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Korean Standard Time

Korean Standard Time (KST) is a time zone that is used in South Korea. It is 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00) and is the same as Japan Standard Time, Yakutsk Time, and Indonesian Eastern Standard Time.  North Korea observed Pyongyang Time (PYT) (UTC+08:30) starting on August 15, 2015, which was 30 minutes behind KST, until May 5, 2018, when it switched back to KST. South Korea does not observe daylight saving time.

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Georgia Time

Georgia Time (GET) is a time zone that is used in the country of Georgia. It is 4 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+04:00). Georgia first observed daylight saving time in 1981 as part of the Soviet Union but it was abolished in 2004. Georgia does not observe daylight saving time.

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You Make It Feel Like Christmas

You Make It Feel Like Christmas is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani. The album is Stefani's first full-length Christmas-themed album, was released on October 6, 2017, by Interscope Records. You Make It Feel Like Christmas features twelve tracks, six original songs written by Stefani and six cover versions of Christmas standards. The album was produced by Eric Valentine and executively produced by Stefani and busbee.

Critical reception 

You Make It Feel Like Christmas received generally positive reviews from music critics.

Track listing 
All songs produced by busbee and Eric Valentine.

Release history

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Armando Hart

Armando Hart Dávalos (June 13, 1930 – November 26, 2017) was a Cuban politician and a Communist leader. He was born in Havana, Cuba. Before the Cuban Revolution which ousted President Fulgencio Batista, Hart studied to be a lawyer at the University of Havana. While there, he became politically active and would soon join Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in their fight against Batista.

When Castro came into power, Hart served as Minister of Education (1959–1976) and as Minister of Culture (1976–1997).

Hart died in Havana of respiratory failure on November 26, 2017 at the age of 87.

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Harry Pregerson

Harry Pregerson (October 13, 1923 – November 25, 2017) was an American judge. He was born in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pregerson served as Senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was appointed to the Ninth Circuit in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and became senior status on December 11, 2015.  

Before to his elevation to the circuit court he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson.

Pregerson died in Los Angeles on November 25, 2017 of respiratory failure at the age of 94.

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Profile at Appellate Counsellor Website 

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Andrzej Wincenty Górski

Andrzej Wincenty Górski (15 August 1920 – 22 November 2017) was a Polish academic and chemist. He was born in Warsaw. He was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology. He was the author of a large number of research articles on the systematics of chemical objects, as well as academic textbooks: "General Chemistry" and the two-volume textbook "Chemistry".

Górski died in Warsaw on 22 November 2017 of complications from a stroke at the age of 97.

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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor and cabaret singer. He was born in Paris. He was perhaps best known for his songs, including "Louise", "Mimi", "Valentine", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and for his movies, including The Love Parade, The Big Pond, Love Me Tonight and Gigi.

During World War I, Chevalier was a prisoner of war of Germany for two years from 1914 through 1916.

In 1930, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in The Love Parade (1929) and The Big Pond (1930), which made his first big American hit, "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight".

In 1958, Chevalier received an Honorary Academy Award for his works in the movie industry.

In 1970, he made his final work to the movie industry where he sang the title song of the Disney movie The Aristocats.

Chevalier died on January 1, 1972 in Paris of kidney failure at the age of 83.

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Roddy Maude-Roxby

Roderick Anderson "Roddy" Maude-Roxby (2 April 1930 – ) is an English actor and comedian. He has appeared in numerous many, such as Walt Disney's The Aristocats, where he appeared as Edgar Balthazar; Unconditional Love; and Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart, playing Thompson.

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Marni Nixon

Margaret Nixon "Marni" McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American singer and actress in movie musicals. She was best known for dubbing the singing voices of the leading actresses in movies, including The King and I, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady.

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 Official website
 
 
 Extensive Nixon biography and photos
 Interview with Marni Nixon by Bruce Duffie, June 10, 1987
 Nixon singing with Leonard Bernstein on television in 1961

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Jacques Hamel

Jacques Hamel (30 November 1930 – 26 July 2016) was a French Catholic priest. He was born in Darnétal, Seine-Maritime, France. He worked in the parish of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.

On 26 July 2016, Hamel was murdered during the 2016 Normandy church attack by two Muslim men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant while he celebrated Mass in his church. His throat was slit during the attack in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France. He was 85 years old.

Hamel was called a martyr by some international press shortly after his death. Calls to make him a saint started soon after his death. The canonization cause was officially opened at diocesan level in April 2017, after Pope Francis had waived the otherwise mandatory five-year waiting period for the opening of such causes.

