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COVID-19 pandemic in the Cayman Islands

The COVID-19 pandemic in Cayman Islands is part of the ongoing global viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was confirmed to have reached the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands in March 2020.

On 12 March 2020, a 68-year-old Italian man in critical condition, who was transferred from a cruise ship to a hospital in the Cayman Islands on 29 February due to heart issues, was announced as the first confirmed coronavirus case. His death was announced two days later.

On 15 November 2020, a second COVID-19 death happened.

On 17 December 2020, Mercer University pre-med student and a Cayman Islands resident were sentenced to four months in prison for her violating the island's mandatory two-week quarantine COVID-19 restriction two days after arriving from the United States.

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Dan Reeves

Daniel Edward Reeves (January 19, 1944 – January 1, 2022) was an American football running back and coach in the National Football League (NFL). He was born in Rome, Georgia. He played for the Dallas Cowboys between 1965 until 1972. Reeves also coached for the Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons from 1981 until 2003.

Reeves died on January 1, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia from dementia-related problems at the age of 77.

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Robin Leamy (bishop)

Robin Walsh Leamy SM (27 July 1934 – 1 January 2022) was a New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate. He became a priest in 1958. He was Bishop of Rarotonga from 1984 until 1996. He retired in 2009. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand.

Leamy died on 1 January 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand at the age of 87.

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Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey

Ho-Ho-Kus  is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. In the 2010 census, it said that 4,078 people lived here.

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Boroughs in New Jersey
Bob Kasten

Robert Walter Kasten Jr. (born June 19, 1942) is an American Republican politician. He was a U.S. Representative from 1975 to 1979 and a United States Senator from 1981 to 1993, representing Wisconsin.

In 1985, Kasten was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Washington, D.C..

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Jeffrey Chiesa

Jeffrey Scott Chiesa ( ; born June 22, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician. He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from June 10, 2013 to October 31, 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was the 59th Attorney General of New Jersey from January 10, 2012 until June 6, 2013.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on June 6, 2013 that he would appoint Chiesa to the United States Senate seat that was left empty by the death of Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg and on June 10, 2013, Chiesa was sworn in. He decided not to run for a full term in the Senate and was replaced by Democrat Cory Booker.

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High island

Volcanic Island or High island Geologically is an island of volcanic origin The term can be used to distinguish this kind of islands from Low islands; which are formed from Sedimentation or the uplifting of coral reefs

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Robert Torricelli

Robert Guy Torricelli  (born August 27, 1951), is an American attorney and former politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 9th district from 1983 to 1997 and as a United States senator from New Jersey from 1997 to 2003.

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Franklin Park, New Jersey

Franklin Park is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Franklin Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Low islands

Low Island Geographically is an island of coral origin. The Term applies whether the island was formed as a result of Sedimentation upon a Coral reef or the uplifting of those kind of islands the term is used to distinguish those kind of islands from high islands, whose origins are volcanic

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Izu Peninsula

The Izu peninsula (伊豆半島, Izu-hantō) is a Large mountainous peninsula with a indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific Ocean of the island of Honshū in Japan Previously known as Izu Province Izu peninsula is now a part of Shizuoka Prefecture.

Other websites 

 A Travel Guide to Nature-filled Izu Peninsula
 Izu-Peninsula at Britannica encyclopedia

Islands of Japan
The World Set Free

The World Set Free is a 1913 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It was published in 1914. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive weapon than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy. That form was made up of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free.

The novel tells the story of man’ using the (at that time) newly-discovered power of the atom.  It tells how this power almost destroys civilisation in a war.  In a sense, the book seems to have ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.  The World Set Free is an example of how science and science fiction can work together and build upon each other.

1914 books
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books by H. G. Wells
George Ernest Jackson

George Ernest (Ernie) Jackson (1921 - January 20, 1995) was an insurance executive, member of the Ontario legislature (1955-1959) and senior political advisor to Ontario Premier John Robarts in the 1960s as well as a senior political strategist in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during Robarts's leadership.

