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Bangla Academy Literary Award

Bangla Academy Literary Award is given by Bangla Academy for contribution in the field of Bengali language and literature. It is the highest literary awards given in Bangladesh. This award was introduced in 1960. This award is given in six categories, including poem, novel, drama, essay, short story, juvenile literature.

Award winners by decades
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (1960s)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (1970s)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (1980s)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (1990s)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (2000s)
 Bangla Academy Literary Award (2010s)

Notable award winners
 Syed Shamsul Haque - youngest award winner at the age of 31.

References

Other websites
 Bangla Academy (official site)

Bangladeshi awards
Literary awards
1960 establishments in Asia
20th-century establishments in Bangladesh
Chief Rabbinate of Israel

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Hebrew:  הרבנות הראשית לישראל - Ha-Rabanut Ha-Rashit Li-Yisra'el, is the highest rabbinical institution in Israel.

It consists of (mainly) Chief Rabbis of various places in Israel, and is presided by two Chief Rabbis, an Ashkenazi and a Sephardi rabbi, both elected for ten years.

The Chief Rabbinate has religious legal power in Israel, but also involves with matters of halakha outside the country.

In Israel it deals with matters concerning Jewish life, like marriage and divorce, conversion to Judaism, kosher food, holy sites like the Western Wall, yeshivas, rabbinical courts etc.

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is in Jerusalem.

Related pages 
 List of Chief Rabbis of Israel
 Heichal Shlomo, former seat of the Chief Rabbinate

References 
 Chief Rabbinate of Israel Website
Mad World

"Mad World" is a new wave song by British band Tears for Fears. It was first released in September 1982. It then appeared on the band's first studio album The Hurting (1983). The song reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982.

"Mad World" was also famously covered by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules. This version was made for the soundtrack of the movie Donnie Darko (2001).

References

1982 songs
Rock songs
National Movie Awards (Bangladesh)

National Movie Awards () is the highest awards given by the Government of Bangladesh to the actors and technicians of Bangladeshi movie industry. It was introduced in 1976. Every year, a national panel is appointed by the government to select winners. The panel consists of movie personalities, journalists and social activists.

Award categories

Merit awards

 Best Movie
 Best Director
 Best Actor
 Best Actress
 Best Supporting Actor
 Best Supporting Actress
 Best Child Actor
 Best Villain
 Best Comedian
 Best Music Director
 Best Music Composer
 Best Lyrics
 Best Male Playback Singer
 Best Female Playback Singer
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Technical awards

 Best Story
 Best Cinematography
 Best Screenplay
 Best Dialogue
 Best Art Direction
 Best Editing
 Best Choreography
 Best Sound Recording
 Best Costume Design
 Best Make-up
 Best Special Effects
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Special awards
 Lifetime Achievement Award (introduced in 2009)
 Special Jury Award
 Best Short Movie

References

Other websites
 

Bangladeshi awards
Movie awards
1975 establishments in Asia
1970s establishments in Bangladesh
Mouni Roy

Mouni Roy (born 28 September 1985) is an Indian actress, singer, Kathak dancer and former model. She is mainly known for her work in Indian television and Hindi-language movies. Her popular works are Mahadev, Naagin and Gold.

References

Other websites 

1985 births
Living people
Indian television actors
Indian movie actors
Philosophy of mathematics

The philosophy of mathematics is a kind of philosophy that tries to study what mathematics really is. Philosophers of math ask themselves questions like:
 Does math really make sense?
 Do numbers really exist, or are they just made up?
 Can math explain everything?
 Why people do math?
 Why some people think math is "beautiful"?
 Is mathematics really true, or just something that we think its true?

Some ways to think about math 
None of those questions has a clear answer, so mathematicians are free to choose which answers they like. For example:

Platonism 
Mathematicians who believe in Platonism think that numbers are real, just like rocks and trees. We can't see them, but we can represent them with symbols, and use them to study the world.

Fictionalism 
Mathematicians who believe in Fictionalism think that math is just made up. Numbers, shapes and other things in math are just ways that we use to make science possible, but they don't really exist.

Logicism 
Mathematicians who believe in Logicism believe that math is true because it is based on true sentences (called axioms). It does not matter if numbers and shapes exist, or not, just that they represent true things.

Finitism 
Mathematicians who believe in Finitism think that everything that makes sense has a beginning and an end. Things like infinity don't exist.

Some related topics 
 Gödel's incompleteness theorems
 Mathematical logic
 Metaphilosophy
 Philosophy of science

Mathematics
Philosophy of science
Mohammed El Filali

Mohammed El Filali () (born 9 July 1945) is a Moroccan footballer. He played for MC Oujda. He played as a forward.

1945 births
Living people
Moroccan footballers
Savoy Truffle

Savoy Truffle is a song by the Beatles written by George Harrison. The song is about Harrison's friend Eric Clapton's fondness for chocolate and his dentist warning him to stop eating it.

The Beatles songs
1968 songs
Jack Davis

John Burton "Jack" Davis, Jr. (2 December 1924 – 
27 July 2016) was an American cartoonist and illustrator. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was known for his advertising art, magazine covers, movie posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories. He was one of the founding cartoonists for Mad in 1952. His cartoon characters are characterized by extremely distorted anatomy, including big heads, skinny legs and extremely large feet.

