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Michał Żebrowski

Michał Jan Żebrowski (born 17 June 1972) is a Polish actor and dramatist. He owns the theater 6 Piętro.

Żebrowski was born in Warsaw, Poland.

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1972 births
Living people
Polish movie directors
Polish screenwriters
Polish movie actors
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Actors from Warsaw
Lorain, Ohio

Lorain  is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie. It is about 30 miles west of Cleveland. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 64,097, making it Ohio's tenth largest city, the third largest in Greater Cleveland, and the largest in Lorain County by population.

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Cities in Ohio
Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017

A total solar eclipse happened on August 21, 2017. It could be seen in the United States. A partial eclipse could be seen from northern Canada to northern South America, and in northwestern Europe, northwestern Africa, and the most eastern part of Asia.

August 2017 events
Eclipses
East Lancs EL2000

The East Lancs EL2000 is single-decker bus body built by East Lancashire Coachbuilders from 1989 to 1996 .

It could be built on the Volvo B10M, Volvo B6, Dennis Falcon, Dennis Dart, Dennis Lance, Scania K93 and Scania N113 chassis

It's had various facelifts through the years

Gallery

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 List of buses

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Buses
Jay Thomas

Jon Thomas Terrell (July 12, 1948 – August 24, 2017), professionally known as Jay Thomas, was an American actor, comedian, and radio talk show host. 

His well known television work included his role as Remo DaVinci on Mork & Mindy (1979–81), the recurring role of Eddie LeBec on Cheers (1987–89), the lead character Jack Stein on Love & War (1992–95), and a repeat guest role as Jerry Gold on Murphy Brown. 

Thomas won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990 and 1991 for playing Gold.

In 1997, he starred in the television movie Killing Mr. Griffin, based on the novel of the same name. In movie, he co-starred in Mr Holland's Opus and portrayed The Easter Bunny in The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3. He was also an annual guest on The Late Show with David Letterman during the Christmas season. 

Beginning in 2005, he hosted The Jay Thomas Show on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and was on every Friday afternoon on Howard 101.

Thomas died in Santa Barbara, California of throat cancer on August 24, 2017 at the age of 69.

References

Other websites
 
 "The Jay Thomas Show" website
 TV.com entry 
 Ten Questions with Jay Thomas

Emmy Award winning actors
1948 births
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Petorca Province

The Petorca Province () is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso (V). Its capital is the city of La Ligua.

Geography
The Petorca province is the largest province in the Valparaíso region with an area of .

The Petorca province is the most northern of the provinces of the region and is on the coast along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered to the north by the Coquimbo region, to the east by the San Felipe de Aconcagua province, to the south by the Quillota province, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

Population
 (last national census), there were 70,610 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The largest city of the province is La Ligua, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 17,048 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, Petorca is a second-level administrative division, consisting of six communes (comunas). The city of La Ligua serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Related pages
 Provinces of Chile

References

Other websites
 Territorial division of Chile 
 Gobierno Regional de Valparaíso  Official website 
 Province of Petorca website 

Provinces of Chile
Jack Rosenthal (journalist)

Jacob "Jack" Rosenthal (30 June 1935 – 23 August 2017) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, editor and executive. He was born in Tel Aviv during Mandatory Palestine. He was best known for his work at The New York Times. In 1982, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing on national politics and social policy.

Rosenthal was the president of The New York Times Company Foundation from 2000 to 2009. Thereafter, he was a senior fellow at The Atlantic Philanthropies from 2010 to 2014.

Rosenthal died on 23 August 2017 in Manhattan, New York of complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 82.

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Alan Boswell

Alan Henry Boswell (8 August 1943 – 24 August 2017) was an English football goalkeeper who made 479 league and cup appearances in a 12-year career in the English Football League. He was born in Walsall, England.

He began his career at Walsall in 1961, before moving on to Shrewsbury Town in 1963. He spent five years at the club, before winning a move to First Division club Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1968. The next year he moved on to Bolton Wanderers, before signing with Port Vale in July 1972. He left Vale Park in May 1974, and later turned out for Oswestry Town.

Boswell died on 24 August 2017 at the age of 74.

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2017 deaths
English footballers
Alan Sayers

Alan John Sayers (6 December 1915 – 19 August 2017) was a New Zealand journalist, photographer and athlete. He was born Onehunga, New Zealand. 

Sayers represented The New Zealand Herald prior to World War II. When the war was over he was invited to join the Auckland Star where he was the first reporter in New Zealand to receive a personal by-line. In 1953 he was an official journalist on the tour of Queen Elizabeth 11 to the Pacific Islands and New Zealand.

Sayers died in Auckland on 19 August 2017 at the age of 101.

