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Gene Conley

Donald Eugene "Gene" Conley (November 10, 1930 – July 4, 2017) was a Major League Baseball pitcher and basketball player of the NBA. He was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Conley played 11 seasons from 1952 to 1963 for four different teams. Conley also played forward in the 1952–53 NBA season and from 1958 to 1964 for two teams in the National Basketball Association. 

He was best known for being one of only two people (the other being Otto Graham–1946 NBL and AAFC Championship, plus three more AAFC and three NFL championships) to win championships in two of the four major American sports, one with the Milwaukee Braves in the 1957 World Series and three Boston Celtics championships from 1959–61.

Conley died in Foxborough, Massachusetts on July 4, 2017 at the age of 86.

References

Other websites

BaseballLibrary.com: Gene Conley 
Baseball-Reference.com: Gene Conley
Basketball-Reference.com: Gene Conley
SABR Baseball Research Project: Gene Conley
Conley had twice as much fun at The Boston Globe

1930 births
2017 deaths
Boston Braves players
Milwaukee Braves players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Boston Red Sox players
Boston Celtics players
New York Knicks players
Sportspeople from Oklahoma
Joachim Meisner

Joachim Meisner (25 December 1933 – 5 July 2017) was a German Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was born in Breslau, Germany (modern Wrocław, Poland).

Meisner was the immediate past Archbishop of Cologne, serving from 1989 until his resignation was accepted by Pope Francis in 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Berlin from 1980 to 1989, and was created a cardinal in 1983. He was widely considered to be Germany's leading conservative Roman Catholic figure.

Meisner died on 5 July 2017 while vacationing in Bad Füssing in Bavaria of cardiac arrest, aged 83.

References

1933 births
2017 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Deaths from cardiac arrest
German Roman Catholics
People from former German territories
People from Wrocław
Roman Catholic archbishops
Jens Christian Skou

Jens Christian Skou (; October 8, 1918 – May 28, 2018) was a Danish medical doctor and Nobel laureate. He was born in Lemvig, Denmark. In 1997, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (together with Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker) for his discovery of Na+,K+-ATPase.

Skou died on 28 May 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark at the age of 99, five months short of his 100th birthday.

References

Other websites
Nobelprize.org - Autobiography of Jens Christian Skou
Nobelprize.org - Jens C. Skou's Nobel Lecture on "The Identification of the Sodium-Potassium Pump"

1918 births
2018 deaths
Danish chemists
Psychologists
Danish Nobel Prize winners
Strood railway station

Strood railway station is a railway station in Strood in Kent. The station is on the North Kent Line.

Railway stations in England
Medway
1856 establishments in Europe
1850s establishments in England
Rochester railway station

Rochester railway station is a railway station in Rochester in Kent. The station is on the Chatham Main Line.

Railway stations in England
Medway
Chatham railway station

Chatham railway station is a railway station in Chatham in Kent. The station is roughly a 10 to 15 minute walk to/from the Pentagon Shopping Centre and the high street.

Railway stations in England
Medway
1858 establishments in the United Kingdom
1850s establishments in England
John Rodriguez

John R. Rodriguez (February 12, 1937 – July 5, 2017) was a Guyanaese-born Canadian politician. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He served as the mayor of Greater Sudbury, Ontario from 2006 to 2010, and previously represented the electoral district of Nickel Belt in the Canadian House of Commons from 1972 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1993 as a member of the New Democratic Party.

Rodriguez died on July 5, 2017 in Greater Sudbury, Ontario of heart failure at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
 
 Text of Rodriguez's inaugural address as mayor, from the City of Greater Sudbury official website 

1937 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Guyanese politicians
Canadian mayors
Politicians from Ontario
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
People from Georgetown, Guyana
Choi Eun-hee

Choi Eun-hee (November 20, 1926 – April 16, 2018) was a South Korean actress. She began her movie career in 1947 in the movie A New Oath. For the next 20 years, she was one of the biggest stars in Korean movies and led the Shin Film company along with her husband, the director Shin Sang-ok. She was born in Gwangju, Gyeonggi.

Career 
According to the Internet Movie Database, from 1955 to 1985, Choi appeared in eighty-one movies. She received the award for best actress at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival in 1985, for her part in the movie Sogum.

Personal life 
In 1978, Choi and Shin, whom she had recently divorced due to Shin having committed adultery, were kidnapped in Hong Kong to North Korea by order of Kim Jong-il. Kim's plan was to have Shin work as his propagandist and for Choi to be the star. Shortly after agreeing to the demands of Kim, they were remarried at his recommendation. The couple finally staged their escape in 1986 while on a trip to Vienna, fleeing to the United States embassy and requesting political asylum.

Choi died on April 16, 2018 in Seoul, South Korea of kidney failure at the age of 91.

References

Other websites 
 
 Inside the mind of Kim Jong-il, BBC, July 21, 2003, retrieved January 29, 2006
 Kidnapped by North Korea, Mike Thomson, BBC, March 5, 2003, retrieved January 29, 2006

1926 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
South Korean movie actors
Crime victims
2019 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (also called AFCON 2019 and CAN 2019) was the 32nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. The tournament to be hosted by Cameroon, but on January 9th CAF changed the host. Egypt was the host of this tournament. It was held from 21 June to 19 July 2019.

