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Theodore J. Lowi

Theodore J. "Ted" Lowi (July 9, 1931 – February 17, 2017) was an American political scientist. He was the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions teaching in the Government Department at Cornell University. His area of research was the American government and public policy. He was the president of the International Political Science Association from 1997 to 2000.

Lowi was born in Gadsden, Alabama. He was married to Angele until her death in 2015. They had two children, Anna and Jason.

Lowi died on February 17, 2017 in Ithaca, New York, at the age of 85.

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Williams Street

Williams Street Studios is an animation company. It is owned by Cartoon Network and  Turner Broadcasting System. They create television programmes for Adult Swim. 

From 1994 to 1998 the company was called Ghost Planet Industries. Ghost Planet is the home of Space Ghost, who is a fictional character in an Adult Swim programme.

Williams Street Studios is located in Atlanta, Georgia.

American animation studios
Adult Swim
1994 establishments in the United States
Companies based in Atlanta, Georgia
Dan Vickerman

Daniel Joseph "Dan" Vickerman (4 June 1979 – 18 February 2017) was an Australian professional rugby union player. He played 63 times for the national team, the Wallabies, between 2002 and 2011. He also played for the New South Wales Waratahs and the Brumbies. He retired in 2012.

Vickerman was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He moved to Australia in the 1990s. He was married and had two children.

Vickerman died on the night of 18 February 2017 in Sydney, at the age of 37. His death was said to be a suicide.

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Australian rugby union players
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Michael Ogio

Sir Michael Ogio  (7 July 1942 – 18 February 2017) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as the ninth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea from 20 December 2010 until his death. He was leader of the People's Democratic Movement party.

Ogio died on 18 February 2017 in Port Moresby, at the age 74.

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Luigi Canepa

Luigi Canepa (January 15, 1849 – May 12, 1914) was an Italian opera composer. He is best known for his 1879 opera, Riccardo III. He was born and died in Sassari, Sardinia.

Biography
His father Francesco and her mother Angela Solari, of Genoese origin, soon discovered his musical talent, addressing it to study the flute at age eight and enrolling him to 10 years at the Milan Conservatory, where he remained until autumn 1861. The 'year later was enrolled as a student for a fee at the Conservatory of Naples directed by Saverio Mercadante where he reached excellent results, only fifteen years old, he won a competition for a place in the class of counterpoint and composition.

The October 14, 1867 fled from the conservatory to fight alongside of Garibaldi in the campaign for the liberation of Rome but was wounded and taken prisoner. On November 5, he returned to the Conservatory of Naples and shortly after he moved to Milan where he continued his musical studies.

In 1871 he composed his first opera, "Davide Rizio", libretto by Enrico Costa, countryman and cousin of Canepa. The opera in three acts, based on the life of David Rizzio and Mary Stuart, was performed for the first time at the Teatro Carcano in November of the following year and then bought by the publisher Lucca, who took her on stage in many Italian cities and Barcelona.

In 1874 he composed "I Pezzenti" with libretto by Fulvio Fulgonio which was staged at La Scala in September of that year and then in several European theaters.

Canepa was establishing itself more and more, and his third opera, "Riccardo III", composed to a libretto by Fulvio Fulgonio and staged for the first time in 1879, received unanimous praise from critics and other celebrated composers, like Giuseppe Verdi and Amilcare Ponchielli.

A serious illness interrupted his career and forced him to retreat to his native city, where he devoted himself to music criticism and teaching. In 1891 he ran for municipal elections is supported by young intellectuals who had recently founded La Nuova Sardegna is the unitary list of Republicans and moderate and, elected with broad suffrage, held for years the city councilor activities.

Improving his health returned to composing but his celebrity was now gone. In this period he wrote a Mass, a funeral march for Giuseppe Garibaldi and funeral elegy for Nino Bixio, performed in Genoa arrival of his ashes.

He ended his career as a composer with the operetta tragicomic "Amsicora", composed to a libretto by Salvatore Scano and staged at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari in April 1903.

To him they are named the Conservatory of Music of Sassari, the town band, a street of the same city and the Chorale Luigi Canepa, the oldest choral institution of Sardinia.

He is buried, along with his mother and his son Aldo Canepa, in the Monumental Cemetery of Sassari.

1849 births
1914 deaths
Italian composers
Ready Set Learn

Ready Set Learn was a preschool block that aired on TLC from December 26, 1992, and Discovery Kids from December 26, 1992.

Programming

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American children's television series
Letter from Birmingham Jail

From the Birmingham, Alabama jail (also known as the Jefferson County jail), where he was imprisioned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against racial segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in longhand the copyrighted letter which was reproduced at this link. It was his response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South. Dr. King, who was born in 1929: did his undergraduate work at Morehouse College; attended the racially integrated Cromer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, one of six black pupils among a hundred students and the president of his class; and won a fellowship to Boston University for his Ph.D.