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Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing

Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing, born Anne-Aymone Marie Josèphe Christiane Sauvage de Brantès on 10 April 1933 in Paris), is the widow of 20th President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

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Living people
First Ladies of France
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Bernadette Chirac

Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chirac (born Bernadette Thérèse Marie Chodron de Courcel; 18 May 1933) is a French politician and the widow of the former President Jacques Chirac.

Post-First Lady roles
Since 2001, Bernadette has been a leading member of the "Pièces Jaunes" (Yellow Coins), a charity that aids children in French hospitals by collecting small change. On 3 September 2007, she became the president of the "Fondation Claude-Pompidou" (Claude Pompidou Foundation), following the death of its founder, Claude Pompidou.

She also helped her husband's being elected in 1995 and is herself an elected official in Corrèze, the couple's home département.

Honours
  Knight of the Legion of Honour ()

Bibliography
 2001: Bernadette Chirac by Bertrand Meyer-Stabley (Perrin Edition) 
 2006: La Fille de Cœur by Anh Đào Traxel (Flammarion Editions) (a biography of the Chirac family by their foster daughter).
 2001: Conversation by Bernadette Chirac, with Patrick de Carolis, (Plon Editions)

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1933 births
Living people
Politicians from Paris
First Ladies of France
Brigitte Macron

Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron (; née Trogneux, , previously Auzière, ; born 13 April 1953) is the wife and former high school teacher of Emmanuel Macron, the President of the French Republic. 

In 2015, to help support her husband in his political career, she ended her career as a teacher of literature at the elite lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague in Paris.

Macron ran for the city council of Truchtersheim in Bas-Rhin in 1989, but lost. It would be the only time she would run for office.

In 2017, Brigitte Macron played an active role in her husband's presidential campaign; a top adviser was quoted as saying that "her presence is essential for him". Emmanuel Macron stated that upon his winning of the French presidency, his wife "will have the role that she always had with me, she will not be hidden".

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Living people
First Ladies of France
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Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx

Gladys Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx (12 January 1916 – 6 June 2018) was an English poet. She was the widow of Harold Wilson, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid- to late-1960s and mid-1970s. Her birth name was Gladys Mary Baldwin.

In 1970 her volume of poetry, Selected Poems, was published and in 1976 Wilson was one of three judges of the Man Booker Prize, the other judges being Walter Allen and Francis King.

In 2013, aged 97, she attended the funeral of Margaret Thatcher.

In 2016, she became the first spouse of a British prime minister to turn 100.

Wilson died on 6 June 2018, of a stroke, in London aged 102. She is the longest-lived spouse of a British prime minister in history.

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1916 births
2018 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in England
Deaths from stroke
English centenarians
English poets
Writers from Norfolk
Spouses of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Clarissa Eden

Anne Clarissa Eden, Dowager Countess of Avon (née Spencer-Churchill; 28 June 1920 – 15 November 2021) was the widow of Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (1897–1977), who was British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957. 

She married Eden in 1952, becoming Lady Eden in 1954 when he was made a Knight of the Garter, and then becoming Countess of Avon in 1961 on her husband's elevation to the peerage. She is also the niece of the prime minister Winston Churchill.

Her memoir, sub-titled From Churchill to Eden, was published in 2007 under the name of Clarissa Eden.

Eden turned 100 in June 2020. She died on 15 November 2021, aged 101.

References

Other websites
 Clarissa Eden – a memoir: photographic images

1920 births
2021 deaths
English centenarians
Spouses of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
Writers from London
Double Dutchess

Double Dutchess is the second studio album, by American singer-songwriter Fergie. It was released on September 22, 2017. The album will be Fergie's first to be released on her own imprint Dutchess Music, a partnership with BMG Rights Management, and first since her debut album, The Dutchess (2006).

Singles
The album's fourth single, "You Already Know", featuring Nicki Minaj, was made available for purchase on August 25, 2017. It will be released onto Mainstream and Rhythmic radio on September 12, 2017.

Track listing

Sample credits
"Hungry" contains parts from "Dawn of the Iconoclast", written by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry and performed by Dead Can Dance.
"Like It Ain't Nuttin" contains parts from "Top Billin'", written by Kirk Robinson and Roy Hammond and performed by Audio Two.
"You Already Know" contains parts from "Think (About It)", written by James Brown and performed by Lyn Collins.

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2017 albums
Hip hop albums
Reggae albums
R&B albums
Neunkirchen, Saarland

Neunkirchen is a town-municipality in Saarland, Germany. It is the capital (Kreisstadt) of Neunkirchen District.

It had about 46,000 people in 2016.

Neunkirchen lies at an altitude of 252 m, on the Blies river, and about 20 km northeast of Saarbrücken.

It is the biggest settlement of Saarland after Saarbrücken.

