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2016 Cascade Mall shooting

On September 23, 2016, five people were killed in a mass shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, U.S. 

The gunman was identified as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old who emigrated from Turkey as a child with his family. He was arrested the following day in Oak Harbor, Washington, his hometown. On September 26, he confessed to committing the shooting.

Shortly before 7:00 p.m. PDT on the same day, Cetin walked into a Macy's store at the Cascade Mall with a stolen rifle and opened fire, killing four women and one man. The male victim died the next day at a Seattle hospital.

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Shooting of Robert Godwin

On April 16, 2017, Robert Godwin, Sr., a 74-year-old retired foundry worker, was shot and killed while walking on a sidewalk in a neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. The suspect was 37-year-old Steve William Stephens. Stephens posted a video of the shooting on his Facebook account. 

A warrant was issued for Stephens for aggravated murder, and he was found dead after shooting himself in the head after a brief police pursuit in Erie, Pennsylvania, two days later on April 18, 2017.

Shooting
The shooting happened on April 16, 2017, in Cleveland, Ohio. The shooter uploaded a video of the event. 

Seconds before the shooting, Stephens left his car, approached the victim and asked Godwin to say the name of Stephens's girlfriend. Stephens then said "She's the reason why this is about to happen to you", before shooting Godwin, fell to the ground and died. 

Facebook said the video was uploaded to the website after the fact, not livestreamed as it was once thought. In other Facebook posts, Stephens claimed responsibility for thirteen murders, but police said they were not true as of the moment.

Death of Steve William Stephens
On the morning of April 18, a public sighting of Stephens' vehicle in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in Erie, Pennsylvania, was called in to  the polic. This resulted in a brief pursuit by police, and a successful execution by the Pennsylvania State Police. Upon inspection of the vehicle, Stephens was found dead inside of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 37 years old.

Why Stephens killed Godwin
Police confirmed there was no known connection between Godwin and Stephens before the shooting and that Godwin was selected at random.  Stephens's mother told police that Stephens told her by phone he was "shooting people" because he was "mad with his girlfriend" of about three years, who was confirmed to be safe and was cooperating with investigators.

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Claude Lanzmann

Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker. He was known for the Holocaust documentary movie Shoah (1985).

Lanzmann was born in Paris. 

He was chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title Le lièvre de Patagonie (The Patagonian Hare).

He was a lecturer at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

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Rosey (wrestler)

Matthew "Matt" Anoaʻi (April 7, 1970 – April 17, 2017) was a Samoan-American  professional wrestler. He was best known for his time on the independent circuit under many ring names, and his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he competed as Rosey. He was the real-life brother of former WWE Champion, Roman Reigns. 

Anoaʻi died on April 17, 2017 of congestive heart failure at a hospital in Pensacola, Florida at the age of 47 years old.

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Jadwiga Szubartowicz

Jadwiga Szubartowicz (née Skawińska; 16 October 1905 – 20 July 2017), was a Polish supercentenarian. She was the oldest living person in Poland until her death in 2017.

As a child, she spent several years with her family in Saint Petersburg (then Petrograd), where at the age of 12 she witnessed the October Revolution.

During the German occupation her brother was arrested. After being detained for a week at the Majdanek concentration camp, he was released but was later arrested by the Germans in Kraków and sent to the concentration camp in Buchenwald, where he died.

On 1 August 2015, following the death of Jadwiga Młynek (1905–2015), Szubartowicz became the oldest Pole. The older Yisrael Kristal was born in what is now Poland, but moved to Israel after World War II. Szubartowicz's age was certified by the Gerontology Research Group who sent her greetings on her 110th birthday which she celebrated on 16 October 2015.

On 20 July 2017, Szubartowicz died in Lublin of complications of pneumonia at the age of 111.

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Yisrael Kristal

Yisrael Kristal (born Izrael Icek Kryształ; ; September 15, 1903 – August 11, 2017) was a Polish-born Israeli supercentenarian, recognized as the oldest living man and the oldest survivor of the Holocaust in the world until his death on August 11, 2017 at age 113 years, 330 days.

Biography
Kristal was born to Jewish parents in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. He experienced World War I as a child, and World War II as an adult. After surviving the Holocaust, he immigrated to Israel.

During World War II he was confined by the Nazi regime to a Jewish ghetto. His children died in the ghetto, but he and his wife were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Kristal survived the Holocaust, but his wife did not. He remarried shortly after the War and, in 1950, emigrated to Haifa, Israel, with his second wife Batsheva, also a survivor of the Holocaust, and their infant child, and lived in Haifa until his death at age 113 years, 330 days.

