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Arseny Roginsky

Arseny Borisovich Roginsky (; 30 March 1946 – 18 December 2017) was a Soviet dissident and Russian historian. He was born in Velsk, a town in the Arkhangelsk Region (Northwest Russia).

From 1975 until his arrest in August 1981, he was editor of Memory (Pamyat), a samizdat, i.e. uncensored, almanac of historical studies that was published abroad after 1978. Roginsky was sentenced to four years in a corrective-labour camp and was released in 1985.

During perestroika Roginsky was one of the founders of Memorial, an international historical and civil rights society. that came into existence in the late 1980s. He served as its head from 1998 until his death. A first attempt was made by the authorities to close Memorial in 2014. If Memorial was closed, commented Roginsky at the time, then the organisation's many branches would have to re-register and thereafter restore contacts across the country.

Roginsky died in Tel Aviv, Israel on 18 December 2017 at the age of 71.

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Newcomb's paradox

Newcomb's paradox is a thought experiment in philosophy, specifically decision theory. The paradox goes as follows:Imagine a super-intelligent entity known as Omega, and suppose you are confident in its ability to predict your choices. (Maybe Omega is an alien from a planet that's much more technologically advanced than ours.)  You know that Omega has often correctly predicted your choices in the past (and has never made an incorrect prediction about your choices), and you also know that Omega has correctly predicted the choices of other people, many of whom are similar to you, in the particular situation about to be described.There are two boxes: A and B. Box A is see-through and contains $1,000. Box B is opaque, and contains either $0 or $1,000,000. You may take both boxes, or only take box B.Omega decides how much money to put into box B.  If Omega believes that you will take both boxes, then he will put $0 in box B.  If Omega believes that you will only take box B, then he will put $1,000,000 in box B.Omega makes its prediction, puts the money in box B ($0 or $1,000,000), presents the boxes to you, and flies away.  Omega does not tell you its prediction, and you do not see how much money Omega put in box B.What do you do?

Argument for only choosing box B 
If Omega is always right, then Omega would only put $1,000,000 in box B when you choose to take only box B.  Since $1,000,000 is more preferable than $1,000, only choosing box B makes the most sense and since Omega is always right, then you should choose box B.

Argument for choosing both boxes 
Since Omega has already left, the amount of money in box B won't change based on the decision you make. Regardless of what's in box B, you can always get another $1,000 by walking away by both boxes.

Thought
Experiments
Philosophy
Logical paradoxes
Bernard Francis Law

Bernard Francis Law (November 4, 1931 – December 20, 2017) was an American cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico to American parents. He was Archbishop emeritus of Boston, former archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna.

Law was the Archbishop of Boston from 1984 until his resignation on December 13, 2002. He resigned in response to the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal after church documents showed he had known of sexual abuse committed by dozens of Catholic priests within his archdiocese.

Law died at a hospital in Rome, Italy on December 20, 2017 of prostate cancer at the age of 86.

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Lito Cruz

Oscar Alberto "Lito" Cruz (May 14, 1941 – December 19, 2017) was an Argentine stage director, playwright and actor. He was born in Berisso, Argentina. His career began in 1968. During his career, he won two Martín Fierro Awards (2011, 2014). He was known for his roles in El elegido and in Solamente vos.

Cruz was appointed as National Theatres Director in 1995, a position he used to help have Congress pass the "National Theatre Law" in 1998. The bill helped protect struggling stages against demolition and guaranteed annual subsidies for the art.

Cruz created and produced Sueños de milongueros in 2009, a musical written in homage to authors Jorge Luis Borges and Alejandro Dolina, and cartoonist/satirist Roberto Fontanarrosa.

Cruz died in Buenos Aires on December 19, 2017 of a heart attack at the age of 76.

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Lin Shaye

Linda "Lin" Shaye (born October 12, 1943) is an American movie, theater and television actress. She is called a scream queen due to her roles in various horror franchises or movies.

Her best known roles are in A Nightmare on Elm Street, Critters, Insidious, Dead End, 2001 Maniacs and its sequel 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams, Alone in the Dark, Amityville: A New Generation, Tales of Halloween, Abattoir, Ouija and its prequel Ouija: Origin of Evil.

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American movie actors
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A Wrinkle in Time (2018 movie)

A Wrinkle in Time is a 2018 American science fantasy adventure movie directed by Ava DuVernay. The screenplay was written by Jennifer Lee and is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle.

The movie stars Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, Storm Reid, Zach Galifianakis, and Chris Pine. It had a budget of $103 million.

After learning her astrophysicist father (Chris Pine) is being held captive on a distant planet deep in the grip of a universe-spanning evil, Meg Murry (Storm Reid) works with her highly intelligent younger brother (Deric McCabe), her classmate (Levi Miller), and three astral travelers to save him (Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling).

The movie was released in the United States by Walt Disney Pictures on March 9, 2018, in Real D 3D and in IMAX 3D.

