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Because You Loved Me

"Because You Loved Me" is a 1996 pop-R&B ballad by Canadian singer Celine Dion. Its lyrics are about the protagonist thanking a loyal loved one for guiding, encouraging and protecting her and for making her who she is. It was originally written for the movie Up Close and Personal. Diane Warren, who wrote the song (and others for artists like Cher, Aerosmith, Monica, and Lady Gaga), said the song was a tribute to her father. "Because You Loved Me" won Warren a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media.

"Because You Loved Me" is the second track on Dion's album Falling into You. The song topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and finished as the third-best performing song of 1996 there.  It also reached number one in Canada and Australia and reached number five in the UK.  It was certified Platinum in the US for sales and shipments of over one million copies.

References
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1996 songs
1990s ballads
Celine Dion songs
Pop ballads
Rhythm and blues ballads
Delirium (Ellie Goulding album)

Delirium is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding.  The album was released on 6 November 2015.  It features the lead single "On My Mind", which reached the top five in the United Kingdom and the top twenty in the United States.  The hit song "Love Me like You Do", recorded for the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, is also included on the album.  Delirium has reached number two on the album charts in Canada and the top three in the US, UK, and Australia.

2015 albums
Ellie Goulding
Pop albums
IPhone 6S

The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus are two smartphones designed by Apple Inc. They were released on September 25, 2015. They replace the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, respectively.  These "S" models have a rose gold finish. They have cameras on the front (5 megapixels) and back (12 megapixels). The screens are  for the 6S and  for the 6S Plus.  The storage capacities are 16, 64, and 128 gigabytes.  A new feature, Force Touch, is on these models and is also on the Apple Watch.  Live Photos is a new feature that allows users to take moving photos.

References

Other websites

IPhone
Mobile phones released in 2010s
Mobile phones with 4K video recording
Apple products released in 2015
Deaths in 2016

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2016. For notable deaths for each month, please see "Months".  Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


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

References

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

Index lists
Patricia Elliott

Patricia Elliott (July 21, 1938 – December 20, 2015) was an American actress. She was born in Gunnison, Colorado. She was known for her roles as Renée Divine Buchanan in the soap opera One Life to Live and as Countess Charlotte Malcolm in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in 1973.

Elliott died in New York City, from cancer, aged 77.

References

Other websites
 
 

1938 births
2015 deaths
Actors from Colorado
American stage actors
American television actors
Cancer deaths in New York City
Tony Award winning actors
Carol Burns

Carol Burns (22 February 1947 – 21 December 2015) was an Australian actress. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She worked in Australia and in the United Kingdom. She began her career in 1967. Burns was known for her role as Franky Doyle in the soap opera Prisoner.

Burns died of cancer at her home in Brisbane at the age of 68.

References

Other websites
 
 Queensland Theatre Company – The Glass Menagerie 

1947 births
2015 deaths
Actors from Brisbane
Australian movie actors
Australian stage actors
Australian television actors
Cancer deaths in Queensland
Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown is the capital city of Guyana. It is located in the Demerara-Mahaica region. It is the country's largest city. The population in 2012 was about 235,017 people.

References

National capitals in South America
Guyana
Settlements established in the 18th century
Joe Kittinger

Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and a USAF Command Pilot. He was born in Tampa, Florida. He set a world record for the longest skydive from a height more than . He was also the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean, alone, in a hot air balloon.

He was a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War and was a prisoner of war in a North Vietnamese prison.

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1928 births
Living people
American aviators
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
Colonels
Military people from Florida
People from Tampa, Florida
Prisoners of war
Duolingo

Duolingo is a free language-learning program. Its website and mobile apps are available to anyone with an internet connection plus a computer, tablet or smartphone. Duolingo can be used on iOS, Android, Windows 8 and 10 operating systems. Duolingo allows people to learn over 106 different language courses in 40 languages. There are over 500 million people learning a language on Duolingo.

History
The project was started by Professor Luis von Ahn and graduate student Severin Hacker. The main development language used was Python.

References

Other websites

American websites
Learning
Wyre Forest

Wyre Forest is a large, semi-natural woodland and forest measuring . It sits across the borders of Worcestershire and Shropshire, England. It is lightly managed.

Natural history
The forest has a variety of wildlife. It was much larger, but it still is one of the largest remaining ancient woodlands in Britain. The Forestry Commission looks after about half of today's forest. Two-thirds of the forest is a SSSI (1,753.7 hectares), and a further fifth (549 hectares) is a National Nature Reserve. The Dowles Brook flows through the heart of the forest, and the A456 road also runs through the southern edge of the woodland.