Teams 

Because they withdrew from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, Chad is banned from the tournament.

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Group stage 
The draw took place on the 19th of October 2016 in Libreville.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Knockout stage

Final

References 

Africa Cup of Nations tournaments
2019 in association football
2019 in Africa
Sport in Cameroon
June 2019 events
July 2019 events
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group J

Group J of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament is one of 12 groups to decide what team will qualify to play in the final tournament. The group includes four teams: Egypt, Niger, Swaziland and Tunisia.

Table

References

Other websites 

 32nd Edition Of Total Africa Cup Of Nations, CAFonline.com

2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group D

Group D of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament is one of 12 groups to decide what team will qualify to play in the final tournament. The group includes four teams: Algeria, Benin, Gambia and Togo.

Standings

Matches

Goalscorers

2 goal

 Baghdad Bounedjah
 Assan Ceesay

1 goal

 Ramy Bensebaini
 Sofiane Hanni
 Sessi D'Almeida
 Stéphane Sessègnon
 Floyd Ayité
 Kévin Denkey

Notes

References

Other websites 

 32nd Edition Of Total Africa Cup Of Nations, CAFonline.com

2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group E

Group E of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament is one of 12 groups to decide what team will qualify to play in the final tournament. The group includes four teams: Nigeria, South Africa, Libya, and Seychelles.

Table

References

Other websites 

 32nd Edition Of Total Africa Cup Of Nations, CAFonline.com

2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
Gillingham (Kent) railway station

Gillingham railway station is a railway station in Gillingham in Kent. The station is on the Chatham Main Line.

References

Railway stations in England
Medway
Rainham (Kent) railway station

Rainham railway station is a railway station in Rainham in Kent. The station is in walking distance from the Rainham shopping centre. The station is on the Chatham Main Line.

References

Railway stations in England
Medway
Durchhausen

Durchhausen is a municipality of the district Tuttlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

References

Other websites 
 

Tuttlingen
Brusio

Brusio is a municipality in the district of Bernina in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Villages
Viano, Cavaione, Campocologno, Campascio, Miralago and Zalende

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Mr. Trash Wheel

Mr. Trash Wheel also known as the Inner Harbor Trash Wheel, is a trash interceptor. It removes trash from the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. It is powered by water and solar power. It moves through the water and sorts trash into a conveyor belt that empties it into a dumpster on the vessel.

Overview 
Mr. Trash Wheel removes garbage from the Inner Harbor. The garbage comes from the streets flowing into the water, particularly during storms. Usually the current from the Jones Falls river powers the wheel's movement. When the stream is slow it is powered by solar panels.

References 

Baltimore
Waste
Buchs, St. Gallen

Buchs is a small city in Werdenberg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website of the city of Buchs 
 

Municipalities of St. Gallen
Cities in Switzerland
B&Q

B&Q plc is a British DIY and home improvement retailing company in the United Kingdom. Its main offices are in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England. It is owned by Kingfisher plc.

It was founded in 1969 by Richard Block and David Quayle as Block & Quayle.

As of July 2017, B&Q has 300 shops in the United Kingdom.  

Since 2015, B&Q have been closing a number of stores, and converting some to outlets of Screwfix. The company also has some outlets in Ireland. Stores in Taiwan and China were unsuccessful, and closed down in 2007 and 2015.

References

Companies of the United Kingdom
1969 establishments in the United Kingdom
Buseno

Buseno is a municipality in the district Moesa in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

References

Municipalities of Graubünden
Pierre Henry

Pierre Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer. He was considered a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music. He was born in Paris. Among Henry's works is the 1967 ballet Messe pour le temps présent. In 1970 Henry collaborated with British rock band Spooky Tooth on the album Ceremony.

Henry died at a hospital in Paris on 5 July 2017 at the age of 89.

References

Other websites

 

Discography of vinyl records.
Pierre Henry at Virtual International Philharmonic 
Vinyl recording of prologuePsyché Rock (1967)

1927 births
2017 deaths
People from Paris
20th-century French composers
21st-century French composers
Ybbs

The Ybbs is a river in Lower Austria. Its source is on the Zellerrain Pass near Mariazell. 

Ybbs is also the common short form for the small town Ybbs an der Donau.

Rivers of Austria
Lower Austria
Oberthal, Saarland

Oberthal is a municipality in the district of Sankt Wendel in the state of Saarland, Germany. It is about 7 km northwest of Sankt Wendel, and 35 km north of Saarbrücken.

The Oberthal municipality exists of four settlements (people in brackets, as of 2012)
 Gronig (1,442)
 Güdesweiler (1,350)
 Oberthal (2,872)
 Steinberg-Deckenhardt (787)

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T. Berry Brazelton

Thomas Berry Brazelton (May 10, 1918 – March 13, 2018) was an American pediatrician, television host and author. He was the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Brazelton hosts the cable television program What Every Baby Knows, and writes a syndicated newspaper column. Brazelton has written more than two hundred scholarly papers and twenty four books.