Kristal celebrated his bar mitzvah in September 2016 at age 113 after being unable to do so at age 13 due to World War I, and was the 16th man to live to age 113. That year, Kristal, who was the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, also became the world's oldest living man and last living man born in 1903, after Japaneseman Yasutaro Koide's death on January 18 (Koide died January 19 Japanese time).

Kristal died at his home in Haifa on August 11, 2017, just 5 weeks before his 114th birthday, and was succeeded as the world's oldest living man by Spaniard Francisco Núñez Olivera (who, however, was not verified until his death on January 29, 2018 at age 113 years, 47 days). Kristal was at the time of his death the 9th oldest man ever and the youngest of only 14 verified living people born before 1904.

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Mbah Gotho

Saparman Sodimejo, known more commonly as Mbah Gotho (reportedly born 31 December 1870 – 30 April 2017) was an Indonesian man who unverifiably was claimed to have lived over 140 years.

Mbah Gotho himself could not remember his date of birth, but said that he remembered the construction of a sugar factory that was built in 1890. The local authorities registered him as being over 140 in 2010, and put his birth date to be in 1870 on an ID card issued in 2014.

The oldest known person whose age was proven, Jeanne Calment, was 122 years when she died.

Claim
In May 2010, Solopos reported that the census had recorded his next birthday as his 142nd. That would have made him 19 years older than the oldest recorded person, Jeanne Calment, was when she died in 1997.

The Liputan 6 website reported that Mbah Gotho's estimated age was 165. He could not remember his date of birth, but claimed to remember the construction of a sugar factory built in Sragen in 1880.

In August 2016, after a television report on Liputan 6, numerous international media outlets reported Gotho's claim. They then showed photographs of his ID card (issued in 2014), which displays his claimed birth date. 

Although Indonesian officials at the local record office confirmed the birth date there is no independent proof of his claimed age. That would have been required for the claim about the age to be recognized by record authorities, such as Guinness World Records. The Indonesian government did not register births before 1900, and there have been errors in the past.

The Gerontology Research Group commented that this extremely high claimed age was "fiction" and "unbelievable". The story on Liputan 6 noted other similar claims about age. That included a woman named Maemunah and known as Ambu Unah, who had been claimed to be born in 1867, in Cimanuk, Pandeglang Regency.

Death
On 28 April 2017 Mbah Gotho was admitted to RSUD Hospital for heart failure in Sragen and died two days later at 5:45 pm local time on 30 April 2017.

According to the BBC, he outlived ten siblings, four wives, and all of his children.

Related pages 
 Carmelo Flores Laura
 Luo Meizhen

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Damián Iguacén Borau

Damián Iguacén Borau (12 February 1916 – 24 November 2020) was a Spanish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. When he died he was the oldest Catholic bishop in the world.

Iguacén Borau was born in Fuencalderas, Spain. He was ordained a priest on June 7, 1941. He was the bishop of the Barbastro Diocese since October 11, 1970. Later, he was made Diocese of Teruel and Albarracín on September 23, 1974 and then to Diocese of Tenerife on August 14, 1984 where he remained until his retirement on June 12, 1991. 

Iguacén Borau turned 100 in February 2016. 

Iguacén Borau died on 24 November 2020 from pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in Huesca, Spain at the age of 104.

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National Iranian South Oil Company

The National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC; ) is a government-owned corporation under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran, and operates as a subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company.  It was established in Masjed Soleyman, 1971. Currently NISOC is Iran's biggest oil producer, and the company is active in a land area more than 400,000 km² with headquarters in Ahvaz, Iran and other nine subsidiaries. NISOC is producing about 83% of all crude oil and 16% of natural gas produced in Iran and ranks as the Iran's largest oil company.

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2017 Fresno shootings

On April 18, 2017, a shooting spree occurred in Fresno, California, leaving three men dead. The prime suspect, identified as Kori Ali Muhammad, was then arrested by police and charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Muhammad, who was believed to have been motivated by a hatred of white people, was already wanted in connection with the murder of a security guard at a local Motel 6 that had occurred four days earlier.

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Pete Wilson

Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican Party politician.

Wilson was the 36th Governor of California from 1991 through 1999. Before this, he was a United States Senator from 1983 through 1991, the Mayor of San Diego from 1971 through 1983 and a California State Assemblyman from 1967 through 1971.

