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Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Richard Casimir Karl August Robert Konstantin; 29 October 1934 in Giessen, Germany – 13 March 2017 in Berleburg) was the head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

In July 2003, he underwent surgery for treatment of prostate cancer. He had undergone treatment for skin cancer.

Prince Richard died on the evening of March 13th, 2017 at castle of Berleburg in Germany from a suspected heart attack. Prince Richard's death was sudden.  He was 82.

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Kika de la Garza

Eligio “Kika” de la Garza, II (September 22, 1927March 13, 2017) was an American politician. He served as the Democratic representative for the 15th congressional district of Texas from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1997. 

De la Garza died on March 13, 2017 in McAllen, Texas from kidney failure, aged 89.

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Prunus virginiana

Chokecherries (Prunus virginiana), also known as the bitter-berry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry, are shrubs or small trees that are native to The United States, Canada, and some parts of Mexico. They grow to be around 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in).

Description 
Chokecherry classifies as a suckering shrub or a tree. They grow quite tall, around 1 - 6 meters.  

Their leaves are oval with coarse, sharp edges. The flowers grow about 38.1–76.2 cm (15–30 in) long in late spring (well after chokecherry leaves appear). 

The fruits are about 1 cm (3⁄8 in) across.  They range in color from bright red to black.  They have a very astringent taste, both somewhat sour and somewhat bitter. The fruits are sweetest when they are very ripe "berries" (actually drupes). These are dark in color.

Characteristics 
Chokecherries are very high in antioxidants, sharing this trait with chokeberries. This does contribute to confusion between the two. The wild chokeberry is often considered a weed, since it hosts the tent caterpillar. This caterpillar eats tree leaves, robbing trees of energy and heightening the chance that they die. Often people enjoy the cultivars of the plant,  such as "Canada Red" and "Schubert". Both have purple leaves when mature and "Goertz", another cultivar, has a palatable taste in it's fruit. The chokecherry is closely related to the well-known black cherry of eastern North America. The name chokecherry is also used for the related Manchurian cherry, or Amur chokeberry.

Food use 
For many Native American tribes, chokecherries are very important and are part of pemmican, an Indian staple food. The bark of the root is used to ward off or treat colds, fevers and stomach maladies by Indians. It's also used in a ceremonial smoking mix known as kinnikinnick. The chokecherry fruit can be eaten when fully ripe, but if not, the fruit contains a toxin. It can also be used to make jam or syrup, with the use of sugar. The Plains Indians pound up the whole fruit in a mortar, from which they make cakes.

The stone of the fruit is poisonous. Chokecherry is toxic to most animals with segmented stomachs, especially after the leaves have wilted. This action produces cyanide, which is very toxic to most living things. It also makes the plant sweet, making farmer's lives harder by keeping their cows away from it. However, birds and game animals eat the berries when they're ripe. It's also used to craft wine in the Western United States.

Ecology 
The plant does host many types of moths and butterflies.

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Symsyn

Symsyn is a simple syntax programming language and real time multitasking runtime environment.

History
Named for its SIMple SYNtax, Symsyn is based on Free Pascal, which is based on Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth and named in honor of the French mathematician, philosopher and physicist Blaise Pascal.

Language
Symsyn has a simple syntax and short learning curve.  It provides access to functionality found in more sophisticated languages, such as the free version of the Pascal programming language, Free Pascal.  The language's primitives, or basics, are Pascal procedures which, in some cases, access the Free Pascal Run Time Library.

These primitives provide the normal testing, arithmetic, move, and string handling capabilities as well as the following additions:
 Inter program synchronization and data passing.
 Bit manipulation, or changing.
 DES encryption instructions.
 Re assignable instruction opcodes, or lower level codes to inhibit reverse engineering, or determination of source code from compiled code.

It is extensible, in that it can be extended.  Algorithms can be added to the collection of primitives. Many programs can be written in SymSyn. Like most programming languages, SymSyn can say hello to the world.

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Jack H. Harris

Jack Henry Harris (November 28, 1918 – March 14, 2017) was an American movie producer. He produced many blockbuster Hollywood movies including The Blob (1958), 4D Man (1959), and Equinox (1970).

Harris died March 14, 2017, at his home in Beverly Hills, California from complications of pneumonia, aged 98.

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Peter M. Gruber

Peter Manfred Gruber (28 August 1941 – 7 March 2017) was an Austrian mathematician. He worked in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry. He was born in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Career
From 1971, he was Professor at the University of Linz, and from 1976, at the TU Wien. He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Death
Gruber died on 7 March 2017 in Vienna, Austria, aged 75.

Works

Related pages
 List of scientists

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Lens, Switzerland

Lens is a municipality of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Villages
Crans-sur-Sierre, Flanthey, Chelin, Vaas, Les Condémines, Saint-Clément and Valençon.