In 1994, Brazelton won the first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Show Host.

Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas. He graduated in 1940 from Princeton and in 1943 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He died in Barnstable, Massachusetts on March 13, 2018, at the age of 99.

References

Other websites
 The Brazelton Institute
 The T. Berry Brazelton papers can be found at The Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

Emmy Award winners
1918 births
2018 deaths
American physicians
American television presenters
Writers from Texas
People from Waco, Texas
Zürich Airport

Zürich Airport (, ), is an international airport serving Zürich. It is the largest hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It is  north of central Zürich, in the municipalities of Kloten, Oberglatt, Rümlang, Winkel and Opfikon, all of which are within the canton of Zurich. It was opened in 1948. It is also known as Kloten Airport.

References

Other websites

 Official Website

Airports in Switzerland
Zürich
1948 establishments in Europe
20th-century establishments in Switzerland
Chalampé

Chalampé is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France. The town was founded by soldiers of Marshal Dubourg who in 1709 had beaten the Austrians under Count Claude Florimond de Mercy in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Athens, Ohio

Athens is a city in Ohio in the United States. It is the county seat of Athens County.

Cities in Ohio
County seats in Ohio
Cuxton

Cuxton is a village in Medway in South East England. It is on left side of the River Medway in the North Downs. It also has a railway station, Cuxton railway station.

References

Medway
Villages in Kent
Arrondissements of the Haute-Saône department

There are 2 arrondissements in the Haute-Saône department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

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

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of Haute-Saône are:

History
Since its creation, the Haute-Saône department has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the department with six districts: Jussey, Luxeuil, Lure, Vesoul, Gray and Champlitte with the capital in Gray alternating with Vesoul.
 1794 : only Gray remained as the capital of the department.
 1800 : creation of the arrondissements: Vesoul, Gray and Lure; the capital was moved from Gray to Vesoul.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Gray was eliminated.

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Haute-Saone
Adam Schiff

Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American politician. He is the U.S. Representative for . He has served in Congress since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party. 

Schiff represented the 27th and 29th Districts between 2001 and 2013, which included the areas of Alhambra, Altadena, San Gabriel, Burbank, Glendale, South Pasadena, Temple City, Monterey Park, and Pasadena. 

Schiff has become an influential voice for his party in the House of Representatives on foreign policy and national security issues.

References

Other websites
Congressman Adam Schiff  official U.S. House site
Adam Schiff for Congress 

 
 Biography at Ballotpedia
 Biography at NNDB
 Congressional profile at GovTrack
 Congressional profile at OpenCongress
 Congressional profile  at Roll Call
 Financial information (federal office) at OpenSecrets.org
 Financial investments (personal)  at The Washington Post
 Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
 Financial information (state office)  at the National Institute for Money in State Politics

1960 births
Living people
United States representatives from California
Politicians from Massachusetts
US Democratic Party politicians
State legislators of the United States
Larry Lieber

Larry D. Lieber (; born October 26, 1931) is an American comic book artist and writer. He is the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer, editor, and publisher Stan Lee.

Lieber is best known for scripting the first appearances of the Marvel characters Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man; for his long stint both writing and drawing the Marvel Western Rawhide Kid; and for illustrating the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man for many years and continuing as of August 2016. From 1974 to 1975, he was editor of Atlas/Seaboard Comics.

References

1931 births
Living people
American comics artists
American comics writers
Stan Lee
Writers from New York City
Johnny Gosch

Johnny Gosch (born November 12, 1969) was a paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa. He disappeared at age 12, while delivering newspapers. In the early hours of September 5, 1982, he disappeared on his route and was never seen since. Gosch is believed to be kidnapped. His mother got mail one morning in 1997 showing the photos of her kidnapped son and three other boys. Another paperboy disappeared where Johnny was kidnapped, named Eugene Martin, 13 years old.

His mother, Noreen Gosch, maintains that Johnny Gosch escaped from his captors and visited her in 1997, but now fears for his life and lives under an assumed identity. Gosch's father, John, divorced from Noreen since 1993, has publicly stated that he was not sure whether or not such a visit actually occurred. Authorities have not located Gosch or confirmed Noreen Gosch's account, and his fate continues to be the subject of speculation, conspiracy theories, and dispute.The case received publicity in 2006 when his mother claimed to have found photographs on her doorstep depicting Gosch in captivity. Some of the photos received were proven to be children from a case in Florida, but one boy in the photos was never identified. Noreen Gosch insists that boy is her son Johnny.

References

1969 births
Kidnapped American people
Des Moines, Iowa
Willi Reschke

Willi Reschke (3 February 1922 – 5 July 2017) was a German Luftwaffe ace. He was the recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II.

Reschke was credited with 26 aerial victories in 70 missions. In 1999, Reschke recounted his wartime experiences in print, published in English in 2005 as "Jagdgeschwader 301/302 'Wilde Sau': In Defense Of The Reich with the Bf 109, Fw 190 and Ta 152;" including writing about the late-war period he spent flying the exotic Focke-Wulf Ta 152 high-altitude fighter-interceptor designed by Kurt Tank.