Martin Luther King Jr.
American civil rights
Letters
Sabha, Libya

Sabha is a city in Libya. In 2010, about 95.000 people lived there. It is the political and economic center of the Fezzan region. It is about  south of Tripoli.

Cities in Libya
Nintendo Switch

The Nintendo Switch (originally called NX in development) is a video game console created by Nintendo. It is the successor of the Wii U and was first released on March 3, 2017.

The Switch is a hybrid console, which means that the player can either connect it to a television or use it by itself as a handheld gaming device. It uses controllers called Joy-Con(s), which attach to both sides of the console when it is in handheld mode. They are attached to a grip when in television mode. The user plays the games by using the Joy-Con. The Joy-Con also have HD Rumble. There is an infrared sensor on the bottom of the right Joy-Con that acts like the sensors in the Nintendo Wii. The Nintendo Switch received critical acclaim.

There are more than 1000 games that work on the Nintendo Switch, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Just Dance 2017, Super Mario Odyssey, Kirby Star Allies, and Pokémon Sword and Shield.

Reception 
The Switch became the fastest-selling console, outselling the Wii U in only nine months. In May 2020, it was announced that the Nintendo Switch had sold over 55 million consoles since its release. As of November 2020, the Switch is the second best-selling Nintendo home console, only behind the Wii, with over 66 million consoles sold. On 6 May 2021, Nintendo Switch sold more units than Nintendo 3DS, with 84.59 million units. However, a thing that can happen with the Joy-Con is something called joystick drift. This is when a joystick is broken, and the joystick "moves" on its own, without someone touching it. One of the main causes of this is dirt. Dirt can get into a controller (such as a Joy-Con) and get under the stick, which causes joystick drift.

Accessories 
The Nintendo Switch has several accessories. Nintendo Labo is a cardboard set of accessories for the Switch. Ring Fit Adventure includes a circular piece of rubber called a Ring-Con, and a leg strap. Similar to the Wii, the Switch also has a wheel shaped holder for the Joy-Con.

Nintendo Switch Lite 

A version called the Nintendo Switch Lite was released on September 20, 2019. It costs less and is smaller than a normal Nintendo Switch, but can not connect to a television like the normal Nintendo Switch and does not have detachable Joy-Con. Some games require an additional Joy-Con to play them.

Nintendo Switch OLED model 

A Switch version that has a 7 inch OLED display, improved speakers, a larger and more adjustable stand, 64 GB of internal storage and a dock that includes a LAN cable port was announced by Nintendo on July 6, 2021. It was released on October 8, 2021 with a price of $349.99 (£309.99).

Hardware
The LCD model of Nintendo Switch has an 1.02 GHz quad-core CPU, 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash storage. The OLED model has same CPU and amount of RAM, but with 64 GB of storage.

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Nintendo video game consoles
Nephrozoa

The Nephrozoa (Eubilateria) are a major taxon of bilaterian animals consisting of the deuterostomes and protostomes. It is the living sister clade of the xenacoelomorphs.

Groups
Deuterostomia
Protostomia

Taxonomy
Paul Nguyên Van Hòa

Paul Nguyěn Van Hoá (20 July 1931 – 14 February 2017) was a Vietnamese Roman Catholic bishop.

Nguyên Van Hòa became a priest in 1959. He served as of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nha Trang from 1975 to 2009.

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Vietnamese people
Four sons of Horus

The four son of Horus are a group of gods who protects the dead soul. There appear as canopic jars with each a different head. The first god is Imsety, he appears with a human head, the second god is Duamutef, he appears with a jackal head, the third god is Hapi, he appears with a baboon head, the final god is Qebehsenuef, he appears with a falcon head. They are used as canopic jars.

Egyptian gods and goddesses
Rem (mythology)

Rem was an Egyptian fish god who fertilized the land with his tears.

Egyptian gods and goddesses
Norma McCorvey

Norma Leah McCorvey (née Nelson; September 22, 1947 – February 18, 2017), better known by the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe", was an American activist. She was the plaintiff in the landmark American lawsuit Roe v. Wade in 1973.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional. Later, McCorvey's views on abortion changed greatly because she became a Roman Catholic activist in the pro-life movement.

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José Solé

José Solé (July 28, 1929 – February 15, 2017) was a Mexican stage actor, movie director, set design, and theater director. 

His career extended over 60 years. He worked to promote theater in Mexico, which did not have governmental support that the other arts did after the Mexican Revolution. He performed in and directed many plays, as well as directing theaters and even the theatrical division of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Institute of Fine Arts).  

He received recognition for both acting and directing early in his career, but major awards such as Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (National Prize for Arts and Sciences) in the 2000s.

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Mexican movie directors
Peter Skellern

Peter Skellern (14 March 1947 – 17 February 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and pianist. He was born in Bury, Lancashire. Skellern's first song to become a hit was "You're a Lady" in 1972. The record featured a choral group called the Congregation, who had already had a top ten hit with the song "Softly Whispering I Love You". and number 50 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. 

