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Bob Rivers

Bob Rivers (born July 7, 1956) is an American radio actor and personality. He spent almost six years working at WAAF in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has also hosted at other radio stations in Seattle and in Baltimore.

One of the first parodies Rivers produced was "Breakin' Up is Hard on You". That was about the Bell System Breakup. His 1987 album Twisted Christmas had the song "Twelve Pains of Christmas". He later had other Christmas parody albums.

Rivers was born in Branford, Connecticut.

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American radio actors
1956 births
Living people
People from Connecticut
MS Norman Atlantic

MS Norman Atlantic is a ferry. It transports both people and vehicles. It was built in 2009. It can take 850 passengers and 200 vehicles. Its original names were Akeman Street and Scintu. It was renamed Norman Atlantic in January 2014.

On 28 December 2014, Norman Atlantic caught fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea. Eight people were killed and 432 were rescued.

References

Maritime disasters
2014
Ships
Latrell Sprewell

Latrell Sprewell is a retired American professional basketball player. His nickname was "Spree".

He was selected 24th overall in the 1992 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors. He started 69 of the 77 games in his rookie season and averaged 15.4 points per game.

During his time as a professional, Sprewell was named to the yearly NBA All-Star game four times. He also helped the New York Knicks reach the NBA Finals and the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Western Conference finals. 

Despite the accomplishments, his career was overshadowed in 1997 because he choked coach P. J. Carlesimo during a practice. Sprewell's career came to an unexpected end in 2005 when he refused a $21-million three-year contract offer from the Timberwolves.

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Holm Park

Holm Park is a football ground in Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is the home of Armagh City F.C..

References 

Football stadiums in Northern Ireland
Floby

Floby is a locality in Falköping Municipality in Västra Götaland County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,499 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Vastra Gotaland County
Övre Soppero

Övre Soppero is a locality in Kiruna Municipality in Norrbotten County in Sweden. In 2010, 201 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Norrbotten County
Jonsered

Jonsered is a locality in Partille Municipality in Västra Götaland County in Sweden. In 2010, 930 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Vastra Gotaland County
Tärnaby

Tärnaby is an urban area of Sweden - a locality - in Storuman Municipality in Västerbotten County in Sweden. In 2010, 482 people lived there.

References

Other websites
Tärnaby 

Settlements in Vasterbotten County
Ullånger

Ullånger is a locality in Kramfors Municipality in Västernorrland County in Sweden. In 2010, 626 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Vasternorrland County
Bible for children

Children's Bibles, or Bibles for children, are often collections of Bible stories rather than actual translations of the Bible aimed at children.

The earliest Bible for children printed in America was The Children's Bible (Philadelphia, 1763). The Bible Story (1953–57) is a ten-volume series of hardcover children's story books written by Arthur Maxwell. It is based on the King James and Revised Standard versions of the Christian Bible. The Children's Bible Story Book (1991) is a children's version of the Bible by Anne de Graaf. It is distributed to British primary schools by the charity Bibles for Children (founded 1997).

Actual Bible versions include the New Century Version, a simplified English revision of the International Children's Bible.

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Bible versions
Children's literature
Lillhärdal

Lillhärdal is a locality in Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 335 people lived there.

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Settlements in Jamtland County
Hede

Hede is a locality in Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 741 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Jamtland County
Tärendö

Tärendö is a small locality in Norrbotten County in Sweden. In 2000, 208 people lived there. It is located next to the Kalix River and the bifurcation Tärendö River.

References 

Settlements in Norrbotten County
Järna, Vansbro Municipality

Järna is a locality in Vansbro Municipality in Dalarna County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,413 people lived there. Sometimes, it's called Dala-Järna to distinguish it from Järna in Södertälje Municipality.

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Settlements in Dalarna County
Klintehamn

Klintehamn is a locality in Gotland Municipality in Gotland County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,363 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Gotland County
Fårösund

Fårösund is a locality in Gotland Municipality in Gotland County in Sweden. In 2010, 816 people lived there. The village is located on the minor island of Fårö. People can travel by ferry between Visby and Fårösund.

References 

Settlements in Gotland County
Brunflo

Brunflo is a locality in Östersund Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 3,890 people lived there. The locality is located circa 15 kilometers southeast from Östersund.

