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Martin Weitzman

Martin Lawrence "Marty" Weitzman (April 1, 1942 – August 27, 2019) was an American economist. He was a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He was among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. 

His latest research was largely focused on environmental economics, specifically climate change and the economics of catastrophes.

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1942 births
2019 deaths
Educators from New York City
American environmentalists
American economists
Writers from New York City
Scientists from New York City
Donnie Green

Donnie Gerald Green (July 21, 1948 – August 28, 2019) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. He played for the Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, and the Detroit Lions.  

He played college football at Purdue University and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1971 NFL Draft. He was born in Washington, D.C..

On August 28, 2019, Green died on August 28, 2019 at the age of 71.

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1948 births
2019 deaths
Sportspeople from Washington, D.C.
Buffalo Bills players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Detroit Lions players
Nancy Holloway

Nancy Holloway ( Brown, December 11, 1932 – August 28, 2019) was an American jazz, pop and soul singer and actress. She was popular during the 1960s in France, where she continued to perform and live. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Holloway was known for singing "T'en va pas comme ça" and for starring in Seek the idol and Man from Cocody.

Holloway died on August 28, 2019 in Paris at the age of 86.

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1932 births
2019 deaths
American pop singers
American jazz singers
American soul singers
American movie actors
Singers from Cleveland, Ohio
Actors from Cleveland, Ohio
Nicolás Leoz

Nicolás Leoz Almirón (10 September 1928 – 28 August 2019) was a Paraguayan-Colombian sports executive. He was the President of CONMEBOL (South American Football Confederation) from 1986 to 2013. On April 23, 2013, Leoz resigned from both the FIFA Executive Committee and the CONMEBOL presidency, citing health issues.

Leoz died on 28 August 2019 of cardiac arrest while under house arrest in Asunción, Paraguay at the age of 90.

References

Other websites
 FIFA.COM 

1928 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Paraguayan people
Colombian people
FIFA
Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe

Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (18 November 1954 – 29 August 2019), styled Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford until 1974, was a British aristocrat. He was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and a Freeman of the City of London. He was the Duke of Roxburghe from 1974 until his death. He was also the Premier Baronet of Scotland, and the 30th feudal baron of Innes.

In 2009, Innes-Ker was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died from the disease on 29 August 2019 at his home in Floors Castle in Kelso, Roxburghshire at the age of 64.

Titles and styles
 18 November 1954 – 26 September 1974: Marquess of Bowmont and Cessford
 26 September 1974 – 29 August 2019: His Grace The Duke of Roxburghe

References

Other websites
Floors Castle website
Ted Innes Ker professional travel website 
 Paul Theroff. "Roxburghe" in An Online Gotha Section Two.
 Duke sets sights on estate expansion - Monday interview: Duke of Roxburghe
Profile, scotsman.com
Profile, geni.com

1954 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Scottish people
Juhani Kärkinen

Juhani Tapio Antero Kärkinen (28 October 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Finnish ski jumper. He won a gold medal in the large hill at the 1958 World Ski Championships. He placed eighth in the normal hill at the 1960 Winter Olympics. He was born in Kotka, Finland.

Kärkinen died on 29 August 2019 in Lahti, Finland at the age of 83.

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1935 births
2019 deaths
Finnish Olympians
Skiers
Veikko Kankkonen

Veikko Kankkonen (born 5 January 1940) is a retired Finnish ski jumper. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and at the 1968 Winter Olympics. He won two medals in 1964 with a gold in the individual normal hill and a silver in the individual large hill event. He was born in Sotkamo, Finland.

Kankkonen won the Holmenkollen medal (shared with Eero Mäntyranta, Georg Thoma, and Halvor Næs).

References

Other websites
 
 
 
 Holmenkollen medalists – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file 
 Holmenkollen winners since 1892 – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 

1940 births
Living people
Olympic gold medalists
Finnish Olympic silver medalists
Skiers
Halvor Næs

Halvor Næs (born 19 April 1928) is a Norwegian former ski jumper. He competed in the 1950s. His only victory was in 1953 and he finished fifth in the individual large hill event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. He was born in Trysil. Næs was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1964 (shared with Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, and Georg Thoma).

References

1928 births
Living people
Skiers
Norwegian Olympians
Georg Thoma

Georg Thoma (born 20 August 1937) is a retired German Nordic combined skier and ski jumper. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics. At the 1964 Olympics, he won a bronze medal and was the Olympic flag bearer for Germany at the opening ceremony. He further won the world championships title in 1966.

Thoma was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1964 (shared with Veikko Kankkonen, Eero Mäntyranta, and Halvor Næs).

Thoma was born in Hinterzarten, Germany.

