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Pinch hitter

In baseball, a pinch hitter is a batter in place of another batter. Batters can be substituted at any time while there is not an active play. The manager may use any player who has not entered the game. Unlike basketball, American football, or ice hockey, baseball does not have a "free substitution rule". The player replaced by the pinch hitter is never allowed back into that game. The pinch hitter takes the spot in the batting order of the player that he replaces.

The player chosen to be a pinch hitter is often a backup infielder or outfielder. Catchers are not usually pinch hitters because most teams only have two catchers. Pitchers are also not used very often as pinch hitters because they are not very good hitters.

The American League of Major League Baseball, the Pacific League in Japan, the KBO League in Korea, and other leagues use the designated hitter rule. The designated hitter bats for the pitcher but does not play defense.

Baseball rules
Baseball positions
Pennyroyal

Pennyroyal (scientific name: Mentha pulegium) is a plant with puce-coloured leaves with a strong smell, said to ward off fleas.

Lamiaceae
Herbs
Indulf of Scotland

Indulf was king of Scots from 954-962 and succeeded his cousin Malcolm I to the throne of Alba in 954. He died in 962, 8 years after he became king and passed the throne to his son Dub.

Birth 
Indulf was king of Alba from 954-962 for 8 years, he was born sometime in the 900's. He reigned after Malcolm I and was succeeded by Dub. An interesting note is that Dub was supposedly black, nicknamed the Niger or the Vehement.

Reign 
Indulf's reign began in 954 when he was most likely 30 or 40 years old, he died only 8 years later in 962. His legacy is forgotten and does not live on. He is rarely mentioned now.

Death 
He died in 962 in Scotland, 100 years after Donald I's death and was succeeded by his eldest son for the first time in the history of Alban Monarchs, Dub.

Burial 
He is buried in Iona, like most Scottish monarchs from that time period. He was most likely buried not late after his death in around 967/8.

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Anubias gilletii

Anubias gilletii is a plant in the Araceae family. It was first described for science in 1901 by Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman and Th. Durand.

Where it grows
The plant is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Description
The plant's leaves are medium-green and spear-shaped. They grow on long stalks. They may grow to about  in length. The plant grows in muddy areas near, or in, streams. Sometimes it even grows completely under water.

Growing conditions
This plant grows best when only partly under water and when not crowded by other plants. It needs a lot of nutrients. The substrate should be loose and have a lot of iron. The light should be moderate to strong. It prefers a temperature range of 22-26 degrees C (72-79 degrees F). It can be propagated by dividing the stolon or by its seed.

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Erkki Kurenniemi

Erkki Juhani Kurenniemi (July 10, 1941 – May 1, 2017) was a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist. He was best known for his electronic music works and the electronic instruments he has designed. He is called as one of the leading early pioneers of electronic music in Finland. Kurenniemi was also a science adviser, a futurologist, a pioneer of media culture, and an experimental film-maker. He was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Kurenniemi died on May 1, 2017 in Helsinki, Finland at the age of 75.

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 Erkki Kurenniemi @ pHinnWeb
 Erkki Kurenniemi — Avantgarden innovaattori – online version of the above article by Tiits (in Finnish)
 Erkki Kurenniemi-Sähkö Recordings Connection (in Finnish)
 YLE Elävä arkisto: DIMI, suomalainen syntetisaattori (in Finnish)
 Documenta 13

1941 births
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Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria

Archduke Joseph Árpád Benedikt Ferdinand Franz Maria Gabriel (; 8 February 1933 – 30 April 2017)  was a member of the Hungarian Palatine branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.

Family
He was born in Budapest, the son of Archduke Joseph Francis of Austria and his wife, Princess Anna of Saxony. He was the great-grandson of Archduke Joseph of Austria, Count Palatine of Hungary.

Honors
 : Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1961)
 : General Captain of the Order of Vitéz (1977–2017)

Personal life
He received a degree in economics from the University of Lisbon.

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Bruce Hampton

Bruce Hampton (born Gustav Valentine Berglund III; April 30, 1947 – May 1, 2017) was an American musician.

Career
In the late 1960s he was a founding member of Atlanta, Georgia's avant-garde Hampton Grease Band. Adopting the moniker Colonel Hampton B. Coles, Retired or alternatively Col. Bruce Hampton Ret., and sometimes playing a sort of dwarf guitar called a "chazoid", he later formed several other bands. Some of those band names include The Late Bronze Age, The Aquarium Rescue Unit, The Fiji Mariners, The Codetalkers, The Quark Alliance, Pharaoh Gummitt, and Madrid Express.

