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Armistice of Villafranca

The armistice and preliminaries of Villafranca were signed on 11 July 1859 in Villafranca di Verona , in the Veneto , by France and Austria. It put an end to the Austro-Franco-Sardinian War which constitutes for Italy, the second Italian War of Independence.

After the difficult battles of Magenta (4 June) and Solferino (24 June), Napoleon III , without consulting his Sardinian ally Cavour , proposed the armistice on 8 July and an interview on 11 July with the Emperor of Austria François- Joseph I st. Although victorious, Napoleon III was frightened by the hecatomb (nearly 40,000 killed or wounded at Solferino) and the idea of having to continue an autumn and winter campaign against the Austrians entrenched in the quadrilateral. Moreover, the government and the Empress send him alarming information about the state of French opinion, Which is execrable. In particular, the Catholics, hitherto supported by the imperial regime, fear for the Papal States and the Pope's independence if Austria were eliminated from Italy. Finally, an anti-French feeling spread in Germany, where the Austrians were supported. The number of Prussian deaths is nearly 400 000 soldiers near the Rhine, stripped of French troops.

In Villafranca, it is agreed that Austria cedes Lombardy (except Mantua and Peschiera) to France, which restores it to the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. An Italian confederation under the presidency of Pope Pius IX was created, the Veneto under Austrian sovereignty being part of it. The dukes of Modena , Parma, and Tuscany, driven away by revolutions, found their thrones.

Cavour, not consulted, resigned on 10 July, while King Victor-Emmanuel II gave his agreement "in a personal capacity", thus leaving the door open to any governmental retraction.

These preliminaries were confirmed by the Treaty of Zurich of 11 November 1859.

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Whatawhata

Whatawhata is a village in the region of Waikato, on the North Island of New Zealand. It had 2,475 people in 2013.

It lies on the eastern side of the Waipa River.

State Highways 23 and 39 cross each other at Whatawhata.

Villages
Settlements in New Zealand
Il macigno

Il macigno (The Rock) is an Italian opera in two or three acts, music by Victor de Sabata and libretto by Alberto Colantuoni, It was first performed in Milan, on March 31, 1917. Then in 1935 in Turin, the work was renamed with the title changed to Driada, unfortunately the score disappeared in the fire bombing of the World War II in Milan in 1943, but remained a score for voice and piano, and the complete libretto.

Principal characters

 Driada - soprano
 Ibetto - tenor
 Martano - baritone
 Gian della Tolfa - bass

Structure of opera

Act I 
 Preludio e Introduzione : Chi gunge per Santa Palazia? (Coro, Lionetta, Martano)
 Empirò la tua soglia (Lionetta, Driada, Coro)
 Fiata il vespro sui clivi (Coro)
 Driada, Driada! (Martano, Driada, Búttaro)
 Posa il tuo ferro (Gian della Tolfa, Coro, Martano)
 Per la sera fasciata (Driada, Ibetto)
 A la catasta! (Martano, Driada, Ibetto)

Act II; Part One 
 Levata, s'è la stella – Driada (Ibetto, Driada)
 Scendono! – E la pieve rintocca a mattutino (Lionetta, Donne)
 Genti del monte (Gian della Tolfa, Priore, Coro)
 Falce, mia falce! – (Martano)
 Orsù disciogliete l'abbraccio! (Gian della Tolfa, Martano, Coro, Allodio Fosca, Gancitello)

Act II; Part Two or Act III 
 Giunto sei? (Gianni Ocricchio, Gabaldo di Norcia, Smozzato, Fusco Cammarese, Ibetto)
 Immota sei ma viva, creatura?! (Ibetto, Driada)
 Ah no! È febbre! Follia! (Ibetto, Driada, Martano, Coro)

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1910s operas
Elbert Roest

Elbert Jan Roest (born October 13, 1954 in Hoogezand) is a Dutch politician of Democrats 66 (D66). He is also a historian and a former teacher.

He has started his political career in the municipality of Doesburg (province of Gelderland). In this city he was a councillor and an alderman, from 1992 to 2002.

Afterwards he became mayor in Laren (province of North Holland). Since September 2017 he has been mayor of Bloemendaal (also in North Holland).

Roest studied history at the University of Groningen, and worked several years as a history teacher. Furthermore he was involved in examination development, the so-called CITO.

He is a member of the European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO), and participates in history writing about Balkan and former Soviet countries.

References 
  www.laren.nl 

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Neoplasm

A neoplasm (or neoplasm) is tissue that is growing where it should not be. If they become a mass, they become a tumour. Tumours are either malignant (harmful) or benign (safe).  Cancer, for example is malignant and sometimes spreads to other places on the body. Some tumours have a cause that makes them grow. For some tumours no cause is known. A tumour usually forms as a lump or mass.  