References

Other websites
 
 
 
  – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file 
  – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file 

1937 births
Living people
German Olympic gold medalists
German Olympic bronze medalists
Skiers
Vladimir Veličković

Vladimir Veličković (; 11 August 1935 – 29 August 2019) was a Serbian painter. He was born in Belgrade, then-Yugoslavia.

In 1987, he won the Herder Prize. In 1985, he became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2005, he became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 2017 he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. His paintings were exhibited in many countries in Europe and Americas starting in 1951.

Veličković died on 29 August 2019 at a hospital in Split, Croatia from congestive heart failure at the age of 84.

References

Other websites

 Two films about Velickovic
  Official Website
Vladimir Veličković on Artefacts.net
Vladimir Veličković on Karaart.com
Publications on Vladimir Veličković
Vladimir Veličković  (French)
galerie anne-marie et roland pallade 

1935 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from congestive heart failure
Painters
Educators
People from Belgrade
Rockerville, South Dakota

Rockerville is a small unincorporated community in Pennington County in the Black Hills of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It originally started as a mining camp. It was named for the "rockers" which were used to separate placer gold from stream gravel.

Rockerville was founded in 1876 as the result of a gold rush.

References

Unincorporated communities in the United States
Settlements in South Dakota
Alvord Desert

The Alvord Desert is a desert located in Harney County, in southeastern Oregon in the western United States.  It is roughly southeast of Steens Mountain.  The Alvord Desert is a  dry lake bed and averages  of rain a year.  

Two mountain ranges separate it from the Pacific Ocean—the Coast Range, and the Cascade Mountains. The Alvord Desert is at an elevation of about .

References

Geography of Oregon
Deserts
PROSOCO

PROSOCO is a national manufacturer of special construction chemical products for cleaning, protecting and maintaining concrete. It was created in 1937. PROSOCO's production and warehouse building, and corporate headquarters are in Lawrence, Kansas; construction on that building started in 1998.

The company has 100-250 employees.

History

PROSOCO was created in 1937. It was first called the Process Solvent Company. It was first a company in Kansas City that made special cleaning products and engine products for the car and railroad industries. Because the construction industry grew in the 1950s, Process Solvent Company starting making construction and building maintenance products. In 1967, the Process Solvent Company filed to trademark "PSC", which made it shorter to call the company.

PROSOCO has been involved with some famous buildings including the United States Capitol Building.

Awards 
In 2015, the company received an award Building Green's top-10 products.

Product 
PROSOCO has 4 brands: R-Guard, Sure Klean, Consolideck and Anchoring Systems.

References

Other websites
PROSOCO official website

20th-century establishments in Kansas
1937 establishments in the United States
American technology companies
Lawrence, Kansas
Companies based in Kansas
Mortal Kombat series

Mortal Kombat is a series of fighting video games. It is known for having a very high level of violence, blood, and gore. The first game was so violent and bloody compared to other video games at the time that it was one of the games mentioned in the 1993 congressional hearings on video games. This later led to the ESRB rating system. Unsurprisingly, most games in the series are rated M for Mature, which means that the game cannot legally be sold to anyone under the age of 17 in most stores in the United States.

Guest fighters
Starting with the 2011 video game, well-known characters serve as guests for the games. Due to legal constraints, they only appear only in one game. There are two guests in MK9, four guests in MKX and five guests in MK11.
 Kratos (God of War/MK9 PlayStation ports)
 Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street/MK9)
 Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th/MKX)
 Predator (Predator/MKX)
 Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/MKX)
 Alien (Alien/MKX)
 The Terminator (Terminator/MK11)
 The Joker (Batman/MK11)
 Spawn (Spawn/MK11)
 RoboCop (RoboCop/MK11)
 John Rambo (First Blood/MK11)

1992 video games
1993 video games
Amiga games
Arcade games
DOS games
Fighting games
Game Boy games
Mobile games
Mortal Kombat series
PlayStation games
Science fiction movies
Sega Saturn games
Video game series
Windows games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Sonic Spinball

Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, commonly shortened to Sonic Spinball, is a 1993 pinball video game. It was created by Sega Technical Institute, and it was published by Sega. It is a spinoff of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It takes place in the universe of the Sonic the Hedgehog animated series. Players control Sonic the Hedgehog, who must stop Doctor Robotnik from enslaving the population in a big pinball-like machine.

Sonic Spinball was created by the American staff of Sega Technical Institute. This was because the Japanese staff was busy with making Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. When Sega management realized that Sonic 3 would not be finshed in time for the 1993 holiday shopping season, they created another Sonic game. The game was quickly designed. It had short time constraints. Most of the work happened in two months. Sonic Spinball was released for the Sega Genesis in November 1993 and for the Game Gear and Master System in 1994.