Gallery

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Municipalities of Valais
Wrexham

Wrexham () is the largest town in north Wales. It is an administrative, commercial, retail and educational centre. 

Wrexham is between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley along the border with England. Historically part of Denbighshire, the town became part of Clwyd in 1974. Since 1996 it has been the centre of the Wrexham County Borough.

At the 2011 Census, Wrexham had a population of 61,603, the fourth largest urban area in Wales.

The town has a professional football club, Wrexham FC, who currently compete in the English football league system.

It has two train stations, these are Wrexham General and Wrexham Central.

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Ferrosilicon

Ferrosilicon is a combination of iron and silicon. Between 15% and 90% of ferrosilicon is silicon. Ferrosilicon is made by burning sand while there’s iron in the sand. Ferrosilicons that contain the most silicon are made in electric arc furnaces.

Perryite is a rock that is a combination of iron and silicon.

When ferrosilicon is touching water, it may slowly make hydrogen. Ferrosilicon is used by the military to quickly produce hydrogen for balloons. The chemical reaction uses sodium hydroxide, ferrosilicon, and water. The generator is small enough to fit in a truck and needs only a small amount of electric power. The materials are stable and not combustible, and they do not make hydrogen until mixed.

Ferrosilicon is used to get oxygen out of steel. Magnesium is made by combining ferrosilicon with dolomite.

Hydrogen production 
Ferrosilicon is used to make hydrogen in the military.

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Zionist Union

The Zionist Union, Hebrew: המחנה הציוני‎‎ - HaMahaneh HaTziyoni, literally meaning The Zionist Camp, was an Israeli political cooperation. Its ideology is left-wing centrist, and Zionist.

The Zionist Union was formed in 2014 as a cooperation of HaAvoda (Israeli Labor Party), HaTnu'a ("The Movement"), and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") in an effort to prevent Likud continuing its governing position after the Knesset elections of 2015.
Because its attempt was unsuccessful, party head Yitzhak Herzog became leader of the opposition. When Herzog left the Knesset in June 2018 to become head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, he was replaced by Tzipi Livni.

There were two political leaders. The party head was Avi Gabbay (HaAvoda). As Gabbay was not a Knesset member, Tzipi Livni (HaTnu'a) leaded this faction in the Knesset.

Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: 24 (HaAvoda: 19, HaTnu'a: 4, HaTnu'a HaYeruqa 1).

The Zionist Union was dissolved in 2019.

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Ralf Krewinkel

Ralf Karel Hubert Krewinkel (born 12 November 1974 in Kerkrade) is a Dutch politician.

Krewinkel is a member of the Labour Party. He has started his political career as a councillor (1998-2006) and an alderman (2006-2011) of his home town.

In 2011 he became mayor of Beek, followed by Heerlen in 2015. He quit in 2019.

Both Kerkrade, Beek and Heerlen are in the south of the province of Limburg.

References 
  www.rijksoverheid.nl 

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Bimmen

Bimmen is a hamlet in the German municipality of Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Bimmen is low-lying. It borders on the Netherlands in the west and on the Rhine River in the north.

About 170 people are living there.

The Klever Straße is connecting Bimmen with neighbouring Dutch village of Millingen aan de Rijn.

Other websites 
 Bimmen on the Kleve Website

Villages in North Rhine-Westphalia
Alice Teodorescu

Alexandra "Alice" Teodorescu (born 2 May 1984) is a Swedish jurist with the Företagarna organisation of Swedish entrepreneurs and a commentator on social and political issues.

Teodorescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, but came to Sweden as a child in 1989 and was raised in Lund.

She did attended the Sture Academy, a training programme for young people owned and runed by the company Timbro and named after Sture Eskilsson.

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Dolly Style

Dolly Style is a Swedish pop group. The group was created by Emma Nors and Palle Hammarlund. It features three girls, all born in 1996, that call themselves Molly, Holly and Polly. The trio claims to originate from a "dollhouse in Dollyville". The group gets its inspiration from 1960s fashion and victorian style. The group has participated in the Melodifestivalen three times, in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

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Kristina Winberg

Kristina Eva Martina Winberg (born 27 May 1965) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Sweden. She is a member of the Sweden Democrats, part of the Europe for Freedom and Democracy. On 25 May 2014, Winberg was elected to the European Parliament during  the 2014 European Parliament election in Sweden.

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Iris Mittenaere

Iris Mittenaere (born 25 January 1993) is a French runway model and the winner of the beauty pageant Miss Universe 2016 on 30 January 2017 in Manila, Philippines.

Early life and education
Mittenaere was born on 25 January 1993 in Lille, to Yves Mittenaere, a professor of history and geography, and Laurence Druart, a schoolteacher and lecturer. She has a brother, sister, and half-sister. Her parents separated when she was three years old.

