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Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Stanisław Paweł Stefan Jan Sebastian Skrowaczewski (; October 3, 1923 – February 21, 2017) was a Polish-American classical conductor and composer.

Skrowaczewski was born in Lwów (then in Poland, now in Ukraine). Between 1983 and 1992 he was principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Between 1995 and 1997, Skrowaczewski served as artistic advisor to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He received the Commander Order of the White Eagle.

Skrowaczewski died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 21, 2017, aged 93.

References

Other websites
 
Biography
Interview with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski by Bruce Duffie, June 27, 1987
Seeking the Infinite: The Musical Life of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski  by Dr. Frederick Edward Harris Jr., publication date: August 31, 2011.

1923 births
2017 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Polish composers
American composers
American conductors
Writers from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Musicians from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joseph Blatchford

Joseph Blatchford (born June 7, 1934) was the third Director of the United States Peace Corps. Blatchford was appointed Peace Corps Director in 1969 by President Richard Nixon. He retired 1971.

Blatchford was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Beverly Hills, California.

Other websites
 An Interview with Joseph Blatchford  Peace Corps Volunteer magazine. May, 1970  Pages 5-13 
 Peace Corps News Clips about Joseph Blatchford

1934 births
Living people
American philanthropists
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People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
People from Beverly Hills, California
Steve Hewlett (journalist)

Steve Hewlett (8 August 1958 – 20 February 2017) was a British print and radio journalist. He served as visiting professor of Journalism and Broadcast Policy at the University of Salford. He worked for the BBC and The Guardian and for programs such as Nationwide and Watchdog.

Hewlett died in London from oesophageal cancer on 20 February 2017, aged 58.

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Desmond Connell

Desmond Connell (24 March 1926 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. He was an Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. 

Cardinal Connell was one of a number of senior clergy to have been heavily criticized for inaction and for making misleading statements in connection with clerical sex abuse in Dublin.

Other websites
Grant of arms of His Eminence Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin 
Desmond Cardinal Connell (Catholic-Hierarchy)
Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
College of Cardinals. Biographical notes. Cardinal Desmond Connell
Archdiocese of Dublin – 26/11/09 Personal Statement of Cardinal Desmond Connell

1926 births
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Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
People from Dublin
Roman Catholic archbishops
Anthony Downs

Anthony Downs (; November 21, 1930 – October 2, 2021) was an American economist. He specialized in public policy and public administration. He was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., beginning in 1977.

Before 1977, Downs served for 18 years a member and then Chairman of Real Estate Research Corporation. He also was a Senior Analyst at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the University of Chicago.

Downs died on October 2, 2021 in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 90.

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1930 births
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Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten  (5 October 1930 – 23 August 2016) was a German economist. He won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with John Harsanyi and John Nash). He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be thought as one of the founding fathers of experimental economics. Selten was professor emeritus at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Selten, who was partly Jewish, died on 23 August 2016 in Poznań, Poland, aged 85.

References

Other websites

 Laboratory for Experimental Economics , at the University of Bonn, Germany 
 Reinhard Selten – Autobiography
 IDEAS/RePEc
 Economista alemán, nacido en Breslau (actualmente Wroclaw, en Polonia).
 

1930 births
2017 deaths
German academics
German economists
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German Nobel Prize winners
Keisha Castle-Hughes

Keisha Castle-Hughes (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian-born New Zealand actress. She started her career in 2001.

Biography
Castle-Hughes was born in Donnybrook, Western Australia. Her mother is Māori and her father is an Australian. She moved to New Zealand at the age of one. She grew up in Auckland. She became a New Zealand citizen in 2001. Castle-Hughes also has four younger siblings: Rhys, Liam, Maddisyn and Quade.

Castle-Hughes is best known for her role as Paikea "Pai" Apirana in the movie Whale Rider (2002). For this, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the youngest person to be nominated for the award at the time. She has also appeared in the movies Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger (2008) and Red Dog (2011). On television, she has appeared in The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Manhunt: Unabomber.

Castle-Hughes and Bradley Hull, her partner from 2003 to 2010, have a daughter, Felicity-Amore Hull (born 25 April 2007). She was married to Jonathan Morrison from 2013 to 2016. She has bipolar disorder.

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1990 births
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Taulupe Faletau

Tangaki Taulupe "Toby" Faletau (born 12 November 1990) is a Welsh rugby union player. He plays as a back row forward. He has played over sixty times for Wales since 2011. For club, he played for Cross Keys RFC and Newport RFC before joining the Newport Gwent Dragons. He has played for Bath Rugby since 2016.

Faletau was born in Tofoa, Tonga. His father is Tongan international Kuli Faletau. He grew up in Pontypool, Wales.

