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Emile Degelin

Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian movie director and novelist. He was known for being the director of If the Wind Frightens You. His 1963 movie Life and Death in Flanders was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 movie Palaver was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His last movie, De ooggetuige, won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995.

Degelin was born in Diest, Belgium. He died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo, a borough of Leuven, Belgium from pneumonia at the age of 90.

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Belgian movie directors
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Novelists
Victor Găureanu

Victor Dan Găureanu, better known as Dan Găureanu  (15 November 1967 – 20 May 2017) was a Romanian fencer. He was born in Nicolae Bălcescu, Coțușca Romania.

He competed in the sabre events at the 1992 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Fencing Championships after he was defeated by Wiradech Kothny, who eventually won the gold medal. 

As part of the Romanian team he earned two bronze medals at the World Championships.

Găureanu died on 20 May 2017 in Bucharest from a suspected case of cardiac arrest at the age of 49.

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Deaths from cardiac arrest
Romanian sportspeople
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Olympians
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov

Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (Udmurt and ; 25 December 1951 – 20 May 2017) was the President of the Udmurt Republic.  As President, Volkov was the highest official in the Udmurt Republic, the head of the republic's highest executive body, and leader of its two million citizens.

Volkov took office November 3, 2000, for a five-year term after the first presidential elections in the Udmurt Republic took place on October 15, 2000. Befor the elections, Volkov was the speaker of the Udmurtia Republican Legislature.

Volkov died on 20 May 2017 in Berlin, Germany, where he was being treated at a clinic for cancer at the age of 65.

References

Other websites
Enc. Official Site 
Gazprom.ru  Gazprom's delegation visited machine building compainies in Perm region and Udmurtia 
GDF.ru - 'The Mass Media in Udmurtia, Or A Summer Journey to Izhevsk', Alexander Mnatsakanyan 
Udmurt.ru Official President's webpage (Udmurt Republic Press Service) 
Personal Life

1951 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Germany
Russian politicians
Presidents (government)
Tom Wright (baseball)

Thomas Everette "Tom" Wright (September 22, 1923 – September 5, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder. He was born in Shelby, North Carolina. Wright played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball (1948–56) for four American League teams. He threw right-handed, batted left-handed, stood  tall and weighed  as an active player.

Wright played for the Boston Red Sox (1948–1951), the St. Louis Browns (1952), the Chicago White Sox (1952–1953) and for the Washington Senators (1954–1956).  Wright retired after the 1957 minor league season.

Wright died on September 5, 2017 in Shelby, North Carolina from stroke complications at the age of 93.

References

Other websites
, or SABR Biography Project

1923 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Boston Red Sox players
Baltimore Orioles players
Chicago White Sox players
Minnesota Twins players
American military personnel of World War II
Sportspeople from North Carolina
Joy Corning

Joy Corning (September 7, 1932 — May 20, 2017) was an American politician and educator. She served as the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from January 1991 through January 15, 1999 during the governorship of Terry Branstad. She was a member of the Republican Party.

Corning entered the 1998 Republican Gubernatorial primary making history as the first woman to run for the Republican nomination to the office of Governor in the state’s history. After an abbreviated gubernatorial campaign, she was forced to drop out due in large part to a lack of financial support.

Corning was born in Bridgewater, Iowa. She graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. Corning died May 20, 2017 from liver disease in Cedar Falls, Iowa at the age of 84.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver disease
Disease-related deaths in the United States
Educators from Iowa
People from Cedar Falls, Iowa
Lieutenant Governors of Iowa
US Republican Party politicians
Kim Reynolds

Kimberly Kay "Kim" Reynolds (born August 4, 1959) is an American politician. She is the 43rd and current Governor of Iowa since May 24, 2017. Before, she was the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from January 14, 2011 until May 24, 2017. Reynolds also served as the Chair-Elect of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA). She served as a state senator from Osceola from January 11, 2009 through November 12, 2010.

Reynolds assumed the office of Governor of Iowa on May 24, 2017 because Terry Branstad was confirmed as the next United States Ambassador to China. Reynolds is the first woman to hold this office.

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1959 births
Living people
Governors of Iowa
US Republican Party politicians
Women politicians
Lieutenant Governors of Iowa
Ernest Godward

Ernest Godward was born in Marylebone, London on 7 April 1869. He was the son of Henry Robert Godward, a fireman, and his wife, Sarah Ann Pattison. He lived in England, New Zealand and the United States.   He created the spiral hairpin and a type of carburettor called a petrol economiser, which boosted engine performance and reduced fuel consumption. He also invented the Non-slip Egg Beater 
, a new post-hole borer, a new type of hair curler, a burglar-proof window and a hedge trimmer made from bicycle parts.

1869 births
Inventors
1936 deaths
Yung Mung Sung

Yung Mung Sung is an upcoming Tamil comedy-drama movie written and directed by M. S. Arjun. Prabhu Deva features in the leading role, while Lakshmi Menon selected as lead heroine,while Thangar Bachan and RJ Balaji play other pivotal roles. The movie began production in February 2017.