Davis contributed to other Kurtzman magazines—Trump, Humbug and Help!—eventually expanding into illustrations for record jackets, movie posters, books and magazines, including Time and TV Guide. He completed an 88-card set of humorous cartoons called Wacky Plaks, which Topps Chewing Gum Co. released in 1959.

After graduation, he was a cartoonist intern at The Atlanta Journal, and he worked one summer inking Ed Dodd's Mark Trail comic strip, a strip which he later parodied in Mad as Mark Trade.

Davis died in St. Simons Island, Georgia on July 27, 2016 from complications of the stroke, aged 91.

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1924 births
2016 deaths
American comics artists
American cartoonists
American illustrators
People from Atlanta, Georgia
Deaths from stroke
Departments of Colombia

Colombia has 32 departments (Spanish: departamentos, sing. departamento) and a Capital District (Distrito Capital). Each department has a Governor (gobernador) and a Department Assembly (Asamblea Departamental), elected by popular vote for a four-year period. The governor cannot be re-elected in consecutive periods. Departments are country subdivisions and are granted a certain degree of autonomy.

Related pages 
 ISO 3166-2:CO

Other websites 
 Statoids - Departments of Colombia
Mittlach

Mittlach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Saransk

Saransk (; ) is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. In 2010 there were 297,415 people living there.

Twin towns − Sister cities 
Saransk is twinned with:
 Botevgrad, Bulgaria
 Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
 Sieradz, Poland

References

Other websites 

 Official website of the city of Saransk 

Cities in Russia
Mathon

Mathon () is a municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website

Municipalities of Graubünden
Mitzach

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Krampus

In folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure. It is described as being half-goat and half-demon. During the Christmas season, Krampus punishes children who have misbehaved. The is the opposite of Saint Nicholas, who rewards the well-behaved with gifts. Krampus is one of the companions of Saint Nicholas in several regions including Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, South Tyrol and parts of Northern Italy. The origin of Krampus is not known, but some folklorists and anthropologists believe it has pre-Christian origins.

Christmas
Folklore
Yu Kwang-chung

Yu Guangzhong (; 21 October 1928 – 14 December 2017), also spelled Yu Kwang-chung, was a Taiwanese writer, poet, educator, and critic. He was born in Nanjing, Taiwan. 

His best known works were Lanse de yumao [Blue feather], Zai lengzhan de niandai [Cold war years] and Yu yongheng bahe [Tug-of-war with eternity]. He was known for his collaboration with fellow poet Luo Fu. He was Professor Emeritus at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung.  He taught in the United States, including at Gettysburg College.

Yu died on 14 December 2017 from pneumonia in Kaohsiung, Taiwan at the age of 89. He was married to Fan Wo-tsun 1956 until his death.

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Deaths from pneumonia
Taiwanese people
Poets
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Critics
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People from Nanjing
Dan Johnson (Kentucky politician)

Danny Ray "Dan" Johnson (October 18, 1960 – December 13, 2017) was an American evangelical pastor and Republican politician. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing the 49th District serving from January 2017 until his death in December. He was born and raised in Bastrop, Louisiana.

In December 2017, Johnson was accused of having molested a member of his church in 2012 when she was 17 years old. The Republican Party of Kentucky called on Johnson to resign the same day the allegations were published. The following day, Johnson held a news conference at his church where he claimed the allegations were untrue and were politically motivated.

Johnson shot himself in the head on December 13, 2017 near the Salt River in Mt. Washington, Kentucky. He was 57 years old.

References

1960 births
2017 deaths
Suicides by firearm in the United States
American Christians
Politicians from Kentucky
Politicians from Louisiana
US Republican Party politicians
Tina Smith

Tina Flint Smith (born March 4, 1958) is an American politician. She is the United States Senator from Minnesota upon being appointed by Governor Mark Dayton and office on January 3, 2018. 

Smith was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota from 2015 to 2018. She has been a high-profile member of Governor Mark Dayton's administration and a key participant in legislative negotiations. She is a former Chief of Staff to Dayton. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party. 

Dayton appointed her to replace U.S. Senator Al Franken upon his resignation, to serve until a special election is held in November 2018.

References

1958 births
Living people
United States senators from Minnesota
Lieutenant Governors of Minnesota
Politicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
US Democratic Party politicians
Karl-Erik Nilsson

Karl-Erik Nilsson (4 January 1922 – 14 December 2017) was a Swedish light-heawyweight (-87 kg) Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won one gold and two bronze medals. He won another bronze medal at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships. He was born in Stehag, Sweden.

Nilsson died at the age of 95 in Stockholm on 14 December 2017.

References

Other websites

Karl-Erik Nilsson's profile at databaseOlympics
Karl-Erik Nilsson's profile at Sports Reference.com 

1922 births
2017 deaths
Swedish Olympians
Olympic gold medalists
Olympic bronze medalists
R. C. Sproul

Robert Charles Sproul ( ; February 13, 1939 – December 14, 2017) was an American apologist, author, and pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries.