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Other websites

 

Settlements in Jamtland County
Ope

Ope is a locality in Östersund Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 453 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Jamtland County
Lit

Lit is a locality in Östersund Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 1,040 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Jamtland County
Åsarna

Åsarna, older spelling: Åsarne, is a locality in Berg Municipality in Jämtland County in Sweden. In 2010, 268 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Jamtland County
Länghem

Länghem is a locality in Tranemo Municipality in Västra Götaland County in Sweden. In 2010, 989 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Vastra Gotaland County
Alfta

Alfta is a locality in Ovanåker Municipality in Gävleborg County in Sweden. In 2010, 2,155 people lived there.

References 

Settlements in Gavleborg County
Fårö

Fårö is a Swedish minor island in the Baltic Sea. It is located north off Swedish Baltic Sea island of Gotland. The island is the second-largest island in the Swedish historical province of Gotland. The island has a population of fewer than 600 inhabitants. It has become a popular summer resort. From the island, a dialect of Modern Gutnish originates. It is, claimed to be the "oldest" language in Sweden.

References

Other websites 

Islands of Sweden
Gotska Sandön

Gotska Sandön is a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. It is located cirka 38 kilometres north of Fårö. The island is approximately 9 kilometres long and 6 kilometres wide. Its area is approximately 36 km².

The island mostly Gotska consists of sand. Its nature is dominated by beaches, dunes, and pine forests. In 1909, the island became one of the National parks of Sweden. In the summertime,regular boat tours are moving between the island and Fårö as well as nd Nynäshamn.

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Gotska Sandön National Park  from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Gotska Sandön (in Swedish)
Birds on Gotska Sandön 

Islands of Sweden
Que te perdone Dios

Que te perdone Dios Also known as Que te perdone Dios... Yo no is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is the remake of the telenovela Abrázame muy fuerte produced in 2000. The production of the telenovela began on November 15, 2014.

Zuria Vega, Mark Tacher and Rebecca Jones star as the protagonists, while Sergio Goyri, Sabine Moussier and Altaír Jarabo star as the antagonists. With the special participation of María Sorté and René Strickler.

Cast 
 Zuria Vega - Abigaíl Ríos / Abigaíl Ramos Flores de Lopez-Guerra 
 Mark Tacher - Mateo López-Guerra Fuentes de flores
 Sergio Goyri - Fausto López-Guerra †
 Rebecca Jones - Renata Flores del Ángel vda. De López-Guerra/ de Duarte 
 Sabine Moussier - Macaria Ríos Altair Jarabo - Diana Montero †
 María Sorté - Helena Fuentes Vda. de López-Guerra †
 René Strickler - Patricio Duartede flores de angel 
 Ana Bertha Espín - Constanza del Ángel Vda. de Flores†
 Ferdinando Valencia - Diego Muñoz / Diego López-Guerra Muñoz  †
 Alejandro Ávila - Lucio Ramírez †
 Manuel Ojeda - Melitón †
 Laisha Wilkins - Ximena Negrete de Zarazua / Daniela Negrete †
 Dacia González - Vicenta Muñoz †
 Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez - Simona Sánchez Ana Patricia Rojo - Efigenia de la Cruz y Ferreira Fabián Robles - Julio Acosta / Julián Acosta Montero †
 Eric del Castillo - Bruno Flores Riquelme †
 Antonio Medellín - Padre Francisco Ojeda Bernal †
 Alejandra Ávalos - Mía Montero Vda. de Acosta † 
 Moisés Arizmendi - Porfirio Zarazua †
 Héctor Sáez - Comandante Efraín Barragán Alejandra Procuna - Eduviges de la Cruz y Ferreira Raúl Olivo - Jaime Díaz "Motor" Óscar Bonfiglio - Marcelino Escalante Julio Mannino - Benito Myrrha Saavedra - Amanda Ríos Carlos Athié - Maximiliano "Max" Zarazúa 
 Adriano - Antonio "Toño" Sánchez Santiago Hernández - Alfredo "Fredy" Sánchez †
 José María Galeano - Padre Tomás Ojeda Bernal †
 Iván Caraza - Mano Negra †
 Rafael Amador - Rafa, el cantinero Alejandra Robles Gil - Teodora Daniela Basso - Juana "Juanita"  Lakshmi Picazo - Nieves Silvia Valdéz - Violeta Jessús Di Alberti - Estebán Irán Castillo - Renata Flores del Ángel (joven) Ale García - Macaria Ríos (joven) Brandon Peniche - Pablo Ramos Barragan †
 Erik Díaz - Fausto López-Guerra (joven) Christian Vega - Lucio Ramírez (joven) Ricardo Franco - Gerardo López-Guerra †

 Mexico broadcast  
As of February 16, 2015, Canal de las Estrellas is broadcasting Que te perdone Dios weeknights at 6:15pm, replacing Yo no creo en los hombres''.