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Arthur Dion Hanna

Arthur Dion "A.D." Hanna (7 March 1928 – 3 August 2021) was a Bahamian politician. He served as Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2006 to 2011.

In 1984, Hanna resigned as Deputy Prime Minister in protest of Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling.

He retired on 14 April 2011 and was replaced by Sir Arthur Foulkes.

Hanna died in Nassau on 3 August 2021, aged 93.

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Miloš Radulović

Miloš Radulović (22 February 1929 – 15 October 2017) is a Montenegrin politician. He was born in Spuž. He was an acting president in 1993. 

He served as the Dean of Titograd Faculty of Economics from 1974 until 1978, as the rector of Titograd University from 1986 until 1990. Later, he served as a President of the Chamber of Republics of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia (1992–1996) and as an ambassador to the United Kingdom (1996–1999).

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Michael J. Williams (politician)

Michael Jay Williams (born 16 October 1929) is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and businessman.

Williams was appointed to the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago by A. N. R. Robinson following the National Alliance for Reconstruction victory in the 1986 General Elections. Williams served as President of the Senate between 1986 and 1990 and President of Trinidad and Tobago from 13 March 1987 to 19 March 1987 following Ellis Clarke.

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Maria Schneider (politician)

Maria Schneider (born 9 February 1923) is a former German politician. She was born in Merka (Bautzen), Saxony, Germany. She was a member of the SED.

Schneider was a member of the East German State Council between 1967 and 1971.

Schneider had already served as a "community representative" from 1949 till 1953, and in 1957 she became a local councilor for the Bautzen district.   In 1967 she moved into national politics, sitting as a representative of the  Trades Union Federation (FDGB) in the National Legislature (Volkskammer), where she continued to sit till 1976.   

Between 1971 and 1976 she was also a member of the assembly's Committee for Industry, Construction and Transport.

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Krastyu Trichkov

Krastyu Sergeyev Trichkov (; born 12 April 1923) is a retired Bulgarian politician. He is a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He served as the first First Deputy Chairmen of the State Council. He was born in Belitsa, Bulgaria.

From 1958 to 1962 a candidate member, and since 1962 member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,where it remained until 1990. From 1966 to 1981 a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Between 1971 and 1976 he was first deputy chairman of the State Council, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Committee on State and People's Control (1976 to 1981).

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Alfonso Lovo Cordero

Alfonso Lovo Cordero (June 11, 1927 – May 10, 2018) was a Nicaraguan politician. He served in Liberal-Conservative Junta from May 1, 1972 until December 1, 1974. He was born in Danli, Honduras.

Lovo Cordero was a member of the Nationalist Liberal Party (NLP). 

On December 23, 1972, Lovo Cordero exercised power after the NLP as Chief Director of the National Guard. On March 1, 1973, President of the National Guard Agüero resigned and Edmundo Paguaga Irías was appointed in his place; they handed power to him on December 1, 1974. Lovo along with doctor Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez became senators of the National Congress.

Lovo Cordero retired from politics and from public life in 2013. He died on May 10, 2018 in the United States at the age of 90.

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Alfred Miodowicz

Alfred Miodowicz (June 28, 1929 – September 17, 2021) was a Polish politician and trade union activist. He was born in Poznań, Poland. 

Miodowicz was a member of communist Polish United Workers Party. He held posts in the State National Council, Central Committee and Political Bureau. He was also the leader of the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions and took part in the Polish Round Table Agreement.

Miodowicz died on September 17, 2021 at the age of 92.

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Ravan A. G. Farhâdi

Professor Abdul Ghafoor Ravan Farhâdi (born 23 August 1929) is an Afghan academic and diplomat. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He served as Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 2006. He was known for being a major supporter of the United States in Afghanistan and thought the United States was good to help the country of Afghanistan.

He studied at Lycée Esteqlal in Paris. His paper was on "le Persan parlé en Afghanistan", later translated to English and Russian. Farhâdi speaks French, English and Persian fluently.

In 1964, he returned to Kabul to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1964 till 1968, he served as Director-General for Political Affairs at the ministry and then he was Deputy Foreign Minister for 5 years. Between 1965 and 1971 he also was Secretary of the Council of Ministers of the Afghan Government. He later served as Afghan Ambassador to France.

