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List of rivers of Tamil Nadu

This page lists the main rivers of Tamil Nadu.  Out of the below rivers, Kaveri River Palar River, Vaigai River, Noyyal River, Cheyyar River, Moyar River, Bhavani River, Thamirabarani River are the major rivers in Tamil Nadu.

A
 Adyar River
 Amaravati River
 Agni River : Flowing through Pudukottai and Thanjavur District
 Arasalar River
 Agaram Aru
 Arjuna River
 Ayyanarkovil River
 Adappar River
 Arani River

B
 Bhavani River
 Bambar River

C
 Chittar River
 Coonoor River
 Cooum River
 Cheyyar River

G
 Gingee River
 Gomukhi River
 Goddar River
 Gadananathi River
 Gundar River

H
 Hanumannathi River
  Harichandra River

J
 Jambunathi River

K
 Kollidam River
 Komugi River
 Koundinya Nathi
 Kowsika River
 Kudamurutti River
 Kundha River
 Kottagudi River
 Karipottan river
 Kottagudi River
 Karuppanathi River
 Karunaiyar River
 Kottamalaiyaru River
 Kothaiyaru River
 Kowsika river
 Kundar River
 Kaattar River
 Kosasthalaiyar River
 Kousika River,Coimbatore

M
 Malattar River
 Manimuktha River
 Manimuthar River
 Mayura River
 Moyar River
 Mudikondan River
 Markanda River
 Mundhal Odai River
 Mottaiyar River
 Mullaiyar River

N
 Noyyal River
 Naganathi River
 Nanganjiyar river
 Nandalar River
 Nattar River

O
 Odampokki River

P
 Pachaiyar River
 Pambar River
 Pahrali River
 Palar River
 Parambikulam River
 Ponnaiyar River
 Pykara River
 Pandavaiar River 
 Pamaniyar River

R
 Rajasingiyaru River
 Ramanathi River

S
 Sankaraparani River
 Shanmuganadhi River
 Sigur River
 Siruvani River
 South Pennar River
 Suvetha River
 Sarabanga River
 Sarugani River
 Santhana varthini River

T
 Thamirabarani River
 Thenpennai River
 Tondiar River
 Thirumalairajan River
 Thennar River
 Thirumanimutharu river
 Thennar River

U
 Uppar River
 Upper Gundar River

V
 Vaigai River
 Vaippar river
 Vanniyar River
 Vennaaru River
 Varaganathi River
 Vashista River
 Veera Chozhan river
 Vellar river
 Vedamaliyaru River
 Vettar River
 Vennaaru River
 Valavaikkal River

Rivers of Tamil Nadu
Amaravati River

The Amaravati River is the longest tributary of Kaveri River. This river flows through the districts of Karur and Tirupur in Tamil Nadu state. The  long Amaravati River begins at the Kerala/Tamil Nadu border at the bottom of Manjampatti Valley.
This river irrigates over  of agricultural lands in Tiruppur and Karur districts. The Amaravathi Dam has 4 Megawatts of electricity generating capacity installed.

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Arjuna River

Arjuna River is a river flowing in the Virudhunagar district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a sacred river which formed during the period of Pandavas. Arjuna, one of the five Pandavas, rise this river to worship lord Shiva.There is large Shiva temple named Kasi Viswanatha Temple on the side of this river.

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Arani River

Arani River is a 108 km long river) in India. It flows through the states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.The Arani river rises at Sadasivakonda in Chittoor district. It flows through to join the southwest tip of the Pulicat Lake in Minjur Block, Tiruvallur district. Then flows into the Bay of Bengal. It has a drainage area of about 1535 km2 with over one half lying in Andhra Pradesh.

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Zoran Krasić

Zoran Krasić (Зоран Красић; 11 March 1956 – 12 April 2018) was a Serbian politician. He served several terms in the parliaments of Yugoslavia and Serbia as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party. He was Serbia's Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications from 1998 to 2000.

Krasić died on 12 April 2018, after a short illness in Belgrade at the age of 62.

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Warren, Connecticut

Warren is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,461 at the 2010 census. The town was named for Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren.