The Tasmanian Devils in Tasmania, Australia are in danger of becoming extinct because of a malignant tumour that grows on their face.

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Lockheed P-3 Orion

The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a Lockheed made four engined aircaft with varitions such as the P-3K, P-3C, P-3As and more. Mostly used as Maritime patrol aircraft due to the probe located at the rear of the aircraft where you would find the APU on other Aircraft. The aircraft runs on Rolls Royce Allison T56-A-14 engine with Hamilton Standard 54H60-77 propeller.

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Newton N. Minow

Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American attorney and former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission.  His speech calling to television as a "vast wasteland" is still used even as the speech has passed its 50th anniversary.

While still maintaining a law practice, Minow is currently the Honorary Consul General of Singapore in Chicago.

Minow has been active in Democratic party politics.  He is an influential attorney in private practice concerning telecommunications law and is active in many nonprofit, civic, and educational institutions.

President Barack Obama named him a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for 2016.

References

Other websites

 Complete text and audio of the "Vast Wasteland" speech from AmericanRhetoric.com
 
 American Lawyer "Lifetime Achievement" Award 
 An excerpt from Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future
 Newton N. Minow Papers at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research 
 

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Richard Garwin

Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist. He is widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.

Garwin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi.

In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Garwin with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Annotated Bibliography for Richard Garwin from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues 
Richard Garwin's personal web site
Garwin Archive
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 23 October 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 7 June 2001, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 24 June 1991, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
Garwin , documentary on Richard Garwin's life and work

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Hubert Hammerer

Hubert Hammerer (10 September 1925 – 24 March 2017) was an Austrian sports shooter. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in five rifle events and won a gold medal in 300 m 3 positions in 1960. He was the Olympic flag bearer for Austria at the 1964 Games. 

Hammerer died in Vienna on 24 March 2017, aged 91.

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Vasily Borisov

Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov (; born 12 December 1922) is a retired Soviet rifle shooter. 

He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five individual events and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. 

Between 1954 and 1966 Borisov won more than 20 medals at the world championships. At the 1954 World Championships, Borisov and his teammate Anatoli Bogdanov won 13 medals each, cleansweeping most rifle events.

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Hans Rudolf Spillmann

Hans Rudolf "Hansrüdi" Spillman (born 7 January 1932) is a retired Swiss sports shooter. 

Spillman won silver medals in the rifle 300 m three positions event at the 1960 Olympics and 1962 World Championships.

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Four the Record

Four the Record is the fifth studio album by Miranda Lambert. The album was released on November 1, 2011 through RCA Records Nashville.

2011 albums
Arun Sarma

Arun Sarma () (3 November 1931 – 27 March 2017) was an Indian writer. Sarma was one of India's contemporary playwrights and is known for his unconventional plays with some elements of drama. He also authored over six novels detailing the Assamese way of life.

Sarma was awarded the Padma Shri in 2010 in recognition of his contributions to Assamese literature. He has also been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998 for the novel Ashirbadar Rong (The Hues of Blessing).

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Ingeborg Rapoport

Ingeborg Rapoport (September 2, 1912 – March 23, 2017) was a German pediatrician. She was an important figure in East German medicine and, at age 102, the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree.

Early life
Rapoport was born as Ingeborg Syllm in September 1912 to Protestant German parents in Kribi, Cameroon, a German colony at this time.

Medical career
Rapoport studied medicine in Hamburg at the University of Hamburg in Nazi-Germany, but was denied a medical degree because her mother was Jewish. She fled Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States in 1938, where she completed her education in medicine. 

In the early 1950s, as a result of an investigation of her and her husband for un-American activities, she left the United States and eventually, after staying in Vienna for a year, moved to the GDR (East Germany). She became the first chair of neonatology in whole Germany and retired in 1973. She was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany.

Honors and awards
In East Germany, Rapoport received Habilitation in 1959. She was awarded the National Prize of East Germany as well as other awards. As a pediatrician, she helped to considerably reduce infant mortality in East Germany, which, during her active years was even lower than in West Germany.

In 2015, the Faculty of Medicine of Hamburg University corrected the injustice of the Nazi regime and awarded her a medical degree after an oral examination. She became the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree at the age of 102.

Personal life
Rapoport was married to Samuel Mitja Rapoport, whom she met in Cincinnati, Ohio. They had four children. Samuel died in 2004. She lived in Berlin. Rapoport turned 100 in September 2012.