It is one of the largest areas of semi-natural (partially unmanaged) woodland in the UK. Wildlife species to be found in the forest include hawfinch, fallow deer, dipper, common crossbill, pied flycatcher, redstart, and long-eared owl among many other woodland birds and plants. The small but colourful moth Oecophora bractella has one of its few English populations here, and does not seem to occur much farther northwards.

The forest is an important habitat for adders, which have been the subject of a notable study.

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Forests of the United Kingdom
Worcestershire
Shropshire
Jan Góra

Jan Wojciech Góra OP (8 February 1948 – 21 December 2015) was a Polish Dominican Roman Catholic Priest, Doctor of Theology, academic and chaplain. Since 1997, he had been the organiser of the Polish Youth Meeting Lednica 2000 at the Lednica Fields. He was the animator for the academic chaplaincy centre "Respublica Dominicana" in Jamna. He was the author of numerous books and articles. He was born in Prudnik.

Góra died at the age of 67 in Poznań, Poland from a heart attack.

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1948 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Disease-related deaths in Poland
Polish Roman Catholics
Polish writers
Roman Catholic priests
Rolf Bossi

Rolf Bossi (10 September 1923 – 22 December 2015) was a German criminal defense lawyer. He was born in Munich. He was known for defending known actors such as Ingrid van Bergen and Romy Schneider, as well as notable criminals such as Jürgen Bartsch, Dieter Zlof, and Dieter Degowski. He also defended four former East German border guards who were accused of having killed Chris Gueffroy, who was trying to escape over the Berlin wall. He was considered to be one of Germany's best-known defense lawyers.

Bossi died in Munich, Germany from natural causes at the age of 92.

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1923 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
German writers
German lawyers
People from Munich
Hocine Aït Ahmed

Hocine Aït Ahmed (; (August 20, 1926 – December 23, 2015) was an Algerian politician. He was founder and leader of the historical political opposition, Socialist Forces Front, in Algeria until 2009. He was born in Ain El Hammam, Algeria. Arrested and sentenced to death in 1964, he escaped from the El Harrach prison on May 1, 1966. Exiled in Switzerland, he became a doctor of law.

Aït Ahmed died at age 89 in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 23, 2015.

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Other websites

1926 births
2015 deaths
Algerian politicians
Socialists
Laurence R. Harvey

Laurence Robert Harvey (born 17 July 1970) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Martin Lomax in the horror movie The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and as Dwight in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

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1970 births
Living people
Actors from Greater Manchester
Actors from Lancashire
English movie actors
People from Wigan
Dieter Laser

Dieter Laser (17 February 1942 – 29 February 2020) was a German actor. He is known to English speaking audiences for his roles as Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen in The Ogre, Dr. Josef Heiter in The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and Bill Boss in The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

Death 
Dieter Laser died twelve days after his 78th birthday on 29 February 2020. His death was not announced until a message to his official Facebook page was posted on 9 April 2020.

References

Other websites

Official Facebook site of Dieter Laser

1942 births
2020 deaths
German movie actors
German television actors
People from Kiel
Tom Six

Tom Six (born 29 August 1973) is a Dutch filmmaker. He is best known for his body horror movies, The Human Centipede (First Sequence), The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) and The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

References

Other websites

Tom Six at Rotten Tomatoes
Interview with Tom Six 
Tom Six on Twitter

1973 births
Living people
Dutch movie directors
Dutch movie producers
Dutch screenwriters
People from Alkmaar
Writers from North Holland
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is a 2011 British-Dutch black and white exploitation movie written, directed, and co-produced by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six. It is a sequel to Six's 2009 movie The Human Centipede (First Sequence). The movie stars Laurence R. Harvey and Ashlynn Yennie. It was followed by The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence).

Plot
The movie is about a mentally challenged English man, Martin, who watches and becomes obsessed with the first Human Centipede movie, and decides to make his own "centipede" made up of twelve people.

Response
It was originally banned in the United Kingdom by the BBFC because of its "revolting" content but was eventually granted an 18 certificate after over 30 cuts were made. The film was also banned in Australia for a short period of time. It is banned in New Zealand. The film received negative reviews for its plot, excessive gore and violence.