Mittenaere attended school in Steenvoorde, where she lived with her mother. In 2011, she graduated lycée with a degree in science. After graduating, she moved back to Lille, where she attended Lille 2 University of Health and Law, studying dentistry. She plans on becoming a dental surgeon after graduating.

Pageantry

Miss France 2016
After winning the Miss Flandre title in Bailleul, Mittenaere entered the Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais 2015 pageant in Orchies, which she won. Mittenaere represented Nord-Pas-de-Calais at the Miss France 2016 pageant. On 19 December 2015, she was crowned Miss France by Miss France 2015 Camille Cerf in Lille.

Miss Universe 2016
She competed in Miss Universe 2016 where she succeeded Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines. The last European titleholder to complete her year as Miss Universe was Miss Universe 1990 Mona Grudt of Norway.

Personal life
Mittenaere is in a relationship with fellow dentistry student Matthieu Declercq.

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Joint List

HaReshima HaMeshutefet, Hebrew: הרשימה המשותפת‎‎ , or: al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah, Arab: القائمة المشتركة‎‎ , both meaning The Joint List (often called like that) is an Israeli political cooperation of four, mainly Arab parties, established in 2015.

Its ideology depends on its members' ideology. Common objective are the interests of the Arab Israelis.

Its political leader is Ayman Odeh (Hadash).

HaReshima HaMeshutefet / al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah was founded in 2015 as a cooperation of Hadash (communist), Balad (social democratic, secular), Ra'am (Islamist), and Ta'al (right-wing centrist, secular). Especially the last three parties are fully Arab and anti-Zionist.

The Joint List was established to prevent the Arab parties from disappearing from the Knesset due to the raise of the election threshold (the minimum percentage of votes for a party to get one parliamentary seat), and also to support the Zionist Union in its effort to replace the third Netanyahu government.

The number of seats won by the Joint List in the 24th Knesset: 6 (Hadash: 3, Ta'al: 2, Balad: 1).

2015 establishments in Israel
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Josh Dun

Joshua William Dun (born June 18, 1988) is an American musician. He is best known as half of Twenty One Pilots, alongside Tyler Joseph.

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Monotonic function

In algebra, a montonic function is any function whose gradient never changes sign. In simple words, it is a function which is either always increasing or decreasing. For example,  sin x=f(x) isn't a monotonous function or simply, non monotonous function. That is to say there are no turning points but there may be stationary points where the gradient is momentarily zero.  The derivative function  of a monotonic function which describes its gradient will never change sign.

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Destroyer

A destroyer is a fast, small, and maneuverable warship. Destroyers escort larger warships. Destroyers were first used in the late 1800s to defend against torpedo boats. Destroyers were used extensively during World War I and World War II. Today, most naval warships are destroyers. Only three nations use cruisers. Modern destroyers use cruise missiles, automated turrets, and torpedos. Some can launch nuclear missiles. Modern destroyers usually support carrier groups and amphibious landings.

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Sok An

Dr. Sok An (; April 16, 1950 – March 15, 2017) was a Cambodian politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Office of the Council of Ministers from 2004 to his death, and started serving in the Cabinet in 1993. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Takéo and a member of the central committee of the Cambodian People's Party.

An was born in Kirivong, Takéo, Cambodia. He studied at University of Phnom Penh. He was married to Theng Ay Annie at the time of his death. They had five children.

An died at a hospital in Beijing on March 15, 2017 from a short-illness at the age of 66. An suffered from diabetes and was seeking medical treatment in Beijing since December 2016.

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Enrique Morea

Enrique Jorge Morea (11 April 1924 – 15 March 2017) was an Argentine tennis player. He was born in Buenos Aires.

Morea won the mixed doubles title of the 1950 French Championships. He also won two Gold medals at the inaugural men's tennis competition at the 1951 Pan American Games. Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph ranked Morea as World No. 10 in 1953 and 1954. 

Until his death, Morea was the honorary president of the Asociación Argentina de Tenis (AAT).

Morea died in Buenos Aires from natural causes on 15 March 2017, aged 92.

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Richard H. Solomon

Richard Harvey Solomon (June 19, 1937 – March 13, 2017) was an American diplomat. He served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1989 to 1992, after which he was Ambassador to the Philippines.

In September 1993, he became president of the United States Institute of Peace, a position he held until September 2012. He later joined the RAND Corporation as a Senior Fellow.

Solomon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Solomon died on March 13, 2017 in Bethesda, Maryland from brain cancer, aged 79.

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 President Bush's nomination of Solomon as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
 NNDB profile
 Profile from the United States Institute of Peace 
 

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Henri Cueco

Henri Cueco (19 October 1929 – 13 March 2017) was a French painter, essayist, novelist and radio personality. 

His work was exhibited internationally. He was the author of several books, including collections of essays and novels. He was also a contributor to France Culture. 