Well-known people 
 Erich Honecker (1912-1994), East German leader
 Stefan Kuntz (b. 1962), footballer

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Towns in Saarland
Sør-Varanger

Sør-Varanger (Northern Sami: Máttá-Várjjat, Kven: Etelä-Varenki, Finnish: Etelä-Varanki, Russian: Сёр-Вара́нгер) is a municipality in the county of Troms og Finnmark, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Other settlements in the municipality include the villages of Bjørnevatn, Bugøynes, Elvenes, Grense Jakobselv, Hesseng, Jakobsnes, Neiden, and Sandnes. Located west of the Norway–Russia border, Sør-Varanger is the only Norwegian municipality that shares a land border with Russia, with the only legal border crossing at Storskog.

History
For some time until 1826, Sør-Varanger was a district that (at the same time) belonged to Russia and Norway; there was an Eastern Sami (østsamisk) population; the population was under Russia's jurisdiction.

A part of Norway, it became in 1826.

Norway's government had a fear that the county could be lost to Finland or Russia; Finland was under Russian domination (or rule) during 1809 - 1918. Part of the fear was that Finnish-speaking Kven people would help Finland/Russia, to take Northern areas, away from [the government of] Norway.
(Cwenas is the Old English name for a group of people of Finnish heritage; this group immigrated to North Norway - from Finland and Sweden.)

During the 19th century, the area was colonized by Sami people from Norway; people from Finland; and Norwegians.

The mining industry in Kirkenes, and at Bjørnevatn, was started in 1906; the majority of the county's population then, were Norwegian.

The people that were Finnish, mostly [lived] at three settlements: Bugøynes in the West, Pasvik in the East, and at Neiden (between Bugøynes and Pasvik); those who spoke Finnish, were in majority (in these 3 settlements).

Gallery

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Leirpollen (concentration camp)

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History of Russia
Municipalities of Norway
Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey was a 2017 tropical cyclone, the 8th named storm, 3rd hurricane, and the 1st major hurricane of the hyperactive 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. Harvey was also the 3rd consecutive hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season—after Franklin and Gert. The storm went through the Caribbean and Mexico. It threatened southern Texas, particularly the Corpus Christi and Victoria areas. The storm struck the state as a Category 4 hurricane on August 25.

The storm was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in twelve years earlier.

The storm first developed on August 17, 2017, from a tropical wave to the east of the Lesser Antilles. It faded into an open tropical wave on August 19. But on August 24, Harvey redeveloped into a tropical storm, and then strengthened into a hurricane. On August 25, Harvey rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of at least 130 mph, and it made landfall in Texas as a low-end Category 4 hurricane. On August 26, Harvey stalled and rapidly weakened into a tropical storm in just a few hours after making landfall, resulting of dumping heavy rainfall and caused major and catastrophic flooding in parts of southeastern Texas especially the Houston metropolitan area.

Harvey was the strongest hurricane to hit Texas since Hurricane Carla in 1961.

Damage from Harvey was set around $125 billion. This and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 are both tied as the costliest tropical cyclones on record in the Atlantic and the United States history. Harvey is the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States, especially in Texas with rainfall accumulations of over 60 inches.

The storm killed just over 100 people in Texas alone.

The name Harvey was retired in April 2018 by the World Meteorological Organization and was replaced with Harold for the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.

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2017 in the United States
August 2017 events
Hurricanes in Texas
Year 2038 problem

The Year 2038 problem could affect computers that store time as the number of seconds since 1st January 1970 at 00:00 UTC, using a 32-bit number.

The biggest number you can store this way is 2,147,483,647 seconds after 1 January 1970.  This means 19th January 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC.  The problem begins one second after this time.  The computer will add 1 to this 32-bit number, and the computer will set the value to negative 2,147,483,648 seconds.  This means 13th December 1901 at 20:45:52 UTC.  Depending on how the computer has been programmed, the computer could behave incorrectly or even stop running.

A solution to this problem is to store the time in a 64-bit value, which will work for billions of years. Many computers already store the time in a 64-bit number.  Computers that store time in a 32-bit number will need to be reprogrammed before 2038.

References

Computing
Charlie Robertson (mayor)

Charles H. Robertson (April 12, 1934 – August 24, 2017) was an American Democratic politician. He was mayor of York, Pennsylvania from 1994 to January 2002. In May 2001, Robertson was charged for a murder during the York race riots in July 1969, but was acquitted in October 2002.

Robertson died of cancer on August 24, 2017 in York, Pennsylvania at the age of 83.

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1934 births
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US Democratic Party politicians
Kai Linnilä

Kai Linnilä (23 July 1942 – 24 August 2017) was a Finnish editor and writer. He was born in Oulu, Finland. He is the husband of the novelist Kaari Utrio. He takes responsibility for the importation and marketing of cigars and pipes in the Oy Amanita Ltd, the Utrios' family-owned company.