Cast 
 Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which
 Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit
 Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Who
 Storm Reid as Meg Murry
 Lyric Wilson as young Meg
 Levi Miller as Calvin O'Keefe
 Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace Murry
 Chris Pine as Dr. Alexander Murry
 Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dr. Kate Murry
 Zach Galifianakis as Happy Medium
 Michael Peña as Red, 
David Oyelowo as The IT
 Andre Holland as James Jenkins
 Rowan Blanchard as Veronica Kiley
 Bellamy Young as Camazotz Woman
 Conrad Roberts as Elegant Man,
 Will McCormack and Yvette Cason as Two unnamed teachers
 Daniel MacPherson as Mr. O'Keefe,

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2018 science fiction movies
2010s adventure movies
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2010s American fantasy movies
2010s American adventure movies
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Movies set in Los Angeles
Agostino Cacciavillan

Agostino Cacciavillan (born 14 August 1926) is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and diplomat. He was born in Novale, Italy. He was Pro-Nuncio to Kenya, India, Nepal, and the United States between 1976 and 1998. He then served as President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See from 1998 to 2002. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.

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Italian Roman Catholics
Diplomats
Japanese name

A Japanese name has a surname () and a given name (), there are unusual surnames. Some people have the same first name and same name. Sato (),  is the most famous surname.

Names
Japan
Deindustrialization

Deindustrialization or deindustrialisation is a process that happens in countries when machines are being removed or reduced from how work is done. This can cause social and economic change. It is the opposite of industrialization.

During the deindustrialisation of a country, many people leave factory jobs to do other jobs that require little or no machines.

Society
Industries
Halbe Zijlstra

Halbe Zijlstra (born January 21, 1969 in Oosterwolde, Friesland) is a former Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

Early life and education
He studied marketing at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, and sociology at the University of Groningen.

Career
He was on the city council of Utrecht. From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the Second Chamber. He held the position of Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the First Rutte cabinet from 2010 to 2012. Then he was his party's parliamentary leader from 2012 to 2017. His highest political position was as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Third Rutte cabinet beginning on October 26, 2017.

On February 13, 2018, Halbe Zijlstra resigned after he had lied about attending meetings with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Personal life
Halbe Zijlstra is married with one child.

References

Other websites
  Bio at Parlement.com

1969 births
Living people
Deputy government ministers of the Netherlands
Dutch councillors
Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
Government ministers of the Netherlands
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians
Politicians from Friesland
Oosterwolde, Friesland

Oosterwolde, Stellingwarfs: Oosterwoolde, is a village in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf, Friesland Province, the Netherlands.

Oosterwolde is the main settlement of the municipality, and is at east end of the province, near the Province of Drenthe.

As of 2016, about 10,000 people were living in the village.

Well-known people 
 Halbe Zijlstra (born 1969), politician

Settlements in Friesland
Zijlstra

Zijlstra may refer to the following Dutch people:

 Halbe Zijlstra, politician
 Jelle Zijlstra, politician and economist
 Rinse Zijlstra, politician 

Surnames
House of Representatives (Netherlands)

The House of Representatives, Dutch: Tweede Kamer (literally Second Chamber), is the lower house of the States General, the parliament of the Netherlands.

It is comparable with the House of Representatives in other countries, because it is chosen by direct elections.

It consists of 150 members, who are chosen every four years or earlier when the government has been brought down.

In contrast with the First Chamber or Senate the Second Chamber has extensive legislative powers.

House of Representatives 2021-present 
The elections for the new House of Representatives were held on Wednesday 17 March 2021. The new House has been installed on 31 March 2021.

Parties with considerable gains are the progressive liberal party D66, the populist parties FVD and JA21, and newcomer Volt. Considerable losses have been suffered by the Christian democratic party CDA, the left parties GL and SP, the populist party PVV, and the senior party 50+.

BBB and BIJ1 have made their first appearance in parliament.

On 6 May 2021, Liane den Haan left 50+ and has become an independent MP. On 13 May 2021, Wybren van Haga and two other MPs left FVD and have become the Group Van Haga. On 12 June 2021, Pieter Omtzigt left the CDA and has become an independent MP.

House of Representatives 2017-2021 
The general elections for this House of Representatives were held on Wednesday 15 March 2017. This House was installed on 23 March 2017 and dissolved on 31 March 2021.

When the results were announced, the Labour Party (PvdA) lost many seats, while the winner, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) led by Mark Rutte, also lost seats, but not as many.

Most of the opposition parties won seats. The populist Party for Freedom (PVV) of Geert Wilders did not win as many seats as were expected of them, but they became second in the number of seats they had. More seats were won by (especially) GreenLeft (GL), Democrats 66 (D66), the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), the Party for the Animals (PvdD), and 50PLUS (50+), along with the newly formed parties DENK and Forum for Democracy (FVD). The only other party to lose seats was the Socialist Party (SP), while the small Christian parties ChristianUnion (CU) and Reformed Political Party (SGP) did not gain or lose any seats.