Rapoport died on 23 March 2017 at her home in Berlin at the age of 104.

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Roger Wilkins

Roger Wilkins (March 25, 1932 – March 26, 2017) was an African-American civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist. He was a journalist for The Crisis and for a short time wrote for The Washington Post. Between 1966 and 1969, Wilkins served as the United States Assistant Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a history professor at George Mason University. 

In the 1990s, Wilkins was an anti-apartheid activist and strong supporter of Nelson Mandela. He protested many times for Mandela's release in South Africa during that time period.

Wilkins was a political writer and was known for writing Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism (2001).

Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan. He was married to Patricia King until his death. They lived in Washington, D.C..

Wilkins died on March 26, 2017 in Kensington, Maryland from complications of dementia, aged 85.

References

Other websites

Booknotes interview with Wilkins on Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, August 12, 2001. 

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David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. He was known for writing This Sporting Life and for screenwriting movie version. He also wrote plays most notably: Home and The Changing Room. Storey also wrote Flight into Camden and his 1976 Booker Prize-winning novel Saville.

Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art. In 1956, Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children. Hamilton died in 2015.

Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London from Parkinson's disease and dementia, aged 83.

References

Other websites
Information on Storey's plays 
Biography 

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2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election

The 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 26 March 2017. They were originally scheduled for 2018, but the previous political parties could not form a government. So early elections were called.

Before the elections, Boyko Borisov resigned from his prime minister position after the Bulgarian presidential election, 2016. 

In order for a political party to win seats, they must receive at least 4% of the popular vote.

The pro-European Union party, GERB, won the most seats. The Bulgarian Socialist Party gained the most seats, while the Reformist Bloc lost all of their 23 seats.

Opinion polls 
Below is the weekly average of opinion polls in 2017 towards the election. The dots at the end of the graph show the final results.

Results

Aftermath 

After the results, Boyko Borisov is expected to become prime minister again.

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Politics of Bulgaria
2017 elections in Europe
March 2017 events
Penelope Lively

Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (born 17 March 1933) is an English writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).

Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  She is also a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.

References

Other websites
 Audio slideshow interview  about Family Album on The Interview Online

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People from Cairo
Carl Icahn

Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American business magnate, investor, activist shareholder, and philanthropist. He is the founder and majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a diversified conglomerate holding company based in New York City, formerly known as American Real Estate Partners. Icahn is also Chairman of Federal-Mogul, an American developer of vehicle safety products.

Early life
Icahn was born in a Jewish family  in New York City. He studied at Princeton University and at New York University.

Business career
In the 1980s Icahn became known as a "corporate raider" after profiting from the hostile takeover and asset stripping of the American airline TWA.

Icahn has held many controlling positions in many corporations, including RJR Nabisco, TWA, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, Uniroyal, Dan River, Marshall Field's, E-II (Culligan and Samsonite), American Can, USX, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Imclone, Federal-Mogul, Fairmont Hotels, Blockbuster, Kerr-McGee, Time Warner, Netflix, Motorola, and Herbalife.

Political roles
Icahn endorsed Donald Trump for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump announced in October 2015 that he would nominate Icahn for Treasury Secretary if he were to be elected. However, this position went to Steve Mnuchin instead.

On December 21, 2016, it was announced that Icahn would serve as Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform under President Donald Trump. Icahn stepped down from the role in August 2017.

Personal life
From 1979 through 1999, Icahn was married to Liba Trejbal. In 1999, he married Gail Golden. He has two children including businessman Brett Icahn.

References

Other websites
 
 Profile of Carl Icahn – Forbes

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List of Dutch cabinets

This is a list of Dutch cabinets after World War II.

Cabinets

Political parties 
 ARP - Anti-Revolutionary Party (Dutch: Anti-Revolutionaire Partij), a predecessor of the CDA.
 CDA - Christian Democratic Appeal (Dutch: Christen-Democratisch Appèl), a Christian democratic party.
 CHU - Christian Historical Union  (Dutch: Christelijk-Historische Unie), a predecessor of the CDA.
 CU - ChristianUnion (Dutch: ChristenUnie), an orthodox Christian democratic party.
 D66 - Democrats 66 (Dutch: Democraten 66), a social liberal party, founded in 1966.
 DS'70 - Democratic Socialists 1970 (Dutch: Democratisch-Socialisten 1970 ), a split from the PvdA.
 KVP - Catholic People's Party (Dutch: Katholieke Volkspartij), a predecessor of the CDA.
 LPF - Pim Fortuyn List (Dutch: Lijst Pim Fortuyn), a former populist party established by the in 2002 murdered politician Pim Fortuyn.
 PPR - Political Party of Radicals (Dutch: Politieke Partij Radicalen), a predecessor of GreenLeft (GL).
 PvdA - Labour Party (Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid), a social democratic party. 
 PVV - Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid), a populist party, established by Geert Wilders.
 SDAP - Social Democratic Workers' Party (Dutch: Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij), a predecessor of the PvdA.
 VDB - Free-thinking Democratic League (Dutch: Vrijzinnig-Democratische Bond), a predecessor of D66.
 VVD - People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (Dutch: Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie), a conservative liberal party.