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Tehreek-e-Labaik

Tehreek-e-Labaik is a religious political party of Pakistan. Head of the party is Khadim Hussain Rizvi. He is a Muslim scholar. When Nawaz Sharif was de-seated, new elections were held to choose  a new member for National Assembly of Pakistan, this party took part in elections and got third position. When Government of Pakistan changed Khatm-e-Nabuwat law in Elections Bill 2017, this party went onto protests which bacame violent with time in November 2017. They demanded resignation of then Pakistan's law minister Zahid Hamid. Zahid Hamid resigned admitting his wrong.

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Pakistan
Rosario Green

María del Rosario Green Macías (31 March 1941 – 25 November 2017) was a Mexican economist, diplomat and politician. She was born in Mexico City. Green served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the Ernesto Zedillo cabinet from 1998 through 2000. She was also the Secretary General of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 2005 to 2006.

In her later years, Green served as Senator for the 2006–2012 period. During the Vicente Fox administration, she served as Ambassador to Argentina.

Green died on 25 November 2017 in Mexico City at the age of 76.

References

Other websites
 Profile on the site of the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
 Mexican Embassy in Argentina 
Biography  at the OECD website.
The Kozmetsky Center for Excellence In Global Finance 
St. Edward's University in Austin, TX

1941 births
2017 deaths
Mexican educators
Mexican economists
Ambassadors of Mexico
Politicians from Mexico City
Frederick Forsyth

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth  (born 25 August 1938) is a British author and former journalist. He is best known for his thriller novels The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List. He has sold more than 70 million books in total. 

Forsyth was born in Ashford, Kent. He said in 2016 that he worked as an MI6 spy for over twenty years.

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The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a children's book by Scottish author Kenneth Grahame. It was published in 1908. It is about four animals (a mole, rat, badger and toad) throughout their adventures in the English countryside.

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 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame at Project Gutenberg

1908 books
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Beuningen

Beuningen () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. It is near the city of Nijmegen. The river Waal is  to the north. The other towns in the municipality are: Ewijk, Weurt, and Winssen.

There is a restored windmill in the town, De Haag.

Municipalities of Gelderland
Settlements in Gelderland
Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish children's writer. He is best known for his book The Wind in the Willows (1908). The Mr. Toad story from the movie The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) is based off The Wind in the Willows. He also wrote the short story The Reluctant Dragon (1898), which was made into a movie in 1941. Until 1908, Grahame was a banker.

Grahame was born in Edinburgh. He married Elspeth Thomson in 1899. Their son, Alastair, was born in 1900 and had health issues during his life. Alastair took his own life in 1920.

Grahame died on 6 July 1932 in Pangbourne, Berkshire, at the age of 73.

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 Kenneth Grahame at Project Gutenberg

1859 births
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Bankers
British children's writers
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Stevens MRT station

Stevens MRT Station (DT10/TE11) is an underground interchange station on the Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system. 
This station is one of four to have faregates on the same level as the platforms. The others are Bishan, Expo and Changi Airport stations.

Due to space constraints, the two platforms at the station are seperated from each other and have their own faregates. A ten minute grace period was put in place by the Land Transport Authority in case passengers tap in at the wrong faregates.

The Stevens station is located at the junction of Bukit Timah road and Stevens road, where the station takes its name from.

History
This station opened on 27 December 2015, along with the rest of the Downtown line stage 2. The Thomson East Coast line section will open in 2021, as part of stage 3 of the line.

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Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) stations
2015 establishments in Asia
2010s establishments in Singapore
Kalu Thapa Kshatri

Maharaja Kalu Thapa Kshatri () or simply, Kalu Thapa was the first King of Takam State. The Thapa dynasty of Takam Kingdom (1246-1545 B.S.) (also called 4000 Parvat State) continued for 300 years only to be defeated by Dimba Bam Malla to form bigger Parbat State. Yashodhara Thapa, King of Jyamrukot (Jamarik), is the male progenitor of the Bhimsen Thapa family and leading Bada Kaji Amar Singh Thapa.

Fictitious Account
In the Thapa genealogy, he is also accredited to have ruled over Doti from Kāndāmalika. The genealogy claims that he was son of fictitious Kshatriya named Vatsaraja () born from Ashwamedha Yagya (holy fire) and fictitious Vasundhara Devi, daughter of fictitious Kanyakubji Rajput chief Radha Madhav Rajput. The genealogy claims Vatsaraja to be giant sized and thus achieving title of Abhaya Narsingh Maharaja and his son Kalu Thapa achieving title of Abhaya Narsingh Kumar. The genealogy traces the lineage of all Bagale Thapas to a male progenitor (Mūlapuruṣa) King Kalu Thapa Kshatri, who first ascended to the throne at Kāndāmālikā on Saka Era 1111.