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Angbu-ilgu

Angbu-ilgu is a concave sundial shaped like a hemisphere and was first made 16 years' rule of King Sejong (1434). That was composed of the hour lines, the seasonal lines, sibanmyeon, Yeoungchim and the horizonal surface.

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Prinsha Shrestha

Prinsha Shrestha (born September 11, 1992) in Kathmandu, Nepal is a Nepali Model and the title winner of Miss Earth Nepal 2014. She was dethroned in April 5, 2015 cause of her participation in Miss Eco Queen 2015 wearing Miss Earth official sash.

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In late 2013, it was revealed that the police of Scania had kept a register labled "kringresande", in English "travellers,"which contained the name of 4500 people with connections to the swedish travellers, a Rroma culture. Some of the people in this registry were dead, and around 1200 were children under the age of 18. In 2017, Swedish courts ruled that the registry was just based on ethnicity and gave 12 Rroma people the right to a compensation of 5000 crowns.

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Bhavani River

Bhavani River is a major river in Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu, India. It is the second longest river in Tamil Nadu. This river is a major tributary of the Kaveri River. Bhavani river originates(starts) from Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats. Bhavani enters the Silent Valley National Park in Kerala. It flows back towards Tamil Nadu. The Bhavani is a  long perennial(everlasting) river. The river drains an area of  spread over Tamil Nadu (87%), Kerala (9%) and Karnataka (4%). About 90 per cent of the river's water is used for agriculture irrigation.

Bhavanisagar dam is located on the Bhavani river in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India. The dam is one of the largest earthen dams in the world. The dam is  long and  high. The full reservoir level is  . The dam has a capacity of . Kodiveri dam is also located on the Bhavani River near Gobichettipalayam in Western Tamil Nadu.

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Sonie Rajbhandari

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Bambar River

Bambar  is a river flowing in the Sivagangai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Uppar River

Uppar is a river flowing in the Erode district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Upper Gundar River

Upper Gundar  is a river flowing in the Sivagangai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Valavaikkal River

Valavaikkal  is a river flowing in the Tiruvarur district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Vennaaru River

Vennaaru is a tributary of the Kaveri River in southern India. It flows through Trichy and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu, India. During the Chola period, a branch of this river was dug out and expanded by the Chola king Parantaka I. Vennaaru was used for water transportation in the ancient Chola Kingdom.

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Vettar River

Vettar  is a river flowing in Tiruvarur district, Thanjavur district and Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.Vettar River is a tributary of the river Kaveri. This river reaches the sea near the Karaikal port nearby Nagore.

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Veera Chozhan River

Veera Chozhan   is a river flowing in the Nagapattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Vashista River

Vasishta Nadi, named after the Hindu sage Vasishtha. It originates (starts) from Salem district. This river flows in Tiruchirapalli and joins Sweata Nadi before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. Dams on the river are located at Attur and Periyeri.There are 12 Siva temples located on villages through which this river flows.

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List of rivers of Puducherry

This is a list of rivers of Puducherry. None of these river originates in Puducherry.

Puducherry Region
 Gingee River
 Guduvaiyar River
 Malattar River
 Pambaiyar River
 Pennaiyar River

Karaikal Region
 Arasalar River
 Nandalar River
 Nattar River
 Noolar River
 Puravadayanar River
 Thirumalairajanar River
 Vanjiar River

Mahe Region
 Mahé River
 Ponniyar River

Yanam Region
 Goutami River

Puducherry
Nandalar River

The Nandalar River is a river flowing between Tiruvarur district and Nagappattinam district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It act as a border line for Thiruvarur and Nagappattinam Districts. Nandalar is a branch of River Cauvery. Nandalar river split from Cauvery near Kumbakonam.It drained in Bay of Bengal between Chandrapadi and Tharangambadi.

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Irena Santor

Irena Wiśniewska-Santor (Polish pronunciation: ; born 9 December 1934), known professionally as Irena Santor, is a Polish singer, musical performer and actress.

Her career started in 1950. She is one of the largest number of awards in Poland. She was first known as a member of the folk group Mazowsze.

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Joseph A. Bracken

Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., (born 22 March 1930) is an American philosopher and Catholic theologian. Bracken work is devoted to a synthesis of revealed religion and Christian trinitarian doctrines with a revised process theology. 