Death
On May 1, 2017, Hampton was being honored with a concert featuring his friends at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia for his 70th birthday when he collapsed on-stage of a heart attack during an encore performance of "Turn on Your Lovelight." As a result, Hampton lay slumped over an amplifier on the edge of the stage for several minutes before he was taken offstage for medical attention; because people thought he was joking. He died shortly thereafter at Emory University Hospital Midtown.

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1947 births
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George Hugh Niederauer

George Hugh Niederauer (June 14, 1936 – May 2, 2017) was an American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco. Before that, Niederauer served as Bishop of Salt Lake City from 1994 to 2005.

Niederauer was born in Los Angeles, California. He studied at Stanford University, at the Catholic University of America and at Loyola University. Niederauer died on May 2, 2017 in San Rafael, California from lung cancer at the age of 80.

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 Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Official Site

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Abelardo Castillo

Abelardo Castillo (March 27, 1935 – May 2, 2017) was an Argentine writer, novelist, essayists. He was born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practiced amateur boxing in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco. He was well regarded in the field of Latin American literature.

In 2014 he won the Diamond Konex Award as the best writer in the last decade in Argentina.

Castillo died on May 2, 2017 in Buenos Aires from pneumonia, aged 82.

References

Other websites

 Biographical details, literatura.org 

1935 births
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Yisrael Friedman

Yisrael Friedman, also known as Pashkaner Rebbe (November 8, 1923 – May 1, 2017) was a Israel rabbi and educator. He was born in Buhuși, Romania. He was a former lecturer at the Tel Aviv University and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the rosh yeshiva of a hesder yeshiva in Netivot.

Friedman died on May 1, 2017 at a medical center in Tel Aviv, Israel, aged 93.

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José Manuel Martín

José Manuel Martín Pérez (born May 24, 1924) is a retired Spanish actor, radio broadcaster, and screenwriter. He was a popular character actor in Spanish cinema during the 1950s and 60s. He is best remembered for playing villainous henchmen, appearing in more than 100 movie and television productions.

Early life
Martín born in Casavieja, Spain. He studied at Madrid's Teatro Español Universitario and the Lope de Rueda, and began working for Radio Nacional de España in 1942, before making his feature movie debut in César Fernández Ardavín's 1952 war drama La llamada de África starring Ali Beiba Uld Abidin, Yahadid Ben Ahmed Lehbib and Farachi Ben Emboiric.

Career
Martín is particularly noted for his work in the Spaghetti Western genre, alongside regulars such as Aldo Sambrell and Andrea Scotti, with supporting roles in Savage Guns (1961), Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964), Minnesota Clay(1964), A Pistol for Ringo (1965), Seven Dollars on the Red (1966), Arizona Colt (1966), A Bullet for the General (1966), Blood River (1967), 100 Rifles (1969), and Cut-Throats Nine (1972).

Martín also had memorable roles in EuroHorror movies such as Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969), The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973), Count Dracula's Great Love (1974), and Curse of the Devil (1974).

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Happy 85th Birthday José Manuel Martín

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Mitch Landrieu

Mitchell Joseph "Mitch" Landrieu ( ; born  August 16, 1960) is an American politician. He was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans from 2010 until 2018. Landrieu previously served as the 51st Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

His father is Moon Landrieu, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Jimmy Carter administration. His sister is former United States senator Mary Landrieu.

On November 14, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that Landrieu would be Senior Advisor responsible for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. He assumed office with the signing of the bill into law on November 15, 2021.

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 CityMayors profile

1960 births
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Seth Moulton

Seth Wilbur Moulton (born October 24, 1978) is an American former Marine Corps officer and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts's 6th congressional district since 2015.

Moulton served in the Marine Corps during the early years of the Iraq War.

On April 22, 2019, Moulton launched his presidential campaign for the 2020 election. He suspended his campaign on August 23, 2019 due to low polling numbers and failed qualifications for the debates.

References

Other websites
 Congressman Seth Moulton official U.S. House site
 Seth Moulton for Congress

1978 births
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Harold Bedoya Pizarro

Harold Bedoya Pizarro (December 30, 1938 – May 2, 2017) was a Colombian politician and military personnel. He was General and Commander of the Colombian National Army from 1994 through 1996. Bedoya has also run for President of Colombia in the 1998 and 2002 elections. He was born in Cali, Colombia. On July 24, 1997, Bedoya was forced into retirement by then President Ernesto Samper due to his unwillingness to negotiate with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Bedoya Pizarro died at a military clinic in Bogotá from lymphoma on May 2, 2017 at the age of 78.