A Republican, Wilson passed the anti-immigrant 1994 California Proposition 187. This helped him win reelection while being against immigrant or gay communities amidst demographic shifts. Since then, the only California Republican to win a major statewide election is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1996.

References

Other websites

 
 Reaffirming Liberty: Wilson for President Campaign Brochure
 Pete Wilson, Candidate for Governor, 1994 Platform Papers, Speeches and Endorsements 
 Pete Wilson Biography and Inaugural addresses
 Hoover Institution Biography
 Cal Voter: Gov. Wilson's Record on Crime 
 Undated speech by Pete Wilson on Affirmative Action titled "The Minority-Majority Society"

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Gray Davis

Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis, Jr. (born December 26, 1942) is an American retired politician and attorney.

Davis served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Democratic Party, only months into his second term, in 2003 Davis was recalled and removed from office, the second state governor successfully recalled in U.S. history.

Before serving as governor, Davis was chief of staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1975–81), a California State Assemblyman (1983–87), California State Controller (1987–95) and the 44th Lieutenant Governor of California (1995–99).

Davis holds a BA in history from Stanford University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service as a Captain in the Vietnam War.

References

Other websites

 Gray Davis Digital Library (active web site, launched 2006)
 
 
 Department of Energy article on Davis' energy conservation efforts
 

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Charlie Crist

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist Jr. (; born July 24, 1956) is an American attorney and politician. He is the U.S. Representative for  since 2017. He had also served as the 44th Governor of Florida from 2007 to 2011.

Early life
Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He studied at Wake Forest University, at Florida State University, and at Samford University.

Political career
Crist began his political career as a Republican, serving in the Florida Senate from 1993 to 1999, running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1998 when he challenged then-current Senator Bob Graham. He later as Florida Education Commissioner from 2001 to 2003 and Florida Attorney General from 2003 to 2007, before being elected Governor in 2006.

Crist decided not to run for re-election as Governor in 2010, instead announcing on May 12, 2009 that he was running for the U.S. Senate seat being left by Republican Senator Mel Martinez. After leading in the race at first for the Republican nomination, he was overtaken in the polls by Marco Rubio, and in April 2010, Crist left the Republican Party and ran as an Independent. In the general election, he lost to Rubio in a three-way race, taking 30% of the vote to Rubio's 49% and Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek's 20%. Crist's term as Governor ended in January 2011.

On December 7, 2012, he joined the Democratic Party, having endorsed President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012. On November 1, 2013, he announced that he was running for governor in the 2014 election. However, he lost to the incumbent Governor Rick Scott, losing by a 1% margin.

In 2016, Crist was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district, defeating incumbent David Jolly by a margin of 52%-48%.

Crist is one of the few politicians that lost an election as a Republican, Democrat and Independent candidate.

Crist was mentioned as a possible candidate for Florida governor in the 2022 election against Republican governor Ron DeSantis. Crist announced his nomination for governor for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2022 election.

Personal life
Crist married Amanda Morrow in 1979, but divorced a year later in 1980. He later married Carole Rome in 2008. They divorced in 2017.

Crist now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

References

Other websites

 Official Congressional website
 Charlie Crist official campaign site

 

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Kapuas River

The Kapuas River is the longest river in Indonesia.

Geography of Indonesia
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Jamal Murray

Jamal Murray (born February 23, 1997) is a Canadian basketball player. He was picked 7th by the Denver Nuggets in the 2016 NBA Draft. He is  tall. He wears the number 27. He played at the University of Kentucky before entering the draft. At this season's all star break, he was selected as part of the WORLD rising stars team and scored 36 points.

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Mapai

Mapai, Hebrew: מפא"י , is a former Israeli political party. 

Its ideology was social democratic and Zionist.

Founders were David Ben-Gurion and Aaron David Gordon.

Mapai was established in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1930 and merged into HaAvoda in 1968.

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Alignment (Israel)

HaMa'arakh, Hebrew: המערך‎ , meaning The Alignment, was an Israeli alliance of social democratic parties.

HaMa'arakh existed two times:

1. 1965-1969 between Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda.

These two parties merged with Rafi into HaAvoda in 1968.

2. 1968-1991 between HaAvoda and Mapam.

Mapam was a predecessor of Meretz.

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Gammelstad Church Town

Gammelstad Church Town () is a World Heritage Site in Gammelstaden close to the city of Luleå, Sweden. The church village consists of 424 wooden houses around a stone church from the early 15th-century.