References

Other websites

 Welsh Rugby Union profile 

1990 births
Living people
Oceanic sportspeople
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Dana International

Dana International, Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל , stage name of Sharon Cohen, Hebrew: שרון כהן , (born as Yaron Cohen on February 2, 1972 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli pop singer and transsexual.

Dana International won the  Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with the song Diva.

References 
 Dana International Official Website 

1972 births
Living people
Eurovision Song Contest winners
Israeli LGBT people
Israeli pop singers
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Steve Gleason

Stephen Michael Gleason (born March 19, 1977) is a former American football player. He played mainly as a safety. He played for the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) between 2000 and 2007. He was best known for blocking a punt in 2006, which became a symbol of recovery for New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

In 2019, Gleason was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Gleason was born in Spokane, Washington. He is married to Michel Rae Varisco. They have two children. In 2011, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

References

Other websites
 TeamGleason.org

Congressional Gold Medal recipients
1977 births
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Francis Pollet

Francis Pollet (born at Roubaix, 5 May 1964) is a French General officer. From March 2017, he is the director-general of the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées (French private aerospace university).

Pollet graduated from the École de l'Air in 1985. He started his career as fighter pilot and corporate pilot for Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac. He worked in human resources and operational activities. In 2003, he joined higher education as head of École de l'Air at Salon-de-Provence. In March 2017, he became head of the Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées.

Awards 
 National Order of Merit
 Medal of Aeronautics
 Legion of Honour
 National Defence Medal
 Overseas Medal

Bibliography 
 Le futur de l'avion : Les prochains défis de l’industrie aéronautique, Ivry-sur-Seine, FYP Éditions, 2020, 160 p. (ISBN 978-2-36405-203-1)

References

Further reading
 Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. ()

1964 births
Living people
French aviators
French generals
Chifley Tower

The Chifley Tower is a skyscraper in Sydney, Australia. It is one of the tallest buildings in the city and the 11th tallest building in Australia.

Buildings and structures in Sydney
Skyscrapers in Australia
1992 establishments in Australia
Florac Trois Rivières

Florac Trois Rivières is a French commune, a subprefecture of the Lozère department, in the Occitanie region. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Florac.

The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 when the former communes of Florac and La Salle-Prunet were combined to form the new commune.

Geography
Florac Trois Rivières is in the valley of the Tarnon river, a small river that flows through the Lozère department before joining the Tarn river. The commune is found at the start of the Gorges du Tarn (a canyon formed by the Tarn river).

The city and the Tarnon valley are within the Cévennes National Park but they are not part of the park.

The commune of Florac Trois Rivières has an area of  and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune is surrounded by the communes Quézac, Bédouès-Cocurès, Pont de Montvert - Sud Mont Lozère, Cans et Cévennes, Vebron and Montbrun.

The climate in Florac Trois Rivières in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
, Florac Trois Rivières had 2,107 inhabitants for a density of  persons/km2.

The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as Floracois (women: Floracoises).

Twinned and partner towns
Florac Trois Rivières is twinned with:
  L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
  Arbúcies, Catalonia, Spain

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Florac
 Communes of the Lozère department

References

Other websites

 Mairie de Florac Trois Rivières website 

2016 establishments in France
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Communes in Lozère
Maccabi Ahi Nazareth F.C.

Maccabi Ahi Nazareth Football Club, Hebrew: מכבי אחי נצרת - Mo'adon Kaduregel Maccabi Aḥi Natzrat, Arabic: نادي كرة القدم اخاء الناصرة  - Nade Korat Alqadam Maccabi Ekhaa Al-Nasera) is an Israeli football club in Nazareth.

The club was established in 1968 and plays in the Liga Leumit.

Other websites 
  

1968 establishments in Israel
Israeli football clubs
Nazareth
Executive Order 13769

Executive Order 13769, also called Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, is an executive order signed by United States President Donald Trump on January 27, 2017. It limits travel to the United States from some countries and by all refugees.

The order said that no more than 50,000 refugees could be be let into the United States. It stopped the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days (about four months). After that 120 days, the program would start again for individual countries. The order also stopped the entry of refugees from Syria. The order tells some Cabinet secretaries to stop entry of nationals from countries that do not meet adjudication standards under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The United States Department of Homeland Security lists these countries as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. 

The Department of Homeland Security later allowed green card holders and dual nationals of other countries to enter the United States. However, they had to have a passport or nationality of a non-listed country.

There were many lawsuits that tried to stop the order. One was State of Washington v. Trump, which resulted in a temporary restraining order (TRO). The TRO was issued on February 3, 2017. It stopped much of the executive order. The issue is about whether the order is legal and whether it is against the United States Constitution.