Jackson was born in Toronto but moved to London, Ontario when he was seven. His father was a travelling salesman. He left high school in the middle of grade 13 to join the The Royal Canadian Regiment, serving with them during World War II in England, Sicily and Italy, and rising to the rank of captain. Disagreeing with the Liberal Party of Canada's position on conscription, he joined the Progressive Conservatives after the war and served as a backroom strategist for Harry Oliver White in Middlesex East in the 1949 Canadian federal election.

Jackson first met Robarts socially in 1950, becoming friends. When Robarts entered politics as the Progressive Conservative candidate in London in the 1951 Ontario general election, Jackson volunteered to be one of his campaign workers. In the 1955 Ontario general election, the London riding was split into two and Jackson ran and won in the new riding of London South. Jackson chose not to run for re-election in the 1959 Ontario general election in order to concentrate on his insurance business and family, but co-managed Robarts's own re-election campaign in London North. In 1959, he suggested to Robarts that he run for the party leadership once Premier Leslie Frost retired and managed Robarts's dark horse leadership campaign in the 1961 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, which Robarts won on the sixth ballot. Jackson went on to be the new premier's closest political confidant. Robarts charged Jackson with the assignment of re-organizing the provincial party and was the party's campaign chairman in the 1963 Ontario general election and 1967 Ontario general election, both of which the Conservatives won with large majorities.

Jackson died of cancer in 1995 at the age of 73.

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Thomas L. Patrick

Thomas L. Patrick (1896 - January 10, 1957) was a farmer and politician in Ontario. He served as a Conservative MPP in the Ontario legislature for the riding of Middlesex North from 1943 until his death in 1957, at the age of 60. Patrick was a farmer and livestock exporter and died of a heart attack during a business trip to Springfield, Illinois. In the legislature, he served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee. He was first elected in the 1943 Ontario general election, defeating incumbent Liberal MPP John Willard Freeborn by 910 votes.

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Stampede

A stampede () is when a group of large animals suddenly start running in the same direction. This is because the animals are excited or scared. It may also mean when many people are trying to do the same thing at the same time. Non-human species that can cause stampedes include zebras, cattle, elephants, reindeer, sheep, pigs,  goats, blue wildebeests, walruses, wild horses, and rhinoceroses.

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Wild horse

The wild horse (Equus ferus) is a species of the genus Equus. They also include the subspecies of the modern domesticated horse.

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Blue wildebeest

The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded wildebeest, white-bearded gnu or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest. 

The blue wildebeest is known to have five subspecies. Young blue wildebeest are born tawny brown, and begin to have their adult coloration at the age of 2 months. 

Both sexes have a pair of large curved horns. The blue wildebeest is a herbivore, feeding mainly on short grasses.

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Black wildebeest

The black wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou) or white-tailed gnu, is one of the two closely related wildebeest species. It is a member of the genus Connochaetes  and family Bovidae. 

It was first described in 1780 by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann.

Characteristics
The black wildebeest are usually  in head-and-body length, and the typical weight is . Males are usually about  at the shoulder, while the height of the females is . 

The black wildebeest are known for its white, long, horse-like tail. It also has a dark brown to black coat and long, dark-colored hair between its forelegs and under its belly.

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Mike Turner

Michael Turner (born January 11, 1960) is an American politician. He is the U.S. representative for  since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Turner was the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 2014 to 2016.

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NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Founded in 1955, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) is the consultative interparliamentary organisation for the North Atlantic Alliance. 

Its current President is Gerald E. Connolly from the United States, elected in 2019.

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Gerry Connolly

Gerald Edward Connolly (born March 30, 1950) is an American Democratic politician. He is the United States representative from Virginia's 11th congressional district since 2009.

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Mantua, Virginia

Mantua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 7,135 at the 2010 census.

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Tom McClintock

Thomas Miller McClintock II (; born July 10, 1956) is an American politician. He is the U.S. representative for  since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party.

He was a California state assemblyman from 1982 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2000, when he became a California state senator, a job he had until 2008. 

He unsuccessfully ran for governor of California in the 2003 recall election and for lieutenant governor of California in the 2006 election.

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Bōsō Peninsula

The Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島, Bōsō-hantō) is a Peninsula that encompasses the entirety of Chiba Prefecture on Honshū island the entirety of Chiba Prefecture on Honshū island it forms the eastern edge of Tokyo Bay separating it from the Pacific Ocean.