Motivation for World Heritage Site
Gammelstad Church Town was listed as a World Heritage Site in 1996 with the motivation:

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Iron deficiency (plant disorder)

Iron deficiency is a plant disorder. When a plant doesn't get enough iron, its leaves get yellow and brown. They 

Iron
Clint Hurdle

Clinton Merrick Hurdle (born July 30, 1957) is a retired manager of MLB teams. His most recent job was as the manager of the the Pittsburgh Pirates. On September 28 2019, Hurdle was fired by the Pirates. He decided not to take a new job, and instead retired. During the He has previously managed the Colorado Rockies. In 2007, he led the Rockies to the World Series, which they lost to the Boston Red Sox. Before he became a manager, Hurdle played baseball as an outfielder and was a member of the Kansas City Royals, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals.

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Iron poisoning

Iron poisoning happens when you eat too much iron or iron supplement pills. If you are two years old, eating about three grams can kill you. Symptoms include stomach pain and bloody vomit.

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HaTnu'a

HaTnu'a, Hebrew: התנועה , meaning The Movement, is an Israeli political party.  

Its ideology is social liberal, secular and Zionist. 

HaTnu'a was founded in 2012 by Tzipi Livni (also political leader), as a splitting from Kadima.

Number of seats in the 20th Knesset: 5 (down one from 19th Knesset).<br/ >
HaTnu'a is cooperating with HaAvoda ("Labor") and HaTnu'a HaYeruqa ("The Green Movement") as HaMahaneh HaTziyoni (The Zionist Union). Together they have 24 seats.

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Minette

Minette is a French word for rocks with very little iron. In the 6 billion tons of minette on Earth, 2 billion are iron. Over time, France has decided to just import rocks with more iron in them.

Iron
Johanna Mikl-Leitner

Johanna Mikl-Leitner (born February 9, 1964 in Hollabrunn) is an Austrian politician of the ÖVP.

Mikl-Leitner has been governor of Lower Austria since April 19, 2017, succeeding fellow party member Erwin Pröll. She had already been active in Lower Austrian politics.

On a national level, she was a member of the National Council (Nationalrat) from 1999 to 2003, and from 2011 to 2016 interior minister in the First and Second Faymann government. 

Mikl-Leitner grew up in the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria. She obtained a masters at Vienna University of Economics and Business, worked as a teacher, at Austrian employers' organization (Industriellenvereinigung) and at a publishing company before entering into politics.

She is married with two daughters, and lives in Klosterneuburg.

References 
 Bio at Austrian Parliament Website

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 Homepage

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Nickel-iron battery

The nickel–iron battery (NiFe battery) are batteries made of iron, nickel, and hydroxide. They are very strong, and do not break easily. They can last for more than 20 years. They are slow to charge. They are often used on trains.

Nickel-iron batteries are very durable. They can be charged many times. They are often associated with Thomas Edison, although he did not invent this type of battery. Edison's company manufactured the batteries until the early 1970s. Today they are made by several Chinese companies. They are often used in applications where a very long service life is required, such as large off-grid solar power systems.

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Oregrounds iron

Oregrounds iron was the best iron made in the 18th century. It was made in the Swedish city of Öregrund. Oregrounds iron is made by making pig iron in a blast furnace, then refining the pig iron in a finery forge.
Iron
Osmond process

The Osmond process is a way to make wrought iron. First, pig iron is refined in a modified finery forge. Then, the drops of melted iron fall down, and collect into a large ball of iron. This ball is called an Osmond.

Iron
Pelletization

Pelletization is the process of turning something, usually a metal ore or animal feed, into small pellets.

In ores, usually something is added to the pellets to make them more usable. After the ore is pelletized, it has to be cooled down to be used.
Iron
Rieke metals

Rieke metals are a group of metal powders made by Reuben D. Rieke. They have a large surface area and are very reactive.

Iron
Russia iron

Russia iron was a type of iron made in Russia. It was made in the 19th and 20th century. Russia iron was very resistant to rust, corrosion, and heat.

Iron
District of Alto Adige

District of Alto Adige was a district in the "Department of Benaco" in the Napoleon's "Cisalpine Republic" (1797-1798).

History

Under the Cisalpine Republic a District of Alto Adige (called in Italian: Distretto dell'Alto Adige) was created as a part of the short-lived "Department of Benaco". The District of Alto Adige included some municipalities of today's province of Verona.
 