Sproul was heard daily on the Renewing Your Mind radio broadcast in the United States and internationally.  Renewing Your Mind with Dr. R. C. Sproul was also broadcast on Sirius and XM satellite radio.

In late July 2012, a new Christian internet radio station called RefNet (Reformation Network) was also announced by Ligonier Ministries in an effort to reach "as many people as possible" where Internet access is available.

Sproul died at a hospital in Altamonte Springs, Florida on December 14, 2017 of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the age of 78.

References

1939 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Disease-related deaths in Florida
American radio personalities
American theologians
Writers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Conservative Democrat

In American politics, a Conservative Democrat is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party who has conservative views.

The term "Democrat in Name Only" is sometimes used by Democrats on the left to refer to conservative Democrats.

In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic Party ran moderate Democrats and a few conservative Democrats for at-risk Republican seats.

References

United States Democratic Party
Frank Lary

Frank Strong Lary (April 10, 1930 – December 13, 2017) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Detroit Tigers (1954–1964), New York Mets (1964, 1965), Milwaukee Braves (1964), and Chicago White Sox (1965).  

Lary led the American League with 21 wins in 1956  and ranked second in the same category with 23 wins in 1961.  

Lary was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1960 and 1961 and won the Gold Glove Award in 1961.  He was known as "Taters", "Mule", and the "Yankee Killer."  The latter nickname was won due to his 27-10  record against the New York Yankees from 1955 to 1961.

Lary died on December 13, 2017 in Northport, Alabama of pneumonia at the age of 87.

References

Other websites
Retrosheet
Frank Lary, by Jim Sargent, The Baseball Biography Project, SABR

1930 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Detroit Tigers players
New York Mets players
Milwaukee Braves players
Chicago White Sox players
Sportspeople from Alabama
Mark Takai

Kyle Mark Takai (July 1, 1967 – July 20, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 1st district from January 3, 2015 until his death. He was also a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1994 to 2014. He became a lieutenant colonel in the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2013.

Takai was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was of Japanese ancestry. He was married to Sami and had two children.

Takai was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October 2015. He died on July 20, 2016 in Aiea, Hawaii. He was 49.

References

Other websites

1967 births
2016 deaths
Cancer deaths in the United States
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Military people from Hawaii
Politicians from Honolulu
United States representatives from Hawaii
Bill Hudson (American football)

William Alex "Bill" Hudson (July 9, 1935 – December 13, 2017) was an American football player. He played as a defensive tackle. He played professionally in the American Football League for the San Diego Chargers and the Boston Patriots. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes. He was a member of the South Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. He was born in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Hudson died on December 13, 2017 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was 82.

References

1935 births
2017 deaths
American football defensive tackles
San Diego Chargers players
Sportspeople from South Carolina
People from Spartanburg, South Carolina
Rod (Slavic religion)

Rod (Cyrillic: Род) is the supreme God of the universe in the Slavic Native Faith. Old Church Slavonic sources about pre-Christian religion, say that Rod represents divinity and ancestrality.

Among the South Slavs, the concept is also known as Sud (Judge) or Prabog (First God).

References 

Slavic gods and goddesses
Jarilo

Jarilo (Cyrillic: Ярило, Ярила or Јарило) is a Slavic god of vegetation, fertility and springtime.

The only historical source that mentions Jarilo was from a German bishop who encountered pagans celebrating a festival called Gerovit (likely a German way of saying, Jarovit). Until the 19th century in Russia, Belarus and Serbia, folk festivals called Jarilo were celebrated in late spring. In these festivals, they worshiped a springtime god. Similar festivals occurred in Croatia and Slovenia.

References 

Slavic gods and goddesses
Eric the Victorious

Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli; Swedish: Erik Segersäll) was the first Kingdom of Sweden. There is debate about whether or not he was actually the first king.

He is sometimes called Eric V or Eric VI. He is called this by people who count back from Eric XIV (1560–68).

Eric the Victorious originally controlled the area around Uppland. His kingdom may have extended down to Blekinge. He got the name "victorious," because of his victory in the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

According to Adam of Bremen, he was also the King of Denmark after the defeat of Sweyn Forkbeard. He probably also founded the town of Sigtuna, 38 km northeast from downtown Stockholm.

Adam also dated Eric the Victorious's death as between 992 and 995. He is remembered as a war-like and successful ruler.

References

Other websites 

 Carl L. Thunberg (2012): Slaget på Fyrisvallarna i ny tolkning (The Battle of Fýrisvellir in a New Interpretation)

Kings and Queens of Sweden
Rian Johnson

Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American movie director, screenwriter, editor and actor. He is best known for directing the movies Brick (2005), The Brothers Bloom (2008), Looper (2012), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He has directed three episodes of the AMC series Breaking Bad. He has also had small roles in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and BoJack Horseman.

Johnson was born in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has been dating movie writer Karina Longworth since 2011.

References

Other websites

 
 
 

1973 births
Living people
Actors from Maryland
American movie actors
American movie directors
American movie producers
American screenwriters
American television actors
American television directors
People from Silver Spring, Maryland
Writers from Maryland
Gwendoline Christie

Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie (born 28 October 1978) is a British actress and model. She is known for playing Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones and Captain Phasma in the Star Wars movies The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017).