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Martin Starr

Martin James Pflieger Schienle (born July 30, 1982), professionally known as Martin Starr, is an American actor and comedian. He is known for the television roles of Bill Haverchuck in Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Bertram Gilfoyle on the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014–2019) and as Roger Harrington in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Starr was born in Santa Monica, California. He is a Buddhist.

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Decisecond

The decisecond (ds) is a unit of time. It is part of the International System of Units. A decisecond is 10−1 second.  It is one tenth of a second.  There are ten deciseconds in one second.

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Charlie Cox

Charlie Thomas Cox (born 15 December 1982) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Matt Murdock / Daredevil in Daredevil (2015–2018), The Defenders (2017) and the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

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Francesco Forte

Francesco Forte (11 February 1929 – 1 January 2022) was an Italian politician, academic and economist. He was born in Busto Arsizio, Italy. He was a member of the Socialist Party. Forte was Minister of Finance between 1982 and 1983. He was a cabinet member during the Bettino Craxi and Amintore Fanfani governments.

He was mayor of Bormio from 1988 to 1991.

Forte was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1979 until 1987. He was later a member of the Senate from 1987 until 1994. Forte was Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1983 until 1987. He was also Minister of European Affairs between 1983 until 1986.

Forte died on 1 January 2022 in Turin, Italy at the age of 92.

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Sergei Furgal

Sergei Ivanovich Furgal ( (pronounced foor-GAHL); born 12 February 1970) is a Russian politician. He was Governor of Khabarovsk Krai from 28 September 2018 until 20 July 2020. He was arrested on 9 July 2020. 

Furgal was also a member of the State Duma from 2007 to 2018. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

On 9 July 2020, Furgal was arrested by authorities on charges of involvement in multiple murders of several businessmen in the region and nearby territories in 2004 and 2005. He could face life in prison if convicted.

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Jeffrey Combs

Jeffrey Alan Combs (born September 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for starring in horror movies such as Re-Animator. He is also known for playing many characters on Star Trek and voicing characters in the DC animated universe television franchises.

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Nicholas Guest

The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest (born May 5, 1951), known as Nicholas Guest, is an American actor. He played Headmaster Patrick James Elliot in the teen sitcom USA High. 

His brother is Christopher Guest.

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Bormio

Bormio (, , ) is a town and comune with a population of about 4,100. It is located in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in Italy.

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Franco Frattini

Franco Frattini (born 14 March 1957) is an Italian politician and former lawyer. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs twice during the Silvio Berlusconi governments between 2002 to 2004 and again from 2008 until 2011. Frattini was a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 1996 until 2004 and again from 2008 until 2013.

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1957 births
Living people
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Antonio Martino

Antonio Martino (born 22 December 1942) is an Italian politician. He was the minister of foreign affairs in 1994 and minister of defense from 2001 to 2006 during the Silvio Berlusconi governments. He is a founding member of Forza Italia.

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1942 births
Living people
Italian politicians
Italian economists
Italian educators
Forza Italia

Forza Italia (FI; translated to "Forward Italy" or "Let's Go Italy") was a centre-right political party in Italy with liberal-conservative, Christian-democratic, liberal, social-democratic and populist ideas. Its leader was Silvio Berlusconi, who was Prime Minister of Italy four times.

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Political parties in Italy
Marta Fascina

Marta Fascina (born 9 January 1990) is an Italian politician. She is a member of Forza Italia. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2018.

Fascina has been dating former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi since 2020.

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Melito di Porto Salvo

Melito di Porto Salvo (;  or ) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria.

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Edna Brown

Edna Brown (April 7, 1940 – January 1, 2022) was an American politician. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Brown was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2011 to 2018. Before, she was in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2010. Brown was born in Toledo, Ohio.

Brown died at her home in Toledo on January 1, 2022 at the age of 81.

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People from Toledo, Ohio
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Censure

A censure is a way of showing strong disapproval or harsh criticism. 

In parliamentary procedure, it is a debatable main motion that could be adopted by a majority vote. Sometimes a political party (national or state level) can vote to censure a politician.