President of the House of Representatives was Khadija Arib (PvdA).

General elections results since 1946 
Original seats in post-war Second Chamber (Tweede Kamer).<br/ >
Coalitian parties marked in olive.<br/ >
Prime Minister's party in bold.

Related pages 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
 Senate (Netherlands)
 Politics of the Netherlands

References 
 
  www.kiesraad.nl (elections results)

States General of the Netherlands
Netherlands
Episcopal Church

Episcopal Churches are those that kept the division of priesthood, into bishops, deacons, and priests; these churches are not Roman Catholic, very often they are Protestant or Anglican. in the US, the word is often used as a synonym for the Anglican Church.

Anglicanism
Danish resistance movement

The Danish Resistance Movement was an underground movement organized to resist the Nazi German occupation of Denmark during World War II. Due to the initially lenient arrangements, in which the Nazi occupation authority allowed the democratic government to stay in power, the resistance movement was slower to develop effective tactics on a wide scale than in some other countries.

By 1943, many Danes were involved in underground activities, ranging from producing illegal publications to spying and sabotage. Major groups included the communist BOPA (Danish: Borgerlige Partisaner, Civil Partisans) and Holger Danske, both based in Copenhagen. Resistance agents killed an estimated 400 Danish Nazis, informers and collaborators until 1944. After that date, they also killed some German nationals.

In the postwar period, the Resistance was supported by politicians within Denmark and there was little effort to closely examine the killings. Studies were made in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and people learned that there was sometimes improvised and contingent decision making about the targets, with some morally ambiguous choices.

In popular media

Books
 Lowry, Lois Number The Stars (1989) historical fiction, in English, 1990 Newberry Award winner

Films
 "Miracle at Midnight" (1998), a Disney made-for-TV movie starring Sam Waterson and Mia Farrow, dramatizing a true story of Danish citizens rescuing the Jewish population in Septemer 1943.

20th century in Denmark
Resistance movements of World War II
Janet Benshoof

Janet Benshoof (May 10, 1947 – December 18, 2017) was an American human rights activist and lawyer. She was born in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She was the President and Founder of the Global Justice Center. She founded the Center for Reproductive Rights, the world's first international human rights organization focused on reproductive choice and equality.

Benshoof died of uterine cancer on December 18, 2017 in Manhattan, New York at the age of 70.

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1947 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from uterine cancer
Cancer deaths in New York City
American human rights activists
Lawyers from Minnesota
People from Minnesota
Uterine cancer

Uterine cancer, also known as womb cancer, is any type of cancer that starts from the tissue of the uterus. It can refer to several types of cancer, with cervical cancer being the most common type worldwide and the second most common cancer in women in developing countries. Endometrial cancer (or cancer of the inner lining of the uterus) is the second most common type, and fourth most common cancer in women from developed countries.

Risk factors depend on specific type, but obesity, older age, and human papillomavirus infection add the greatest risk of developing uterine cancer. 

Early on, there may be no symptoms, but irregular vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain or fullness may develop. If caught early, most types of uterine cancer can be cured using surgical or medical methods. When the cancer has extended beyond the uterine tissue, more advanced treatments including combinations of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery may be required.

References

Cancer
Florence Bjelke-Petersen

Florence Isabel Bjelke-Petersen (née Gilmour; 11 August 1920 – 20 December 2017) was an Australian politician and writer. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 1993. She was re-elected at the 1983 and 1987 elections (both double dissolutions), and her term expired on 30 June 1993.

Bjelke-Petersen was the wife of the longest-serving Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. She was styled as Lady Bjelke-Petersen upon her husband's knighthood, and was also known informally as Lady Flo.

Lady Bjelke-Petersen died in Kingaroy, Queensland on 20 December 2017 of cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 97, after suffering a short illness.

References

Other websites
Transcript of interview with Flo Bjelke-Petersen on ABC Radio
"Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen is still going strong at 93 and is a big supporter of Campbell Newman" at Brisbane Courier-Mail

1920 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiopulmonary arrest
Australian politicians
Politicians from Brisbane
Henryk Cioch

Henryk Cioch (30 July 1951 – 20 December 2017) was a Polish lawyer, professor and politician. He was born in Lubaczów, Poland. He served of the Senate of Poland upon winning his senate seat in 2011 as an Independent. He retired in 2015. He was the deputy dean of the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration, held the chair of Civil Law at the Catholic University of Lublin and a member of the Scientific Society of Lublin.

Cioch died on 20 December 2017 in Lublin, Poland of complications from a staph infection at the age of 66.

