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La Défense

La Défense () is an area in the Paris Metropolitan Area of Île-de-France, located in the Hauts-de-Seine French department, just west of Paris. It is the largest business district in Europe and is home to 19 skyscrapers and more than 50 other buildings made of glass and steel. The area is 1.6 km2 (560 hectares) big. About 25,000 people live in La Défense, and another 180,000 people work there. Over 8 million tourists visit La Défense every year.

To get there, one can start at the Louvre or Arc de Triomphe and head west along the Axe historique (Historical Axis) along the Champs-Élysées and Avenue de la Grande Armée. La Défense is at the other end of the axis and has a monument called Grande Arche. It can also be reached by Paris Métro Line 1, RER Line A, tram T2 run by the RATP, and by SNCF trains, which all stop at an underground railway station called Gare de La Défense.

Further reading 
 Paris La Défense

Paris
Hauts-de-Seine
Saint Matthias

Matthias was the apostle who replaced Judas Iscariot. This was stated in the Acts of the Apostles. Unlike the other apostles, his appointment was not made personally by Jesus.

After the betrayal of Judas, the disciples of Jesus needed to choose a new apostle. To do this they nominated 2 men - Joseph Barsabbas and Matthias.

1st-century births
80s deaths
Twelve Apostles
Early Christian saints
Oedipina maritima

Oedipina maritima (commonly known as the maritime worm salamander) is a species of worm salamander that lives on the island of Escudo de Veraguas. It has no natural predators, as only a few animals live on the island, but it is endangered due to deforestation.

Population 
There are only eight known adult specimens and two clutches of eggs.

Threats 
The only threat to the salamander is deforestation.

References

Salamanders
Boys' Life

Boys' Life is a magazine made by the Boy Scouts of America. It was first published in 1911.

There are two versions of Boys' Life. The first version is made for the youngest members of Cub Scouting. These are the 6-to-10-year-old Cub Scouts and first-year Webelos Scouts (a rank in Cub Scouts). The second version is made for 11-to-18-year-old boys, which includes second-year Webelos through 18-year-old Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts and Venturers. The publisher picks which version to send by looking at if the subscriber is in Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts.

In June 2007, Boys' Life earned four Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). One of those awards is　Periodical　of the Year.

The magazine's mascot is Pedro the Mailburro, who answers readers' letters. Boys' Life has a comic strip about Pedro.

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Scouting
American magazines
Babatunde Osotimehin

Babatunde Osotimehin (6 February 1949 – 4 June 2017) was a Nigerian public servant and United Nations official.

Osotimehun was appointed on 19 November 2010 as the new Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for a four-year term. He was reappointed to this position on 21 August 2014. 
He assumed the position on 1 January 2011 and became the organisation's fourth Executive Director. He held the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before, he was Nigeria's Minister of Health. He left this office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.

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1949 births
2017 deaths
Civil servants
Nigerian politicians
United Nations officials
Roger Smith (actor)

Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017) was an American television and movie actor, singer and screenwriter. He starred in the television detective series 77 Sunset Strip and in the comedy series Mister Roberts. Smith, who went on to manage the career of Ann-Margret, his wife of 50 years.

Smith was born in South Gate, California. He studied at the University of Arizona. In an interview with the The New York Post, Ann-Margret said that he had Parkinson's disease. Smith died of complications from Parkinson's disease at the Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles on June 4, 2017 at the age of 84.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
American movie actors
American television actors
American screenwriters
Actors from Los Angeles County, California
Singers from Los Angeles County, California
Writers from Los Angeles County, California
Zhang Tianfu

Zhang Tianfu (,  21 September 1910 – 4 June 2017) was a Chinese agronomist and expert in tea processing, known for promoting processing of oolong.

In 1936, he introduced the tea processing machines from Japan, facilitating the automation of the domestic tea industry. From 1942 to 1944, he resumed teaching at Fukien Christian University.

He was targeted at the start of the Anti-Rightist Movement and subsequently was exiled to Chong'an until 1962. The Cultural Revolution followed, and Zhang was exiled to Shouning. Despite his exile, Zhang continued scientific research. He was rehabilitated in 1980.

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1910 births
2017 deaths
Chinese educators
Centenarians
Scientists from Shanghai
Fixed-point theorem

In mathematics, a fixed-point theorem is a theorem that a mathematical function has a fixed point. At that fixed point, the function's input and output are equal.

This concept is not one theorem itself; it is a way to describe many other theorems.