He was a communist-turned-libertarian, he was a co-founder of Coopérative des Malassis, an anti-consumerist artists collective. He was best-known for The Red Men, a series of figurative paintings depicting aspects of the Cold War like the May 1968 events, the Vietnam War and Red Scare, and his 150 still lifes, or "portraits," of potatoes.

Cueco died of Alzheimer's disease on 13 March 2017 in Paris, aged 87.

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John Van de Kamp

John Van de Kamp (February 7, 1936 – March 14, 2017) was an American politician. He served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 1975 until 1981, and then as the 28th Attorney General of California from 1983 until 1991.

Van de Kamp died at his Pasadena home on March 14, 2017 from a short-illness, aged 81.

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Rodrigo Valdéz

Rodrigo Valdez (December 22, 1946 – March 14, 2017) was a boxer from Colombia who was a World Middleweight Champion and Undisputed World Middleweight Champion whose rivalry with Carlos Monzón has long been considered among the most legendary boxing rivalries. 

Valdez was trained by International Boxing Hall of Fame coach Gil Clancy. Many people consider him, Antonio Cervantes and Miguel "Happy" Lora to be the three greatest boxers ever to come from that country. He is 29th on Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.

Valdéz died on March 14, 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia from a heart attack, aged 70.

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Jim McAnearney

James "Jim" McAnearney (20 March 1935 – 14 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager.

McAnearney played for Sheffield Wednesday, Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Bradford City, who he also briefly managed in 1968 with Tom Hallett. 

He later managed Rotherham United, Frickley Athletic, Scarborough and Hallam, and worked as a coach at Sheffield Wednesday (where he was also caretaker manager) and Leeds United. In later life he established and ran a tool/engineering business.

McAnearney died on 14 March 2017, at the age of 81.

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Royal Robbins

Royal Robbins (February 3, 1935 – March 14, 2017) was one of the pioneers of American rock climbing.

After learning to climb at Tahquitz he went on to make first ascents of many big wall routes in Yosemite. As an early proponent of boltless, pitonless clean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s by encouraging the use and preservation of the natural features of the rock.

He went on to become a well-known kayaker.

Robbins died on March 14, 2017 in Modesto, California from a long-illness, aged 82.

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The Intouchables

The Intouchables ( , UK: Untouchable) is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama movie  directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. 

The movie is about a quadriplegic Philippe (François Cluzet) and his caretaker and later best friend Driss (Omar Sy) going on adventures throughout Paris while Philippe is going through challenges of being quadriplegic.

Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second biggest box office hit in France, just behind the 2008 movie Welcome to the Sticks. 

The movie was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. The movie has received several award nominations. In France, the movie won César Award for Best Actor for Omar Sy, and seven nomination for César Awards include the César Award for Best Film But losing to the Academy Award for Best Picture winner The Artist.

In 2019, an English-remake titled The Upside (2019) was released with Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart.

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Buddy movies
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Marcelino dos Santos

Marcelino dos Santos (20 May 1929 – 11 February 2020) was a Mozambican poet, revolutionary, and statesman. He was born in Lumbo.

He was a founding member of the Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO—Mozambican Liberation Front), in 1962, and served as the party's deputy president from 1969 to 1977. He was Minister of Economic Development in the late 1970s, Frelimo Political Bureau member in charge of the economy in the early 1980s.

He also was Chairman of the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1987 to 1994, and, as of 1999, remains a member of the Frelimo Central Committee.

Santos died on 11 February 2020 at the age of 90.

References

Other websites 

 Bookrags Encyclopedia of World Biography (accessed December 2007).
 Mozambique News Agency interview (accessed December 2007).

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Doina Cornea

Doina Cornea (; 30 May 1929 – 3 May 2018) was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was notable as a dissident during the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Activism
Cornea illegally sent the first letter to Radio Free Europe in 1982. It was the first in a series of texts and protests against the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime. She saw the crisis not just an economic one, but also a spiritual crisis.She said that the Romanian people "a people fed solely on slogans", who value more material values rather than spiritual values, which she defined as the ones which "generated intelligence, ethics, culture, liberty and responsibility".

In August 1987, she addressed an open letter to Nicolae Ceaușescu, in which she advocated reform in the higher education: greater academic freedom.

Beliefs
She argued for freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and freedom of travel; on the economic side, her letter (which may have been drafted by other collaborators) argued for closing down loss-making factories, re-tooling factories for being able to compete with foreign companies, hiring foreign managers and recreation of private land ownership, as well as the stopping of the Systematization programme.

House arrest
Cornea was put on house arrest by the Securitate (Romanian government officials). Following a documentary shown on Belgian television, an international campaign for her release began. Resolutions arguing for her release were passed by the European Parliament and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

She was released 21 December 1989 (during the Romanian Revolution, on the day before the Ceaușescu regime fell);

Personal life
Cornea born in Brașov, Romania. Cornea began studying French and Italian at Cluj University in 1948. In 1980, she published her first samizdat book, Încercarea Labirintului.

