist Party of China. In 1902 he studied in Japan and later became the first General Secretary of the  Party from 1921 to 1927.

References

Chinese communist politicians
Kim Yong-il

Kim Yong-il (born 2 May 1944) was the Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from April 2007 to 7 June 2010. Kim Yong-il was elected Premier of the state at the fifth session of the Workers' Party of Korea National Congress in April 2007 replacing Pak Pong-ju. On June 7 2010 Choe Yong-rim was elected by the National Assembly as his successor.

References

North Korean politicians
Omar Aggad

Omar A. Aggad (20 April 1927 – 1 February 2018) was a Saudi-born Palestinian businessman. He was the founder of Aggad Investment Company (AICO), and the founder and former chairman of Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC).

Aggad died on 1 February 2018 in Toronto at the age of 90.

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1927 births
2018 deaths
Palestinian people
Saudi Arabian businesspeople
Asian philanthropists
Workers' Party of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea is the current ruling party in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The party has ruled in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since its inception in 1949.

The  Workers' Party of Korea was established on June 30, 1949 by Kim Il-sung as its leader. The Communist Party of Korea was established on April 25, 1925, based in Seoul. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Korea was Kim Yong-bom. On 30 June 1949, the Workers' Party of Korea was formed based on the merger between the Communist Party of Korea and the new Democratic Party of Korea.

Political parties in Asia
1949 establishments in Asia
Establishments in North Korea
Joseph Polchinski

Joseph Polchinski (May 16, 1954 – February 2, 2018) was an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He was born in White Plains, New York. Polchinski wrote the two-volume textbook String Theory, published in 1998. Among his many contributions to theoretical physics, D-branes are the best known. In 2008 he won the Dirac Medal for his work in superstring theory.  He won the 2017 Fundamental Physics Prize.

Polchinski died on February 2, 2018 in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 63.

References

1954 births
2018 deaths
American physicists
Scientists from New York
Michael Harner

Michael James Harner (April 27, 1929 – February 3, 2018) was an American anthropologist, educator and author. He founded the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and the New Age practice of "Core Shamanism". His 1980 book, The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing, was important in the development of "Core Shamanism" as a path of personal development for new age adherents of neoshamanism. He was born in Washington, D.C..

Harner died on February 3, 2018 at the age of 88.

References

Other websites
Michael Harner's Foundation for Shamanic Studies

1929 births
2018 deaths
American anthropologists
American historians
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Dirk Bernard Joseph Schouten

Dirk Bernard Joseph (Dick) Schouten (25 January 1923 – 3 February 2018) was a Dutch economist. He served as Professor of General Economics and Economic History at Tilburg University. He was known for his work about macroeconomic modelling.

Schouten was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975.

Schouten died on 3 February 2018 in The Hague at the age of 95.

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Margot Duhalde

Margot Duhalde (12 December 1920 – 5 February 2018) was a Chilean pilot. She served with the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in World War II.

After the war, she flew war planes for the French Air Force. She was France's first female combat pilot. In 1947 she returned to Chile, however the national airline LAN did not hire women as pilots at that time. Instead, she took a job as a private pilot for a businessman until 1949. Later she opened her own flying school and worked as a flight instructor and as an air traffic controller in the air force.

In 1946 Duhalde was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

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Alan Baker (mathematician)

Alan Baker, FRS (19 August 1939 – 4 February 2018) was an English mathematician. He was known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular ideas from transcendental number theory. He was born in London. He worked at the University of Cambridge. In 1970, Baker won the Fields Medal.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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Wojciech Pokora

Wojciech Pokora (2 October 1934 – 4 February 2018) was a Polish actor. He has made over 40 appearances in movie and television. He starred in the 1986-1987 television series Zmiennicy and Czterdziestolatek 1970-1974. He was born in Warsaw. He also appeared in Man – Woman Wanted and A Jungle Book of Regulations.

Pokora died on 4 February 2018 in Warsaw of complications from a stroke at the age of 83.

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1934 births
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Séamus Pattison

Séamus Patrick Pattison (19 April 1936 – 4 February 2018) was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was born Kilkenny, Ireland.

Pattison served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 2002 to 2007, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1997 to 2002, Minister of State for Social Welfare from 1983 to 1987 and Father of the Dáil from 1995 to 2007. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency from 1961 to 2007. 

Pattison was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Leinster constituency 1981 to 1983.

Pattison died on 4 February 2018 from Parkinson's disease at his home in Kilkenny at the age of 81.

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European Parliament profile

1936 births
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Deaths from Parkinson's disease
MEPs for Ireland
Edwin Jackson (American football)

Edwin Joseph Jackson (December 19, 1991 – February 4, 2018) was an American football linebacker. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He played college football at Georgia Southern University. He signed with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2015. He then spent two seasons with the Indianapolis Colts from 2015 to 2017.

On September 2, 2017, Jackson was placed on injured reserve.