Children
He had four sons who descended the four divisions of his state;
Purnakhar Thapa (Punyakar) - succeeded Pulachour Kingdom
Tarapati Thapa (Tarasimha) - succeeded Takam Kingdom
Biru Thapa - succeeded Rukumkot Kingdom
Dharmaraj Thapa (Yashodhar/Jashodhar) - succeeded Jyamrukot (Jamarik) Kingdom

Later, all these states were conquered by Samalvanshi Thakuri King Dimba Bam Malla.

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Sir Bani Yas

Sir Bani Yas is a natural island located 170 km southwest of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. 

It is a popular tourist destination. The island is home to Arabia's largest wildlife reserve. Spread over 87 km square, the reserve was established in 1977 by Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. It also houses a bird sanctuary.

Geography of the United Arab Emirates
Islands of Asia
Libyan Desert

The Libyan Desert forms the northern and eastern part of the Sahara Desert. It describes that part of the Sahara that lies within the present-day state of Libya; it also historically describes the desert to the south of Ancient Libya, a territory which lay to the east of the present-day state. The Libyan Desert is one of the driest, harshest and most remote parts of the Sahara, the world's largest hot desert. This extended desert country is barren, dry and rainless.

Other websites 

 The Libyan Desert at fjexpeditions.com
 Libyan Desert at African volunteer.net; retrieved 6 November 2016 
 Tea in the Sahara: a road trip though the Libyan desert Sara Wheeler, The Guardian, 4 September 2013; retrieved 6 November 2016
 The complete text and photos of the discoveries of Ahmed Pasha Hassanein in the Libyan Desert, National Geographic Magazine, September 1924

Deserts
Lenno

Lenno is a small village on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. It is located about  north of Milan and about  northeast of Como. Lenno is on a small bay of Lake Como called the Golfo di Venere (Bay of Venus).

Ancient Romans started the village. Julius Ceasar invited 500 Greeks to come live in the village. The Greeks planted olive trees all around Lenno. The historian Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) and the geographer Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) wrote that Pliny the Younger had a villa in Lenno. It was called  the Comedy villa.

Today, the village is popular with tourists. It has mansions, hotels, restaurants, and a small harbor. In 2014, Lenno was joined with three other nearby villages (Mezzegra, Ossuccio and Tremezzo) to make a single municipality called Comune di Tremezzina.

Twin towns
Lenno was twinned with:
  Lemnos, Greece

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Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius (also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a Flemish cartographer (mapmaker) and geographer. He is generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: "Theatre of the Earth's Globe"). One of the founders and the notable representatives of the Netherlandish school of cartography in its golden age (the 16th and 17th centuries), he is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.

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1527 births
1598 deaths
Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician and physicist who made many important contributions to mathematical analysis and mathematical physics, including elasticity. Importantly, he created complex analysis, which studies complex functions and their properties. Cauchy graduated the École Polytechnique. Cauchy did not like mathematicians making assumptions, and he particularly did not like the way that earlier mathematicians, such as Euler and Lagrange, assumed that properties of finite expansions, meaning that we can count the number of terms, also worked for infinite series. Cauchy was able to give examples of where this did not work, and called the assumptions that the earlier mathematicians made, the generality of algebra. More theorems have been named after Cauchy than any other mathematician in history.

Relating pages
Cauchy distribution 
Cauchy's integral formula 
Cauchy sequence

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Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a South African-British author. He mostly writes historical fiction books set in Southern Africa. His best known books include When the Lion Feeds, The Burning Shore, River God and The Seventh Scroll. He had three major book sets, The Courtney Novels, The Ballantyne Novels and the Ancient Egypt series. He wrote forty books, beginning in 1964. He had sold over 120 million copies in total.

Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). He was educated in South Africa. He was married four times: the first two marriages ended in divorce, his third wife died of brain cancer in 1999, and married his last wife in 2000. He had four children. He lived in London and Cape Town, South Africa.

Smith died on 13 November 2021 at his home in Cape Town at the age of 88.

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Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak (August  1, 1924 – September 29, 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist of Jewish descent. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber".

Charpak was born in Dabrovica,  Poland, now Ukraine. He moved to France when he was seven. During the war he was a member of the French Resistance and was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp. He graduated École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris.

He died in Paris, France, at the age of 86.

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Arthrostylidium merostachyoides

Arthrostylidium merostachyoides  is a species of Arthrostylidium bamboo in the grass family.

Distribution 
Anthrostylidium merostachyoides is endemic to Costa Rica in Central America.