The "Department of Benaco", which was created in 1797 and included some territories of actual Province of Trento and Province of Verona, was disbanded in 1798 and with it the District of Alto Adige after a structural reorganization of the Napoleon's first Italian republic.

The Alto Adige name was used again by the French in 1810, a few kilometres to the north of the disappeared District of Alto Adige on the upper course of the river Adige, when was created the Department of Alto Adige.

Related pages
 Department of Alto Adige
 Alto Adige

Notes

Bibliography
 Reinhard Stauber. Der Zentralstaat an seinen Grenzen. Administrative Integration, Herrschaftswechsel und politische Kultur im südlichen Alpenraum 1750–1820 (Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 64), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001. 

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Borax

Borax is a chemical compound. It usually is in the form of a white powder. The powder has soft crystals. They are easy to dissolve in water. Its scientific name is "sodium borate". Miners find half of the borax in the world in the deserts of California. They discovered it in Death Valley in 1881.

Uses 
Borax has many uses. It is an ingredient of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry. Factories use it as a fire retardant, and to kill fungi that can harm the human body. It is also used in fiberglass, as a flux in metallurgy, slime, and as an insecticide. When mixed with water, it helps the soap clean dishes or clothes better. It can take the smell and stain off bathroom and kitchen surfaces. It also takes the smell out of shoes.

Maria Telkes used borax in the first solar-powered home, invented in 1948. The special walls of the home took energy from the sun and stored it in liquid salt. She used borax to keep the energy storage system running well. The borax kept bacteria from changing the salt solution into something different.

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Donley County, Texas

Donley County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 3,677 people lived there. The county seat is Clarendon.

Texas counties
Armstrong County, Texas

Armstrong County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,901 people lived there. The county seat is Claude.

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Randall County, Texas

Randall County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 120,765 people lived there. The county seat is Canyon.

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Castro County, Texas

Castro County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 8,062 people lived there. The county seat is Dimmitt.

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Swisher County, Texas

Swisher County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 7,854 people lived there. The county seat is Tulia.

Texas counties
Briscoe County, Texas

Briscoe County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 1,637 people lived there. The county seat is Silverton.

Texas counties
Lyda Ann Thomas

Lyda Ann Thomas (née Quinn; November 20, 1936 – April 19, 2017) was an American politician. She served as the mayor of Galveston, Texas from 2004 to 2010. She was first elected in 2004 to replace Roger "Bo" Quiroga. Thomas was the third female mayor of Galveston. She serve three terms as mayor, and stepped down in 2010 after reaching her a city-imposed term-limit. She was a member of the Democratic Party.

Thomas is known for being mayor of Galveston during Hurricane Ike on September 10, 2008 and ordered in a full evacuation.

Thomas was born in Galveston. She studied at the The Hockaday School in Dallas. Thomas died at her Galveston home on April 19, 2017 at the age of 80 from cancer.

References

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The City Council of Galveston, Texas 
Evacuation worked, but created a highway horror O'Driscoll, Patrick; Richard Wolf and Rick Hampson (9/26/2005 7:47 PM). USA Today
With Rita strengthening, Galveston orders evacuation
Gulf Coast residents watch surprise tropical storm
Ike's changing course delayed Galveston's evacuation call, city says

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Stella Turk

Stella Maris Turk, MBE (1925 – 3 April 2017) was a British zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist. 

Turk was known for her activities in marine biology and conservation as it applies to marine molluscs and mammals. Turk became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2002, and was awarded the Stamford Raffles Award by the Zoological Society of London in 1979.

References

More reading
 J. Light, 2003. "In conversation with Stella Turk." Mollusc World 3: 16–17, 20.

Other websites
 Photograph of Stella Maris Turk in an article that mentions a film about her

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José Vicente Rangel

José Vicente Rangel Vale (10 July 1929 – 18 December 2020) was a Venezuelan leftist politician. He ran for President three times in the 1970s and 1980s and later supported Hugo Chávez.

Rangel served under Chávez as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2001, as Minister of Defense from 2001 to 2002, and as Vice President of Venezuela from 2002 to 2007.

Rangel died on 18 December 2020 in Caracas from cardiac arrest after having a long-illness at the age of 91.

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Hollabrunn

Hollabrunn is an Austrian town in the Hollabrunn District in the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria. It had about 11,700 people in 2018.

References

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Settlements in Lower Austria
Bressuire

Bressuire is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. It is a subprefecture of the Deux-Sèvres department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

Geography 
Bressuire is to the northwest of the Deux-Sèvres department. The city is at about  from Bordeaux,  from Paris,  from Marseille and  from Toulouse.