List of fixed-point theorems 
 Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem
 Banach fixed-point theorem
 Borel fixed-point theorem
 Browder fixed-point theorem
 Brouwer fixed-point theorem
 Caristi fixed-point theorem
 Diagonal lemma, also called the fixed-point lemma, for making logical sentences that describe themselves.
 Fixed-point lemma for normal functions
 Fixed-point property
 Injective metric space
 Kakutani fixed-point theorem
 Kleene fixpoint theorem
 Knaster–Tarski theorem
 Lefschetz fixed-point theorem
 Nielsen fixed-point theorem
 Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem proves that a function has two fixed points
 Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem
 Schauder fixed-point theorem
 Topological degree theory
 Tychonoff fixed-point theorem

Mathematical theorems
Inversion (linguistics)

In linguistics, inversion is when the words in a sentence are in a different order than normal. The most common kind of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion, which happens when an auxiliary verb (like do) changes places with its subject. It usually happens in questions like Are you coming?. In this example, the subject you is switched with the verb are. In many other languages, like languages with a freer word order than English, inversion can also happen with more verbs (not just auxiliaries) and other kinds of words.
Linguistics
Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore FRSL  (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist and children's writer. She was born in Yorkshire, Northern England. She was known for her novel Zennor in Darkness (1993).

In 2017, Dunmore published her last book, Birdcage Walk, before writing an article about mortality for the Guardian after she was diagnosed with cancer. She died on 5 June 2017 at her Bristol, South West England, aged 64.

References

Other websites
 HarperCollins Canada site 

1952 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in England
British poets
British novelists
British children's writers
Writers from Yorkshire
Northern England

Northern England, also known as the North of England, North Country or simply the North, is the northern part of England. People have different ideas about which parts of England are in Northern England, but it usually includes the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, as well as parts of Lincolnshire. There are big cities in Northern England, but there are also large mountains and lakes. The biggest Northern cities are Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield.

Northern England has a long history: it was where many battles between England and Scotland were fought, and it was the place where the Industrial Revolution began. Nowadays, most of the industry is gone and Northern England is poorer than Southern England. However, Northern England still has its own culture and way of speaking, and many Northerners are proud of the region.

Area
The area roughly spans from the River Trent to the Scottish border in the north. However, people disagree about where the southern border is. Some people say Northern England starts near Birmingham, while some people say it only starts at the River Tees. The government says that Northern England is made up of three statistical regions: the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber. These have a combined population of around 14.9 million as of the 2011 Census and an area of 37,331 km2 (14,414 sq mi).

Geography
Northern England contains much of England's national parkland but also has large areas of urbanization, including the conurbations of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Teesside, Tyneside, Wearside, South and West Yorkshire.

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Regions of England
Jakucho Setouchi

, formerly , was a Japanese Buddhist nun, writer and activist.<ref name="aeon">Harding, Christopher. [http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/christopher-harding-psychoanalysis-buddhism  Couched In Kindness: "Jakucho Setouchi: a revered nun and famous novelist "]  Aeon Magazine. .</ref> Setouchi was known for her biographical novels written as first-person narratives. She is known for her 1998 translation of The Tale of Genji.

She was awarded the Women's Literary Prize in 1963 for Natsu no Owari.

Setouchi died of heart failure in Kyoto, Japan, on 9 November 2021, at the age of 99.

Prizes
 1962 Women's Literature Prize for Natsu no Owari 1992 Tanizaki Prize for Hana ni Toe 2001 Noma Prize in literature for Basho 2006 Order of Culture of Japan

Works
 Joshidaisei Chu Airin (1957) Qu Ailing the Coed—received the Shinchosha Coterie Magazine Award
 Miren (1963) Lingering Affections Kiji (1963) Pheasant translated by Robert Huey in 
 Beauty in Disarray translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya 
 Natsu no owari (1963?) The End of Summer translated by Janine Beichman .  A collection of linked stories detailing her own adulterous affair.
 Hana ni toe (1992?) Ask the Blossoms, a novelized biography of the classical poet-priest Saigyo.
 Basho (2001) Places''

References

Other websites
 J'Lit | Authors : Jakucho Setouchi | Books from Japan

1922 births
2021 deaths
Japanese writers
Buddhists
Activists
Deaths from heart failure
Cheick Tioté

Cheick Ismaël Tioté (; 21 June 1986 – 5 June 2017) was an Ivorian footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder. He played in Europe for Dutch team FC Twente and English club Newcastle United before moving to China to represent Beijing Enterprises.  He won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast national team. 

On 5 June 2017, Tioté died in Beijing, China after suffering from cardiac arrest in training, aged 30.

References

Other websites
 Kicker Profile

1986 births
2017 deaths
Ivorian footballers
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Anna Jókai

Anna Jókai (Hungarian: Jókai Anna) (24 November 1932 – 5 June 2017) was a Hungarian author, poet and teacher. She began her writing career in 1974 and, during the 1980s, she participated in the Hungarian liberation movement. Between 1990 and 1992, she was the chairperson of the Hungarian Writers' Union.

Awards
In 1994 and 2014, she received the Hungarian Kossuth Award.