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Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi is a biennial vegetable.  Kohlrabi is also commonly known as the German turnip or cabbage turnip. It is related to cabbage.  Kohlrabi can be eaten raw as well as cooked. Both the stem and the leaves can be eaten.. Is very popular in Northern and Eastern European countries like Germany and Hungary as well as places like northern Vietnam and eastern India. 

Vegetables
Brassica oleracea
Mohamed Talbi

Mohamed Talbi (16 September 1921 – 1 May 2017) was a Tunisian historian and professor. He was the author of many books about Islam. He was born in Tunis. Talbi was appointed president of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts between 2011 and 2012.

Talbi died on 1 May 2017 in Tunis from respiratory failure, aged 95.

Related pages
List of historians by continent
List of African scientists by country

References

More readings
 Al-Mukhassass d'Ibn Sïda : études et index, éd. Imprimerie officielle, Tunis, 1956
 Histoire générale de la Tunisie (collective book), tome II « Le Moyen Âge », éd. Société tunisienne de diffusion, Tunis, 1965
 L'émirat aghlabide (186-296/800-909) : histoire politique, éd. Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, 1966 ()
 L'Islam n'est pas voile, il est culte : rénovation de la pensée musulmane, éd. Cartaginoiseries, Carthage, 2010
 Goulag et démocratie, éd. Mohamed Talbi, Tunis, 2011
 À Benoît XVI, éd. Mohamed Talbi, Tunis, 2011
 Ma religion c'est la liberté : l'islam et les défis de la contemporanéité, éd. Nirvana, Tunis, 2011 ()
 Histoire du Christ. Histoire d’une fraude textes à l’appui, s. éd., Tunis, 2011
 Méditations sur le Coran : Vérité, rationalité, I'jaz scientifique, éd. Mohamed Talbi, Tunis, 2016

1921 births
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Tunisian academics
Historians
Stoyanka Mutafova

Stoyanka Mutafova (née Stoyana-Maria Konstantinova Mutafova; ; 2 February 1922 – 6 December 2019) was a famous Bulgarian actress. During her career, she starred in over 53 theatrical plays and 25 movies.

Mutafova was nicknamed Ms. Natural Disaster for a play she performs in and The Queen of Bulgarian comedy, she was an official applicant for a Guinness Book of World Record as the actress with the longest active professional career. 

At the age of 94 in 2016, she toured the theater halls in major cities of the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Great Britain and Germany.

Mutafova died on 6 December 2019 in Sofia at the age of 97.

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Let L-410

The Let L-410 is a Czech military and civilian transport aircraft. It's a twin-engines aircraft. Many were used by Aeroflot during the Cold War era.

Czechoslovakia
Civil aircraft
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Pingali Venkayya

Pingali Venkayya (2 August 1876 – 4 July 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based.

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Negombo

Negombo (, )is a city north of Colombo on the west coast of Sri Lanka. Bandranaike International Airport is here. Near the waterfront, the remains of a 17th-century Dutch fort now contains a prison. Negombo Lagoon, lined with fishermen's huts, feeds into the Dutch-era Hamilton Canal. The canal leads south to Colombo. The neoclassical St Mary's church, completed in the 1920s, has a ceiling decorated with vivid religious paintings.

Cities in Sri Lanka
Saas Grund

Saas-Grund is a municipality in Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is east of Lenzspitze and Dom.

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 Official website of Saas-Grund 
 Saas-Grund on Saas-Fee tourism 
 

Municipalities of Valais
St. Niklaus, Switzerland

St. Niklaus () is a municipality in the Mattertal, part of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 
 Museum website  

Municipalities of Valais
Stalden, Switzerland

Stalden is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It lies at the foot of the Mischabelhörner and Dom ().

References

Other websites

 Official Homepage of Stalden 

Municipalities of Valais
Staldenried

Staldenried (Walliser German: Schtaaluried) is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It consists of the largest hamlet of Gspon (), the hamlets of Zur Kirche and Zur Tanne along with about twenty small settlements.

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 Official website of Staldenried 
 Aerial cableway website 
 

Municipalities of Valais
Karel Schoeman

Karel Schoeman (26 October 1939 – 1 May 2017) was a South African novelist, historian, and translator. He was the author of 19 novels and many works of history. He was one of South Africa's most honored authors. 

Schoeman wrote mainly in Afrikaans, although several of his non-fiction books were originally written in English. His novels are increasingly being translated into other languages, notably, English, French and Dutch.

Shoeman died in an act of suicide by refusing to eat or drink at a retirement center in South Africa at the age of 77.

Related pages
List of historians by continent

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Historians
Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Mishaal bin Abdulaziz (5 September 1926 – 3 May 2017) was a Saudi Arabian prince and politician. 