Although he only had two more hit singles in the next six years, Peter Skellern had a successful musical career, recording many albums and writing music and songs for television and films. These included theme songs for TV series such as Billy Liar (1973),  Me and My Girl (1984) and Flying Lady (1987). He later began a double act with another pianist and singer, Richard Stilgoe, and they toured the country and made three albums before Skellern retired from performing in 2001.

In October 2016, when it was known that he was going to die, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England. He had been given special permission by the Archbishop of Canterbury because it was something he had always wanted to do. Skellern died on 17 February 2017 from a brain tumour, aged 69.

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English priests
English singer-songwriters
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Singers from Lancashire
Writers from Lancashire
Warren Frost

Warren Frost (June 5, 1925 – February 17, 2017) was an American actor.

His work was mainly in the theatre, but he worked in movies and television since his career began in 1958. He was known for television roles on Matlock, The Larry Sanders Show, and Seinfeld. He was mainly known for his role as Doctor Hayward on Twin Peaks, a series co-created by his son Mark Frost.

He has also appeared in TV movies, such as Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) and The Stand (1994).

Frost died at his home in Middlebury, Vermont, on February 17, 2017, following a long illness at the age of 91.

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American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
Actors from Massachusetts
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Jørgen Kieler

Jørgen Kieler (23 August 1919 – 19 February 2017) was a Danish physician. He was known for his participation in resistance activities under the Nazi German occupation of Denmark in the early 1940s during World War II. 

Together with his sister, Elsebet Kieler, he published Frit Denmark (), an illegal newspaper. 

As a member of the Holger Danske resistance group, he helped hundreds of Danish Jews to escape to Sweden and avoid extermination.

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Danish writers
Physicians
Altamas Kabir

Altamas Kabir (19 July 1948 – 19 February 2017) was an Indian lawyer and judge. He served as the 39th Chief Justice to the Supreme Court of India from 29 September 2012 through 18 July 2013. He was born and raised in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Kabir died of kidney disease in Kolkata on 19 February 2017, aged 68.

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Other websites
 Profile at Supreme Court of India's official website

1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from kidney disease
Indian lawyers
Chief Justices of India
Roger Hynd

John Roger Shankly Hynd (2 February 1942 – 18 February 2017) was a Scottish professional footballer. He played as a centre half. 

He started his playing career at Rangers, for whom he played in the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, before moving to the Football League. 

He played nearly 300 League games for Crystal Palace, Birmingham City. For a short time, he served as manager of Motherwell before leaving professional football to work as a PE teacher. He was the nephew of Bill Shankly.

In 2012, Hynd was one of seven former players elected to Birmingham City's Hall of Fame. Hynd died in February 2017, aged 75.

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1942 births
2017 deaths
Scottish footballers
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Richard Schickel

Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American historian, journalist, author, educator, filmmaker, screenwriter, documentarian, and movie critic. He was a critic for Time magazine from 1965–2010. He has also written for Life magazine and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He worked for Truthdig until his death in 2017.

Schickel was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He has also taught at Yale University and University of Southern California's School of Film and Television. Schickel died on February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California from complication of a stroke, aged 84.

References

Other websites

 1989 audio interview with Richard Schickel at Wired for Books.org  by Don Swaim

1933 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from stroke
American historians
American movie critics
Educators from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
American journalists
American screenwriters
Writers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Andrew Schneider

Andrew Jay Schneider (November 13, 1942 – February 17, 2017) was an American journalist and investigative reporter. He worked for the Pittsburgh Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer as a public-health reporter. He was born in The Bronx, New York.

He received two Pulitzer Prizes while working for the Press: one for Specialized Reporting in 1986 with Mary Pat Flaherty and another for Public Service with Matthew Brelis and the Press.

Schneider died in Salt Lake City, Utah from heart failure on February 17, 2017, aged 74.

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1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American journalists
Writers from New York City
Lavell Crawford

Lavell Maurice Crawford (born November 11, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Huell Babineaux, the bodyguard, assistant, and pickpocket for Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad. 

Lavell also played the role of Gus Patch in the Netflix original movie The Ridiculous 6.

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1968 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
Comedians from St. Louis, Missouri
Actors from St. Louis, Missouri
Magnus Wenninger

Magnus J. Wenninger  (October 31, 1919 – February 17, 2017) was an American mathematician. He worked on constructing polyhedron models. He also wrote the first book on their construction. He was also a Benedictine monk. He was born in Park Falls, Wisconsin. His parents were German.

Wenninger died on February 17, 2017 at Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. He was 97.

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American mathematicians
Benedictines
People from Wisconsin
Martin Schulz

Martin Schulz (born 20 December 1955) is a German Social Democratic (SPD) politician. He was the President of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2017. From March 2017 to February 2018, he served as the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party.