Bibliography
Kötél nélkül, 1969
A labda, 1971/1994
Napok,1972/2001
Mindhalálig, 1974
A feladat , 1977/1996
Szegény Sudár Anna, 1989/1999
Ne féljetek , 1998
Bölcsek és Pásztorok, 2006

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Hungarian novelists
Hungarian poets
Hungarian educators
People from Budapest
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (14 June 1736-23 August 1806) was a French physicist, known for his research on the properties of electricity. He also did research on the friction of fluids. Today, the SI unit for electric charge, the coulomb is named after him. He is one of the 72 people to have his name written on the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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French physicists
1736 births
1806 deaths
Writing letters

Letter is a way of communicating with others.In the ancient period kings and the main officials used letters to inform or welcome the other regions king.It even helped the people to communicate easily.They are sometimes tied to the legs of a well trained pigeon or an eagle or any kind of a bird.The are even used in some movies like "THE MUMMY","BAHUBALI"and much more.But now not many people use because of the improved technology.

Communication
Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station

Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station (ドーム前千代崎駅, どーむまえちよざきえき) is a railway station of Osaka Municipal Subway in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan. There is Dome-mae Station(ドーム前駅, どーむまええき) which Hanshin Electric Railway possess near Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station.

This is the nearest station to Kyocera Dome Osaka.

Adjacent stations 
Osaka Municipal Subway
  Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line
 Taisho (N11) Dome-mae Chiyozaki (N12) - Nishi-Nagahori (N13)
 Hanshin Electric Railway
 Hanshin Namba Line
 Rapid Express, Semi-Express, Suburban Semi-Express, Local
 Kujo (HS44) Dome-mae (HS33) - Sakuragawa (HS42)

Other websites
 
 
 Dome-mae Chiyozaki Station （Station guide） - Osaka Municipal Subway
 Dome-mae Station (Station guide) - Hanshin Electric Railway
 Kyocera Dome Osaka（Official site） - Osaka City Dome

Railway stations in Osaka Prefecture
Meilen

Meilen is a city in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is the capital in the district of Meilen.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Cities in Switzerland
Mettmenstetten

Mettmenstetten (Swiss German: Mättmischtette or Mättmi) is a municipality of the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Reuss (river)

The Reuss is a river in Switzerland. The length is . The drainage basin is . It is the fourth largest river in Switzerland (after the Rhine, Aare and Rhône).

The upper Reuss forms the main valley of the canton of Uri. The course of the lower Reuss runs from Lake Lucerne to where it connects with the Aare at Brugg.

References

Rivers of Switzerland
Lake Thun

Lake Thun () is a  Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named by the city of Thun. It is on the northern shore.

The 2,500 km² catchment area often causes local flooding after heavy rainfalls. This occurs because the river Aare, which drains Lake Thun, can only hold some of the extra runoff. The lake is fed by water from Lake Brienz to the southeast, which is 6 metres higher than Lake Thun. It is also fed by various streams in the Oberland, including the Kander.

Other websites

 Lake Thun Tourism Portal

Thun
Thun
Gerzensee (lake)

Gerzensee is a lake in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland. The surface area is .

It gives the name to the village of Gerzensee.

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Lakes of Bern
Schleuse (river)

The Schleuse is a river of Thuringia, Germany.

Geography of Thuringia
Rivers of Germany
Mönchaltorf

Mönchaltorf is a municipality of the district Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

History
It also holds the record for the longest Apfel Strudel.

Gallery

References

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Bigge (river)

Bigge is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Lenne in Finnentrop.

Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia
Rivers of Germany
Weil am Rhein

Weil am Rhein (Alemannic German: Wiil am Rhii) is an German town of the district Lörrach in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is on the east bank of the river Rhine. It is close to where the Swiss, French and German borders meet.

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Ballersdorf

Ballersdorf is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Auxiliary verb

In English, an Auxiliary verb is a verb that changes or helps another verb. Auxiliary means "extra" or "different". Auxiliary verbs like do can be used to make a question. These verbs are usually used with other verbs.

Basic examples
Below are some sentences that use auxiliary verbs from English, Spanish, German, and French, with the auxiliary verb in bold:

a. Do you want tea? – do is an auxiliary verb that changes the main verb want to make a question – see do-support.

b. He has given his all. – has is an auxiliary used to say the perfect form of give.

c. He cogido tu lápiz. – he is an auxiliary accompanying the main verb coger, used here to make a compound verb, the perfect present of the verb coger.
(I) have grabbed your pencil = 'I have taken your pencil.'

d. Das wurde mehrmals gesagt. – wurde 'became' is an auxiliary used to make the passive voice in German.
That became many times said = 'That was said many times.'

e. Sie ist nach Hause gegangen. – ist 'is' is an auxiliary used with movement verbs to make the perfect tense in German.
She is to home gone = 'She went home/She has gone home.'

f. J'ai vu le soleil. – ai 'have' is an auxiliary verb used to make the perfect tense/aspect in French.
I have seen the sun = 'I have seen the sun/I saw the sun.'

f. Nous sommes hébergés par un ami. – sommes 'are' is an auxiliary verb used to make the passive voice in French.
We are hosted by a friend.

These auxiliaries help make a question, show tense, or make passive voice. Auxiliaries like these usually appear with a normal verb that carries the main meaning of that part of the sentence.