Christie was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England. She has been dating fashion design Giles Deacon since 2013.

References

Other websites

 

1978 births
Living people
English models
English movie actors
English stage actors
English television actors
People from West Sussex
Byron Dorgan

Byron Dorgan (born May 14, 1942) is a former United States Senator and United States Congressman. He was a congressman for twelve years and a U.S. Senator for eighteen.

Dorgan was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for sixteen years. He was first an Assistant Democratic Floor Leader. He was later a Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. Then, he was Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs.

In 2010, Dorgan said he wasn't seeking re-election in the 2010 North Dakota Senate election.

Dorgan later worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm Arent Fox LLP. He was a senior policy advisor there.

Furthermore, Dorgan is a New York Times writer of four books: two on economic and political issues, two as eco-thrillers.

Dorgan was born in Dickinson, North Dakota.

References

US Democratic Party politicians
United States senators from North Dakota
Writers from North Dakota
1942 births
Living people
Charles Grodin

Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author and television talk show host. He won an Emmy Award for writing in 1978.

Grodin is best known for his appearances on The Tonight Show and The Late Show. Grodin's movie roles include Catch-22 (1970), The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Midnight Run and The Couch Trip (both 1988), Beethoven (1992) and Dave and Heart and Souls (both 1993).

Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He had a daughter with his first wife, Julie Ferguson. He married Elissa Durwood in 1983. They had a son.

Grodin died of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, on May 18, 2021. He was 86.

References

Other websites

 

1935 births
2021 deaths
Actors from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American television talk show hosts
Cancer deaths in Connecticut
Comedians from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Deaths from bone marrow cancer
Jewish American actors
Jewish American writers
Jewish American comedians
Writers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Emmy Award winners
Dillon, Read & Co.

Dillon, Read & Co. was an investment bank based in New York City. In 1997, it was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation, which was in turn acquired by UBS in 1998.

The Dillon Read name was dropped by 2000. In June 2005, UBS established Dillon Read Capital Management (DRCM), led by former UBS Investment Bank head John P. Costas.

On May 3, 2007, UBS announced the closure of Dillon Read Capital Management. The division lost 150 million Swiss Francs in the first quarter of 2007, primarily due to bets on the sub-prime mortgage industry in the United States. The assets under management were transferred into UBS's main asset management business.

1832 establishments in the United States
1997 disestablishments in the United States
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is an American multinational financial services corporation specializing in retail brokerage. It is the wealth & asset management division of Morgan Stanley.

In the late 1980s the retail brokerage firm Smith Barney was owned by Primerica Financial Services. Commercial Credit purchased Primerica in 1988, for $1.5 billion. In 1992, they paid $722 million to buy a 27 percent share of Travelers Insurance. By the end of 1993, the merged company was known as Travelers Group Inc. In September 1997, Travelers acquired Salomon Inc. (parent company of Salomon Brothers Inc.), for over $9 billion in stock, and merged it with its own investment arm to create Salomon Smith Barney.

In April 1998 Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake a $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, creating the largest single financial services company in the world.

On January 13, 2009, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup announced that Citigroup would sell 51% of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management. The combined brokerage house has 17,649 financial advisors and manages $2 trillion in client assets.

References

Other websites
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management website
Smith Barney

2009 establishments in New York (state)
Finance
Companies based in New York City
Kannauj district

Kannauj district is an administrative district in Uttar Pradesh, India. The capital of this district is the historically famous Kannauj city. This district was formed from Farrukhabad district in September 18, 1997.

According to the 2011 census of India Kannauj district has a population of 1,658,005,

It is very much famous for Kannauj Perfume. This is the reason for Kannauj city is called as City of Perfumes. There are many temples in Kannauj which are very spiritual (divine) and historical.

References

Districts of Uttar Pradesh
Arrondissements of the Haut-Rhin department

There are 4 arrondissements in the Haut-Rhin 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 Haut-Rhin are:

History
Haut-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was divided in three districts: Altkirch, Belfort and Colmar, with Colmar as is capital.

In 1800, with the creation of the arrondissements in France, the three districts were changed into five arrondissements: Colmar, Altkirch, Belfort, Delémont and Porrentruy. The arrondissements Delémont and Porrentruy were eliminated in 1814 and transferred to Switzerland.

The subprefecture of Altkirch was moved to Mulhouse in 1857.

The Haut-Rhin department was eliminated in 1871 when the territory became part of Germany except for a part that forms the Territoire de Belfort.

In 1919, Haut-Rhin is again an department when the territory became part of France with the arrondissements Colmar-Ville, Colmar-Campagne, Altkirch, Guebwiller, Mulhouse, Ribeauvillé and Thann. Its capital is Colmar.

The arrondissements Colmar-Ville and Colmar-Campagne were combined in 1934 to form the arrondissement of Colmar.

The arrondissement of Guebwiller was eliminated in 2015 and its territory combined with Tharn to form the arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller. In that same year, the arrondissement of Ribeauvillé was also eliminated and its territory combined with Colmar to form the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé.

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Haut-Rhin
Grand Est
Black Mamba (drug)

Black Mamba is a street drug which is Legal in much of the world.  It is an artificial cannabinoid. It can cause some very serious side effects, including mental health problems, psychosis and sometimes a deep zombie-like state which takes a long time to recover from. It has also been known to cause death.