Political career
Before to his Presidency of the European Parliament, he was the leader of its Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group. Elected as European Parliament President in 2012, Schulz was re-elected on 1 July 2014. On 17 January 2017, he was succeeded by Antonio Tajani of the EPP.

German chancellorship nomination
In November 2016, he announced he would not seek a third term, but instead would stand in 2017 as the SPD candidate for the German Chancellorship. In January 2017, Schultz became the official SDP candidate for the German Chancellorship. He lost the election to Angela Merkel.

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1955 births
Living people
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MEPs for Germany
People from Eschweiler
Politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia
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Presidents of the European Parliament
Alejandro Atchugarry

Alejandro Víctor Washington Atchugarry Bonomi (31 July 1952 – 19 February 2017) was an Uruguayan lawyer and politician.

He served as Minister of Economics and Finance during the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis. It was a widely acknowledged role in the solution of Uruguay's worst economic moment in a century.

Atchugarry died of an aneurysm in Montevideo on 19 February 2017, aged 64.

More reading

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1952 births
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Deaths from aneurysm
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Uruguayan lawyers
People from Montevideo
Marty Schottenheimer

Martin Edward "Marty" Schottenheimer (; September 23, 1943 – February 8, 2021) was an American retired-professional American football player and coach. He served as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers.  He had the most wins of any NFL coach to never coach a team in a Super Bowl.

Early life
Schottenheimer was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was raised in McDonald, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh.

Career
From 1965 through 1968, he played for the Buffalo Bills. From 1969 through 1970, he played for the Boston Patriots.

In 21 years as an NFL head coach, Schottenheimer won 200 regular season games and 5 out of 18 games in the postseason. He had only two seasons with more losses than wins in his entire career, and none until his 15th season; the Browns finished with a losing record in his first season, but with Schottenheimer as their coach, they were 4–4. He is the only coach in NFL history with at least 200 wins that has a losing playoff record.

He was the head coach of the San Diego Chargers from 2002 through 2006. He was fired from his head coaching position with the San Diego Chargers in 2007, after leading the Chargers to a 14–2 regular season record but a disappointing second round playoff loss. 

After being fired as head coach of the Chargers, he became the head coach of the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League. He would later win his only championship as a coach in his lone season there.

Personal life
In 1968, he married his wife Pat. They have two children including Brian, who serves as the quarterbacks coach for the Indianapolis Colts. Schottenheimr's younger brother Kurt has also served as an NFL coach. 

In October 2016, it was revealed that Schottenheimer was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease in 2011.

On February 3, 2021, his family announced he had been put into hospice care the week before in Charlotte, North Carolina. He died on February 8, 2021 from problems caused by Alzheimer's disease, aged 77.

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Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
American football coaches
Buffalo Bills players
New England Patriots players
Sportspeople from Pennsylvania
Kaci Kullmann Five

Karin Cecilie "Kaci" Kullmann Five (13 April 1951 – 19 February 2017) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician. She was a member of the Conservative Party. She served as Chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 2015 to her death in 2017.

Five was born in Bærum, Norway. She studied at the University of Oslo. She was married to Carsten O. Five until her death in 2017. They had two children.

She served as Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1989 to 1990 and as a Member of Parliament from 1981 to 1997, and was leader of the Conservative Party from 1991 to 1994. She was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 2003. She was also a board member of the Nobel Foundation.

Five died on 19 February 2017 from breast cancer in Oslo, Norway, aged 65.

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Norwegian politicians
Norwegian Nobel Committee
Per Kleppe

Per Andreas Hildte Kleppe (13 April 1923 – 10 March 2021) was a Norwegian economist and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He served in the position of deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo from 1954–1957. He was a deputy member of Oslo city council from 1951 to 1955.

Kleppe was born in Oslo. He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1956. 

He was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1957 to 1962. He was the Minister of Trade and Shipping from 1971–1972. He later served as Minister of Finance from 1973 to 1979. In 1979, he was replaced by Ulf Sand, but Kleppe returned in 1981 to head the Secretariat for Long-Term Planning (until 1981).

In 1981 he took over as general secretary of the European Free Trade Association, a position he held until 1988.

Kleppe died on 10 March 2021 in Oslo, aged 97.

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Politicians from Oslo
Jan Balstad

Jan Balstad (born 16 November 1937 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician. He served as the labour leader for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. He was Minister of trade and shipping affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1988 to 1989.

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Biography
Interview 

1937 births
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Politicians from Oslo
Non-separable wavelets

Non-separable wavelets are multi-dimensional wavelets that are not implemented using one-dimensional operations.
They are studied since 1992.
In contrast to separable wavelets, the non-separable wavelets have several advantages.
For example, the non-separable filters imply more parameters in design. This consequently leads to better filters.