References

Other websites

 Nota biograficzna na stronie KUL

1951 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from staphylococcal infection
Polish politicians
Polish educators
Polish lawyers
List of A.N.T. Farm episodes

A.N.T. Farm is a Disney Channel original series that follows Chyna Parks (China Anne McClain) and her two best friends Olive Doyle (Sierra McCormick) and Fletcher Quimby (Jake Short) as they transition to a gifted program called "Advanced Natural Talents" (also known as A.N.T.) at a local high school named Webster High. Disney renewed A.N.T. Farm for its second season November 30, 2011. Filming for season two began in early February 2012. A.N.T Farm has since ceased production.

Episodes

Season 1 (2011–12)
 Stefanie Scott is absent for three episodes.
 Carlon Jeffery is absent for six episodes.
This season was filmed from January 2011 to October 2011.

Season 2 (2012–13)
 Carlon Jeffery is absent for three episodes.
 This season was filmed from February 2012 to August 2012.

Season 3 (2013–14)
On October 2, 2012, Disney Channel officially renewed A.N.T. Farm for a third season. This season premiered on May 31, 2013. 
 Angus Chestnut (Aedin Mincks) joins the main cast. 
 Cameron Parks (Carlon Jeffery) is no longer part of the main cast. Webster High School marks its final showing in the one-hour season premiere "trANTsferred". Z-Tech Prodigy School took over as the season's new setting. 
 This was the final season of the show, as confirmed by star China Anne McClain on her Twitter account on December 27, 2013.
 Aedin Mincks is absent for three episodes. 
 Carlon Jeffery makes a guest appearance in one episode

References

General references

Lists of television series episodes
Children's television series
Annie Goetzinger

Annie Goetzinger (18 August 1951 – 20 December 2017) was a French comics artist and graphic novelist. She was born in Paris, France. From the mid-1970s until her death in 2017, she worked on award-winning graphic novels as well as press cartoons for newspapers such as La Croix and Le Monde.

Goetzinger was known for her research and attention to detail, carefully creating a style influenced by Art Nouveau. Goetzinger's background in fashion drawing and costume design shows through in her work as well. In 2016, she was hired to illustrate a recap of New York Fashion Week for New York Magazine.

Her earliest works were illustrations for short comic stories published in French comic magazines like Pilote, Charlie Mensuel and Fluide Glacial.

Goetzinger died on December 20, 2017 in Paris of endometrial cancer at the age of 66.

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1951 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in France
Comics artists
Deaths from endometrial cancer
French artists
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Red Murrell

Phillip "Red" Murrell (February 23, 1933 – December 20, 2017) was an American basketball player. He was born in Linneus, Missouri. He was best known for his college career at Drake University from where he played from 1955 through 1958. His sports number 33 was retired by the university. He won the NJCAA champion in 1955 and the AAU All-American in 1960.

Murrell died on December 20, 2017 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma of coronary artery disease at the age of 84.

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Deaths from coronary artery disease
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
American basketball players
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Len Cariou

Leonard Joseph "Len" Cariou (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor.

Cariou is best known for his role of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and a Drama Desk Award in 1979. He now plays Henry Reagan, NYPD Police Commissioner (retired), in the multi-generational television series Blue Bloods on CBS.

References

Other websites
 
Len Cariou at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Tony Award winning actors
Drama Desk Award winners
1939 births
Living people
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian stage actors
Canadian voice actors
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Actors from Manitoba
Spotlight (movie)

Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical-crime-drama directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The movie is about The Boston Globe'''s "Spotlight" team, the oldest operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by many Roman Catholic priests.

It is based on a series of stories by the "Spotlight" team that earned The Globe'' the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The movie stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, Billy Crudup and Richard Jenkins with Len Cariou as Cardinal Bernard Francis Law.

The movie was released on November 6, 2015, by Open Road Films and grossed $92 million worldwide. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.

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Academy Award winning movies
2015 drama movies
American crime movies
American drama movies
American biographical movies
Movies set in Boston, Massachusetts
Movies set in the 2000s
Dunblane massacre

The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 13 March 1996. 

Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and a teacher before committing suicide. It is the deadliest mass shooting in British history.

Later, and influenced by this event, two new Firearms Acts were passed. They greatly restricted private ownership of firearms in Great Britain.

Sources 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-inquiry-into-the-shootings-at-dunblane-primary-school

1996 in the United Kingdom
1990s crimes in the United Kingdom
1990s murders in Europe
20th century in Scotland
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Mass shootings in the 1990s
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Murder in Scotland
Murder-suicides in Europe
Murders by firearm in the United Kingdom
School shootings
Borsele

Borsele, Zeelandic: Bossele, is a municipality on the former island of Zuid-Beveland, Province of Zeeland, the Netherlands.

About 23,000 people were living in Borsele in 2017.

The Western Scheldt is to the south of the municipality.

The north entrance of the Western Scheldt Tunnel is in Borsele.

Borssele Nuclear Power Station is also in the municipality.

References

Other websites 
 

Municipalities of Zeeland
Mortimer L. Downey

Mortimer Leo Downey, III (born August 9, 1936 in Springfield, Massachusetts) was the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 2001.