Sonic Spinball got good and bad reviews. People liked the idea and graphics. They didn't like the controls. A second pinball game, Sonic Pinball Party, was created in 2003. A Sonic Spinball spinning rollercoaster was built in Alton Towers, a British theme park, in 2010.

Release

The game has been rereleased on 11 different consoles. The Genesis version of the game has been rereleased on the Sonic Mega Collection compilation for the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PCs, Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and multiple iterations of the Sega Smash Pack series of compilations. The Game Gear version is an unlockable game in Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut for the GameCube and PC, as well as Sonic Gems Collection for the GameCube and PlayStation 2.

References

Sonic the Hedgehog games
1993 video games
Sega Genesis games
Game Gear games
Master System games
Sega Technical Institute

Sega Technical Institute (STI) was an American development division of Sega. It was created by Mark Cerny in 1991. They wanted to combine good Japanese developers, including Sonic Team programmer Yuji Naka and his team, with new American developers. STI created many Sonic the Hedgehog games, as well as other games for the Sega Genesis. It closed in late 1996.

Games developed by STI are important in the history of the Genesis, and many were well-received or sold well. Developers have described STI as a unique workplace that did not fit into Sega's corporate structure, and have fond memories of the environment.

Games created

References

Sega divisions and subsidiaries
Kansas State Department of Education

Kansas State Department Board of Education (KSDE) is Kansas's Board of Education. Its headquarters are in Topeka. The board of education that controls the department is a constitutional group created in Article 6 of the Kansas Constitution. The Board helps decide educational policy for the state's primary and secondary schools.

References

More reading
 Kester, D., & Kester, J. (1985). History of the Kansas State Department of Education. Topeka, KS: Kansas Department of Education.
 Throckmorton, A.F. (1967). Kansas Educational Progress: 1858-1967. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Department of Public Instruction.
 Throckmorton, Adel F. (1960). Our Kansas System of Education. Topeka, KS: Kansas State Department of Public Instruction.
 Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Strategies Evolve as Candidates Prepare for Kansas Board Races. Science 3 February 2006 311: 588-589 DOI 10.1126/science.311.5761.588
 Yudhijit Bhattarcharjee, Evolution Trumps Intelligent Design in Kansas Vote. Science 11 August 2006 313: 743 DOI 10.1126/science.313.5788.743
 AAAS Board of Directors, On the Kansas State Board of Education Decision on the Education of Students in the Science of Evolution and Cosmology. Science 12 November 1999 286: 1297 DOI 10.1126/science.286.5443.1297b

Other websites
KSDE
 
 Kansas School District Boundary Map, KSDE
KGI Online Library
 Kansas State Board of Education Meeting Minutes (1968-present)
 Kansas Educational Directory (1941-present)
 Kansas Education Accountability Report (2000/01-present)
 Other KSDE publications at KGI Online Library 

Controversy
 Kansas education board downplays evolution State school board OKs standards casting doubt on Darwin.
 Kansas Rewrites Science Standards Again
 Letters to the Kansas State Board of Education regarding evolution and science curriculum standards , June 7, 2005
 Kansas board of education scraps standards questioning evolution  

Government of Kansas
Sean Stephenson

Sean Clinch Stephenson (May 5, 1979 – August 28, 2019) was an American therapist, self-help author and motivational speaker. He was born in Chicago with osteogenesis imperfecta. Stephenson stood three feet tall, had fragile bones, and used a wheelchair. He studied at DePaul University. He earned $15,000 to $30,000 per appearance.

His second book, Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself, was published in 2009. It was a self-help book about his own personal story along with the stories of others, and provided exercises for readers to perform while they read. That same year, Stephenson was the subject of "Three Foot Giant", a television documentary that aired on The Biography Channel in November 2009.

Stephenson died on August 28, 2019 from problems caused by a concussion at the age of 40.

References

Writers from Chicago
DePaul University alumni
American autobiographers
Accidental deaths from falls in the United States
2019 deaths
1979 births
Maria Dolors Renau

Maria Dolors Renau i Manén (15 November 1936 – 29 August 2019) was a Spanish politician. She was a  Deputy and a MEP from 1986 to 1987, as well as as president of Socialist International Women (1999–2003). She was born in Barcelona.

Renau died on 29 August 2019 in Barcelona at the age of 82.

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1936 births
2019 deaths
Former MEPs
Politicians from Barcelona
MEPs for Spain
Parsnip

The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable.

The parsnip is native to Eurasia; it has been used as a vegetable since antiquity. It was cultivated by the Romans. It was used as a sweetener before the arrival in Europe of cane sugar.