References

Other websites 

Telenovelas by Televisa
2015 Mexican television series debuts
Convenience store

A convenience store is a small store that stocks a range of everyday items. These include groceries, snack foods, candy, toiletries, soft drinks, tobacco products, and newspapers. They may also offer money order and wire transfer services. In some places, corner stores are licensed to sell alcohol, typically beer and wine. 

They differ from general stores and village shops in that they are not usually in rural areas. A convenience store may be part of a gas/petrol station chain. It may be located alongside a busy road, in an urban area, or near a railway or railroad station or other transport hub. In some countries, convenience stores have long shopping hours, some being open 24 hours.

Convenience stores usually charge higher prices than conventional grocery stores or supermarkets. But convenience stores have gained market share. This shows consumers are willing to pay more for convenience. Convenience stores order smaller quantities of inventory at higher per-unit prices from wholesalers. However convenience stores make up for this with the convenience by having longer opening hours, serving more locations, and having shorter checkout lines.

References 

Retail markets
Penguins of Madagascar

Penguins of Madagascar is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated movie by DreamWorks Animation. It's based on the animated series of the same and it's a spin-off of the Madagascar franchise. It was released by 20th Century Fox on November 26, 2014. It was re-released by Universal Studios.

Release Dates

Video game

A video game titled Penguins of Madagascar, it has been to be released for Wii, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS.
Slugterra

SlugTerra is a Canadian computer animation television series by Nerd Corps Entertainment. The show first aired in 2012. There were 39 episodes in 2 seasons. The plan also called for three Slugterra movies. The second movie was release on August 2, 2014. 
The show airs on Disney XD in Canada and Disney XD Worldwide. The series was released on DVD in Canada by Entertainment Eone. It was released in the United States by Shout! Factory.

Plot
Eli Shane has made the trip down to Slugterra now he must battle Dr. Blakk before he ghouls evrey slug and turns them in to ghouls but no alone with Trixie, Kord and Pronto.

References

Other websites  
Website

Canadian_animated_television_series
Frankie Randall (singer)

Frankie Randall (born Franklin Joseph "Frank" Lisbona; January 11, 1938 – December 28, 2014) was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, vocalist, actor, and comedian. He was known for appearing on The Dean Martin Summer Show and Day of the Wolves.

Randall died of lung cancer in Palm Springs, California, aged 76.

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Comedians from New Jersey
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Deaths in 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in the year 2015. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Months".

 In each month, all deaths have the following requirements: the name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.


Months
 January 2015
 February 2015
 March 2015
 April 2015
 May 2015
 June 2015
 July 2015
 August 2015
 September 2015
 October 2015
 November 2015
 December 2015

Other websites
 The Guardian, UK obituaries
 Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
 Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
 The New York Times, US obituaries
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
 The Telegraph obituaries

Index lists
Odd Iversen

Odd "Ivers" Iversen (6 November 1945 – 29 December 2014) was a Norwegian footballer. He was known for his former record of 158 goals in Norwegian top tier football, as well as his still-standing record of 30 goals in a single season.

Iversen died in Trondheim in the early hours of 29 December 2014 from an unknown illness, aged 69.

He was the father of Steffen Iversen.

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2014 deaths
Disease-related deaths in Norway
Norwegian footballers
People from Trondheim
Hardo Aasmäe

Hardo Aasmäe (February 11, 1951 - December 29, 2014) was an Estonian geographer, entrepreneur, and politician. He was active in the Estonian People's Front. He was the first post-Soviet mayor of Tallinn, from 1990 to 1992.

Aasmäe died in Tallinn, Estonia, aged 63.

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2014 deaths
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Mayors
Antonio Brack Egg

Antonio José Brack Egg (3 June 1940 – 30 December 2014), was a Peruvian agronomist engineer, an ecologist, and researcher. He was the first Peruvian Minister of the Environment. 

Egg died after a brief hospitalization in Lima, Peru, aged 74.