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Thomas Graham

Thomas Graham (1914 - April 21, 1988) was provincial court judge in Toronto who had previously served as a Toronto police officer, municipal councillor, and a member of the Ontario legislature (1955-1959). He served as a member of the Ontario Police Commission from 1960 until 1980, the last two years as the commission's chairman.

Graham was born in Toronto in 1914, where he attended Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute and St. Michael's College School. After working briefly as a milkman, he joined the Toronto Police Service in 1937, in the traffic division. He took a leave of absence during World War II to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1941 to 1944. After returning to the police force, he resigned in 1947 in order to manage a hardware store and engineering supply firm. 

In 1953, he was elected to North York municipal council and served as a deputy reeve until 1955 when he was elected to the Ontario legislature as the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPP for York Centre (provincial electoral district). In the 1959 general election, he was defeated by Liberal Party of Ontario candidate Vernon Singer.  

He was appointed to the three-person Ontario Police Commission in 1960, and in 1964, Graham was made a magistrate (later a provincial court judge) after Judge Herbert Sparling retired in order to fulfill the commission's requirement that at least one of its members be a judge. He was one of the last two non-lawyers to be appointed to the provincial court. After retiring from the Ontario Police Commission in 1980, he was active as a provincial court judge at the Old City Hall (Toronto) law courts.

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Lloyd Harrison Price

Lloyd Harrison Price (April 12, 1920 - May 1, 2007) was a Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario member of the Ontario legislature from 1958 to 1959. He was the party's candidate in a by-election in Hastings East. The by-election had been scheduled for September 11, 1958 but was acclaimed on August 28, 1959 when the nomination deadline in the Conservative stronghold passed without any other candidates registering. Price owned a service station and restaurant in Actinolite, Ontario and was 38-years old at the time of his election. Several months later, on April 23, 1959, Price was challenged and defeated for the Progressive Conservative nomination for the 1959 Ontario provincial election by Clarke Rollins, a distributor for an oil company who was involved in local politics having been warden for Hastings county.

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Lloyd Fell

Lloyd F. K. Fell (1920 - 1981) was an Ontario politician, trade unionist, and educator on the subject of alcoholism.

Fell was born in Toronto and graduated from Central Technical School.

Fell worked as a diamond setter and jewelry engraver with a firm on Yonge Street and later worked for Swift Canadian Co. Ltd. as a shipper. During World War II he served in the Canadian Army, reaching the rank of sergeant.

Fell came to prominence in the 1948 Ontario general election when he was elected to the Ontario legislature as the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPP from the riding of Parkdale upsetting incumbent Conservative MPP William James Stewart, a former Mayor of Toronto and Speaker of the Ontario legislature, by a margin of 600 votes. Stewart regained his seat in the 1951 Ontario general election, defeating Fell, who ran again unsuccessfully in the 1955 Ontario general election.

Before his fist election, Fell became a trade union official working as a staff representative with the United Packinghouse Workers of America, resuming that position after his defeat. He later served as a staff representative with the United Steelworkers and was also an official with the Ontario Federation of Labour. He served as national chairman of the political action committee of the Canadian Congress of Labour.

A recovering alcoholic, he became director of the Lifeline Foundation, a joint venture of steel companies and the United Steelworkers of America designed to help employees with alcohol and drug problems.

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1920 births
1981 deaths
Trade unionists
Charles Royer

Charles T. Royer (born August 22, 1939) is an American politician. He was the 48th mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1978 to 1990.

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Lorena González

Maria Lorena González (born February 20, 1977) is an American lawyer and former politician. She was a member of the Seattle City Council from position 9. She was the first Latina elected to the council. She was a candidate for mayor of Seattle in 2021 but lost to Bruce Harrell.

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1977 births
Living people
Politicians from Seattle, Washington
US Democratic Party politicians
Woodland Park, New Jersey

Woodland Park (formerly West Paterson) is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Ravi Bhalla

Ravinder Singh Bhalla (born January 13, 1974), often simply called Ravi Bhalla, is an American civil rights lawyer and politician. He is the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey since 2018. He was a member of the city council of Hoboken from 2009 until 2017. 