More than 100 travelers were held. They were held for hours without family or legal assistance. Up to 60,000 visas were taken away.

Protests against the order took place in airports and cities.

The order was criticized by Democratic and Republican members of U.S. Congress, Catholic bishops, business leaders and universities.

References

United States law
Immigration
2017 in the United States
Executive order (United States)

An executive order is a rule or order made by a President of the United States. The order tells agencies and officers of the Federal government of the United States things that they must do.

Executive orders can be stopped by the courts in a process called judicial review. They may be stopped if they are against laws or against the Constitution of the United States.

Executive orders have a big effect on the internal affairs of government. They decide how and to what degree legislation will be enforced. They also deal with emergencies and wars.

United States law
Ricardo Domínguez

Ricardo Domínguez (20 July 1985 – 22 February 2017), nicknamed Pelón, was a Mexican professional boxer. He fought in the light welterweight division. He was best known for having won the 2009 Campeón Azteca tournament at lightweight. After 50 bouts, he won 37 of them. He was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa.

Dominguez died from colon cancer on 22 February 2017, at the age of 31.

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Deaths from colorectal cancer
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Bengt Gustavsson

Bengt Olov Emanuel "Julle" Gustavsson (13 January 1928 – 16 February 2017) was a Swedish footballer and manager. He played as a defender. He played for IFK Norrköping, Atalanta and Åtvidabergs FF. He also played for the Sweden national football team during the 1958 FIFA World Cup. He was born in Ringarum, Östergötland County.

Gustavsson died on 16 February 2017 in Norrköping, at the age of 89.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Swedish football managers
Swedish footballers
Sing-along

A sing-along is an event where people sing songs together. The song leader can use a book of song lyrics and/or music as well as an instrument.

Singing
Crito (Plato)

Crito is a dialogue written by the ancient Greek writer and philosopher Plato in 360 BC. Its only characters are Socrates and Crito. 

It centers around the moral consequences of helping Socrates escape from prison. Socrates argues against defying the law, even though Crito is willing to help him. Eventually Socrates convinces Crito that morally, Socrates must stay in prison and accept his execution. 
Plato, who had been a student of Socrates, wrote this dialogue among many others. Socrates is often a character of Plato's works, and the dialogue between Crito and Socrates is based on the death of Socrates. Socrates did in fact get executed by drinking hemlock.

References 

Ancient Greek philosophers
Classical Greek literature
Teen sitcom

A teen situation comedy or teen sitcom is a type of situation comedy television show that is made for teenagers.  The main characters on a teen sitcom are usually teenagers.  The shows are usually about problems that are common for teenagers.  Well known teen sitcoms include Saved by the Bell, Hannah Montana, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, and iCarly.

Sitcoms
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The Fundamental Orders were passed by three towns in Connecticut in 1639.  The orders were the first constitution in the American colonies.

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17th century in the Thirteen Colonies
Politics of the United States
1639
History of Connecticut
Pontine Islands

The Pontine Islands are a small archipelago along the Gulf of Gaeta, in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the west coast of Italy, at about  from the European continent.

The islands were named after the largest island in the group, Ponza.

Geography
The archipelago has an area of about  with a resident population of about 4,076 persons. During the summers, many people visit the islands. They islands, Ponza and Ventotene, can be reached by ferry or hydrofoil.

The highest point in the archipelago is Monte Guardia in the southern end of the Ponza island; it is  high.

Muncipalities 
The archipelago has six islands and several islets divided in two groups, part of two comuni of the Latina province:

Gallery

References

Other websites

 Italian National Tourist Board North America 
 Ponziane, ìsole- 

Archipelagos
Islands of Italy
Weathered

Weathered is the third studio album by Creed. The album was released on November 20, 2001 through Wind-up Records. It was the number one album on the Billboard 200 during the week it was released.

References

2001 albums
On the Beach (novel)

On the Beach is a novel by Nevil Shute, a British author who emigrated to Australia. It was published in 1957. It tells about the world after atomic war. Last people live in Australia and wait for coming of the radioactive cloud. When they start being sick of the radiation, they commit suicide. 

A movie based on the book was made in 1959. Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner starred in it.

References

Other websites 
 James Schellenberg, Review of Nevil Shute's On the Beach.

Novels
1957 books
Frank Delaney

Frank Delaney (24 October 1942 – 22 February 2017) was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He was the author of the New York Times best-seller Ireland, the non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections. 

Delaney was born in Tipperary, Ireland.