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Other websites
 
 
 
 

2011 crime movies
2011 horror movies
2010s sequel movies
Body horror movies
Dutch crime movies
Dutch horror movies
British crime movies
British horror movies
English-language movies
Movies about abduction
Movies about murderers
Rape in movies
Obscenity controversies
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)

The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is a 2015 English-language Dutch body horror movie written and directed by Tom Six. It is the third and final installment in Six's Human Centipede trilogy. It was confirmed to be in production in May 2013.

Starring Dieter Laser and Laurence R. Harvey, the leading actors from the first two movies, in new roles. It also stars Eric Roberts as The Governor. The Human Centipede 3 was released both theatrically and on video on demand on 22 May 2015.

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2015 horror movies
2010s sequel movies
Body horror movies
Dutch horror movies
American horror movies
English-language movies
Prison movies
Don Howe

Donald "Don" Howe (12 October 1935 – 23 December 2015) was an English football player, coach, manager and pundit. He was born in the Springfield area of Wolverhampton.

Career
Howe spent most of his playing career at West Bromwich Albion.
Howe joined the West Bromwich Albion ground staff after leaving school, joining the club as a youth player in December 1950. He turned professional in November 1952, but did not make his debut until 1955, against Everton. 

A full back, he played nearly 350 games for the Baggies in twelve years, as well as becoming a regular in the England team; he played in the 1958 FIFA World Cup, and won 23 caps in total.

Howe was signed by Billy Wright's Arsenal in 1964, and was made club captain. However, in March 1966 he broke his leg playing against Blackpool and never recovered well enough to play in the first team again.

Later life
Howe retired from coaching in the summer of 2003 after more than 30 years. He occasionally wrote as a pundit for the BBC Sport website. He also had a regular column in the official Arsenal magazine. Right up until his death he ran youth coaching schemes across the United Kingdom.

Howe died, aged 80, in December 2015.

References

Other websites

Englandstats.com profile

1935 births
2015 deaths
1958 FIFA World Cup players
1962 FIFA World Cup players
Arsenal F.C. players
English footballers
English football managers
English writers
People from Wolverhampton
Sportspeople from Staffordshire
Galatasaray S.K. (football) managers
George Clayton Johnson

George Clayton Johnson (July 10, 1929 – December 25, 2015) was an American science fiction writer. He was most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan, the basis for the 1976 movie. 

He was also known for his television screenplays for The Twilight Zone (such as "Nothing in the Dark", "Kick the Can", "A Game of Pool", and "A Penny for Your Thoughts"), and the first episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap". He also wrote the story on which the 1960 and 2001 movie Ocean's Eleven were based.

Johnson died of bladder and prostate cancer on December 25, 2015 at a hospital in North Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 86. His death was falsely reported on December 22.

References

Other websites

All of us are dying, but writer George Clayton Johnson is still living it up  (scifi.com)

1929 births
2015 deaths
American science fiction writers
American screenwriters
American television writers
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Deaths from bladder cancer
Deaths from prostate cancer
People from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Jason Myers

Jason Myers (born May 12, 1991) is an American football placekicker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Chula Vista, California. He played college football at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. In 2014 Myers played for the Arizona Rattlers and the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League. On March 3, 2015, Myers signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. On August 31, 2015, the Jaguars announced that Myers had earned the placekicker role on the team. Veteran Josh Scobee was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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1991 births
Living people
American football players
People from San Diego County, California
Trams in Malmö

The Malmö tramway is a former tramway network in the city Malmö of Sweden. It remains a network about 2 km as a historic line.

History 
The Malmö tramay existed between 1887 and 1973. It started service as a horse car. The horse cars had been replaced by electric trams since 1906. The last electric tram has been replaced by bus in 1973.

Lines 
 line 1 (red) from 1907 till 1967
 line 2 (blue) from 1907 till 1940
 line 3 (white) from 1906 till 1964
 line 4 (yellow) from 1907 till 1973
 line 5 from 1915 till 1928
 line 6 from 1916 till 1919 and from 1924 till 1949
 line 7 from 1918 till 1949
 line 8 from 1928 till 1930

Cars 
Originally the service had been provided by two-axle motor cars. From 1949, they had been replace by newer ones.

Museum Line 
At a length of 2 km, there still remains a line for historical purpose, it starts at Malmöhus and ends at the museum.