The plant is closely related to carrot and parsley; all belong to the family Apiaceae. Its long, tuberous root has cream-colored skin and flesh. Left in the ground to mature, it becomes sweeter in flavor after winter frosts.

References 

Root vegetables
Apiaceae
Jim Langer

James John Langer (May 16, 1948 – August 29, 2019) was an American football center. He played for the National Football League's Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings. He was thought to have been among the greatest NFL centers of all time. Langer was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1987. Langer was born in Little Falls, Minnesota.

Langer died on August 29, 2019 in Coon Rapids, Minnesota from heart failure at the age of 71.

References

Other websites
Pro Football Hall of Fame entry

1948 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American football centers
American football offensive guards
Miami Dolphins players
Minnesota Vikings players
Cleveland Browns players
Sportspeople from Minnesota
Little Falls, Minnesota

Little Falls is a city in Morrison County, Minnesota, United States. It is the county seat of Morrison County. The population was 8,343 at the 2010 census. Little Falls was the boyhood home of noted aviator Charles Lindbergh.

References

Cities in Minnesota
County seats in Minnesota
Coon Rapids, Minnesota

Coon Rapids is a northern suburb of Minneapolis, and is the largest city in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States.  The population was 61,476 at the 2010 census. It is the thirteenth largest city in Minnesota and the seventh largest Twin Cities suburb.

References

Cities in Minnesota
Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who began in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (animated and live-action), video games, role-playing games, and other media.

Other websites

 The Works of Robert E. Howard

Fictional characters
Franco Columbu

Francesco Columbu (August 7, 1941 – August 30, 2019) was an Italian actor, author, champion bodybuilder, powerlifter and World's Strongest Man competitor. He was born in Ollolai, Sardinia. He was known for his roles in Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator. Columbu won the Mr. Olympia in 1976 and again in 1981.

Columbu drowned after having a heart attack on August 30, 2019 in San Teodoro at the age of 78.

References

Other websites

Pumping Iron Gallery
www.lexnews.fr – Exclusive Interview for the French Magazine LEXNEWS

1941 births
2019 deaths
Italian movie actors
Italian writers
Bodybuilders
Accidental deaths by drowning
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Dennis Fentie

Dennis G. Fentie (November 8, 1950 – August 30, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He was the seventh Premier of Yukon and leader of the Yukon Party from 2002 to 2011. He worked on the MLA for Watson Lake from 1996 through 2011.

Fentie died of cancer at the age of 68 on August 30, 2019.

References

Other websites
 Government of Yukon Territory - Premier's Website

1950 births
2019 deaths
Politicians from Edmonton
Premiers of Yukon
Cancer deaths in Canada
Hans Rausing

Hans Rausing, KBE (25 March 1926 – 30 August 2019) was a Swedish-British businessman. He was founder of Tetra Pak. It is the largest food packaging company in the world. In 1995 he sold his share of the company to his brother, Gad.

In the Forbes world fortune ranking, Rausing was placed at number 83 with an estimated fortune of US$10 billion in 2011. He was the second richest Swedish billionaire in 2013.

Rausing died in London on 30 August 2019 at the age of 93.

References

Other websites
Arcadia Fund
Sussex Community Foundation
Tetra Pak Homepage

1926 births
2019 deaths
British philanthropists
Swedish businesspeople
People from Gothenburg
Businesspeople from London
Udo Schaefer

Udo Schaefer (October 19, 1926 – August 30, 2019) was a German lawyer and a Bahá'í writer. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He was known for his writing Bahá'í Ethics in Light of Scripture and Beyond the Clash of Religions: The Emergence of a New Paradigm.

Schaefer died on August 30, 2019 at the age of 92.

Works

References

Other websites
English Books 
English articles 

1926 births
2019 deaths
German writers
Bahá'ís
German lawyers
William Bulger

William Michael Bulger (born February 2, 1934) is an American Democratic politician, lawyer, and educator. He was the President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1978 through 1996, which is the longest in history. He then became president of the University of Massachusetts.

His brother was convicted mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who led the Winter Hill Gang. In 2003 he refused to testify in a congressional hearing about communications he had with his then-fugitive brother. Because of that, he was forced to resign from the presidency of the University of Massachusetts.

References

Other websites
 Gitell, Seth.  "Bulger's Denouement." Boston Phoenix December 12, 2002.  Accessed September 11, 2006.
 Billy Bulger
 60 Minutes segment about Bulger, aired in 1992 
 A Profile in Political Power
 

1934 births
Living people
Lawyers from Boston
Educators from Boston, Massachusetts
State legislators of the United States
Politicians from Boston, Massachusetts
US Democratic Party politicians
Dorchester, Massachusetts

Dorchester is a Boston neighborhood making up more than  in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630. It is Boston's largest neighborhood by far. In the 2010 United States Census, the neighborhood's population was 92,115.