Bracken introduced a field theoretic approach to process metaphysics.

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Charles Curran

Charles E. Curran (born March 30, 1934) is an American Roman Catholic priest and moral theologian. He was born in Rochester, New York. He serves at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values.

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Roger T. Forster

Roger Thomas Forster (born 1 March 1933) is an English theologian. He is the leader of Ichthus Christian Fellowship, a neocharismatic Evangelical Christian Church that forms part of the British New Church Movement. He is thought to be "one of the finest minds in the Evangelical constituency."

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John Mbiti

John Samuel Mbiti (30 November 1931 – 5 October 2019) was a Kenyan-born Christian religious philosopher and writer. He was an ordained Anglican priest, and  a canon.

Mbiti is an Emeritus professor at the University of Bern and parish minister to the town of Burgdorf, Switzerland.

Mbiti died at a nursing home in Burgdorf, Switzerland on 5 October 2019 at the age of 87.

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Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann (born 8 April 1926) is a German Reformed theologian. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen.

Moltmann has worked to a number of areas of Christian theology, including systematic theology, eschatology, ecclesiology, political theology, Christology, pneumatology, and the theology of creation.

He was the recipient of the 2000 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and was also selected to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1984–85.

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Eugene H. Peterson

Eugene H. Peterson (November 6, 1932 – October 22, 2018) was an American-born clergyman, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote over thirty books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (Navpress Publishing Group, 2002), a paraphrase of the Bible.

Peterson, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died on October 22, 2018 in Lakeside, Montana from congestive heart failure at the age of 85.

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John Shelby Spong

John Shelby "Jack" Spong (June 16, 1931 – September 12, 2021) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church. From 1979 to 2000 he was Bishop of Newark, New Jersey. He was a liberal Christian theologian, religion commentator and author.

In September 2016, Spong suffered a stroke. He died on September 12, 2021 at his home in Newark, New Jersey at the age of 90.

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Joy Laville

Joy Laville (September 8, 1923 – April 13, 2018) was an English-Mexican artist. Her art career began and mostly developed in Mexico when she came to the country to take art classes in San Miguel de Allende.

Works 
Her work has been exhibited in Mexico and abroad including the Palacio de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno. In 2012, she received the Bellas Artes Medal for her life’s work.

Laville was born on September 8, 1923, in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. She died in Jiutepec, Mexico on April 13, 2018 of a heart attack at the age of 94.

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Isabella Biagini

Isabella Biagini (19 December 1943 – 14 April 2018) was an Italian actress and showgirl. She was born in Rome. She was known for her roles in Love Italian Style, Il clan dei due Borsalini, and for The Future Is Woman.

Biagini died of complications from a stroke in Rome on 14 April 2018 at the age of 74.

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Jean-Claude Malgoire

Jean-Claude Malgoire (25 November 1940 – 14 April 2018) was a French conductor. He was born in Avignon, France. His early musical career was as an oboist.

In 1966, he founded La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy. In 2002, he won the Handel Music Prize.

Malgoire died on 14 April 2018 in Paris of stomach cancer at the age of 77.

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Warfarin

Warfarin (simetimes sold as Coumadin) is a powerful water-soluble compound. It prevents blood from clotting. It does that by reducing the production of factors by the liver that promote clotting. It is called an "anticoagulant agent". It is a powerful rat poison. In concentrated form, it causes bleeding of internal organs which leads to death.

It is also used, in very low doses, to prevent thrombosis in humans. This is the local coagulation or clotting of the blood in the circulatory system. In such cases, it makes heart attacks, strokes, and pulmonary embolism less likely. The degree of anticoagulation is monitored by blood tests. 

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2018 bombing of Damascus and Homs

On 14 April 2018, beginning at 04:00 Syrian time (UTC+3),
the United States, France, and the United Kingdom carried out a series of military strikes, with manned aircraft and ship-based missiles, against multiple government sites in Syria against the Bashar al-Assad regime.

The three acting powers did so in response to the use of chemical weapons against people in Douma in eastern Ghouta on 7 April, which they think was done by the Syrian government. Syria denied involvement in the Douma attacks and called the airstrikes a violation of international law.