Literature 
 Andersson, Per Gunnar; Forsberg, Anders; (2006); Malmö elektriska spårväg 100 år; Stockholm: Trafiknostalgiska Förlaget

Other websites 

 Tram Malmö

Malmo
Malmo
Transport in Sweden
Freda Meissner-Blau

Freda Meissner-Blau (March 11, 1927 – December 22, 2015) was an Austrian politician and activist. She was an important figure in the Austrian environmental movement. She was a founder and the federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party. She was born in Dresden, Germany.

Meissner-Blau died in Vienna, Austria from complications following a stroke at the age of 88.

References

Other websites

Biography of Meissner-Blau by Wiener Zeitung 
2002 Interview with Meissner Blau  (2002)
2007 Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award: Freda Meissner-Blau 

1927 births
2015 deaths
Activists
Austrian politicians
Deaths from stroke
Greens politicians
People from Dresden
Politicians from Saxony
Jean-Marie Pelt

Jean-Marie Pelt (24 October 1933 – 23 December 2015) was a French biologist, botanist and pharmacist with degrees in both Biology and Pharmacy. He was professor at the University of Lorraine. As municipal councilor of Metz between 1971 and 1983, Jean-Marie Pelt pioneered a policy of urban ecology. Pelt was born in Rodemack, France.

Pelt died in Metz, France from a heart attack, aged 82.

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Other websites

1933 births
2015 deaths
French botanists
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Pharmacists
Lennart Johansson

Nils Lennart Johansson (5 November 1929 – 4 June 2019) was a Swedish sports official. He was the fifth and, to date, the longest serving president of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, from his election at UEFA's Malta Congress in 1990 until his retirement in 2007. He was made honorary president shortly afterwards.

He started as a leader in the sport of bandy in Sweden for his hometown team AIK. Johansson then came through the ranks in the Swedish Football Association, and served as the association's president between 1984 and 1991.

Johansson died on 4 June 2019 in Stockholm, aged 89.

References

Other websites
 Lennart Johansson profile at uefa.com

1929 births
2019 deaths
Sportspeople from Stockholm
Presidents of UEFA
Peter Lundblad

Gustaf Peter Lundblad (26 August 1950 - 22 December 2015) was a Swedish singer and songwriter. He was known for his 1986 song Ta mig till havet. Lundblad started his career in the band 'The most Remarkable Nailband'.

Lundblad died of prostate cancer on 22 December 2015 in Stockholm at the age of 65.

References

Other websites
Aftonbladet.se
Official website

1950 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Swedish singers
Swedish writers
Songwriters
Ray Mathews

Raymond Dyral Mathews (February 26, 1929 – December 20, 2015) was an American football running back and wide receiver in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1951-59) and the Dallas Cowboys (1960). He played college football for Clemson University. He was born in Dayton, Pennsylvania.

Mathews died at his house in Marion, Pennsylvania from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
Ex-Steelers Mathews keeps low profile

1929 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Dallas Cowboys players
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
Bronchodilator

A bronchodilator is a substance that dilates (opens up) the bronchi and bronchioles which increases airflow to the lungs. Bronchodilators may be endogenous (originating naturally within the body), or they may be medications taken to treat breathing difficulties. They are most useful in obstructive lung diseases. Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are the most common such conditions. They are also used to treat respritory blockages that usaully occur when you have the common cold. They are well prescribed by doctors and are really common in house holds. Although this remains somewhat controversial, they might be useful in bronchiolitis and Bronchiectasis.They are often prescribed but of unproven significance in restrictive lung diseases.

Types of bronchodilators 
Bronchodilators are either short-acting or long-acting. Short-acting medications provide quick or "rescue" relief from acute bronchoconstriction. Long-acting bronchodilators help to control and prevent symptoms. They are used along with inhaled steroids for control of asthma symptoms on a long-term basis. The three types of prescription bronchodilating drugs are β2-agonists (short- and long-acting), anticholinergics (short-acting), and theophylline (long-acting).

Common bronchodilators 
The bronchodilators are divided in short- and long-acting groups:

Short-acting bronchodilators 
Salbutamol/albuterol (Proventil or Ventolin)
Levosalbutamol/levalbuterol (Xopenex)
Pirbuterol (Maxair)
Epinephrine (Primatene Mist now withdrawn)
Racemic Epinephrine (Asthmanefrin, Primatene Mist Replacement)
Ephedrine (Bronkaid)
Terbutaline

Long-acting bronchodilators 
Salmeterol (Serevent)
Clenbuterol (Spiropent)
Formoterol
Bambuterol
Indacaterol

References 

Drugs
Osmany Juantorena

Osmany Juantorena Portuondo (born 12 August 1985) is a Cuban volleyball player with Italian citizenship, a member of Cuba national volleyball team in 2003–2006 and current member of Italy national volleyball team and Italian club Cucine Lube, bronze medalist of the World League 2005.  He is a multiple winner of the CEV Champions League and Club World Championship with the Italian club Trentino.

