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Miguel Ferrer

Miguel José Ferrer (February 7, 1955 – January 19, 2017) was an American actor. He was mostly known for villainous roles such as Bob Morton in RoboCop. He also voiced Delgado in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, the villain Hun leader Shan Yu in Mulan (1998) and Big Boss in Rio 2. Ferrer's other notable roles include Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan, NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles, Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3, and FBI forensic pathologist Albert Rosenfield in Twin Peaks.

Ferrer was born in Santa Monica, California to Academy Award-winning actor José Ferrer and singer Rosemary Clooney. His first cousin is actor George Clooney. He never went to college because he began his Hollywood career at an early age. His career began in 1981. He was married to actress Leilani Sarelle from 1991 until they divorced in 2003. In 2005, he married Lori Weintraub. They had three children.

Ferrer died on January 19, 2017 from throat cancer at his home in Los Angeles, California, aged 61.

Filmography

Animated Roles
 Adventure Time - Death, Grod
 American Dad! - Agent Hopkins
 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien - Alpha Squad, Magister Hulka
 Hercules - Antaeus
 Jackie Chan Adventures - Tarakudo the Shadowkhan King
 Robot Chicken - Danny Ocean
 Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters - Stretch Monster (2017)
 Superman: The Animated Series - Aquaman, De'Cine, Weather Wizard/Mark Mardon
 The Batman - Sinestro
 The Spectacular Spider-Man - Silvermane
 ThunderCats - Duelist
 Young Justice - Bibbo Bibbowski, Tribune, Vandal Savage (2010-2013)

Film Roles
 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 - Delgado
 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: Viva la Fiesta! - Delgado
 Justice League: The New Frontier - Martian Manhunter/J'onn J'onzz
 Mulan - Shan-Yu
 Rio 2 - Big Boss
 Teen Titans: The Judas Contract - Deathstroke/Slade Wilson

Video Game Roles
 Halo 2 - Heretic Leader

References

Other websites
 
 Voice chasers 
 The A.V. Club interview

1955 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from throat cancer
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Santa Monica, California
José Ferrer

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, theatre and movie director. He was the first Puerto Rican actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award (in 1950 for Cyrano de Bergerac). He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Ferrer was married to Rosemary Clooney, aunt of George Clooney, from 1954 through 1961 and again from 1964 through 1967. They had a son, actor Miguel Ferrer. In 1985 he received the National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan, becoming the first actor to receive that honor.

Ferrer died of colorectal cancer in Coral Gables, Florida on January 26, 1992, aged 80.

References

Other websites

 
 José Ferrer collection , Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University

Academy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Tony Award winning actors
1912 births
1992 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Puerto Rican actors
Puerto Rican movie actors
Puerto Rican television actors
Stage actors
Movie directors
People from San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mike Kellie

Michael "Mike" Alexander Kellie (24 March 1947 – 18 January 2017) was an English multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. 

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Kellie has been a member of the rock bands the V.I.P.s, Spooky Tooth and the Only Ones. He also played with Traffic, on one song "Rainmaker" on the The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys album in 1971.

References

1947 births
2017 deaths
English rock guitarists
English rock drummers
Musicians from Birmingham
Wayne Barrett

Wayne Barrett (July 11, 1945 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist. He was an investigative reporter and senior editor for the Village Voice for over 20 years. Barrett worked with the Nation Institute and contributor to Newsweek. He held degrees from St. Joseph's University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he served on the adjunct faculty for over thirty years.

Barrett wrote many articles and books about politicians, especially New York City figures such as Ed Koch, Donald Trump, and Rudy Giuliani. 

Barrett died in Manhattan from lung cancer on January 19, 2017, aged 71.

References

1945 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Writers from Connecticut
Journalists from New York City
Columbia University faculty
Educators from Connecticut
Educators from New York City
Shaimaa Sabbagh

Shaimaa Sabbagh, Arabic: شيماء الصباغ , (1984 – January 24, 2015) was an Egyptian poet and activist. She died at Tahrir Square during a demonstration to remember the anniversary of the Arab Spring.    

Sabbagh was a leading member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party. She became a symbol against Egypt's military.

A photograph of Sabbagh's death got international attention. The Egyptian photographer was Islam Osama. He worked for the Egyptian newspaper Youm El Sabea. His photo received the Shawkan Photo Award in 2015. The man in the picture who tried to help Sabbagh was Sayyid Abu el-Ela.  He was a friend who was also at the demonstration.

A police officer was convicted of killing her. In 2015, the conviction was reversed.

References  

1984 births
2015 deaths
Activists
Egyptian poets
Poets
Red Adams

Charles Dwight "Red" Adams (October 7, 1921 – January 18, 2017) was an American professional baseball player, scout and pitching coach. He played as a pitcher. He was best known for playing for the Los Angeles Angels and later being a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also played for the Chicago Cubs of the Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1946. He was born in Parlier, California.

Adams died on January 18, 2017 in Fresno, California at the age of 95.

References

Other websites

1921 births
2017 deaths
Baseball players from California
Chicago Cubs players
California Angels players
Samayapuram Mariamman Temple

Samayapuram Mariamman Temple is a Hindu Temple. It is in Samayapuram, a suburb of Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. The main deity of the temple is Mariamman. Mariamman is also known as "Samayapura Mariamman". The main deity is made of clay and sand like traditional Mariamman deities.