President Donald Trump of the United States, Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom and President Emmanuel Macron of France ordered the strikes.

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The Vestals or Vestal Virgins were a group of priestesses of the Roman goddess Vesta, in Ancient Rome. 

The Vestals were a part of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum). They were responsible for looking after the "sacred fire" of Vesta, which was not allowed to go out. Unlike most other women in Roman society, the Vestals did not marry or bear children, and took a vow of chastity when they joined the priesthood.

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Halberstadt CL.II

Halberstadt Cl.II was an aircraft of the German Air Force in World War I.

On October 25, 1918 a Halberstadt of Reconnaissance Flight 279 was captured

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Art Bell

Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author.  He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and hosted its companion show Dreamland.

Bell died on April 13, 2018, at age 72, at his home in Pahrump, Nevada of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Vanjiar River

Vanjiar River is a branch river of Cauvery River. It flows through the districts of Thanjavur and Karaikal. This river finally merges (joins) with Arasalar River.

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Franciszek Pieczka

Franciszek Pieczka (born 18 January 1928) is a Polish actor. He first made his debut in the theatre in Jelenia Góra. He won the award for Best Actor at the Polish Film Festival in 1976 for The Scar. 

He also starred in  Konopielka (1982), Axiliad (1986), The Mother of Kings (1987), Memories of a River (1990), Syzyfowe prace (1998), Quo Vadis (2001) and Jasminum (2006).

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Puravadayanar River

Puravadayanar River is a branch river of Cauvery River. It flows through Karaikal district. It joins the Bay of Bengal near Karaikal Port.

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Adi Ganga

Adi Ganga, also known as Gobindapur Creek, Surman’s Nullah and Tolly’s Nullah, was the main tributary (branch river) of the Hooghly River from the 15th to 17th century. But at present this river had dried up.

The Adi Ganga now flows by Tollygunge and Kudghat, Alipore, Bansdroni, Naktala, Garia, Boral, Mahamayatala, Narendrapur, Rajpur, Harinavi, Kodalia, Changaripota (now Shubhashgram), then to Mahinagar and Baruipur (earlier Atisara village), and reaches Jaynagar and Majilpur. At last Adi Ganga flows into the Bay of Bengal.

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Ajay River

Ajay River is a river which flows through the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.Ajay River originates on a small hill about  high, southwest of Deoghar in Jharkhand. It then flows through Jharkhand and enters West Bengal at Simjuri. It enters Katwa subdivision of Bardhaman district at Nareng village.It then joins the Bhagirathi River at Katwa Town. Total length of the Ajay is , out of which  are in West Bengal. The important tributaries of the Ajay are Pathro and Jayanti in Jharkhand, and Tumuni and Kunur in Bardhaman district of West Bengal. The Ajay valley was densely forested with sal, piyasal and palas trees. But in recent times due to mining and other activities the forests were cleared. There have been at least 14 recorded floods in the 20th century caused by the Ajay river.

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Auranga River (Jharkhand)

Auranga River flows through the Latehar and Palamu districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand.The Auranga originates (starts) near Soheda.It flows into the Koel near Kechki  south of Daltonganj.Its main tributaries are the Sukri and Ghaghri.

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Burhi Gandak River

Burhi Gandak River is a tributary of the Ganges. The Burhi (“Old”) Gandak flows parallel to and east of the Gandak River in an old channel.

The Budhi Gandak originates (starts) from Chautarwa Chaur near Bisambharpur in the district of West Champaran in Bihar. It at first flows through the East Champaran district. After flowing for a distance of about , the river takes a south-turn where two rivers - the Dubhara and the Tour join it. The total length of the river is . The drainage area of the river is .

Tributaries
The main tributaries of the Burhi Gandak are - Masan, Balor, Pandai, Sikta, Tilawe, Tiur, Dhanauti, Kohra, Anjankote and Danda.

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Maggie De Block

Maggie Celine Louise De Block (born 28 April 1962) is a Belgian politician. She is a member of the Flemish liberal party Open Vld. She is the Minister of Social Affairs and Health since 2014 serving under the Charles Michel government.