On February 4, 2018, Jackson was riding an Uber in Indianapolis, Indiana and asked the driver to pull over because he felt ill. While standing near the interstate, a drunk driver hit and killed Jackson and the Uber driver. Jackson was 26 years old.

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Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa

Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (born April 23, 1926), sometimes called Kekau, is a member of the House of Kawānanakoa. She was born in Honolulu. She is called by many as a princess, a common honorary bestowed to descendants of titled subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii, although she holds no official title and has no power or influence in the Hawaiian state government.

On October 1, 2017, Kawānanakoa married her partner of 21 years, Veronica Gail Worth, in Honolulu.

In 2013 Kawānanakoa requested to be buried in a new crypt at the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii at Mauna ʻAla directly adjacent to the Wylie Tomb. The request was approved by the State Land Board in April 26, 2013, but the decision has become controversial in the Hawaiian community.

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Chaghcharan District

Chaghcharan also Firouzkoh is one of the districts of Ghor Province in central Afghanistan.

Related pages 
 Chaghcharan

Districts of Afghanistan
Shalimar, Lahore

Shalimar () is an administrative town (tehsil) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Lahore, located along the Grand Trunk Road. The town is named after the Shalimar Gardens, built by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1640.

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Imam Bukhari

Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari ({{lang-ar|محمد بن اسماعيل البخاري‎‎; 810 – 870), or Imam Bukhari, was a Persian Islamic scholar who was born in Bukhara (the capital of the Bukhara Region of Uzbekistan). He wrote the hadith collection known as Sahih al-Bukhari, regarded by Sunni Muslims as one of the most authentic (sahih) hadith collections.

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Ali ibn Husayn

Ali ibn Husayn, also known as Zayn al-Abidin and Imam as-Sajjad was the fourth imam in Shia, Islam. He was the son of Husayn ibn Ali and the grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib. He survived the Battle of Karbala and was taken to the caliph in Damascus. Eventually, he was allowed to return to Medina. His life was devoted to spiritual and religious teachings, mostly in the form of prayers and supplications. His famous supplications are known as As-Sahifa as-Sajjadiyya.

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Etah district

Etah district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India. Etah town is the district headquarters. Etah district is a part of Aligarh Division.

In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Etah one of the country's 250 most backward districts (total of 640). It is receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving this funds.

Demographics
Etah district has a population of 1,761,143. This  district according to ranking comes 272nd in India by population (out of a total of 640).

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Etah

Etah is a municipality in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the district headquarters of Etah district of Uttar Pradesh state, India. The main occupation of the people of the district is agriculture. It is situated between Ganga and Yamuna. This region has highly fertile alluvial soil.

Demographics
Etah had a population of 131,023 according to 2011 Census. Out of this, males were 69,446 and females were 61,577. The literacy rate was 85.62 per cent. Category

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Etah Assembly Elections

District Factbook Etah 

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Lauri Love

Lauri Love (; born 14 December 1984, United Kingdom) is a Finnish-British activist charged with stealing data from United States Government computers including the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA via computer intrusion.

Case 
Love is under indictment in the United States (2013 in District of New Jersey, 2014 in Southern District of New York and Eastern District of Virginia). The United States attempted to extradite him to face charges there.

Extradition hearing 

During Love's two day extradition hearing on 28 and 29 June 2016 at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, his father, Reverend Alexander Love, testified that Lauri Love has Asperger's syndrome and so should not be extradited. Also at the hearing, Simon Baron-Cohen, a psychologist, testified that Love should not be extradited because of his diagnosed disorders, which also include eczema, psychosis, and depression.

On 16 September 2016, at Westminster Magistrates' Court a judge ruled that Love could be extradited to the United States. Love's solicitor Karen Todner said that they would appeal, and on 5 February 2018, Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and Mr Justice Ouseley, at the High Court, upheld his appeal against extradition, while ruling that it would "not be oppressive [to] prosecute Mr Love in England for the offences".

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Balloonfest '86

Balloonfest '86 was a 1986 event in Cleveland, Ohio. Almost one and a half million balloons were released into the sky. It was meant to raise money for United Way. The balloons flew over Lake Erie and areas near there. They caused problems for traffic, an airport, and the United States Coast Guard. Two boaters were found dead from drowning. The city faced lawsuits of millions of dollars in damage.

Events in the United States
1986 in the United States
20th century in Cleveland, Ohio
1980s in Ohio
Sahi al-Bukhari

Sahi al-Bukhari (), also known as Bukhari Sharif (), is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) of Sunni Islam. These hadith, were collected by the Muslim scholar Muhammad al-Bukhari. Among Sunni muslims, it is considered the most authentic book after the Quran. Sahi al-Bukhari together with Sahi Muslim is known as Sahihayn.