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Arthrostylidium multispicatum

Arthrostylidium multispicatum is a species of Arthrostylidium bamboo in the grass family.

Distribution 
Arthrostylidium multispicatum is native to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

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Bamboo species
Arthrostylidium pubescens

Arthrostylidium pubescens is a species of Arthrostylidium bamboo in the grass family.

Distribution 
Arthrostylidium pubescens is native to Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

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Ogdoad (Egyptian)

In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad are a group of eight deities (divine beings) worshipped in Hermopolis. The gods of the Ogdoad were mostly seen as humans with the heads of animals, or just depicted as snakes and frogs. They were arranged in four male-female pairs, with the males associated with frogs, and the females with snakes. Their story is part of the Egyptian creation myth.

The Egyptians believed that before the world was formed, there was a watery mass of dark, directionless chaos. In this chaos lived the Ogdoad of Khmunu (Hermopolis). These were four frog gods and four snake goddesses of chaos. Together they represented balance in infinity.

Their names were Nun and Naunet (water), Amun and Amaunet (invisibility), Heh and Hauhet (infinity) and Kek and Kauket (darkness).

The chaos existed without the light, and thus Kek and Kauket came to represent this darkness. They also symbolized obscurity, the kind of obscurity that went with darkness, and night.

The Ogdoad were the original great gods of Iunu (On, Heliopolis) where they were thought to have helped with creation, then died and retired to the land of the dead where they continued to make the Nile River flow and the sun rise every day.

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Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. He is best known for the Cosmere universe, where most of his fantasy books are set; and for finishing Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time.

Sanderson was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. He studied at Brigham Young University, where he received degrees in English literature and creative writing. In 2008, Sanderson started a podcast with author Dan Wells and cartoonist Howard Tayler called Writing Excuses with topics about creating and producing genre writing and webcomics.

In 2016, the American media company DMG Entertainment bought the movie rights to Sanderson's entire Cosmere universe.

Life and career
Brandon Sanderson was born on December 19, 1975, in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a teenager, he loved reading high fantasy novels and tried writing his own stories. After graduating from high school in 1994, he enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU) as a biochemistry major. He took a two-year leave of absence from 1995 to 1997 to work as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was assigned to serve in South Korea.

After completing his missionary work, Sanderson returned to BYU and changed his major to English literature. While an undergraduate, Sanderson took a job as a night desk clerk at a local hotel in Provo, Utah, because it allowed him to write while working. After earning a B.A. in English, Sanderson entered BYU's creative writing graduate program and received an M.F.A. degree in 2005. During his graduate work at BYU, Sanderson was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine published by the university.

Sanderson wrote regularly throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies, and by 2003 he had written twelve novels, all unpublished. While in the middle of a graduate program at BYU, Tor Books editor Moshe Feder contacted him to say that he wanted to get one of his books. Sanderson had sent the manuscript of his sixth novel, Elantris, a year and a half earlier. Elantris was published by Tor Books on April 21, 2005, to generally positive reviews. This was followed in 2006 by Mistborn: The Final Empire, the first book in his Mistborn fantasy trilogy.

In 2006, Sanderson married Emily Bushman. She was also an English major and teacher. She became his business manager. They have three children and live in American Fork, Utah.

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Henry Emeleus

Charles Henry Emeleus (4 September 1930 – 11 November 2017) was a British geologist. He was born in Belfast, England. He specialized in the Tertiary volcanic rocks of Britain and Greenland. Emeleus was a highly capable petrologist. The mineral emeleusite, a colourless sodium silicate, is named after Emeleus. In 2016, he received the Prestwich Medal.

Emeleus died on 11 November 2017 in Durham, England at the age of 87.

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Julio Oscar Mechoso

Julio Oscar Mechoso (May 31, 1955 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor. He was born in Miami, Florida. He was known of his roles in Grindhouse, Bad Boys, Ken Park and Little Miss Sunshine. His television roles included Miami Vice, Coach, Seinfeld, and Greetings from Tucson.

Mechoso died of a heart attack in his home on November 25, 2017 in Burbank, California at the age of 62.

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Loïc Bouvard

Loïc Bouvard (20 January 1929 – 27 November 2017) was a French politician. He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire. Bouvard was a member of the National Assembly of France.  He represents the Morbihan department, and was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Bouvard died on 27 November 2017 at the age of 88.

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2017 deaths
French politicians
Bill Harris

Bill Harris (September 1, 1934 – November 27, 2017) was an American Republican politician and businessman. He was born in Fork Mountain, Tennessee. Harris served in the Ohio General Assembly, notably as President of the Ohio Senate from 2005 to 2010. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2000 until his retirement in 2010.