Critics have said that she does not set the right example as Health Minister due to her obesity and contracting type two diabetes, and she has answered that "I know I'm not a model but you have to see what's inside, not the packaging."

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Lisbet Palme

Anna Lisbeth Christina Palme, née Beck-Friis (14 March 1931 – 18 October 2018) was a Swedish psychologist and civil servant. She was a former chairperson of UNICEF. She studied to be a child psychologist. She is the widow of late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

She was the chairwoman of the Swedish UNICEF Committee from November 1986 until her death in 2018, in which role she has campaigned against the sexual exploitation of children and was a member of the Organisation of African Unity committee of investigation into the Rwandan genocide which reported its findings in 2000. She was worldwide chairwoman of UNICEF in 1990–91.

Olof Palme was shot and killed on 28 February 1986. Lisbet Palme was also injured in the shooting by a shot that grazed her back.

Palme died in Stockholm on 18 October 2018 at the age of 87.

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Assassination of Olof Palme

On Friday, 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot. The couple did not have bodyguards at the time.

Christer Pettersson was convicted of the murder in 1988 after having been identified as the killer by Palme's wife. However, he was acquitted. Pettersson died in late-September 2004.

The case remains unsolved and has given rise to a number of conspiracy theories. On February 18 2020 the Swedish chief prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Krister Petersson, announced that a likely assassin had been identified. They will announce more information before summer 2020. He also announced that if they cannot prosecute the suspect then they will end the investigation.

Hours after the assassination, Deputy Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson was sworn-in as the new Swedish Prime Minister.

Aftermath
 The cost of the investigation stands at SEK 350 million, €38 million or US$45 million as of 25 February 2006.
 The total number of pages accumulated during the investigation is around 700,000. According to criminologist Leif G. W. Persson, the investigation is "the largest in global police history".
 The reward for solving the murder is SEK 50 million (approximately €5 million or US$7 million.)

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Xavier Trias

Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera () (Barcelona, 5 August 1946) is a Spanish politician. He is a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party and Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. He was Minister of Health and Director of the Presidency for the Governments of Jordi Pujol.

In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism said he was one of the many politicians mentioned in the "Paradise Papers" allegations.

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Amaro Pargo

Amaro Rodríguez Felipe y Tejera Machado (3 May 1678, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife - 4 October 1747, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife), more popularly known as Amaro Pargo, was a famous Spanish corsair. 

He was noted for his commercial activities and for his frequent religious donations and aid to the poor. In his role as a privateer, he dominated the route between Cadiz and the Caribbean, on several occasions attacking ships belonging to enemies of the Spanish Crown (mainly England and Holland), earning recognition in his time as a hero and coming to be regarded as "the Spanish equivalent of Francis Drake". Because of his service to the Spanish Crown and country, he was declared a Caballero hijodalgo in 1725 and obtained certification of nobility and royal arms in 1727.

He felt a considerable devotion for Sister Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado, even financing his funeral and his grave. He made several donations with the aim of improving the lives of the poorest of Tenerife, especially for the improvement of the living conditions of the inmates of the prison of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.

His figure has been wrapped in a halo of romanticism that has related to piracy, hidden treasures and illicit romances. Different authors have taken advantage of this mysticism that surrounds his figure to elaborate his novels. In addition, the video game company Ubisoft sent a study on Amaro Pargo, emphasizing its physiognomy, facing its possible appearance in the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

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List of large temple tanks

This is a list of Temple tanks in terms of area.

List of large Temple tanks

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Haridra Nadhi

Haridra Nadhi is the largest temple tank in India, may be in the World. It is in Mannargudi, Thiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu.    This temple tank belongs to Rajagopalaswamy Temple, Mannargudi. The area of the temple tank is . The Rajagopalaswamy temple is a vaishnavite temple of the main god Rajagopalaswamy (Krishna).

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Chandra Theertham (Karaikal)

Chandra Theertham is the temple tank of Karaikal Ammayar Temple, Nithyakalyana Perumal Temple and the Karaikal Kailasanathar Temple. The Karaikal float festival (Theppam) is celebrated in this temple tank.

The belief of the Karaikal people is if we bath once in this temple tank, all the bone related diseases and fractures will get cured. The Chandra Theertham is cleaned for long time. The work got completed in the year 2010.