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Grammar
Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a city in North Holland in the Netherlands. In 2019, 108,582 people lived there.

On 1 January 2015, the former municipalities of Graft-De Rijp and Schermer were merged into the municipality of Alkmaar.

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Cities in the Netherlands
Settlements in North Holland
Neerach

Neerach is a municipality in the district Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Zürich
Gelderner Fleuth

Gelderner Fleuth is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Niers near Geldern.

Geography of North Rhine-Westphalia
Rivers of Germany
Giuliano Sarti

Giuliano Sarti (2 October 1933 – 5 June 2017) was an Italian professional football player.

Sarti played in the position of goalkeeper. Throughout his successful career, he played for several Italian clubs, although he is mostly remembered for his success with Fiorentina, and as the goalkeeper of the "Grande Inter" side of the 1960s that conquered both Italy and Europe.

Sarti died in Florence, Italy on 5 June 2017 at the age of 83.

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1933 births
2017 deaths
Italian footballers
Adnan Khashoggi

Adnan Khashoggi (, ; 25 July 1935 – 6 June 2017) was a Saudi Arabian international businessman and uncle of Princess Diana's lover Dodi Al-Fayed. He was best known for arms dealing. He is estimated to have had a peak net worth of around US$4 billion in the early 1980s.

Khashoggi died on 6 June 2017 at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.  He was 81.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
Saudi Arabian businesspeople
Sandra Reemer

Barbara Alexandra "Sandra" Reemer (17 October 1950 – 6 June 2017) was a Dutch Indo singer and TV presenter of Dutch, Chinese and Javanese origian. She was born in Bandung, Java, Indonesia. She has represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest on three separate occasions, tying with Corry Brokken for most appearances representing the country.

In 1972, she sang the song "Als het om de liefde gaat" in a duet with Dries Holten, receiving fourth place.

Sandra Reemer died on 6 June 2017 from breast cancer in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the age of 66.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from breast cancer
Dutch singers
Dutch television presenters
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Indonesian singers
Vin Garbutt

Vincent Paul Garbutt (20 November 1947 – 6 June 2017) was an English folk singer and songwriter.  A significant part of his repertoire consisted of protest songs covering topics such as "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland (Troubles of Erin), unemployment, and social issues.

Death
Garbutt died at a hospital from complications caused by heart surgery on 6 June 2017 at the age of 69.

Music
The Valley of Tees (1972)
The Young Tin Whistle Pest (live) (1974)
King Gooden (1976)
Eston California (1977)
Tossin' a Wobbler (1978)
Little Innocents (1983)
Shy Tot Pommy (1985) [live - Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia]
When The Tide Turns  (1989)
The By-Pass Syndrome  (1991)
Bandalised (1994)
Plugged! (1995)  [live - Red Lion Folk Club, Birmingham, UK.]
When the Tide Turns Again  (1998) [reissue of 1989 album with one additional track]
Word Of Mouth (1999)
The Vin Garbutt Songbook Vol 1 (2003)
Persona ... Grata (2005)
Teesside Troubadour documentary & live DVD (2011)
Synthetic Hues (2014)

References

Other websites
The official Vin Garbutt website
Vin Garbutt's Myspace Page

1947 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Disease-related deaths in England
English singer-songwriters
English guitarists
Folk musicians
Márta Antal-Rudas

Márta Antal-Rudas (14 February 1937 – 6 June 2017) was a Hungarian javelin thrower. She competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and finished in ninth, second and fourth place. She was born in Debrecen, Hungary.

Antal-Rudas died on 6 June 2017 in Budapest, Hungary at the age of 80.

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1937 births
2017 deaths
Hungarian sportspeople
Olympic silver medalists
Anupam Sen

Anupam Sen (born August 5, 1940) is a Bangladeshi academic and social scientist. Currently, he is serving as Vice-chancellor of Premier University, Chittagong.

He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2014 by the Government of Bangladesh.

Published books and research 
 The Social Background of the Bangladesh Movement, Quest(Bombay),September–October,1971.
 The Bureaucracy and Socio-Economic Development in Bangladesh,Bangladesh Journal of Sociology,August 1983.
 Social Change in South Asia, Presidential Address,Third National Conference and International Seminar on Social Change in South Asia,Dhaka: Bangladesh Sociology Association,March 18–20, 1987.
 Modes of Production and Social Formation in India, 2nd article of the book entitled, "Class,State and Development in India" Edited by Berch Berberoglu(Professor,University of Nevada, U.S.A) New Delhi /London - Sage Publications,1992.
 The State, Industrialization and Class Formations in India,London : Routledge and Kegan-Paul, 1982.
 Bangladesh :Rashtra O Samaj, Dhaka :Abosar,1999
 Bangladesh O Bangali, Dhaka :Abosar,2002
 Biloshita Sabdaguchcha (An Anthology of Translated Verses of Eminent Poets from East & West),Dhaka :Abosar,2002
 The Political Economy of Bangladesh (work in progress).