Examples 
 Red-black wavelets
 Contourlets
 Shearlets
 Directionlets
 Steerable pyramids
 Non-separable schemes for tensor-product wavelets

References 

Digital signal processing
Sclera

The sclera is the white part of the eye. Unlike most animals’ eyes, the human eye’s sclera is pale. This makes it easier for us to see where other people are looking. For most mammals, the sclera is the same color as the iris. 

Eye anatomy
Blister beetle

The blister beetle is a beetle of the family Meloidae. They secrete cantharidin, a chemical that causes blisters. About 7,500 species are known worldwide. They are poisonous to predators.

Blister beetles go through several larval stages. The larvae mainly attack bees. They also eat grasshopper eggs.

Blister beetles are attracted to alfalfa and weeds during bloom.

Polyphaga
Oil beetle

The oil beetle (or Meloe) is a blister beetle genus. They are called "oil beetles" because they release oily droplets of hemolymph when disturbed.

The liquid is a poisonous chemical that causes skin blistering and painful swelling.

Members of this genus do not have wings. They have shortened elytra.

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Polyphaga
Brachiozoa

Brachiozoa is a group of lophotrochozoan animals consisting of Phoronida and Brachiopoda.

Animals
Peterlee

Peterlee is a small town in County Durham, England. It was built under the New Towns Act of 1946. It was founded in 1948. It originally mostly housed coal miners and their families.

Peterlee is named after trade unionist Peter Lee. He worked to improve the working conditions and salaries of the thousands of local pit workers who were based in the area.

Other websites
http://www.peterlee.gov.uk

Towns in County Durham
Cow killer

Cow killers, or Mutillidae, are a family of wasps. The wingless females of this species look like hairy ants. They are called velvet ants because of their dense pile of hair. The hair is usually bright red or orange.

They are known for their very painful stings. Because of the stings, they are called "cow killer" or "cow ant".

Mutillidae live all over the world. There are over 8,000 species.

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Wasps
Regal Entertainment Group

Regal Entertainment Group is an American movie theater chain. It is based in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company was founded in 1999.

The movie theater chains operated by Regal are Regal Cinemas, Edwards Theatres and United Artists Theatres.

American entertainment companies
Companies based in Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Movies
1999 establishments in the United States
Vitaly Churkin

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (; 21 February 1952 – 20 February 2017) was a Russian diplomat and former child actor. He was the Ambassador of Russia to the United Nations from 1 May 2006 until his death. He was also the Ambassador of Russia to Belgium from 1994 to 1998.

Churkin was born in Moscow. He acted in movies as a child with his famous role being as Fedka the peasant boy in A Mother's Heart (1967). He spoke Russian, Mongolian, French and English.

Churkin died on 20 February 2017 in New York City, United States. He died one day before his 65th birthday. The cause was heart failure, according to Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze.

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1952 births
2017 deaths
Ambassadors of Russia
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
Child actors
Russian movie actors
Russian politicians
Larry Coryell

Larry Coryell (April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. He was known as the "Godfather of Fusion". His career began in 1965. 

In the early 1970s, he led a group called Foreplay with Mike Mandel although the albums of this period—Barefoot Boy, Offering, and The Real Great Escape—were credited only to "Larry Coryell." He formed the group The Eleventh House in 1973. 

Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He was raised in Richland, Washington. He studied at the University of Washington. Coryell died on February 19, 2017 in his hotel room in New York City from cardiac arrest, aged 73.

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Official site

1943 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
American jazz musicians
American guitarists
Musicians from Texas
Musicians from Washington
Musicians from New York City
People from Galveston, Texas
Sofía Ímber

Sofía Ímber (May 8, 1924 – February 20, 2017) was a Romanian-born Venezuelan journalist and philanthropist. She was known for being a supporter of the arts and for promoting contemporary art in Venezuela. She was the founder of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas.

Ímber was born in Soroca, Kingdom of Romania, now Moldova to Jewish parents. Imber moved to Venezuela with her family when she was four years old, in 1930. Ímberr married Venezuelan journalist and diplomat Guillermo Meneses.

Ímber died in Caracas, Venezuela on February 20, 2017 from congestive heart failure, aged 92.

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Deaths from congestive heart failure
Jewish philanthropists
Jewish writers
Romanian journalists
Moldovan people
Romanian Jews
South American Jews
Venezuelan people
H. R. McMaster

Herbert Raymond "H. R." McMaster (born July 24, 1962) is an American Lieutenant General in the United States Army and author. He was the 26th United States National Security Advisor from February 20, 2017 to April 9, 2018.  He was commander of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Ft. Benning, Georgia. 

McMaster served as Director of Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat (CJIATF-Shafafiyat) (Transparency) at ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.  He is known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

McMaster resigned as National Security Advisor on March 22, 2018, which became effective on April 9, 2018. He was replaced by John R. Bolton.