References 

Living people
1936 births
United States Secretaries of Transportation
Yale University alumni
Antigonish

Antigonish (; , ) is a town in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

References
Notes

Citations

Works cited

Other websites

Town of Antigonish

Towns in Nova Scotia
Middleton, Nova Scotia

Middleton is a Canadian town in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.

References

Other websites
 Official Website
Map of the Town of Middleton 
 Middleton Farmers' Market 
FV TREA Memory Lane Railway Museum 
AVHS MacDonald Museum

Towns in Nova Scotia
Accept

Accept may refer to:

 Acceptance, a person's assent to the reality of a situation
 Accept (band), a German heavy metal band
 Accept (Accept album), their debut album from 1979
 Accept (Chicken Shack album), 1970
 Accept (organization), a Romanian LGBT rights organisation
 accept(), a computer programming function provided by the Berkeley sockets API

Related pages
The Terminal

The Terminal is an American comedy-drama movie. It was released in 2004. Steven Spielberg directed the movie. Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones were the main actors. This movie is about a man who cannot leave New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal. He is denied entry into the United States and also can not return to his native country because of a military coup.

Cast
 Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski
 Catherine Zeta-Jones as Amelia Warren
 Stanley Tucci as Frank Dixon
 Chi McBride as Joe Mulroy
 Diego Luna as Enrique Cruz
 Barry Shabaka Henley as Thurman
 Kumar Pallana as Gupta Rajan
 Zoë Saldana as Dolores Torres
 Eddie Jones as Richard Salchak
 Jude Ciccolella as Karl Iverson

Release dates

References

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2004 comedy-drama movies
2004 romance movies
American comedy-drama movies
American romance movies
English-language movies
French-language movies
Movies composed by John Williams
Movies directed by Steven Spielberg
Thusis

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

On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Mutten merged into the municipality of Thusis.

References

Other websites 

 Official website of the municipality of Thusis 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Cities in Switzerland
Cousin marriage

Cousin marriage (sometimes called cousincest) is marriage between cousins. In some places like the Middle East it is common. In other places it is illegal. A famous cousin marriage is that between Charles Darwin and his wife Emma.

The main argument against cousin marriages is that it increases the likelihood of genetic defects occurring in children of such marriages. The classic example of this is the occurrence of haemophilia (and some other conditions) in the royal families of Europe. The repeated marriages between close relatives increased the chance of recessive genes arriving on both chromosomes of a pair, so causing defects to appear. Of course, pre-scientific societies would not have known this. However, they would have seen the results of continual close marriages, such as the brother-sister matings in the Ancient Egyptian royal lines.

References 

Marriage
Genetic disorders
Jamie Kennedy

James Harvey "Jamie" Kennedy (born May 25, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian, television producer, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. He came to prominence in the late 1990s for playing Randy Meeks in the Scream movie series. Kennedy formed a production company called Wannabe Producers, alongside Josh Etting, through which he has produced the shows The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Blowin' Up, The Starlet, and Living with Fran. Following Malibu's Most Wanted, in which he both wrote and acted, Kennedy co-wrote the MTV show Blowin' Up (2006) featuring his friend Stu Stone. In 2008, Kennedy released the documentary Heckler, about the plight of stand-up comics versus their often-aggressive audiences.

Filmography

Other websites
 

1970 births
Living people
Comedians from Pennsylvania
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Pennsylvania
Cathy Weseluck

Catherine Weseluck (born August 21, 1970) also credited as Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian actress, comedian, singer, and voice actress. 

She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Weseluck often works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She acts the voice for characters in anime series. She is the voice of mothers or little boys. Major roles include Near in Death Note and Spike in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Other websites
 

1970 births
Living people
Actors from Toronto
Actors from Vancouver
Canadian singers
Canadian movie actors
Radio actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian comedians
Canadian voice actors
Musicians from Ontario
Musicians from Vancouver
Canadian Christians
Kapampangan language

The Pampangan language or Kapampangan is one of the main languages of the Philippines. It is spoken in the province of Pampanga, most parts of Tarlac and Bataan.

References

Other websites 

Bansa Kapampangan-English Dictionary 
Kapampangan Wiktionary
10 ICAL Paper – Issues in Orthography
10 ICAL Paper – Importance of Diacritical Marks
10 ICAL Paper – Transitivity & Pronominal Clitic Order
Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database 
Electronic Kabalen – New Writing on Kapampangan Life & Letters
Dying languages
State can still save Kapampangan
Wikibook Kapampangan
Siuala ding Meangubie
Online E-book of Arte de la Lengua Pampanga by Diego Bergaño. Originally published in 1736.

Austronesian languages
Languages of the Philippines
Rudawa, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Rudawa is a village in Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The village is on the road from Kraków to Trzebinia and by the Rudawa river. It is about  west of Zabierzów and  west of the city of Kraków.

Villages in Poland
Rząska

Rząska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zabierzów, within Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It is about  southeast of Zabierzów and  northwest of the city of Kraków.