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1940 births
Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
Living people
Bangladeshi educators
Domodossola

Domodossola is an Italian city in Piedmont. In 2014, 18,247 people lived there.

Cities in Piedmont
Neftenbach

Neftenbach is a municipality in Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Football player Manuel Akanji was born here.

References

Other websites 

 Official website of Neftenbach 

Municipalities of Zürich
Guimarães

Guimarães is a city in Portugal, in the district of Braga. It has 158,124 people.

Gallery

Cities in Portugal
Municipalities of Portugal
Kannonkoski

Kannonkoski is a municipality in Central Finland. It had about 1,452 people living there in 2016. The municipalities next to it are Karstula, Kivijärvi, Saarijärvi, Viitasaari and Äänekoski.

Other websites

 The official Kannonkoski page 

Municipalities of Central Finland
Niederglatt

Niederglatt is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Niederhasli

Niederhasli is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Zürich
Niederweningen

Niederweningen is a municipality of the district of Dielsdorf in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

References

Other websites

 Official website of the municipality of Niederweningen 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Dornbirn

Dornbirn is the largest city in Vorarlberg, Austria. About 48,000 people are living there (2006).

Dornbirn has six districts named Markt, Hatlerdorf, Oberdorf, Haselstauden, Rohrbach and Schoren.

Settlements in Vorarlberg
Cities in Austria
Nürensdorf

Nürensdorf is a municipality in Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Balschwiller

Balschwiller is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Baltzenheim

Baltzenheim is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
2017 Tehran attacks

On 7 June 2017, two attacks were simultaneously carried out against the Iranian parliament and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, leaving 12 people dead and 42 wounded. ISIL claimed responsibility for both attacks. The attacks were the first terrorist attacks in Tehran in more than a decade, and the first major attack in the country since the 2010 Zahedan bombings.

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2017 mass shootings
2010s explosions in Asia
2010s in Iran
2010s mass shootings in Asia
2010s murders in Asia
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Explosions in 2017
Islamic State
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2017
Islamic terrorist incidents in Asia
June 2017 events
Mass murder in 2017
Mass murder in Asia
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Suicide bombings in the 2010s
Suicide in 2017
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Terrorist incidents in Asia in the 2010s
Christopher A. Wray

Christopher Asher Wray (born December 17, 1966) is an American lawyer. He is the 8th and current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since August 2, 2017. From 2003 to 2005, he served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division under the George W. Bush administration. He was previously a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding.

Early life
Wray was born in New York City. He was raised in Andover, Massachusetts. He studied at Yale University.

Early career
In 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Wray as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. Wray was unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Wray was Assistant Attorney General from 2003 to 2005, working under Deputy Attorney General James Comey. While heading the Criminal Division, Wray oversaw prominent fraud investigations, including Enron.

Director of the FBI (since 2017)
On June 7, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Wray to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On July 20, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to confirm Wray to be the next director of the FBI. Wray was officially confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support on August 1, 2017; the vote was 92–5. He was sworn in by Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a private ceremony on August 2.

In the aftermath of the Douglas High School shooting in Parkland on February 14, 2018, it was found out that the FBI ignored a tip that shooter Nikolas Cruz had a desire to "kill people". Florida Governor Rick Scott called for Wray to resign, with the earliest tip received by the FBI dating back to September 2017 in which a YouTube user with the same name commented, "I'm going to be a professional school shooter." 

In December 2020, it was announced that President-elect Joe Biden would keep Wray as FBI director under his administration.

Personal life
Wray married Helen Garrison Howell in 1989. They have two children. He is registered as a Republican.

References

Other websites
 Department of Justice biography page
 

1966 births
Living people
Lawyers from Massachusetts
Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Politicians from New York City
Politicians from Georgia (U.S. state)
Politicians from Massachusetts
US Republican Party politicians
Lawyers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Lawyers from New York City
Vincent Tshabalala

Vincent Vesele Tshabalala (16 March 1942 – 3 June 2017) was a South African professional golfer.

Early Years & Career
Vincent was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was banned from the South African Tour for many years as a result of apartheid rules. Tshabalala played in the European Tour, and won the 1976 French Open. Tshabalala also did good in the European Seniors Tour and won two events in the South African Tour after the country lifted its racial restrictions.

Death
Tshabalala died 3 June 2017 at the age of 75.

References

1942 births
2017 deaths
South African sportspeople
Golfers
People from Johannesburg
Andy Cunningham (actor)

Andrew "Andy" Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017), was an English actor, puppeteer and writer. He was born in Barnet, London.

He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, Bodger & Badger, in which he acted as Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. He was also the uncredited puppeteer of Ephant Mon, Jabba the Hutt's Head of Security in Return of the Jedi (1983).

He was in a long-term relationship with co-star Jane Bassett who played Mousey in Bodger & Badger. They later separated but remained good friends.

