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Molly Peters

Molly Peters (15 March 1942 – 30 May 2017) was an English actress and model. She was born in Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England. She was best known for her role in the James Bond movie Thunderball as Patricia Fearing. Her career lasted from 1964 through 1967.

Peters appeared in Playboy, in the November 1965 issue. Her appearance was as part of a photo essay entitled "James Bond's Girls", by Richard Maibaum.

On 30 May 2017, Peters died at the age of 75 from complications of a stroke in London, England.

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1942 births
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Cardiovascular disease deaths in London
English movie actors
English television actors
English models
Actors from Suffolk
Actresses who played Bond girls
Dasari Narayana Rao

Dasari Narayana Rao (4 May 1942– 30 May 2017) was an Indian movie director, screenwriter, actor, politician, and lyricist. He was known for his works in Telugu cinema, and few Bollywood movies. He has directed more than one hundred and fifty feature movies of many genres. 

His works are known to be part of social injustice, corruption and gender discrimination. Rao has received two National Film Awards, nine state Nandi Awards including the Raghupathi Venkaiah Award, and four Filmfare Awards South including the life time Achievement. During his career he has also acted in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada languages.

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Official Website 

1942 births
2017 deaths
Disease-related deaths in India
Indian movie directors
Indian movie actors
Indian politicians
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Songwriters
Lubomyr Husar

Lubomyr Husar MSU (Liubomyr Huzar; 26 February 1933 – 31 May 2017) was the major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, a minority church in Ukraine but the largest sui juris Eastern church in full communion with the Holy See. 

Husar was also a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. After the transfer of the see of Lviv to Kyiv in 2005, he was the Ukrainian Catholic Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Galicia. In February 2011 he became Major Archeparch Emeritus after he resigned due to ill health.

Husar died on 31 May 2017 following a long-illness in Kniazhychi, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Cardinalrating pages concerning him 
 An interview published in February 2004 by Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), Kyiv, in Ukrainian and in Russian.
 Biography at Catholic-pages.com 
 Biography at Catholic-hierarchy.com

1933 births
2017 deaths
Archbishops
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Ukrainian people
Frédérick Leboyer

Frédérick Leboyer (November 1, 1918 – May 25, 2017) was a French obstetrician and author. He was best known for his 1974 book, Birth Without Violence, which popularized gentle birthing techniques, in particular, the practice of immersing newborn infants in a small tub of warm water. This method is known as a "Leboyer bath".

Leboyer also advocated low lighting and noise in a warm room to limit the supposed shock of birth, and that a newborn be laid on its mother's stomach and allowed to bond, instead of being taken away for tests. 
 
Leboyer died on May 25, 2017 in Paris, at the age of 98.

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1918 births
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French physicians
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Graham Webb

Graham Paul Webb (13 January 1944 – 28 May 2017) was an English racing cyclist. He became the world amateur road race champion in 1967. In response to a journalist's shouted comment that the last British amateur world road champion had been Dave Marsh 45 years earlier, Webb retorted: "And they'll have to wait another 45 years before another British rider wins." 

Webb died on 28 May 2017 in London at the age of 73.

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1944 births
2017 deaths
British cyclists
Disease-related deaths in London
Sportspeople from Manchester
Hans Gerschwiler

Hans Gerschwiler (born 21 June 1921) is a Swiss former figure skater. He is the 1948 Olympic silver medalist. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He made his international debut at the 1939 European Championships, where he placed 5th.

Gerschwiler won the 1947 World Figure Skating Championships and European Figure Skating Championships. He also won the silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz and came in second at the 1948 European Championships, both time finishing behind Dick Button.

References

Other websites
 Skatabase: 1930s Europeans 
 Skatabase: 1940s Europeans 
 Skatabase: 1940s Worlds 
 Skatabase: 1948 Olympics 

1920 births
Living people
Figure skaters
Swiss Olympic medalists
Olympic silver medalists
Sportspeople from Zürich
Küsnacht

Küsnacht is a city in the canton of Zurich. It is found in the district of Meilen.

Villages
Goldbach, Heslibach, Itschnach, Küsnachter Berg, Schmalzgrueb, Limberg, Wiserholz, Hohrüti, Wangen, Chalenstein (Kaltenstein) and Forch

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Cities in Switzerland
Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka was a Nazi death camp during World War II.  It was in Poland, which was controlled by Germany at that time.  The camp was in a forest northeast of Warsaw.

The goal of death camps like Treblinka was to kill millions of people as quickly as possible.  Treblinka was open from July 23, 1942, to October 19, 1943, during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest part of The Holocaust.  At Treblinka, the Nazis killed at least 700,000 and 900,000 Jewish people, and at least 2,000 Roma people.  The Nazis killed more Jews at Treblinka than at any death camp other than Auschwitz.

Treblinka I: Labor camp
Nazi officials opened Treblinka in November 1941 as a forced labor camp.  The Nazis sent two groups of people to Treblinka to work as slaves:
 Jewish people; and
 Non-Jewish Polish people who had gotten into trouble

However, they kept the Jews and Poles in separate parts of the camp.