References

Boston, Massachusetts
Vincent Waller

Vincent Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American writer, artist, animator, storyboard artist, and technical director. He worked on several animated television shows and movies, his best works being The Ren & Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants.

References

1960 births
Living people
American artists
American animators
Writers from Texas
Alan Oppenheimer

Alan Louis Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor. He is best known for working with Filmation in the 1970s and 1980s.

His best known roles include Oil Can Harry, Swifty and the narrator on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, Ming the Merciless on Flash Gordon, the Overlord on BlackStar, Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Mer-Man from Filmation's 1980's cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and the voice of Prime Evil in the 1986 TV series, Filmation's Ghostbusters.

Recently, he voiced the Scientist in 9 and Old Timer in Toy Story 4.

References

Other websites
 
 

1930 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American stage actors
American video game actors
Actors from New York City
Toy Story 4

Toy Story 4 is a 2019 American computer-animated comedy adventure movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the fourth and final installment of movie in Pixar's Toy Story series, followed by Lightyear in 2022. 

The movie stars the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Madeleine McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Ally Maki, Jay Hernandez, Lori Alan, and Joan Cusack.

Toy Story 4 premiered on June 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, California and nationwide on June 21, 2019, in RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX. The movie has made $1 billion worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing movie of 2019. The movie received strong positive reviews. In 2020, it won an Academy Award for best animated movie.

References

2019 comedy movies
2010s 3D movies
2010s sequel movies
2019 animated movies
American comedy movies
American sequel movies
Buddy movies
Computer-animated movies
Disney animated movies
Movies composed by Randy Newman
Movies that won the Best Animated Feature Academy Award
Pixar movies
Toy Story
2010s computer-animated movies
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport , is an international airport in Nairobi, the capital of and largest city in Kenya. Located in the Embakasi suburb  southeast of Nairobi's central business district, the airport has scheduled flights to destinations in over 50 countries. Originally named Embakasi Airport, the airport's name was changed in 1978 to honour Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president and prime minister. The airport served over 7 million passengers in 2016, making it the seventh busiest airport in passenger traffic in Africa.

References

Airports in Africa
Nairobi
Alan Silvestri

Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor. He is known for his movie and television scores.

Early life 
Silvestri was born in New York City to Louis Silvestri and Sophia Phelan. His father is Italian and His mother is Irish.

Personal life 
Silvestri and his wife Sandra live in Carmel Valley Village, California with Joey Silvestri, Alexandra Silvestri and James Silvestri.

Other websites 

1950 births
American movie score composers
Living people
Musicians from New York City
People from Teaneck, New Jersey
Musicians from New Jersey
France Aviation Civile Services

France Aviation Civile Services, previously DSNA Services, is a consulting company, started by the DGAC and the ENAC in 2013. It gives to clients the expertise of French civil aviation in regulation, security and air navigation.

Its President is Mr Farid Zizi, previous President of the ICAO Air Navigation Commission.

References

Further reading 
 

Aviation in France
French Civil Aviation University
1981 establishments in Europe
1980s establishments in France
Lieutenant commander

Lieutenant commander is an officer rank in several navies.

In the Royal Navy, It is junior to commander and senior to the naval rank of lieutenant. Royal Navy ranks are matched up with Royal Air Force ranks. In this case the equivalent rank would be a squadron leader.

Lieutenant commander (LCDR) is a mid-ranking officer in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and several other public uniformed services.

In the Royal Canadian Navy, the rank of lieutenant commander (LCdr) (French: capitaine de corvette or capc) is the naval rank equal to major in the army or air force. It is the first rank of senior officer.

This rank would be usual for a commander of a minor warship, or an executive officer in a larger ship.

Military ranks
Señorita (Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello song)

"Señorita" is a song by Canadian singer Shawn Mendes and Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello. It is from Mendes' self-titled third studio album.  The song was released on June 21, 2019.  It was written by the two artists along with its producers – Cashmere Cat, WATT, and Benny Blanco – and British artist Charli XCX, Ali Temposi, Magnus Höiberg, and Jack Patterson of the electronic band Clean Bandit.

The song became Mendes' first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and Cabello's second, after "Havana".  Mendes previously reached number two on the Hot 100 with "If I Can't Have You" earlier in 2019.

References 

2019 songs
Latin music
Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a World War II battle. It happened on 5 July to 23 August 1943 near Kursk, Russia.

1940s in the Soviet Union
1943 in Europe
Kursk
Kursk
Kursk
July events
August events
Berzona

Berzona is a village and former municipality of the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.