References

Other websites
 FIVB profile

1985 births
Living people
Cuban volleyball players
Henri Ducard

Henri Ducard is a fictional character in the Batman comic book universe. He was created by Sam Hamm. Ducard's first appearance was in Detective Comics #599 (April 1989), part of the "Blind Justice" story arc that Hamm, the screenwriter of the 1989 Batman movie, was asked to guest-write for Detective Comics by Batman editor Denny O'Neil. 

The character was the undercover name of Ra's al Ghul which appeared in the movie Batman Begins played by Liam Neeson.

References

Batman characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1989
Ron Jacobs

Ron Jacobs (December 27, 1942 – December 24, 2015) was an American basketball coach. He was born in Marion, North Carolina. He coached for college basketball teams such as Loyola Marymount University and for Northern Cement. He also coached the Philippine national team.

Jacobs moved to Pasig City, Philippines during the 1980s. He suffered a major stroke in 2001 which left him in a wheelchair. Jacobs died in Makati, Philippines from complications following the stroke at the age of 72.

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1942 births
2015 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Sportspeople from North Carolina
Carpetbagger

Carpetbagger is a term from the United States political history. A carpetbagger was a northerner  who moved to the South after the American Civil War. This period is called the "reconstruction era". 

White southerners feared they would loot the defeated South. Sixty carpetbaggers were elected to Congress. Among them were most Republican governors in the South during reconstruction. A historian said:

"Carpetbagger" referred to the cheap carpet bags (a form of luggage) which many of the newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders.  It is used today for a "parachute candidate": a political candidate for public office in an area far from home.

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Politics of the United States
Words
American Civil War
The Sims (video game series)

The Sims is a series of sandbox games in which you have a life and job. The game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The games also have expansion packs which you can download. If you download them you get extra content.

The Sims Games 
 The Sims (2000)
 The Sims 2 (2004)
 The Sims 3 (2009)
 The Sims 4 (2014)
There is also a series of SimCity games listed here

The SimCity Games 
 SimCity (1989)
 SimCity 2000
 SimCity 64
 SimCity 3000
 SimCity 4
 SimCity DS
 SimCity Societies
 SimCity DS 2
 SimCity Creator
 SimCity Social
 SimCity (2013)
Battle of Cannae

The Battle of Cannae ( or ) was a major battle of the Second Punic War. It took place on 2 August 216 BC in Cannae, Apulia, in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage, under Hannibal, defeated a larger Roman army. The Romans were led by the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. Hannibal's victory was one the greatest tactical feats in military history. It was also one of the worst defeats in Roman history.

After recovering from their losses at Trebia (218 BC) and Lake Trasimene (217 BC), the Romans decided to fight Hannibal at Cannae. The Roman army had about 70,000 soldiers. The Romans massed their heavy infantry in a deeper formation than usual. Hannibal attacked using a double-envelopment tactic. This was so successful that the Roman army was destroyed as a fighting force by an army half its size. About 45,500 Roman and allied soldiers were killed. Also killed were 2,700 Roman cavalry. About 17,000 were taken prisoner. Hannibal lost a total of about 4,000 men. Following the defeat, many of Rome's allies changed sides  and allied themselves with Carthage.

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210s BC
Punic Wars
Apulia
August events
Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Gastone Zeffiro Rossellini, (8 May 1906 – 3 June 1977), was an Italian movie director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Rome. He was best known for his movies Rome, Open City (1945), Paisà (1946) and Germany, Year Zero (1948).

Rossellini died from a heart attack in Rome, Italy, aged 71.

Other websites

1906 births
1977 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Rome
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Italian movie directors
Italian movie producers
Italian screenwriters
Television directors
Television producers
Television writers
Writers from Rome
Placekicker

The placekicker, also called a kicker, is the player in American and Canadian football who is responsible for the kicking duties of field goals and extra points. In many cases, the placekicker also serves as the team's kickoff specialist or, more rarely, punter, as well. A kicker is often called the most valuable player on the team. This is because in many cases, he scores the most points in a game. Each time his team gets to the 35 yard line or closer, they have a chance to score 3 points. Each time their team makes a touchdown, the kicker comes in to make the extra (1) point. A kicker is a member of the special teams.