Villages in Poland
FC Ingolstadt 04

FC Ingolstadt 04 is a football club from Ingolstadt, Germany.

Other websites
 Official team site (FC Ingolstadt 04)

2004 establishments in Europe
German football clubs
Sport in Bavaria
Moosch

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Cesar Department

Cesar Department is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The capital is Valledupar.

Departments of Colombia
Chocó Department

Chocó Department is a department of Colombia known for its large Afro-Colombian population. It is in the west of the country. It is on the border to Panama. The capital is Quibdó.

The Chocó Department makes up most of the ecoregion known as El Chocó that extends from Panama to Ecuador.

Departments of Colombia
WWE Clash of Champions

WWE Clash of Champions is a professional wrestling event produced annually by WWE, a Connecticut–based professional wrestling promotion, and broadcast live and available only through pay-per-view (PPV) and the WWE Network.

Dates and venues

References

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WWE
Cham (singer)

Damian Beckett (born 24 February 1979),  known as Cham (and previously known as Baby Cham), is a Jamaican rapper, singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known for his 2006 hit singles "Ghetto Story", Ghetto Story Chapter 2 (featuring Alicia Keys) and "Vitamin S"

Discography

References

Jamaican singers
Reggae musicians
1979 births
Living people
June Rowlands

June Rowlands (May 14, 1924 – December 21, 2017) was a Canadian politician. She was born in Toronto. She was the 60th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, serving from 1991 through 1994. She was the first woman to hold that office. She served a longtime city councillor, unsuccessful federal candidate, and chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission.

Rowlands was known during her mayoral term clashing with youth riots and was criticized for her actions which related to political correctness. After one term in office, Rowlands was defeated in 1994 by Barbara Hall, and retired from politics.

Rowlands died on December 21, 2017 in Toronto of Parkinson disease-related complications at the age of 93.

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1924 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in Canada
Mayors of Toronto
Spartacus League

The Spartacus League () was a Marxist revolutionary movement in Germany during World War I. The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion of the Roman Republic. Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and others started the group. The League later changed its name to the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD). It joined the Comintern in 1919. It was most active during the German Revolution of 1918. The League wanted to start a revolution through its newspaper, Spartacus Letters.

Well-known members
 
 Leo Jogiches
 Paul Levi
 Karl Liebknecht
 Rosa Luxemburg
 Julian Marchlewski

 Ernst Meyer
 Franz Mehring
 Wilhelm Pieck
 August Thalheimer
 Bertha Thalheimer
 Clara Zetkin

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Communist parties in Europe
Marxism
Manouchehr Boroumand

Manouchehr Boroumand (26 March 1934 – 21 December 2017) was an Iranian heavyweight weightlifter. He was born in Babolsar, Iran. He was selected for the 1960 Summer Olympics, but withdrew in the last moment due to an illness.

Boroymand also missed the 1962 Asian Games because Iran did not send a delegation there. At the 1964 Summer Olympics he placed 12th. Boroumand was known for his victory in 1966, when he won a gold medal at the Asian Games. He became the first Asian weightlifter to cross the 500 kg barrier in the total, which he has done at the world championships.

Boroymand died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 21 December 2017 in Babolsar at the age of 83.

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1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage
Iranian sportspeople
Olympians
Weightlifters
Jerry Yellin

Jerome "Jerry" Yellin (February 15, 1924 – December 21, 2017) was a former United States Army Air Forces fighter pilot. He flew the final combat mission of World War II in a North American P-51 Mustang against a military airfield near Tokyo on August 14, 1945 (August 15, 1945 local time in Tokyo). 

Yellin's mission was executed five days after a U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar had dropped a second American nuclear weapon on Japan, with the second being dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

Yellin died of lung cancer in Orlando, Florida on December 21, 2017 at the age of 93.

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1924 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer
Cancer deaths in Florida
American military personnel of World War II
People from Newark, New Jersey
Clifford Irving

Clifford Michael Irving (November 5, 1930 – December 19, 2017) was an American novelist, investigative reporter and convicted fraudster. He was born in New York City. Although he published 20 novels, he was best known for an "autobiography" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes.

The fictional work was to have been published in 1972. After Hughes denounced him and sued the publisher, McGraw-Hill, Irving and his collaborators confessed to the hoax. He was sentenced to  years in prison, of which he served 17 months.

Irving wrote The Hoax (1981), his story of events surrounding the development and sale of the fake autobiography.

Irving died on December 19, 2017 in Sarasota, Florida of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87.

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1930 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
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American novelists
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Criminals from New York City
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American literature
Cornell University alumni
People from Manhattan
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Stan Pilecki

Stanislaus Josef "Stan" Pilecki (4 February 1947 – 20 December 2017) was an Australian rugby union player. He played 18 times for the national team, the Wallabies, between 1978 and 1984. He also played for the Queensland in 122 games.