There are some countries where this and similar drugs like spice are still available and legal, although in most cases they are very heavily controlled.

References

Drugs
Lones Wigger

Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937 – December 14, 2017) was an American sports shooter. In his shooting career, he won 111 medals, including three Olympic medals. He won a gold and silver medal at the 1964 Olympics and a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics. He was also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. He was born in Great Falls, Montana.

Wigger died of pancreatic cancer on December 14, 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 80.

References

Other websites
 Lones Wigger  at Sports-Reference.com

1937 births
2017 deaths
American Olympic gold medalists
American Olympic silver medalists
Cancer deaths in Colorado
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
People from Great Falls, Montana
Sportspeople from Montana
Sport shooters
Georges Loinger

Georges Loinger (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018) was a French resistance fighter during World War II. He began fighting against Nazi Germany in 1939 but was captured in 1940. He escaped soon after, and rescued hundreds of Jewish children over then next few years. Until September 1943, that part of frontier was guarded by Italian army: Loinger remembers one day Italian high officer secretly told him he approved what Loinger did, that's his rescue activity. After September, there was German invasion and the activity became harder.

He was awarded the medal of honorary citizen of the city of Strasbourg in 2014. In July 2016, he was made an officer in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He was Jewish. He turned 100 in August 2010. Loinger died in Paris on 28 December 2018 at the age of 108.

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2018 deaths
French centenarians
French Jews
French military people
Holocaust survivors
Military personnel of World War II
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
People from Strasbourg
2017 eruption of Mount Agung

Mount Agung, a volcano on the island of Bali in Indonesia, erupted in 2017. Thousands of people had to leave the area. Air travel was affected. As of 27 November 2017, the alert level was at its highest and evacuation orders were in place.

Tectonic earthquakes from the volcano had been detected since early August. Volcanic activity increased for several weeks. It decreased significantly in late October. A second, more violent period of major activity began in late November. 

Forty thousand people had to leave 22 villages around Mount Agung. Airports had to be closed. More than 400 flights were canceled. About 59,000 passengers could not get on their flights.

References

eruption of Mount Agung
2010s in Indonesia
A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury

A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury (1 December 1944 – 15 December 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was a member of the Bangladesh Awami League (BAL). He served as the mayor of Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh, from 1994 to 2009. He was born in Chittagong District.

Chowdhury died on 15 December 2017 in Chittagong, at the age of 73.

References

1944 births
2017 deaths
Bangladeshi politicians
Bangladeshi Muslims
Mayors
List of Chief Military Rabbis

This is the list of Chief Military Rabbis.

The Chief Military Rabbi presides over the Military Rabbinate of the Israel Defense Forces, and holds the rank of brigadier general.

 Shlomo Goren (1948–1968) 
 Mordechai Peron (1968–1977)
 Gad Navon (1977–2000)
 Yisrael Weiss (2000–2006)
 Avichai Rontzki (2006–2010)
 Rafi Peretz (2010–2016)
 Eyal Karim (2016–present)

Related pages 
 List of Chief Rabbis of Israel

References 

 
Lists of Israeli people
Rabbis
Rabbis
Military Rabbinate

The Military Rabbinate (of Israel), Hebrew: חיל הרבנות הצבאית - Heil HaRabanut HaTzvait, is a unit of the Israel Defense Forces, which takes care of the religious needs of the Israeli soldiers, especially the Jewish soldiers among them.

The Chief Military Rabbi presides the Military Rabbinate, and has the rank of brigadier general.

Related pages 
 List of Chief Military Rabbis

References 
 Military Rabbinate  

Israel Defense Forces
Judaism in Israel
OS X El Capitan

OS X El Capitan ( ) (version 10.11) is the twelfth major release of OS X (now named macOS), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. It was released after OS X Yosemite and focuses mainly on performance, stability and security. Starting with OS X Mavericks, future operating systems of OS X were named after regions of Northern California. El Capitan was named after a rock formation in Yosemite National Park, to highlight a refined version of its predecessory, OS X Yosemite. 

El Capitan is the final version to be released under the name OS X. Its successor, Sierra, was announced as macOS Sierra. El Capitan received much better reviews when compared to Yosemite.

The first beta of OS X El Capitan was released to developers shortly following the WWDC keynote on June 8, 2015. The first public beta was made available on July 9, 2015. There were multiple betas released after the keynote. OS X El Capitan was released to end users on September 30, 2015, as a free upgrade through the Mac App Store.

References

MacOS
Bruce Gray

Bruce Gray (September 7, 1936 – December 13, 2017) was a Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor. 

Gray was probably best known as investment banker Adam Cunningham on the Global series Traders, the father of the groom in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, as Judge J.E. Reilly on the soap opera Passions and the ghost of Joe's father on the hit television show Medium. 

Gray died on December 13, 2017 of brain cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81.

References

Other websites
Official Bruce Gray Website: http://www.bruce-gray.com 

Bruce Gray at the American Film Institute Catalog
Bruce Gray at AllMovie

1936 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Puerto Rican actors
Gerald O'Brien

John Gerald O’Brien (2 December 1924 – 13 December 2017), known as Gerald O'Brien, was a New Zealand soldier and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He represented the Island Bay electorate from 1969 to 1978.