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Stefano Zappalà

Stefano Zappalà (6 February 1941 – 15 April 2018) was an Italian politician. He was born in Aci Bonaccorsi, Italy.

He was a Member of the European Parliament for Central with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

He is a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, a member of the Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

Zappalà died from respiratory failure in Latina, aged 77.

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Methoxyflurane

Methoxyflurane (brand name: Penthrox) is an Australian liquid analgesic (a painkiller) which turns into a gas when it is exposed to the air.

It is breathed in through a special inhaler which is known in some places as the "Big Green Whistle".  It makes a slight whistling noise when the patient breathes through it.

The patient takes the medicine themselves in the presence of someone trained in its use. It can make them feel sick (nausea) or cause them to be sick (vomit). It also causes dizziness.

Analgesics
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Paolo Taviani (; born November 8, 1931) and Vittorio Taviani (; September 20, 1929 – April 15, 2018), both known as the Taviani brothers, are Italian movie directors and screenwriters. They are brothers who always work together, each directing alternate scenes. They were born in San Miniato, Tuscany, Italy.

At the Cannes Film Festival, the Taviani brothers won the Palme d'Or for Padre padrone in 1977 and Grand Prix du Jury for La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982). 

In 2012 they reached again the top prize in a major festival, winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival with Caesar Must Die.

Vittorio Taviani died on April 15, 2018 in Rome of heart disease at the age of 88.

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Jon Michelet

Jon Michelet (14 July 1944 – 14 April 2018) was a Norwegian novelist. He was born in Moss, Norway. He was well known for his action-thriller novel Orion's Belt (1977). He was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian far-left daily Klassekampen from 1997 to 2002.

Michelet died of kidney cancer on 14 April 2018 in Oslo at the age of 73.

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Mental capacity

For a general discussion of mental capacity, see Intelligence

Mental capacity in law is a term used to describe a person's ability to make decisions for themselves and to understand what those decisions will mean for them.

Sometimes, people who are unwell, such as those with illnesses which affect their memory (Alzheimer's disease or Dementia), those with learning difficulties, or who have mental health problems, may find themselves in a position where their ability to make decisions for themselves is questioned.  This may be because they do not understand that what they are doing is not good for them; they do not realise that it might make them ill or get them into trouble.

People can also lack capacity if they are unable to communicate in any way; for example, if they're in a coma or if they have severe brain damage.  In this case, it may be necessary for someone else, such as an advocate or a Judge to make decisions for them by making a court order.

In some countries, like the United Kingdom, laws exist which tell those working with people whose capacity might be in doubt, what they must do and how to decide if someone is capable of making their own decisions.  In the UK, this law is called the Mental Capacity Act (2005).  It lists 5 rules which must be used as a guide; in simple terms, they are:

 You must presume a person has capacity, unless it can be proved otherwise.
 Whenever you can, help a person to make their own decisions.
 Just because a person makes a bad decision, it doesn't mean they can't make decisions. 
 If you have to make a decision for someone who doesn't have capacity, it must be what's best for them.
 Any treatment or care for someone without capacity, should not take away their rights and freedom anymore than it needs to.

This law also allows people who have capacity, to pick someone else to make their decisions for them, in the case that they can't do it themselves.

Supposing a person is unable to make decisions for themselves, what happens then? In the UK (and many other countries) there is a legal framework to make sure no-one takes advantage of the said person. It often consists of a physician or psychiatrist dealing with the person in question, a solicitor representing the person, and a solicitor representing the "public interest" (the state). Meetings are held at agreed times, say once every three months. The purpose is to make sure that decisions taken are in the person's interest.

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Judy Kennedy

Judith Kennedy (October 25, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was an American politician and businesswoman. She was a member of the Democratic Party until 2015. In 2011, Kennedy was elected Mayor of Newburgh, New York, serving in the office until her death in 2018. She was born in Salmon, Idaho. In the 1990s, she worked for Hewlett-Packard.

Kennedy died under hospice care of ovarian cancer on April 15, 2018 in Newburgh at the age of 73.