Related pages 
 Politics of the Netherlands

References 
 www.parlement.com
Finery forge

A finery forge is a hearth (a brick fireplace) used to make wrought iron by burning pig iron. Finery forges were probably used in the 3rd century BC. In the 18th and 19th century it was replaced by the puddling process.

History 
China made finery forges before 200 BC. Europe made finery forges around 1200 AD. Europe’s finery forges were worse than China’s until 1400 AD. Europe started powering their finery forges with water wheels. In 1700 AD, Europe made blast furnaces and started using puddling techniques

Types

German forge 
In Germany and Sweden most finery forges only had one fire used for everything.

Walloon forge 
Walloon finery forges were used in north Sweden and made oregrounds iron. Oregrounds iron was the best iron available in the 18th century.

Lancashire forge

Process 
Pig iron is melted, making a lump of iron called a bloom, and slag. The iron lump is then hit with a hammer many times. Hitting the iron with a hammer gets the slag out of the iron, so the iron can be used.

Iron
Cain

In the Old Testament of the Bible, Cain is the son of Adam and Eve: he murdered his brother Abel.

Cain was first and thoroughly a devout and faithful man of god, until his weakened mind was manipulated by Satan. 

(or Samael (Sammael , Sam-ael ) depending on which version of the written word is referenced, Samael can be a seperate entity; the bringer of death, or another name for Lucifer)

Cain, stricken with jealousy that his loving God would choose one man over another, allowed The Snake's words to twist his sanity and in a fit of rage he slaughtered his brother Abel.

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Arthur Blythe

Arthur Blythe (July 5, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. His voice had a vibrato and was within the post-bop sub-genre of jazz. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He performed under the label of Columbia, Enja, and Savant Records.

Blythe died of Parkinson's disease at his home in Los Angeles on March 27, 2017, aged 76.

References

Other websites
 
 All About Jazz: A Fireside Chat With Arthur Blythe

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Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria

Infanta Alicia of Spain, Dowager Duchess of Calabria (née: Princess of Bourbon-Parma; given names: Alicia Maria Teresa Francesca Luisa Pia Anna Valeria; 13 November 1917 – 28 March 2017) was a daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma, and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria. 

Alicia was Duchess of Calabria through her marriage to Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (1901–1964). She bore the title of Infanta of Spain from 1936, and took part in some of the activities that the Spanish Royal Family organises. 

Alicia was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in Madrid, Spain.

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Christine Kaufmann

Christine Maria Kaufmann (11 January 1945 – 28 March 2017) was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. She won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961, the first German to be so honoured.

Kaufmann was known for her roles in The White Horse Inn (1952), Rose-Girl Resli (1954), The Last Days of Pompeii (1959), Town Without Pity (1961) and in Escape from East Berlin (1962).

At age 18 in 1963, Kaufmann married Tony Curtis. They had two daughters, Alexandra and Allegra. The couple divorced in 1968.

Kaufmann was called the "most beautiful grandmother in Germany".

Kaufmann died on 28 March 2017 in Munich from leukemia at the age of 72.

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William Macpherson

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny (William Alan Macpherson; 1 April 1926 – 14 February 2021) was a Scottish High Court judge. He served as the 27th Hereditary Chief of the Clan Macpherson. In the late 1990s, Macpherson led the public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

Macpherson was born in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. He studied at Summer Fields School, a preparatory school near Oxford. He later studied at Wellington College in Crowthorne and Trinity College, Oxford.

Macpherson died on 14 February 2021, aged 94.

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Alaa Murabit

Alaa Murabit (born October 26, 1989) is a Canadian physician and leading international activist for peace processes. Murabit is an UN High-Level Commissioner on Health Employment and Economic Growth and one of only 17 Sustainable Development Goal Global Advocates appointed by the UN Secretary General.

Advocacy
Murabit is an Ashoka fellow, and the youngest recipient of the Marisa Bellisario International Humanitarian Award by the Italian Government, named the “International Trust Women Hero 2014” by The New York Times, “One of 25 women under 25 to watch” by Newsweek, a “100 Top Woman” by the BBC and the SAFE Global Hero.