Cunningham died from colon cancer on 5 June 2017 in Brighton, East Sussex, aged 67.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in England
English movie actors
English television actors
British magicians
English television writers
Writers from London
Actors from London
Marilyn Hall

Marilyn Hall (née Plottel; born May 17, 1927 – June 5, 2017) was a Canadian-born American television and theatre producer, as well as a television writer. She also wrote songs, a cookbook and book reviews. She supported many charities, including Jewish causes in the United States and Israel. She was an associate producer of Jelly's Last Jam and Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. On television, she produced the PBS version of The Ginger Tree as well as the 1984 movie Nadia.

Hall died on June 5, 2017 at her California home at the age of 90.

References

1927 births
2017 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Canadian television producers
Canadian television writers
American television producers
American television writers
American philanthropists
People from Winnipeg
Horace Burrell

Horace G. Burrell JP OM (8 February 1950 – 6 June 2017), also known as Captain Burrell, was the president of the Jamaica Football Federation, and a Vice-President of CONCACAF. He was also the founder of the Jamaican restaurant chain The Captain's Bakery and Grill and Captain's Aviation Services which he founded in 1995 and 2008 respectively. He died on 6 June 2017 after ailing for some time.

Burrell died of lung cancer on 6 June 2017 in Kingston at the age of 67.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Jamaican sportspeople
Jamaican businesspeople
Latifur Rahman

Latifur Rahman (1 March 1936 – 6 June 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician and lawyer. He served as the 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh from January 2000 through February 2001. In 2001, he was appointed to briefly serve as Prime Minister, a position he would hold from 15 July 2001 until 10 October 2001.

Rahman died in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 6 June 2017 at the age of 81.

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1936 births
2017 deaths
Bangladeshi lawyers
Prime Ministers of Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Muslims
Rokas Žilinskas

Rokas Žilinskas (20 July 1972 – 6 June 2017) was a Lithuanian journalist and politician. He was elected to the Seimas in 2008 and was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament until his death. He was the first openly gay member of the parliament.

Žilinskas died of respiratory arrest caused by pneumonia in Vilnius, Lithuania on 6 June 2017 at the age of 44.

References

1972 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from respiratory arrest
Deaths from pneumonia
Lithuanian politicians
Journalists
LGBT politicians
Gay men
LGBT writers
Arthur Bunting

Arthur Bunting (July/September 1936 – 7 June 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1950s, and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, playing at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, and coaching at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, and Hull F.C.. He was born in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire.

Bunting died on 7 June 2017 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire at the age of 80.

References

Other websites
Search for "Bunting" at rugbyleagueproject.org
Workington and Hull KR triumph in the regions 

1936 births
2017 deaths
English rugby union players
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
Trento Longaretti

Trento Longaretti (27 September 1916 – 7 June 2017) was an Italian painter. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini. 

Longaretti stated that painting is an "elixir for long life", and continued to paint and exhibit as a centenarian.

His oil paintings have been described as dense and oily like those of Paul Cézanne, and his style having similarities to the fantasy settings of Marc Chagall and "pictorial culture" of Egon Schiele. His still life paintings have been described as "delicate and almost religious".

He became involved in the Italian figurative art movement of the 1950s.

He turned 100 in March 2017 and died on 7 June 2017.

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

References

Further reading

Other websites
Trento Longaretti, a book about the artist published by Galleria Lorenzelli (Bergamo)
 
 

1917 births
2017 deaths
Italian centenarians
Italian painters
People from Lombardy
Montbard

Montbard is a commune and subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Montbard and of the canton of Montbard.

Geography
The commune of Montbard has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune of Montbard is surrounded by the communes:

The city of Montbard is to the northwest of the city of Dijon, capital of the department, and in the valley of the Brenne river.

Climate
The climate of Montbard is Marine West Coast Climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb), with mild winters and warm summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Montbard are known, in French, as  Montbardois (women: Montbardoises).

With a population of 5,350, Montbard has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Montbard

Administration
Montbard is a subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department since 1926. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Montbard and the administrative centre () of the canton of Montbard formed by 57 communes, with 18,764 inhabitants (2014).

Twin towns 
Montbard is twinned with:
  Couvin, Belgium
  Ubstadt-Weiher, Germany
  Gattinara, Italy

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Montbard
 Communes of the Côte-d'Or department

References

Other websites

 Mairie de Montbard - Official site 
 Departmental Council of Côte d'Or 
 Prefecture official website 
 Office de tourisme du Montbardois 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Côte-d'Or
Shahmukhī alphabet

Shahmukhi is a set of letters used to write the Punjabi language by Punjabi speakers in Pakistan. It is written from right to left. 

The Shahmukhi script is based on the Perso-Arabic script which is used to write Urdu. Shahmukhi cannot be called an alphabet; it is really an abjad. An abjad is a script that has letters to represent consonants but not vowels. Of course, Shahmukhi, and other scripts relating to it, are impure abjads. This means that there are ways to represent vowels in the writing but they are used in a very bare method. 

