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Hillsboro, Ohio

Hillsboro is a city in Ohio, United States. It is the county seat of Highland County. 6,605 people lived in Hillsboro, according to information from the 2010 census.

The plan of Hillsboro was mapped in 1807, and most likely named for the hills near the original town site.

Cities in Ohio
County seats in Ohio
Kharp

Kharp () is an urban settlement in the Priuralsky District of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. This is in Western Siberia, the Asian part of Russia. It is on the bank of the Sob River. Its population in 2019 was 5,941.

Cities in Russia
Bekbol Sagyn

Bekbol Sagyn currently serves as Akim (known as head of local government) of the Aktobe District, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan. He came to the position simply because his predecessor had moved to a new employment.

Biography 
Sagyn was born in 1972. He enrolled in the Kazakh State Academy of Management. He later transferred to the Kazakh Humanitarian Law University, and later graduated from the Kazakh Engineering and Technical Academy with an undergraduate degree. Sagyn later received a graduate degree in economic sciences.

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1972 births
Shawn Levy

Shawn Adam Levy (born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian director, producer and actor of movies and television. He directed the movies Big Fat Liar (2002), Just Married (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), The Pink Panther (2006), Night at the Museum (2006), Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Date Night (2010), Real Steel (2011), The Internship (2013), This Is Where I Leave You (2014) and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014). He has also directed episodes of television shows such as The Secret World of Alex Mack, The Famous Jett Jackson and Stranger Things.

Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is married to Serena and has four children. He is Jewish.

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1968 births
Living people
Actors from Montreal
Canadian Jews
Canadian movie actors
Canadian movie directors
Canadian movie producers
Canadian television actors
Canadian television directors
Canadian television producers
Canadian television writers
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Mohamed Salah

Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly (Egyptian ; born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer. He plays for Premier League club Liverpool and the Egypt national team. He plays as a forward. He was born in Nagrig, Gharbia. He married Magi Salah in 2013 and In 2014, his daughter Makkah Salah was born. His daughter was named after the holy Arabian city in Saudi Arabia.

Career

Club
Salah started his football career in Egypt playing for El Mokawloon from 2006 to 2012. He joined Swiss side Basel in 2012, winning the Swiss Super League twice during his time there. In 2014, he joined Premier League side Chelsea, becoming the first ever Egyptian player to play with Chelsea. However, he was sent on loan to the Serie A clubs Fiorentina and Roma, before signing with Roma completely in 2016. Following a second place finish in Serie A with Roma, he joined the Premier League once again, signing for Liverpool in June 2017. In 2017, he was named the ‘African Footballer of the Year’ by BBC and CAF.

In his first season with Liverpool, Salah scored 44 goals for Liverpool and made the final of the UEFA Champions League, losing 3–1 to Real Madrid. Also in his first season, he won the Premier League Golden Boot and PFA Players' Player of the Year, scoring 32 goals in the Premier League. This broke the record for most goals in a 38-game Premier League season. The 2018–19 season saw Liverpool make the final of the UEFA Champions League again. In the match, Salah scored a penalty as his side defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2–0. The same season, he was the joint-winner of the Premier League Golden Boot with 22 goals, winning the award for the second season in a row. He also received the FIFA Puskas Award, African Player of the Year, and FWA Footballer of the Year. In the 2019/20 season, Salah scored 23 goals as Liverpool won the Premier League for the first time. The following season, he scored 31 goals and helped Liverpool secure qualification for the UEFA Champions League, finishing 3rd in the Premier League. In 2021, Mohamed Salah became the first player in the history of the English club to score in 10 consecutive matches. With his goals, Mohamed Salah reached the tenth goal during his career in the English Premier League.