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1942 births
2017 deaths
Journalists
Irish novelists
Cosmo Haskard

Sir Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard KCMG MBE (25 November 1916 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator and retired British Army officer. He was born in Dublin. He served as Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1964 through 1970.

He turned 100 in November 2016. Haskard died on 21 February 2017 in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, aged 100.

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1916 births
2017 deaths
Irish politicians
British politicians
British centenarians
People from Dublin
Douglas Coe

Douglas Evans Coe (October 20, 1928 – February 21, 2017) was an American evangelical leader. He served as associate director of the Christian organization, The Fellowship, (also known as a family of friends in Christ, the prayer breakfast groups). He has also been called as the "stealth Billy Graham." He was born in Medford, Oregon.

In 2005, Coe was named one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in the United States by Time magazine. Coe was an ordained Presbyterian elder and serves as a lay minister.

Coe died in Annapolis, Maryland on February 21, 2017 from complications of a heart attack, aged 88.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American Christians
Writers from Oregon
People from Medford, Oregon
Kendra Lust

Kendra Lust (born September 18, 1978 in Madison Heights, Michigan) is an American pornographic actress.

Early life 
Kendra was born to a French Canadian and an Italian. Kendra was broke in college so she stripped part time so she could afford school to become a nurse. She worked as a nurse for seven years. Kendra quit nursing after seven years so she could make more money and work less hours in the porn business.

Career 
During the final years of her career as a nurse, Kendra worked as a webcam model to being the change of career to porn. Kendra had sex on camera first in March 2012 with Phoenix Marie and Rachel Starr for the porn company Brazzers. Kendra did not have a typical entry into the porn industry as she had not done a scene with casting couch prior to getting a job at a big company like Brazzers.

Awards 
Kendra has been awarded "Hottest MILF" by AVN in 2016.

Marriage 
Kendra Lust is currently married to a cop and has one daughter. She lives in Michigan with her family.

References

Other websites 

 
 
 

1978 births
Living people
Actors from Michigan
American pornographic actors
American erotic dancers
Jeanne Martin Cissé

Jeanne Martin Cissé (6 April 1926 – 21 February 2017) was a Guinean teacher and nationalist politician. She served as ambassador to the United Nations and in 1972 was the first woman to serve as President of the United Nations Security Council. She served in the government of Guinea as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 until the 1984 military coup.

Cissé was born in Kankan, Guinea. She studied at the École Normale d'Institutrices de Rufisque in Dakar, Senegal, where she trained to become a teacher.

Cissé died on 21 February 2017 in Conakry, Guinea, aged 90.

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1926 births
2017 deaths
Ambassadors to the United Nations
Guinean politicians
Teachers
Seijun Suzuki

, (Seitaro Suzuki; 鈴木 清太郎; Suzuki Seitarō; 24 May 1923  – 13 February 2017) was a Japanese movie director, actor, and screenwriter. He made 40 B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre.

He won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991). His movies remained widely unknown outside Japan until a series of theatrical movies beginning in the mid-1980s, home video releases of key movies such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter became popular outside of Japan.

Suzuki died on 13 February 2017 at a Tokyo hospital from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 93.

References

Other websites
 Midnight Eye interview: Seijun Suzuki
 Seijun Suzuki: Authority in Minority  at Senses of Cinema
 Cinefiles – An archive containing essays, notes, reviews and book excerpts on Suzuki's films
 
 

1923 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from COPD
Japanese movie directors
Japanese screenwriters
Japanese movie actors
Ion Croitoru

Ion William Croitoru (December 7, 1965 – February 21, 2017) was a Canadian professional wrestler. He was born and raised in Ontario, Canada.

Croitoru is better known by his ring names, Johnny K-9 and Bruiser Bedlam. He competed in several Canadian wrestling promotions, including Stampede Wrestling, and later wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). 

He wrestled as a jobber in the WWF, but he was booked to win titles in several other promotions.

Croitoru is also famous for his history of legal problems. He was a member of Satan's Choice, a biker gang, and has also been convicted of assault, trafficking cocaine and bombing a police station. 

In 2005, Croitoru was arrested for the murder of lawyer Lynn Gilbank and her husband Fred. After a lengthy investigation, the charges were dropped in June 2006 because of insufficient evidence. He worked as a security guard in Vancouver, British Columbia until being arrested in May 2009 for conspiracy to commit murder. 

On January 24, 2011, Croitoru was charged with first degree murder in connection with the 2008 execution of Jonathan Barber in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Croitoru died while under house arrest on February 21, 2017, at a federal halfway house in Toronto from a suspected heart attack, aged 51.

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Harold Denton

Harold Ray Denton (February 24, 1936 – February 13, 2017) was an American civil servant. He served as the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) from 1988 until his retirement in 1998. He is best known for his role as President Jimmy Carter's personal adviser for the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident.