His best known works are Isoäidin kermakakku (The Grandmother's Cream Cake), Oman äidin lihapullat (The Own Mother's Meat Balls), Punainen tupa ja erämaa. Rikkaan arjen allakka (The Red Cottage and the Wilds. The Almanac of Rich Everyday Life) (with Seppo Saraspää), Wanhan ajan joulu (Christmas of the Old Time), Olaus Magnus: Suomalaiset pohjoisten kansojen historiassa (Finnish People in the History of Nordic Folks) (edited) and Linnut (The Birds).

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 Oy Amania Ltd 

1942 births
2017 deaths
Finnish writers
Engelbert Jarek

Engelbert Jarek (7 June 1935 – 23 August 2017) was a Polish footballer. He was born in Rokittnitz, Hindenburg O.S., German Empire . Jarek competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was known for managing and playing for Odra Opole.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
Polish footballers
Eduardo Angeloz

Eduardo César Angeloz (October 18, 1931 – August 23, 2017) was an Argentine politician. He was a presidential candidate and Governor of Córdoba from December 11, 1983 to December 11, 1995. He was born in Río Tercero, Córdoba.

Angeloz died on August 23, 2017 in Cordoba, Argentina from complications of a fall at the age of 85.

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Accidental deaths from falls
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Sergio Zaniboni

Sergio Zaniboni (4 August 1937 – 18 August 2017) was an Italian comics artist and writer. He was especially known as the artist of numerous stories for Diabolik. He was born in Turin, Italy. His son Paolo Zaniboni is also a comic book artist.

From 1972 he also he collaborates with Il Giornalino, for which he produced Il Campione (a series set in the boxing world, written by Alberto Ongaro) and the police series Tenente Marlo, with stories by Claudio Nizzi.

References

Other websites
Page at lambiek.com 
Short biography at fumetti.org 

1937 births
2017 deaths
Italian comics artists
Italian writers
People from Turin
Arnold Koller

Arnold Koller (born 29 August 1933) is a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1986-1999).

He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 10 December 1986. He was member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland from the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. He handed over office on 30 April 1999.

Koller was Chairman of the Board of the Forum of Federations from 2006 to 2010.

During his time in office he held the following departments:

 Federal Military Department (1987–1988)
 Federal Department of Justice and Police (1989)
 Federal Military Department (1989)
 Federal Department of Justice and Police (1990–1999)

He was President of the Confederation twice in 1990 and 1997.

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Living people
Fürstenau, Switzerland

Fürstenau () is a municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

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 Official Website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Cities in Switzerland
Grono, Switzerland

Grono is a municipality of the district Moesa in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Leggia and Verdabbio merged into the municipality of Grono.

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Municipalities of Graubünden
Guémar

Guémar is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Independence, Ohio

Independence is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,133 at the 2010 Census.

Cities in Ohio
Lawrence County, Ohio

Lawrence County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 62,450 people lived there. The county seat is Ironton.

1810s establishments in Ohio
1817 establishments in the United States
Ohio counties
Balmaseda

Balmaseda is a municipality in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in Spain.

Municipalities in the Basque Country
Fairlawn, Ohio

Fairlawn is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb of Akron. The population was 7,437 at the 2010 census.

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Cities in Ohio
Lightning Rod (roller coaster)

Lightning Rod is a wooden roller coaster located at Dollywood near Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. It is manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction.

Lightning Rod is the world's first and only launched wooden roller coaster.

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Wooden roller coasters
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Buildings and structures in Tennessee
SheiKra

SheiKra is a roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. It is a Dive Coaster which means riders experience a moment of free fall. 

SheiKra was the first Dive Coaster. It is floorless and features a 90 degree drop.

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Roller coasters in the United States
Tampa, Florida
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2005 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Florida
Lin Jiamei

Lin Jiamei (; born 1924) is a Chinese civil servant. She is the widow of former Chinese president Li Xiannian. She was the First Lady of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988.

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Living people
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Politicians
Wang Yeping

Wang Yeping (, born February 12, 1928), is the wife of Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (de facto paramount leader) and President of the People's Republic of China (de jure head of state), and is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu.

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Living people
Chinese people
Quillota Province

The Quillota Province () is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso (V). Its capital is the city of Quillota.

Geography
The Quillota province is the second smallest province in the Valparaíso region with an area of ; only the Isla de Pascua province is smaller.

The Quillota province is bordered to the north by the Petorca province, to the east by the San Felipe de Aconcagua province and the Santiago Metropolitan Region, and to the south and west by the Valparaíso province.