O'Brien died in Wellington on 13 December 2017 at the age of 93.

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O'Brien and his wife Fausta in 1978

1924 births
2017 deaths
New Zealand politicians
Military personnel of World War II
People from Wellington
Yurizan Beltran

Yurizan Beltrán Lebanue (November 2, 1986 – December 13, 2017), known as Yurizan Beltran, was an American pornographic actress. She was born in Los Angeles on November 2, 1986 of Mexican descent. Her mother was Brazilian and her father was Canadian.

Beltran was nominated for a total of six AVN Awards. Her career began in 2005.

Beltran died on December 13, 2017 in Los Angeles from a suspected drug overdose at the age of 31.

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1986 births
2017 deaths
Actors from Los Angeles
American pornographic actors
Drug-related deaths in the United States
Marilyn Ware

Marilyn Ware (November 4, 1943 – December 14, 2017) was an American politician, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the United States Ambassador to Finland from March 2006 to March 2008 after being nominated by George W. Bush. She was a member of the Republican Party. Ware was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ware died on December 14, 2017 in Denver, Colorado of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 74.

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1943 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Ambassadors of the United States
American philanthropists
Businesspeople from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Politicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
US Republican Party politicians
Heinz Wolff

Heinz Siegfried Wolff (29 April 1928 – 15 December 2017) was a German-born British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series The Great Egg Race. He was born in Berlin, Germany.

Because they were of Jewish descent, he and his family fled to the United Kingdom in September 1939.

He studied physiology and physics at University College London. He specialized in biological engineering, and was  a professor at Brunel University.

A familiar face in the 1970s and early 1980s, well known to British television audiences with his memorable bow tie and pronounced German accent.

Wolff died in London of heart failure on 15 December 2017 at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 
 Official 'Heinz Wolff Gravity' game site

1928 births
2017 deaths
Alumni of University College London
British biologists
British engineers
British radio personalities
British television presenters
Cardiovascular disease deaths in London
Deaths from heart failure
Entertainers from Berlin
German Jews
Jewish British academics
Jewish British scientists
Jewish entertainers
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Refugees from Nazism
Scientists from Berlin
The Prophet (book)

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was first published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The book has been translated into over 40 different languages and has never been out of print.

References

Other websites

The Prophet audiobook at Archive.org
The Garden of the Prophet audiobook at Archive.org
The Prophet audiobook from Legamus
Project Gutenberg Australia (e-text) (public domain in Australia, Canada, EU, Russia and South Africa)
The Prophet eBook free ebook (Public Domain in U.K) in pdf, ePub and kindle format from Obooko

The Prophet  on WikiSummaries

1923 books
Tu An

Jiang Bihou (; 22 November 1923 – 16 December 2017), better known by his pen name Tu An (), is a Chinese poet and translator. He was a member of China Writers Association.

Jiang was the first person from China to write sonnet in Chinese and he was the first few in China who translated the works of John Keats's into Chinese language.

His translation, Poetry of John Keats, which had won the 2nd Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2000.

Jiang died on 16 December 2017 in Aarhus, Denmark of complications from Parkinson's disease at the age of 94.

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1923 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Chinese poets
Chinese translators
Sharon Laws

Sharon Laws (7 July 1974 – 16 December 2017) was a British professional cyclist and environmental consultant. She gained support in conservation and worked both before and during her cycling career as an environmental consultant to organisations including the British Government, the United Nations and for mining company Rio Tinto in Australia.

Early life
Laws was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but was raised in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

Career

Her first victory in the team came was the Cheshire Classic stage race, which she won after coming second on the first and second stages. Her addition to the British team, which included Cooke and Emma Pooley, was expected to improve chances of a medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but Laws crashed twice and came 35th of 62 finishers. 

Laws retired in August 2016 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer one month later.

Death
Laws died on 16 December 2017 of cervical cancer, aged 43.

References

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 Sharon Laws signs for Team Halfords Bikehut  (15 April 2008) British Cycling (Palmarès)

1974 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cervical cancer
British cyclists
Environmentalists
List of neighbourhoods of Chennai

This is a list of areas and neighbourhoods in Chennai by region. The city is divided on the basis of composition into four major parts: North, Central, South and West.

North Chennai
 Manali new town
 Kodungaiyur East
 Kodungaiyur West
 Madhavaram
 Madhavaram Milk Colony
 Mathur MMDA
 Puzhal
 Moolakadai
 Kolathur
 Parry's Corner
 Royapuram
 Villivakkam
 Perambur
 Pudhupakkam 
 Tiruvottiyur
 Vyasarpadi
 Manali
 Tondiarpet
 Vallalar Nagar
 Ennore
 Old Washermenpet
 Kavangarai
 New Washermenpet
 Korukkupet
 Mannadi
 George Town
 Seven Wells
 Basin Bridge
 Sowcarpet
 Park Town
 Periametu
 Choolai
 Veppery
 Pattalam
 Pulinanthope
 M.K.B Nagar
 Sharma Nagar
 Selavoyal
 Edapalayam
 MAnjambakkam
 Ponniammanmedu
 Sembiam
 T.V.K Nagar
 ICF Colony north
 Central
 Padi
 Korattur
 Lakshmi puram
 Ambattur north
 Oragadam
 Ayapakkam
 Pattravakkam
 Thirumullaivoyal north
 Avadi north
 Redhills
 Ajax
 Kathivakkam
 Ernavur
 WIMCO
 Sathangadu
 Rajakadai
 Kadambakkam
 Kathirvedu
 Moolakothiram
 Erukanchery
 Broadway
 Jamalia
 Kallikuppam 
 Pattabiram
 Kosapet