The commune has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune of Bressuire is surrounded by the communes:

Climate
The climate of Bressuire, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Bressuire are known, in French, as Bressuirais (women: Bressuiraises).

With a population of 19,300, Bressuire has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Bressuire

Administration 
Bressuire is a subprefecture of the Deux-Sèvres department, the capital of the arrondissement of Bressuire and the administrative centre () of the canton of Bressuire.

It is part of the intercommunality Le Bocage Bressuirais ().

Twinned and partner towns 

Bressuire is twinned with:
 Mequinenza, Aragon, Spain, since 1982
 Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, since 1990
 Hodac, Romania, since 1990
 Kpalimé, Togo, since 1991
 Friedberg, Germany, since 1992
 Leixlip, County Kildare, Leinster, Ireland, since 1996
 Ryazan, Russia, since 1997
 Parczew, Poland, since 1998

Gallery

References

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Bressuire
 Communes of the Deux-Sèvres department

Other websites

 City Council website 
 CA Bocage Bressuirais 

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Communes in Deux-Sèvres
Anderson County, Texas

Anderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 58,458 people lived there. The county seat is Palestine.

History 
The county was made in 1846.

Geography 
The county has a total area of 1,078 square miles.

People 
In 2010, there were 58,458 people living in Anderson County.

Places

City 
 Palestine (county seat)

Towns 
 Elkhart
 Frankston

Other 
 Alderbranch
 Bethel
 Blackfoot
 Bois d'Arc
 Bradford
 Brushy Creek
 Cayuga
 Cronin
 Crystal Lake
 Deanwright
 Elmtown
 Elmwood
 Fosterville
 Greens Bluff
 Long Lake
 Montalba
 Mound City
 Neches
 Pert
 Salmon
 Slocum
 Tennessee Colony

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Eastland County, Texas

Eastland County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 18,583 people lived there. The county seat is Eastland.

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Council for Secular Humanism

The Council for Secular Humanism is a non-profit organization that promotes secular values. Since 1991 it has been a program of the Center for Inquiry. 

In 2016, the Center for Inquiry merged with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, keeping one office in Washington DC.  This made the Center for Inquiry the largest secularist organization in the United States.

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 Council for Secular Humanism official website 

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Center for Inquiry

The Center for Inquiry is a nonprofit educational organization formed to promote secularist values.  It is the largest secularist organization in the U.S.

In 2016, the Center for Inquiry merged with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science to become the largest secularist organization in the U.S. The organization was started by humanist philosopher Paul Kurtz.  In 2008, attorney Ron Lindsay became leader of the organization.  In 2016, Robyn Blumner, the executive director of the Dawkins Foundation, became the new leader.

Other websites 

 Center for Inquiry official website

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Roberto Ferreiro

Roberto Oscar Ferreiro (25 April 1935 – 20 April 2017) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Ferreiro played club football for Independiente and River Plate.

He earned 18 caps for the Argentine national team between 1962 and 1966.

After retiring as a player Ferreiro went on to become a manager, taking charge at Independiente in the 1970s. He led the team to a number of championships, including the 1973 Intercontinental Cup and Copa Libertadores 1974.

Ferreiro died on 20 April 2017 in Buenos Aires at the age of 81.

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John T. Noonan Jr.

John Thomas Noonan Jr. (October 24, 1926 – April 17, 2017) was an American circuit judge. He served as a Circuit Judge on the United States Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from December 17, 1985 through December 27, 1996.

Noonan Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University, at St John's College, Cambridge and at The Catholic University of America. From 1967 until his death in 2017, Noonan Jr. was married to Mary Lee Bennett. They had three children. 

Noonan Jr. died on April 17, 2017 in Berkeley, California, aged 90.

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April 2017 Champs-Élysées attack

On 20 April 2017, three police officers were shot by an assailant with a Kalashnikov rifle on the Champs-Élysées, a shopping street in Paris, France. One was killed and two others, along with another person, were seriously injured before the attacker was killed. An accomplice in the attack was also identified. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility.

President François Hollande called for an emergency security meeting at the Élysée Palace. He later released a statement saying French authorities were "convinced" the shooting was a suspected terrorist attack. Following the shooting, U.S. President Donald Trump, who was holding a press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni at the time, expressed his condolences to the people of France and said, "[W]e have to be strong and we have to be vigilant."