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Newburgh, New York

Newburgh  is a city located in Orange County, New York, United States,  north of New York City, and  south of Albany, on the Hudson River. It is the location of Washington's Headquarters. Interstate 84 goes very close to the city.

There is a long history of racism in Newburgh and the Hudson Valley. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was rioting in Newburgh because the police killed a black person.

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Spencertown, New York

Spencertown is a hamlet in the town of Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, United States. Its ZIP code is 12165.

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Colony of Aden

The Colony of Aden or Aden Colony ( ) was a British Crown colony from 1937 to 1963. It was located in the south of contemporary Yemen. It consisted of the port of Aden and its surroundings (an area of ).

Before 1937, Aden had been governed as part of British India. Under the Government of India Act 1935 the territory was detached from British India, and was made a separate colony of the United Kingdom; this separation took effect on 1 April 1937.

On 18 January 1963, the colony was reconstituted as the State of Aden (Arabic: ولاية عدن Wilāyat ʿAdan) within the new Federation of South Arabia.  The federation in turn became the People's Republic of South Yemen on 30 November 1967, marking the end of British rule.

The hinterland of the Colony of Aden was separately governed as the Aden Protectorate.
Yemen
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Alfred M. Gray Jr.

Alfred M. Gray Jr. (born June 22, 1928) is a retired United States Marine Corps general. He served as the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1987 to 1991. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1991 after 41 years of service.

General Gray was promoted to general and became Commandant of the Marine Corps on July 1, 1987. His appointment as Commandant of the Marine Corps was recommended by Jim Webb, then Secretary of the Navy.

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Baker City, Oregon

Baker City is a city in and the county seat of Baker County, Oregon, United States. It was named after Edward D. Baker, the only U.S. Senator ever killed in military combat. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census.

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Ivan Mauger

Ivan Gerald Mauger (4 October 1939 – 16 April 2018) was a New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider. He won a record six World Championships (Finals). Mauger rode for several British teams – Wimbledon Dons, Newcastle Diamonds, Belle Vue Aces, Exeter Falcons, and the Hull Vikings. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mauger died on 16 April 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia at the age of 78.

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Big Timber, Montana

Big Timber is a city in, and the county seat of Sweet Grass County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,641 at the 2010 census.

It became the county seat in 1895.

The Boulder River joins the Yellowstone River at Big Timber.

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Bourbonnais, Illinois

Bourbonnais, Illinois is a village located within Kankakee County. The population is said to be around 18,500 people as of 2016. According to the 2010 census, Bourbonnais has a total area of , all land.

The town expanded in the 1800s, when John Jacob Astor founded fur trade companies in Bourbonnais.

Since 2002, it has become home of the summertime training camp of the Chicago Bears.

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Dana Rohrabacher

Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher  (born June 21, 1947) is an American politician and speechwriter. He was a member of the U.S House of Representatives representing . He is a Republican, he served as a speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1988. He narrowly lost his re-election bid in 2018 to Democrat Harley Rouda.

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Randy Neugebauer

Robert Randolph "Randy" Neugebauer (born December 24, 1949) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for , having served from 2003 to 2017.  He is a member of the Republican Party.

According to a 2011 survey by the National Journal, Neugebauer was "the most conservative" member of the House.

On September 17, 2015, Neugebauer announced he would not seek reelection to an eighth term in the 2016 elections.

As of April 2018, Neugebauer was the only person under consideration to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Trump Administration.

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John Oliver

John William Oliver (born 23 April 1977) is an English comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor and television host. In 2014, Oliver began hosting the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Oliver's work in Last Week Tonight has become very popular. His work has had a large impact on American culture and politics, which has been called the "John Oliver Effect".

In 2019, he was the voice of Zazu in the 2019 drama-live action remake The Lion King.

Early life and education 
Oliver was born on 23 April 1977 in Erdington, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, to Carole and Jim Oliver. His father was a school headmaster and social worker, and his mother was a music teacher. Both of his parents are originally from Liverpool, Merseyside. His uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver. His father's great-grandfather, William Boyd Carpenter was the Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria. Oliver learned to play the viola as a child.