Murabit’s TED Talk, released in July 2015, “What my religion really says about women” was selected as the TED Talk of the Day and one of four moving TED Talks you should watch right now by The New York Times.

Murabit received her Medical Doctorate in from the University of Zawiya in 2013. She went on to receive a Masters in International Strategy and Diplomacy with Distinction from the LSE in 2016 where her research focused on securitization processes, with a dissertation titled "White Man’s Burden: Disease, Security and the Stigmatisation of the Periphery".

Positions
In July 2016 Alaa was selected as an MIT Director’s Fellow and in January 2017 was named as a 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 for her work in Healthcare. In March 2017 she was appointed a Malala Fund board member.

References

Other websites
 http://webtv.un.org/watch/alaa-murabit-ngo-voice-of-libyan-women-on-women-peace-and-security-security-council-7533rd-meeting/4555308972001

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William McPherson

William McPherson (March 16, 1933 – March 28, 2017) was an American writer and journalist. He is the author of two novels, Testing the Current and To the Sargasso Sea, and many articles, essays, and book reviews. McPherson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 1977. He worked as a journalist for The Washington Post during his journalist career.

McPherson died at a medical center in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 2017 from complications of congestive heart failure and pneumonia, aged 84.

References

Other websites
McPherson's blog at Tumblr

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Janine Sutto

Janine Sutto (20 April 1921 – 28 March 2017) was a French-born Canadian actress. She was born in Paris, but raised in Montreal. In 1943, she was a founding member of the Théâtre de l'Equipe troupe and continued acting on stage through the early 1950s with Théâtre du Nouveau Monde.

Sutto was known for her roles in Kamouraska, Congorama, and in Route 132.

Sutto died in Montreal on 28 March 2017.

References

Other websites

 
 Janine Sutto  at The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Enn Vetemaa

Enn Vetemaa (June 20, 1936 – March 28, 2017) was an Estonian writer sometimes called as a "forgotten classic"  as well as "the unofficial master of the Estonian Modernist short novel".

Vetemaa published Small Novells : Tiredness (Усталость) (1967), Väike reekviem suupillile (written in 1967, printed in 1968), Munad hiina moodi (English: Chinese Eggs) (written – 1967–1969, printed – 1972). All together Vetemaa wrote ten "short novels" 

Vetemaa worked as a playwright. His play Õhtusöök viiele (Dinner for Five), first performed in 1972, and the comedy Püha Susanna ehk Meistrite kool (Saint Susanna or the School of Masters), first performed in 1974, showed Vetemaa’s sharp eye and witty lines; texts without which Estonian Theatre History would not be complete.

Vetemaa was born in Tallinn, Estonia. He died in Tallinn on March 28, 2017, aged 80.

References

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 Biography and Russian Translations of Vetemaa's works 

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Wim Schermerhorn

Willem "Wim" Schermerhorn (December 17, 1894 in Akersloot - March 10, 1977 in Haarlem) was a Dutch politician.

He was originally a member of the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and later of the Labour Party (PvdA).

He was prime minister of the Netherlands from 1945 till 1946, a member of the Second Chamber from 1948 till 1951, and a member of the First Chamber from 1951 till 1965.

Schermerhorn studied civil engineering at Delft University of Technology, and was also a professor at this university.

During World War II he performed important resistance activities, and had been imprisoned as a hostage for some time.

Schermerhorn belonged to the Remonstrant Church. He died in 1977, aged 83.

References 
  Bio at Parlement.com

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Hroðgar

Hrothgar is a character in the epic poem Beowulf. He is the king of Denmark and in the poem, his kingdom is under attack from the monster Grendel. When the warrior Beowulf arrives, he battles and slays the monster when he attacks the king's mead hall Heorot. After a night of celebrating, Grendel's mother attacks in retaliation for her son's death. Beowulf tracks her down to her lair and slays her, after which he returns to his native Geatland. Nothing is stated about Hrothgar after these events, but he presumably passes away.

Germanic mythology
Narcissus (mythology)

In classical mythology, Narcissus was a beautiful hunter from Boetia. The most popular myth about him features him falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, which he stared at until he died. His name is the origin of the term narcissism, which means a fixation a person has with their own appearance.

People in Greek mythology
Narcissism

Narcissism is a condition in which a person admires their own attributes through vanity or egotism. The term is derived from Narcissus, a figure from classical mythology who fell in love with the sight of his own face.