Most of the prisoners at Treblinka worked in a gravel pit; in an irrigation area; or in the forest, where they cut wood to fuel the camp's cremation ovens. 

Between 1941 and 1944, more than 20,000 people were prisoners at Treblinka I.  More than half of them died from hunger, disease, mistreatment, and summary executions (executions without a trial).

Treblinka II: Death camp
In July 1942, the Nazis finished building Treblinka II, a death camp, about a mile from the labor camp (Treblinka I).  At this time in history, the Nazis were already killing people at two other death camps: Belzec and Sobibor.

The Nazis committed genocide at Treblinka until November 1943.  They murdered up to 925,000 Jewish people at the camp.  They killed many of them with carbon monoxide in gas chambers.

Sonderkommando

Most Jewish men who were sent to Treblinka were killed right away.  However, a few were chosen to be its slave-labor units, called Sonderkommando. When the Nazis murdered people in the gas chambers, they forced the Sonderkommando to bury the victims' bodies in mass graves. These bodies were exhumed in 1943 and cremated on large open-air pyres, along with the bodies of new victims. 

In early August 1943, the Sonderkommando revolted.  Several Nazi guards were killed and about 200 prisoners escaped from the camp; almost a hundred survived the subsequent chase.  Because of this, in October 1943, the Nazis stopped killing prisoners in Treblinka's gas chambers.

Destruction
In late July 1944, Soviet troops were getting close to Treblinka.  There were between 300 and 700 Jewish prisoners left at the camp.  The Nazi guards shot them all.  The Nazis then quickly destroyed the camp.  Before running away, they built a farmhouse for a watchman and sloughed over the ground to try to hide the evidence of their genocide.  Then they ran away from the camp.

During the last week of July 1944, Soviet troops arrived at Treblinka.

Related pages 
 Nazi concentration camps
 The Holocaust and the Final Solution
 World War II
 Genocide

References

Nazi concentration camps in Poland
Nuwan Kulasekara

Nuwan Kulasekara is a Sri Lankan cricketer.He was born in Nittambuwa,Sri Lanka on July 22,1982.Kulasekara was once rated as the World's no 1 ODI bowler by the ICC in 2009He also has the ability to swing the balls in first few overs.

References

Other websites 
 Nuwan Kulasekarafrom ESPN Cricinfo
 Nuwan Kulasekara from CricBuzz

1982 births
Living people
Sri Lankan cricketers
William Duborgh Jensen

William Duborgh Jensen (10 May 1935 – 24 May 2017) was a Norwegian fashion and costume designer. He was Norway's first "haute couturier" with his own collection in 1958. He later worked in television and movie as a costume designer.

He was appointed as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his efforts in fashion design.

William died on 24 May 2017 in Oslo at the age of 82.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
Norwegian people
Fashion designers
Costume designers
Elena Verdugo

Elena Angela Verdugo (April 20, 1925 – May 30, 2017) was an American actress. She began in movies at the age of five in Cavalier of the West (1931). She had a starring role as a singer in 1957 musical comedy Panama Sal. Her career in radio, television, and movie lasted from 1931 through 1985.

Verdugo was known for her role as Nurse Consuelo Lopez in the ABC series Marcus Welby, M.D., which ran from 1969 to 1976. In 1971-72, Verdugo was nominated for Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Drama category. Both nominations were for her performances on Marcus Welby, M.D.

Verdugo has a star at 1709 Vine Street in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.

Verdugo was born in Paso Robles, California. She married Charles R. Marion from 1946 until they divorced in 1955. Then, she married Charles R. Rosewall from 1972 until his death in 2012. She had one child with Marion.

Verdugo died on May 30, 2017 in Los Angeles, California from natural causes at the age of 92.

References

Other websites

Elena Verdugo discusses the Internet in handwritten letter (5/2/2002)

1925 births
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Deaths from natural causes
Disease-related deaths in California
American movie actors
American television actors
American radio actors
American child actors
Actors from California
Robert Young (actor)

Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor. He was best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS), and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC). 

Young has won three Emmy Awards (1957, 1958, 1970), a Golden Globe Award (1972) and a BAFTA Award (1979).

Young died of respiratory failure at his Westlake Village, California home on July 21, 1998 at the age of 91.

References

Other websites

 
 Robert Young at The New York Times
 
 Literature on Robert Young

BAFTA Award winning actors
Emmy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
1907 births
1998 deaths
Deaths from respiratory failure
Disease-related deaths in California
American movie actors
American television actors
American radio actors
Actors from Chicago
Robert M. Young

Robert Milton Young, usually known as Robert M. Young (born November 22, 1924) is an American screenwriter, director, cinematographer and producer. In 1985, he was a member of the jury at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.  