Job requirements 
To be a kicker in the NFL requires strong legs. The kicker also needs excellent concentration and coordination. A kicker is the only member of a team who can move the ball with their feet. But the kicker is often the smallest member of the team. Probably the most important requirement is "nerves of steel". You have to kick the ball perfectly while being rushed by the other team.

Hero or ? 
The kicker is the only player on a team who has the opportunity to score points each time he goes out on the field. Kickers today often use a soccer-style kick instead of a straight ahead kick. If he makes a great kick he is a hero. If he misses he is a chump|. An entire game can be won or lost by the kicker. A kicker cannot afford to miss too many field goals or they can find themselves traded off the team.

References

Other websites 
 The 10 Best Kickers of All Time
 NFL Career Field Goal % Leaders

American football placekickers
Canadian football
Ali Eid

Ali Eid (14 July 1940 – 25 December 2015) was a Lebanese politician. He was the leader of the Alawite Community. He founded the Arab Democratic Party in 1972 and until his death served as General Secretary of the Arab Democratic Party. He was born in Tripoli.

On 25 December 2015, it was announced that Eid died in Damascus, Syria at the age of 75.

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1940 births
2015 deaths
Lebanese Muslims
Lebanese politicians
Coptic calendar

Coptic calendar (also known as Alexandrian calendar) is a calendar used by the Coptic Church in Egypt. It is based on the Egyptian calendar which was first introduced in 238 BC.

Related pages
Egyptian calendar
Coptic Church

Calendars
Egypt
Jacques Santer

Jacques Santer (born 18 May 1937 in Wasserbillig) is a Luxembourgian politician.

He was finance minister of Luxembourg from 1979 until 1989. He was the 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg serving from 1984 to 1995. He was a member of the Christian Social People's Party, which has been the leading party in the Luxembourg government since 1979. 

As Prime Minister of Luxembourg he also led the negotiations on the Single European Act, which effectively set aside the 20-year-old Luxembourg Compromise. He was the President of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999.

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Other websites

1937 births
Living people
European Commissioners
Government ministers of Luxembourg
Prime Ministers of Luxembourg
Egyptian calendar

The ancient civil  Egyptian calendar was  a calendar used by the ancient Egyptians. At first it had a year that was 365 days long. The year was made up of 12 months each having 30 days. At some point during the First Dynasty five additional days were added (sometime around 3000 BC). Egyptian astronomers observed that the annual flood of the Nile River fell very close to the first visibility of the star Sirius in the morning sky just before sunrise. This calendar would drift by 1 day every four years. But this drift was not enough to cause any problems. Even if a person lived to be 60 years old the drift between solar and civil calendars would only be 15 days. In 238 BC the Decree of Canopus added a sixth day every four years to correct this. But it was largely ignored. In 30 BCE the Roman Emperor Augustus reformed the Egyptian calendar by adding a leap day to every fourth year. This brought the Egyptian calendar in line with the Julian calendar used at the time in Rome.

References 

Calendars
Ancient Egypt
Ukrainian National Union

The Ukrainian National Union () is nationalist paramilitary political party in Ukraine. Started as a political organization in 2009 and became a political party in 2013.

History
The organisation was founded in 2009 by Oleg Goltvyansky and a group of sympathisers. Since July 15, 2012 the head of organisation became Vitaly Krivosheev. In April 27, 2013, the Ukrainian National Union leaders proclaimed their intention to create a political party. Рarty is one of the organisers of the "Euromaidan". Activists of the Ukrainian National Union takes part in the war in Eastern Ukraine

Related pages
Nationalism
Euromaidan

References

Other websites
 Official site Ukrainian National Union

Politics of Ukraine
Political parties in Europe
2009 establishments in Europe
Nationalist organizations in Europe
Establishments in Ukraine
West Berlin discotheque bombing

On 5 April 1986 three people were killed and around 230 injured when La Belle discothèque was bombed in West Berlin, West Germany. The entertainment venue was commonly used by United States soldiers, and two of the dead and 79 of the injured were American servicemen.

A bomb placed under a table near the disk jockey's booth exploded at 1:45 am CET instantly killing a Turkish woman, and a United States Army sergeant. A second US Army sergeant died from his injuries two months later. Some of the victims were left permanently disabled due to the injuries.