Reschke died on 5 July 2017 in Berlin at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 Reschke, Willi (2011). Chronik Jagdgeschwader 301/302 Wilde Sau.
 Reschke, Willi (2005). Jagdgeschwader 301/302 "Wilde Sau": In Defense Of The Reich with the Bf 109, Fw 190 and Ta 152 (English). Atglen, USA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 
 

1922 births
2017 deaths
Nazis
German military personnel of World War II
Minos Kyriakou

Minos Xenophon "Minas" Kyriakou (; 31 May 1942 – 2 July 2017) was a Greek media and shipping magnate and businessman. He was the president of the Greek Olympic Committee and was the President of the International Olympic Academy (IOA, 2004-2009). He was elected to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) council in August 2003. He was born in Poros, Greece.

Kyriakou died of a heart attack on 2 July 2017 at a hospital in Athens, aged 75.

References

1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Greek businesspeople
Joaquín Navarro-Valls

Joaquín Navarro-Valls, M.D. (16 November 1936 – 5 July 2017) was a Spanish journalist, physician and academic. He served as the Director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984 to 2006. He was born in Cartagena, Spain.

His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of any one person in the Vatican during the long reign of Pope John Paul II, with the exception of the Pope himself. He resigned his post July 11, 2006 and was replaced by Father Federico Lombardi. 

On January 20, 2007, he was named president of the board of advisers of the Biomedical University of Rome, an office he occupied until his death.

Navarro-Valls died in Rome, Italy on 5 July 2017 of pancreatic cancer, aged 80.

References

Other websites

Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls  — official web site
Laudatio by Prof. María José Pou-Amérigo at the conferring of an honorary doctorate by the Cardinal Herrera-Ceu University of Valencia, Spain to Navarro-Valls
Interview on journalism and ethics 

1936 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in Italy
Spanish educators
Spanish journalists
Spanish physicians
Spanish Roman Catholics
Joan B. Lee

Joan Boocock Lee (Joan Clayton Boocock; February 5, 1922 - July 6, 2017) was a English-born American hat model and actress. She was known for her 69-year marriage to comic book writer Stan Lee. 

In the 1940s, Lee was a hat model in New York City when she met Stan Lee. In her later years, she became a voice actress and provided her voice in Spider-Man and Fantastic Four both in the 1990s. 

Lee died on July 6, 2017 in Los Angeles from stroke-related complications after being hospitalized for a week. She was 95 years old.

References

Other websites
 

1922 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Los Angeles
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Stan Lee
English voice actors
English models
American voice actors
American models
Actors from New York City
This Is How We Do

"This is How We Do" is a dance-pop and electropop song from American singer and songwriter Katy Perry. It comes off her fourth studio album Prism (2013). The song was released on August 11, 2014. It was the fifth and final single from the album. The remix has the rapper Riff Raff rapping on it.  She wrote the song with longtime collaborators Max Martin and Klas Åhlund, who produced it.

Commercially, the song hit the top ten in Canada and Israel. It also hit the top 30 in the United States, Sweden, Venezuela, Finland and Scotland. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of over one million copies in the US alone.

The song is about Perry's hangout routine with her friends. The video has Perry getting her nails painted and doing karaoke with her friends. Perry was accused of cultural appropriation for wearing black cornrows. The video has received over 600 million views on YouTube as of March 2018.

References

Katy Perry songs
Pop songs
2014 songs
Junior Johnson

Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr.  (June 28, 1931 – December 20, 2019), better known as Junior Johnson, was a NASCAR driver of the 1950s and 1960s. He won 50 NASCAR races in his career before retiring in 1966.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he became a NASCAR racing team owner; he sponsored such NASCAR champions as Cale Yarborough and Darrell Waltrip. He now produces a line of fried pork skins and country ham. He was credited as the first to use the drafting technique in stock car racing.

He was nicknamed "The Last American Hero" and his autobiography is of the same name. In May 2007, Johnson teamed with Piedmont Distillers of Madison, North Carolina, to introduce the company's second moonshine product, called "Midnight Moon Moonshine".

Johnson died at a hospice care facility in Charlotte, North Carolina on December 20, 2019, at age 88. He had Alzheimer's disease at the time of his death.

References

Other websites
Official website for Junior Johnson
Oral History Interview with Junior Johnson at Oral Histories of the American South
CanadianDriver.com Article on Junior Johnson
Junior Johnson Biography

1931 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
NASCAR drivers
Sportspeople from North Carolina
Bryan Avery

Bryan Robert Avery MBE RIBA (2 January 1944 – 4 July 2017) was an English architect. He was born in Berkshire, England. He was best known for designing the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

After his childhood years spent in Lymington in the New Forest, Hampshire, he studied architecture at Leicester College of Art (now the De Montfort University), followed by a MA in the History and Theory of Architecture at Essex University under Professors Joseph Rykwert and Dalibor Vesely.

Avery died in London at the age of 73 on 4 July 2017.