Followers believe that the Mariamman has enormous powers. These powers can cure any kind of disease or illness.They offer Mavilakku, a dish made up of jaggery, ghee and rice flour.

Samayapuram Mariamman Temple is the second wealthiest temple in Tamil Nadu after Palani Murugan temple. More than a thousand devotees visit Samayapuram on Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. These are holy days for Mariamman.

References

Hindu temples
Tiruchirapalli district
Alanganallur

Alanganallur is a panchayat town in the district of Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. This town is the headquarters of Alanganallur taluk and Alanganallur revenue block. The total population of this town is 11,075.

Alanganallur town is famous for the Jallikattu ceremony conducted throughout the four days of Pongal festival. Agriculture is the main occupation in the town.

The district headquarters Madurai city is 16 km away from this town. Alagar kovil is also near by, within 18 km.  Nearby places which attracts tourist are : The Thadakai Amman falls, Kodaikanal, Vaigai dam, Kumbakarai falls and Kutladampatti. There is a small dam named Sathiyar near Palamedu.

References

Madurai district
Akhilesh Yadav

Akhilesh Yadav (; born 1 July 1973), popularly known as Tonti Chor, is an Indian politician and the President of the Samajwadi Party. He is the 20th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He became the Chief Minister on 15 March 2012 at the age of 38. He thus became the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Yadav was born in the village of Saifai, Etawah District, Uttar Pradesh on 1 July 1973. He was born to Mulayam Singh Yadav and Malti Devi. Mulayam Singh Yadav is a politician, founder of Samajwadi Party and the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Yadav first was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha from the Kannauj constituency in the year 2000. On 10 March 2012, he was appointed as the leader of Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. He became the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 15 March 2012.

References 

1973 births
Politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Living people
Abdul Kalam Island

Abdul Kalam Island, formerly known as Wheeler Island, is an island off the coast of Odisha, India, approximately  from the state capital Bhubaneshwar. The Integrated Test Range missile testing facility is located on the island. The island was originally named after English commandant Lieutenant Wheeler. On 4 September 2015, the island was renamed to honour the late Indian president, Abdul kalam.Abdul Kalam Island is located in the Bay of Bengal approximately  off the eastern coast of India and about  south of Chandipur in Balasore district, Odisha.  The island is about  in length and  in area.

References

Islands of India
Pulicat Lake

Pulicat Lake is India's second largest brackish water lake after the Chilika Lake in Odisha. It straddles in the coast area of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu states with over 96% of it in Andhra Pradesh and 3% in Tamil Nadu situated on the Coromandel Coast in South India. The lake encompasses the Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary. The barrier island of Sriharikota separates the lake from the Bay of Bengal and is home to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The fishing village of Pulicat is at the south end of the lake, from which the lake got its name. The Satish Dhawan Space Center is located on the north end of the island.

References

Andhra Pradesh
Lakes of India
Primogeniture

Primogeniture is the system of inheritance by the firstborn, usually the eldest son. In feudal England and other legal systems, the legitimate first-born son gets the first right to inherit property. His claim is stronger than all daughters, younger sons and even elder illegitimate sons. The rule is that the eldest will always have the first claim. If there is no son, each of the daughters inherit an equal share of the estate. If there are no children, the property is often inherited by the eldest brother. Among siblings, sons inherit before daughters and so on. Primogeniture is Latin for "first born".

References 

Law
Journalists (novel)

Journalists ()  is a thriller novel by Russian writer Sergei Aman, published in 2013.

Plot
The book covers the time period from the eighties of the last century and to the tenth years of the present century. The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper “Moskovskij Bogomolets” (Moscow Believer). In result  a famous Moscow journalist was killed.

The main character of the novel is a journalist Sergei Ogloedov from this newspaper. The newspaper is very similar to the famous “Moskovskij Komsomolets”. 
All fifteen parts of the novel devoted to newspaper journalists. Each of them has a real prototype, which are current and former employees of the Editorial staff of "Moskovskij Komsomolets" — Dmitry Kholodov, Andrei Lapik, Vadim Poegli, Andrey Yahontov, Peter Spectr… Andrei Gusev, Natalya Zhuravleva, Elena Vasiluhina and others, including the Chief Editor Pavel Gusev. They all connected with the main character — Sergey Ogloedov, in which the author described himself. 
The novel describes real events. Journalists are saints and sinners in these events.

References

Other websites
              Journalists («Журналюги») in Lady’s Club  
 Сергей Аман «Журналюги». Роман/ М., «Зебра Е», 2013. — 224 с. ISBN 978-5-905629-31-0

2010s books
Fantasy books
Novels
Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff  (born James Chambers; 30 July 1944) is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician, singer and actor. He is best known for his songs "Wonderful World, Beautiful People", "Many Rivers to Cross", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come", "Reggae Night" and "Hakuna Matata". He is also well known for his  covers of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the movie Cool Runnings (1993). He also appeared in the movies The Harder They Come (1972) and Club Paradise (1986).

Cliff was born in Somerton District, Saint James. He was a Christian before becoming a Muslim. He is no longer religious. He is married has a daughter Lilty Cliff and a son Aken Cliff.