Mishaal bin Abdulaziz served as Chairman of the Allegiance Council from 2007 until his death in 2017 and a senior member of the House of Saud. He held different cabinet posts in the 1950s such as Minister of Defense from 1951 through 1953. He served as Governor of Makkah Province from 1963 through 1971. His father was King Abdulaziz. He was born in Riyadh.

In October 2009, Mishaal bin Abdulaziz was rushed to hospital in Geneva, apparently having suffered a stroke. Then, he returned to Saudi Arabia from unspecified medical treatment in Beirut in December 2009. He died in Riyadh on 3 May 2017, aged 90.

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Mishaal bin Abdulaziz Official website 

1926 births
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Saudi Arabian people
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Princes and princesses
Bob Givens

Robert "Bob" Givens (March 2, 1918 – December 14, 2017) was an American animator, character designer and layout artist. 

Givens worked for many animation studios during his career, including Disney, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. He began his career during the 1930s and continued until the early 2000s. During his career, Givens created the first design for Bugs Bunny. He worked a lot with director Chuck Jones, working under Jones both at Warner Bros. and Jones' own production company.

On December 14, 2017, Givens died in Burbank, California of respiratory failure at the age of 99.

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Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji

Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji (Somali: Cabaas Cabdulaahi Sheikh Siraaji) (15 August 1985 – 3 May 2017) was a Somali politician. He briefly served as the Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction from 4 April 2017 until his death in 3 May 2017.

Siraji was shot and killed on 3 May 2017 when soldiers opened fire as he drove his vehicle near Villa Somalia at the age of 31. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear. Media reports said the soldiers may have perceived Siraji's vehicle as a threat.

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Leo K. Thorsness

Leo Keith Thorsness (February 14, 1932 – May 2, 2017) was an American colonel in the United States Air Force and politician. He was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. 

Thorsness received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War. He was awarded the medal for an air engagement on April 19, 1967. He was shot down two weeks later and spent six years in captivity in North Vietnam as a prisoner of war with future United States Senator John McCain. After his military service, Thorsness served one term in the Washington State Senate from 1988 through 1992 after beating the current State Senator Eugene V. Lux. He was a Republican.

In 1974, Thorsness ran for the United States senate in South Dakota, but lost the general election to George McGovern. 

Thorsness died on May 2, 2017 in St. Augustine, Florida from leukemia at the age of 85.

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Graphic depiction of 63–8301  Note: on the date of the MoH mission, tail codes were not yet in use in the USAF
American Valor – Leo K. Thorsness
Air Force bio, Leo K. Thorsness 
Thorsness Bio 
POW Network bio that includes his legislative efforts on behalf of MIA's
Interview at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library

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Moray Watson

Moray Watson (25 June 1928 – 2 May 2017) was an English actor. His career began in 1953. He retired in 2014. He appeared in several movies, including Operation Crossbow and The Grass Is Greener. He was known for his roles as Col. Arthur Maiford in The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993) and George Frobisher in Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992).

Watson was born in Sunningdale, Berkshire. He studied at Eton College and at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1955, he married Pamela Marmont. They had two children. Marmont died in 1999. Watson died on 2 May 2017 at a hospital in London, England from pneumonia at the age of 88.

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Eugene V. Lux

Eugene Victor "Gene" Lux (August 16, 1926 – June 21, 2019) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 35th Legislative District and then the 11th Legislative District from 1973 through 1988.

Lux was also appointed to two brief tenures in the Washington State Senate in the 35th and 11th legislative districts in 1973 and 1988, respectively. He lost his re-election bid to the Washington Senate in 1988 to Colonel Leo K. Thorsness.

Lux was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. He worked as a self-employed building contractor. Lux died on June 21, 2019 at his Seattle home at the age of 92.

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Saint Lawrence Seaway

The Saint Lawrence Seaway is a navigable waterway in North America. It is  long and allows marine vessels to go from the Atlantic Ocean to all of the Great Lakes. Most of it is in Canada, but a small part of it is in the United States. It gets its name from the Saint Lawrence River, the river which goes from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Before the Seaway was built, there was no way for boats and ships to get around the rapids and dams on the Saint Lawrence River. Big ships could not pass Niagara Falls, the waterfalls on the Niagara River between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. In the early 20th century, the governments of both Canada and the U.S. saw that the cities near the Great Lakes could grow and become an important part of the economy of both countries. There were people in both countries who did not want the Seaway to be built, but the project went ahead.