Denton was born in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina. He died at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee from complications of Alzheimer's disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, aged 80.

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Deaths from COPD
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Ruth Westheimer

Ruth Westheimer (born Karola Ruth Siegel; June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality and writer. She is best known for her radio show Sexually Speaking during the 1980s. She worked for Planned Parenthood in the 1950s. She has also written many books.

Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She is Jewish and moved to Switzerland as a child. She moved to New York City in 1956.

References

Other websites

 
 

1928 births
Living people
American feminists
German Jews
Jewish American writers
Jewish feminists
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Writers from Frankfurt
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Pnina Rosenblum

Pnina Rosenblum, Hebrew:  פנינה רוזנבלום (born December 30, 1954 in Petah Tikva) is a successful Israeli business woman and former politician.

When she was younger, she was a model and an actress (abroad known as Pnina Golan), playing in several movies.

In 1983 she tried to get nominated as Israel's candidate for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Six years later she went into business by starting a cosmetics company called Pnina Rosenblum Ltd.

In 1999 she tried to be chosen in the Knesset by forming Tnufa (an independent list meaning "momentum") with Avi Balashnikov. In December 2005 she became a Member of Knesset (MK) for Likud when several Likud politicians had switched to the recently formed Kadima. Her parliamentary career ended in March 2006 when she was not chosen in the elections.

Pnina Rosenblum married and divorced the same man twice. Later on she married another man.

She has German-Jewish and Iraqi-Jewish roots.

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

Other websites 
 
 Pnina Rosenblum's Website

1954 births
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Israeli television actors
Israeli businesspeople
Israeli models
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War Horse (movie)

War Horse is a 2011  British-American war drama movie directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, adapted from English author Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel of the same name.

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2010s war movies
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Indian movies
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Movies set in the 1910s
Movies set in France
Pig iron

Pig iron is iron with a high carbon content. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into ingot form, in a blast furnace. It’s called pig iron because when being cast, each ingot being cast looks like a Piglet suckling milk from a sow.

History
Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Chinese knew about pig iron, and were producing it as early as 1100BC.

Uses
Pig iron is refined into Wrought iron by melting it and blowing hot air through it. Pig iron can also be turned into gray iron.

Modern Uses
Originally, pig iron was poured out the bottom of the furnace and shipped to a steel mill for processing. Now, we turn the metal into pellets before shipping it.

Iron
Truro, Nova Scotia

Truro (Mi'kmaq: Wagobagitik) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada.

References

Other websites 

 Town of Truro (official website)
 TruroNS.com (Your Truro information website)
 Central Nova Tourist Association (official website)
 Downtown Truro Partnership
 Truro Daily News

Towns in Nova Scotia
Hôtel de Montesson

The Hôtel de Montesson was a small townhouse on the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in Paris, France. It was constructed after 1770 for Madame de Montesson, the secret and morganatic wife of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. He had a house adjoined to Montesson's. The couple would eventually marry circa 1768 in the Chapel of the Hôtel. The building would be destroyed by an accidental fire in 1810.

1770s establishments in Europe
18th-century establishments in France
1810 disestablishments
1810s disestablishments in Europe
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Charles Reis Felix

Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 – January 25, 2017) was an America writer and teacher. He was known as a contributor to Luso-American literature.

His work were mainly autobiography, historical narrative and fiction about the human experience. His first book, Crossing the Sauer, was an account of his three months as a combat infantryman from January through March 1945. Crossing the Sauer was called by Paul Fussell as "one of the most honest, unforgettable memoirs of the war I've read."

Books
Crossing the Sauer: A memoir of World War II (2002)
Through a Portagee Gate (2004)
Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)
Tony: A New England Boyhood (2008)

References

Other websites
Official Website of Charles Reis Felix
Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent 
Charles Reis Felix -- Bibliography

1923 births
2017 deaths
Educators from Massachusetts
Writers from Massachusetts
Naděžda Kavalírová

Naděžda Kavalírová (13 November 1923 – 20 January 2017) was a Czechoslovakian-born Czech physician, human rights activist and former political prisoner. 

She became actively involved in the resistance to Czechoslovakia's Communist government. She later headed the Confederation of Political Prisoners (Konfederace politických vězňů České republiky) from 2003 until her death in January 2017.

Kavalírová died in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on 20 January 2017, at the age of 93.