References

Other websites

 
 
 

1948 births
Living people
Converts to Islam
Jamaican singers
Reggae musicians
Padma River

Padma River is a major river in Bangladesh. It is the main distributary of the Ganges, flowing generally southeast for  to its confluence with the Meghna River near the Bay of Bengal. The city of Rajshahi is situated on the banks of the river.
The Padma River enters Bangladesh from India near a place named Chapai Nababganj and meets the Jamuna River near a place Aricha and gets its name Padma again, but finally meets with the Meghna near Chandpur and adopts the name "Meghna" before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. It is the "National river of Bangladesh".

Reference

Rivers of Bangladesh
National symbols of Bangladesh
Molecular machine

A molecular machine, or nanomachine, is any set of molecules which produce mechanical movements (output) in response to specific stimuli (input).  The term is common in nanotechnology where a number of complex molecular machines have been proposed which might be a way of making a "molecular assembler". Molecular machines can be divided into two broad categories: synthetic and biological.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Biological nanomachines 

The most complex molecular machines are made of proteins, and found in cells.  These include 'motor proteins'. Examples are: myosin, (which does muscle contraction), kinesin (which moves molecules from the nucleus along microtubules), and dynein (which produces the beating of motile cilia and flagella). These proteins are far more complex than any molecular machines that have yet been made by mankind.

Probably the most significant biological machine known is the ribosome. Other important examples include motile cilia: "In effect, the [motile cilium] is a nanomachine [of] over 600 proteins in molecular complexes, many of which also function independently as nanomachines".

References 

Machines
Molecular biology
Trent Robinson

Trent Robinson (born 15 March 1977) is an Australian professional rugby league coach. He is the coach of the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League (NRL). In 2013, his first year with the club, the Roosters won a premiership. He also coached the French side Catalans Dragons. He played for the Wests Tigers and the Parramatta Eels in the early 2000s.

References

Other websites
 Trent Robinson at the Rugby League Project

1977 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Coaches
National parks of Fiji

This is a list of national parks of Fiji.

On the island of Viti Levu:
 Koroyanitu National Park, Nadi Area
 Nausori Highland, Nadi Area
 Colo-i-Suva Nature Reserve, Suva
 Sigatoka Sandunes National Park

On the island of Taveuni:
 Bouma National Park

On the island of Ovalau:
 Lovoni Trail

National parks in Oceania
Fiji
Lists of national parks
Oceania-related lists
Hans Breukhoven

Johannes Arie "Hans" Breukhoven (31 October 1946 – 20 January 2017) was a Dutch businessman. He was the founder and president of Free Record Shop. He founded the retail store in 1971. Free Record Shop had hundreds of stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. He was born in Rotterdam, South Holland.

Breukhoven died from pancreatic cancer  on 20 January 2017 in London, United Kingdom. He was 70.

References

1946 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in London
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Dutch businesspeople
People from Rotterdam
Château Frontenac

The Château Frontenac is a hotel in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is operated as Fairmont Le Château Frontenac. Château Frontenac sits at an elevation of . It was made a National Historic Site of Canada in 1980.

References 

Hotels
Western Region (Iceland)

The Western Region (Icelandic: Vesturland) is a region in the west of Iceland. The population of the region was 15,300 (2007). The biggest town in the region is Akranes. However, the capital town is Borgarnes.

Related pages 
 Regions of Iceland

Regions of Iceland
Öfnerspitze

The Öfnerspitze is a rocky mountain in the  Allgäu Alps. It is  high. It is southeast of the Krottenspitze, and joined to it by a flat piece of rock. It is made of Dolomite. There are no marked paths to the Öfnerspitze, and it is rarely climbed. It was first climbed in 1854 by a survey team.

Gallery

Sources 
 Thaddäus Steiner: Allgäuer Bergnamen, Lindenberg, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2007, 
 Thaddäus Steiner: Die Flurnamen der Gemeinde Oberstdorf im Allgäu, Munich, Selbstverlag des Verbandes für Flurnamenforschung in Bayern, 1972
 Zettler/Groth: Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen. Munich, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother 1984. 

Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Tyrol (state)
Mountains of Austria
Mountains of Germany
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) was a  1907 cubist painting by Picasso. It represents five women in a brothel. It took him nine months to paint it. Picasso gave up all attempts at traditional painting in this early cubist painting. He distorted the female figures in a way that showed the influence of African art. When the  painting was shown in his studio to a group of painters and critics, they were outraged. Henri Matisse called it a hoax and an attempt to paint the fourth dimension, The art critic André Salmon wrote: "It was the ugliness of the faces that froze with horror the half-converted". Another painter, André Derain, wrote: "One day we shall find Pablo has hanged himself behind his great canvas". It has been called one of the most significant paintings of the 20th century. The two figures on the right are shown with African mask-like features, an interest of Picasso at the time.

References

Other websites 
 Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907; YouTube
 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Washington University Digital Archive

Paintings
Works about prostitution
James S. Vlasto

Dimitrius Solon "James" Vlasto (June 11, 1934 – January 17, 2017) was an American editor, political public relations consultant and public servant. He served in federal, New York state and city senior government positions. He was born in New York City. He served as a Public Relations Representative. 