Population
 (last national census), there were 175,917 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The largest city of the province is Quillota, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 62,231 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, Quillota is a second-level administrative division, consisting of five communes (comunas). The city of Quillota serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

The comunas Limache (number 14 in the map) and Olmué (number 16 in the map) were transferred to the Marga Marga province in 2010.

Related pages
 Provinces of Chile

References

Other websites
 Territorial division of Chile 
 Gobierno Regional de Valparaíso  Official website 
 Province of Petorca website 

Provinces of Chile
Barneveld, Wisconsin

Barneveld is a village in Iowa County, Wisconsin. There is a public library called Barneveld Public Library.

1984 F5 tornado 
On June 8, 1984, the city was hit by a deadly F5 tornado. After tornadoes broke out across the Midwest, including tornadoes that killed four people in Missouri and Iowa, a tornado watch was issued at 11:00 p.m. CT, but most residents had went to sleep. A line of thunderstorms entered Wisconsin from Iowa/Illinois border shortly after midnight. A sharp bolt of lightning followed by a loud clap of thunder cut power to the city, awakening residents. Nine people died, and two hundred were injured.

Villages in Wisconsin
Iowa County, Wisconsin
Jeannie Rousseau

Jeannie Rousseau (Viscomtesse de Clarens) (April 1, 1919 – August 23, 2017)  was an Allied intelligence agent in occupied France during World War II. She was a member of Georges Lamarque's "Druids" network. Rousseau was born in Saint-Brieuc, France.

Codenamed AMNIARIX, she evaded Gestapo agents while gathering crucial information on the Germans' emerging rocket weapons programs from behind enemy lines.  Her intelligence reports, forwarded to London, led directly to the British raid on Peenemünde and to delays and disruptions in the V-1 and V-2 programs, saving many thousands of lives in the West. 

Rousseau was captured twice and spent time in three concentration camps.

Rousseau died on 23 August 2017 in Montaigu, France, aged 98.

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2017 deaths
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World War II people
Spies
Sardinians

Sardinians (Sardinian: Sardos or Sardus; ) are the people native to the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy.

Sardinians are noted for the distinct Nuragic civilization in ancient times. They are also known for the indigenous language many still speak, Sardinian. Sardinian is quite separate from Italian and said to be one of the languages, if not the language, keeping most archaic features of ancient Latin. Sardinians have long been active to fight for the official recognition of autonomy in Italy and the protection of their cultural and environmental heritage.

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People from Sardinia
Ethnic groups in Europe
Sardinian language

Sardinian (Sardu, Limba or Lingua sarda) is a Romance language. It is native to the island of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island and autonomous region of Italy.

Sardinian is often seen as the closest language to Latin. It has had to fight for decades to get basic recognition by the Italian government.

Romance languages
Sardinia
Eure (river)

The Eure is a river in northwestern France. It is a left tributary of the Seine. The Eure and Eure-et-Loir departments are named after this river.

Its main tributaries are the Avre and the Iton.

Rivers of France
Normandy
Centre-Val de Loire
Horst Sindermann

Horst Sindermann (September 5, 1915 in Dresden - April 20, 1990 in East Berlin) was a German communist politician.

Sindermann was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) till 1946, and afterwards a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

During the war he was imprisoned in several concentration camps.

He was Prime Minister of East Germany from 1973 to 1976, and President of the Volkskammer from 1976 to 1989.

References 
 www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de

1915 births
1990 deaths
German atheists
German prisoners
Holocaust survivors
Members of the Volkskammer
People from Dresden
Politicians from Saxony
Politicians of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Prime Ministers of East Germany
Abdul Kalam Vision India Party

Abdul Kalam Vision India Party is an Indian political party that was founded on 28 February 2016. The party was founded in the name of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, by V. Ponraj, who was the scientific adviser to Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. However, the family of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam expressed their upset over the party using the Kalam's name and portrait as their symbols.

Preparation to the declaration of this political party, a two-day convention was held by United Vision India 2020, inviting V. Ponraj to lead a political party. The convention was conducted on 26 February 2016 without the presence of V. Ponraj and in the presence of V. Ponraj on 27 February 2016.This convention was conducted before the house of V. Ponraj at Thonugal village. The party has been started to achieve the vision 2020 of People's President - Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.

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Political parties in Tamil Nadu
2016 establishments in India
Dravida Kazhagam

Dravida Kazhagam (or Dravidar Kazhagam, "Dravidian Organization") was one of the first Dravidian parties in India. The party was founded by Periyar. Its original goals were to eradicate the ills of the existing caste system including untouchability and to obtain a "Dravida Nadu" (Dravidian nation) from the Madras Presidency i.e., a separate nation from India for Dravidian people alone.

Dravidar Kazhagam gave birth to many other political parties including Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Dravidar Kazhagam is now headed by K.Veeramani.