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2014 deaths
Peruvian politicians
Civil servants
P. J. Byrne

Paul Jeffrey "P. J." Byrne (born December 15, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in movies, such as Horrible Bosses, Final Destination 5, The Campaign, The Wolf of Wall Street and Rampage.  He is known for the television roles, such as his role in The Game and Intelligence.

Other websites

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Living people
DePaul University alumni
American movie actors
American television actors
American video game actors
American voice actors
Actors from New Jersey
Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse (March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American actress and dancer. She was known for her roles in Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and Silk Stockings (1957). Charisse was born in Amarillo, Texas. She was married to Tony Martin.

Charisse died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. aged 86.

1922 births
2008 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American dancers
Actors from Texas
People from Amarillo, Texas
William Tyndale

William Tyndale (c. 1484–1536) was an English scholar. He is well known for his translation of the Bible into English, and for his later prosecution and execution.

He was influenced by the work of Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther. The spread of the Wycliffe Bible led to strong measures to keep translations in the hands of the Catholic Church. There was a death sentence for any unlicensed possession of scripture in English—even though translations in all other major European languages were accepted.

Tyndale's translation was the first English Bible to draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first English one to take advantage of the printing press. It was seen as a direct challenge to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1530, Tyndale also wrote The Practyse of Prelates, opposing Henry VIII's divorce on the grounds that it contravened Scripture.

A copy of Tyndale's earlier The Obedience of a Christian Man fell into the hands of Henry VIII. There, the king found the reasons he used to break the Church in England from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534. Meanwhile, the agents of Chancellor Thomas More were searching in Europe for Tyndale, who had taken refuge where he hoped the Church could not get at him.

Eventually, in 1535, Tyndale was arrested and jailed  outside Brussels for over a year. More himself was executed on 6 July 1535. In 1536 Tyndale was convicted of heresy and executed by garrotting, and his body was burnt at the stake. Two years later Henry VIII authorized the so-called  Great Bible for the Church of England. It was largely Tyndale's own work. Hence, the Tyndale Bible, as it was known, played a key role in spreading Reformation ideas.

In 1611, the 54 scholars who produced the King James Version drew significantly from Tyndale, as well as translations that descended from his. One estimate suggests the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's and the Old Testament 76%. In 2002, Tyndale was placed at number 26 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Last words 
The last words of William Tyndale, before being strangled and burnt at the stake: "Lord, open the King of England's eyes".

References

Other websites 

 The Tyndale Society.
 
 
 
 William Tyndale's Bible
 Documentary on how Tyndale translated the New Testament into English on jw.org

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1536 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Bible translators
Christian theologians
Deaths by strangulation
English Protestants
English priests
English Roman Catholics
English theologians
Executed English people
Former Roman Catholics
People from Gloucestershire
Protestant Reformers
Roman Catholic priests
Allier (river)

The Allier () is a river in central France, left tributary of the Loire River. It flows through several regions.

The Allier department is named after this river. In Ancient Rome, the river was named Elaver.

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

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Cuffy in the Cher department.

Course

The source of the Allier is in the mountainous region of Margeride, part of the Massif Central, on the mountain Moure de la Gardille in the Chasseradès municipality, Lozère department. The source is at an altitude of about .

The Allier flows, in general, to the north and passes through the following regions, departments and communes:

 Occitanie region
 Lozère: Langogne
 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
 Ardèche: the river forms the border between this department and Lozère.
 Haute-Loire: Alleyras, Auzon, Brioude, Langeac, Lavoûte-Chilhac
 Puy-de-Dôme: Brassac-les-Mines, Auzat-la-Combelle, Issoire, Coudes, Cournon-d'Auvergne, Pont-du-Château
 Allier: Vichy, Varennes-sur-Allier, Moulins
 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
 Nièvre: Marzy, Gimouille
 Centre-Val de Loire
 Cher: Cuffy

Finally, it flows, as a left tributary into the Loire river at the bec d'Allier ("beak of the Allier"), near the city of Nevers, in the limits between the Cher and Nièvre departments in the towns of Marzy, Cuffy and Gimouille, at  of altitude.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries, with a length greater than , of the Allier are:

Left tributaries:
 Chapeauroux - 56 km;
 Ance - 40.3 km;
 Alagnon - 85.9 km;
 Couze Pavin - 46 km;
 Morge - 68.4 km;
 Andelot - 49.4 km;
 Sioule - 163.3 km;

Right tributaries:
 Senouire - 63.1 km;
 Dore - 140.4 km;
 Sichon - 41.1 km;

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

Notes

References

Other websites

 Banque Hydro - Station K3650810 - L'Allier à Cuffy (Synthèse)  
 The river Allier - Loire Nature

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Centre-Val de Loire
Occitanie
Rivers of France
Blockade runner

A blockade runner is usually a lighter-weight ship used for slipping past a naval blockade of a port or strait. This is not the same as ships used to challenge the blocking ships to break the blockade. Very often blockade running is done in order to bring food or arms to a blockaded city. In other cases the blockade runners would carry mail in an attempt to communicate with the outside world. Carrying trade goods from blockaded ports is another function.