Vlasto joined the Atlantis in 1956 after his service in the United States Army. In March 1966, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. hired Vlasto to do PR for his campaign for Governor of New York on the Liberal Party ticket in 1966 against the incumbent Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller. 

Vlasto was also New York state public relations advisor for Senator George McGovern in the United States presidential election in New York, 1972, a member of the finance committee for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in the United States presidential election in New York, 1988  and New York State public relations advisor for Morris Udall’s run for Democratic nomination for President in 1976.

Vlasto worked as press secretary for former Bronx Borough President Herman Badillo during his run for mayor.

Vlasto died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in New York City on January 17, 2017, aged 82.

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1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Writers from New York City
Jan Kruis

Jan Kruis (; 8 June 1933 – 19 January 2017) was a Dutch comics artist. He was most well known for the strip  Jack, Jacky and the Juniors. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 1996, he was given the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Kruis died on 19 January 2017 at his home in Mantinge, Netherlands, aged 83.

References

Other websites

 

1933 births
2017 deaths
Comics artists
People from Rotterdam
Ger van Mourik

Ger van Mourik (4 August 1931 – 19 January 2017) was a Dutch footballer who played as a rightback. van Mourik played his entire career for hometown club Ajax, making his debut on 3 June 1950 against Enschedese Boys.  He was Ajax' captain for eight years and played 277 matches for the club, scoring 1 goal. Van Mourik managed DWV from 1974 until 1982, leading the club to the Dutch amateur title in 1977. He also coached SV Marken.

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1931 births
2017 deaths
Dutch footballers
Sportspeople from Amsterdam
Edwin Pope

John Edwin Pope (April 11, 1928 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist.

Biography 
He was known for his sportswriting at the Miami Herald, where his work appeared from 1956 until his death in 2017. He covered Super Bowl I through Super Bowl XLVII. Some called him as "the best writer of sports in America."

Pope's success with his 1954 book Football's Greatest Coaches, allowed him to leave the Atlanta area and move down to Miami, where he accepted a job at the Miami Herald in 1956. While he retired as the Herald sports editor in 2003, he contributed columns to the newspaper until 2016, when he wrote his last piece eulogizing boxer and former Miami resident Muhammad Ali.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Florida
American journalists
Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Klaus Huhn

Klaus Huhn (24 February 1928 – 20 January 2017) was a German sports journalist, writer and sports administrator. Huhn worked for the  East German mass-market daily newspaper, Neues Deutschland, and was chairman of the Sports Journalists Sub-Association within that country's important Union of Journalists. He was born in Berlin.

Huhn died on 20 January 2017 in Berlin, aged 88.

References

1928 births
2017 deaths
German journalists
Writers from Berlin
Harry J. Middleton

Harry Joseph Middleton, Jr. (October 24, 1921 – January 20, 2017) was an American journalist, author, and library director. He served as Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidential speech writer and staff assistant from 1967 to 1969. In 1970, Johnson named him the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (LBJ Library) on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. He retired in 2002. Middleton also served as Executive Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation from 1993 until 2004.

Middleton was born in Centerville, Texas. He studied at Washburn University and at Louisiana State University. Middleton died at his home in Austin, Texas on January 20, 2017, aged 95.

References

1921 births
2017 deaths
American journalists
American historians
Writers from Iowa
Trettachspitze

The Trettachspitze is a mountain in the Allgäu Alps in Germany. It is made of Dolomite and is  high. It is one of the best-known mountains in the Allgäu Alps. 

It is the only high rocky mountain in the Allgäu Alps that is completely in Germany. With the Mädelegabel () and the Hochfrottspitze () it forms the famous threesome of mountains on the main ridge of the Allgäu Alps. It is found north of the Mädelegabel. It was first climbed in 1855 by 3 brothers, Urban, Alois and Mathias Jochum.

Gallery

Additional reading 

 Ernst Enzenperger: Die Gruppe der Mädelegabel, München, Jos. Köselsche Buchhandlung, 1909
 
 
 Thaddäus Steiner: Die Flurnamen der Gemeinde Oberstdorf im Allgäu, München, Selbstverlag des Verbandes für Flurnamenforschung in Bayern, 1972
 Thaddäus Steiner: Hieß die Trettachspitze einst Giis(t)kopf in Unser Oberstdorf, Blätter zur Oberstdorfer Heimatgeschichte. Heft 9/1986, S. 68.
 
 Alpenvereinskarte 1:25.000, Blatt 2/1, Allgäuer- Lechtaler Alpen, West

References 

Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Mountains of Germany
Wakinosaurus

Wakinosaurus (meaning "Wakino lizard") is a dubious genus of theropod dinosaur. It is named from the find of a single tooth.‭ ‬The genus is dubious (doubtful) because it is almost impossible to assign further fossil material to it.

The find was made in Lower Cretaceous deposits in Fukuoka, Japan in 1990 by Masahiro Sato. The triangular-shaped tooth has fine serrations on its cutting edge, which is standard for a theropod dinosaur.