References

Other websites

 

1944 births
2017 deaths
English architects
People from Berkshire
Businesspeople from London
You Keep Me Hangin' On

"You Keep Me Hangin' On" is a soul-pop ballad from American Motown music group The Supremes. It was released in late 1966. The lyrics speak of a bad relationship the singer is trying to get out of. The song's signature guitar part comes from a Morse code-like radio sound effect.

The song reached #1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.

American music group Vanilla Fudge recorded a rock version of the song in 1967. It peaked at #6 on Billboard Hot 100. Their single version is almost three minutes long. The album version is seven minutes and twenty seconds long.

In 1986, British singer Kim Wilde had a version of the song. In June 1987, it hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100. The song also hit #1 in Australia and #2 in the United Kingdom.

References

pop songs
1966 songs
Nochebuena

Nochebuena (literally "good night") is the Spanish word for Christmas Eve. In Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines, the evening consists of a traditional family dinner. Roasted pig is often the center of Nochebuena for feasts around the world.

Holidays
Ancient Order of the Rosicrucians

Rosicrucianism, or the Rosicrucian religion, is a combination of many different religions. It has occult elements and other religious beliefs and practices. These include Hermeticism, Jewish mysticism, and Christian Gnosticism. Members possess what they believe is secret wisdom that was handed down to them from ancient times.

Religions
Buttelstedt

Buttelstedt is a town in the Weimarer Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is 11 km north of Weimar.

References

Other websites
White Christmas (song)

"White Christmas" is a popular song about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. It mixes sadness and comforts of home. The version sung by Bing Crosby is said to be the world's best-selling single.

The song has been covered and performed by artists including Jo Stafford, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Bette Midler. It has sold over 150 million copies.

The original version was released in 1942.

Irving Berlin's opening verse is often dropped in many recordings. However, the opening verse is included on Barbra Streisand, Darlene Love and The Carpenters' Christmas studio albums.

The opening verse has the lyrics:
          
 The sun is shining, the grass is green,
 The orange and palm trees sway.
 There's never been such a day
 in Beverly Hills, L.A.
 But it's December the twenty-fourth,—
 And I am longing to be up North

References

Christmas music
1940s songs
Pop songs
Frank Sinatra songs
Ouest lausannois (district)

The Ouest lausannois District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The capital of the district is Renens.

2008 establishments in Switzerland
Districts of Vaud
Homebase

Homebase is a British home improvement retailer and garden centre in the United Kingdom. Its main offices are in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

As of December 2016, Homebase has 255 shops in the United Kingdom.

History
It was founded by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's and Belgian retailer GB-Inno-BM in 1979, as Sainsbury's Homebase.

In December 2000, Sainsbury's sold the Homebase chain. 

In November 2002, Homebase was sold again, to GUS plc, where it became part of Argos Retail Group (later renamed as Home Retail Group).

In January 2016 it was announced that Australian retailer Wesfarmers would acquire Homebase. The transfer of ownership to Wesfarmers took place on 27 February 2016.

References

Companies of the United Kingdom
1979 establishments in the United Kingdom
Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut (district)

The Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District is a district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The seat of the district is the town of Vevey.

2008 establishments in Switzerland
Districts of Vaud
Hausen ob Verena

Hausen ob Verena is a municipality in Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

References

Other websites 
 
 Official website 

Tuttlingen
Leskovac

Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац, ) is a city in southern Serbia.

It is the administrative center of the Jablanica District. According to the 2011 census, the city has population of 60,288. The administrative area has a population of 144,206.

Images

Other websites

Cities in Serbia
Fontanella

Fontanella is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

References

Other websites

 www.fontanella.at 

Settlements in Vorarlberg
Lustenau

Lustenau (Alemannic German: Luschnou) is a market town in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is found in the district of Dornbirn.

References

Other websites

 lustenau.at 

Settlements in Vorarlberg
Balgheim

Balgheim is a municipality of the district Tuttlingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

References

Other websites 
 

Tuttlingen
Faoug

Faoug is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Calfreisen

Calfreisen is a former municipality of the district Plessur in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Calfreisen, Castiel, Langwies, Lüen, Molinis, Peist and St. Peter-Pagig merged into the municipality of Arosa.

Other websites

 Official Website  

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Chavannes-sur-l'Étang

Chavannes-sur-l'Étang is a commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Toronto, Ohio

Toronto is a city in Ohio in the United States.

Cities in Ohio
Tirano

Tirano is a city in northern Italy. It is in the province of Sondrio. It has 9,130 people.

Cities in Lombardy
Elm, Cambridgeshire

Elm is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. The population including Coldham, Collett's Bridge, Friday Bridge and Ring's End was 3,962 at the 2011 Census.

References

Villages in Cambridgeshire
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
Håkan Carlqvist

Håkan Carlqvist (15 January 1954 – 7 July 2017) was a Swedish professional motocross racer. He was born near Stockholm, Sweden. 

Carlqvist won the F.I.M. 250cc Motocross World Championship in 1979 as a member of the Husqvarna factory racing team. In 1980, he switched to Yamaha to contest the 500cc motocross world championship. He finished 3rd in 1981 and 1982. In 1983, he battled against Honda teammates André Malherbe and Graham Noyce to claim the 500cc world championship, on a Yamaha. In 1984, an injury stopped Carlqvist from contesting the title again. He raced for Yamaha until end of 1986.