Young has frequently cast Edward James Olmos in his movies, directing him in Alambrista! (1977), Saving Grace (1986), Triumph of the Spirit (1989), Talent for the Game (1991), Roosters (1993), Slave of Dreams (1995) and Caught (1996). He produced Olmos's directorial debut, American Me (1992).

References

Other websites
 
 "Robert M. Young Filmography" , Fandango
 A Tribute to Robert M. Young at Cinequest 
 Robert M. Young at the Cannes Festival

Emmy Award winners
1924 births
Living people
American cinematographers
Movie directors from New York City
Movie producers from New York City
Screenwriters from New York City
Erode district

Erode district(formerly Periyar district) is a district in the Kongu Nadu region (western part) of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was the largest district by area in the state before the formation of Tiruppur district  and the headquarters of the district is Erode. Periyar district was a part of Coimbatore District before its division into two on September 17, 1979 and was renamed as Erode District in 1996. As of 2011, the district had a population of 2,251,744 with a sex-ratio of 993 females for every 1,000 males, much above the national average of 929.

Bhavani River 
Bhavani River rises in the Western Ghats of [Silent Valley National Park in Palakkad district of Kerala. It receives the Siruvani River which has the second tastiest water in the world, a perennial stream of Coimbatore District, and gets reinforced by the Kundah river before entering Erode District in Sathyamangalam.

EconomyAgriculture is the most important income source of the district. Paddy, plantain, silk, cotton, turmeric, coconut and sugarcane are some of the major products from agriculture and allied industries. With 43% share, the district is the top turmeric producer in Tamil Nadu. Erode is also known as Turmeric city as it is an important market center for turmeric. Erode district is also the leading producer of plantain, coconuts and white silk in Tamil Nadu.
The country's first automated silk reeling unit is located near Gobichettipalayam.In 2005, Bhavani Jamakkalam (Bhavani Bedsheets) was registered as a Geographical Indication by the Government of India.

Reference
Periyakulam

Periyakulam is a town and a municipality in the Theni district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As of 2011, the population was 42,976. Periyakulam is one of the oldest town in Tamil Nadu carrying rich cultural heritage.

Places of Worship
 The Balasubramaniam Swamy temple is next to the Varaha nadhi (Varaha river).
 The Periyakal Temple and Karanamoorthy Swamy temple are next to the Periyakulam pond.
 The South-eastside Kailasanathar temple is in the hills.
 The Mounaguru Swamigal Madalayam is in Periaykulam Town.
 A temple for Varadharaja Perumal is in the center of Periyakulam Region.

References

Theni district
Gobichettipalayam

Gobichettipalayam is a town and municipality in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the second largest city and urban concentration in Erode district and is the administrative headquarters of Gobichettipalayam taluk. The town is administered by a municipality established in 1949. It is known as "Mini Kollywood" because of the movies produced there. This town has a population of 60,279 as of 2011.  The population is mostly by the Kongu Vellalar community. There are a significant number of North Indians, Gurkhas, Malayalis, Uralis, Mudaliar, Vanniyar, Dalits, Nadar and Vettuva Gounders. As per the religious census of 2011, Gobichettipalayam had 90.3% Hindus, 7.1% Muslims, 2.5% Christians and 0.1% others.

Places of Interest
 The Pariyur Kondathu Kaliamman Temple is in Pariyur, about 3 km from Gobichettipalayam, where a 'Fire Walking Ceremony' (Kundam) is held during January every year.
 The Amarapaneeswarar Temple is a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva and his consort Soundaranayaki Amman, located in Pariyur. The temple itself is built completely of white marble.
 The Adinarayana Swamy Temple is a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu located at Pariyur and the chief deity of the temple is Adhi Narayana Perumal. He is represented along with his companions Sri Devi and Bhu Devi.

Reference

Erode district
Uncle Tom's Cabaña

Uncle Tom's Cabaña is a movie made by Tex Avery. It is a short cartoon. It was made in 1947.

1947 movies
Animated movies
Movies about animals
English-language movies
Swish Swish

"Swish Swish" is a song by American singer Katy Perry.  It features a rap from American rapper Nicki Minaj.  The song is from Perry's fifth studio album, Witness.  It talks about overcoming bullying and has sounds of house music throughout it.  It was released in May 2017 as a promotional single with the pre-order of Witness, but it was released later as an official single on May 19.

The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 46.

Perry and Minaj first performed the song on TV at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, which Perry hosted.

Background 
Critics have said that the song is about singer Taylor Swift.  She and Perry have had a rivalry since 2013, when Swift accused Perry of "stealing" backup dancers on tour.  Swift released the song "Bad Blood" in 2014, which was rumored to be about her feud with Perry.  Perry has revealed that she is ready to move on from the feud.

Music video 
The music video stars several celebrities, such as actor Terry Crews and Internet personality Christine Sydelko.  The setting is a basketball game against the Tigers (Perry's team) and the Sheep.  A contest was held to determine what fans would appear in the video.  The video is over six minutes long.