International
Salah has played for Egypt since 2011. He has played for his country at the 2012 Summer Olympics and at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Honours

Club
Basel
 Swiss Super League: 2012–13, 2013–14

Liverpool
 UEFA Champions League: 2018–19; runner-up: 2017–18
 Premier League: 2019-20

References

Other websites

Mohamed Salah profile at the Liverpool F.C. website
Mohamed Salah career stats at Soccerbase
Mohamed Salah life-story  at Footytales

 

1992 births
Living people
2018 FIFA World Cup players
Chelsea F.C. players
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Egypt international footballers
Egyptian footballers
Egyptian Muslims
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Göksel Gümüşdağ

Göksel Gümüşdağ (born 10 October 1972, Istanbul) is a Turkish businessman, former president of İstanbul Başakşehir and former Vice President of the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LTD.

Early life and career
Gümüşdağ was born in Istanbul on October 10, 1972. He graduated from Anadolu University Economics and Bilgi University Business Administration Department.

In 2014, he was elected president of Istanbul Başakşehir from Süper League teams. He is still a member of the Istanbul Bilgi University Board of Trustees.

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Michael Imperioli

James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966) is an American actor, writer and director. He is best known for the role of Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO drama series The Sopranos. The role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He has also had roles in movies and television shows such as Goodfellas, The Addiction, The Lovely Bones, Clockers, Law & Order, Californication and Hawaii Five-0.

Imperioli was born in Mount Vernon, New York, to an Italian American family. He married Victoria Chlebowski in 1995. The couple have three children.

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1966 births
Living people
Actors from New York
American movie actors
American movie directors
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American television writers
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Tigga & Togga

Tigga & Togga is a Canadian–American animated series produced by Cuppa Coffee Studios, Collideascope Digital Productions, Frederator Studios, Tigga Togga Productions and Nickelodeon Productions. The series premiere aired at 9:30 a.m. ET/PT time on February 18, 2006 on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States and TVOKids in Canada. The series is produced 129 episodes divided in 8 seasons.

Characters
 Tigga
 Togga

Episodes

American television series
Canadian television series
2006 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Children's television series
Animation
Alan MacDiarmid

Alan G. MacDiarmid (April 14, 1927 – February 7, 2007) was a New Zealand chemist. He received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Alan  Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa for "the discovery and development of conductive polymers". 

He was born in Masterton,  New Zealand and died in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Denudation

In geology, denudation includes the procedures that reason the wearing ceaselessly of the Earth's surface by moving water, by ice, by wind and by waves, prompting a lessening in rise and in alleviation of landforms and of scenes.

Geology
Recruitment (biology)

Recruitment is the number of new individuals that are added to a population of animals.

Ecosystems
Cyclone Dirk

Cyclone Dirk was a large and deep European windstorm. It affected Western Europe from Iberia to Iceland. It formed on December 21, 2013 and dissipated on December 27, 2013. The storm caused 6 deaths.

On land the low pressure during the storm was measured at  on 24 December at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis off the north west coast of Scotland.

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Shelby County, Alabama

Shelby County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. The county seat is Columbiana.

Alabama counties
Fred Cole

Fred Cole (August 28, 1948 – November 9, 2017) was an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He played with several bands since the 1960s, most notably The Lollipop Shoppe, Dead Moon, and Pierced Arrows.

Cole died of liver disease on November 9, 2017 at his home in Clackamas, Oregon at the age of 69.

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Other websites
 Dead moon
 Official Pierced Arrows-site
 Fred Cole (Dead Moon etc.) turns 60!
 The Rats 
 

1948 births
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Deaths from liver disease
American singer-songwriters
American rock guitarists
Writers from Washington
Writers from Oregon
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Singers from Washington
Singers from Oregon
Musicians from Oregon
Musicians from Washington
Musicians from Nevada
People from Tacoma, Washington
Singers from Las Vegas, Nevada
Chuck Mosley

Charles Henry Mosley III (December 26, 1959 – November 9, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter. He was best known as the frontman for Faith No More from 1984 to 1988. During his time with the band, they released two albums, We Care a Lot and Introduce Yourself.

Mosley died on November 9, 2017 from complications of alcoholism in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 57.