There are 38 letters in the Shahmukhi abjad. This may seem like a lot to learn, but the letters are really not too difficult to remember.

Punjabi language
Alphabets
The Land of Stories

The Land of Stories is a series of children's books written by American author, actor and singer Chris Colfer. The first book, The Wishing Spell, was released on July 17, 2012. The sixth and final book was published in July 2017. Colfer said the books are a "modern day fairy tale". It is about the adventures of twins, Alex and Conner Bailey. They fall from the real world into a world full of fairy tales they have only ever read about before and discover there is more to this world than meets the eye.

Characters 
 Alex
 Conner
 Mom
 Nan
 Froggy
 Jack
 Goldilocks
 The Big Bad Wolf Pack
 Little Red Riding Hood
 Queen Snow White
 The Evil Queen
 Queen Cinderella
 Goblin
 Troll

References

Children's books
Final Fight Championship

Final Fight Championship (FFC) is a European based martial arts promotion company operating under and with the production support of the Fight Channel Group.

History 
FFC started in 2003 as a promotion organization dedicated solely to kickboxing, the FFC in 2013 introduced MMA fights in its events.
 
Kickboxing
Mixed martial arts organizations
2003 establishments in Europe
Eastern quoll

The Eastern quoll is a species of quoll, a carnivorous (meat-eating) marsupial (pouched mammal) living in Tasmania.

It is thought they should be re-introduced to Australia.

Other websites
 The Aussie Eastern Quoll Ark Conservation Project

Marsupials
Carnivores
Tasmania
Crested Quetzal

The Crested Quetzal is a species of Quetzal.

They are found in South America.

Birds of South America
Ammon

Ammon is an ancient country in the Middle East. It was in northwestern Jordan and east of the Kingdom of Israel.

In the Bible it is often called the Kingdom of Ammon.

Rabbath Ammon - present-day Amman - was its capital.

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis Ammon is a grandson of Lot, the nephew of Abraham (the other grandson is Moab; the Kingdom of Moab was south of Ammon).

The Ammonites often fought with the Israelites.

Ancient history
History of Jordan
Old Testament
C. J. McCollum

Christian James “C/J.” McCollum (born September 19, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was drafted 10th in the 2013 NBA draft. In his third year, he won the NBA Most Improved Player award. He played college basketball for the Lehigh Mountain Hawks. In 2017, he scored 27 points in the first half against the #1 seeded Golden State Warriors. That year he also had the highest free-throw percentage in the league.

1991 births
Living people
Portland Trail Blazers players
Neil Olshey

Neil Oshley is the General Manager for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.

Basketball
Allen Crabbe

Allen Lester Crabbe III (born April 9, 1992) is an American professional basketball player. He plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the California Golden Bears.

References

1992 births
Living people
Portland Trail Blazers players
Generative adversarial networks

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are artificial neural networks that work together to give better answers. One neural network is the tricky network, and the other one is the useful network. The tricky network will try to give an input to the useful network that will cause the useful network to give a bad answer. The useful network will then learn not to give a bad answer, and the tricky network will try to trick the useful network again. As this continues, the useful network will get better and not become tricked as often, and the useful network will be able to be used to make good predictions.

Artificial intelligence
Bromley

Bromley is a large suburban borough in southeast London, England

Bromley is located south-east of Charing Cross. It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley, and is considered to be a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.

London
Oberembrach

Oberembrach is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Oberengstringen

Oberengstringen is a municipality in the district of Dietikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Paignton Zoo

Paignton Zoo is a zoo located in Devon, England. It was opened in 1923.

West part of zoo 
The West Part of Paignton Zoo includes flamingos, ducks, cranes, blind cave fish, pittas, geckos, budgerigars, guinea pigs, spider monkeys, echidnas and lesser adjaunt storks.

North part of zoo 
The North of the Zoo consists mainly of a crocodile house, birds, kangaroos, tortoises, camels and zebras.

East part of zoo 
The East of Paignton Zoo holds elephants, giraffes, maned wolves, mandrill, cheetahs, rhinoceroses and coatis.

South part of zoo 
The South consists of lions, tigers, an off-show kiwi, parrots, and other aviaries.

Zoos
Devon
1923 establishments in England
Culen of Scotland

Culen ruled as king of Scotland following the death of Dubh in 967, he reigned from 967-971 although was recognized as early as 966 as king. He was born in the 10th century and died in 971. He was the son of Indulf and an unknown mother. He also possibly ruled as king of Strathclyde during his reign.

He died in 971 and was succeeded by Kenneth II and Amlaib. He is buried in an unknown location.

References 

Kings and queens
10th-century births
971 deaths
10th century in Scotland
Jan Høiland

Jan Høiland (6 February 1939 – 7 June 2017) was a Norwegian singer. He was born in Stavanger, Norway. He was known for his version of the song "Tio tusen röda rosor" by Thore Skogman. It was the biggest hit for Høiland. Accompanied by Finn Våland on piano, he made his debut at Cafe Inger in Stavanger in 1957, followed by his record debut "Det vil komme av seg selv"/"Dormi-dormi-dormi" (1958), on Columbia. These were Norwegian 78 records.