Cast
 Prabhu Deva
 Lakshmi Menon
 Thangar Bachan
 RJ Balaji
 Prabhakar
 Chithra Lakshmanan
 Ashwin Raja

Production
Prabhu Deva agreed terms to work with newcomer Arjun for the comedy movie Yung Mung Sung in January 2017, with Vasan Visual Ventures taking the role of producers. Actors Thangar Bachan and RJ Balaji were also recruited for the movie, with the former signed to feature as the father of Deva's character. The team held talks with Catherine Tresa to play the lead actress, but her unavailability led the team to cast Lakshmi Menon in the role. Prabhu Deva was revealed to be playing a Kung Fu master in the movie, which is a period drama that travels from the 1970s to the 1980s.

The movie began production on 9 February 2017 following a launch event held in Chennai.

References

2017 movies
2010s comedy movies
Automation

In the context of engineering, automation is when a device or a machine is changed in such a way that it can fulfill the task it was designed for without the need of human interaction. Very often, this means that the machine is fitted with an additional system which takes control of its functions. For example, a centrifugal governor controls a steam engine.

Benefits of automation are that the output of the machine or device are more uniform, and that product quality is improved. A system that is not fully automated needs human interaction is needed: Many of the tasks involved are repetitive and boring. In general, machines are also designed so that humans no longer need to lift heavy weights or do dangerous things. With automation, human intervention is limited  or absent.

Images 

Technology
Islets of Langerhans

The pancreatic islets or islets of Langerhans are parts of the pancreas. They have cells that make hormones. Some of these cells are beta cells that produce the hormone insulin.

Digestive system
Time in Pakistan

Pakistan has experimented with Daylight Saving Time (DST) a number of times since 2002, shifting local time from UTC+05:00 to UTC+06:00 during various summer periods, having the effect of making Pakistan counter-intuitively half an hour ahead of India during those times, even though India is generally to its east.

 In 2002, DST was observed from the first Sunday in April (April 7) at 00:00 to the first Sunday in October (October 6) at 00:00. The government cabinet decided to do this "in order to make maximum use of daylight and to save energy."
 In 2008, DST began on June 1, and was initially set to run through August 31 to meet the annual shortfall of 4 gigawatts of electricity instead of enforcing daily power cuts in households and factories. The government later extended the end date to October 31, including the holy month of Ramadan (which began in early September). DST was originally meant to end on August 31, 2008
 In 2009, DST was observed from April 15 through October 31.

Daylight saving time is no longer observed in Pakistan.

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Pakistan
Pakistan
Wels

Wels (Latin: Ovilava) is a city in the state of Upper Austria in Austria. It is on the Traun River near Linz. About 60,000 people lived there in 2016.

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Other websites 
 

Settlements in Upper Austria
Districts of Upper Austria
Cities in Austria
Kellogg's

Kellogg Company, or Kellogg's for short, is an American food distribution company. It is headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Kellogg's makes cereal, toaster pastries like Pop-Tarts, fruit-flavored snacks and vegetarian foods. The company's brands are Apple Jacks, Special K, Eggo, Rice Krispies, Cocoa Krispies, and many more.

Kellogg's products are made in 18 countries. They are sold in more than 180 countries, like France, Australia and Russia.

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American food companies
Companies based in Michigan
1906 establishments in the United States
Henggart

Henggart is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Official Website 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Herrliberg

Herrliberg is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Zürich
Paul Judge

Sir Paul Rupert Judge (25 April 1949 – 21 May 2017) was an English business and political figure. He served as Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc. He also worked at Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation, Tempur-Pedic, and The Abraaj Group.

Judge was born in London. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2002 until his death, he was married to Barbara Thomas. Judge died on 21 May 2017 in London at the age of 68.

References

Other websites

www.debretts.com
Sir Paul Judge's contact page on OneLeap 

1949 births
2017 deaths
Businesspeople from London
Politicians from London
Jimmy LaFave

Jimmy LaFave (July 12, 1955 – May 21, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. He was born in Willis Point, Texas. After moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma, LaFave created a musical style called Red Dirt music. LaFave was an Advisory Board member and regular performer at the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. 

LaFave has recorded 15 albums and his 2007 release, Cimarron Manifesto, reached the No. 1 mark on the Americana Music Association album chart. In 2012, LaFave released the studio album Depending On The Distance. 

LaFave died on May 21, 2017 in Austin, Texas from tissue cancer at the age of 61.

References

Other websites

 Jimmy LaFave Website
 Jimmy LaFave on MySpace

1955 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Texas
American singer-songwriters
American folk musicians
American folk singers
Singers from Austin, Texas
Musicians from Austin, Texas
Writers from Austin, Texas
Bill White (ice hockey)

William Earl "Bill" White (August 26, 1939 – May 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. White was one of the most notable defensive defense men of the 1970s. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He played for the Rochester Americans and the Springfield Indians in the AHL. He played in the NHL for the Los Angeles Kings and the Chicago Black Hawks.