References 

Katy Perry songs
2017 songs
Irina Popova

Popova Irina Fedorovna (; born September 28, 1961) is a Russian  sinologist and historian, Doctor of Sciences (2000), Director of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint-Petersburg (since April 2003), Head of the Department of Manuscripts and Documents of the IOM RAS, Full Professor in St Petersburg State University

Popova was a visiting scholar with the Center for Chinese Studies in Taipei (Taiwan), the Pennsylvania University (USA), School Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark), Peking University (China).

Education

Popova graduated in 1983 from the St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, Department of the History of Far East; completed her Ph.D. in 1989 at Russian Academy of Sciences,  holds Doctor of Sciences degree in history (2000) from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Subject of her Ph.D. thesis: “Rules for Emperors” (“Ti-fan”) by T'ang T'ai-tsung as a source on the Chinese Political Thought of the 7th century” (in Russian); subject of Doctoral thesis: “The Theory of the State Rulership in the Early T'ang China” (in Russian).

Research interests and major contributions
Chinese history and historiography; Dunhuang and Central Asian studies;
political thought, government  and administrative system of pre-modern China; 
Tang studies; history of Oriental studies; textual research; bibliography.

Basing primarily on the documents of the Tang dynasty, Popova  has contributed into the study of the imperial rulership in medieval China and into the study of the interinfluence of the political practice and imperial ideology in pre-modern China; she has introduced into the academic use the original documents from Dunhuang and Turfan, Chinese epigraphic texts, visual sources on the history of Qing dynasty, archival material on the history of Russian expeditions in Central Asia and history of the Oriental studies

Publications
200 articles, 5 monographs (3 in cooperation with other researchers) and 10 edited collections of articles

Membership in Editorial Boards
Head of the Editorial Board of the periodicals: “Pis’mennye pamiatniki Vostoka”, “Written Monuments of the Orient”, “Strany i narody Vostoka” (“Countries and Peoples of Orient”),  “Tulufan janjiu”, “Minzu guji yanjiu”, “Zhongguo lishi gudai wenxian” (China),  “Studia Orientalia Slovaca” (University of Bratislava, Slovakia), “Shygys-Orient” (Kazakhstan); Deputy Head of the Editorial Board of the academic series “Pamiatniki pismennosti Vostoka’ (Written Monuments in the Oriental Scripts)

Awards

2013 – St Petersburg City Government Prize in science and engineering (Prize 
in philology named after S.F. Oldenburg);
2016 –  Honorary  rank “Yangzi Scholar” 长江学者by Ministry 
of Education of China.
Honorary Professor of Lanzhou University (China), Ningxia University (China), Shandong
University (China), Minzu University of China (Beijing, China), Shaanxi Normal
University (Xi'an, China); honorary doctor of the Institute of History of the Academy of Social Sciences of China

1961 births
Living people
Russian historians
Roy Barraclough

Roy Barraclough, MBE (12 July 1935 – 1 June 2017) was an English comic actor. He was best known for his role as Alec Gilroy in the long-running British TV soap Coronation Street, and for the double-act Cissie and Ada with comedian Les Dawson.

In the 2006 New Year Honours, Barraclough was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to drama and to charity in the North West. He was the recipient of three Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards including the Reader's Award, a Liverpool Echo Theatre Award and a Royal Television Society Award.

Barraclough died aged 81, at the Willow Wood Hospice in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on 1 June 2017, after a short illness.

References

Other websites
 
 Corrie.net Profile

1935 births
2017 deaths
Disease-related deaths in England
English movie actors
English television actors
English comedians
Actors from Lancashire
Alois Mock

Alois Mock (10 June 1934 – 1 June 2017) was a politician. He was a member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister, from 1987 through 1995, he helped take Austria into the European Union.

Mock died on 1 June 2017 from complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 82.

References

Other websites
The Global Panel Foundation

1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Government ministers of Austria
People from Lower Austria
Nara

Nara, Na-ra or NARA may refer to:

Places
 Nara, Nara, prefectural capital in Nara, Japan
Nara Prefecture, prefecture of Japan
 Nara, Attock, village in Attock, Pakistan
 Nara, Jhelum, village in Jhelum, Pakistan
 Nara, Mali, city in Mali
 Nara River, river in Russia

People
 Jang Na-ra (born 1981), South Korean female singer
 Kwon Nara (born 1991), South Korean female singer
 Nara Leão (1942 - 1989), Brazilian female singer
 Nara Lokesh (born 1983), Indian male politician
 Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), Japanese male artist
 Kurumi Nara (born 1991), Japanese female tennis player

Other uses 
 Nara period, period of Japanese history, named after the above (former capital) city 
 Nara (ship), , several Japanese ships
 National Archives and Records Administration, The United States National Archives
Studio B Productions

Studio B Productions was a children's entertainment logo united by DHX Media and founded as DHX Media/Vancouver in 1988. In 1993, it was joined forces with Magnet Productions due to the fact Gullah Gullah Island had that logo the next year. Three years before, it was joined with Tooniverse, which turned into Tooniverse Songs then. When it joined forces with Moonscoop, it turned into Wildbrain.
Animation studios
Dub of Scotland

Dub or Duff was king of Scotland after the death of Indulf/Indulphus in 962, he reigned for 4-5 years until 967 when he died and was succeeded by Cuílen he was the son of king Malcolm I and most likely Bethoc. He was born circa 915 making him nearly 50 before he became king. He had 2 children with NN, Kenneth III who later reigned and Grimus II mac Duibh, prince of Scotland.