On November 7, 2017, he was elected New Jersey's first Sikh mayor, as well as the first elected mayor in the United States who is a Sikh and wears a turban.

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Dastar

A dastār (, from ) which derives from dast-e-yār or "the hand of God", is a headwear item worn by Sikh people. It is an important part of Sikh culture. The word comes from Persian through Punjabi. In Persian, the word dastār can describe any kind of turban.

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Wattignies-la-Victoire

Wattignies-la-Victoire () is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 242 people lived there.

Other websites
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Communes in Nord
Norm Rice

Norman Blann Rice (born May 4, 1943) is an American Democratic politician. He was the 49th mayor of Seattle, Washington, for two terms from 1990 to 1997. Rice was the city's first African-American to be elected mayor.

In 1996, Rice ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Washington, but lost the nomination to then-King County Executive Gary Locke.

In December 2010, he was nominated as one of 30 members for a two-year appointment in the White House Council for Community Solutions, created by Executive Order of President Barack Obama.

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1943 births
Living people
Mayors of Seattle
Politicians from Denver, Colorado
US Democratic Party politicians
Watten, Nord

Watten (; , meaning "ford" as in "river-crossing") is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 2,602 people lived there.

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Communes in Nord
Frederick Charles Taylor

Frederick Charles Taylor (1907–1961) was reeve (mayor) of York, Ontario in 1961. York is now part of Toronto. 

Taylor was elected in the 1960 municipal election as a reformer. He ran against Christopher Alexander Tonks. Tonks had been conflict of interest scandal. Taylor had been trying convincing the government to create a royal commission to look into corruption in land dealings.. He  had created a motion at township council in 1956 for an inquiry but it was defeated. His own investigation into the issue found that many building permits that had been issued with the result of illegal tri-plexes (small three-level apartment buildings) being built. As a township councillor, Taylor had opposed many of the land deals that had been criticized by Judge David Sweet's royal commission into alleged corruption in York Township. Taylor was a semi-retired builder. He had been a school trustee for four years and a township councillor for three. Taylor was endorsed for the reeveship by the York Township Citizens' Committee. It was a  group that had gotten a |court order to remove Tonks as reeve. The court order was overturned on appeal.

Taylor was born in Toronto. He was educated at Harbord Collegiate Institute. Taylor worked as a salesman and contractor before opening a building company. He was elected to the school board in 1951 and then to York Township Council in 1955. He tried to become a township councillor the year before but lost. He was defeated in 1958 before running against Tonks for the reeveship in 1960. Tayloe defeating him by an almost 3 to 1 margin. After almost a year as reeve, Taylor died of a heart attack on December 15, 1961.

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1961 deaths
Politicians from Toronto
Federick Hall

Frederick Wilfred Hall (1893/1894 — August 17, 1977) was a Canadian magistrate, municipal official, and politician in Metropolitan Toronto. He served as reeve of the Township of York, Toronto from 1952 to 1956 and then as the first chairman of the Metropolitan Toronto Licensing Commission from 1956 to 1963, and president of the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Corporation from 1963 to 1966. Hall faced corruption and bribery allegations resulting both from his term as a municipal politician and his tenure as licensing commission chairman, though he was never convicted of any crime.

A merchant, Hall was first elected to York council in 1940 as councillor for Ward 1. In the 1951 election, he ran against three others for the position of reeve, including former reeve Charles McMaster, and won. Hall was a long-time proponent of the federation of Toronto-area municipalities into the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto in 1953 and was a founding member of Metropolitan Toronto council and was a member of its executive committee.

Hall resigned as reeve on August 27, 1956 in order to accept an appointment to the chairmanship of the new Metropolitan Toronto Licensing Commission. His appoinment was recommended by the provincial cabinet. In accordance with the practice at the time, he was concurrently appointed a magistrate.

In the early 1960s, Hall was accused of having accepted bribes from contractors and developers a decade earlier, as reeve, in exchange for helping them obtain building permits to build apartment buildings, contrary to zoning by-laws. After a judicial inquiry into municipal corruption, Hall and other township officials were charged with accepting bribes but were acquitted in October 1962 after a jury trial.