References

Other websites

 Chuck Mosley Interview on Songfacts site

1959 births
2017 deaths
Drug-related deaths in the United States
American singer-songwriters
American rock guitarists
American heavy metal musicians
Musicians from Los Angeles
Singers from Los Angeles
Writers from Los Angeles
Priyan (cinematographer)

Priyan (April 1964 – 9 November 2017) was an Indian cinematographer. He has worked on Tamil language movies. He was born in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. His best known works are Porkkaalam (1997), Desiya Geetham (1998), Vetri Kodi Kattu (1999), Thenali (2000), Star (2001) and Majunu (2001).

Priyan died of a heart attack in Chennai, India on 9 November 2017 at the age of 53.

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Official website 

1964 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Indian cinematographers
Shyla Stylez

Amanda Friedland (September 23, 1982 – November 9, 2017), better known by her stage name Shyla Stylez, was a Canadian pornographic actress. She was born in Armstrong, British Columbia. She started as a stripper and a webcam model.

She was known for her works in My Plaything: Shyla Stylez and Pirates II. In 2010, she was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top female stars in porn. In 2005, she temporarily left the adult industry. She returned to pornography in 2006

From 2002 through 2003, Stylez was married to Bob Friedland.

Stylez was found dead at her home in Armstrong, British Columbia on November 9, 2017 at the age of 35.

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1982 births
2017 deaths
Actors from British Columbia
Adult models
Canadian models
Canadian movie actors
Canadian sex industry people
Erotic dancers
Pornographic actors
Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (; July 21, 1948 – November 10, 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stand-up comedian and writer. He was born in Jūrmala, Latvian SSR, USSR. His humour is national stereotype and national mentality. From 2006 until his death, Zadornov had incorporated Chudinov-style wordplay into his sketches, based on folk etymology

In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on accession of the Crimea to Russia.

Zadornov died of brain cancer in Moscow, Russia on November 10, 2017 at the age of 69.

References

Other websites

 
Unofficial website  

Text of Zadornov story "Conversation of a Rest Home Deputy Director with Guests on the Day of their Arrival" {from SovLit.net}
 Задор ТВ на сайте YouTube

1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from brain cancer
Russian writers
Russian comedians
Sophia (robot)

Sophia is a human-like robot. Sophia was developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. The robot has been designed to learn and adapt to human behavior and work with humans. Sophia has also been interviewed around the world. In October 2017, Sophia became a citizen of Saudi Arabia. This means Sophia is the first robot to receive citizenship of a country. The robot is designed to look like British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993).

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2015
Robots
Saudi Arabia
Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran; May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, novelist and inventor. She was a newspaper reporter, who worked at various jobs for exposing poor working conditions. Nellie Bly, also, fought for women's right and was known for investigative reporting. She best known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, inspired by the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. In the 1880s, she went undercover as a mentally ill patient in a psychiatric hospital for ten days, with the report being made public in a book called "Ten Days in a Mad-House". She was added to the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.

Bly was born in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. She married industrialist Robert Seaman in 1895. After his death in 1904, Bly took over his company.

Bly died of pneumonia on January 27, 1922 in New York City. She was 57.

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 Nellie Bly Online

1864 births
1922 deaths
American inventors
American journalists
American novelists
Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in New York City
Writers from Pennsylvania
Carlos Dívar

José Carlos Dívar Blanco (December 31, 1941 – November 11, 2017) was a Spanish government official. He was born in Málaga, Spain. He was President of the General Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court from September 2008 to June 2012.

He was the President of the National Court from 2001 to 2008. He resigned in June 2012 when it was uncovered a scandal of alleged misappropriation of public funds.

Dívar died of pulmonary edema in Madrid on November 11, 2017 at the age of 75.

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1941 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pulmonary edema
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Spanish politicians
Valery Rozov

Valery Rozov (December 26, 1964 – November 11, 2017) was a Russian BASE jumper. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

On May 5, 2013, Rozov set a world record when he jumped off Changtse (the north peak of the Mount Everest massif) from a height of 7,220 metres (23,690 ft). He glided down to the Rongbuk glacier more than 1,000 meters below.