Reign 
His reign began in 962 after the death of Indulf, king of Scots. It lasted until 967, he was succeeded by Cuilén who ruled until 971 and was succeeded by Dub's son Kenneth III.

Death 
He died in 967, leaving behind 2 children. His burial place has been lost and no one knows the exact place of his burial although it was most likely in 967 just after his death and in Iona, Scotland.

References

Kings and Queens of Scotland
910s births
967 deaths
10th century in Scotland
Roberto De Vicenzo

Roberto De Vicenzo (14 April 1923 – 1 June 2017) was an Argentine professional golfer. He won more than 230 tournaments worldwide in his career including eight on the PGA Tour and most famously the 1967 Open Championship. He was born in Villa Ballester, Argentina.

De Vicenzo died on 1 June 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the age of 94.

References

Other websites
World Golf Hall of Fame profile
Profile on about.com

1923 births
2017 deaths
Argentine sportspeople
Golfers
Peter Thomson (golfer)

Peter William Thomson AO, CBE (23 August 1929 – 20 June 2018) was an Australian professional golfer. He was best remembered for his five wins in The Open Championship.

Thomson was born in Brunswick, a northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia. His Open Championship wins came in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, and 1965. He was the only man to win the tournament for three consecutive years in the 20th century. Thomson died in Melbourne on 20 June 2018 from Parkinson's disease, aged 88.

References

Other websites

World Golf Hall of Fame profile
Golflegends.org profile 
Statements by Peter Thomson

1929 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Australia
Golfers
Sportspeople from Melbourne
Doug Ford (golfer)

Douglas Michael Ford, Sr. born Fortunato (August 6, 1922 – May 14, 2018) was an American professional golfer and two-time major golf champion.

Ford's first major was the 1955 PGA Championship. Ford was that season's PGA Player of the Year. 

Ford played on four Ryder Cup teams: 1955, 1957, 1959, and 1961. He was inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame in 1972. He was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. Ford was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010 and was inducted in May 2011.

Ford died May 14, 2018 at the age of 95.

References

Other websites

1922 births
2018 deaths
American golfers
Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut
1977 Chicago Loop derailment

The 1977 Chicago Loop derailment occurred on Friday February 4, 1977, when a Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ended another on the northeast corner of the Chicago Loop at Wabash Avenue and Lake Street during the evening rush hour.

The collision forced the first four cars of the rear train off the elevated tracks, killing 11 people and injuring over 180 as the cars fell onto the street below.

References

20th century in Chicago
1977 in the United States
1970s in Illinois
Michael A'Hearn

Michael Francis A'Hearn (November 17, 1940 – May 29, 2017) was an American astronomer and astronomy professor at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He was also the principal investigator for NASA's EPOXI mission.

References

Other websites
 Michael F. A'Hearn's homepage 
 Kuiper Prize website of the American Astronomical Society
 Nasa bio on Deep Impact website

1940 births
2017 deaths
American astronomers
Educators from Wilmington, Delaware
Scientists from Wilmington, Delaware
Ervin E. Dupper

Ervin Emil Dupper (January 8, 1923 – May 28, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the South Dakota State Senate from 1965 to 1968. He represented the 21st and 23rd districts. He served a brief stint as State Attorney of Walworth County in 1955 to 1956 prior to his election to the state senate. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Dupper was born in Herreid, South Dakota. He studied at the University of Oregon where he earned a bachelor's degree in political science, and then attended the University of South Dakota for a law degree. 

Dupper died at a hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota from a short-illness, aged 94.

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1923 births
2017 deaths
Politicians from South Dakota
US Republican Party politicians
O'Hare station train crash

On March 24, 2014, a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Blue Line passenger train overran the bumper at the station at the O'Hare International Airport, injuring 34 people. The accident caused $11,196,796 in damage.

A spokesman stated that it was likely that the train entered the station at too high a speed. It was later estimated that the train entered the station at , which was not an excessive speed. At least 50 firefighters and paramedics attended the accident.

The cause of the accident was that the train operator, 25-year-old Brittney Tysheka Haywood, fell asleep at the controls. 

As a direct consequence of the accident, the CTA reduced the speed limit into the O'Hare station from  to . The area of the speed limit was also extended away from the station.

References

2010s in Chicago
2014 in Illinois
Andersonville National Historic Site

The Andersonville National Historic Site is the site of the American Civil War prisoner of war camp Camp Sumter (also known as Andersonville Prison).  Andersonville was a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp during the last 12 months of the Civil War.