In 1954, construction began on a system of canals from Montreal in the east to Port Colborne in the west. It included 15 locks where the water level changes, and several places where electricity could be made from the flow of water. The project also involved making the Welland Canal bigger so that large ships can pass through it.

The Seaway was completed in 1959 at a cost of C$470 million. Today, thousands of vessels use it every year, from small recreational boats to huge ocean liners. About 40 to 50 million tonnes of cargo are moved on these ships and they go to all parts of the world including Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It has been an important part of the economic growth of cities like Toronto, Hamilton, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Chicago. There are plans to make the Seaway even wider so that container ships as big as those that travel through the Panama Canal can use it.

Water transport
Canals
Geography of North America
Ernest E. West

Ernest Edison "Ernie" West (September 2, 1931 – May 1, 2021) was a United States Army soldier. He was a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart, for his actions in the Korean War.

Early life
West was born on September 2, 1931, in Russell, Kentucky. He was drafted from Wurtland in 1950.

Korean War and Medal of Honor

After his unit was ambushed near Sataeri on that day, he ran through heavy fire to rescue his wounded commander, Capt. George Gividen. As he was pulling the man to safety, three hostile soldiers attacked. West shielded the commander with his body and killed the attackers with his rifle, suffering a wound which resulted in the loss of his eye in the process. 

Despite this injury, he remained on the field and assisted in the evacuation of other wounded men, at one point killing three more hostile soldiers. For these actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor just over a year later, on January 29, 1954 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Death
West died on May 1, 2021 in Greenup County, Kentucky at the age of 89.

References

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 Sullivan will dedicate plaza for vets

1931 births
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American military people
Medal of Honor recipients
Purple Heart recipients
People from Kentucky
Howard V. Lee

Lieutenant Colonel Howard Vincent Lee (August 1, 1933 – March 23, 2019) was a United States Marine Corps officer. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in August 1966 during the Vietnam War. He was promoted in July 1972 to lieutenant colonel and retired in 1975 from the Marine Corps. Lee studied at Pace College. 

On October 25, 1967, Major Lee was presented the Medal of Honor by President Lyndon Johnson in a ceremony at the White House.

Lee died on March 23, 2019 in Virginia, at the age of 85.

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1933 births
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American military personnel of the Vietnam War
Medal of Honor recipients
People from New York City
Purple Heart recipients
Arthur J. Jackson

Captain Arthur J. Jackson (October 18, 1924 – June 14, 2017) was a United States Marine. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Peleliu during  World War II.
PFC Jackson single-handedly destroyed 12 enemy pillboxes and killed 50 enemy soldiers.

On September 30, 1961, while serving at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Jackson fatally shot Rubén López Sabariego, a Cuban worker at Guantanamo, and unsuccessfully attempted to hide his body in a shallow grave.

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1924 births
2017 deaths
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Purple Heart recipients
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People from Cleveland, Ohio
Wilburn K. Ross

Wilburn Kirby Ross (May 12, 1922 – May 9, 2017) was a retired United States Army soldier. He is a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.

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American military personnel of the Korean War
American military personnel of World War II
Medal of Honor recipients
People from Kentucky
Robert E. Simanek

Robert Ernest Simanek (born April 26, 1930) is a former United States Marine. He is a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War.

The Medal of Honor was presented to him by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a White House ceremony on October 27, 1953. He was the 36th Marine to receive the medal in the Korean War.

In addition to the Medal of Honor, he was also awarded the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal with two bronze service stars, the United Nations Service Medal, and the National Defense Service Medal.

References

Other websites
Phalen, Lane. "Three Who Acted",  AMVETS Magazine, 2002. Retrieved 2006-06-23

1930 births
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People from Detroit, Michigan
Duane E. Dewey

Duane Edgar Dewey (November 16, 1931 – October 11, 2021) was an American combat Marine. He received the U.S. military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions on April 16, 1952 during the Korean War. Although wounded by an enemy grenade, he fell on another exploding grenade with his own body to save the life of a corpsman and the other Marines around him.

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Medal of Honor recipients
Purple Heart recipients
People from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Charles Kettles

Charles S. Kettles (January 9, 1930 – January 21, 2019) was a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was a Medal of Honor recipient for his services in the United States Army. Kettles received the Medal of Honor on July 18, 2016, nearly 50 years after his actions while serving as a flight commander assigned to 176th Aviation Company (Airmobile) (Light), 14th Combat Aviation Battalion, Americal Division.

Kettles died on January 21, 2019 in Ypsilanti, Michigan at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Kettles

1930 births
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American military people
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Medal of Honor recipients
People from Michigan
Bennie G. Adkins

Bennie G. Adkins (February 1, 1934 – April 17, 2020) was a United States Army soldier. He was a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for actions in March 1966 during the Vietnam War. 