West Chennai

 Alapakkam
 Anna Nagar
 Annanur
 Agathiyar Nagar
 Ambattur
 Bhuvaneshwari Nagar
 Chinmaya Nagar
 C.M.D.A Colony
 Defence Colony
 Padi
 Ayappakkam.
 Thiruvallur
 Arakkonam
 
 Korattur
 Mogappair East
 Mogappair West
 Arumbakkam
Avadi
 Pudur
 Maduravoyal
 Koyambedu
 Ashok Nagar
 KK Nagar
 KK Nagar West
 KK Nagar East
 Karambakkam
 Vadapalani
 Saligramam
 Shakthi Nagar
 Sri Iyyappa Nagar
 Virugambakkam
 Alwarthirunagar
 Valasaravakkam
 Thirunindravur
 Thirumangalam
 Thirumullaivayal
 Thiruverkadu
 Nandambakkam
 Nerkundrum
 Nesapakkam
 Nolambur
 Ramapuram
 Mugalivakkam
 Mangadu
 M.G.R Nagar
 M.G.R Garden
 Pallavan Nagar
 Porur
 Poonamallee
 Moulivakkam
 MMDA Colony

South and East Chennai

 Mylapore
 Perungudi
 Sholinganallur
 Alandur
 Adyar
 Besant Nagar
 Triplicane
 T. Nagar
 Thiruvanmiyur
 Saidapet
 Guindy
 Madipakkam
 Nanganallur
 Velachery
 Taramani
 Pallikaranai
 Keelkattalai
 Kovilambakkam
 Thoraipakkam
 Neelankarai
 Injambakkam
 Chromepet
 Pallavaram
 Tambaram
 Perungalathur
 Palavanthangal
 Peerkankaranai
 Mudichur
 Vandalur
 Kolappakkam
 Kandigai
 Mambakkam
 Pudhupakkam
 Palavakkam 
 Varadharajapuram
 Medavakkam

Suburban Chennai

Suburban Chennai includes almost half of the places in the districts of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur. Suburban Chennai is commonly called as Greater Chennai.

Northern Suburbs of Chennai

 Pazhaverkadu
 Ponneri
 Athipattu
 Sholavaram
 Minjur
 Red Hills
 Ennore

Western Suburbs Chennai

 Avadi
 Pattabiram
 Thirunindravur
 Iyyappanthangal
 Kattupakkam
 Poonamallee
 Thirumazhisai
 Thiruvallur

Southern-western Suburbs of Chennai

 Pallavaram
 Pozhichalur
 Anakaputhur
 Pammal
 Kundrathur
 Mangadu
 Chrompet
 Thiruneermalai

 Keelkattalai
 Chitlapakkam
 Tambaram
 Selaiyur
 Madambakkam
 Medavakkam
 Sithalapakkam
 Kovilambakkam
 Nanmangalam

Suburbs along ECR and OMR of Chennai

 Karapakkam
 Kanathur
 Muttukadu
 Kelambakkam
 Kovalam
 Siruseri

India-related lists
Taramani

Taramani is an area in the metropolitan area of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is known for the IT parks and research institutions.

IT Parks in Taramani
Famous Tidel Park, an information technology (IT) industrial park is situated here . It is South India's first IT park. The area is also known for its other IT parks including Ascendas IT Park, Ramanujam IT Park, Elnet Software City and TICEL Biotech Park.

MGR Film city
The MGR Film City was constructed in Tharamani in 1996.  The Film City was a major project of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha. This was made during her first term in office as Chief minister. Recently, there have been news reports that it is being made into a "Knowledge Park".

Reference

Neighbourhoods of Chennai
Avadi

Avadi is a residential locality. It is located in the Western part of the metropolitan city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. it is a Special Grade Municipal Corporation of Chennai Metropolitan Area.

The neighbourhood has its own railway station, Avadi Railway Station of the Chennai Suburban Railway. The Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) is located in Avadi. Avadi has a lake with the same name.

Major military establishments having divisions in Avadi are the Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF), EFA-Engine Factory, Avadi, Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indian Navy, Central Vehicle Depot (CVD), The Ordnance Depot [OD], Unfit Vehicles Park [UVP] and the Ordnance Clothing Factory (OCF).

According to the 2011 census of India, Avadi had a population of 345,996.

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Neighbourhoods of Chennai
Heavy Vehicles Factory

The Heavy Vehicles Factory is located in Avadi locality, Chennai metropolitan city. It was set up in the year 1961. It was set up by Ordanance Factories Board , Government of India. The function of this factory is to manufacture battlefield equipment. These include Vijayantas, T-79 Tanks. At present it manufactures India's main battle tank Arjun and T-90 tanks.