Rozov died on 11 November 2017 while jumping from a height of 6,812 meters (22,349 ft) off Ama Dablam mountain in Nepal at the age of 52.

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1964 births
2017 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls
BASE jumpers
Deaths in sport
Russian sportspeople
Ian Wachtmeister

Count Ian Melcher Shering Wachtmeister af Johannishus (; 24 December 1932 – 11 November 2017) was a Swedish businessman and politician. He was a member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 1994. He was born in Nääs, Sweden. Together with record company owner Bert Karlsson he founded the populist political party New Democracy, and as party leader achieved parliamentary representation in the 1991 general election from Örebro County.

Wachtmeister died of lymphoma on 11 November 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden at the age of 84.

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1932 births
2017 deaths
Swedish businesspeople
Deaths from lymphoma
Earls and countesses
Swedish nobility
Swedish politicians
Tamara Natalie Madden

Tamara Natalie Madden  (August 16, 1975 – November 4, 2017) was a Jamaican-born American painter and mixed-media artist working. Madden's paintings are allegories whose subjects are the people of the African diaspora. After her solo exhibition in 2004, Madden relocated near Atlanta, Georgia. She was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Her first solo exhibition was in 2004, and it got her an interview with the late James Auer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In 2007, Madden debuted a series entitled, "Kings & Queens", which focused on heightening the everyday person. Her work continues to focus on recognizing nobility, honor and respect in those often overlooked by society.

Madden died of ovarian cancer on November 4, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 42.

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2017 deaths
Deaths from ovarian cancer
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Jamaican people
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American painters
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People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jack Ralite

Jack Ralite (14 May 1928 – 12 November 2017) was a French politician. He was elected in 1973 to the Seine-Saint-Denis constituency for the French Communist Party. In 1981 he became Minister for Health and Minister for Employment from 1981 to 1984. In 1984 he became Mayor of Aubervilliers, a post he retained until 2003. He was born in Châlons-en-Champagne, France.

Ralite died in Aubervilliers, France of respiratory failure at the age of 89.

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1928 births
2017 deaths
Communists
Deaths from respiratory failure
Disease-related deaths in France
French mayors
Government ministers of France
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Freddy Cole

Lionel Frederick "Freddy" Cole (October 15, 1931 – June 27, 2020) was an American jazz singer and pianist. His recording career has spanned over sixty years. He was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, and uncle of Natalie Cole, Timolin Cole, and Casey Cole. He was known for his moderate success of Whispering Grass in 1953.

During the 1970s, Cole recorded several albums for European and English based labels. He was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Cole Nobody Knows. In June of that year, Cole was added to the Steinway Artist roster.

Cole died from heart disease-related problems in Atlanta, Georgia on June 27, 2020 at the age of 88.

References

Other websites

Freddy Cole: Heir To The Throne by Alex Henderson, The New York City Jazz Record
filmmaker Clay Walker's webpage on Freddy Cole 
PBS video of performance at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony 

1931 births
2020 deaths
Cardiovascular disease deaths in the United States
American jazz singers
American jazz musicians
American pianists
Singers from Chicago
Musicians from Chicago
Ray Lovelock

Ray Lovelock (; 19 June 1950 – 10 November 2017) was an Italian actor and rock musician. He was born in Rome, Italy. He performed in a rock band with longtime friend and actor Tomas Milian, where he was discovered by a talent agent.

Lovelock appeared in many movies such as: Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974), Almost Human (1974), Violent Rome (1975), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976), The Cassandra Crossing (1976) and The Last House on the Beach (1978).

Lovelock died in Trevi, Italy on 10 November 2017 of bone cancer at the age of 67.

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1950 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from bone cancer
Cancer deaths in Italy
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Rock musicians
Actors from Rome
Musicians from Rome
Roman calendar

The Roman calendar was a lunar calendar used by the Roman Kingdom and the Roman Republic.