Since childhood, he has been a fan of Liverpool FC, noting in interviews that "my mum's family are from Knotty Ash and my dad's family are from the Wirral, so supporting Liverpool was very much not a choice". Oliver learned in Bedford at the Mark Rutherford School.

After secondary school, he studied at Christ's College, Cambridge. While he was a student there in the mid-to-late 1990s, Oliver was a part of the Cambridge Footlights, the university's club for theatre run by students of Cambridge University. David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade were also in the club. In 1997, he became the club's vice president. In 1998, Oliver graduated from Christ's College with a degree in English.

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Chris Rea

Christopher Anton Rea ( ; born 4 March 1951) is a British rock and blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for the 1978 hit song "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" that reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. This success earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979.

The book Guinness Rockopedia described him as a "gravel-voiced guitar stalwart". The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)".

In 2000, Rea was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Since his cancer diagnosis, he underwent multiple surgeries and was diagnosed with diabetes. In 2016, he suffered a stroke, which left him slurred speech and impaired movements.

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Karen Karapetyan

Karen Vilhelmi Karapetyan (born 14 August 1964) is an Armenian politician. He became the Prime Minister of Armenia in 2016 after the resignation of Hovik Abrahamyan. 

On 23 April 2018, Karapetyan became acting Prime Minister following the resignation of Serzh Sargsyan. In May 2018, Nikol Pashinyan was elected Prime Minister.

Education 
Karapetyan earned a PhD in economics in 1989.

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Upper Arlington, Ohio

Upper Arlington is a city in Ohio in the United States.

Cities in Ohio
Charleston (dance)

The Charleston is a dance, which was became popular in the 1920s. It is named after the city of Charleston, South Carolina. A song called The Charleston, composed in 1923 made it popular. This song was part of the Broadway musical Running Wild. In Europe, Josephine Baker made the Charleston popular, starting in 1925. Charleston is associated with Flappers who danced it in Speakeasy bars, to mock themselves about the prohibition of alcohol, which was in force in the US, in the 1920s. For this reason, dancing Charleston was seen as provocative.

Dance types
Divi filius

Divi filius is a Latin phrase meaning "son of a god". It was used by the Roman Emperor Augustus, the grand-nephew and adopted son of Gaius Julius Caesar.

Religious terminology
Latin words and phrases
Ankita Lokhande

Ankita Lokhande is an Indian television and Bollywood actress.
She made her acting debut in 2009 with Zee TV's soap opera Drama Pavitra Rishta. Her appearance in the popular show has made her one of the highest-paid actress in the world of Indian Television.
She also participated in celebrity dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 4) on Sony Entertainment Television (India).

Television
 2006-07 Idea Zee Cinestars as Participat
 2009-14 Pavitra Rishta as Archana Manav Dheshmukh/Ankita Naren Karmarkar Zee TV
 2011- Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 4) as participat Colors TV
 2011- Comedy Circus as participat Sony TV
 2013- EK Thi Naayka as Pragya Life OK

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Hal Greer

Harold Everett Greer (June 26, 1936 – April 14, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He played for the Syracuse Nationals / Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1958 through 1973.

Greer was a guard and a 10-time NBA All-Star. He was named to the All-NBA Second Team seven times. He was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team and he had his uniform number retired by the 76ers.

Greer died of a short-illness in Phoenix, Arizona on April 14, 2018 at the age of 81.

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Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County  in the U.S. state of West Virginia.  It is the county seat of Cabell County.

As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 365,419. Huntington is the second largest city in West Virginia, with a population of 49,138 at the 2010 census.

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Gerald Nachman

Gerald Weil Nachman (January 13, 1938 – April 14, 2018) was an American journalist and author. He was born in Oakland, California.

Nachman was a television writer for the San Jose Mercury News. He was a columnist for the New York Daily News and writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nachman died April 14, 2018 in San Francisco, California of frontotemporal dementia at the age of 80.

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Michael Halliday

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M.A.K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was an English-born linguist. He developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistic model of language. His grammatical works go by the name of systemic functional grammar (SFG).

Halliday described himself as a generalist, meaning that he has tried "to look at language from every possible vantage point", and has described his work as "wander[ing] the highways and byways of language".

Halliday died in Sydney of natural causes on 15 April 2018 at the age of 93.

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