Operations 
Blockade runners are often the fastest ships available. They are usually lightly armed and armored. Their operations are quite risky since blockading fleets would not hesitate to fire on them. However, the potential profits (economically or militarily) from a successful blockade run are tremendous. Blockade-runners typically had excellent crews. Although similar to smugglers, blockade-runners are often operated by state's navies as part of the regular naval fleet. Notable users of blockade runners include the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and Germany during both World War One and World War Two.

In history 

 Peloponnesian War: there were numerous blockades. Leon of Salamis sent blockade runners to get reinforcements from Athens.
 Punic Wars: the Carthaginian Empire attempted to get around Roman blockades of its ports. Blockade runners brought in supplies, but eventually the Romans won out.
 American Civil War: during the early war the Confederate States of America had many successful blockade runners. By the time Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox blockade running could not make a difference and passed into history.

References

Other websites 
 The Blockade Runners
 Civil War Cat-and-Mouse Game

Ship types
The Iceman (movie)

The Iceman is a 2013 American crime drama thriller movie directed by Ariel Vernon. It is about the killing spree of contract killer Richard Kuklinski and mob boss Roy DeMeo.

It stars Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans, James Franco, and David Schwimmer. It is set during the 1960s and 1970s in New York City and New Jersey.

It was released to mostly positive reviews on a limited release on May 3, 2013.

2013 crime movies
2013 drama movies
2013 thriller movies
2010s crime drama movies
2010s crime thriller movies
2010s drama thriller movies
2010s serial killer movies
American crime drama movies
American crime thriller movies
American drama thriller movies
American serial killer movies
Antisocial personality disorder in fiction
English-language movies
Movies set in New Jersey
Movies set in New York
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American independent movies
Per-Ingvar Brånemark

Per-Ingvar Brånemark (May 3, 1929 – December 20, 2014) was a Swedish orthopedic surgeon and research professor. He was called the "father of modern dental implantology". The Brånemark Osseointegration Center (BOC), named after its founder, was founded in 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Brånemark died at the age of 85 in Gothenburg.

References

Other websites
Nobel Biocare Convention 2007 
Brånemark Osseointegration Center
Bacterial Persistence in Dentoalveolar Bone Following Extraction: A Microbiological Study and Implications for Dental Implant Treatment - Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research 
The man who made people smile - nobelbiocare.com  

1929 births
2014 deaths
Swedish scientists
Herbert Harris

Herbert Eugene Harris, II (April 14, 1926 – December 24, 2014) was an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia. His district included part of Fairfax County. He served as a representative from 1975 through 1981.

Harris died on December 24, 2014 at his house on Fairfax County, Virginia, aged 88.

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US Democratic Party politicians
Politicians from Kansas City, Missouri
Merrill Womach

Merrill Womach (February 7, 1927 – December 28, 2014) was an American undertaker, organist and gospel singer. He was known for founding National Music Service (now Global Distribution Network, Inc.), which provided recorded music to funeral homes across America, and for surviving a plane crash in Beaver Marsh, Oregon. It left him disfigured with third degree burns on his hands and his entire head.

Womach died in his sleep on December 28, 2014 in his birthplace Spokane, Washington.

References

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Marian Jurczyk

Marian Jurczyk (16 October 1935 - 30 December 2014) was a Polish politician and Solidarity trade union activist. He served as Mayor of Szczecin from 1998 through 2000 and from 2002 through 2006. He was born in Karczewice, Second Polish Republic.

Jurczyk died in Szczecin, Poland, aged 79.

1935 births
2014 deaths
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Walter Roque

Walter "Cata" Roque (8 May 1937 – 30 December 2014) was a Uruguayan-born Venezuelan footballer and entertainer. He played for the Uruguay national team. During his later career he coached the Venezuela national team. Roque was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Roque died in Caracas, Venezuela, aged 77.