Carlqvist died in Stockholm on 7 July 2017 of a heart attack at the age of 63.

References

1954 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Sportspeople from Stockholm
Pam McConnell

Pam McConnell (1946 – 7 July 2017) was a Canadian politician. She was elected to Toronto City Council in 1994 and most recently served as councillor for Ward 28 from 2000 until her death in 2017. She was born in England.

McConnell died on 7 July 2017 of respiratory failure at a hospital in Toronto at the age of 71.

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1946 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Disease-related deaths in Canada
Politicians from Toronto
Carol Lee Scott

Carol Lee Scott (20 December 1942 – 4 July 2017) was an English entertainer. She was best known for her role on British television in the 1980s and 1990s as "Grotbags". Throughout her career, Scott regularly performed on the international cabaret circuit, and prior to her TV work, she was a singer and released two albums.

Scott died of cancer in London on 4 July 2017 at the age of 74.

References

Other websites
 

1942 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in London
English television actors
English singers
English television presenters
Actors from Somerset
Heinz Schneiter

Heinz Schneiter (12 April 1935 – 6 July 2017) was a Swiss football player and manager. He was born in Thun.

Schneiter got 44 caps and 3 goals for Switzerland, playing all three games at the 1962 World Cup. He also played in Switzerland's 0–5 loss to West Germany at the 1966 World Cup. He scored against West Germany in the 1962 World Cup.

Schneiter coached FC Thun and BSC Young Boys.

Schneiter died on 6 July 2017 of coronary artery disease, at the age of 82.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
1962 FIFA World Cup players
1966 FIFA World Cup players
Deaths from coronary artery disease
Swiss football managers
Swiss footballers
Thun
Egil Monn-Iversen

Egil Monn-Iversen (14 April 1928 – 7 July 2017) was a Norwegian composer, pianist and businessman. He was born in Oslo. He was one of the most influential modern composers in Norway. He has had many important roles in Norwegian music, movie, opera, television, comedy and theater.

For some time he had so much influence in Norwegian culture that he got the nickname The Godfather, even though he has always considered himself a down-to-earth musician.

Career
Monn-Iversen owned a movie production company, a record label, and an agency for musical artists. He was the founder of the vocal group The Monn Keys. He was the CEO at the Chat Noir theatre and chairman at The Norwegian Opera and has since the 1960s worked in NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) and Det norske teatret (The Norwegian Theatre). He has written scores to over 100 Norwegian movies and TV series.

Personal life and death
Monn-Iversen was married to the Norwegian actor and singer Sølvi Wang until her death in 2011.

Monn-Iversen died on 7 July 2017 at the age of 89.

References

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian composers
Pianists
Norwegian businesspeople
People from Oslo
Crockett County, Texas

Crockett County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,719 people lived there. The county seat is Ozona.

Texas counties
Crosby County, Texas

Crosby County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 6,059 people lived there. The county seat is Crosbyton.

Texas counties
David Yewdall

David Lewis Yewdall (October 30, 1950 – July 4, 2017) was an American production sound mixer. He was born in Springfield, Missouri. He worked with Roger Corman on Battle Beyond the Stars and as the co-supervising sound editor on Talvisota. He published a book about the profession in 2007, Practical art of motion picture sound, which was called a "must-read for all students of film."

In 1996, he became a member of the board of NightPro Technologies Inc (NTI), a sound production company from Provo, Utah. He taught editing and sound at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts until June 2016.

His best known works are The Thing, The Fifth Element and Escape From New York.

Yewdall died on July 4, 2017 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from pancreatic cancer, aged 66.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in North Carolina
Educators from Missouri
Writers from Missouri
People from Springfield, Missouri
Dawson County, Texas

Dawson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 13,833 people lived there. The county seat is Lamesa.

Texas counties
Culberson County, Texas

Culberson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 2,398 people lived there. The county seat is Van Horn.

Economy

Blue Origin has a suborbital launch site (see Space exploration) about 25 miles north of Van Horn, Texas.

Texas counties
Delta County, Texas

Delta County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 5,231 people lived there. The county seat is Cooper.

Texas counties
Dickens County, Texas

Dickens County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 2,444 people lived there. The county seat is Dickens.

Texas counties
Duval County, Texas

Duval County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 13,120 people lived there. The county seat is San Diego.

Texas counties
Ector County, Texas

Ector County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 121,123 people lived there. The county seat is Odessa.

Texas counties
Bikini Bottom

Bikini Bottom is a town from SpongeBob SquarePants.

Locations

Homes 
 SpongeBob's Home - A pineapple house. In "Truth or Square", it is revealed that his home appeared on Squidward's garden. 
 Patrick's Home - A rock house.
 Squidward's Home - A tiki house.
 Mr. Krabs' and Pearls' Home - An anchor house.
 Sandy's Home - A treedome with air house.
 Plankton's Home/Chum Bucket - The Chum Bucket

Restaurants 
 Krusty Krab - A restaurant with Krabby Pattys.
The Chum Bucket - A restaurant that sells Chum, is run by Plankton and his robotic wife Karen.