References

Other websites
 Dennis Deletant, Ceaușescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989, M.E. Sharpe, London, 1995, .

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Alfred Moisiu

Alfred Spiro Moisiu (; born 1 December 1929) is an Albanian politician. He was the fourth President of the Republic of Albania from 2002–2007. He is the eldest son of famed Albanian Army general Spiro Moisiu.

Honors
  Knight Grand Cross of the Croatian Grand Order of King Tomislav (, July 2, 2007), "For outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and development co-operation between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Albania."
  Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great (27 March 2007)
  Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

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1929 births
Living people
Presidents of Albania
Selim Hoss

Selim Ahmed Hoss (spelled "Salim Al-Hoss" on his website, Arabic: سليم أحمد الحص) (born 20 December 1929) is a veteran Lebanese politician. He was a Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut.

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Presidents of Lebanon
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Writers
Lee Hyun-jae

Lee Hyun Jae (born December 20, 1929) is a former South Korean politician. 

He served from March to December 1988 as the twentieth prime minister of South Korea. 

Lee is the chairman of the Ho-Am Prize Committee and an advisor of the Korean Association for Cultural Economics as of 2017.

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Living people
Prime Ministers of South Korea
Milan Panić

Milan Panić (, ; born 20 December 1929) is a Serbian-American former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, humanitarian, and multimillionaire businessman based in Newport Beach and Pasadena, California. He served as Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993. During and after his time as Prime Minister, he campaigned for peace and democracy in the Balkan region.

He ran for President of Serbia in 1992, ultimately coming in second to Slobodan Milošević.

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Efraín Goldenberg

Efraín Goldenberg Schreiber, or "Efraím," (born 28 December 1929) is a retired-Peruvian politician. He served as Peru's finance minister, foreign relations minister, and Prime Minister in the 1990s.

On February 17, 1994, he was sworn in as Prime Minister of Peru by then President Alberto Fujimori, a position that he held until 1995.

Goldenberg was born on December 28, 1929, in Lima, Peru, to Jewish Romanian immigrants. He grew up in Talara. He studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

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Omar Sy

Omar Sy (born 20 January 1978) is a French actor and comedian. He is best known in France for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for his role in The Intouchables. Internationally, he is known for his roles in X-Men: Days of Future Past and Jurassic World. 

Sy received a César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for his role in The Intouchables and in doing so also became the first actor of African descent to win the French award.

Sy is a Muslim. His parents are both immigrants from West Africa.

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 Omar et Fred
 

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Ultraviolet catastrophe

The ultraviolet catastrophe is the name given to a conflict between theory and the observation in classical physics. 

An ideal blackbody at thermal equilibrium emits radiation in all frequency ranges. It emits more energy as the frequency increases. By calculating the total amount of radiated energy, it can be shown that a blackbody would release an infinite amount of energy. This contradicted the principles of conservation of energy and showed a new model was needed for the behaviour of blackbodies. This happened around the end of the nineteenth century. It was one of the things that led to the invention of quantum mechanics.

It led theorists like Max Planck to come up with quantum theory in which energy leaves the body in distinct packets called quanta rather than in continuous waves. The quantum theory accurately predicted the energy of the radiation that is observed.

Physics
Le Vigan, Gard

Le Vigan () is a commune in south central France in the region of Occitanie. It is a subprefecture of the Gard department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

History
Since the creation of the Gard department on 4 March 1790, Le Vigan has been a subprefecture of the department.

Geography
Le Vigan is at the south of the Massif Central and near the Mont Aigoual, in the valley of the Arre, a right tributary of the Hérault river. The Arre flows through the town.

Le Vigan has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune of Le Vigan is surrounded by the communes Aulas, Avèze, Saint-André-de-Majencoules, Roquedur, Saint-Bresson, Pommiers and Mandagout.

Le Vigan is part of the Cévennes National Park ().

Climate
The climate of Le Vigan, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csa - Mediterranean climate with hot summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Le Vigan are known, in French, as Viganais (women: Viganaises).

With a population of 3,933, Le Vigan has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Le Vigan

Le Vigan forms, with other 6 communes, the urban area of Le Vigan with a population of 7,184 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Le Vigan, formed by 15 communes with a population of 8,996 inhabitants and an area of .

Administration 
Le Vigan is a subprefecture of the Gard department, the capital of the arrondissement of Le Vigan and the administrative centre () of the canton Le Vigan; the canton has 23,033 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Le Pays viganais.

Sister cities
Le Vigan is twinned with:
  Cisano sul Neva, Savona, Italy.
  Bigastro, Alicante, Spain.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Le Vigan
 Communes of the Gard department

References

Other websites

 City Council website 
 Communauté de Communes du Pays Viganais 
  Office de tourisme du Pays Viganais / Cévennes Navacelles 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Gard
Alès

Alès () is a commune in south central France in the region of Occitanie. It is a subprefecture of the Gard department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

It was formerly known as Alais.