References

Other websites
 www.conmebol.com Article about Cata Roque

1937 births
2014 deaths
Uruguayan footballers
Uruguayan football managers
Venezuelan people
Sportspeople from Montevideo
Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington

Brigadier Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (2 July 1915 – 31 December 2014), styled Marquess of Douro between 1943 and 1972, was a senior British peer and a brigadier in the British Army. His main residence was Stratfield Saye House in Hampshire.

He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford.

He was a member of the House of Lords from 1972 until 1999, losing his seat by the House of Lords Act.

The 8th Duke died at the age of 99 at his home in Stratfield Saye House, Hampshire, England.

Titles and styles
2 July 1915 – 16 September 1943: Arthur Valerian Wellesley
16 September 1943 – 4 January 1972: Marquess of Douro
4 January 1972 – 31 December 2014: His Grace The Duke of Wellington
(Netherlands): His Highness The Prince of Waterloo (4 January 1972 – 31 December 2014)
(Spain): The Most Excellent The Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo (4 January 1972 – 21 May 2010)
(Portugal): His Excellency The Duke of the Victory (4 January 1972 – 31 December 2014)

References

Other websites

 The Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot
 Debrett's People of Today

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2014 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British Army people
British people of World War II
People educated at Eton College
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Franc Veliu

Franc Veliu (born 11 November 1988) is an Albanian football player. He plays for Flamurtari Vlorë in Albanian Superliga and for Albania national team. Veliu is defender.

References 

1988 births
Living people
Albanian footballers
Edward Herrmann

Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 – December 31, 2014) was an American actor of movies and television, television director, narrator, and screenwriter. He won a Tony Award in 1976 and an Emmy Award in 1999.

Herrman was born in Washington, D.C.. He was raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He studied at Bucknell University and at the  London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

His career began in 1971. He was known for playing Franklin D. Roosevelt on several movies and television shows. He played President Roosevelt in Annie. He was also known for his role as Richard Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls. 

He also narrated several shows on PBS, Nova, and the History Channel. His last role before his death in 2014, was as a narrator for a television commercial in 2013 Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. 

Hermann died on December 31, 2014 of brain cancer, at the age of 71 in New York City.

References

Other websites

Golden Voices Herrmann

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Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin (16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician. Originally a Zionist activist in Eastern Europe, he later became Prime Minister of Israel. 
 
In 1941 he joined the Free Polish army. This is how he arrived in Mandatory Palestine in 1942.

In 1942, Begin joined the Irgun, a Zionist-Jewish paramilitary organisation, which was labelled as a terrorist organization in the 1940s. From 1943 to 1948 he was commander of the Irgun.

He was the founder of the Israeli political party Likud. He was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel.

Begin’s most significant acts as Prime Minister include officially declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel, imposing Israeli law on the Golan Heights destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor in Iraq controversially leading Israel through the early stages of the 1982 Lebanon War and most famously signing the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. For that treaty, Begin and Anwar Sadat shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

Begin resigned as Prime Minister in October 1983. He died on 9 March 1992 after a heart attack. He was buried on the Mount of Olives.

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Bill Woodson

William T. Woodson (born July 16, 1917) is a retired American voice actor. He was best known for his narration of the radio series This is Your FBI and the animated series Super Friends and all its spin-offs.

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Bill Maynard

Walter Frederick George Williams (8 October 1928 – 30 March 2018), better known by the stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor. He was born in Heath End, Surrey, England. He was known for his role as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the television series Heartbeat.

Maynard died at a Leicestershire hospital of complications from a fall on 30 March 2018 at the age of 89.

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Eddie Large

Eddie Large (25 June 1941 – 2 April 2020) was the stage name of Edward Hugh McGinnis, a British comedian. He was best known as a part of the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little. They starred in the very popular British comedy series The Little and Large Show.

Early life  
Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during World War II and after he returned from the war the family moved to a tenement in Oatlands. When he was nine years old the family moved again to Manchester, where he attended Claremont Road Primary School and a grammar school.

Personal life
After being in hospital in March 2002 with kidney trouble, he underwent a heart transplant at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge in 2003. He recovered fully. Large was hospitalised for weeks in late 2013 after tripping over a road sign near his Portishead, Somerset home.

Large died on 2 April 2020 of COVID-19 at a hospital in Bristol at the age of 78.