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Chennai
Garfield Heights, Ohio

Garfield Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. At the 2010 census, 28,849 people lived there.

Cities in Ohio
Pratval

Pratval used to be a Swiss municipality. It is now part of the new municipality of Domleschg and the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Other websites 

 Official website 

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Flag of Slovakia

The Flag of Slovakia is the flag of the European country, Slovakia. It has three horizontal Slavic tricolour of white, blue and red. It has a white double cross on a red background.

Slovakia
Slovakia
Pangasinan language

Pangasinan language or Salitan Pangasinan is one of the main languages of the Philippines. It is the language spoken in the province of Pangasinan.

References

Other websites 

 Bansa Pangasinan-English Dictionary 
 Pangasinan Wiktionary
 Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database 
 Sunday Punch
 Sun Star Pangasinan
 Pangasinan Star 
 Pangasinan: Preservation and Revitalization of the Pangasinan Language and Literature 
 Globalization killing Pangasinan language 
 Pangasinan language is alive and kicking (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 8, 2007) 
 Dying languages
 Pangasinan-Spanish Dictionary, by Lorenzo Fernandez Cosgata, published in 1865.

Austronesian languages
Languages of the Philippines
Mœrnach

Mœrnach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Mollau

Mollau is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Alaska Thunderfuck

Justin Andrew Honard (born May 6, 1985), known by his drag name Alaska Thunderfuck, is an American drag queen,  rapper, singer, and songwriter. Thunderfuck moved to Erie, Pennsylvania at age 10. In early 2013, She then joined the cast of fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, where she was a runner-up. In October 2013, Thunderfuck signed to Producer Entertainment Group with distribution from Sidecar Records. Her debut album, Anus, was released on June 23, 2015.  It produced the singles "Your Makeup Is Terrible", "Nails", "Hieeee", "This Is My Hair" and "Anus".  "Your Makeup Is Terrible" managed to peak at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and peaked in the top ten around the world.  She released a single, "Puppet", on 16th of September 2016, before releasing her second studio album, Poundcake, on October 14, 2016. She has recently been featured as a contestant on Scared Famous alongside American reality TV personalities Don Benjamin, Sky Days, Erica Mena, Safaree Samuels, Eva Marcille, Tiffany "New York" Pollard, Drita D'Avanzo, Yung Joc and Nikki Mudarris.  In 2016, she returned for the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, where she was crowned the winner. On the 24th of May 2019, Thunderfuck released her third studio album Vagina.

Thunderfuck is the first and only drag queen to be on Scared Famous. She is known for her funny voices, weird styles and her "obsession" with PayPal.

Music Records 
 Mixtapes
 Glamtron (2010)

Extended plays
 The William Show Presents Alaska 5000 (2012)

 Studio albums
 Anus (2015)
 Poundcake (2016)
Vagina (2019)

 Collaboration albums
 Access All Areas (2017)

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1985 births
Living people
American musicians
Rap musicians from Pennsylvania
American R&B singers
American pop singers
Grammy Award winners
LGBT musicians
LGBT singers
Gay men
Drag queens
Musicians from Pennsylvania
Singers from Pennsylvania
Collapse of Hotel New World

On 15 March 1986, in one of Singapore’s worst civil disasters, the Lian Yak Building (better known as Hotel New World) collapsed. 33 people died and 17 were rescued alive from the rubble.

The Singapore Fire Service (SFS) (present-day Civil Defence Force), the Armed Forces and the police all assisted in the rescue operation. Passers-by and nearby residents also joined in, helping to clear the rubble and pull out survivors. SAF medical officers and MOH doctors present took turns to crawl through narrow spaces inside the rubble to try and provide assistance to trapped survivors, giving glucose and saline drips to them. At first, power saws and drills were used to cut through the rubble and reach survivors; however the use of heavy machinery posed a risk to people trapped under the rubble. 

This led to concern among tunnelling experts from Britain, Ireland and Japan who were involved in nearby construction for the Mass Rapid Transit, which included Thomas Gallagher, Thomas Mulleary, Patrick Gallagher, Michael Prendergast, and Michael Scott; as well as Tan Jin Thong, Deputy Director (Operations) SFS.

They volunteered to dig 4 tunnels under the rubble, which resulted in the rescue of another eight survivors. They later received the Pingat Gagah Perkasa (Conspicuous Gallantry Medal) for their actions.

The investigation found that during the calculation of the building’s structural load, only the LIVE LOAD (weight of people in the building, and additional fixtures and fittings, such as furniture) was factored in. The DEAD LOAD (weight of the building itself) was completely omitted from the calculation. This meant the building was not designed to support its own weight. It was later discovered that an unqualified draftsman, instead of a professional structural engineer, did the calculations for the building. The owner (which died in the collapse) also requested to use inferior materials in construction, in order to reduce the cost.

After the incident, Singapore’s building safety regulations were updated. Since 1989, all structural designs/calculations must not only be prepared by a Professional Engineer, but also counter-checked by an independent Accredited Checker.

20th century in Singapore
1986 in Asia