Harris died on November 27, 2017 in Ashland, Ohio at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
 Project Vote Smart - Bill M. Harris (OH)

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2017 deaths
American military personnel of the Korean War
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
Politicians from Tennessee
Politicians from Ohio
Businesspeople from Tennessee
Businesspeople from Ohio
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Military people from Ohio
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Smashburger

Smashburger is an American fast-casual burger restaurant chain with more than 370 restaurants serving in 37 states and 9 countries. The company was founded in Denver, Colorado in 2007 by Tom Ryan, Rick Schaden, and private equity firm Consumer Capital Partners.

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2007 establishments in the United States
Surfactant

A surfactant is a chemical that lowers the surface tension of a liquid. Less surface tension lets the liquid soak into things better, and can also let bubbles form easier. A liquid that bubbles and soaks into things is better at cleaning, so surfactants are used in soap.

Uses
Every year, 15 million tons of surfactants are made. Half of them are used in soap; the rest are used in many different ways including making toothpaste and concrete.

One popular surfactant is sodium laurel sulfate, also called sodium dodecyl sulfate or SDS. SDS is a cheap, commonly used surfactant that is used in almost every toothpaste and many shampoos, body washes, and shaving creams.

Safety and environment
Small amounts of most common surfactants are usually not harmful to people or animals, although if they get into eyes they can be painful.  Very large amounts of surfactants can kill animals, but the amount varies depending on the surfactant.

Larger amounts of surfactants can be a problem in the environment, where they let the soil hold more water than usual, but this problem usually goes away in a few days.

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Chemistry
Atatürk Olympic Stadium

The Atatürk Olympic Stadium () is a sports stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. It has a seating capacity of 76,092. This makes it the biggest stadium in the country. Building began on the stadium in 1997. It was completed in 2002. It mostly plays host to football matches. It is the home stadium of the Turkey national football team, and formerly to Galatasaray, Beşiktaş and İstanbul Başakşehir.

The Atatürk Olympic Stadium was named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. On 25 May 2005, the stadium held the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final between Milan and Liverpool.

The stadium will hold the 2023 UEFA Champions League Final.

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Football stadiums in Turkey
Istanbul
2002 establishments
Bellagio

Bellagio is a small town on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy. The southern part of Lake Como is split into two branches by a peninsula. The peninsula is shaped like a triangle. Bellagio is on the northern tip of the peninsula. In 2017 about 3,700 people lived in Bellagio. The Ancient Romans called the town Bilacus.

Twin towns 
Bellagio is twinned with:

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Towns in Italy
Settlements in Lombardy
Emily Davison

Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was born in Blackheath in southeast London on. She studied at Royal Holloway College and at Oxford University, although women were not allowed to take degrees at that time.
 
In 1906, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded by Emmeline Pankhurst. Three years later she gave up her job as a teacher and went to work full-time for the suffragettes. She was frequently arrested for causing a public disturbance and burning post boxes. She spent a number of short periods in jail.
 
In 1909, she was sentenced to a month's hard labour in Strangeways Prison in Manchester after throwing rocks at the carriage of chancellor David Lloyd George. She attempted to starve herself, and resisted force-feeding. A prison guard, angered by Davison's blockading herself in her cell, forced a hose into the room and nearly filled it with water.  She sued the wardens of Strangeways, and was awarded 40 shillings.
 
By 1911, Davison was becoming increasingly militant. On 4 June 1913, she ran out in front of the king's horse as it was taking part in the Epsom Derby. Her purpose was unclear, but she was trampled on and died on 8 June from her injuries.

1872 births
1913 deaths
People from London
Impalement

Impalement was a torturing and execution method which had the victim sit on a spiked pole.

Torture
Capital punishment
Packet switching

In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping data that is transmitted over a digital network into packets.

Composed of a header and a payload:
A header is used by networking hardware to direct packets to its destination,
A payload is the thing extracted after it has reached its destination (thanks to the header)

The workstation creates a packet, and stamps it with the destination's IP Address and forwards it to a router, the router's job is to find out how to get the packet to the desired destination.
Breaking communication down into packets allows the same information to be shared amongst many users in a network.
A type of small network where packets (small units of data) are routed through a network based on the destination address contained in each packet.

“A data packet is a unit of data made into a single package that travels along a given network path. Data packets are used in Internet Protocol (IP) transmissions for data that navigates the Web, and in other kinds of networks.”