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Cliff Michelmore

Arthur Clifford "Cliff" Michelmore (11 December 1919 – 16 March 2016) was an English television presenter and producer. He was best known for the BBC television programme Tonight, which he presented from 1957 to 1965.

Michelmore died on 16 March 2016 in a hospital in Hampshire, England at the age of 96.

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Martin Crowe

Martin David Crowe (22 September 1962 – 3 March 2016) was a New Zealand cricketer, commentator and author. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1985, and was thought as one of the "best young batsmen in the world". A right-handed batsman, Crowe represented New Zealand from the early 1980s until his retirement in 1996. His cousin is actor Russell Crowe.

In 2012, Crowe announced that he is suffering from lymphoma. In 2013, he said that the cancer has disappeared. In 2014 however, Crowe announced that the lymphoma had returned and said that his chances of survival beyond a year were less than 5% and also of his wish to see the 2015 Cricket World Cup in February and March 2015.

Crowe died from complications of lymphoma in Auckland, New Zealand on 3 March 2016 at the age of 53.

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Ken Kercheval

Ken Kercheval (July 15, 1935 – April 21, 2019) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as Cliff Barnes on the 1980s television series Dallas and its 2012 revival.

Kercheval died of pneumonia in Clinton, Indiana on April 21, 2019 at the age of 83.

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Erwin Neher

Erwin Neher (; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist. His works focused on cell physiology. In 1991, with Bert Sakmann, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells".

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Bert Sakmann

Bert Sakmann (born 12 June 1942) is a German cell physiologist.  He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp. 

Sakmann was Professor at Heidelberg University and is an Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. He has also worked with research group at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

Sakmann was born in Stuttgart.

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Edmond H. Fischer

Edmond Henri Fischer (April 6, 1920 – August 27, 2021) was a Swiss-born American biochemist. He and his partner Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for their works on phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.  From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council.

Fischer died on August 27, 2021 in Seattle, Washington at the age of 101.

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Peter Mansfield

Sir Peter Mansfield FRS, (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was an English physicist. He was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He shared with Paul Lauterbur. He was known for his discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.

Personal life
Mansfield was born in Lambeth, London. He studied at Queen Mary College, London. Mansfield graduated with a BSc from Queen Mary's in 1959.

Mansfield died in Nottingham, England on 8 February 2017, aged 83.

Awards and honours

 1983 Gold Medal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
 1984 Joint award of the Royal Society Welcome Foundation Gold Medal and Prize.
 1986 Elected Fellow of Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary and Westfield College), London University
 1987 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
 1987 Elected President of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
 1988 Awarded Duddell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics
 1988 Awarded Silvanus Thompson Medal by the British Institute of Radiology
 1989 Antoine Béclère Medal from the International Society of Radiology and the Antoine Béclère Institute in Paris
 1990 Royal Society Mullard Award (joint with John Mallard & Jim Hutchinson)
 1992 International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) prize (joint with P. Lauterbur)
 1993 Knighted
 1993 Silver Plaque of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
 1993 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology and Honorary Member of the British Institute of Radiology
 1994 Elected Honorary Member of the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fellow of the Society of Magnetic Resonance
 1995 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Prize for MRI
 1995 Gold Medal of the European Congress of Radiology and the European Association of Radiology
 1997 Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics
 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Medicine with Paul Lauterbur
 2009 was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ceremony broadcast on ITV's Pride of Britain Awards

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Thomas C. Südhof

Thomas Christian Südhof (born December 22, 1955),ForMemRS, is a German-American biochemist. He is known for his study of synaptic transmission.

Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on vesicle trafficking.

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John O'Keefe

John O'Keefe, FRS FMedSci (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist. He is a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He is one of the most notable alumni of City College of New York.

Biography 
O'Keefe is known for his discovery of place cells in the hippocampus. He discovered that they show a kind of coding for places. This is a positioning system, an “inner GPS” in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space.

In 2014, he received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience "for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition", together with Brenda Milner and Marcus Raichle. He shared the one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, who shared the other half jointly.

O’Keefe and his student Jonathan Dostrovsky discovered place cells by systematically analyzing the environmental factors influencing the firing properties of individual hippocampal neurons.

Publications 
His many publications on place cells have been highly cited. In addition, he published an influential book with Lynn Nadel, proposing the functional role of the hippocampus as a cognitive map for spatial memory function. In extensions of his  work, place cells have been analyzed experimentally or simulated in models in hundreds of papers.