References 

Dinosaurs of Asia
Sixpence (British coin)

The sixpence (6d; ), sometimes known as a tanner or half-shilling was a British coin. It was worth 6 pennies or  new pence. It has not been produced since 1970. The coin was first minted in silver during the reign of Edward VI of England. From 1947 it was made from cupronickel. Following decimalisation, on 15 February 1971, the coin remained in circulation but was reduced in value. It was taken out of circulation in 1980.

References 

British currency
Survival mode

Survival mode is a video game mode. In this mode a player must continue playing for as long as possible without dying. It must be done in one session with no interruptions. This is while the game becomes more difficult by adding waves of challenges.

References 

Video game design
Video game gameplay
Noppenspitze

The Noppenspitze is a rocky mountain in the Allgäu Alps. It is  high and made of Dolomite. It is in the central part of the Hornbach chain. The Noppenspitze was first climbed on 16 August 1890 by  Antony Spiehler and his guide, Johann Schiffer. The Noppenspitze is not climbed very much. According to the summit book in 2006, it was only being climbed about 5 - 15 times per year.

Gallery

Additional Reading 

 Dieter Seibert: Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer und Ammergauer Alpen, 16th edition, Rother Bergverlag, 2004, 
 Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, 1. Band, Die Nördlichen Kalkalpen, Verlag des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenvereins, Berlin, 1893

Allgäu Alps
Mountains of Austria
Altusried

Altusried is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is the location of the open-air theatre Freilichtspiele Altusried.

References

Oberallgäu
Nemegtosaurus

Nemegtosaurus is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur found in Mongolia. A possible synonym of Nemegtosaurus is Opisthocoelicaudia. It was named after the place it was discovered, the Nemegt Basin.

References 

Titanosaurs
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Bad Hindelang

Bad Hindelang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. From 2008 it has a population of 4,915. It is known for its sulphur springs and pure mountain air. Today the municipality is a health resort. It is  above sea level.

Mayors 
 1900-1919:  Josef Anton Blanz
 1920-1933:  Michael Haas
 1933-1939:  Anton Schmid
 1939-1945:  Karl Blanz
 1945-1947:  Max Zillibiller, CSU
 1947-1948:  Xaver Blenk
 1948-1960:  Alois Haug
 1960-1984:  Georg Scholl, CSU
 1984-2008:  Roman Haug, Freie Wähler
 2008–present: Adalbert Martin, CSU

Photo gallery

References

Additional Reading 
 Wolfgang B. Kleiner/Martin Kluger (Augsburg): Bad Hindelang im Allgäu. Bayerns zauberhafter Süden. context medien und verlag, Augsburg 2009,

Other websites 

 Official site

Spa towns in Germany
Oberallgäu
Oberstaufen

Oberstaufen is a municipality  in the district of Oberallgäu in Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany. It is on the B 308 road from Lindau to Immenstadt.

History 
It is first mentioned as Stoufun in AD 868. It was originally part of Swabia. It joined Bavaria in 1805 with the Peace of Pressburg.

Oberstaufen was the first town in Germany to be on Google Street View. This was because of a marketing campaign by the Oberstaufen tourist industry.

References

Other websites 
 Webcams in Oberstaufen 
 Fasnatziestag in Oberstaufen; YouTube

Oberallgäu
Nomen dubium

A nomen dubium is Latin for "doubtful name" (plural nomina dubia). It is a scientific name in zoology which  is of unknown or doubtful use.

With a nomen dubium it may be impossible to decide whether a specimen belongs to that group or not. This may happen if the original type specimen is lost or destroyed. The zoological and botanical codes allow for a new type specimen, or neotype, to be chosen in this case.

A name may also be considered a nomen dubium if its name-bearing type is fragmentary or lacking important diagnostic features. This is often the case for species known only as fossils. To preserve stability of names, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature allows a new type specimen, or neotype, to be chosen for a nomen dubium in this case.

It is one of a number of terms which are used in biological taxonomy.

References

Zoology
Taxonomy
Wiggensbach

Wiggensbach is a municipality in Bavaria. It is about  west of Kempten, the next big town. Next door municipalities are Altusried in the north and Buchenberg in the south of the village. Wiggensbach is the main village. Ermengerst and Westenried are the two districts of Wiggensbach. There are 72 hamlets around the municipality. The village is between  above sea level.

Wiggensbach is twinned with Hattstatt in France. The 20th anniversary of the partnership was in 2003.

References

Oberallgäu
Hochvogel

The Hochvogel is a  high mountain in the Allgäu Alps. The border between Germany and Austria runs over the summit. Climbers can ascend the summit on two marked routes. One of the most interesting climbs is by Hermann von Barth. He stayed overnight at the summit in 1869. On 14 December 1945 an American Flying Fortress crashed on the west of the Hochvogel.