Related pages
 Arrogance
 Confidence
 Dunning–Kruger effect
 Megalomania

Psychology
Wiglaf

Wiglaf is a character in the epic poem Beowulf. He is the orphaned son of a warrior king who enters the service of Beowulf, who is now the king of the Geats. He assists the warrior king in his battle against a dragon which has attacked his kingdom. Beowulf is incapacitated, but Wiglaf comes to help him and eventually the dragon dies after it is stabbed (cut with a blade) in the throat. The old king is severely injured and asks to see the dragon's treasure. With his dying words, he crowns Wiglaf as his successor (as he does not have any biological children and all of his forebears have died). Beowulf is then burned in a Norse funeral and Wiglaf rules the kingdom.

Germanic mythology
Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology (Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft), shortened to TU Delft, is a technical public university in Delft, a city in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. It is the oldest and largest technical university in the Netherlands. It was established as a Royal Academy in 1842 to facilitate the education of civil engineers. It is the school that rapidly expanded its education curriculum and became a polytechnic school in 1864.

Later in 1905, it became an institute of technology, gaining full university rights. And, it got its current name in the year 1986. Further, in 2019, the university was ranked amongst the top 20 best universities for engineering and technology internationally and received the highest rank in the Netherlands.

With an area of around 161 hectares, the campus of the university is larger than Delft's city center and is considered one amongst the largest university campuses worldwide. It has about 21,000 students.

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1842 establishments
Delft
Technical colleges and universities in the Netherlands
19th-century establishments in the Netherlands
1840s establishments in Europe
Eindhoven University of Technology

Eindhoven University of Technology (Dutch: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), shortened to TU/e, is a technical public university in Eindhoven, a city in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands.

Eindhoven University of Technology was established in 1956.

It has about 11,000 students.

Its focus is on technology.

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1956 establishments in the Netherlands
Eindhoven
Technical colleges and universities in the Netherlands
University of Twente

University of Twente (Dutch: Universiteit Twente), shortened to UT, is a technical public university in Enschede, a city in the province of Overijssel, the Netherlands. It borders the municipality of Hengelo.

The University of Twente was established in 1961.<br/ > 
It was called Technical College of Twente (Dutch: Technische Hogeschool Twente) until 1986.

It has about 10,000 students.

Its focus is on technology and social sciences.

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Enschede
Twente
1960s establishments in the Netherlands
1961 establishments in Europe
Lilian Janse-van der Weele

Lilian Janse-van der Weele (born 1973 in Flushing) is a Dutch politician.

She has been a member of the municipal council of Flushing (Vlissingen in Dutch) since 2014, and also the first female politician of the Reformed Political Party (SGP).

References 
  Vlissingen Website 

1973 births
Living people
Dutch Calvinists
Dutch councillors
Dutch women politicians
People from Vlissingen
Politicians from Zeeland
Reformed Political Party politicians
Bellac

Bellac () is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. It is a subprefecture of the Haute-Vienne department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

Geography
The city of Bellac is near the Monts de Blond (some hills that are part of the Massif Central), in the northwest of the department. The Vincou river (a tributary of the Gartempe) flows through the city.

Bellac is at about  from Limoges,  from Poitiers,  from Angoulême,  from Bordeaux and  from Paris.

The commune has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune of Bellac is surrounded by the communes:

Climate
The climate of Bellac, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Bellac are known, in French, as  Bellachons (women: Bellachonnes), or as Bellacquais (women: Bellacquaises).

With a population of 4,117, Bellac has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Bellac

Bellac forms, with Peyrat-de-Bellac, the urban area of Bellac with a population of 5,281 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Bellac, formed by Bellac and Peyrat-de-Bellac, with a population of 5,281 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .

Administration 
Bellac is a subprefecture of the Haute-Vienne department, the capital of the arrondissement of Bellac and the administrative centre () of the canton of Bellac, with 18,178  inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Le Haut-Limousin en Marche ().

Twinned and partner towns 
Bellac is twinned with:
  Wassertrüdingen, Germany
  Sifoe, Gambia

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Bellac
 Communes of the Haute-Vienne department

References

Other websites

 City Council website 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Haute-Vienne
Alleanza Securitas Esperia

Alleanza Securitas Esperia, also known as Allsecures, was an Italian insurance company. It was formed in Rome in 1933 by Amedeo Natoli with a merger of Alleanza & Unione Mediterranea with Securitas Esperia, a part of the Assicurazioni Generali group. In 1965 it was the thirtieth Italian insurance company by total insurance premiums. It was merged into the AXA group in 1998.