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Jean-Luc Mélenchon (; born 19 August 1951) is a left-wing French politician who currently serves as a member of the National Assembly of the French Republic.

Political career
In 1976, he was elected municipal councilor of Massy (1983), general councilor of the Essonne departement (1985), and senator of the same department (1986, reelected in 1995 and 2004). He also served as Minister-Delegate of Vocational Education between 2000 and 2002, under the Minister of National Education, Jack Lang, in the cohabitation government of Lionel Jospin.

As leader of the Left Party, he joined the electoral coalition of the Left Front before the 2009 European elections and was elected member of the European Parliament in the South-West constituency (reelected in 2014).

Presidential politics
During the protest movement against the pension reform of 2010 his public stature grew thanks to his many public and television appearances. He was also the candidate of that coalition in the 2012 presidential election, at the outcome of which he came in fourth, receiving 11.1% of the votes. He is a candidate in the 2017 presidential election "outside the frame of political parties", and founded the movement "Unsubmissive France" (FI) in February 2016.

He is a candidate for the presidency again for the 2022 election.

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Angel Espinosa

Ángel Espinosa Capó (October 2, 1966 – April 12, 2017) was a Cuban amateur boxer. He was part of the 1980s at junior middleweight and middleweight and captured the 1986 World Amateur Boxing Championships. He never won an Olympic medal due to Cuba's boycott of the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. A hard hitting Cuban with a southpaw stance one of the most feared in his era was known to have about 300 amateur fights.

Espinose was found dead in his gym in Miami, Florida from a suspected cardiac arrest on 12 April 2017, aged 50.

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Burton Watson

Burton DeWitt Watson (June 13, 1925 – April 1, 2017) was an American scholar and translator of both Chinese and Japanese literature. He was born in New Rochelle, New York.

Watson received awards including the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in 1982 for his translation with Hiroaki Sato of From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, and again in 1995 for Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o. He also received the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation in 2015.

Watson died on April 1, 2017 in Kamagaya, Japan, aged 91.

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Bill Hagerty

William Francis "Bill" Hagerty IV (born August 14, 1959) is an American businessman and politician. He is the junior U.S. Senator from Tennessee since 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party.

He was the managing director and co-founder of Hagerty Peterson & Company, a private equity investment firm.

On March 27, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Hagerty to serve as United States Ambassador to Japan, replacing Obama appointee Caroline Kennedy. He was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 86-12 vote.

Hagerty was born in Tennessee. He studied at Vanderbilt University.

On July 16, 2019, Hagerty announced he would resign as Ambassador to Japan. This came after President Trump announced his support for Hagerty for U.S. Senator of Tennessee in the 2020 election. In August 2020, he won the Republican nomination.

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Lewis Eisenberg

Lewis Michael "Lew" Eisenberg (born 1942) is an American financier, investor and philanthropist.

Eisenberg is known for co-founding and heading a private equity firm, Granite Capital International Group L.P. Lewis Eisenberg has a relation in American political fundraising circles. He is most notable for the various national, state, and bi-state appointments he held throughout his career, specifically as the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the time of the September 11, 2001 attack of the World Trade Center, which the Port Authority operated.

In January 2017, Eisenberg was named as President Donald Trump's Ambassador to Italy. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 2017.

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Risa Itō

is a Japanese manga artist. Her main works are Hey Pitan!, Higepiyo and Oruchuban Ebichu ("Ebichu Minds the House"). Oruchuban Ebichu was produced as an animated TV program for Gainax.

She was born in Hara town, Suwa District in Nagano Prefecture.

Work 
 Hey Pitan!
 Oruchuban Ebichu
 Higepiyo
 One Woman, Two Cats
 Onna no Mado

Awards 
 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo - Oi Pītan!!
 2006 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Short Story Award - One Woman, 
 Two Cats, Oi Piitan!!
 Onna no Mado

Other websites
 
 Risa Itō Web Site  
 Profile

1969 births
Living people
Japanese manga artists
Japanese writers
NI Railways

NI Railways also known as Northern Ireland Railways is the national railway of Northern Ireland.  It is run by Translink, and they also run buses such as Ulsterbus and buses in Belfast called Metro.

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Rail transport in the United Kingdom
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Weinviertel

The Weinviertel (Wine Quarter), also called the Viertel unter dem Manhartsberg (Quarter below the Manhartsberg), is a region in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

The Weinviertel is the most northeastern part of (Lower) Austria. It lies above the Danube River and borders both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The city/state of Vienna lies in the south.