Foundation and Ideology
The roots of the Dravidar Kazhagam lie in the Self-Respect Movement and Justice party, founded by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. Periyar formed the Self-Respect Movement in 1925, breaking in the process from the Indian National Congress party, of which he had been a member until then. The Justice Party, formed in 1916, also claimed to promote similar interests. The two entities merged in 1938 under Periyar's leadership. The name was changed to Dravidar Kazhagam in 1944.

Its central theme was to remove the degraded status imposed on Dravidians, and to denote this, the party adopted a black flag with a red circle inside it, the black signifying their degradation and the red denoting the movement for upliftment.It opposed Brahminical social, political and ritual dominance, and aimed to form a separate country of Dravida Nadu, to include either all of South India or the predominantly Tamil-speaking regions.

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1938 establishments in Asia
1930s establishments in India
Mika Brzezinski

Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski (; born May 2, 1967) is an American news presenter and author who currently co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show Morning Joe. Her father was National Secuity Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

In early 2017, Brzezinski became engaged to her co-host Joe Scarborough. They were married in 2018.

References

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Morning Joe  on MSNBC

1967 births
Living people
American activists
American television presenters
Television personalities from New York City
Journalists from New York City
Edward Rowny

Edward Leon Rowny (April 3, 1917 – December 17, 2017) was a United States Army Lieutenant General of Polish origin. He was a commanding officer in World War II and Korea, a military advisor to five U.S. presidents and a negotiator on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

Rowny died in Washington, D.C. on December 17, 2017 of cardiomyopathy at the age of 100.

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Other websites
Interview about the SALT I negotiations for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

1917 births
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Deaths from cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Washington, D.C.
American centenarians
American generals
American military personnel of the Korean War
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
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People from Baltimore
Adam Wójcik

Adam Wójcik (20 April 1970 – 26 August 2017) was a Polish professional basketball player. He was known as one of the all-time greats in Polish basketball. He was the all-time leading scorer of the Polish PLK with 10,087 points scored. He was born in Oława, Poland. He was known for playing for Prokom Sopot from 2004 through 2007.

Wójcik died of leukemia on 26 August 2017 in Wrocław, Poland at the age of 47.

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LegaBasket profile
Eurobasket profile

1970 births
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Deaths from leukemia
Cancer deaths in Poland
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Basketball players
Peter Weck

Peter Weck (born 12 August 1930) is an Austrian movie director and actor. He was born in Vienna, Austria. 

Weck was known for his movie roles in Herzensfeinde (2001; he directed it) and Die Rosenkönigin (2007). From 1983 through 1986, he starred as the television role of Werner Schuman in the German sitcom Ich heirate eine Familie. Weck was known for directing Help, I Love Twins (1969). 

In 2004, he was awarded the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria (Grosses Silbernes Ehrenzeichen).

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1930 births
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Austrian movie actors
Austrian television actors
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Grzegorz Miecugow

Grzegorz Miecugow (22 November 1955 – 26 August 2017) was a Polish television newscaster and journalist. He was born in Kraków, Poland. He was known for presenting the news programs Wiadomości and Fakty TVN. He was also a frequent columnist for Szkło Kontaktowe.

Miecugow died of cancer in Warsaw, Poland on 26 August 2017 at the age of 61.

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2017 deaths
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Viola Harris

Viola Harris (July 5, 1926 – August 23, 2017) was an American actress. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She was known for roles in television, theater and movies from the 1950s to the 2010s. 

Harris has appeared in a number of movies including The Other Guys, Choke, Deconstructing Harry directed by Woody Allen and Sex and the City 2.

In 2010, Harris starred in the short movie, The Secret Friend, directed by Flavio Alves. Harris received positive reviews for her role in the movie.

Harris was married to actor Robert H. Harris until his death in 1981.

Harris died on August 23, 2017 at her home in New York City at age 91.

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Grüsch

Grüsch is a municipality in the district Davos in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2011 the former municipalities of Fanas and Valzeina.

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 Official website of Grüsch 
 

Municipalities of Graubünden
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Athens County, Ohio

Athens County is a county of Ohio in the United States. In 2010, 64,757 people lived there. The county seat is Athens.

1800s establishments in Ohio
1805 establishments in the United States
Ohio counties
James Young Simpson

James Young Simpson (born June 7, 1811 in Scotland) was a qualified doctor by the age of 21 but changed to work as a clerk, due to his traumatic reaction to witnessing mastectomies during his medical training. He sat in several lecture courses as a student, but the anatomical lecture by a Doctor Knox made him choose the career path of midwifery and obstetrics. He became a qualified professor of midwifery at the age of 29, in 1840.