Computer networking
Tunley

Tunley is a small one-road village in Camerton, Somerset, near Bath. It has its own football club - Tunley Athletic - who play in the Somerset League Division 2 East. There are a few establishments in the village, including a recreation centre, an inn and a pet care store. The road that runs through Tunley is the B3115.

Lower Tunley Farm is the main producer of milk for the local community. The milk is sold in the local Tunley stores. The houses in Tunley are a post-war age and are made of the traditional Bath stone. Tunley is a typically quiet village and there is never any trouble caused by the locals. The people of the village are friendly with one another and welcome any visitors to the village.

Places of historical interest 
Tunley Camp is an Iron Age hill fort about  north-east from Camerton. The hill fort includes the slight earthwork remains of the hill fort which is now nearly ploughed down. It is a scheduled monument.

Villages in Somerset
Per Zennstrom

Per Zennström is an award winning fashion photographer, and author based in Berlin. Zennström received the Hasselblad Masters Award in March 2002. Zennström is known for his short film White Noise White Shores which was part of the official screening at the Miami Fashion Film Festival 2014.

Career
Zennström dropped-out of his photography studies in University of Gothenburg, and spent 2 years assisting Swedish photographer Björn Keller. Later Zennström moved on to became an assistant to influential fashion photographer Steven Meisel in New York. Per Zennström moved to Paris in 1992 and started to work for fashion clients such as Dior, Guy Laroche, Nina Ricci and Galeries Lafayette. Per Zennström has published four books New Work, Berlin+Stockholm, Walking The Dog and Venus Murex.

According to Deutsche Welle, "Zennström enjoys experimenting with the latest techniques."

Notable exhibitions
2014 Official Selection at Miami Fashion Film Festival 
2013 Gothenburg International Biennale for Contemporary Art  
2012 No Limits – Multi media project in collaboration with Hahnemühle Fine Art and fashion designer Michael Sontag 
2012 “Born For Fame” Video & Sculpture Installation for fashion designer Marcell von Berlin 
2007 “Broken Glass” presented by Stockholm Fashion Week

Publications
NewWork   - 2013 Blurb -  
Berlin+Stockholm   - 2014 Blurb - 
WalkingTheDog - 2017 Blurb -  
Venus Murex - 2017 Blurb -

Personal life
Zennström's father was the author and journalist Per-Olof Zennström. His sister is the author and translator Maria Zennström.

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Living people
Swedish photographers
Kyle McCulloch

Kyle McCulloch (born November 11, 1962) is a Canadian television writer, producer and voice actor. He is best known for writing for the cartoon shows South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants. He also created and voiced the title character of the web series Mr. Wong (2000–2001).

McCulloch is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He now lives in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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1962 births
Living people
Actors from Winnipeg
Canadian television producers
Canadian television writers
Canadian voice actors
Dubrovytsia

Dubrovytsia (, , , ) is a town in Rivne Oblast, Ukraine. It is administrative center of Dubrovytsia Raion, and is the site of the now ruined Jewish shtetl of Dombrovitza. In 2001, 9,644 people lived there.

Cities in Ukraine
Tomb Raider (2013 video game)

Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game. It was developed by Crystal Dynamics. It was published by Square Enix. It is the tenth game in the Tomb Raider series. The game is single-player but also has multiplayer support. It was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in January 2014 for OS X, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and on 27 April 2016 for Linux. A sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider, was released in 2015.

The game tells the origins of the protagonist Lara Croft on her first adventure, searching for Yamatai on a mysterious island. She must learn to survive as she fights bandits, learns the secrets of the island and rescues allies.

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2013 video games
Adventure games
MacOS games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
Xbox One games
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (; born Rachel Meghan Markle; August 4, 1981) is an American member of the British Royal Family through her marriage to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and former actress, model and humanitarian. Starting in 2011, she played Rachel Zane in the legal drama series Suits. She had the role of Amy Jessup in the Fox science fiction-drama Fringe.

Early life
Markle was born at West Park Hospital in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California. She grew up in the View Park-Windsor Hills and Hollywood neighborhoods of Los Angeles County. Her father is of a Dutch and Irish background and her mother is African American. She was married to producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2013.

Marriage to Prince Harry
Markle began dating Prince Harry of Wales in June 2016. They became engaged in November 2017. In preparation for the wedding, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, baptised Markle and confirmed her into the Church of England on March 6, 2018. The couple married at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018. After their wedding, they became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. 

In October 2018, it was announced that the Duchess was pregnant with the couple's first child. The baby, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on May 6, 2019. In November 2020, the Duchess revealed in an opinion piece for The New York Times that she suffered a miscarriage in July of that year.