References

Other websites

 "H.R. McMaster: The Warrior's-Eye View of Afghanistan", Wall Street Journal interview May 11, 2012
 Online Video of Frontline program The Insurgency, see part 4.
 Nov 2003 Crack in the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War, H.R. McMaster (PDF)
 Hoover Institution bio 

1962 births
Living people
United States National Security Advisors
American military people
Writers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eric Jacobson

Eric Jacobson (born July 25, 1970) is an American puppeteer who has been working with Sesame Street since 1994. He is the current performer of Grover since 1998 and Bert since 1997, he's also the current performer of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppets Franchise, replacing Frank Oz. He is married to Mary Jacobson.

Muppet Performers
Muppet Characters: Fozzie Bear (2001-present), Miss Piggy (2002-present), Sam the Eagle (2003-present), Animal (2004-present) Gonzo (2005-present)
Sesame Street: Count Von Count (1993-present), Frankie, Giant Boulder, Mr. Snuffleupagus (2001-present), Guy Smiley (2004-present), Oscar the Grouch (2014-present), Two-Headed Monster (right head, 2017-present) one of The Three Little Pigs, Mr. Tiger, Hammy the Dwarf, the Martians, "Dinner Theatre" Pumpkin uncle ("Annie Get Your Gumbo"), Dusty
Bear in the Big Blue House: Harry the Duck, Yukker Tutter
Elmopalooza: Additional Puppeteer
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Yoda Muppet
A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa: Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy, Animal, Sam Eagle
The Muppets: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs
Spaghetti Space Chase: Bert, Super Grover 2.0
Muppets Most Wanted: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Sam Eagle, Animal, Baby
Muppet Moments: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam the Eagle
The Muppets 2015 Presentation Pilot: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle
The Muppets: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, Marvin Suggs
The Muppets Take the Bowl: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, The Newsman
The Muppets Take the O2: Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Sam Eagle, The Newsman

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Other websites
 

Living people
1970 births
Roman Zhuravskyi

Roman Zhuravskyi (; 3 June 1948 – 19 February 2017) was a Ukrainian professional football player who played as defender. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine. Zhuravskyi made his professional career in the different football teams of the Ukrainian SSR.

Zhuravskyi died on 19 February 2017 in Lviv, Ukraine from pancreatic cancer at the age of 68.

Honours
Soviet Top League (1) with FC Dynamo Kyiv: 1971
 Master of Sport of the USSR (1971)

References

1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Ukrainian footballers
Yury Solomin

Yury Mefodievich Solomin (; born 18 June 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet/Russian actor, director and politician. He has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. He served as Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in 1990-1991.

Solomin was known for his roles as Khlestakov in Igor Ilyinsky's production of The Government Inspector (1966), Tsar Feodor in Tsar Feodor Ioannovich (1976), Slavin in TASS Is Authorized to Declare... TV series (1984), Nicholas II in Az Vosdam... (1990), and Famusov in his own production of Wit Works Woe (2000).

References

1935 births
Living people
Russian movie actors
Russian stage actors
Russian politicians
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Mikhailov

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Mikhailov (; born 4 October 1944) is a Soviet and Russian actor. He has appeared in 42 movies since 1973. He starred in the 1981 movie Muzhiki! which was in the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.

He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1992). and People's Artist of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (2014).  

Mikhailov was born in Olovyannaya, Russia. He studied at the Maly Theater.

References

1944 births
Living people
Russian movie actors
Kamran Mirza

Kamran Mirza, sometimes known simply as Kamran, (1509 – 5 (or 6) October 1557) was the second son of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and the first Mughal Emperor. Kamran Mirza was born in Kabul to Babur's wife Gulrukh Begum.

References

 The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne

1509 births
1557 deaths
People from Kabul
E-dubble

Evan Sewell Wallace (November 1, 1982 – February 13, 2017), better known by his stage name e-dubble, was an American rapper. He was best known for his Freestyle Friday series in which he released a new song each Friday. He did this from 2010 to 2012. He was also a member of the hip hop group Young English. He was also the founder of Black Paisley Records. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Baltimore, Maryland.

Wallace died from a blood infection on February 13, 2017, at the age of 34.

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1982 births
2017 deaths
American hip hop musicians
Rap musicians from Pennsylvania
Infectious disease deaths in the United States
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Musicians from Baltimore
Rap musicians from Maryland
New Synagogue, Berlin

The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") is a synagogue in Bezirk Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The building lies on the Oranienburger Straße and was constructed from 1859 to 1866.

The Neue Synagogue is of Moorish architecture.

Conservative Judaism services are being held in the synagogue.

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Synagogues
Judaism in Germany
Youssef Lemrini

Youssef Lemrini (born January 1, 1960 in Salé) is a Moroccan former football player and current football manager.

Lemrini played at Mouloudia Club Lakouablia, and managed COD Meknès and Olympic Club de Safi. Since 2013 he has been managing Renaissance Sportive de Berkane.