Gallery

References

Sources and maps 
 Anton Spiehler, Die Allgäuer Alpen, in Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen, Volume 1, 1893, pp. 47–48. 
 Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen 9th edition 1974, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, , out of print;
 Alpenvereinsführer Allgäuer Alpen und Ammergauer Alpen alpin 16th edition 2004, Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, ;
 Alpenvereinskarte 2/2 Allgäuer-Lechtaler Alpen – Ost 1:25,000 7th edition 2002;
 Gipfelziele Allgäuer Alpen 1987, Bruckmann Verlag, , out of print
 Kristian Rath und Tobias Burger, Prinz-Luitpold-Haus DAV-Hüttenführer – Wandern, Klettern, Abenteuer rund um den Hochvogel, Kempten 2006, .
 Wanderführer Hinterhornbach. Natur- und kulturkundlicher Wanderführer von Gustav und Georg Dinger, hrsg. v. d. Sektion Donauwörth d. Deutschen Alpenvereins, Verlag Ludwig Auer, 
 Hermann von Barth, Einsame Bergfahrten, Albert Langen Verlag Munich, o.J. (description of the above-mentioned summit crossing)

Other websites

 Prinz-Luitpold-Hütte / The Prinz Luitpold Haus of the German Alpine Club
 Tour report 

Allgäu Alps
Geography of Bavaria
Tyrol (state)
Mountains of Austria
Mountains of Germany
Shaft (movie)

Shaft is a 1971 crime drama movie. It was directed by Gordon Parks.

Plot
John Shaft, a private detective, is warned that some gangsters are looking for him. Police Lieutenant Vic Androzzi meets with Shaft. Androzzi unsuccessfully tries to get some information on the gangsters. When Androzzi leaves, Shaft sees one of the men waiting for him in his office building. He brings the first gangster into the office. The second gangster is waiting there. After a quick fight, Shaft avoids one of the gangsters, who goes out the window. The other gangster surrenders and tells Shaft that a man named Bumpy Jonas wanted a meeting between him and Shaft. Jonas is the leader of a Harlem-based organized crime family,

Shaft meets with Bumpy. Shaft learns that Bumpy's daughter, Marcy Jonas, has been kidnapped. Bumpy asks Shaft to make sure that Marcy is returned safely.

Shaft tracks down a man named Ben Buford. A big shootout takes place. After the shooting, Shaft is told by Vic that he (Shaft) was the target, and not Ben. But the view is black against white, according to the general public.

Vic shows Shaft two pictures of the Mafia men who arrived in New York City. 

Shaft suspects that gangsters are watching his place from a local bar. He pretends being a bartender. He calls the police to have the gangsters arrested. He later goes to the police station and sets up a meeting. The meeting is about where Bumpy's daughter is being held.

Cast
Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas
Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi
Christopher St. John as Ben Buford
Gwenn Mitchell as Ellie Moore
Lawrence Pressman as Tom Hannon
Victor Arnold as Charlie
Sherri Brewer as Marcy Jonas
Rex Robbins as Rollie
Camille Yarbrough as Dina Greene
Margaret Warncke as Linda
Joseph Leon as Byron Leibowitz
Arnold Johnson as Cul

Awards
The "Theme from Shaft" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The Shaft soundtrack album won a Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album. It also won a Grammy for Best Original Score, and two other awards

Reception
The movie was one of only three profitable movies in 1971 for MGM.

Shaft was very successful. It helped pull a then-struggling MGM out of danger of bankruptcy.

The critics reviews on the movie were mixed. Roger Ebert gave the movie 2½ stars. Rotten Tomatoes rated this movie at 89%.

Themes
Shaft spawned several years of 'blaxploitation' crime movies.

References

1971 crime movies
1971 drama movies
1970s crime drama movies
American crime drama movies
Arrondissements of the Cantal department

There are 3 arrondissements in the Cantal department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs).  The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of Cantal are:

History
Since its creation, the Cantal department has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the department with four districts: Aurillac, Mauriac, Murat and Saint-Flour.
 1800 : creation of the arrondissements: Aurillac, Mauriac, Murat and Saint-Flour.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Murat is eliminated.

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Cantal
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and movie director. He was the first African-American to produce and direct major movies. He was best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s.

He created the blaxploitation genre. He was the director of the movie Shaft in 1971.

Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas. He died due to cancer in Manhattan, New York. Parks was 93.

References

Musicians from Kansas
Writers from Kansas
American photographers
American movie directors
Cancer deaths in New York City
1912 births
2006 deaths
Ahmed Gailani

Sayyid Ahmed Gailani (‎; 1932 – 20 January 2017) was an Afghan Islamic leader and politician. He was the leader (Pir) of the Qadiriyya Sufi order in Afghanistah. He was also the founder of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan. The party was tied with the Mujahideen who led the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. He also founded the High Peace Council in 2001. He was born in Surkh-Rōd District, Nangarhar Province.

Gailani died after an illness on 20 January 2017 in Kabul. He was 84.

References

2017 deaths
1932 births
Afghan politicians
Deaths from disease
Muslims
Pashtun people
Charles Liteky

Charles James "Charlie" Liteky (February 14, 1931 – January 20, 2017), formerly known as Angelo Liteky, was an American peace activist. He received the religious name Angelo as a member of a Catholic religious community of priests and Brothers, the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity.  He studied theology at their major seminary, located near Winchester, Virginia.  He was ordained a priest in May, 1960.  He served as a United States Army chaplain in the Vietnam War and was awarded the Medal of Honor, the U.S. highest military honor. He got the honor for carrying 20 wounded soldiers to safety during a 1967 battle while getting fired at by enemy soldiers. He was a Roman Catholic priest from 1960 until 1975. In 1986, he became the first person to give back the Medal of Honor.

Liteky was born in Washington, D.C. and joined the Army from Brooklyn, New York. He married Judy Balch in 1983.