From March 9-12, 1966 Adkins distinguished himself during a 38-hour close-combat battle against North Vietnamese Army forces during the Battle of A Shau. At the time of the cited action, Adkins was a sergeant first class serving as an Intelligence Sergeant with Detachment A-102, 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces.

In March 2020 Adkins was hospitalized with COVID-19 in Opelika, Alabama. He died on April 17, 2020 from the virus, at the age of 86.

References

Other websites

 Medal recipient killed up to 175 enemy troops, September 15, 2014, Brad Lendon, CNN

1934 births
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Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
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American military people
People from Oklahoma
Robert J. Modrzejewski

Robert Joseph Modrzejewski (born July 3, 1934) is a retired United States Marine Corps officer. He was awarded the United States’ highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor —  for his servies in Vietnam. In a White House ceremony on March 12, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented the Medal of Honor to two Marines for their actions in Vietnam — Major Modrzejeski and Second Lieutenant John J. McGinty, III.

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1934 births
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Medal of Honor recipients
Purple Heart recipients
American military people
People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wesley L. Fox

Wesley Lee Fox (September 30, 1931 – November 24, 2017) was a retired United States Marine Corps colonel with 43 years of service. Fox received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the Vietnam War, and was thought to be one of the Marine Corps' legendary heroes.

Early life
Fox was born in Herndon, Virginia. He studied at Warren County High School. He married Dotti Fox in the 1950s.

Service
Beginning in September 1967, Fox served in the Vietnam War for 13 months as an executive officer of a South Vietnamese Marine Battalion. In November 1968, he was reassigned to Vietnam as the company commander of Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines until May 1969.

On February 22, 1969, during Operation Dewey Canyon in Quang Tri Province, he was wounded twice. He was wounded the first time in the shoulder when his company was attacked by a large enemy force. A first lieutenant at the time, Fox then personally neutralized one enemy emplacement and directed his company to destroy others. After his company's executive officer was mortally wounded, he continued to direct the company's actions, ordering air strikes and coordinating the advance until the enemy retreated; Fox, the only officer left in his company that was capable of resisting the enemy, was wounded again in the final assault, but refused medical attention while he reorganized his troops and prepared the wounded for evacuation.

For his heroic actions that day he was presented the Medal of Honor by President Richard Nixon on March 2, 1971.

Later life
Fox retired from the Marine Corps as a full colonel in September 1993 at the mandatory age of 62. Fox has written a book about his experiences in the military, Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps (), and was featured on the 2003 PBS program American Valor.

Fox died in Blacksburg, Virginia in the evening of November 24, 2017 at the age of 86.

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Roger Donlon

Roger Hugh Charles Donlon (born January 30, 1934) is a former United States Army officer. He is the first person to receive the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, as well as the first member of the U.S. Army Special Forces so honored.

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Patrick Henry Brady

Patrick Henry Brady (born October 1, 1936), is a retired United States Army major general. While serving as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, he received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor.

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Beatrice Mintz

Beatrice Mintz (January 24, 1921 – January 3, 2022) was an American embryologist who has helped to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation and cancer, particularly melanoma.

Mintz was a pioneer of genetic engineering techniques, and was among the first scientists to generate both chimeric and transgenic mammals.

Early life
Mintz was born on January 24, 1921 in New York City. She studied at New York University and at the University of Iowa.

Awards and honors
In 1996 she shared the inaugural March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology with Ralph L. Brinster for their work in developing transgenic mice. Much of her career has been spent at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia where, in 2002, she was named to the Jack Schultz Chair in Basic Science. Mintz was a member of both the United States National Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Death
Mintz turned 100 in January 2021. She died on January 3, 2022 in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania from problems caused by dementia at the age of 100.

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 Faculty profile, at the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
 Beatrice Mintz Biography @ answers.com

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Ágnes Keleti

Ágnes Keleti (born Ágnes Klein, 9 January 1921 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-Israeli retired artistic gymnast and coach. 

While representing Hungary in the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, and is thought to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. Keleti holds more Olympic medals than any other individual with Israeli citizenship, and more Olympic medals than any other Jew, except Mark Spitz. She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1957, Keleti immigrated to Israel, where she currently resides.

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Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin (; born Edgar Nahoum on 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist. He has been known for his work on complexity and "complex thought," and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology.

Morin holds degrees in history, economics, and law. Though less well known in the United States due to the limited of English translations of his over 60 books, Morin is renowned in the French-speaking world, Europe, and Latin America.