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Physicians
Czech scientists
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Human rights activists
Criminals
Anti-Communists
Đinh Xuân Lâm

Đinh Xuân Lâm (4 February 1925 – 25 January 2017) was a Vietnamese historian. He was known for having to helped build the Department of Recent History and of Modern Vietnam. He served as vice president of the Vietnam History Science and Chairman of the Scientific Council Center for Information and Documentation UNESCO.

He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and Professor in 1984, branches of history.

Related pages
List of historians by continent

Other websites
 People's Teacher - Professor Dinh Xuan Lam and sadness trans history
 People's Teacher - Professor Dinh Xuan Lam: "I followed the revolution prosper too!" 
 Professor of History, People's Teacher Dinh Xuan Lam
 Prof. Dinh Xuan Lam: "No consultations when writing textbooks used"

1925 births
2017 deaths
Vietnamese people
Historians
Arnold Spielberg

Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer of Jewish descent.

He was known for his help "to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes". For General Electric he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 in 1959. He said that his greatest contribution was to be the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.

He was the father of movie director Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg died on August 25, 2020 at his home in Los Angeles, aged 103.

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1917 births
2020 deaths
American centenarians
Engineers from Ohio
Jewish American scientists
Jewish centenarians
Scientists from Cincinnati, Ohio
Aleksei Petrenko

Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet movie and stage actor. He was known for playing Grigori Rasputin in the Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Russian movie actors
Russian stage actors
Russian voice actors
Eni Faleomavaega

Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. (; August 15, 1943 – February 22, 2017) was an American Samoan politician. He served as the territory's lieutenant governor and congressional delegate. He served as a U.S. House Representative from American Samoa's At-large congressional district from 1989 through 2015.

Faleomavaega died at his home in Provo, Utah on February 22, 2017, aged 73.

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1943 births
2017 deaths
Lieutenant Governors of American Samoa
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US Democratic Party politicians
Photojournalism

Photojournalism is taking photos to tell a story in mass media.  The first photojournalist was Mathew Brady, who took pictures of the American Civil War.  From World War II through the 1970s, many magazines and all the world's major newspapers had their own photographers. There was strong competition to take the best pictures.  Later it became difficult to make money as a photojournalist, because the places to publish photos disappeared, and because there were many more photographers.

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Journalism
Bradley Ayers

Bradley Earl Ayers (March 7, 1935 – February 10, 2017) was an American soldier, CIA operative, writer and political activist. He was known for saying that the CIA played a role in the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Ayers was one of the first career officers to voice opposition to the Vietnam War and to speak out publicly against it. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Ayers died in Somers Lake, Wisconsin on February 10, 2017, aged 81.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
American military people
American political writers
American political activists
Writers from Minnesota
H. Boyd Woodruff

Harold Boyd Woodruff (July 22, 1917 – January 19, 2017) was an American soil microbiologist. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was known for the discovery of actinomycin, and the development of the industrial production by fermentation of many natural products. This included cyanocobalamin (a synthetic form of Vitamin B12), the avermectins, and other important antibiotics.

Woodruff died on January 19, 2017, at the age of 99 at his home in Watchung, New Jersey.

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1917 births
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Scientists from New Jersey
John McCormack (ice hockey)

John Ronald "Johnny" McCormack (August 2, 1925 – February 22, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. McCormack began his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. He also played for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks.  He retired from the NHL in 1955 season.

McCormack won two Stanley Cups in his career, one in 1951 with Toronto and another in 1953 with Montreal. He also won the 1945 Memorial Cup with the St. Michael's Majors and the Allan Cup in 1950 with the Toronto Marlboroughs.

McCormack died on February 22, 2017 at his home in Oshawa, Ontario, aged 91.

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Montreal Canadiens players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
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Rhys Wakefield

Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor. He started his career in 2000. He is best known for his roles in the movies The Black Balloon (2008), Sanctum (2011) and The Purge (2013). He also appeared as Lucas Holden in the soap opera Home and Away from 2005 to 2008.

Wakefield was born in Cairns, Queensland. He grew up in Sydney, New South Wales.

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1988 births
Living people
Actors from Queensland
Actors from Sydney
Australian child actors
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
People from Cairns, Queensland
Sabine Oberhauser

Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an Austrian medical doctor and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was the Minister for Health and Minister for Women from 2014 until her death. She had also been a member of the National Council since 2006.

Oberhauser was born in Vienna. She was married and had two daughters.

Oberhauser said she had abdominal cancer in 2016. She died on 23 February 2017, at the age of 53.

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1963 births
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Austrian physicians
Cancer deaths in Austria
Deaths from stomach cancer
Government ministers of Austria
Politicians from Vienna
Mea Shearim

Me'a She'arim, Hebrew: מאה שערים  - "hundred gates", is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem. 

The Me'a She'arim neighbourhood was founded in 1874 and its population consists primarily of Haredi Jews.