White died on May 21, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario from natural causes at the age of 77.

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Other websites
 

1939 births
2017 deaths
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Chicago Blackhawks players
Deaths from natural causes
Disease-related deaths in Canada
Los Angeles Kings players
Ontario Hockey League players
Sportspeople from Toronto
Oscar Fulloné

Luis Oscar Fulloné Arce, better known as Oscar Fulloné (4 April 1939 – 22 May 2017) was an Argentine football coach and player. He played for Independiente Medellín and Real Oviedo before moving to England to play for Aston Villa in 1967.

Known as Oscar Arce during his time in England he remained in the country following his retirement from playing and was a coach for both Sheffield United and Sunderland. He became manager of Swiss side FC Sion in 1980 before going on to become one of the most successful African club managers.

References

Other websites
 Profile at afrik.com

1939 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from respiratory arrest
Argentine footballers
Argentine football managers
West End Girls

West End Girls is a pop song from the British duo Pet Shop Boys. The song is mixed with hip hop music. The lyrics are about inner-city life and class.

The first version of the song was released in April 1984. It became a club hit in the United States and some European countries. When the duo signed with British record company EMI, the song was re-recorded for their first studio album Please. In October 1985, the new version was released. It hit #1 in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.

In 1987, the song won Best Single at the BRIT Awards. In 2005, more than 20 years after its release, the song was awarded Song of the Decade between 1985 and 1994 by British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.

The "West End Girls" has many versions. One of them is eight minutes and nine seconds in length. Another version is seven minutes/fifty seconds long.

1984 songs
Pop songs
Songs about London
Zbigniew Wodecki

Zbigniew Stanisław Wodecki (6 May 1950 – 22 May 2017) was a Polish singer, musician, composer, actor and TV presenter. He was born in Kraków, Poland.

Wodecki was mostly known for songs “Chałupy Welcome To”, “Lubię wracać tam, gdzie byłem”, “Zacznij od Bacha” or the Polish versions of the Maya the Honey Bee, The Gummi Bears and the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie soundtracks. He was one of the judges on the Polish version of the Dancing with the Stars show, Taniec z gwiazdami, during its first twelve seasons.

Wodecki died at a hospital in Warsaw, Poland on 22 May 2017 from complications of a stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 67.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Deaths from COPD
Disease-related deaths in Poland
Polish singers
Polish composers
Polish actors
Television presenters
People from Kraków
Manchester Arena bombing

The Manchester Arena bombing was an Islamist suicide bomb attack. It occurred in Manchester, England, on the 22 May 2017. Twenty-three people were killed, including the bomber.

Bombing
The explosion caused Manchester Victoria railway station's services to be blocked. Police described the reports as a "serious incident".

Mayor of Liverpool Steve Rotheram was present at the concert with his family.

At approximately 01:35 BST, a controlled explosion was conducted by police in Cathedral Gardens after what was believed to be an explosive device was found. The item was determined to be harmless clothing that was left behind.

Police were first treating this as a possible but unconfirmed terrorist attack done by a suicide bomber until confirmed as a suicide bombing hours later.

The bombing is the most deadly terrorist attack to occur in the United Kingdom since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Attacker
The suicide bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a 22-year-old British citizen of Sunni Islam faith and was known to British security services. He was born in Manchester on 31 December 1994 to a family of refugees from Libya who had settled in south Manchester. The lone male was reported to have carried out the attack using an improvised explosive device in an act of a suicide attack.

Reactions
The event took place just over two weeks before a general election in the United Kingdom. Both Prime Minister and Conservative leader Theresa May, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron quickly condemned the incident, expressed sympathy for the victims, and praised the response of emergency services.

Condolences were expressed by the leaders and governments of many countries:  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Pope Francis, and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Yousef Al-Othaimeen.

President Donald Trump condemned the attack and wrote on Twitter: "We stand in absolute solidarity with the people of the United Kingdom." Trump also commented on the events whilst on a visit to Israel, calling the perpetrator(s) "evil losers."

A one-minute silence was observed at 11am on 25 May 2017.

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2017 crimes in the United Kingdom
2017 in England
2017 murders in the United Kingdom
2010s building bombings
2010s explosions in Europe
Arena bombing
Attacks on buildings and structures in 2017
Building bombings in England

Explosions in 2017
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2017
Islamic terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom
Mass murder in 2017
Mass murder in England
May 2017 events
Suicide bombings in Europe
Terrorist incidents in Europe in 2017
Terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom in the 2010s
Manchester Arena

The Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Hunts Bank, Manchester, North West England. It is just north of the city centre, and is above Manchester Victoria station.