In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Auressio and Loco to form a new and larger municipality Isorno.

References 

Former municipalities of Ticino
Villages in Ticino
Knowles, Oklahoma

Knowles is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Kremlin, Oklahoma

Kremlin is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Waukomis, Oklahoma

Waukomis is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Oktaha, Oklahoma

Oktaha is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Muzzano

Muzzano can mean:

Places 
Italy
 Muzzano, Piedmont, a comune in the Province of Biella

Switzerland
 Muzzano, Switzerland, a municipality in the Canton of Ticino
 Lago di Muzzano, a lake in the Canton of Ticino
Kyivan Rus Park

The Kyivan Rus Park (in Ukrainian: "Парк Київська Русь") is a cultural, commercial and entertainment complex in Kopachiv village, Obuhivskyi raion. 34 km. from Kyiv, Ukraine. the park was opened in 2008 in a site that restores the Kyiv Kremlin that was the Kremlin of Kyiv in the 5th to 8th century.

Gallery

Related pages 
 Izmailovo Kremlin

Other websites 

 Official website of Kyivan Rus Park

Buildings and structures in Ukraine
Museums in Europe
Architecture
Schulter, Oklahoma

Schulter is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Clow, Arkansas

Clow is an unincorporated community in Hempstead County, Arkansas, United States.

Unincorporated communities in Arkansas
Oleksiy Honcharuk

Oleksiy Valeriyovych Honcharuk (; born July 7, 1984) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. Honcharuk was the 17th Prime Minister of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020. He was the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Zelensky. Honcharuk is the youngest Prime Minister in the modern Ukrainian history.

References

Other websites

 

1984 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of Ukraine
Ukrainian lawyers
Anthoine Hubert

Anthoine Hubert (22 September 1996 – 31 August 2019) was a French professional racing driver. He was born in Lyon and began his kart racing career in 2006 at age nine. In 2018, he became the GP3 Series champion. At the time of his death in 2019, he raced for BWT Arden.

On 31 August 2019, Hubert was involved in a crash during the Formula 2 feature race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium. He died of his injuries a short time later. He was 22.

References

Other websites

Official site

1996 births
2019 deaths
Formula Two
Racecar drivers
Road accident deaths
Sportspeople from Lyon
Jukka Virtanen

Jukka Jalmari Virtanen (25 July 1933 – 1 September 2019) was a Finnish entertainer and author. He won the Rose d'Or in 1965 for the entertainment program Lumilinna. He starred in the movies Millipilleri, Pähkähullu Suomi and Noin 7 Veljestä. Virtanen was the host of Levyraati from 1980 through 1997. Virtanen was born in Jämsänkoski, Finland.

Virtanen died from prostate cancer on 1 September 2019, aged 86.

References

Other websites

 Jukka Virtasen haastatteluja ja ohjelmia YLEn Elävässä arkistossa
 Arkkipiispalla vieraana Jukka Virtanen: Ihminen ja ihmisen viat (äänite, 2008). 

Finnish entertainers
Finnish movie directors
Finnish movie actors
Songwriters
Television presenters
Novelists
Finnish screenwriters
1933 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Bob Davie (American football)

Robert Edwin Davie Jr. (born September 30, 1954) is an American football college coach and player. He is the head football coach at New Mexico. He was the head football coach at Notre Dame from 1997 to 2001. He also was an ESPN college football color commentator from 2002 to 2011. Davie was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

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Sewickley, Pennsylvania

Sewickley is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,  west northwest of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River. It is a residential suburb of Pittsburgh. The population was 3,827 at the 2010 census.

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Midland–Odessa shooting

On August 31, 2019, multiple people were shot from a vehicle traveling between and in the Texas cities of Odessa and Midland. 

Odessa police announced five deaths (including the shooter) and 21 injuries (including three police), and described the shooter as a white male in his mid-30s, shot and killed by police outside a movie theater as he fired at them again.

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Brad Linaweaver

Bradford Swain Linaweaver (September 1, 1952 – August 29, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was known for directing The Brain Leeches and Jack-O. He also wrote Libertarian-leaning novels such as The Boneyard Collection and Space Babes Meet the Monsters. Linaweaver was born in Washington, North Carolina. His best known novel was Moon of Ice.

Linaweaver died on August 29, 2019 from cancer at the age of 67.

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Washington, North Carolina

Washington, commonly known as The Original Washington or Little Washington (to distinguish it from Washington, D.C.), is a city in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 9,744 at the 2010 census. 

It is the county seat of Beaufort County.

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Berthe's mouse lemur

Berthe's mouse lemur or Madame Berthe's mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) is the smallest mouse lemur and the smallest primate in the world.  Its average body length is  and seasonal weight is around . 