History
Since the creation of the Gard department on 4 March 1790, Alès has been a subprefecture of the department.

Geography
Alès is at  north-northwest of Nîmes, in a curve (meander) of the Le Gardon d'Alès river, which half surrounds it. It is at the foot of the Cévennes, near the Cévennes National Park.

Alès has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune of Alès is surrounded by the communes  Saint-Jean-du-Pin, Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues, Saint-Privat-des-Vieux, Cendras, Saint-Christol-lès-Alès and Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas.

Climate
The climate of Alès, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csb - Mediterranean climate with warm summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Alès are known, in French, as Alésiens (women: Alésiennes).

With a population of 39,993, Alès has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Alès

Alès forms, with other 21 communes, the urban area of Alès with a population of 94,622 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Alès, formed by 52 communes with a population of 114,137 inhabitants and an area of .

Administration 
Alès is a subprefecture of the Gard department, the capital of the arrondissement of Le Vigan and the administrative centre () of the cantons
 Alès-1, with 32,289 inhabitants (2014).
 Alès-2, with 29,141 inhabitants (2014).
 Alès-3, with 26,871 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Alès Agglomération.

Sister cities
Alès is twinned with:
  Bílina, Czech Republic.
  Kilmarnock, Scotland, UK.
  Herstal, Belgium.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Alès
 Communes of the Gard department

References

Other websites

 
 Official website 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Gard
Geoffrey Wainwright

Geoffrey John Wainwright MBE (19 September 1937 – 6 March 2017) was a British archaeologist specializing in prehistory. He was the Chief Archaeologist of English Heritage from 1989 to 1999. He served as visiting professor to a number of universities. He served as President of the Prehistoric Society from 1981 to 1985 and the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2007 to 2010.

Wainwright was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He studied at Cardiff University and at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Wainwright died on 6 March 2017 in Pembrokeshire, Wales, aged 79.

References

1937 births
2017 deaths
British archaeologists
British scientists
British educators
Torgny Lindgren

Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer.

Life
Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In the 1980s he converted to the Catholic faith.

Lindgren died in Stockholm on 16 March 2017 from stomach cancer, aged 78.

Career
Lindgren began as a poet in 1965 but had to wait until 1982 for his breakthrough, with the novel The Way of a Serpent (Swedish: Ormens väg på hälleberget). Lindgren was translated into more than thirty languages and was one of Sweden's most internationally successful contemporary writers. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1991.

Awards and honors
 1986 – Prix Femina étranger (for Bathsheba)
 1995 – The August Prize (for Sweetness)
 2000 – The Selma Lagerlöf Prize
 2001 – Ordre des Arts et des Lettres  
 2002 – Litteris et Artibus
 2004 – De Nios Stora Pris

References

1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in Sweden
Swedish poets
Swedish novelists
Wojciech Młynarski

Wojciech Młynarski (March 26, 1941 – March 15, 2017) was a Polish poet, singer-songwriter, and translator. He was a well-known figure on the Polish musical scene. He was most famous for his ballads and what is known as sung poetry, as well as for his collaboration with numerous vocalists and cabarets.

He wrote lyrics to more than 2,000 songs, a small fraction of which he sang himself. His songs received a total of 25 "Karolinkas", which are the main awards of the Polish Song Festival in Opole, the most important Polish song festival, occurring annually since 1963. He also composed music to some of his songs. He is considered an icon of Polish culture.

Młynarski died on March 15, 2017 in Warsaw from cancer, aged 75.

References

Other websites
 Wojciech Młynarski on filmpolski.pl
 Wojciech Młynarski on filmweb.pl

1941 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Poland
Polish poets
Polish singers
Songwriters
Writers from Warsaw
Polish translators
List of World Heritage Sites in Eastern Europe

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated 77 World Heritage Sites in Western Europe. These sites are in 9 countries. There are eight sites which are shared between countries.

Legend
The list below uses a definition of Western Europe which includes the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Site – named after the World Heritage Committee's official designation
Location – sorted by country, followed by the region at the regional or provincial level and geocoordinates. In the case of multinational or multi-regional sites, the names are sorted alphabetically.
Criteria – as defined by the World Heritage Committee
Area – in hectares and acres, followed by buffer zones if applicable. A value of zero implies that no data has been published by UNESCO
Year – during which the site was added to the World Heritage List
Description – brief information about the site, including reasons for qualifying as an endangered site, if applicable

Sites

References

Eastern
Eastern Europe
Europe-related lists
Dave Stallworth

David Anderson Stallworth (December 20, 1941 – March 15, 2017) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for eight seasons and was a member of the New York Knicks' 1969–70 championship-winning team. 