Calendar system 
The year started on 1 March and had only 304 days or 10 months (March, April, May, June, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November and December). These 304 days were followed by an unnamed 50-day winter period. The Roman king Numa Pompilius (c. 715-673 BC) introduced February and January (in that order) between December and March, increasing the length of the year to 354 or 355 days. In 450 BC, February was moved to its current position between January and March.

In order to make up for the lack of days in a year, an extra month, Intercalaris or Mercedonius, (allegedly with 22 or 23 days) was introduced in some years. In an 8 year period the length of the years were:

1: 12 months or 355 days
2: 13 months or 377 days
3: 12 months or 355 days
4: 13 months or 378 days
5: 12 months or 355 days
6: 13 months or 377 days
7: 12 months or 355 days
8: 13 months or 378 days

A total of 2930 days corresponding to a year of 366¼ days. This year was discovered to be too long, and therefore 7 days were later dropped from the 8th year, yielding 365.375 days per year.

It was the duty of the priesthood not to have any mistake of the intercalary month. However, leap years were considered unlucky. Therefore, they were avoided in time of crisis, such as the Second Punic War. In order to fix the problem, Julius Caesar made his famous calendar reform in 45 BC.

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Ancient Rome
James T. Butts Jr.

James Thurman Butts Jr. (born August 1, 1953) is an American politician. He is currently serving as the mayor of Inglewood, California. He started out in law enforcement in Inglewood during the 1970s and 1980s and later became a captain. He worked as Chief of Police in Santa Monica, California from 1991 to 2006. After that,  in 2006, he worked in public safety  with Los Angeles World Airports. In 2010  he was elected mayor of Inglewood. In 2014 he was re-elected  with an 84% vote. He led efforts to renovate and reopen the sports stadium The Forum in Inglewood. He also worked to develop a plan for a new NFL stadium in Inglewood. Butts holds an MBA degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also  holds a Bachelor of Science from California State University, Los Angeles.

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Pages needing to be simplified from November 2017

1953 births
African American politicians
American mayors
American police officers
Politicians from California
People from Inglewood, California
Living people
Norman Hallendy

Norman E. Hallendy is an Arctic researcher, writer and photographer.  Hallendy's Arctic journeys began in 1958 at a time when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Federal government. Returning north year after year, he was befriended by Inuit elders who shared with him their perception of their material and spiritual world.

Works 
His previous books include the best selling Inuksuit: 

 Tukiliit: The Stone People Who Live in the Wind
 Wilderness: Arctic Voices from a Land of Vast Horizons

He has been a lecturer at Oxford, Cambridge, UNESCO (Paris) including numerous universities in Canada and abroad. His most enjoyable presentations were to Inuit elders and their children in several Arctic communities.

Awards and recognitions 
Norman Hallendy has been named one of Canada’s 100 greatest modern-day explorers by Canadian Geographic Society.  

His contribution to geographical knowledge through documenting Arctic landscapes and ancient sites earned him the coveted Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 2007 placing him among such esteemed persons as Professor Jean Malaurie, Count Eigil Knuth and Thor Heyerdahl. 

In 2001, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society awarded Hallendy the Gold medal for his internationally acclaimed work on inuksuit and ethnographic work in southwest Baffin Island placing him among such outstanding contributors to geography as Michael Palin, Gilbert Grosvenor and Sir Christopher Ondaatje.

His ethnographic documentation of the Inuit of southwest Baffin Island is regarded as a major contribution to the appreciation of Inuit intellectual culture. Dr. William Fitzhugh Director of the Arctic Studies Centre of the Smithsonian Institution regards Hallendy as a modern day Knud Rasmussen.

The Right Honourable Julie Payette Governor General of Canada has awarded Norman the Polar Medal created by Her Majesty the Queen of England in recognition of his ethnography of the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic.

References

Other websites 
 Greystone Books

Nunavut
Canadian writers
Ethnography
Ron Gardenhire

Ronald Clyde Gardenhire (born October 24, 1957) is the manager of the Detroit Tigers. He was born in West Germany. He was a shortstop for the New York Mets from 1981 to 1985 and managed the Minnesota Twins from 2002 to 2013. He replaced Brad Ausmus as manager of the Tigers following the 2017 season.