Pilecki was born in refugee camp in Augustdorf, Germany. His parents were Polish. He grew up in Queensland, Australia.

Pilecki died of a short illness on 20 December 2017 at his home in Jindalee, Queensland. He was 70.

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1947 births
2017 deaths
Australian rugby union players
Disease-related deaths in Queensland
Sportspeople from Brisbane
Ken Catchpole

Kenneth William "Ken" Catchpole  (21 June 1939 – 21 December 2017) was an Australian rugby union player. He played 27 times for the national team, the Wallabies, between 1961 and 1968. He also played for the New South Wales in 27 games. He was sometimes called one of the best Australian scrum-halves. He was born in Paddington, New South Wales.

Catchpole died on 21 December 2017, at the age of 78.

References

Other websites
 Ken Catchpole profile at ESPN

1939 births
2017 deaths
Australian rugby union players
Sportspeople from New South Wales
Hiep Thi Le

Hiep Thi Le (; November 30, 1971 – December 19, 2017) was a Vietnamese-American actress. She was known for her role in Heaven & Earth (1993). She appeared in Bugis Street (1995, released in the United States in 1997) and co-starred in the little-scene Dead Man Can't Dance (1997).

On February 23, 2014, Le appeared on the Food Network game show Chopped, appearing and competing in the eighteenth-season episode "Beer Here!".

Le died on December 19, 2017 in Los Angeles, California from stomach cancer at the age of 46.

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Other websites
 

1971 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Cancer deaths in Los Angeles
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Vietnamese people
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from Los Angeles
Francelino Pereira

Francelino Pereira dos Santos (2 July 1921 – 21 December 2017) was a Brazilian politician. From 1995 to 2003, he was a member of the Federal Senate. He also served as Governor of Minas Gerais from 1979 to 1983 and as Deputy from 1963 to 1979. He was born in Angical do Piauí, Brazil.

Pereira died at the age of 96 on 21 December 2017 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil of pneumonia.

References

Other websites
 Government profile 

1921 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Brazil
Brazilian politicians
Dylan Bruce

Dylan Bruce (born April 21, 1980) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Chris Hughes on the CBS daytime soap opera As the World Turns and Paul Dierden on the BBC America/Space science fiction series Orphan Black. He has also had small roles in Passions, Joey, Las Vegas, CSI: NY and The Sopranos.

Bruce was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He grew up in Boundary Bay.

References

Other websites

 

1980 births
Living people
Actors from Vancouver
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt ( Lento; November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven and Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor. He is a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. As an actor, he is known for his roles as Silvio Dante in the HBO drama series The Sopranos (1999–2007) and Frank Tagliano / Giovanni "Johnny" Henriksen on the NRK1 drama Lilyhammer (2012–2014). He was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

Van Zandt was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts. He has Italian ancestry. He grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey. He married Maureen Santoro in 1982.

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Other websites

 
 

1950 births
Living people
Actors from Massachusetts
Actors from New Jersey
American movie actors
American rock guitarists
American television actors
Mandolinists
Musicians from Massachusetts
Musicians from New Jersey
Tram stop

A tram stop is a place where a tram stops so passengers can get on or get off. Tram stops are similar to bus stops, but because trams move on rails, they may include railway platforms. Platforms are needed if the tram system uses stepless entries for accessibility. However, trams may also stop at mid-street pavements when they run along streets.

A tram stop may also be called a tram station or streetcar stop.

Related pages
 Bus stop
 Train/railway station

Other websites

Tram transport
Flag of the Gambia

The national flag of the Gambia has three horizontal red, blue and green stripes separated by two thinner white stripes. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 2:3.

Gambia
The Gambia
Sils im Domleschg

Sils im Domleschg () is a municipality  of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

Villages
Freihof, Campi and Albula.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 

Municipalities of Graubünden
Yoshkar-Ola

Yoshkar-Ola (; ) is the capital city of the Mari El Republic, Russia. 248,782 people lived in the city in 2010.

Yoshkar-Ola is the capital of the Mari El Republic in western Russia. In the city center, the National Art Gallery hosts changing exhibits in a Renaissance-style building. The Museum of the History of Yoshkar-Ola displays military artifacts and folk art in a former merchant’s house. The green-domed Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ is nearby. The riverside Republican Puppet Theater resembles a medieval castle.

It used to be named Tsaryovokokshaysk () before 1919, as Krasnokokshaysk () between 1919 and 1927

Related pages 
List of cities and towns in Russia

Other websites

Official website of Yoshkar-Ola 
Map of Yoshkar-Ola
Springdale, Ohio

Springdale is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. 11,223 people lived there in the 2010 census.

References

Other websites 
 Official City website

Cities in Ohio
Mooslargue

Mooslargue 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
Pia Olsen Dyhr

Pia Olsen Dyhr is a Danish politician, member of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, and leader of the democratic socialist party SF (Socialist People's party) since 13th February, 2014. She took over as leader from Annette Vilhelmsen.