Other websites 
 www.eurosport.com

1960 births
Living people
Football managers
Moroccan footballers
Maha Haddioui

Maha Haddioui, Arabic: ماها الحديوي , (born May 15, 1988 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan female golfer. She has been a professional since 2011.

Haddioui plays on the Ladies European Tour and obtained second last place at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

1988 births
Living people
Golfers
Moroccan sportspeople
People from Casablanca
B chromosome

B chromosomes are chromosomes which are not needed for the life of a species. They are also called 'supernumerary' or 'accessory chromosomes'.

In addition to normal chromosomes (the karyotype), many species have B chromosomes. Wild populations of many animal, plant, and fungi species have B chromosomes. These chromosomes are not essential for their life, and are lacking in many individuals. So a population might have individuals with 0, 1, 2, 3 (etc.) supernumeraries.

Most B chromosomes are mainly or entirely heterochromatic, and so do not code for anything. Some, such as the B chromosomes of maize, contain sizeable euchromatic segments, and therefore do code for some products.

It seems unlikely that supernumeraries would survive in a species unless there was some positive advantage. In a few cases this has been identified. For instance, the British grasshopper Myrmeleotettix maculatus has B chromosomes with a satellite DNA. They occur in warm, dry environments, and are scarce or absent in humid, cooler places.

It is thought that B chromosomes are parasitic elements like selfish DNA. Various scenarios have been suggested as to how they arose.

References 

Chromosomes
Northeast Region of Brazil

The Northeast Region of Brazil () is one of the five geographical regions of Brazil defined by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in 1969. It is the third largest region, corresponding to 18% of the national territory, and the second in population.

Geography 
The Northeast Region has an area of . It is the region of the country with the longest coastline.

The climate in the region is very hot all the year long; tropical near the coast and semi-arid in the interior; semi-equatorial in the far west of the region. The vegetation mainly desert-like, with tropical forests along the coast and in the west and savanna-like vegetation, known as the Cerrado. in the southwest.

The Northeast Region is between 01° 02' 30" of latitude north and 18° 20' 07" of latitude south and between 34° 47' 30" and 48° 45' 24" of longitude west. It borders to the north and east with the Atlantic Ocean; to the south with the Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo states; and to west with the Pará, Tocantins and Goiás states.

The main rivers in the region are the São Francisco and the Parnaíba rivers; they have many tributaries.

Mountains
The highest point in the Northeast Region is Pico do Barbado () at . Pico do Barbado is the highest summit of the larger Serra do Barbado, in the Chapada Diamantina, in Bahia.

The highest point of the different states of the North Region are:

States 
This region is formed of nine states: Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Sergipe.

Population 
, the Northeast region had a population of 56,915,936, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

The most important municipalities of the North Region are:

References 

Regions of Brazil
Henri Cohen

Henri Cohen (born ? - died 1930) was a Belgian water polo player. He was of Jewish descent.

Cohen was swimming for the Brussels Swimming and Water Polo Club.

He obtained a silver medal with his team at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

References

Other websites 
 www.sports-reference.com 

Year of birth missing
1930 deaths
Belgian Jews
Belgian sportspeople
Jewish sportspeople
Olympic silver medalists
Water polo players
Yigal Amir

Yigal Amir, Hebrew: יגאל עמיר‎‎ , (born May 23, 1970 in Herzliya) is an Israeli murderer. 

Amir is serving a life sentence in prison for assassinating Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995.

His motivation was political. He was strongly against the Oslo Accords and targeted Rabin because of his peace efforts with the Palestinians, which he saw as against the interests of Israeli Jews. 

Amir is an Orthodox Jew from a Yemenite Jewish background. At the time of the murder he was studying law and computer science at Bar-Ilan University and also Jewish law.

Because he murdered the country's head of government, this made Amir an assassin. He was found guilty and sent to prison, where he still is. Israel does not have the death penalty.

References 
 Haaretz
 

1970 births
Living people
Israeli prisoners
Jewish Israeli criminals
Murderers
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Mildred Dresselhaus

Mildred Dresselhaus (born Mildred Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017), also known as the "queen of carbon science", was an American nanotechnologist. She was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also won many awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award and the Vannevar Bush Award.

Dresselhaus was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was married to Gene Dresselhaus and had four children. She was of Jewish descent.

Dresselhaus died on February 20, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 86.

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1930 births
2017 deaths
American physicists
Jewish American academics
Jewish American scientists
Scientists from Brooklyn
Educators from New York City
Max Lüscher

Max Lüscher (September 9, 1923 – February 2, 2017) was a Swiss psychotherapist. He was known for inventing the Lüscher color test. This was a tool for measuring an individual's psycho-physical state based on his or her color preferences. Lüscher worked for international companies, among other things giving color advice. His book The Lüscher Test has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Lüscher died in Lucerne, Switzerland on February 2, 2017, aged 93.