Stallworth played for the Knicks from 1965 through 1972 and again in 1974. He later played for the Baltimore/Capitol Bullets from 1972 through 1974. His basketball career began in 1962 and ended in his retirement in 1974.

Stallworth was born in Dallas, Texas. He studied at Wichita State University. Stallworth died on March 15, 2017 in Wichita, Kansas from a heart attack, aged 75.

References

Other websites
 Article on Stallworth's career

1941 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
New York Knicks players
Washington Wizards players
Sportspeople from Dallas, Texas
Sportspeople from Wichita, Kansas
Gardon d'Alès

The Gardon d'Alès is a river in southeastern France, in the Lozère and Gard departments in the Occitanie region. It is a left tributary of the Gardon river.

Geography
The Gardon d'Alès river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of .

Course
The Gardon d'Alès starts in the commune of Saint-Privat-de-Vallongue, Lozère department in the Cévennes National Park, at an altitude of about . From here, the river flows in general to the southeast.

The Gardon d'Alès joins the Gardon d'Anduze (the name of the upper Gardon or Gard river) between the communes Cassagnoles and Vézénobres. to the south of Alès, at an altitude of about .

The Gardon d'Alès flows through the Lozère and Gard departments, in the Occitanie region, and a total of 17 communes, 12 in the Gard department and 5 in the Lozère department:

 Occitanie region
 Lozère: Le Collet-de-Dèze, Saint-Hilaire-de-Lavit, Saint-Julien-des-Points, Saint-Michel-de-Dèze, Saint-Privat-de-Vallongue
 Gard: Alès, Branoux-les-Taillades, Cendras, La Grand-Combe, Laval-Pradel, Ribaute-les-Tavernes, Saint-Christol-lès-Alès, Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas, Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues, Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge, Les Salles-du-Gardon, Vézénobrest

Main tributaries
The main tributaries, with a length greater than 20 km, of the Gardon d'Alès are the L'Avène, a left tributary  long; and the Le Galeizon, a right tributary  long.

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Other websites

 Annuaire Maire - Rivière Le Gardon D'alès 

Rivers of France
Occitanie
National parks of Ukraine

There are 49 national parks in Ukraine.

Ukraine's national parks are:
Azov National Nature Park

Azov-Syvash National Nature Park

Carpathian National Nature Park

Cheremosh National Nature Park

Derman-Ostroh National Nature Park

Desna-Starahuta National Nature Park

Dniester Canyon National Nature Park

Dzharylhak National Nature Park

Halych National Nature Park

Hetman National Nature Park

Holosiivskyi National Nature Park

Hutsulshchyna National Park

Ichnya National Nature Park

Karmelyukove Podillya

Khotyn National Nature Park

Lower Dniester National Nature Park

Lower Polissia National Nature Park

Lower Sula National Nature Park

Meotyda National Nature Park

Mezynsky National Nature Park

National Nature Park Buzk's Gard

National Nature Park Charming Harbor

National Nature Park Dvorichansky

National Nature Park Great Meadow

National Nature Park Holy Mountains

National Nature Park Homolsh Woods

National Nature Park Ivory Coast of Sviatoslav

National Nature Park Kremenets Mountains

National Nature Park Northern Podillya

National Nature Park Prypiat-Stokhid

National Nature Park Skole Beskids

National Nature Park Synevir

National Nature Park Zalissya

Nyzniodniprovsky National Nature Park

Oleshky Sands National Nature Park

Podilski Tovtry National Park

Pyryatyn National Nature Park

Shatsky National Natural Park

Sloboda National Nature Park

Synyohora National Nature Park

Tsumanska Puscha National Nature Park

Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park

Upper Pobozhia National Nature Park

Uzhanian National Nature Park

Verkhovyna National Nature Park

Vyzhnytsia National Nature Park

White Lake National Nature Park

Yavorivskyi National Nature Park

Zacharovany Krai National Nature Park

Ukraine
National parks
Ukraine
Europe-related lists
Flag of Ukraine

The official Flag of Ukraine is the flag of the European country, Ukraine. It has two horizontal stripes, a blue one and a yellow one.

Ukraine
Ukraine
Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Company, usually called Sears, is a department store chain with about 600 stores in the United States. The first store opened in 1906. It was the biggest retailer in the country until Walmart had more sales in October 1989.

Sears had to close all 140 of its stores in Canada in 2017. Its 75 stores in Mexico have been operated by Grupo Carso since 1997. 

Sears filed for bankruptcy on October 15, 2018.

References

Department stores
Companies based in Illinois
1892 establishments in the United States
Arre (river)

The Arre is a river in southeastern France, in the Gard department in the Occitanie region. It is a right tributary of the Hérault river.

Geography
The Arre river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Le Vigan in the Gard department.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Le Vigan

Course
The Arre starts in the commune of Alzon, Gard department in the Cévennes National Park between the places called Roc de Berdu, Boucaret and Case Vieille, at an altitude of about . From here, the river flows in general to the east.