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The Persecution of Edgar Morin by Doug Ireland
 An interview and short biography on Unesco's web site
 "La réalité semi-imaginaire de l'homme", chapitre conclusif du livre "Cinéma ou l'homme imaginaire" (1956), reproduit sur le site d'analyse L'oBservatoire (simple appareil).
 A lecture in English http://www.wise-qatar.org/edgar-morin
 A Spanish language website http://www.edgarmorin.org/
 Interview with Edgar Morin http://www.guninetwork.org/resources/guni.talks/edgar-morin

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Thaanaa Serndha Koottam

Thaanaa Serndha Koottam () is an upcoming Tamil-language action-thriller film written and directed by Vignesh Shivan and produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja.

Cast 
 Suriya Sivakumar
 Keerthy Suresh
 Senthil
 K. S. Ravikumar
 Saranya Ponvannan 
 Nandha Durairaj
 Ramya Krishnan
 RJ Balaji
 Thambi Ramaiah
 Sathyan
 Kovai Sarala
 Anandaraj
 Suresh Chandra Menon

Production 
The film is produced by K. E. Gnanavel Raja's Studio Green along with Suriya's 2D Entertainment and music by Anirudh, with whom he collaborated for Naanum Rowdy Dhaan (2015). Production began on 1 November 2016.

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Samaira Sandhu

Samaira Sandhu is an Indian film actress, model, author and a former beauty queen. She debuted in the Tamil film Dhayam which was released on March 24, 2017.

Early life and career
Samaira was born in Punjab, India and lived her life in Chandigarh. She was completed B.Tech and MBA and worked for some time in a multinational company as a software engineer. She was an active  participant of theater and sports during college and school. In 2015, she turned her profession from a software engineer in to a beauty queen and then an actor.

Filmography

Music videos

Bibliography
Samaira wrote her first novel Heaven in a Hell in 2015.

Social work
Samaira Sandhu is the brand ambassador of two NGOs, Chandigarh Round Table (CRT) and Handicapped Children and Women Association (HCWA).

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Dhayam

Dhayam is an Indian Tamil movie written and directed by Kannan Rangaswamy. The film was theatrical released on 24th March 2017. A. R. S. Sunder is the producer of the movie. Music composed by Sathish Selvam and cinematography by A. Packiaraj.

Cast
 Santhosh Prathap
 Samaira Sandhu
 Jayakumar 
 Shyam Krishnan
 Jeeva Ravi
 Aira Agarval 
 Kadhal Kannan 
 Aanchal Singh 
 Ajay Raj

Plot
The entire movie was shot inside a single room, the film stars Santhosh Prathap, Jayakumar, Samaira Sandhu, Shyam Krishnan and Aira Agarval are in leading roles.

Soundtrack

Quick Facts
Dhayam is one of the few movies that uses special optical Zoom lens.
All the characters appear in one single costume throughout the movie
The whole movie was shot in one single room

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Daliah Lavi

Daliah Lavi (Daliah Lewinbuk, ; 12 October 1942 – 3 May 2017) was an Israeli actress, singer, and model. 

Lavi's movie appearances include Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), Mario Bava's gothic classic La Frusta e il corpo, or The Whip and the Body (1963), the role of The Girl in Lord Jim and the first Matt Helm movie, The Silencers (1966), opposite Dean Martin. However, her best-known role is probably as 'The Detainer/007' in Casino Royale (1967).

Lavi died on 3 May 2017 in Asheville, North Carolina at the age of 74.

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Victor Lanoux

Victor Lanoux (18 June 1936 – 4 May 2017) was a French actor. He was best known to English speaking audiences for his role as Ludovic in Cousin, Cousine.

In 1961, Lanoux met Pierre Richard who was looking for someone to partner his cabaret act. They worked together for a number of years, including a season at the Bobino and a tour of Le Gorille.

Lanoux died in Royan, France on 4 May 2017 from complications of a stroke at the age of 80.

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Roy Gater

Roy Gater (22 June 1940 – 2 May 2017) was an English footballer. He played for Port Vale, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Crewe Alexandra, Weymouth, Dorchester Town and Christchurch. He made 412 league and cup appearances in a 13-year career in the Football League.

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Heinz Kessler

Heinz Kessler or Heinz Keßler (26 January 1920  – 2 May 2017) was a former East German communist politician, military officer and a convicted felon. He is known for his role in political repression in East Germany prior to the communist regime's downfall in 1989.

In East Germany, he held the rank of Armeegeneral in the National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee) and was Minister of Defense of the GDR, a member of the Politbüro of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and a deputy of the GDR's Volkskammer (parliament).