As the founding chairman of the Metro Licensing Commission, Hall was, amongst other things, responsible for governing the system of taxi licensing in the municipality. The system issued licenses in the forms of plates. The licenses were intended to be held by taxi drivers who were not permitted to rent them out to others. Due to lax enforcement by Hall, allegedly in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, a black market developed and it became possible for a small number of businessmen and investors to each gain ownership of hundreds of taxi plates and then rent them out to individual drivers for a fee, contrary to the letter of the by-law. It also became possible to transfer ownership of plates for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Speaking to the Toronto Star in the 1980s, one major taxi plate owner, Jack Goldberg, told the newspaper: "Fred Hall was a crook. You wanted something, you paid him off. Right there, right in his office, cash. That's the way it worked."

Hall died of a heart attack while trimming a hedge, aged 83.

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Politicians from Toronto
John Lister Mould

John Lister Mould (1921–1990) was the first mayor of the Borough of York in Metropolitan Toronto after the former York Township was merged with the village of Weston, Ontario. He was also a candidate for the position of Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.

Mould enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and was awarded with the Distinguished Flying Cross.

After the war he joined his father's construction business.

He was elected to the York school board in 1952 and then as a town councilor in 1957 before being elected reeve (the equivalent of mayor) in 1962 by a margin of 44 votes over ex-reeve Christopher Tonks. He was re-elected in 1964, again beating Tonks. When York Township was merged with Weston to become the Borough of York, Mould was elected the borough's first mayor. During his terms as reeve and then mayor, Mould was a member of the Metropolitan Toronto Council and the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission.

In 1969, Mould announced his candidacy to succeed William Allen as Metropolitan Toronto Chairman and was considered to be the leading contender until former Liberal MP Ralph Cowan publicly accused Mould of having been in a conflict of interest by supporting the passage of a by-law at York Council writing off the taxes of a company he allegedly owned. Mould sued Cowan for libel but admitted that another company he owned had accrued $800 in unpaid municipal taxes, a fact that would have disqualified him as a candidate in the 1966 election had it been known. Mould refused to withdraw from the Metro Chairman election but at the council meeting to elect the Metro Chairman, two councillors who had been going to nominate Mould supported former North York reeve Norman Goodhead instead.

Mould remained mayor of York, however faced demands for his resignation from ratepayers and members of the borough's council. Controller Philip White announced that he would run against Mould for mayor in the 1969 municipal election. The next day, on October 21, 1969, Mould announced he would not be running for re-election.

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Ross Lipsett

Ross Lipsett (1911 - January 15, 1995) was a municipal politician in Toronto in the 1950s. A lifelong resident of The Beaches,he served first as an alderman for Ward 8 (representing The Beaches), on Toronto City Council, and then on the Toronto Board of Control in 1954, when he was appointed by council to fill a vacancy on the board. However, when he ran in the December 1954 Toronto municipal election to retain his seat, he was defeated. Lipsett was first elected to city council in the January 1950 Toronto municipal election representing Ward 8, and was re-elected in December 1950 Toronto municipal election and again in 1951 Toronto municipal election in the  1952 Toronto municipal election and 1953 Toronto municipal election. In every election, Lipsett was elected senior alderman from his ward (each ward elected two aldermen). Consequently, as senior alderman for his ward, he was also a founding member of Metropolitan Toronto Council when Metropolitan Toronto was created in April 1953.

On July 7, 1954, he was appointed to the Board of Control, Toronto municipal government's executive body, to fill a vacancy created by Mayor Allan Lamport's resignation and Controller Leslie Saunders's appointment as interim mayor. In council's vote on filling the vacancy, Lipsett defeated alderman Allan Grossman and former alderman Joseph Cornish on the first ballot. The appointment was controversial as Cornish had finished in fifth place in the previous municipal election, narrowly missing winning a seat on the four-member board by 4,600 votes in the city-wide election. In the December 1954 Toronto municipal election, Cornish again ran for the board and succeeded in winning the fourth position, beating Lipsett by 10,000 votes. As an alderman and controller, Lipsett favoured increased social assistance to the elderly and the construction of emergency housing as well as the construction of the Don Valley Parkway and the proposed Scarborough Expressway and also advocated the conversion of the Toronto Islands to parkland, opposing proposals to build a bridge or tunnel connecting the islands to the mainland.