The Arre joins, as a right tributary, the Hérault river in the commune Roquedur, near the small town of Pont d'Hérault (commune of Saint-André-de-Majencoules), at an altitude of about .

The river flows through the Gard department, in the Occitanie region, and through a total of 9 communes: Alzon, Arre, Arrigas, Aumessas, Avèze, Bez-et-Esparon, Molières-Cavaillac, Saint-André-de-Majencoules, Le Vigan.

Main tributaries
The only important tributary of the Arre is the Coudoulous, a left tributary  long.

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References

Other websites

 Annuaire Maire - Rivière L'arre 

Rivers of France
Occitanie
Rotating bolt

Rotating bolt is a method of locking used in firearms. Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse developed the first rotating bolt firearm, the "Dreyse needle gun" in 1836. The Dreyse locked using the bolt handle rather than lugs on the bolt head like the Mauser M 98 or M16. The first rotating bolt rifle with two lugs on the bolt head was the Lebel Model 1886 rifle. The concept has been implemented on most firearms chambered for high powered cartridges since the 20th century.

Examples
 M1 Garand, gas-operated semi-automatic rifle
 Lebel Model 1886 rifle, bolt-action rifle
 Steyr-Mannlicher M1895, a straight-pull rifle
 M16, a gas-operated assault rifle
 AK-47, a gas-operated assault rifle
 IMI Tavor, a gas-operated assault rifle
 Ruger Mini-14, a gas-operated semi-automatic rifle
 IMI Desert Eagle, one of the few handguns with such mechanism.
 Remington Model 8, a recoil-operated rifle
 Chauchat, a recoil-operated light machine gun
 Remington Model 7600, a pump-action rifle
 The Winchester model 1200, 1300,and Super-X (SXP) Pump Shotguns
 SIG-Sauer MPX, the first submachine gun to use this mechanism.

References

 Primer actuated M16 bolt
 

Firearms
Tom Lanoye

Tom Emiel Gerardine Aloïs Lanoye (born August 27, 1958 in Sint-Niklaas) is a Belgian writer, poet and columnist.

Lanoye writes novels and playwrights as well as poetry and scenarios. 

He got many awards, among them the Constantijn Huygens Prize.

Lanoye is an atheist.

References 

1958 births
Living people
Belgian atheists
Belgian journalists
Belgian novelists
Belgian poets
Columnists
Belgian playwrights
Belgian screenwriters
People from East Flanders
50PLUS

50PLUS, the same in Dutch (shortened 50+), is a Dutch political party. 

50PLUS was established in 2009 and aims at the interests of elder people.

Political leader is vacant (former leaders Liane den Haan, Henk Krol, and Jan Nagel).

Number of seats in the 2021 elections: 1 (-3).

MP Liane den Haan left 50+ on 6 May 2021. Since that time, 50+ has no longer been represented in the House of Representatives.

Other websites 
 Website of 50PLUS

Political parties in the Netherlands
2000s establishments in the Netherlands
2009 establishments in Europe
ChristianUnion

The ChristianUnion, Dutch: ChristenUnie (shortened CU), is a Dutch political party.

The ChristianUnion is an orthodox Christian democratic party.

It was established in 2001 as a merger of the Reformed Political Alliance (GPV) and the Reformatory Political Federation (RPF).

Political leader is Gert-Jan Segers (former leaders Arie Slob and André Rouvoet).

Number of seats in the 2021 elections: 5 (0).

Other websites 
 Website of the ChristianUnion

Christian democratic parties
Political parties in the Netherlands
Christianity in the Netherlands
2001 establishments in the Netherlands
DENK

DENK (the Dutch word "denk" means think) is a political party in the Netherlands. The official name is Political Movement Denk (Dutch: "Politieke Beweging Denk").

DENK aims at the interests of non-western citizens, and was established in 2015.

Political leader is Farid Azarkan (former leader Tunahan Kuzu).

Number of seats in the 2021 elections: 3 (0).

Other websites 
 Website of DENK

Political parties in the Netherlands
2015 establishments in the Netherlands
Forum for Democracy

The Forum for Democracy (Dutch: Forum voor Democratie. shortened FVD) is a Dutch political party.

The party was formed on 22 September 2016.

The Forum for Democracy is critical of the current political situation in the Netherlands. The party is right-wing and a national-conservative party. They are strongly against the European Union. They also want more direct democracy in the Netherlands.

The leader of the FVD is Thierry Baudet.

In the 2021 elections, they have won 8 seats (+6) in the House of Representatives.

The FVD group in the House of Representatives split on 13 May 2021. Wybren van Haga and two others MPs left the party and formed the Group Van Haga.

References

Other websites 
 Website of the Forum for Democracy

Conservative parties
Eurosceptic parties
Nationalist organizations in Europe
Political parties in the Netherlands
2016 establishments in the Netherlands