Due to his traumatizing observations of surgery as a student, he decided to experiment with anesthetics. He tried using ether and chloroform, but refused to use ether due to its bad odor. He discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform, using it in obstetrics, to make childbirth easier and safer. He also invented a new design for the forceps, to make them safer to use. They are now known as "Simpsons' forceps". He was one of the earliest doctors to use midwifes in hospitals. 

Chloroform was a good idea, as it put people to sleep, making surgical procedures safer, pain-free, and better for the individuals. It was recognized as an achievement when Queen Victoria herself received chloroform to give birth to her fourth child.

British physicians
History of medicine
1811 births
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Libertarian National Committee

The Libertarian National Committee (L.N.C. or LNC) is a group of people who coordinate the activities of the U.S. Libertarian party in all fifty states. The L.N.C. headquarters is in the nation's capital, Washington, DC. It also has state Libertarian party headquarters in state capitals.

In 2018, Chairperson is Nicholas Sarwark of Arizona and the Vice Chair is Arvin Vohra.

The Libertarian National Committee is a separate entity from the "Libertarian National Congressional Committee", a Federal Elections Commission registered entity, now doing business as the "Libertarian National Campaign Committee."

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Republican National Committee

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United States Libertarian Party
Guevenatten

Guevenatten is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
David Bergland

David Peter Bergland (June 4, 1935 – June 3, 2019) was an American politician. He was the United States Libertarian Party's nominee at the 1983 Libertarian National Convention for President of the United States in the 1984 presidential election.

Bergland died of prostate cancer on June 3, 2019, one day before his 84th birthday.

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 Downloadable audio interview  with Free Talk Live
  (David Bergland)
  (Dave Bergland)

1935 births
2019 deaths
1984 United States presidential candidates
Deaths from prostate cancer
Politicians from Iowa
US Libertarian Party politicians
Nivigne et Suran

Nivigne et Suran is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of east France. It started on January 1, 2017 and has the former communes of Chavannes-sur-Suran and Germagnat in it.

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Communes in Ain
Nicholas Sarwark

Nicholas Sarwark (born August 27, 1979) is an American businessman and politician.

Sarwark is the chairman of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), the executive body of the Libertarian Party (LP) of the United States. Prior to his election to that position in 2014, he served on several of the LP's national committees, as well as chair of the Libertarian Party of Maryland, and as vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado.

Sarwark ran for Mayor of Phoenix in the 2018 mayoral election.

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1979 births
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Yingluck Shinawatra

Yingluck Shinawatra (, , ; born 21 June 1967), nicknamed Pu (, , meaning "crab"), is a Thai businesswoman and politician.

Shinawatra is a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the 28th Prime Minister of Thailand following the 2011 general election. Yingluck was Thailand's first female Prime Minister and its youngest in over 60 years. Also, she holds the distinction as the world's first female of Chinese descent to have had led the government of a UN member state. 

Shinawatra was removed from office on 7 May 2014 by a Constitutional Court decision that found her guilty on a charge of abuse of power.

On 2 September 2017, media said that "A search team has been set up to locate her and bring her before the Supreme Court, which issued a warrant for her arrest, to hear its ruling on Sept 27. The ex-premier faces a possible 10-year jail term if convicted of criminal negligence related to her government’s rice-pledging scheme".

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Living people
Yingluck Shinawatra
Yingluck Shinawatra
Englewood, Ohio

Englewood is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. It is a northern suburb of Dayton. The population was 13,465 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Leukbach

The Leukbach is a river of Saarland, Germany. It is 15 m long. The drainage basin is 87.9 km².

Rivers of Germany
Geography of Saarland
Look What You Made Me Do

"Look What You Made Me Do" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.  It is the first single from her sixth studio album, Reputation.  The song was released on August 25, 2017, along with the pre-order of the album.  The song uses the rhythm of the 1991 song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred.  Because of this, the songwriters of that song are credited.  This song is the first single released by Swift in almost a year, since "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" with British singer Zayn Malik in 2016.

In the US, the song became Swift's fifth chart-topper when it jumped from number 77 to number one in its second week on the Billboard Hot 100.  The song entered at the top of the charts in Canada, Australia, and the UK, becoming Swift's first UK number-one hit.  It was also number one in Spain and New Zealand.

The RIAA certified the song triple-platinum for shipments of three million copies across the US.

Music video 
Swift worked again with director Joseph Kahn on the video for "Look What You Made Me Do".  Throughout it, there are scenes of Swift throughout different eras of her career, such as the glasses-and-T-shirt look in the video for "You Belong with Me", holding a Moonman and microphone (referring to Kanye West interrupting her speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards), and her popular silver glitter guitar.  A scene of Swift in a bathtub full of diamonds was controversial because some critics thought it referred to the 2016 Paris robbery of West's wife, Kim Kardashian, in which diamonds were stolen.