Liteky died on January 20, 2017 in San Francisco, California. He was 85.

References

1931 births
2017 deaths
American activists
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
American Roman Catholics
People from Washington, D.C.
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
Philip Bond (actor)

Philip G. W. Bond (1 November 1934 – 17 January 2017) was a British actor. He was best known for playing Albert Frazer in 24 episodes of the 1970s BBC drama The Onedin Line. He also appeared in the series The Saint (1963), Doctor Who (1964), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1968), The Avengers (1969), Z-Cars (1969–75), Only Fools and Horses (1985), Casualty (2007), and Midsomer Murders (2007). His movie roles include Count Five and Die (1957), Orders to Kill (1958), Foxhole in Cairo (1960), I Want What I Want (1972) and Fever Pitch (1997).

Bond was born in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He was married to Pat Sandys until their divorce. They had three children, including Samantha (born 1961).

Bond died on 17 January 2017 in Madeira, Portugal. He was 82.

References

Other websites
 

1934 births
2017 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
People from Staffordshire
Balderschwang

Balderschwang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is home to the Balderschwang Yew, which may be the oldest tree in Germany. It has a population of 219. With an average of 2,450 liters per square meter per year, Balderschwang is the place with the most rainfall in Germany.

References

Other websites 
 Municipal website

Oberallgäu
Diana Thorneycroft

Diana Thorneycroft is a Canadian photographer and artist. She was born in 1956 in Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. She works in Winnipeg. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Some of these include the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris. Her work has received numerous awards. Thorneycroft was awarded the 2016 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction.

References 

1956 births
Living people
Canadian photographers
Opisthocoelicaudia

Opisthocoelicaudia is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur. It is from Late Cretaceous rocks from Mongolia's Nemegt Basin. In 1965 a well preserved skeleton was found, missing only a neck and head.

Possible synonymy with Nemegtosaurus
Scientists are arguing whether Nemegtosaurus is a synonym of Opisthocoelicaudia or its own genus, or vice versa.

Titanosaurs
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Betzigau

Betzigau is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It was first mentioned in 1238 as Bezzingowe. From 1988 to 2008 Betzigau grew by 440 people. Since 1 May 1996 the mayor has been Roland Helfrich.

References 

Oberallgäu
Acorn squash

Acorn squash (Cucurbita pepo var. turbinata), also called pepper squash or Des Moines squash, is a winter squash with distinctive longitudinal ridges on its exterior and sweet, yellow-orange flesh inside. It is a special kind of pumpkin. The plant originally grew in the southern United States and Mexico, but it has been cultivated worldwide.

Vegetables
Blaichach

Blaichach is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is in the northeast of the municipality the Iller flows through Blaichach. Blaichach was first mentioned as Bilaicha in 1275. Between 1988 and 2008 Blaichach grew by 599 people.

References 

Oberallgäu
Obermaiselstein

Obermaiselstein is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in the German state of Bavaria. About 60% of the land in the municipality is used for forestry or alpine sports.

References 

Oberallgäu
Bolsterlang

Bolsterlang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. From 1988 to 2008 Bolsterlang grew by 178 inhabitants. On March 16, 2014, Monika Zeller was again elected Mayor of Bolsterlang.

References 

Oberallgäu
Arrondissement of Mauriac

The arrondissement of Mauriac is an arrondissement of France.  It is part of the Cantal département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Mauriac.

History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Mauriac was one of them in the Cantal department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Mauriac is in the northwest of the department and has an area of , the smallest and with fewest people living in it with 26,192 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The arrondissement is bordered to the north and west by the Corrèze department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), to the northeast by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the arrondissement of Saint-Flour and to the south by the arrondissement of Aurillac.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

In the arrondissement of Mauriac, there is only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement, Naucelles and Riom-ès-Montagnes. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:

Communes
The arrondissement of Mauriac has 55 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):

 Ally (15003)
 Anglards-de-Salers (15006)
 Antignac (15008)
 Apchon (15009)
 Arches (15010)
 Auzers (15015)
 Barriac-les-Bosquets (15018)
 Bassignac (15019)
 Beaulieu (15020)
 Brageac (15024)
 Chalvignac (15036)
 Champagnac (15037)
 Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal (15038)
 Chaussenac (15046)
 Collandres (15052)
 Drugeac (15063)
 Escorailles (15064)
 Fontanges (15070)
 Jaleyrac (15079)
 La Monselie (15128)
 Lanobre (15092)
 Le Falgoux (15066)
 Le Fau (15067)
 Le Monteil (15131)
 Le Vaulmier (15249)
 Le Vigean (15261)
 Madic (15111)
 Mauriac (15120)
 Menet (15124)
 Moussages (15137)
 Méallet (15123)
 Pleaux (15153)
 Riom-ès-Montagnes (15162)
 Saignes (15169)
 Saint-Bonnet-de-Salers (15174)
 Saint-Chamant (15176)
 Saint-Hippolyte (15190)
 Saint-Martin-Cantalès (15200)
 Saint-Martin-Valmeroux (15202)
 Saint-Paul-de-Salers (15205)
 Saint-Pierre (15206)
 Saint-Projet-de-Salers (15208)
 Saint-Vincent-de-Salers (15218)
 Saint-Étienne-de-Chomeil (15185)
 Sainte-Eulalie (15186)
 Salers (15219)
 Salins (15220)
 Sauvat (15223)
 Sourniac (15230)
 Trizac (15243)
 Trémouille (15240)
 Valette (15246)
 Vebret (15250)
 Veyrières (15254)
 Ydes (15265)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Cantal department
 Communes of the Cantal department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Mauriac
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Buchenberg

Buchenberg is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Between 1988 and 2008 Buchenberg grew by 412 people. Toni Barth has been mayor of Buchenberg since March 2004. He is currently in his third term of office as mayor.