The arena has the most seats of any indoor venue in the United Kingdom, and second largest in the European Union with a capacity of 21,000. It hosts music and sporting events including boxing and swimming. The arena was a key part of Manchester's bids to host the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000 and was eventually used for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

On 22 May 2017, 22 people were killed by an Islamist suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert in the arena.

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Other websites

Manchester Arena Seating Plans

1995 establishments in England
Buildings and structures in England
Arena
Nicky Hayden

Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden (July 30, 1981 – May 22, 2017), nicknamed The Kentucky Kid, was an American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006. He was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. On September 3, 2009, it was confirmed that Hayden had signed a one-year extension of contract with Ducati for the 2010 MotoGP season, ending speculation of a move away from the team.

On May 17, 2017, Hayden was hit by a car while riding his bicycle near Rimini, Italy. Five days after the accident, Hayden died in the hospital in Cesena, Italy on May 22, 2017 at the age of 35.

References

Other websites

 Profile on MotoGP.com
 Profile on WorldSBK.com
 Nicky Hayden – MotoGP Rider Biography at Motorcycle-USA

1981 births
2017 deaths
Road accident deaths
Sportspeople from Kentucky
People from Owensboro, Kentucky
Anna Halprin

Anna Dorothy Halprin (born Anna Schuman; July 13, 1920 – May 25, 2021) was an American dancer. She helped create the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as the breaker of modern dance. Born in Winnetka, Illinois she spent her entire career in San Francisco, California

Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, John Cage, and Robert Morris, collaborated and built a community based around the ideas of post-modern dance. In the 1950s, she created the San Francisco Dancers’ Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art.

Halprin died on May 25, 2021 in San Francisco just two months before her 101st birthday.

References

Other websites

 
 Anna Halprin's entry in "Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia"
 Anna Halprin papers, 1940-2008, held by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

1920 births
2021 deaths
American dancers
American centenarians
American choreographers
Entertainers from Illinois
People from San Francisco
People from Winnetka, Illinois
Winnetka, Illinois

Winnetka () is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, located 16 miles north of downtown Chicago.  The population was 12,187 at the 2010 census. In 2015, Winnetka was ranked the richest municipality in Illinois and the second richest in the United States (behind Scarsdale, New York). The area is one of the most exclusive and wealthy suburbs in the nation.

References

Other websites

 Village of Winnetka official website
 Winnetka Public School District
 Winnetka Historical Society
 Winnetka Historical Society: History of Buildings

Villages in Illinois
Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
Settlements in Cook County, Illinois
David Scott

David Randolph "Dave" Scott (born June 6, 1932), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American former NASA astronaut, retired U.S. Air Force officer and former test pilot. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon.

As an astronaut, Scott made his first flight into space as pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong, in March 1966, spending just under eleven hours in low Earth orbit. Scott then spent ten days in orbit as Command Module Pilot aboard Apollo 9, his second spaceflight, along with Commander James McDivitt and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart.  

During this mission, Scott became the last American to fly solo in Earth orbit (not counting subsequent untethered EVAs).  Scott made his third and final flight into space as commander of the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth human lunar landing, becoming the seventh person to walk on the Moon and the first person to drive on the Moon.

References

Other websites

 Scott's official NASA biography
 Astronautix biography of David R. Scott
 Spacefacts biography of David R. Scott
 Scott at Encyclopedia of Science
 

1932 births
Living people
Apollo astronauts
Scientists from San Antonio, Texas
Elections in North Korea

Elections are held in North Korea. People can elect the representatives of their government, as well as the members of city councils, mayors and governors. Elections are held every 4-5 years. In North Korea, people are required to vote, and almost all people vote.

North Korea
North Korea
Sicilian Wikipedia

Sicilian Wikipedia is the Wikipedian edition of Sicilian language. It was created on 5th October 2004. As of May 2017 there are 25,381 articles written by registered users in this Wikipedia.This language is spoken in the Italian regions of  Sicily Islands and Calabria.

Reference

Wikipedias
North Luzon Expressway

The North Luzon Expressway, more commonly known by its abbreviation NLEx or NLEX, is a controlled-access highway in the Philippines. It connects the National Capital Region (or Metro Manila) to the provinces of the central part of Luzon, the main island in the country. Measuring 84 kilometers long, it starts at a cloverleaf-shaped interchange in Quezon City, where the controlled-access highway, the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, and the Bonifacio Avenue meet. It then passes through the settlements of Caloocan and Valenzuela in the capital area and the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga in Central Luzon. It ends at an exit in the settlement of Mabalacat and joins with the MacArthur Highway with the help of a road, continuing northward into the remaining part of Central Luzon and the Northern Luzon. The whole controlled-access highway has 4 to 8 lanes (with 2 to 4 lanes in each direction).