Høiland died on 7 June 2017 in Harstad, Norway at the age of 78.

References

Other websites

 mic.no Jan Høiland profile

1939 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian singers
Dorian Invasion

The Dorian invasion is a theoretical migration of Dorian Greeks into Ancient Greece, which is believed to have contributed to the Bronze Age Collapse

Ancient Greeks
Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad

Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad (4 April 1939 – 6 June 2017) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She was born in Grue, Norway. She was Minister of Local Government and Regional Development (Norway) from 1997 through 1999.

Haarstad died on 6 June 2017 in Oslo, Norway at the age of 78.

References

1939 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian politicians
Brenne (river)

The Brenne is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Armançon river and flows through the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Geography
The Brenne has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Montbard in the Côte-d'Or department.

Course
The Brenne starts in the commune of Sombernon, at an elevation of about , at about  to the west of Dijon.

It flows to the northwest and joins the Armançon river between the communes Buffon and Montbard at an elevation of about  above sea level.
 
The Brenne flows through 1 region (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and 1 department (Côte-d'Or). The river flows through the communes:
 Sombernon
 Aubigny-lès-Sombernon
 Grosbois-en-Montagne
 Vitteaux
 Pouillenay
 Venarey-les-Laumes
 Montbard
 Saint-Rémy

There are only 2 important tributaries, and both join the Brenne on the right side: the Oze and the Ozerain rivers.

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Other websites

 Banque Hydro - Station H2442340 - La Brenne à Montbard 

Rivers of France
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Jill Singer

Jill Singer (1957 – 8 June 2017) was an Australian journalist, columnist and television presenter. She was born in Korumburra, Victoria. 

Singer began her career in journalism as an ABC radio trainee in 1984. She eventually became a senior reporter for The 7.30 Report on ABC and later presented the Victorian edition of Today Tonight on the Seven Network. She also presented for The 7.30 Report, The Arts Show, 2-shot and People Dimensions (ABC TV). 

Singer was the executive producer of ABC TV's national morning news and current affairs program First Edition. She wrote a weekly column for Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper between 1997 and 2012, and lectured in television journalism at RMIT University in Melbourne.  She made regular appearances on The Conversation Hour (ABC 774) and on Sky News Australia's Melbourne Report.

Singer died of amyloidosis on 8 June 2017 in Melbourne at the age of 60.

References

Other websites
Profile on The Australian Women's Register
Brief ABC Art Show biography
Crikey on Today Tonight 

1957 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from amyloidosis
Disease-related deaths in Australia
Australian television presenters
Australian journalists
Writers from Victoria (Australia)
Marcelo Guinle

Marcelo Alejandro Horacio Guinle (September 28, 1947 – June 8, 2017) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He served as a Senator for Chubut Province from 2001 through 2015. He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. From 2003 through 2006, he served as Provisional President of the Argentine Senate. Before serving in the senate, Guinle served as Mayor of Comodoro Rivadavia from 1995 through 1999.

Guinle died from cancer in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina on June 8, 2017 at the age of 69.

References

Other websites
Personal site 
Senate profile

1947 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Argentina
Argentine politicians
Emergency Alert System

The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is a national warning system in the United States put into place on January 1, 1997 (approved by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1994), It pops up on your tv, radio, or phone for example if a tornado comes it will be on the news, radio, or phone and when it is over the national weather service will say you can come out. The most serious alert that can be given out over the EAS is an Emergency Action Notification. When an EAN is issued, a voice will say the following whilst watching TV or listening to the radio; "We interrupt our programming. This is a national emergency." After the alert tone, the text to speech  voice will give instructions on the emergency and provide instructions on what to do to stay safe. There also may be additional messages given out from a .represensitive of the President. An Emergency Action Termination message will be issued when the threat is over. Additionally, there will be a nationwide test of the EAS that takes place in the US once a year along with a new presidental alert system that works very similar to weather warnings that are issued on a cell phone.

References

Emergency services
Peter Thomson (diplomat)

Peter Thomson, OF (born 1948 in Suva), is a Fijian diplomat. He was President of the General Assembly of the United Nations from 2016 to 2017. He has been Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since February 2010.

References

Other websites
 "The Folly of Canberra's Stand against Fiji" , full text of Peter Thomson's speech to the Australia-Fiji Business Council Conference, 14 September 2009 (on the website of the Auckland University of Technology)

1948 births
Living people
Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
Fijian people
President of the United Nations General Assembly

The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The President presides over the sessions of the General Assembly.

Abdulla Shahid of Maldives is the current President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 76th session, office which started in September 2021.

The session of the assembly is scheduled for every year starting in September—any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of UNGA.

The presidency changes every year between the five geographic groups: African, Asian, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States.

References

1946 establishments