This primate was found in 1992 in the dry Kirindy Forest in western Madagascar. After its discovery genetic studies showed it was as a new species, M. berthae.

This lemur is named after the conservationist and primatologist Berthe Rakotosamimanana of Madagascar, who was the Secretary General of the Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherche des Primates (GERP) from its founding until her death in 2005.

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Alec Holowka

Alec Holowka (30 October 1983 – 31 August 2019) was a Canadian indie game developer, co-founder of an independent game companies Infinite Ammo, Infinite Fall, and Bit Blot. He was known for collaborating with Derek Yu to create Aquaria and freeware game I'm O.K - A Murder Simulator and with Scott Benson and Bethany Hockenberry to create Night in the Woods. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Controversy and death 
In early August 2019, Holowka was accused of physical and sexual assault by many women including Zoë Quinn. He killed himself on August 31, 2019, aged 35. According to his sister, Holowka had been "battling mood and personality disorders" through his life but "was a victim of abuse".

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Zoë Quinn

Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, writer, and artist.

Quinn, who uses the gender-neutral pronoun "they" , is known for developing the interactive fiction game Depression Quest. In 2014, a blog post by their ex-boyfriend sparked the Gamergate controversy, in which Quinn was subjected to extensive criticism and harassment.

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Anita Sarkeesian

Anita Sarkeesian (; born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency. She is known for her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which reviews the female video game characters stereotypes.

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Brianna Wu

Brianna Wu (born July 6, 1977) is an American video game developer and computer programmer. She co-founded Giant Spacekat, an independent video game development studio. She is also a blogger and podcaster on matters relating to the video game industry.

Wu unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Stephen F. Lynch in Massachusetts for the 8th district for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. Wu has begun a second campaign for the 2020 election.

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Stephen F. Lynch

Stephen Francis Lynch (born March 31, 1955) is an American politician. He has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. He is a Democrat representing Massachusetts's 8th congressional district.

Lynch ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2013 special election for the U.S. Senate but lost to Ed Markey.

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Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019)  was an American sociologist, economic historian and world-systems analyst. His best known works helped developed the world-systems approach. He published bimonthly commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019. 

He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019.

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Wang Buxuan

Wang Buxuan (5 February 1922 – 31 August 2019), also known as Bu-Xuan Wang and Pu-Hsuan Wang, was a Chinese thermal physicist and educator. He was known for engineering thermodynamics in China. He created the engineering thermodynamics program at Tsinghua University in 1957. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

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Ali Wong

Alexandra Wong (born April 19, 1982) is an American actress, comedian, producer, and writer. She is known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife, as well as her television appearances in American Housewife, Are You There, Chelsea?, Inside Amy Schumer, and Black Box. 

She also wrote for the first three seasons of the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. In 2019, she starred in Always Be My Maybe.

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Ramona, Oklahoma

Ramona is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Rosston, Oklahoma

Rosston is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
West Hartford, Connecticut

West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is about  west of downtown Hartford. The population was 63,268 at the 2010 census.

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 Town of West Hartford official website

Towns in Connecticut
Simsbury, Connecticut

Simsbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 23,511 at the 2010 census.

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 Town of Simsbury official website

Towns in Connecticut
Terlton, Oklahoma

Terlton is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.

Towns in Oklahoma
Railroad classes

In the United States, railroads are Class I, II, or III, depending on how big they are. The Surface Transportation Board decides how big the railroads need to be to be in the classes.

There are six US Class I freight railroad companies. Canada has two Class I freight railroads. Both of the Canadian companies have trackage in the US. Mexico has two Class I freight railroads, one with trackage in the US. The national passenger railroads in the US and Canada, Amtrak and Via Rail, are both Class I.

Classes

Class I

In the United States, the Surface Transportation Board says a Class I railroad is a railroad that gets $250 million or more in revenue every year. It was 1991 when they said it had to be at least $250 million. In 2012, $452,653,248 is how much it would be. In 2011, the Association of American Railroads says that Class I railroads had to get at least $433.2 million.

In Canada, a Class I rail carrier is a company that has earned at least $250 million (CAD) in revenue for each of the previous two years.

Class I railroads are some of the most efficient kinds of transportation. They move a ton of freight almost 500 miles with each gallon of diesel fuel ( to move ).

In 2013, eleven railroads in North America were Class I. In the United States, Amtrak and seven freight railroads are Class I based on 2011 measurements released in 2013.

Class II
A Class II railroad in the United States takes freight and is mid-sized in terms of revenue. , a Class II railroad is a railroad with that earns more than $37.4 million but less than $433.2 million in revenue for at least three years in a row. Switching and terminal railroads are can't be Class II railroads.