Roads in the Philippines
Quezon Avenue

Quezon Avenue is an important road in the area of Metro Manila in the Philippines. With 6 to 14 lanes (3 to 7 lanes for each direction), it measures 7.1 kilometers (4.4 miles) long. It starts at the ellipse-shaped Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City and ends at the circle-shaped Welcome Rotunda at the border between Quezon City and Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Along the way, it meets Epifanio de los Santos Avenue and Gregorio Araneta Avenue. It is considered by most drivers as one of the most comfortable roads of Quezon City.

Name
Quezon Avenue is named after Manuel L. Quezon, the second president of the Philippines. It was formerly known as Don Mariano Marcos Avenue, after Mariano Marcos, the father of President Ferdinand Marcos. The road was built in the mid-1970s, during Marcos' time as the president of the country. Its name was changed to Quezon Avenue shortly after Marcos's presidency.

Streets in Metro Manila
C. N. Annadurai

Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai was an Indian politician. He was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,South India from 1967 to 1969. He was the first member of a Dravidian party to hold that chief minister post.

Annadurai was famous for his oration skills, dramas and literary works in Tamil. He was the first politician from the Dravidian parties to use Tamil cinema for political propaganda. Annadurai was born in a middle-class family. He first worked as a school teacher, then moved into the political field of the Madras Presidency as a journalist. He became a member of the Dravidar Kazhagam and a big follower of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. But later Annadurai formed a new party named Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam due to differences between ideologies.

Various protests against the ruling Congress government took him to prison on several occasions; the last of which was during the Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. The agitation itself helped Annadurai to gain popular support for his party. His party won a landslide victory in the 1967 state elections. He legalised Self-Respect marriages, enforced a two language policy and renamed Madras State to Tamil Nadu. However, he died of cancer just two years into office. His funeral had the highest attendance web

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Tamil Nadu politicians
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
Madras Presidency

Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the whole of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and parts of Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, and the union territory of Lakshadweep. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the Presidency and Ootacamund or Ooty, the summer capital. The island of Ceylon was a part of Madras Presidency from 1793 to 1798 when it was created a Crown colony.

In the early decades of the 20th century, many significant contributors to the Indian independence movement came from Madras. After India got its independence Madras Prescidency became Madras State and later renamed as Tamil Nadu during C.N.Annadurai's reign as the chief minister.

In 1822, the Madras Presidency underwent its first census, which returned a population of 13,476,923.The last census of British India held in 1941 counted a population of 49,341,810 for the Madras Presidency.According to the 1871 census, there were 14,715,000 people who spoke Tamil, 11,610,000 people who spoke Telugu, 2,324,000 people who spoke Malayalam, 1,699,000 spoke Canarese or Kannada, 640,000 people spoke Oriya and 29,400 people spoke Tulu.

References

Madras Presidency
Zulfiqer Russell

Zulfiqer Russell () (born November 13, 1977) is the editor of Bangla Tribune and a lyricist of Bangladesh. He is a journalist by profession. He earned Citycell-Channel I Music Award in 2008, 2010 and 2013. He has received Mirchi Music Awards (Bangla) award for Best Modern Bengali song. This is the first time a Bangladeshi lyricist has won this awards. He received the award for the song, titled “Shabuj Chilo” which includes vocals by Nachiketa Chakraborty.

Career 
Zulfiqer Russell used to write for The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily Janakantha and many other publications from an early age. The words of a song by Mohammad Rafiquzzaman, from the movie Shuvoda, made him realise these words were not written by him. After a while, he started writing himself, but gradually realised that writing a song isn’t as easy as it sounds.  Moni Zaman from the band Symphony, worked with his song for the very first time that was voiced by Tuhin. Interestingly enough, it was never released. As a lyricist actually began when working with Bappa Mazumder.

Field of work 
Zulfiqer Russell is a professional journalist. Presently he is The Editor of popular news online Bangla Tribune.  Previously he worked for Maasranga Television and Bangla newspapers Daily Amader Shomoy, Ajker Kagoj and Banglabazar Patrika. He is also extensively involved and earned reputation and popularity as a lyricist. He is also well known for his lyrics in West Bengal, India.  Russell has written the official welcome song "O Prithibi Ebar Eshe Bangladesh Nao chiney" of ICC world cup cricket 2011 held in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. His movie The Distant Sky (আকাশ কত  দূরে) was selected for national film grants by the Bangladeshi government in 2010. He has written more than 1000 songs since 1996. Many eminent and popular singers have sung songs written by him. Russell is also a poet. His first publication is 'Kofine Ojoggo Purush'.

Albums

Awards

Family 
His spouse Worda Ahmed is a fashion designer. They have a daughter, Parisa Russell.

Movies
 Akash Koto Durey, 2013, Directed by Samia Zaman

References

Other websites
 http://www.zulfiqerrussell.com
 https://www.facebook.com/zulruss
 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zulfiqer+russell&aq=f
 http://www.dhakatribune.com/profiles/2015/jun/25/when-words-spell-magic
 Bangla Tribune 

Living people
Lyricists
Bangladeshi poets
screenwriters
1977 births
Harris County, Texas

Harris County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 4,092,459 people lived there. The county seat is Houston. The county was founded in 1836.