The site is near Andersonville, Georgia.  Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County.  Along with the former prisoner, the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum are also at the Andersonville National Historic Site.

12,920 Union Army prisoners died.  This was over one out of every four prisoners at Andersonville.  

The camp was overcrowded with four times as many prisoners as it was designed to hold.  There was not enough water, food, or sanitation.   About 45,000 Union prisoners were held at Camp Sumter during the war; nearly 13,000 (nearly 3 in every 10) died.  The most common causes of death were scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery.

During the Civil War, Confederate Captain Henry Wirz ran Andersonville.  After the war, he was tried and found guilty of war crimes and executed.

References

American Civil War

War crimes
Metra

Metra is a commuter railroad in the Chicago city area. The railroad operates 241 stations on 11 different rail lines. It is the fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership and the largest and busiest commuter rail system outside the New York City area. There were 83.4 million passenger rides in 2014, up 1.3% from the previous year.

The estimated busiest day for Metra ridership occurred on Nov. 4, 2016—the day of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series victory rally.

References

Transport in Chicago
Jabuticaba

Jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora), also known as Brazilian grapetree or jaboticaba, is a tree in the family Myrtaceae, native to Brazil. It is unusual in that it appears to blossom right out of the bark and trunk of its tree. The tree may even look covered in purple warts or pimples when it is fully in season. It is often used in its native lands in South America much like grapes are used elsewhere.

Jabuticaba fruit looks like thick-skinned deep-purple grapes. Inside the pink or white sweet fleshy fruit. Embedded in the pulpy flesh are several large seeds. The fruit is typically eaten fresh or made into tarts, jams or wines and liqueurs.

Myrtaceae
Fruits
Jack McCloskey

John William "Jack" McCloskey (October 19, 1925 – June 1, 2017) was an American basketball player, coach and executive. He played for the Philadelphia Warriors for one season in 1953. McCloskey coached the Portland Trail Blazers from 1972 through 1974. After coaching, he became general manager for the Minnesota Timberwolves and for the Detroit Pistons. He was born in Mahoney City, Pennsylvania.

McCloskey died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on June 1, 2017 at his home in Savannah, Georgia, aged 91.

References

Other websites
 Basketball-Reference.com: Jack McCloskey (as coach)
 Basketball-Reference.com: Jack McCloskey (as player)

1925 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)
Golden State Warriors players
National Basketball Association coaches
American military personnel of World War II
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
Great Falls, Montana

Great Falls is a city in west-central Montana. It is the county seat of Cascade County. The 2015 census estimates put the population at more than 59,000 people.

Great Falls takes its name from the series of five waterfalls close together along the upper Missouri River. It is home to the C. M. Russell Museum Complex, the University of Providence, and Great Falls College.Near the town is Malmstrom Air Force Base.

Notable people
 Mal Bross, National Football League player
 Patrick Dwyer, National Hockey League player
 Norman A. Fox, Western author
 Paris Gibson, U.S. Senator, city founder
 Charles Marion Russell, western artist

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R. James Harvey

R. James Harvey (born Roland James Harvey; July 4, 1922 – July 20, 2019), also known as James Harvey; was an American politician and judge. He was a member of the Republican Party. 

Harvey was born in Iron Mountain, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan Law School. 

Harvey first served as Mayor of Saginaw, Michigan from 1957 through 1959. From 1961 through 1974, Harvey served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 8th congressional district. 

In 1974, he was nominated to serve as Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by Richard Nixon. He would retire from this court in 1984 to serve as Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan after being promoted by President Ronald Reagan. Harvey officially retired from politics and law in 2002. 

Harvey died at his home in Naples, Florida on July 20, 2019 at the age of 97.

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J. B. Dauda

Joseph Bandabla  Dauda (24 December 1942 – 1 June 2017) widely known as J. B Dauda,  was a Sierra Leonean politician and economist. He was born in Kenema District, Sierra Leone. He was a member of the All People's Congress.

Dauda served as a member of the Parliament of Sierra Leone for Kenema from 1986 through 1992. Dauda served as Second Vice-President from 1991 until he was overthrown in 1992. He returned to politics by serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010 through 2012.

Dauda died at a hospital in Accra, Ghana from a long-illness on the morning of 1 June 2017 at the age of 74.

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Indian name



Pronunciation

Indian names, written in roman letters may use the letters for the vowels to denote different sounds than is conventional in American or British English.

The Sanskrit/devanagari vowels अ (u̱nder), आ  (ah), इ (in), ई (eat), उ (put), ऊ (boot), ए (ate), ऐ (add), ओ (oh - not as a diphthong), औ (ogre), are mapped to 'a', 'aa', 'i', 'ee', 'u', 'oo', 'ae', 'ei', 'o', 'ou', in that order, in most transcriptions of Indian names into English.