Other 
 Goo Lagoon

Characters 
 SpongeBob
 Patrick
 Squidward
 Mr. Krabs
 Plankton
 Pearl

Fictional locations
SpongeBob SquarePants
Lea DeLaria

Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz musician. DeLaria was "the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier" with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show.  She is best known for her portrayal of inmate Big Boo on Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.

From 2015 through 2017, she was engaged to fashion editor Chelsea Fairless until they separated.

References

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1958 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American jazz musicians
LGBT actors
LGBT comedians
LGBT musicians
Lesbians
Actors from Illinois
Musicians from Illinois
Comedians from Illinois
LGBT people from Illinois
McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas was a major American aircraft manufacturing company. It was formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. In 1997 it merged with Boeing. The company designed and built a number of well-known commercial and military aircraft such as the DC-10 airliner and F-15 Eagle air-superiority fighter.

McDonnell Douglas was based at Lambert–St. Louis International Airport near St. Louis, Missouri. The McDonnell Douglas Technical Services Company (MDTSC), headquarters were in unincorporated St. Louis County, Missouri.

List of civil planes and propeller airliners by McDonnell Douglas 

 Douglas DC-1 
 Douglas DC-2 
 Douglas DC-3 
 Douglas DC-4 
 Douglas DC-5 
 Douglas DC-6 
 Douglas DC-7 
 McDonnell Douglas DC-8 
 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 
 McDonnell Douglas DC-10
 McDonnell Douglas MD-11
 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 
 McDonnell Douglas MD-81 
 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 
 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 
 McDonnell Douglas MD-87
 McDonnell Douglas MD-88 
 McDonnell Douglas MD-90

List of variations of civil aircraft 
 Douglas DC-2 was the basis for the B-18 Bolo
 Douglas DC-3 was the basis for the Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Lisunov Li-2, Nakajima L2D, Basler BT-67, Conroy Turbo Three and Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three
 Douglas DC-4 was the basis for the C-54 Skymaster, Canadair North Star, Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair
 Douglas DC-9 was the basis for the McDonnell Douglas C-9
 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was the basis for the McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender and DC-10 Air Tanker

References

Aircraft companies
1967 establishments in the United States
1997 disestablishments in the United States
List of Airlines of Finland

Finland has had a number of airlines over the years

Airlines 

 Air Åland, 
 Air100,
 Airlink,
 Finnair,
 Finnair Cargo,
 Jetflite,
 Nordic Regional Airlines Norra,
 Oulun Tilauslento,
 Snowbird Airlines

Former airlines 

 Air Finland
 Blue1
 Copterline
 Finlantic
 Finnaviation
 Finncomm Airlines
 Fly Lappeenranta
 Flying Finn
 Nordic Global Airlines
 Spear Air
 Söder Airlines
 Turku Air
 Karair
 Wasawings
 Wingo xprs

Finland
Finland
Finland
Air Åland

Air Åland Ab is an airline from Åland. Air Åland doesn't fly the routes by itself, it uses other airlines. Swedish airline NextJet has been operating the flights 

The company was based as an airlines in 14th of January 2005 and started flying 29th of October 2005 with Mariehamn-Helsinki-route. The company opened its 2nd route in 13th of March 2006. between Mariehamn and Stockholm (Arlanda). Air Åland ceased flying in 2012 because FlyBe started flying the Helsinki-Mariehamn-route.  

Also the company operates charter flights. Air Åland's flights' host used to be UAB Nordic Solutions Air Services with four Saab 340-prop airliners (Registration: LY-DIG, LY-ISR, LY-KXE and LY-RIK). The operator changed its name to Avion Express because the owner changed. After that the flights were handled by a Swedish Avitrans Nordic. During the winter 2008 Air Åland expanded its career with the Wingo xprs company. Wingo xprs started a route Turku-Tampere-Oulu, which was operated by Air Åland until 19th of June 2008. 

Nextjet starts flights from Mariehamn to Turku on the 2nd of April 2012, and it will be flown once everyday, except Sundays.

References

Åland Islands
Airlines of Europe
2005 establishments in Europe
2003 Russian Premier League

The 2003 Russian Premier League (Russian: Чемпионат России по футболу 2003, Chempionat Rossii po futbolu 2003) was the 2nd Russian Premier League season, and the 12th top division football tournament. CSKA Moscow won their 1st title, and Dmitri Loskov was the top scorer with 14 goals.

Table

Statistics

Top goalscorers 

14 goals

  Dmitri Loskov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

13 goals

  Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit St Petersburg)
  Valery Yesipov (Rotor Volgograd)

11 goals

  Aleksei Medvedev (Saturn Ramenskoye)
  Rôni (Rubin Kazan)

10 goals

  Roman Pavlyuchenko

Other websites 

RSSSF

2003 in association football
Russian Premier League
2000s in Russian sport
Maisie Williams

Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born 15 April 1997) is an English actress. She is notable for acting, and has won some awards.