Other websites
Harris County government's website

Texas counties
Edwards County, Texas

Edwards County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 2,002 people lived there. The county seat is Rocksprings. It is named for Haden Edwards, an early settler of Nacogdoches, Texas.

Texas counties
Kerr County, Texas

Kerr County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 49,625 people lived there. The county seat is Kerrville. It is named for James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas.

Other websites
Official website of Kerr County

Texas counties
Gonzales County, Texas

Gonzales County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 19,807 people lived there. The county seat is Gonzales. The county was made in 1836.

Other websites
Gonzales County government's website

Texas counties
Burleson County, Texas

Burleson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 17,187 people lived there. The county seat is Caldwell. The county is named for Edward Burleson, a general of the Texas Revolution.

Other websites
Burleson County official website

Texas counties
Fayette County, Texas

Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2010, 24,554 people lived there. The county seat is La Grange. The county was made in 1837.

Other websites
Fayette County government's website

Texas counties
Stefano Farina

Stefano Farina (19 September 1962 – 23 May 2017) was an Italian football referee. He was born in Ovada, Italy.

Farina has refereed several high-profile matches in Serie A and the UEFA Champions League, including the 2006 UEFA Super Cup in Monaco. 

Farina officiated in qualifiers for the 2004 and 2008 European Championships, as well as preliminary matches for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups. He was known to have served as a FIFA referee during the period from 2001 to 2007.

He retired internationally in 2007 after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 45. 

Farina died suddenly in Genova, Italy on 23 May 2017 from a suspected heart attack, aged 54.

References

1962 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
Italian sportspeople
Referees
Moshe Gafni

Moshe Gafni, Hebrew: משה גפני‎ , (born May 5, 1952 in Bnei Brak) is an Israeli rabbi and politician of Yahadut HaTorah HaMeuhedet ("United Torah Judaism", shortened UTJ). He is political leader of Degel HaTorah ("Banner of the Torah"), one of the two branches of UTJ. He belongs to the Misnagdim movement of Haredi Judaism.

Before entering into politics Gafni was leading a kollel. 

He has been a Member of Knesset since 1988, with interruptions from 1992 to 1994 and from 1998 to 1999, due to rotations with Agudat Yisrael politicians of UTJ.

From 1990 to 1992 he was also deputy minister of religious affairs in the Fourth Shamir Government.

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

1952 births
Living people
Deputy government ministers of Israel
Israeli political leaders
Israeli rabbis
Jewish Israeli politicians
Members of Knesset
Kollel

A kollel or kolel (), is an educational institute for Judaism at a higher level, focused on study of Torah, Talmud and other rabbinical writings. It differs from a yeshiva because most students at a kollel are married; they also get an allowance.

References 

Education
Judaism
Caixa Geral de Depósitos

The Caixa Geral Depositos is the largest public-sector bank in Portugal. It is owned by the Portuguese state. It was started in 1876.

Banks of Europe
1876 establishments in Europe
Establishments in Portugal
Bohai Sea

The Bohai Sea () is a gulf on the northeast coast of China and it is west of the Korean Peninsula. It is a redundant place name, which mean that the words making up the place name has the same meaning, since hăi (海) as in Bóhǎi already means "sea" or "ocean". Some important port cities on the Bohai Sea coast include Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, and Dalian.

Geography of China
Redundant place name

A redundant place name is the name of a place in which the words that make up the name have the same meaning as each other. Since the words come from different languages, the connection between the two words may not be easily recognizable to the reader, especially if the reader only knows one language.

Countries 
 East Timor or Timor-Leste (East East): this is especially interesting since both names for the country as redundant place names. Timor comes from the Malay word timur, meaning "east", while Leste is the Portuguese word for "east".

Bodies of water 
 Bohai Sea (Bo Sea Sea): The word hǎi (海) as in Bóhǎi (渤海) is the Chinese word for "sea" or "ocean".
 River Avon, Bristol

Deserts 

 Sahara Desert (Deserts Desert): The word Sahara (صحراء) is the Arabic Word for "desert". The Arabic name for the desert is aṣ-Saḥrāʼ al-Kubrá (الصحراء الكبرى).

Mountains 
 Tian Shan Mountains (Heaven Mountain Mountains): The word shān (山) as in Tiān Shān (天山) is the Chinese word for "mountain".

References

Names
Isla Escudo de Veraguas

Isla Escudo de Veraguas (also: Escudo de Veraguas Island) is a small island about 18 kilometers off of the coast of Panama. There is not much information on the climate or history of the island, but the animals inhabiting the island are known, such as the pygmy three-toed sloth, or Derby's woolly opossum.