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Taylor Swift
2017 songs
Reputation (Taylor Swift album)

Reputation is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.  It is her first studio album in nearly three years, after 1989 in 2014.  The first single, "Look What You Made Me Do", was released on August 25, 2017, along with the pre-order of Reputation.

Target Corporation released the album along with two versions of a magazine: a Volume 1 bundle and a Volume 2 bundle.

Songs 
"Look What You Made Me Do" was released as the lead single on August 25, 2017. It reached number one in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Spain. 
The first promotional single, "…Ready for It?", was released on September 8, 2017 and entered the top five of the charts in the US, Spain, and Australia. It was later released as the second single from the album.
The second promotional single, "Gorgeous", was released on October 20, 2017, reaching the top ten in Australia and Canada and the top fifteen in the UK and US.
"Call It What You Want" was released as the third promotional single on November 3, 2017, a week before the album's release.

Sales 
The album sold over 925,000 copies in the United States alone in the first weekend of its release. It is set to be the best-selling album released in 2017. It also sold 700,000 copies in its first day.  In total, the album sold over 1,238,000 copies in its first week in the United States alone. It sold 81,000 copies in its first week in Canada.

Charts 
Reputation entered the Billboard 200 album chart at number one.  It entered at number one in Australia, Canada, and the UK.

Tour 
Swift announced a stadium tour in support of the album.  It is set to begin on May 8, 2018, at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

Track listing

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2017 albums
Pop albums
Electropop albums
Synth-pop
Murder of Adam Walsh

Adam John Walsh was a 6-year-old boy from Hollywood, Florida, United States. He was the son of John Walsh. On July 27, 1981, he was with his mother at the Hollywood Mall watching two older boys play video games. He was kidnapped. His head was found two weeks later on August 10, 1981. Ottis Toole was convicted of his murder. This led to John creating a new television series called America's Most Wanted.

1981 crimes in the United States
1980s in Florida
1980s murders in the United States
July events
Kidnapped American people
Murder in Florida
Amsterdam (city), New York

Amsterdam is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 18,620. The name is influenced from the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

The city of Amsterdam is surrounded on the north, east, and west sides by the town of Amsterdam. The city developed on both sides of the Mohawk River, with the majority located on the north bank. The Port Jackson area on the south side is also part of the city.

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Dan Rattiner

Dan Rattiner (born August 15, 1939) is an American journalist and newspaper publisher.

In 1965, Rattiner co-founded the Manhattan-based underground newspaper The East Village Other with Walter Bowart, Allan Katzman, and John Wilcock. He also founded The Block Island Times in 1970. Rattiner hosted a weekly radio show, The Hamptons Report, on WQXR for six years during the 1990s.

On April 24, 2015, Rattiner announced his plans to run for President of the United States as an Independent in the 2020 presidential elections.

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1939 births
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American cartoonists
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Izak Parviz Nazarian

Izak Parviz Nazarian (February 24, 1929 – August 23, 2017) was a Iranian-born American billionaire businessman, investor and philanthropist. He was a managing partner of Omninet Capital, an investment company. He was born in a Tehran ghetto. He was Jewish.

In 2003, Nazarian founded the Citizens Empowerment Center in Israel (CECI), a non-partisan organization which promotes election reform in Israel.

Education 
He had no college degree. However, he later on received an honory degree from Tel Aviv University for his philantrophic efforts for the institution.

Affiliations 
Nazarian founded Magbit Foundation Los Angeles which helps students struggling to finish college.

Death 
Nazarian died on August 23, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 88.

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Tobe Hooper

Willard Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American movie director, screenwriter, and producer. Hooper best known for his work in the horror movie genre; his most recognized movie include The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist. 

Stuart Heritage of The Guardian described The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as "one of the most influential films ever made".

Hooper’s first novel, Midnight Movie, was published on Three Rivers Press in 2011.

Hooper died in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles on August 26, 2017 at the age of 74, and is survived by one son.

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2017 deaths
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (franchise)
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John A. Allison IV

John A. Allison IV (born August 14, 1948) is an American businessman and the former CEO and president of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.. Allison held a number of leadership positions in BB&T Corp. from 1987 until 2010 when he retired. He now serves as a director at Moelis & Company.

References

Other websites
 Allison's bio at the Cato Institute
 Arnold Kling, review of The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure, Reason Papers vol. 34, no. 2 (October 2012), pp. 229–33
 
 

1948 births
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Libertarians
American political writers
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Businesspeople from Charlotte, North Carolina
Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina
Park and ride

Park and ride facilities are parking lots with public transport connections. They allow people to leave their vehicles and travel on a bus, train or carpool for the remainder of the journey. Park and rides are usually in the suburbs of metropolitan areas or on the outer edges of large cities.

Park and ride are shown as "P+R" on road signs in the UK.

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Park and ride