References

Other websites
 Milano Finanza, Axa incorpora le società danni Uap e Allsecures, 1997 

Companies of Italy
Insurance companies
Castilleja School

Castilleja is an all-girls school in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1907 by Mary Lockey.  Castilleja is the only non-religious all-girls middle and high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. It goes from grades 6-12. Each grade has an average of 60 students. The school’s motto is “Women Learning. Women Leading.”

The schedule 
The schedule for the school rotates on a 5-day basis from Monday to Friday. Each class connects with a number. On any given day, there might be a different combination of numbers. The school day starts at 8:00 AM and 3:15 PM. Every Wednesday, there is something called Late Start. This means that the school day starts one hour later.

Uniform 
Every girl at Castilleja is required to wear a school uniform. There is a blue skirt or navy blue pants, and either a navy, red, or white polo. For the fitness class, the girls have to wear black shorts or leggings and a uniform shirt.

Middle School 
The girls learn multiple subjects in middle school. Middle school goes through 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Every student learns a language. They can learn either Spanish, French, or Mandarin. They take Fitness and Wellness. They learn physical and mental lessons. The students also are required to take English, history, math, and science. Each subject class consists of 14-15 students and one or two teachers.

High School 
The high schoolers can take a variety of classes, available on a course catalog. Classes vary depending on the level. Students can take APs or regular level courses.

Schools in California
1907 establishments in the United States
1900s establishments in California
Castilleja

Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.

Symbolism
Castilleja linariifolia is the state flower of Wyoming.

Selected species

References

Further reading

Other websites
  Native Plant Information Network: Listing of species in the Castilleja genus.
Jepson Manual - taxonomic description of the genus.

Parasitic plants
Lamiales genera
Linda Nolan

Linda Nolan (born 23 February 1959) is an Irish singer and actress. She is known as a member of the girl group The Nolans in 1974, along with her sisters Anne, Denise, Maureen, Bernie and Coleen.

As a member of the Nolans, she toured with Frank Sinatra in 1975, had seven UK top 20 hits (1979–82) and won the Tokyo Music Festival in 1981.

On 7 July 2014, she claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Rolf Harris in 1975 while The Nolans were supporting Harris in a tour of South Africa.

In March 2017, Nolan accidentally collapsed and broke her hip at home. During examination of her broken hip, she was diagnosed with an "incurable" form of cancer near her hip.

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1959 births
Living people
People with cancer
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Irish singers
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Kim Wyman

Kim Wyman (born July 15, 1962) is an American politician. She is the 15th and current Secretary of State of Washington, having won in the 2012 and 2016 state elections. Between 2012 and 2016, she was the only Republican elected to statewide office on the West Coast. 

In March 2017, Wyman was diagnosed with an early form of colon cancer.

References

Other websites
 Campaign website 
 
 Kim Wyman at Project Vote Smart
 
 
 Profile  from Thurston County

1962 births
Living people
People with cancer
Politicians from California
Politicians from Washington
People from Long Beach, California
US Republican Party politicians
Armando Nieto

Armando Nieto Vélez  (October 24, 1931 – March 27, 2017) was a jesuit priest and Peruvian historian. He was born in Lima, Peru.

Nieto was professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He was ordained a priest by the Society of Jesus, in Frankfurt am Main Cathedral, on August 28, 1964.  He was also the Director of the Peruvian Center of Studies Historic-Militar, Director of Riva Agüero Institute and President of National Academy of History.

Nieto died on March 27, 2017 in Lima from pneumonia, aged 85.

Related pages
List of historians by continent

References

1931 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
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Jesuits
Roman Catholic priests
People from Lima
Andrew Mlangeni

Andrew Mokete Mlangeni (6 June 1925 – 21 July 2020) was a South African political activist and anti-Apartheid activist. Along with Nelson Mandela and others, he was held as part of the Rivonia Trial. He was sentenced to life at Robben Island. He was born in Soweto. After his release from prison, he served as a member of parliament for the ANC from 1994 to 1999.

Mlangeni died on 21 July 2020 at a military hospital in Pretoria from an intestinal blockage, aged 95.

References

Other websites
 Mandela and Mlangeni

1925 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from bowel obstruction
South African politicians
Activists
Denis Goldberg

Denis Theodore Goldberg (11 April 1933 – 29 April 2020) was a South African social campaigner of Jewish descent. As a member of the South African Communist Party he was active in the struggle against apartheid and was imprisoned along with other key members of the anti-apartheid movement such as Nelson Mandela at Robben Island.

After the first non-racial elections in South Africa, Goldberg founded the development organisation Community H.E.A.R.T. in London in 1995 to help to improve the living standards of black South Africans. With the support of German friends, he established Community H.E.A.R.T. e.V. in Essen, Germany in 1996.