Outside of politics, Lipsett owned Ross Lipsett Tires and Automotive Supplies Wholesalers in Leaside.

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George McMurrich

George McMurrich (1843 or 1844 - September 7, 1913) was a long-time member of Toronto City Council in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

McMurrich, who in his business life ran an insurance firm, was first elected an alderman for St. George's Ward in 1891, represented Ward Three from 1892 to 1903 except for 1897 and 1899 when he was not on council. After a break of three years, he was elected to represent Ward Four and did so continuously until his death in 1913. He ran for mayor twice, in the 1897 Toronto municipal election in which he lost to incumbent mayor Robert Fleming by 1,600 votes and in 1899 Toronto municipal election when he came in third. He was appointed by council to sit on the Toronto Board of Control in 1896 and again in 1902 for one-year terms.

McMurrich was the second son of John McMurrich, a former Ontario Liberal Party member of the Ontario legislature. His older brother was William Barclay McMurrich, who served as Mayor of Toronto from 1881 to 1882. George McMurrich, himself, was a supporter of the Ontario Liberal Party but never stood for the party provincially or federally.

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Codex Hexotzingo

The Huexotzinco Code is a document from Central America that contains testimonials and images about tribute payments. The document is painted on Amatl, a paper made from bark. It was made for a trial that Hernán Cortés led in 1531 against the officials of what was called Primera Audiencia. The Primera Audiencia was about income officials had form the Province of  Huexotzinco. The process was ultimately successful and two thirds of the excessive levies were reimbursed. The pictorial section of the document contains the earliest known image of the Virgin Mary from Mexico. Huexotzinco, modern Huejotzingo, is a city in the state of Puebla, southeast of Mexico City . It is about  northwest of Puebla. In 2022, about 60.000 people lived there.

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Male submission

Some men like to be submissive, in BDSM, and other sexual activities. This is known as male submission, or malesub. The woman who takes the dominant role, is usually called dominatrix. Such activity is usually called femdom.

A 2015 study indicates that 46.6% of men who are active in BDSM expressed a preference for a submissive role, 24% consider themselves to be switches (they can take both roles) and 29.5% prefer the dominant role.

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Frederick McMahon

Frederick Joseph McMahon (1914 - March 6, 1988) was a public official in Ontario. He was a lawyer, best known for defending the bank robber Edwin Alonzo Boyd, reeve of North York, Ontario, and then a provincial judge. As a lawyer, McMahon was well-known for having defended bank robbers Edwin Alonzo Boyd and his brother Norman in their 1952 trials.

McMahon was born in Toronto. He studied law at Osgoode Hall before joining the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. After being demobilized he began his law practice in the Toronto suburb of North York. He moved to the township of North York, in 1945 and begun his law practice.

McMahon was first elected to North York township council in January 1950. In 1952, he ran against reeve Nelson Boylen, defeating him in an upset victory by more than 1,500 votes after a campaign in which he promised to bring industry to the largely rural municipality. He also promised to expand the municipal government to reflect North York's rapid population growth since the war.

McMahon, fearing that North York was facing bankruptcy, supported the province's proposal to federate the city of Toronto with 12 surrounding townships and villages to create Metropolitan Toronto in 1953.

McMahon was re-elected in 1953, 1954, and 1955.

As a member of Metropolitan Toronto's executive committee, McMahon supported the fluoridation of water.

McMahon attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1955 provincial election running as the Liberal candidate in York Centre, losing by 1,100 votes to Conservative Thomas Graham.

McMahon did not stand for re-election in 1956.

In 1969, the provincial government appointed McMahon to the bench as a provincial court judge.

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Norman Goodhead

Norman Charles Goodhead (August 26, 1917 – October 3, 2009) was a Canadian municipal politician in Metropolitan Toronto. He was reeve of North York township, a municipality in the Metro Toronto federation, from 1959 to 1964 and was a candidate to be Reeve of the Township of North York, Ontario from 1959 to 1964 and was twice a leading candidate to be Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, a position elected by the Metropolitan Toronto Council.