Thus ‘Ekamresh’  is pronounced ‘AkaamrAsh’ where the capitalized A’s represent the long ‘a’ (as in the name of the letter) and the 'aa' has the vowel sound in 'ah'. The short 'a' and short 'o' of American English are absent in Indian languages and their use can often result in mispronunciation of Indian names.

Furthermore, the letters used in English for the retroflex consonants (t and d) are also used to sound dentals (as in 'math' and 'the'), especially when they occur in the beginning of a word. As an example, the India name 'Dev' would not have its first consonant pronounced as in the American name 'Dave'. Similarly the name 'Tarun' would not have its first consonant sounded as in 'Tom'.

The letter 'h' is used to aspirate certain consonants. So, in the names 'Khare', 'Ghanshyam', 'Kaccha', 'Jhumki', 'Vitthal', 'Ranchodh', 'Thimmayya', 'Uddhav', 'Phaneesh', and 'Bhanu', the sounds 'ka', 'ga', 'cha', 'ja', 'ta' (retroflex), 'da' (retroflex), 'ta' (dental), 'da' (dental), 'pa', and 'ba' are sounded with an strong outward breath.

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Lindau

Lindau (, formerly Lindau im Bodensee; ; Swabian: Linde or Lindou/Linda) is a major town and island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Bavaria, Germany. It is the capital of the rural district (Landkreis) of Lindau and is near the borders of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau. As of 31 December 2018, 25,490 people lived there.

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Singen (Hohentwiel)

Singen (Hohentwiel) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the border to Switzerland.

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Konstanz (district)
Taiwan Pride

Taiwan Pride is the yearly gay pride parade in Taiwan (officially the "Republic of China"). The parade was first held in 2003. It is in the capital city of Taipei. It is the largest gay pride parade in Asia.

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Aspach, Haut-Rhin

Aspach is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Education in India

Elementary education is provided by the government for children ages 6-14.  After 14, families are required to pay for their children’s private school.  Because of India’s massive population, high-paying jobs are very competitive and leave many unemployed.

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Aspach-le-Haut

Aspach-le-Haut is a former commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Aspach-Michelbach.

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Aspach-le-Bas

Aspach-le-Bas is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Attenschwiller

Attenschwiller is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Aubure

Aubure is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

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Baldersheim

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

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Balgau

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

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Kyburg, Switzerland

Kyburg is a former municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Kyburg merged into the municipality of Illnau-Effretikon.

Villages
Billikon, Brünggen, Ettenhusen, Mülau, Neu-Brünggen and Seemerrüti.

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Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada

Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada () NI (12 June 1923 – 2 June 2017) was a noted Pakistani lawyer, served as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.  

Pirzada was a well known lawyer in Pakistan and internationally. He served as Attorney General of Pakistan from 1965 to 1966 and again from 1968 to 1971. He was the youngest person ever to be appointed to that post and the longest serving. From 1966 to 1968, he served as Foreign Minister of Pakistan. 

Pirzada was a member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (1972–1979) and served as Chairman from 1977 to 1978. 

Pirzada died on 2 June 2017 at a medical center in Karachi, aged 93.

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Jeffrey Tate

Sir Jeffrey Philip Tate CBE (28 April 1943 – 2 June 2017) was an English conductor. 

Tate was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. He suffered from spina bifida since birth. He was raised in Farnham, Surrey. He studied at Cambridge University and at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Tate's international conducting début was with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1979. In 1985, he was appointed the first principal conductor of the English Chamber Orchestra. He was named to the position of principal conductor of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden effective in September 1986, the first person in the House's history to have that title. He was principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1991 to 1995. In 2005, he was appointed music director of the San Carlo Theatre of Naples, and served in the post through 2010.

Tate was openly gay. He was partners with German doctor Klaus Kuhlemann until his death in 2017. Tate was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to British music overseas.

Tate died of a heart attack while performing at a concert in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy on 2 June 2017 at the age of 74.

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[ Biography from allmusic]
Theatre San Carlo
Pieces, 2002 (article in Christ's College newsletter) 
 "Jeffrey Tate: 'You can't terrify people any more; you have to do it with love'".  The Guardian podcast with Christopher Cook, 13 October 2011

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Langnau am Albis

Langnau am Albis is a municipality in the district Horgen in the Swiss canton of Zurich.

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Laufen-Uhwiesen

Laufen-Uhwiesen is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Tuttlingen

Tuttlingen is a town in southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Tuttlingen. Nendingen, Möhringen and Eßlingen are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. The district (Kreis) includes many surrounding towns including Trossingen, Spaichingen, and Mühlheim an der Donau. It is in Swabia east of the Black Forest region in the Swabian Alps.

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Bío Bío Province

The Bío Bío Province () is one of three provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII). The provincial capital is the city of Los Ángeles.

Geography
The Bío Bío province is in the southeast of the Bío Bío region with an area of . It is the only province of the region that is not along the coast. The capital, Los Ángeles, is to the southeast of Concepción, the capital of the region.