References

Other websites
 Basics about Lüscher's Color Diagnostik - 7 languages - including English
 Max Lüscher: The logical bases of the ethical norms (Powerpoint presentation)
 Biography of Max Lüscher

1923 births
2017 deaths
Swiss writers
Swiss scientists
Swiss psychologists
Lüscher color test

The Lüscher color test is a psychological test invented by Dr. Max Lüscher in Basel, Switzerland. Lüscher believed that sensory perception of color is "all shared by all", but that color preferences are not. This difference allows subjective states to be objectively measured by using test colors.

Lüscher believed that because the color selections are guided in a specific manner, they reveal the person as they really are, not as they perceive themselves or would like to be perceived.

How it works

More readings
Adels G. H., Validation of the Luscher-Color-Test as a screening instrument for emotional disturbance in schoolchildren, Diss. Boston University 1978;
 Braum C.M.J., Cross-cultural validity, reliability, and stimulus Personality Assessment, 1979, N.43, 5;
 Holmes, C. B., Buchannan, J. A., Duncan, D. S., Reed, T. The Barnum effect in Lüscher Color Test interpretation. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986. 42, 133-136.
 Klar H., Opium smokers and the psychological and emotional changes after smoking. Medico, Boehringer Mannheim, 1964, N. 1;
Klar H., Obesity in the Light of the Colour Test, Riv.Medico, Boehringer Mannheim, 1961, N.3;
Kopp M. S., Psychophysiological and Personality Characteristics of Juvenile Hypertensive and Duedenal Ulcer Patients, International Journal of Psychophysiology 2, 73-85,1984, Semmelweis University of Medicine POB 370 Budapest,

References

Other websites
 Lüscher color test home page (multilingual including English)
 ColorQuiz.com Personality Test

Tests
Little Sammy Davis

Little Sammy Davis (November 28, 1928 – February 16, 2018) was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter. He was based in Hudson Valley, New York. Although his musical career began in the 1940s, he was not widely known until the mid-1990s when he began working in radio, singing, playing live on tour, and recording studio albums. He recorded songs with Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, Albert King, and the Levon Helm Band.

Davis was born in Winona, Mississippi. He died in Middletown, New York of heart failure on February 16, 2018 at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
Award Winning Documenatary "Little Sammy Davis"

1928 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York
American blues musicians
American guitarists
American songwriters
African American musicians
People from Winona, Mississippi
Musicians from Mississippi
Writers from Mississippi
Writers from New York
Musicians from New York
Madame de Montesson

Charlotte Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou (4 October 1738 – 6 February 1806) was a mistress of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and later his wife. However, Louis XV would not allow her to become the Duchess. She is known simply as Madame de Montesson. For her husband's fun and her own, she set up a small theatre and wrote many plays, in which she acted. She was a friend of Joséphine de Beauharnais. She married twice but had no children. In 1770, a small home was built in Paris for her use. The building was called the Hôtel de Montesson. It was destroyed by fire in 1810.

Brief biography

Born in Paris in 1738 she was the only daughter of Jean Béraud de La Haye de Riou, Seigneur of la Gauvrillère and Josefa Minard. Her father was from an old Breton family, she first married a seventy-year-old widower Jean Baptiste de  Montesson, Marquis of Montesson on 11 October 1757 who died in 1769. Her beauty and intelligence attracted the attention of the widowed Louis Philippe d'Orléans who she secretly married in 1773 with the authorisation of King Louis XV. After her marriage to the Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans, a member of the royal family and a Prince du Sang, her low rank did not allow her the title of Duchess of Orléans, nor having the rank of a Princess of the blood. During the French Revolution, she was arrested and imprisoned in the Temple Prison in Paris. She eventually died in Paris aged 67. She was buried at the Église Saint-Roch, Paris.

Titles and styles

4 October 1738 – 11 October 1757  Mademoiselle de La Haye de Riou.
11 October 1757 – 1769 The Marquise of Montesson. (Madame la marquise de Montesson)
1769 –	6 February 1806 The Dowager Marquise of Montesson.  (Madame la marquise de Montesson douairière)

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Other websites

1738 births
1806 deaths
People from Paris
House of Orléans
Lavelle White

Lavelle White (born July 3, 1929) is an American blues and soul singer-songwriter. After performing most during her adulthood, White released three albums, the first of which was issued in 1994 when she was aged 65.

She has been nominated several times for a Blues Music Award, and in 2006 was inducted into the Texas Music Hall of Fame. The same year her ensemble was voted the Best Blues Band in The Austin Chronicle Music Awards.

References

1929 births
Living people
American blues musicians
American soul musicians
American singer-songwriters
Singers from Louisiana
Writers from Louisiana
Singers from Houston, Texas
Writers from Texas
Downe

Downe is a village in the London Borough of Bromley. Charles Darwin lived there with his family after the HMS Beagle trip.

London Borough of Bromley
Villages in England