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Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier  (20 November 1841 – 17 February 1919), known as Wilfrid Laurier (; ), was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911.

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 Wilfrid Laurier on the platform; collection of the principal speeches made in Parliament or before the people, since his entry into active politics in 1871; by Wilfrid Laurier at archive.org
 Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier vol 1. at archive.org
 Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier vol 2. at archive.org
 Article on Sir Wilfrid Laurier from The Canadian Encyclopedia 
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Robert Borden

Sir Robert Laird Borden  (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920. He was the third Nova Scotian to hold this office.

After retiring from public life, he served as the chancellor of Queen's University. His portrait appears on Canadian $100 bills produced since 1976.

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Arthur Meighen

Arthur Meighen  (; 16 June 1874 – 5 August 1960) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada, in office from July 1920 to December 1921 and again from June to September 1926. 

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948. A Liberal with 22 years in office, he was the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history.

King died on July 22, 1950, at Kingsmere from pneumonia, aged 75. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

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R. B. Bennett

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett,  (3 July 1870 – 26 June 1947), was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician. He was the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.

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Louis St. Laurent

Louis Stephen St. Laurent  (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent; 1 February 1882 – 25 July 1973) was the 12th prime minister of Canada, from 15 November 1948 to 21 June 1957. 

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John Diefenbaker

John George Diefenbaker   (September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada from June 21, 1957 to April 22, 1963.

Diefenbaker was known for his passing laws meant to reduce racial discrimination.

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Pope Boniface VI

Pope Boniface VI (; 806 – April 896) was the bishop of Rome. He was Pope of the Papal States in April 896. He was from Rome.

His election came about as a result of riots soon after the death of Pope Formosus. After a pontificate of fifteen days, he is said by some to have died of the gout.

John IX, in 898, said that his election was null and void.

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Pope Clement VI

Pope Clement VI (; 1291 – 6 December 1352), born Pierre Roger, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 7 May 1342 to his death in 1352. He was the fourth Avignon pope. 

Clement reigned during the Black Death (1348–1350), during which he said all who died of the plague would not go to hell.

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Pope Formosus

Pope Formosus (896) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 6 October 891 to his death. His reign as pope was troubled, marked by power struggles over the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Kingdom of West Francia, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Papacy
During his papacy, Formosus also had to side with the Saracens, who were attacking Lazio. On 4 April 896, Formosus died. He was replaced by Boniface VI, whose papacy lasted 15 days.

Trial
He sided with Arnulf of Carinthia against Lambert of Spoleto. He was accused of perjury and was put on trial. As a result, Formosus's remains were exhumed and put on trial in the Cadaver Synod. He was found guilty and his body was buried many times at a nearby river.

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Pope Stephen VI

Pope Stephen VI (; died August 897) was the bishop of Rome. He was Pope of the Papal States from 22 May 896 to his death. He is best known for fighting the Cadaver Synod, which ultimately led to his downfall and death.

Stephen VI was strangled to death by protesters.

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Omar Karami

Omar Abdul Hamid Karami (‎; 7 September 1934 – 1 January 2015) was a Lebanese politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon twice: from 24 December 1990 to 13 May 1992 and from 26 October 2004 to 19 April 2005.

Karami was born in An Nouri, near Tripoli, French Mandate of Lebanon to a Muslim family. He studied at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. His son, Faisal, also became a politician.

Karami died after a long illness on 1 January 2015 in Beirut, aged 80.

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Megan Connolly

Megan Jennifer Connolly (9 April 1974 – 6 September 2001) was an Australian actress. She was best known for her role as Rebecca Nash, replacing Belinda Emmett, in the television series Home and Away. She also appeared in other television productions such as Paradise Beach. In 1990, she starred in the movie The Crossing with Russell Crowe. She later became a television announcer.

Connolly was born in New South Wales and was of Irish ancestry.

Connolly died from a heroin overdose on 6 September 2001, aged 27.

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Stitching awl

A stitching awl is a simple tool to punch holes in leather or other material. It can also be used to make holes larger. 

The awl is used for sewing leather or canvas. It has a thin, tapered metal shaft, coming to a sharp point, either straight or slightly bent. These shafts usually have an eye piercing at the pointed end. This helps to draw thread through holes for lock stitch sewing by hand. They are also called sewing awls.

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