Bío Bío is bordered to the north by the Ñuble province, to the west by the Concepción province, to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Araucanía region and to the southwest by the Arauco province
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The main river that flows through the province is the Bío Bío.

Climate 
The climate of Los Ángeles is a Mediterranean climate, Cfb in the Köppen climate classification.

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Los Ángeles is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Los Ángeles is . The warmest month, on average, is January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of .

Population
 (last national census), there were 353,315 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km². The urban population was 245,775 persons ( of the total).

The largest city of the province, in 2002, is its capital, Los Ángeles, with 117,972 inhabitants. Other cities are Mulchén (21,819 inhabitants) and Nacimiento (20,884 inhabitants).

Administration
As a province, Bío Bío is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 14 communes (comunas). The city of Los Ángeles serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Related pages
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Pradal serey

Pradal Serey or Khmer kickboxing is a martial arts of the Khmer people in Cambodia. It is used by people as self-defense and as a sport. In pradal serey, people use punches, kicks, elbow attacks and knee attacks. Clinching is also used when people battle for dominant position so they can have the perfect opportunity to land an attack. Pushing and grabbing the opponent's upper body is common in clinching. There is a lot of strategy in clinching. It is also common to grab an opponent's leg to defend against a kick.

Match
Pradal serey has matches in a boxing ring. There are 5 rounds of 3 minutes each. There is a 2 minute break between each round. A competitor can win in three ways. The referee can stop the match with a TKO when the opponent can not fight anymore. A competitor can knock out their opponent unconscious and win the match. A competitor can also win by points scored. A draw is called if both people have the same amount of points. Few matches last all five rounds. A competitor is not allowed to attack an opponent when they are on the ground or when their back is facing the competitor. Traditional music is played before and during the match. Before the match, both competitors perform a ritual dance and prayer to warm up. Each competitor wears boxing gloves and shorts. No shoes are allowed.

Televison promoters
Matches are hosted by TV stations. Each TV station have their own arena and event. Some of the TV station that host matches are CTN, TV5 and Bayon. TV stations are responsible for any injuries during matches.

Training

Training for pradal serey is very tough. People who train have to be strong and athletic. It is also important to become flexible to use high kicks. Most people who compete professionally are young.

References 
"Cambodian Bloodsport". Human Weapon. Bill Duff, Jason Chambers. History Channel.16 November 2007.
Crudelli, Chris.The Way of the Warrior: Martial Arts and Fighting Styles from Around the World. Ed. Bob Bridle and Gillian Andrews. London: DK Publishing, 2008, .
"Kick! kick! punch!" China Daily, Shanghai Star, 7 June 2001, http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2001/0607/sp28-1.html . Accessed 2 June 2017.
Otis, Daniel. "Cambodian women embrace ancient art of Khmer kick-boxing." The Star, Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd, 9 Feb. 2013, https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/02/09/cambodian_women_embrace_ancient_art_of_khmer_kickboxing.html. Accessed 2 June 2017.
Sieng-You, Thearon. "Boxing Khmère ", Writing of Angkor N°5 via Les Jeunes Khmers.
Sokha, Cheang. "Kickboxing battered by bribery and fight fixing." The Phnom Penh Post, 20 Oct. 2006, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kickboxing-battered-bribery-and-fight-fixing. Accessed 2 June 2017.
Taing, Rinith, and Ananth Baliga. "A hard life in the ring." The Phnom Penh Post, 12 May 2017, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/hard-life-ring. Accessed 2 June 2017. 
Tales of Asia. http://www.talesofasia.com/rs-114-kick.htm. Accessed 2 June 2017.

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Woody Town Chūō Station

Woody Town Chūō Station (ウッディタウン中央駅, ウッディタウンちゅうおうえき) is a railway station of Kobe Electric Railway in Sanda, Hyōgo, Japan. Chūō means Central in Japanese.

Adjacent stations 
 Kobe Electric Railway
 Kōen-Toshi Line
 Minami Woody Town - Woody Town Chūō Station

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Jack O'Neill (businessman)

Jack O'Neill (March 27, 1923 – June 2, 2017) was an American businessman and surfer. In 1952 he founded the O'Neill brand while opening one of California's first surf shops in a garage on the Great Highway in San Francisco. He was known for creating the wetsuit, an average swimwear used by surfers. He was born in Denver, Colorado.

O'Neill died at the age of 94 on June 2, 2017 at his home in Santa Cruz, California from congestive heart failure.

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Sonja Sutter

Sonja Sutter (17 January 1931 – 1 June 2017) was a German movie and television actress. She was one of the few actors that was allowed to appear in productions in both East and West Germany. She was born in Freiburg, Germany.

Sutter was remembered for her role as Fraulein Rottenmeier in the German TV series Heidi and for her several roles in the TV series Derrick from 1983 to 1998.

Sutter died on 1 June 2017 in Baden bei Wien, Austria at the age of 86.

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