Class III

A Class III railroad earns less than $20 million (1991 dollars) in revenue every year.

References

More reading

 49 CFR Part 1201-Railroad Companies (PDF)
 Surface Transportation Board FAQs – Economic and Industry Information 
 STB Ex Parte No. 647

Other websites
 List and Family Trees of North American Railroads
 Uniform Classification of Accounts and Related Railway Records (UCA) ; retrieved April 24, 2005.
Surface Transportation Board FAQs – Economic and Industry Information 

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University Press of Kansas

The University Press of Kansas is a publisher in Lawrence, KS that represents the six state universities in the US state of Kansas: Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University (K-State), Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas (KU), and Wichita State University.

History

The press was created in 1946. There were big changes in 1967 and 1976. Today, it operates as a consortium with representation from each of the participating universities. The press is on the west part of the KU campus.

The press mostly publishes books about American politics and military history. They also publish books about the region around it.

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Shivamogga

Shivamogga is the capital of the Shivamogga district in Karnataka. It was earlier called Shimoga.

It is located in India.

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University of Nebraska Press

The University of Nebraska Press, also known as UNP, is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. It was created in 1941. The press is controlled by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Nebraska system. UNP mostly publishes non-fiction books and academic journals. They publish in both print and electronic editions. The press has strong publishing programs in Native American studies, Western American history, sports, world and national affairs, and military history.

UNP has published more than 4,000 books and 30 journals. They publish more than 150 new titles each year, making it the 12th biggest university press in the United States. Since 2010, two of UNP's books have received the Bancroft Prize, the highest honor given to history books in the U.S.

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Missouri River Valley

The Missouri River Valley outlines where the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At  long, the valley drains one-sixth of the United States. It is the longest river valley in North America. The valley in the Missouri River basin includes river bottoms and floodplains.

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Iowa
Mount Oread

Mount Oread  is a hill in Lawrence, Kansas. The University of Kansas is on it. It is on the water divide between the Kansas and Wakarusa rivers. It was named after the Oread Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. The hill was first called Hogback Ridge by many Lawrence residents until the Oread name was chosen in 1866.

For emigrants going west by wagon train on the Oregon Trail, "The Hill" was the next big topographical challenge after crossing the Wakarusa River near today's Haskell Indian Nations University.

The United States Geological Survey says that Mount Oread is about  above sea level. Downtown Lawrence is about  above sea level. Mount Oread was whereWilliam Quantrill's raid into Lawrence on August 21, 1863, during the American Civil War, happened. The campus of the University of Kansas (KU) is on Mount Oread.

Related pages
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Mt. Oread campus buildings  at the University of Kansas.
TopoQuest map of Mt. Oread
 Mount Oread trail route marker for KU GIS Day 2006 social geocoding pioneers

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Samuel C. Pomeroy

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (January 3, 1816 – August 27, 1891) was a United States senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century. He was in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. Pomeroy was also in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.He also was the mayor of Atchison, Kansas from 1858 to 1859. He was also the second president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, and the first president to oversee any of the railroad's construction and operations. Pomeroy succeeded Cyrus K. Holliday as president of the railroad on January 13, 1864. He was a Republican.

Career

Early life
Samuel C. Pomeroy was born on January 3, 1816 at Southampton, Massachusetts. He was a student at Amherst College. Pomeroy was against the politics of slavery. In 1854, he joined the New England Emigrant Aid Company. That fall, he led a group of people to Kansas to help create the city of Lawrence.

1860s
On April 4, 1861, the Kansas legislature elected Pomeroy (along with James Lane) to be one of Kansas's first senators.

1870s
On December 18, 1871, because of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden urging and after learning of the findings of the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, Pomeroy introduced the Act of Dedication bill into the Senate. That bill led to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

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High court

High court usually refers to the superior court (or supreme court) of a country or state. In some countries, it is the highest court (for example, Australia). In others, it is positioned lower in the hierarchy of courts (for example, England and Wales). A person who presides as a judge in such a court may be called a High Court judge, or, in some cases, a High Court Justice.

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Truth Hurts (song)

"Truth Hurts" is a song by American R&B recording artist Lizzo. It is taken from the deluxe version of her third studio album (and first major-label release), Cuz I Love You.  It was released as a single on September 19, 2017. Lizzo wrote the song with Steven Cheung, Jesse Saint John, and its producer, Ricky Reed.

In 2019, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the Pop Songs radio chart, R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rap Songs charts, and on the Radio Songs chart. It also reached the top ten in Canada and New Zealand, while maintaining the top 20 in Australia, the top 40 in the UK, and the top 100 in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Charts

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