Details 
Imam Bukhari, from the age of 16 traveled a lot of places to collect hadith reports. It is reported that he collected nearly 600,000 ahadith in his collection. Experts say that the number of full-isnad sayings mount up to roughly 7,397, and without considering repetitions of the same report, the number of hadith sayings reduces to roughly 2,602.

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The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American western thriller movie written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is about eight violent people who, during a blizzard, meet in a inn and learn they may have reasons to fight each other.

Plot 
Bounty hunters Marquis Warren and John Ruth agree to travel together. Ruth has a prisoner, Daisy Domergue, who will die when he turns her in. Along the way, they agree to let former Confederate Chris Mannix travel with them, but they do not believe his story that he is the new sheriff. During a blizzard, they stop at an inn. There, they find several more people, including  Confederate General Sandy Smithers, cowboy Joe Gage, and executioner Oswaldo Mobray. Bob, a worker, says the inn's owner is traveling. Warren and Ruth do not trust anyone and take all their guns. Warren, who fought for the Union Army, kills Smithers after saying that he also killed Smithers' son. Gage secretly poisons Ruth and his friend, O.B. Jackson. As Ruth dies, Domergue shoots and kills him with his own gun. Bob, Gage, and Mobray admit that they are part of Domergue's gang. Warren and Mannix agree to help each other, and they kill everyone but Domergue. Jody, Domergue's brother, comes out of hiding and seriously injures Warren. After Jody dies, Domergue says she will let Mannix go if he kills Warren. Mannix considers her offer but rejects it. Mannix and Warren kill her but they both die from blood loss.

Cast 
 Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren
 Kurt Russell as John Ruth
 Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy Domergue
 Walton Goggins as Sheriff Chris Mannix
 Demián Bichir as Bob
 Tim Roth as Oswaldo Mobray
 Michael Madsen as Joe Gage
 Bruce Dern as General Sandy Smithers
 James Parks as O.B.
 Dana Gourrier as Minnie Mink
 Zoë Bell as Six-Horse Judy
 Lee Horsley as Ed
 Channing Tatum as Jody

Release dates

Reception 
On Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of the 296 reviews are positive.

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Bounty hunter

A bounty hunter is someone who catches individuals for money.  They often appear in movies.  One example is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  Modern bounty hunting has been criticized for not having enough laws to control it in the United States.

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Geri and Freki

In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki (Old Norse: "the ravenous" and "greedy one") are two wolves who are said to accompany the god Odin. The two are most often seen at Odin's side when he is in Valhalla, feasting with the warriors who dwell in its numerous halls. They are said to devour those who would present false information to or otherwise lie to Odin.

Norse mythology
Fictional animals
Martin Grüner

Martin Grüner (19 July 1929 – 4 February 2018) was a  German politician. He was a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was born in Schramberg, Germany. He was Parliamentary Secretary at the Economics Ministry from 1972 to 1987 and then Parliamentary Secretary at the  Environment Ministry until 1991.

Grüner died on 4 February 2018 at the age of 88.

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Jao Tsung-I

Jao Tsung-I or Rao Zongyi (; 9 August 1917 – 6 February 2018) was a Hong Kong-based Chinese sinologist, calligrapher and painter. 

Jao helped create many fields of humanities, including history, archaeology, epigraphy, folklores, religion, art history, musicology, literature, and Near Eastern Studies. He published more than 100 books and about 1,000 academic articles over a career spanning more than 80 years.

Jao died on 6 February 2018, at the age of 100 in Hong Kong.

Related pages
List of Chinese writers
List of Chinese painters

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Joe Knollenberg

Joseph Kastl Knollenberg (November 28, 1933 – February 6, 2018) was an American politician. From 1993 to 2009, he was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing  and .

Knollenberg was known as a supporter of the North American Free Trade Agreement, President George W. Bush's support on protecting manufactured goods and for voting against expanding S-CHIP in the later years of his career.

He lost to Gary Peters in the 2008 election by winning 43% of the vote to Peters' 52%.

Knollenberg died on February 6, 2018 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease at a care facility in Troy, Michigan at the age of 84.

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Federal Election Commission — Joseph K. Knollenberg campaign finance reports and data
On the Issues — Joe Knollenberg issue positions and quotes
OpenSecrets.org — Joe Knollenberg campaign contributions
Project Vote Smart — Representative Joseph K. 'Joe' Knollenberg (MI) profile
Washington Post — Congress Votes Database: Joe Knollenberg voting record
 

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Madavoor Vasudevan Nair

Madavoor Vasudevan Nair (7 April 1929 – 6 February 2018) was a veteran Indian Kathakali dancer. He was born in Chandigarh, Punjab, India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He also taught the Kaplingadan style of Kathakali performance and was one of the last practitioners of the south Kerala style (Kaplingadan) school of the classical dance-drama. He died on 6 February 2018, aged 88.

Nair died of multiple organ failure on 6 February 2018 in New Delhi, India at the age of 88.

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