Climate 
The climate of Escudo de Veraguas is undocumented, but the neighboring country of Panama has relatively warm temperatures, being around 70 to 90 degrees year-round.

Inhabitants 
The inhabitants of the island are different from the mainland species in the idea that they are smaller and more adapted to the island. Some examples:
 Bradypus pygmaeus
 Oedipina maritima
 Caluromys derbianus
 Hoplomys gymnurus
 Myotis riparius

Sources 

Panama
Escudo de Veraguas
Landesbank Baden

Landesbank Baden, short for Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg (LBBW) is a full-service commercial bank and parent company of three commercial banks (SudwestLB, Landesgirokasse, and the commercial banking business of L-Bank) and the Landesbank for the Federal States Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony. As of 2017, it is Germany's biggest state-backed landesbank lender.
Banks of Germany
1999 establishments in Germany
Landesbank Bayern

Landesbank Bayern or BayernLB, short for Bayerische Landesbank (Bavarian State Bank), is a publicly regulated bank based in Munich, Germany and one of the eight Landesbanken. It is 94% owned by the free state of Bavaria (indirectly via BayernLB Holding AG) and 6% owned by the Sparkassenverband Bayern, the umbrella organization of Bavarian Sparkassen. With a balance of €416 billion and 19,200 employees (in the group; 5,170 in the bank itself), it is the eighth-largest financial institution in Germany.
Banks of Germany
1972 establishments in Europe
1970s establishments in Germany
Bradypus pygmaeus

Bradypus pygmaeus is a species of three toed sloth. It lives on the island of Escudo de Veraguas. It is listed as critically endangered on IUCN's Red List, due to its location range being less than 5 square kilometers and because of deforestation of the mangroves in which they live. The pygmy three toed sloth is not prey to any natural predator, as it lives on an isolated island where there aren't many other animals.

Diet 
Pygmy three toed sloths eat the leaves from various trees.

Appearance 
The fur of the pygmy three toed sloth is covered with algae. The algae is camouflage. They have long arms and curved claws that help them hold onto the trees. They have a slow metabolic rate that allows them to digest one leaf in up to a month.

References

Xenarthrans
Hettlingen

Hettlingen is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Municipalities of Zürich
Kenny Cordray

Kenneth Cordray (July 21, 1954 – May 21, 2017) was an American instrumental guitarist and songwriter. He shared the stage with notable musicians and performers such as John Mayall, John Lee Hooker, and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Cordray became the lead guitarist for THE CHILDREN under the ATCO label and later on ODE records produced by Lou Adler. He co-wrote the song "Francine," which peaked at 69 on the Billboard Hot 100, with Steve Perron for ZZ Top's album "Rio Grande Mud."

Cordray was shot and killed by his son on May 21, 2017 in Nassau Bay, Texas at the age of 62.

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1954 births
2017 deaths
Murders by firearm in the United States
American crime victims
American guitarists
American songwriters
Writers from Texas
Musicians from Texas
Mickey Roker

Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Miami, Florida. In 1992, he replaced Connie Kay in the Modern Jazz Quartet. He played with Jimmy Oliver, Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Divine, King James and Sam Reed before moving to New York in 1959.

Roker died on May 22, 2017 from lung cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 84.

References

Other websites
 Adler, David R. "Old-school drummer shares laughs, post-bebop classics". philly.com (12/31/2007)
 Delvecchia, Mike. "Mickey Roker: The Voltan of Ortlieb's Jazzhaus". Philadelphia Arts Writers Web site (June 2004)
 "Mickey Roker" (Drummerworld Web Site)
DTM interview

1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Pennsylvania
American jazz musicians
American drummers
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Musicians from Miami, Florida
William Carney

William Carney (July 1, 1942 – May 23, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 1st congressional district from 1979 through 1987. Carney was a member of the Conservative Party of New York and later the  Republican Party. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Carney died on May 23, 2017 in Washington, D.C. from prostate cancer at the age of 74.

References

Other websites
 

1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
Cancer deaths in Washington, D.C.
United States representatives from New York
Politicians from New York City
US Republican Party politicians
Jerry Perenchio

Arnold Jerrold "Jerry" Perenchio (December 20, 1930 – May 23, 2017) was an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He was at one time the chairman and chief executive officer of Univision from 1992 through 2007. He was born in Fresno, California.

Perenchio died of lung cancer at his Los Angeles, California home on May 23, 2017 at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People 
Business Profile

1930 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
American billionaires
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Kaoru Yosano

(August 22, 1938 – May 23, 2017) was a Japanese politician. He was born in Tokyo.

Yosano was a member of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Sunrise Party of Japan and former member of the House of Representatives, serving his ninth term in the Lower House representing Tokyo's first electoral district until his defeat in the Japanese general election, 2009. Yosano was Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shinzō Abe from August 2007 to September 2007 and was State Minister in charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy in Tarō Asō's administration from February to September 2009.

Yosano died of pneumonia on May 23, 2017 in Tokyo at the age of 77.