Dyhr was previously Minister for Trade and Investment (3rd October 2011 - 9th August 2013) and Minister for Transport (9th August 2013 - 3rd February 2014).

External sources

Pia Olsen Dyhr at the Danish Parliament 

Danish politicians
Starrkirch-Wil

Starrkirch-Wil is a municipality in the district Olten in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website 

Municipalities of the canton of Solothurn
National Volleyball Association

The National Volleyball Association (NVA) is a men's professional volleyball league in America composed of 10 teams. NVA is an active member of USA Volleyball (Teamusa) which is recognized by FIVB (also known as the International Volleyball Federation) as the national governing body for volleyball in the United States.

References 

Sports in the United States
Volleyball
Sports leagues
Charles Zentai

Charles Zentai (born Károly Steiner; October 8, 1921 – December 13, 2017) was a Hungarian-born resident of Australia accused of a Holocaust-related war crime. He has lived in Perth, Australia for many years after living in the American- and French-occupied zones of post-World War II Germany. He was born in Budapest.

Zentai was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals until 2013. On 8 July 2005, Zentai was arrested by the Australian Federal Police to await an extradition hearing. Zentai's family say the 86-year-old widower, who has heart disease and peripheral neuropathy, would not survive the trip to Hungary.

Zentai died in Perth on December 13, 2017 of heart disease and peripheral neuropathy at the age of 96.

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1921 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from peripheral neuropathy
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Australia
People from Perth, Western Australia
War criminals
People from Budapest
Extradition
Reinhart Fuchs

Reinhart Fuchs (September 28, 1934 — December 16, 2017) was a German chess player, international master (1962). In the national team of the GDR party of six Chess Olympiads (1956-1966) and  IV European team championship (1970) in Kapfenberg. He was born in Berlin.

Fuchs died on December 16, 2017 in Berlin at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
Reinhart Fuchs at Chessgames.com

1934 births
2017 deaths
East German sportspeople
German chess players
People from Berlin
Åke Hellman

Åke Fredrik Hellman (19 July 1915 – 18 December 2017) was a Finnish still life and portrait artist and art professor. He has worked as art teacher at the University of Helsinki. In 1963, he received the order of the Lion of Finland. He was born in Helsinki.

Hellman turned 100 on 19 July 2015. He died on 18 December 2017 in Borgå, Finland, at the age of 102.

References

Other websites
 Åke Hellman in Uppslagsverket Finland.
 Åke Hellman and his artistship.
 A Shared Atelier – Karin and Åke Hellman at Kunsthalle Helsinki.

1915 births
2017 deaths
Finnish artists
People from Helsinki
Seal (musician)

Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963), better known as Seal, is a British singer and songwriter. He has sold more than 20 million records worldwide. He is best known for his song "Kiss from a Rose". The worldwide hit was used for the soundtrack of the movie Batman Forever (1995). He has won three Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. He has also won two Ivor Novello Awards for the songs "Killer" and "Crazy". He was a coach on The Voice in Australia for the 2012, 2013 and 2017 seasons.

Seal was born in Paddington, London. His mother is Nigerian and his father is Brazilian. He was married to German model Heidi Klum from 2005 to 2015. They have four children. 

Seal has scarring on his face caused by a type of lupus called discoid lupus erythematosus.

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1963 births
Living people
Black British musicians
Brit Award winners
British soul musicians
English singer-songwriters
Grammy Award winners
People from Paddington
Singers from London
Warner Bros. Records artists
March Fong Eu

March Kong Fong Eu (; March 29, 1922 – December 21, 2017) was an American politician. She was a member of the California State Assembly and went on to serve as Secretary of State of California. She was born in Oakdale, California. She served under the governships on Jerry Brown, Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian. Eu was a member of the Democratic Party.

In 1987 Eu was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, running against Leo McCarthy for the right to challenge the Republican incumbent, Pete Wilson. Eu dropped out later that year.

President Bill Clinton appointed Eu as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia in 1994. She served in that post until 1996.

Eu died on December 21, 2017 in Irvine, California following surgery after suffering a fall, at age 95.

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1922 births
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Deaths from surgical complications
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from California
US Democratic Party politicians
State legislators of the United States
Halvard Kausland

Halvard Magne Kausland (25 April 1945 – 21 December 2017) was a Norwegian jazz guitarist, composer and civil servant. He was born in Sund, Sotra, Norway. Kausland was also a well-known jazz guitarist, having played in the band of Ole Paus among other things. Kausland had been appointed as acting director of the Arts Council Norway from 1 November 1996 to 31 March 2000.

From 1966 to 1979 he was married to Grethe Kausland.

Kausland died of thyroid cancer in Oslo on 21 December 2017 at the age of 72.

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1945 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from thyroid cancer
Cancer deaths in Norway
Norwegian entertainers
Jazz musicians
Guitarists