It is one of the oldest neighbourhoods of the city and lies northwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. 

1874 establishments
Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem
1870s establishments in Asia
Rishon LeZion

Rishon LeZion, Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן  - "first of Zion", is a city in Israel. About 244,000 people were living here in 2015.

Rishon LeZion is in the Gush Dan region in the Central District, south of Tel Aviv.

It was founded by Russian Jews in 1882.

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Districts of Israel

The State of Israel is divided into six districts.

In Hebrew a district is called mahoz - מחוז (plural: mehozot - מחוזות).

These districts are:
 Haifa District, around the city of Haifa and northern Sharon Plain
 Jerusalem District, west of the city of Jerusalem
 Tel Aviv District, around the city of Tel Aviv
 Central District, southern Sharon Plain and northern Shfela
 Northern District, Galilee
 Southern District, Negev and southern Shfela

Not official:
 Judea and Samaria Area, the West Bank
Likud

Likud, Hebrew: הליכוד - HaLikud, meaning The Consolidation, (official name: HaLikud-National Liberal Movement), commonly called Likud, is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, and Zionist.

Political leader is Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister 1996–1999; 2009–2021).

Likud was founded in 1973 as a a result of an alliance (and later on a merger in 1988) of six liberal and nationalist parties, like Gahal, Herut and the Liberal Party.

Founders were Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.

Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 29 (-7).

Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government and the Netanyahu-Gantz Government.

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Liberal parties
Limpopo River

The Limpopo River is a river in Africa. It goes through the countries of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique and forms part of the border of South Africa. It empties into the Indian Ocean.

Rivers of Africa
Geography of South Africa
Geography of Botswana
Geography of Zimbabwe
Geography of Mozambique
Cherry picking

Cherry picking is when someone picks the case which supports his opinion.

For example, suppose twenty studies have been done on a new medicine and 19 say it works, but one says it does not work. To "cherry pick" is to use the one failed study  to "prove" that the medicine is useless. It is a type of confirmation bias, where a person sees evidence for what they want or expect to see, and ignores evidence which goes against their belief.

The term cherry picking comes from when people harvest cherries from a tree - the cherry picker only takes the reddest, ripest fruits. If someone looked at all the fruit the person had picked, they might think that all the cherries were red, until they went to the tree and saw lots of pale, unripe cherries still on it.

Cherry picking as a term is quite negative, as it implies that the person doing the cherry picking is trying to deceive the audience, or simply does not care about the facts.

When applied to subjects like medicine and science, cherry picking is considered "bad science". or a sign of pseudoscience.

Cherry picking can take several forms. The most obvious case of cherry picking is where only evidence that supports a given argument is used, and other evidence which does not support it or goes against it is ignored or covered up. Other examples can include giving a lot of emphasis to evidence which supports the idea but barely any to other evidence, and taking a quote out of context so that it seems to have a different meaning than it originally did.

Pseudoscience is when untrue claims are made to appear as though they have a scientific basis, even though they do not. Many pseudoscientists cherry pick real scientific evidence to support their claims. It is quite common in science for some studies to contradict others, for example in cases where different methods are used to measure an outcome, or where human error or chance may lead to unusual results. This means that there is often a study someone can use to support their claim, and they can cherry pick that one study even if many more contradict it.

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Logical fallacies
List of communes of the Province of Viterbo

The following is a list of the 60 comuni of the Province of Viterbo, Lazio, in Italy.

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Lists of settlements in Europe
Svalbard Global Seed Vault

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault () is a seed bank (a place where seeds are kept) in Norway. It is on the island of Spitsbergen, near Longyearbyen, in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. It is about  from the North Pole. Conservationist Cary Fowler worked with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to start the vault.

The vault is there to save many different kinds of plant seeds. The seeds at the vault are copies of seeds from other places around the world. Copies of seeds are kept in case the seeds in other places are lost. Three organizations decided how to manage the vault. Those organizations were the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).

The Norwegian government paid for building the vault. It cost about 45 million Norwegian kroner () to build. Storing seeds in the vault is free. Norway and GCDT pay to operate the vault. GCDT gets money from organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and from different governments worldwide.

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Conservation
Buildings and structures in Norway
John Hack

John Hack (November 26, 1842 – March 29, 1933) was a decorated hero of the Union Army in the American Civil War. He was born in Hessen, Germany and lived in Adrian, Michigan.

Medal
According to the Military Times Hall of Valor, "on 3 May 1863, while serving with Company B, 47th Ohio Infantry, in action at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Private Hack was one of a party which volunteered and attempted to run the enemy's batteries with a steam tug and two barges loaded with subsistence stores." Hack and nine others in Company B did this while Confederate States Army batteries were shooting at them "under cover of darkness" Hack was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor "for extreme bravery under fire" on January 3, 1907.