He was born and raised in the Cabbagetown, Toronto neighbourhood before moving to the suburb of North York as an adult. He was elected to the North York Township Council in 1956 and then as its reeve (the equivalent of mayor) in 1958, while the suburb was experiencing a boom in development as its population grew.

Goodhead campaigned in favour of increasing North York's representation on Metro Council and for the creation of a Board of Control to better manage the suburb.

In office, he crusaded against illegal basement apartments and the subdivision of single family homes into multi-tenant units and utilized the township's resources to evict up to 1,000 tenants of these properties. Albert Campbell, reeve of the neighbouring suburb of Scarborough, criticized Goodhead's actions: "imagine talking about sending township officials into private homes and padlocking them, then ordering workmen to rip out plumbing and the like."

He also criticized the construction of the proposed lakeshore expressway in Toronto, a major project of Metro, saying, "the Gardiner Expressway will someday be a monument to stupidity."

In 1962, he ran for the position of Metro Chairman to succeed Fred Gardiner but lost to City of Toronto Controller William R. Allen, winning 10 votes to Allen's 14.

In 1964, Goodhead ran for a fourth term as reeve but was defeated by James Ditson Service, who accused Goodhead of authoritarianism and ran against him as a reformer. He also accused Goodhead of being in a conflict of interest as North York's garbage disposal contract was with a private business operated by Goodhead.

Goodhead ran for Metro Chairman a second time in 1969, but he was no longer a sitting Metro Councillor and was considered the frontrunner, and led on the first ballot before being defeated on the third ballot by Scarborough mayor Albert Campbell, 21–11.

He was a mentor to Paul Godfrey, whose mother managed Goodhead's election campaigns, and who would succeed Campbell as Metro Chairman in 1975. When Goodhead died, Godfrey eulogized him as "one of the original people that got North York out of the short-pants era to becoming a full-fledged municipality."

Goodhead was a successful businessman outside of politics, and sold his waste disposal firm to a US company for $12.5 million in 1972. He also owned two landfill sites, one of which was the largest in Canada.

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Evangelos Zappas

Evangelis or Evangelos Zappas (; ; 23 August 1800 – 19 June 1865) was a Greek patriot, philanthropist and businessman who established the modern Olympic Games.

Biography

Early life
Evangelis Zappas was born to a Greek family on August 23, 1800 in the village of Labovo in the Ottoman Empire. His parents were Vasileios and Sotira Zappas. Zappas received no education during his youth. At 13, he left his village and worked as a mercenary in the Ottoman militia of Ali Pasha. Zappas was involved in the Filiki Eteria, a Greek patriotic organization, and served in the Greek War of Independence when it started in 1821. He claimed to have been wounded five times during the war. Zappas later moved to Wallachia in 1831 and made a fortune in land and agriculture. In the 1850s, Zappas became one of the wealthiest businessmen in Eastern Europe. The value of his whole fortune was calculated at six million gold drachmas.

Revival of the Olympic Games

Zappas was a nationalist inspired to revive the Olympic Games by Panagiotis Soutsos, a Greek poet. He sent a letter in 1856 to King Otto of Greece offering to pay to restore the Olympics. The first modern Olympic Games were held on November 15, 1859 in Athens, Greece. And just like in the ancient Olympics, the athletes competed in running, discus throwing, javelin throwing, wrestling, jumping, and pole-climbing. Zappas died on June 19, 1865 with no children. His money was used for developing athletic buildings in Athens, as well as for continuing the Olympic Games. He left instructions for the building of the Zappeion Exhibition and Conference Center named in both his honour and in the honour of his cousin, Konstantinos Zappas.

Legacy
Evangelos Zappas made several donations to Greek schools, libraries and scholarships. He also financed the Romanian Academy where he has a statue there today. Zappas also funded a Romanian dictionary, a newspaper and books in the Albanian language, and research on the history of the Romanian people.

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University of Florida (Gainesville) - Professor David C. Young Lifetime Achievement Award (includes long list of useful source references concerning the revival of the Olympic Games in modern times)
Testaments of Evangelis and Konstantinos Zappas. (Greek)

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