Convicted for his role in the crimes of the communist regime, he was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after German reunification, and served his sentence in Hakenfelde Prison. He was released from prison in 1998 after serving only five years.

Kessler was expelled from the Party of Democratic Socialism in 1990. In 2009, he joined the German Communist Party (DKP). He was a DKP candidate in the Berlin state election, 2011. Kessler died 2 May 2017 at the age of 97.

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Medical cannabis

Medical marijuana, aka medical cannabis, is cannabis and cannabinoids that are given by doctors to their patients. The use of marijuana as a medicine has not been tested much because it can be difficult to get enough of it to test and because of other governmental regulations.

Medical cannabis can help with nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy. It can improve appetite in people with HIV/AIDS. It can reduce chronic pain and muscle spasms.

Short-term use makes it more likely that there will be side effects. Common side effects include feeling tired, dizziness and hallucinations. Long-term effects of marijuana are not clear. Concerns include memory problems, risk of addiction and children taking it by accident.

The Cannabis plant has been used as medicine for thousands of years in many cultures. Its current use is controversial.

Medical marijuana can be given in different ways. They include vaporizing, smoking dried buds, eating foods that have cannabis in them, taking capsules or using lozenges.

Recreational use of marijuana is illegal in most parts of the world. The medical use of cannabis is legal in some countries, including the Czech Republic, Canada, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. Australia is working to pass a law that will allow the use of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes. In the United States, federal law says all use of marijuana is illegal. But more than 30 states and the District of Columbia no longer arrest people for having medical marijuana, as long as they follow a state's medical marijuana rules.

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Antonov Serial Production Plant

Antonov is an aircraft manufacturer. It is based in Kiev, Ukraine. It makes some of the largest aircraft in history. The Antonov 225 cargo plane is  long. Its wingspan is . It has six engines. It is  longer than the Airbus A380. This plane is only used for cargo though. It is longer than the Spruce Goose but the Spruce Goose's wingspan is  longer. Antonov also makes passenger planes like the An-148 and the An-140. Antonov was established on May 31, 1946.

Manufacturing
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Oranjestad, Aruba

Oranjestad is the capital and largest city of Aruba. Oranjestad is on the southern coast near the western end of the island country. 

The city is named after the first King William I of the Netherlands. Oranjestad means "Orange Town" and one of the king's titles was Prince of Orange.

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Jerzy Stuhr

Jerzy Oskar Stuhr born 18 April 1947) is a Polish movie director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. Stuhr has directed eight movies since 1994 and he has appeared in many movies. He is the best known as an actor from the movie Seksmisja (1983). 

Stuhr was born in Kraków, Poland.

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Timo Mäkinen

Timo Mäkinen (18 March 1938 – 4 May 2017) was a Finnish racecar driver. He was one of the original "Flying Finns" of motor rallying. He was most famous for his hat-tricks of wins in the RAC Rally and the 1000 Lakes Rally, both were won in 1973. He was born in Helsinki.

Mäkinen died in Helsinki on 4 May 2017 from myelodysplastic syndrome at the age of 79.

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Ronna Romney McDaniel

Ronna Romney McDaniel (born January 19, 1973) is an American politician. She is a member of the Republican Party. She is the current chairwoman of the Republican National Committee since January 19, 2017. She is the former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party.  A third generation politician, McDaniel is the granddaughter of George W. Romney and the niece of Mitt Romney.

McDaniel and her husband, Patrick McDaniel, have two children. They live in Northville, Michigan.

On October 2, 2020, the Republican National Committee said McDaniel had tested positive for COVID-19 on September 30. She had been staying at her home in Michigan since September 26 after one of her relatives tested positive.

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American Health Care Act of 2017

The American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628), referred to by the acronym AHCA and nicknamed variously as Trumpcare, Ryancare, Republicare, and pejoratively Obamacare-Lite, is a United States Congress bill to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "Obamacare" (ACA). It is based on a plan first publicly released by House Republicans on March 6, 2017, and the first part of what is a 3-phase plan to repeal the act. 

Consideration of the bill was postponed on March 24, 2017, after it failed to gain enough House Republican support to pass it. Towards the end of April 2017, Republicans began trying to revive the bill with the MacArthur Amendment, named after Representative Tom MacArthur of New Jersey.

On May 4, 2017, the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and passing the American Health Care Act with a narrow vote of 217 to 213, sending the bill to the Senate for a full majority vote.

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Yamaguchi

Yamaguchi may refer to:
Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi,  city in southern Japan
Yamaguchi Prefecture,  Japanese prefecture 
Yamaguchi (name), Japanese surname