References

Other websites
 

1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Japan
Politicians from Tokyo
Noel Kinsey

Noel Kinsey (24 December 1925 – 24 May 2017) was a  Welsh international footballer. He played as an inside right. He won seven international caps and scored 111 goals in 444 league games in a 14-year career in the Football League.

References

1925 births
2017 deaths
English footballers
Pierre Seron

Pierre Seron (9 February 1942 – 24 May 2017) was a Belgian comic book artist. He was born in Chênée, Belgium. He was known for his works in the series Les Petits Hommes (The Little Men), initially in collaboration with journalist Albert Despréchins, began serial publication in Spirou magazine on 7 September 1967, a run continuing into 2004.

Seron died on 24 May 2017 in Nîmes, France at the age of 75.

References

Other websites
 Pierre Seron biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia
 Pierre Seron biography  on Dupuis

1942 births
2017 deaths
Belgian artists
William S. Sessions

William Steele Sessions (May 27, 1930 – June 12, 2020) an American politician and lawyer. He served as a federal judge and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1987 through 1993 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan. He served as FBI director until he was fired by President Bill Clinton.

Sessions was appointed by President Reagan as a Commissioner of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission, and was a Delegate for the Americas to the Executive Committee of ICPO-Interpol. 

He was also a member of the Constitution Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee.

Sessions died on June 12, 2020, in San Antonio, Texas from heart failure-related problems at the age of 90.

References

Other websites
 William Sessions quotes
 

1930 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American judges
Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Politicians from Arkansas
Politicians from San Antonio, Texas
Lawyers from San Antonio
Lawyers from Arkansas
Hinwil

Hinwil is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is the capital of the district of Hinwil.

References

Other websites

  

Municipalities of Zürich
Cities in Switzerland
Altenach

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

References

Other website
 INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Altkirch

Altkirch is a commune in Alsace in north-eastern France, in the Haut-Rhin department, of which it is a subprefecture. It is in the Grand Est region. Its name comes from the German Alte Kirche ("old church").

Geography
Altkirch is in the south of the Haut-Rhin department. The Ill river, a left tributary of the Rhine river, flows through the commune.

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

The distances from Altkirch to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Strasbourg, the regional capital - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Lyon - ;
 Reims - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Toulouse - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nice - .

The commune of Altkirch is surrounded by the communes:

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

Population
The inhabitants of Altkirch are known, in French, as Altkirchois (women: Altkirchoises).

With a population of 5,738, Altkirch has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Altkirch

Administration
Altkirch is a subprefecture in the Haut-Rhin department since 1800. It is the capital of the Altkirch arrondissement and is also the administrative centre () of the canton of Altkirch formed by 64 communes, with 47,552 inhabitants (2014).

Twin towns 
Altkirch is twinned with:
  Le Thor, France, since 1991
  San Daniele del Friuli, Italy, since 1994
  Füzuli, Azerbaijan, since 2016

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Altkirch
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References

Other websites

 Ville d' Altkirch - Official site 

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Subprefectures in France
Ammerschwihr

Ammerschwihr is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in the eastern France. In 2014, 1,784 people lived in the commune. The inhabitants are the Ammerschwihriens.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Ammerzwiller

Ammertzwiller or Ammerzwiller is a former commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department in the eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the commune Bernwiller.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
Andolsheim

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Appenwihr

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Solanum quitoense

Solanum quitoense, also known as naranjilla 
 (, "little orange") in Ecuador and Panama and as lulo (, from Quechua) in Colombia, is a perennial plant (fruit) found in South America.

It appears to be similar to an orange at first glance, however the inner fruit is quite different, with a ring of blue seeds surrounding a cluster of orange seeds.

References 

Solanum
Tropical fruit
Landesbank Helaba

Landesbank Helaba, short for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany offering financial services to companies, banks, institutional investors and the public sector, both within Germany and internationally. At the same time, it is the central clearing institution and service provider for 40 percent of German savings banks. Helaba is an institution incorporated under public law. With approximately 6,300 employees and two headquarters in Frankfurt and Erfurt, the bank maintains branches in Düsseldorf and Kassel as well as offices in Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich and Muenster. On an international level, Helaba acts through branches and representative offices in Paris, London, New York, Madrid, Moscow, Shanghai, and Singapore. Frankfurter Sparkasse, the leading retail bank in the Rhine-Main region, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Helaba. The Helaba Group also comprises the online bank 1822direkt, LBS Hessen-Thüringen and WIBank. The latter implements development programmes of the State of Hesse. Further Helaba subsidiaries are Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft and the OFB Group (Real estate development).
Banks of Germany
1953 establishments in Europe
1950s establishments in Germany
Richard Montgomery

Richard Montgomery (December 2, 1738 - December 31, 1775) was a general in the American war for independence.

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1738 births
1775 deaths
American Revolutionary War
Irish people
Military people