She made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark of Winterfell in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones in 2011, for which she won the EWwy Award for best supporting actress in a drama, the Portal Award for best supporting actress, and the Saturn Award for best performance by a younger actor. In 2016, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos
"Oceans" – Seafret (2015)
"Rest Your Love" – The Vamps (2015)
"Sing" – Pentatonix (2015)
"Sunday" – Gardna (2015)

Video clip
Forever Chuck – Converse (2017)

References

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1997 births
Living people
Actors from Bristol
Actors from Somerset
British child actors
British movie actors
British television actors
Cuxton railway station

Cuxton railway station is a railway station in Cuxton in Kent. The station is on the Medway Valley Line.

Railway stations in England
Medway
1856 establishments in Europe
1850s establishments in England
Spencer Johnson

Patrick Spencer Johnson (November 24, 1938 – July 3, 2017) was an American author. He was known for the ValueTales series of children's books and for his 1998 motivational book Who Moved My Cheese?, which recurred on the New York Times Bestseller list, on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover nonfiction list. 

Johnson was chairman of Spencer Johnson Partners until his death in 2017.

Johnson died in San Diego, California on July 3, 2017 of complications from pancreatic cancer, aged 78.

References

Other websites
 whomovedmycheese.com - Johnson's main website

1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in California
Writers from South Dakota
Adriana Sivieri

Adriana Sivieri (born 21 June 1918) is a retired Argentine-born Italian movie actress.

Biography 
She also worked in radio and as a voice actor, dubbing foreign movies for release in Italy. She was known for her roles in Vanity (1947), Bitter Rice (1949) and in At the Edge of the City (1953).

Sivieri was born in Buenos Aires.

References

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1918 births
Living people
Argentine movie actors
Argentine television actors
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian voice actors
Radio actors
Actors from Buenos Aires
Lure

Lure may refer to:

Objects
 Lure (falconry), a chase object used in falconry
 Fishing lure, an object to attract fish
 Lur or Lure, a musical instrument

Geography

Albania
 Lurë, a municipality in the Dibër district, in Albania
 Lurë National Park

France
 Lure, Haute-Saône, a commune in the department of Haute-Saône
 Arrondissement of Lure, an arrondissement in the department of Haute-Saône
 Luré, a commune in the Loire department

United States
 Lake Lure, North Carolina

Film and television
The Lure (1914 film), an American melodrama on prostitution
The Lure (1933 film), a 1933 British film
The Lure (2015 film), a 2015 Polish film
"The Lure", a 1967 episode of Gunsmoke

Books
The Lure, a 1912 book by Lady E. S. Drower
The Lure, a 1979 book by Felice Picano
The Lure, a 2002 book by  Bill Napier
Lure, a 2003 book by Dilys Rose
The Lure, a 2014 book by  Lynne Ewing

Other uses
 Lure (horse), a racehorse
 Laboratoire pour l'utilisation du rayonnement électromagnétique, the operator of the SOLEIL synchrotron in Orsay, France

Related pages
 Bouhans-lès-Lure, a commune in the department of Haute-Saône
 Caudal luring, a form of aggressive mimicry in snakes
 Frotey-lès-Lure, a commune in the department of Haute-Saône
 La Neuvelle-lès-Lure, a commune in the department of Haute-Saône
 Lur, Iran (disambiguation)
 Lure coursing, a sport for dogs that involves chasing a mechanically operated lure
 Lurs, people of Iran who speak the Luri language
 Lurs (disambiguation)
 Lurs, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a commune in France
 Montagne de Lure, a mountain range in France
 Vy-lès-Lure, a commune in the department of Haute-Saône
Josephine Webb

Josephine Webb (born June 21, 1918) is an American electrical engineer. She was known as "switchgear". She designed an eighteen-inch, full newspaper size fax machine with superior resolution. 

Webb co-founded Webb Consulting Company with her husband, also an electrical engineer. She is one of the first female electrical engineers, and considered a pioneer by the Society of Women Engineers. At Purdue University, she was one out of a total of five women engineers.

References

1918 births
Living people
Engineers from New York
American inventors
Scientists from New York
Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls ( ) is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 50,193, down from the 55,593 recorded in the 2000 census.

It is across the Niagara River, across from the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and named after the famed Niagara Falls which they share. The city is within the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Western New York region.

References

Other websites

Niagara Falls Handbill Collection, 1838-1886 RG 551 Brock University Library Digital Repository
Niagara Falls Photo Album, 1906 RG 556 Brock University Library Digital Repository

Cities in New York
Halling, Kent

Halling is a village on the North Downs in the northern part of Kent, England, It consists of Lower Halling, Upper Halling and North Halling, It also has a railway station, Halling railway station.

References

Medway
Villages in Kent
Halling railway station

Halling railway station is a railway station in Halling in Kent. The station is on the Medway Valley Line.

Railway stations in England
Medway
Thailand TESOL

Thailand TESOL is an academic and professional association that helps teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). It is often called ThaiTESOL for short.

Annual conference 
ThaiTESOL has a conference every year with papers, keynote speakers, workshops, and social events.

Partners 
Thai TESOL has relationships with several other language teaching associations including KOTESOL and the Japan Association for Language Teaching.

References

Other websites
ThaiTESOL Home Page

Language education
Educational organizations