On 4 June 2021, the couple's daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor was born in Santa Barbara, California.

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1981 births
Living people
Actors from Los Angeles
American movie actors
American television actors
Humanitarians
Models from Los Angeles
Cristina Stamate

Cristina Stamate (8 September 1946 – 27 November 2017) was a Romanian actress. She was born in Bucharest. She was best known for her stage performances. She spent most of her career at the Teatrul de Revistă Constantin Tănase in Bucharest. She appeared in two movies, Grăbește-te încet (1981) and Secretul lui Bachus (1984).

Stamate died on 27 November 2017 in Bucharest after having a stroke. She was 71. On the day of her death, she learned of the death of her friend, actress Stela Popescu.

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1946 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Actors from Bucharest
Romanian movie actors
Romanian stage actors
Romanian television actors
Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani (, born Rahavard Farahani; 10 July 1983) is an Iranian-French actress, musician and singer. She is best known for her roles in the movies Body of Lies (2008), The Patience Stone (2012), Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Paterson (2016), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and The Upside (2019). In 2016, she portrayed the title character in the stage version of Anna Karenina.

Farahani was born in Tehran. Her father is actor Behzad Farahani and her sister is actress Shaghayegh Farahani. She was married to Amin Mahdavi from 2004 to 2013. She married Australian Christos Dorje Walker in 2015.

In 2012, she was banned from returning to Iran for posing naked in a French magazine.

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1983 births
Living people
French movie actors
French singers
French stage actors
Iranian actors
Iranian singers
People from Tehran
Zla Kolata

Zla Kolata is a mountain in Montenegro. The mountain lies on the border between Montenegro and Albania. It is the highest point in Montenegro, 2534 meters high.

Montenegro
Montenegro
Luemschwiller

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Luttenbach-près-Munster

Luttenbach-près-Munster is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Amboise

Amboise is a commune in central France’s Loire Valley. It is in the Indre-et-Loire department. It covers . In 2014, 13,371 people lived there.

Amboise is known for the Château d'Amboise, a 15th-century castle. King Charles VIII lived there. Leonardo da Vinci's tomb is there. There are royal chambers, gardens and underground passageways.

Near Amboise is Château du Clos Lucé, da Vinci's former home. Da Vinci lived there until his death in 1519. It has a small museum displaying working models of his designs.

Transport

Road 
The D31, D61, D81, D83, D431, D751 and D952 pass through the commune of Amboise.

Rail 
Amboise has a train station.

Air 
There is an airport around 20 kilometres (12 miles) away in Tours.

Twin towns 
Amboise is twinned with Boppard in Germany, Fana in Mali, Suwa in Japan, Vinci in Italy and Baleni in Romania.

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Communes in Indre-et-Loire
Bogdan Maglich

Bogdan Castle Maglich (also spelled Maglic or Maglić) (August 5, 1928 in Sombor, Yugoslavia – November 25, 2017 in Newport Beach, California) was a Yugoslav-born American experimental nuclear physicist and the leading supporter of a purported non-radioactive aneutronic fusion energy source. Maglich built 4 models of Migma.

References

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"Nature's Onion", TIME, Sep. 15, 1961 
"Wall Street Transcript" interview with Bogdan Maglich
Article: Visionary Physicist's Crusade Serves As Lesson In Futility in The Scientist

Naturalized citizens of the United States
Serbian people
American physicists
1928 births
2017 deaths
Hou Bo

Hou Bo (; 17 September 1924 – 26 November 2017) was a Chinese photographer. With her husband Xu Xiaobing, they were among the best known photographers of Mao Zedong. She joined the Communist Party at the age of fourteen and learned photography during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

After 1949, she and Xu Xiaobing lived in the same compound as Mao and took both official photos, some used for posters and publicity, which became the most widely circulated photos of Mao, and some family photos, taken informally behind the scenes.

Among her best known photographs are "The Founding of the PRC" (1949), "Mao Zedong Swimming Across the Yangzi" (1955), "Chairman Mao at Work in an Airplane" (1959), and "Mao Zedong with Students from Latin America" (1959), which won First Prize in the National Photography Exhibition of 1959.

Hou died on 26 November 2017 in Beijing at the age of 93.

References

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 大家名作: 侯波摄影作品赏 (Hou Bo's Prizewinning Masterpieces) Chinese Photographers Association.
 侯波 中国女摄影家 Baidu Baike.

1924 births
2017 deaths
Chinese people
Photographers
Communists