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German people
People from Missouri
1842 births
1933 deaths
Sidney Haight

Sidney Haight (August 21, 1847 – September 17, 1918) was a soldier in the United States Army during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor, the highest honor of the U.S. military.

Biography 

Haight was born in Reading, Michigan in 1846.  He entered the U.S. Army at Goodland, Michigan, and served in Company E of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters.  He reached the rank of corporal.  Haight received the citation for actions at Petersburg, Virginia on July 30, 1864, in the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia. He died Sep. 17, 1918 in Reading, Michigan.
 
Haight's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
Instead of retreating, remained in the captured works, regardless of his personal safety and exposed to the firing, which he boldly and deliberately returned until the enemy was close upon him.

Haight was awarded the Medal of Honor on July 31, 1896.

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1857 births
1918 deaths
Viterbo

Viterbo  is a very old city and a comune in the Lazio region of Central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.

The University of Tuscia, established in 1979, is in the city of Viterbo.

Geography
The comune of Viterbo has an area of , the largest comune of the province, and its altitude is  above sea level.

The comune borders with the  comuni Bagnoregio, Bomarzo, Canepina, Caprarola, Celleno, Civitella d'Agliano, Graffignano, Marta, Monte Romano, Montefiascone, Ronciglione, Soriano nel Cimino, Tuscania, Vetralla, Vitorchiano.

Frazioni
The following frazioni (hamlets) are part of the comune of Viterboː Bagnaia, Fastello, Grotte Santo Stefano, La Quercia, Montecalvello, Ponte di Cetti, Roccalvecce, San Martino al Cimino, Sant'Angelo di Roccalvecce, Tobia, Vallebona.

Population
, there are 67,173 persons (32,186 males and 34,987 females) living in the comune, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Population evolution

Gallery

People from Viterbo
Rose of Viterbo, patron saint of the city

Twinned and partner towns
Viterbo is twinned with:

  Binghamton, New York, United States
  Albany, New York, United States
  Santa Rosa de Viterbo, São Paulo, Brazil
  Gubbio, Perugia, Umbria, Italy
  Palmi, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
  Nola, Naples, Campania, Italy
  Sassari, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
  Campobasso, Campobasso, Molise, Italy
  Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Related pages
List of communes of the Province of Viterbo

References

Other websites

Viterbo official website 

Capital cities in Italy
Cities in Lazio
Gustaw Lutkiewicz

Gustaw Lutkiewicz (29 June 1924 – 24 February 2017) was a Polish actor and singer. He started his career in 1948. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1970, the Officer's Cross in 1985 and later the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Lutkiewicz died on 24 February 2017 in Warsaw, at the age of 92.

Filmography
1956: Nikodem Dyzma
1957: Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny
1957: Ewa chce spać
1960: Walet pikowy
1961: Ludzie z pociągu
1964: Nieznany
1985: C.K.Dezerterzy 
1989: Konsul
1999: Ogniem i Mieczem
2000: Syzyfowe prace

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1924 births
2017 deaths
People from Kaunas
Polish movie actors
Polish television actors
Central tendency

In statistics, a central tendency (or 'measure of central tendency') is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. Measures of central tendency are often called averages.

The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic mean, the median and the mode.

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Statistics
James Stevenson

James Stevenson (July 11, 1929 – February 17, 2017) was an American illustrator and author. He wrote over 100 children's books.  His cartoons appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine. He usually used a special comic book style of illustration that is very well known. His books, like What's Under My Bed, have been featured on the Reading Rainbow television series. He was born in New York City.

Stevenson died on February 17, 2017 in the neighborhood of Cos Cob in Greenwich, Connecticut, from complications of pneumonia, aged 87.

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Biography and bibliography at Answers.com (Gale Biographies of Children's Authors)

1929 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Connecticut
American illustrators
American children's writers
Writers from New York City
Marilyn B. Young

Marilyn B. Young (April 25, 1937 – February 19, 2017) was an American historian of American foreign relations. She served as professor of history at New York University.

In 2000, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and the Berkshire Women's History Prize for The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990. She was elected President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2011.

Young died in New York on February 19, 2017, aged 79.

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1937 births
2017 deaths
American historians
Educators from New York City
Writers from New York City
Rohit

Rohit is a given name, usually for males. It is mostly used in India. 

The word "rohit" refers to the color red. It is derived from Sanskrit, meaning "the first rays of the sun". The early morning sunlight usually has a reddish tint.

Given names