Libya was accused by the US government of sponsoring the bombing, and US President Ronald Reagan ordered strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya ten days later. The strikes reportedly killed 15-30 people, including Colonel Gaddafi's adopted daughter. Reagan's actions were condemned by the United Nations General Assembly.

A 2001 trial in the US found that the bombing had been "planned by the Libyan secret service and the Libyan Embassy."

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1986 in Europe

1980s building bombings
1980s explosions in Europe
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Malta Summit

The Malta Summit comprised a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It took place between December 2-3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  It was their second meeting following a meeting that included then President Ronald Reagan, in New York in December 1988.  

During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev would declare an end to the Cold War, although whether it was truly such is a matter of debate.

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CNN: Cold War Interviews, Episode 24: Transcripts from Malta Summit
 David Hoffman, "Bush and Gorbachev Hail New Cooperation", Washington Post (December 4, 1989)
 Richard Lacayo, "Turning Visions into Reality" , in Time (online): December 11, 1989
 Romesh Ratnesar, "Condi Rice Can't Lose" , in Time (online): September 20, 1999

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Germany national volleyball team

The Germany men's national volleyball team is the national team of Germany. It is governed by the DVV (Deutscher Volleyball-Verband). It takes part in international volleyball competitions. Germany won the gold medal in World Championship 1970 under East Germany. It won the bronze medal in the 2014 World Championships.

After German reunification, West Germany (1949–1990) was renamed Germany and they absorbed East Germany (1949–1990) with the records.

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Italy national volleyball team

The Italy men's national volleyball team is the volleyball national team of Italy. It dominated international volleyball competitions in the 1990s and early 2000s, by winning three World Championships in a row (1990, 1994 and 1998), seven European Championships, one World Cup (1995) and eight World League (1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2000).

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Brazil national volleyball team

The Brazil men's national volleyball team is the national team of Brazil. It is governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol (Brazilian Volleyball Confederation) and takes part in international volleyball competitions. Brazil has two gold medal at the Olympic Games, won three times the World Champioship and nine times the World League. Brazil is the #1 team on the FIVB World Rankings. The team is often referred to as volleyball's "Dream Team" due to its success under coach Bernardo Rezende.

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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)

The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization or PATCO was a United States trade union. It ran from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike that was broken by the Ronald Reagan Administration. The 1981 strike and defeat of PATCO was called "one of the most important events in late twentieth century U.S. labor history" by labor historian Joseph A. McCartin.

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Eugenia Charles

Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician and lawyer. She was the Prime Minister of Dominica serving from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister, as well as the nation's longest-serving prime minister. 

Charles died in Fort-de-France, Martinique from a pulmonary embolism caused by hip surgery that she had a few days before. She was 86 years old.

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Volleyball at the Summer Olympics

Volleyball has been played at the Summer Olympics ever since the 1964 Summer Olympics. The history of Olympic volleyball can be traced back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event. It was only added as an Olympic sport, however, after World War II. This was when the FIVB was founded and of some of the continental confederations. In 1957, a special tournament was held at the 53rd IOC session in Sofia, Bulgaria, to support such request. The competition was a success, and the sport was officially introduced in 1964. The Olympic Committee initially dropped volleyball for the 1968 Olympics, meeting protests.

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John Boyega

John Adedayo B. Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), better known as John Boyega, is a British actor. He is best known for playing Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He has also appeared in Attack the Block (2011), Detroit (2017) and Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). He won the 2016 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Boyega was born in Peckham, London. His parents are Nigerian.

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Daisy Ridley

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley (born 10 April 1992) is a British actress. She is best known for playing Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also appeared in Casulty and Silent Witness.

Ridley was born in Westminster, London. Her great-uncle was Dad's Army actor Arnold Ridley.

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Adriana Olguín

Adriana Olguín de Baltra (born Luz Adriana Margarita Olguín Buche) (18 November 1911 – 24 December 2015) was a Chilean lawyer and politician. She was born in Valparaíso, Chile. Olguín served as Chile's Minister of Justice serving from 29 July 1952 through 3 November 1952 under the Gabriel González Videla administration. She was the first woman to hold a position in any presidential cabinet in Latin American history.

Olguín died in her home in Viña del Mar, Chile from natural causes at the age of 104.

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Daddy's Home (movie)

Daddy's Home is a 2015 American comedy movie directed and written by Sean Anders. It was produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. It stars Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, Thomas Haden Church with John Cena. It was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana, but the movie takes place in California. It was released to mixed reviews on December 25, 2015. It was rated M in Australia and New Zealand for violence, sexual references and offensive language.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

Trumbo was one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.