It consists of low hills, which form the most western spur of the Carpathian Mountains.

It is well known for its winegrowing (the biggest of Austria).

The maximum temperature in July and August is about 24 °C.

The Weinviertel comprises the following districts:
 Gänserndorf District
 Hollabrunn District (most of it)
 Korneuburg District
 Mistelbach District
and:
 Horn District (small part in the east)
 Krems-Land District (small part in the east)
 Tulln District (northern part)

Other websites
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Washiqur Rahman

Washiqur Rahman (Bengali: ওয়াশিকুর রহমান বাবু) (c. 1988 - March 30, 2015) was a Bangladeshi blogger.  He was hacked to death by two men with meat cleavers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after he wrote blog posts critical of Islam.

Washiqur Rahman, also spelled Oyasiqur Rhaman, was part of the 2013 Shabag movement, which called for the death penalty for Islamists for war crimes during the 1971 war for independence from Pakistan. 

Rahman used the pen name Kucchit Hasher Channa, or Ugly Duckling. Two students from an Islamic school were arrested by police. The two said they didn't know about Rahman's writing and they didn't know anything about blogs. Someone told them to kill Rahman as a religious duty. One of the attackers traveled from Chittagong and stayed overnight at a mosque.  The other attacker was from an Islamic school in Dhaka.  Rahman had a page on Facebook that said "I am Avijit", meaning he was a supporter of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American blogger who was killed a month earlier. 

On July 20, 2016, a Dhaka court indicted five people for the killing.  Police believed they were members of the banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team.

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Murder of Faisal Abedin Deepan

Faisal Abedin Deepan (Bengali: ফয়সাল আরেফিন দীপন)(c. 1972 - 31 October 2015) was a Bangladeshi book publisher of the Jagriti Prokashoni publishing house. He was hacked to death inside his house in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital.

Deepan was a secular book publisher who printed writing that discussed topics like atheism and sexual orientation.  He had received death threats from religious extremists.  He published books by Bangladeshi-American writer and blogger Avijit Roy who was the four secular bloggers killed in Bangladesh the same year. Dipan's father said his company had published Avajit Roy's 2014 book, Biswasher Virus (The Virus of Faith).

An hour earlier, another publisher and two writers were attacked, but they survived.  A local al-Qaeda group said they were responsible for the attack. Ahmed Rahim Tutal, a secular publisher, was attacked in his office at the Shudhdhoswar publishing house.

International reaction 

British politicians condemned the murder. British bishop Declan Lang, the chair of the international affairs department of the British bishops' conference, said that the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales should "speak out when people are imprisoned, tortured or killed on account of their atheism." Eric Adriaans, the National Executive Director of Centre For Inquiry Canada said that Canada should offer asylum to people targeted by religious extremists.

The International Publishers Association honored Deepan at their annual conference and called on the United Nations to do more about freedom of expression in Bangladesh. Tutul sent a message to the conference, saying: "If Jagriti Faisal Abedin Deepan were alive today, he would play an important role in this conference. But because he published free-thinking books, Islamist fundamentalists killed him. I urge all my publisher friends to continue to publish the works of free thinkers. I believe this is the best reply to the fundamentalists. By increasing the number of people that free-thinking books can reach, we'll be able to weaken fundamentalism in Bangladesh." Tutal also called for freedom for Bangladeshi writer and publisher, Shamsuzzoha Manik.  Manik was arrested under a Bangladeshi law that prohibits criticism of religion.  Manik is 73 years old and published a titled "Islam Bitorko" ("Debate on Islam").

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Lawrence Hogan

Lawrence Joseph Hogan (September 30, 1928 – April 20, 2017) was an American Republican U.S. Representative. His son is the current Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan.

Hogan represented the 5th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1975. Hogan did not run for re-election in 1974 and was unsuccessful that year in his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. He became county executive for Prince George's County, Maryland, in 1978 and served until 1982.

Hogan suffered a stroke and died on April 20, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 88.

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Yvonne Monlaur

Yvonne Monlaur (15 December 1939 – 18 April 2017) was a retired French movie actress who was active in the late 1950s and 1960s. She was best known for her roles in the Hammer horror movies. She was born in Pau, France. 

In 1960, she also starred in the Hammer horror movie The Brides of Dracula alongside Peter Cushing and Freda Jackson and in The Terror of the Tongs (1961) with Christopher Lee. 

Monlaur died on April 18, 2017 in Paris, aged 77.

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