Goldberg returned to South Africa in 2002 and was appointed Special Adviser to MP Ronnie Kasrils, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry until 2004. In 2010 he published his autobiography, The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa (STE Publishers, Johannesburg).

Goldberg was diagnosed with stage-4 lung cancer in July 2019 while on a tour in Germany. He died from the disease in Cape Town on 29 April 2020, aged 87.

References

Other websites
Community H.E.A.R.T. .

1933 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
People associated with Apartheid
Communists
Jewish activists
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South African Jews
White South African people
Louis Beel

Louis Joseph Maria Beel (April 12, 1902 in Roermond - February 11, 1977 in Utrecht) was a Dutch politician.

He was a member of the Roman-Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later on of its post-war successor the Catholic People's Party (KVP) (a predecessor of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)).

Beel was prime minister from 1946 to 1948, and again from 1958 to 1959. He was also a government minister and a deputy prime minister. Both in 1946 and in 1948 he was a member of the Second Chamber for a short time.

He studied law at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and was also a professor in administrative law and public administration theory at the same university.

Beel was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1977, aged 74.

References 
  Bio at Parlement.com

1902 births
1977 deaths
Catholic People's Party politicians
Dutch academics
Dutch civil servants
Dutch jurists
Dutch Roman Catholics
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Government ministers of the Netherlands
Politicians from Limburg (Netherlands)
Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Plagues of Egypt

There were ten plagues in Egypt at the time of the Exodus:
They were:
 Water turned into blood
 Frogs
 Lice
 Flies
 Diseased livestock 
 Painful Boils
 Thunderstorm of hail
 Locusts
 Darkness for three days
 Death of firstborn sons

Old Testament
Barend Biesheuvel

Barend Willem Biesheuvel (April 5, 1920 in Haarlemmerliede - April 29, 2001 in Haarlem) was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).

Biesheuvel was prime minister from 1971 to 1973. He was also a deputy prime minister, a government minister, a member-parliamentary leader of the Second Chamber and a member of the European Parliament.

He studied law at the Free University Amsterdam.

Biesheuvel was a Reformed Christian. He died in 2001, aged 81.

References 
  Bio at Parlement.com

1920 births
2001 deaths
Anti-Revolutionary Party politicians
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Dutch Calvinists
Dutch jurists
Former leaders of political parties in the Netherlands
Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Former MEPs
Government ministers of the Netherlands
MEPs for the Netherlands
Politicians from North Holland
Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Free University Amsterdam

Free University Amsterdam (Dutch: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), shortened to VU, is a (Calvinist) public university in Amsterdam, a city in the province of North Holland, and also the capital city of the Netherlands.

Free University Amsterdam was established by Abraham Kuyper in 1880.

It has about 30,000 students.

Its focus is on all sorts of sciences.

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19th-century establishments in the Netherlands
1880 establishments in Europe
Amsterdam
Jelle Zijlstra

Jelle Zijlstra (Augustus 27, 1918 in Oosterbierum - December 23, 2001 in Wassenaar) was a Dutch economist and a politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP).

Zijlstra studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a economics professor at the Free University Amsterdam.

He was prime minister from 1966 to 1967. He was also a government minister, a member-parliamentary leader of the Second Chamber and a member of the First Chamber.

After his political career he was president of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank.

Zijlstra was a Reformed Christian. He died in 2001, aged 83.

References 
  Bio at Parlement.com

1918 births
2001 deaths
Anti-Revolutionary Party politicians
Bankers
Dutch academics
Dutch Calvinists
Dutch economists
Former leaders of political parties in the Netherlands
Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Government ministers of the Netherlands
Members of the Senate of the Netherlands
Politicians from Friesland
Prime Ministers of the Netherlands
Ensign (rank)

Ensign is the lowest rank of a officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy.

Military ranks
Aad van Dulst

Arie-Jan "Aad" van Dulst (May 9, 1929 in Rotterdam - March 5, 2001 in Hoofddorp) was a Dutch politician of the Christian Historical Union (CHU) and its successor the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

He was a councillor in Hilversum and The Hague, and mayor of Tietjerksteradeel and Haarlemmermeer.

Van Dulst studied theology at Utrecht University.

He worked as a journalist for regional newspapers, at NRCV radio, and as a director.

1929 births
2001 deaths
Christian Democratic Appeal politicians
Christian Historical Union politicians
Dutch Calvinists
Dutch councillors
Dutch journalists
Dutch mayors
Politicians from Rotterdam