References 

Oberallgäu
Burgberg im Allgäu

Burgberg is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Between 1988 and 2008 Burgberg grew by 488 inhabitants.

References 

Oberallgäu
Nurosaurus

Not to be confused with Naosaurus, a genus of pelycosaur.

Nurosaurus is the informal name given to a genus of Sauropod dinosaur. It was from the Cretaceous period in Inner Mongolia, China. It was a herbivore or plant-eater. "Nurosaurus" grew to about  long. The proposed binominal name is Nurosaurus qaganensis (Dong 1992).

References 

Sauropods
Cretaceous dinosaurs
Stanley Park

Stanley Park is a park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The park opened on September 27, 1888. It was named after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the Governor General of Canada at the time. It is the third largest urban park in North America. The park covers . It attracts about 8 million visitors every year. Stanley Park is larger than New York City's Central Park. In Stanley Park there is a large aquarium, a protected forest, the lost lagoon, totems and other attractions.

Related pages 
 List of botanical gardens

References

Other websites 

 Stanley Park, Vancouver Tour; YouTube
 Stanley Park Ecology Society 

1888 establishments in Canada
Vancouver
Botanical gardens
Zoos
Aquariums
Dietmannsried

Dietmannsried is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. It is located  south of Memmingem, and  north of Kempten. From 1988 to 2008 Dietmannsried grew by 1729 people. Since 2014 the mayor has been Werner Andres.

References 

Oberallgäu
Durach

Durach is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.

The village came into international media attention in August 2008. A light aircraft hit power lines nearby. The pilot and passenger survived inside the plane dangling on power cables. They were rescued in front of cameras.

References 

Oberallgäu
Fischen

Fischen im Allgäu is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany. Fishcen is found  north of Oberstdorf. It is on the banks of the river Iller.

References 

Oberallgäu
Lída Baarová

Lída Baarova (born Ludmila Babková 7 September 1914 in Prague – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress. She studied acting at Conservatory and received her first  film role in Pavel Čamrda's Career (Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy), filming was forbidden for students, she made up pseudonym Lída Baarova after her father's friend J.Š.Baar at age 17. The film was successful, so she had to leave the conservatory.

Her life 
Lída was born in family of Karel Babka,an official of the Prague City Hall, his wife Ludmila Babková, opera singer and piano player, occasionally sang in the choir of National Theatre. They also had second daughter Zorka, who was actress as well.In 1934 Lída was chosen by the German UFA to act the lead role in, Barcarolle, . Film that made her huge star overnight. Media marked her as mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. On the orders of Hitler himself, however, she had to leave, so she left Germany in 1939. She left to Italy, where before the war returned to Prague. At the end of the war fled to Germany but was interned by the US occupation authorities, was investigated by CIC and September 23, 1945 was handed over to Czechoslovakia. She was in terrogated and imprisoned in Munich for alleged collaboration. She spent 16 months in jail, but she was released on Christmas Eve 1946 after she was not found guilty. Lída married J.Kopecký and in 1948 fled do Austria together. In 1966 she was married again, with doctor Kurt Lundwalle and they lived together in Salzburg. He died in 1972 and till her death she lived alone. Baarova died in 2000 (she suffered from Parkinson's disease) and she's buried in Prague.

, I was foolish, stupid, drunk with glory and against my will I was really badly tangled in history.`` she said about her life.

1914 births
2000 deaths
Czech movie actors
Walter Benz

Walter Benz (May 2, 1931 – January 13, 2017) was a German mathematician, an expert in geometry. Benz was born in Mainz, Germany. He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

After a position at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he served as a professor at the Universities of Bochum, Waterloo and Hamburg where he was professor emeritus. Benz was honoured with the degree of a Dr. h.c.

Inner product spaces over the real numbers were the basis of a 2007 book by Benz: Classical Geometries in Modern Contexts.

References

Other websites
 Personal web site
 Oberwolfach Photo Collection

1931 births
2017 deaths
German academics
German mathematicians
People from Mainz
University of Waterloo
Tibetan antelope

Tibetan antelope, also known as Chiru is a medium sized antelope most closely related to wild goats and sheep of the subfamily Caprinae. Tibetan antelope are native to northwest India and Tibet. They live on the treeless Steppe above . They are an endangered species. They are a target for hunters for their fine underfur called chiru. It is used to make luxury shawls. It takes about four animals to make a single shawl. In order to collect the chiru, the animals must be killed. Because of this the Chiru are close to extinction.

References

Other websites 
 Chinese Scientists Witness Tibetan Antelopes' Life or Death Migration; YouTube

Caprids
Mammals of Asia