Career 
Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one (for Roman Holiday) was originally given to a front writer, and one (for The Brave One) was awarded to "Robert Rich", Trumbo's pseudonym.

On December 19, 2011, the Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo was being given full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, almost sixty years after the fact.

Actor Bryan Cranston plays Trumbo in the 2015 biopic Trumbo directed by Jay Roach.

Death 
Trumbo died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California on September 10, 1976 at the age of 70.

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Other websites

 
 Dalton Trumbo at Library of Congress Authorities — with 20 catalog records
 Dalton Trumbo Papers at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. 

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Run-Around

"Run-Around" is a song by American jam band, Blues Traveler. It was released on the 1994 album Four. It won the band's first  Grammy Award in 1995, for "Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

The song was the band's first successful single, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Trumbo (movie)

Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical-drama movie directed by Jay Roach. It was written by Michael London. The movie is about when screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is blacklisted as a communist for his support of the Communist Party of the USA during the 1950s. 

It stars Bryan Cranston as Trumbo with Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, Michael Stuhlbarg, and John Goodman. It was released to positive reviews on November 6, 2015.

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Jim O'Toole

James Jerome "Jim" O'Toole (January 10, 1937 – December 26, 2015) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds (1958–1966) and Chicago White Sox (1967). He was left-handed.

O'Toole was born in Chicago, Illinois. He married Betty Wall on July 2, 1960. They had 11 children.

O'Toole died from cancer on December 26, 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was 78.

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Dichen Lachman

Dichen Lachman (born 22 February 1982) is a Nepalese-born Australian actress and movie producer. She is best known for her roles in the television series Neighbours, Dollhouse, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hawaii Five-0, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Lachman was born in Kathmandu. Her mother is Tibetan and her father is an Australian of German ancestry. She grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. She moved to the United States in 2007 and lives in Los Angeles, California. She is married to Max Osinski and has one child.

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Dami Im

Dami Im ( , , ; born October 17, 1988) is a South Korean-born Australian singer. She is best known for winning the fifth season of The X Factor in 2013. Her first album was an ARIA number one. She has three studio albums, two extended plays, nine singles, two album appearances, and four music videos. She represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016, coming second with "Sound of Silence".

Im was born in Incheon. She grew up in Brisbane, Queensland. She is married and lives in Daisy Hill, a suburb of Logan City, Queensland. She is a Christian.

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Haskell Wexler

Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American cinematographer, movie producer, screenwriter and director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1966.

Wexler was known for his works One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medium Cool, In the Heat of the Night, Days of Heaven and for Matewan. He was said to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.

Wexler died in his sleep at the age of 93 on December 27, 2015 at his home in Santa Monica, California.

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 A documentary about Wexler's 1969 film Medium Cool 
 Haskell Wexler, ASC, Focuses on the Making of Matewan 
 John Patterson, "Through a lens darkly", The Guardian, interview, June 2, 2006
 Underground Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways
 Video interview  of Wexler about the film Medium Cool

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Dave Henderson

David Lee Henderson (July 21, 1958 – December 27, 2015), nicknamed Hendu, was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, and Kansas City Royals during his 14-year career. He was born in Merced, California.

Henderson died of a massive heart attack in Seattle, Washington, one month after receiving a kidney transplant, at the age of 57.

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Page at Baseball Library 
Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments: Dave Henderson's Home Run 

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Jose Offerman

Jose Offerman was a Major League Baseball player who played for the Boston Red Sox among other teams.

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Jim Klobuchar

James John "Jim" Klobuchar (April 9, 1928 – May 12, 2021) was an American journalist, author, and tour guide. He wrote for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis for thirty years. He wrote an occasional column for the Christian Science Monitor. He was the father of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. He was born in Ely, Minnesota.

Klobuchar died in Burnsville, Minnesota on May 12, 2021 from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 93.

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Mark Warner

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American politician and the senior United States Senator from Virginia, in office since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Warner was the 69th Governor of Virginia, holding the office from 2002 to 2006.

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 Forward Together PAC 

 C-SPAN Q&A interview with Warner, November 6, 2005
 

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Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He worked with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the minimalist school. His works showed unique techniques showing simplicity of form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. 

Kelly died in Spencertown, New York on December 27, 2015 of respiratory failure at the age of 92.

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