Other websites

 
 Managerial record at Baseball-Reference.com

1957 births
Living people
German sportspeople
Detroit Tigers managers
Minnesota Twins
New York Mets players
Allschwil

Allschwil is a municipality of the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website 

Municipalities of Basel-Landschaft
Cities in Switzerland
Solothurn (city)

Solothurn (, , , ) is a district and the capital of the Swiss canton of Solothurn. As of December 2016, 16,697 people lived there. It is the only municipality of the district of the same name.

References

Other websites 

 Official website of the city of Solothurn 
 Solothurn tourist office  D/F + 

Municipalities of the canton of Solothurn
Districts of Solothurn
Capital cities in Switzerland
Imperial free cities
Highland County, Ohio

Highland County is a county in Ohio in the United States. In 2010, 43,589 people lived there. The county seat is Hillsboro.

1800s establishments in Ohio
1805 establishments in the United States
Ohio counties
Gholamreza Hassani

Ayatollah Gholamreza Hassani (, ) (30 August 1928 – 21 May 2018) was an Iranian conservative politician and cleric. He was the previous Friday prayer, first First imam of Masjid-e-Jamé mosque of the city of Urmia. He was born in Urmia, Iran. 

He was a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the first term from electoral district of Urmia and representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei in West Azarbaijan Province.

Hassani died on 21 May 2018 in Tehran at the age of 90.

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Other websites
 حجت الاسلام قریشی به امامت جمعه ارومیه و نماینده ولی فقیه در آذربایجان غربی منصوب شد/ تقدیر از مجاهدت و خدمات حجت الاسلام حسنی 

1928 births
2018 deaths
Iranian politicians
Conservatives
Mary Wells Lawrence

Mary Wells Lawrence (born Mary Georgene Berg on May 25, 1928) is a retired American advertising executive.  She was the founding president of Wells Rich Greene, an advertising agency. Lawrence was the first female CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

References

Other websites
 Braniff Flying Colors Historical Page
 Mary Wells Lawrence  at wowOwow
 "Madison Avenue", BBC Adam Curtis blog discusses Wells' career and features a film about Braniff from 1967 in which Wells speaks.

1928 births
Living people
Businesspeople from New York City
Businesspeople from Ohio
People from Youngstown, Ohio
Cindy Adams

Cynthia "Cindy" Adams (née Sugar; later Heller; born April 24, 1930) is an American gossip columnist and writer. She is the widow of comedian/humorist Joey Adams. She was born in New York City. 

She began to work as a photographer's model in Manhattan. Since 1979, Adams has written a gossip column for the New York Post, a New York City newspaper. She also contributed to Sunday Today in New York. Adams became a syndicated newspaper columnist in 1981.

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1930 births
Living people
American activists
Models from New York City
Journalists from New York City
Edith Savage-Jennings

Edith Savage-Jennings (1924 – November 12, 2017) was an American civil rights leader from New Jersey. She was known for her association with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. Savage was notable for being a guest to the White House under every President of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt through Barack Obama.

Savage-Jennings was born in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 2016 she was inducted into the New Jersey Women's Hall of Fame.

Savage-Jennings died on November 12, 2017 at her home in Trenton, New Jersey at the age of 93.

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1924 births
2017 deaths
American civil rights activists
People from Jacksonville, Florida
People from Trenton, New Jersey
Wojciech Zabłocki

Wojciech Mikołaj Zabłocki (December 6, 1930 – December 5, 2020) was a Polish architect and fencer. He was born in Warsaw.  He was a founding member of the Art of the Olympians.

Zabłocki participated in four Olympic Games: 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne, 1960 Rome, 1964 Tokyo and won two silver (1956, 1960) and one bronze medal (1964) in team sabre fencing.

In 1963, he married actress Alina Janowska. She died in 2017.

Zabłocki died on December 5, 2020 just one day before his 90th birthday.

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Polish Olympic medalists
Architects
Olympic bronze medalists
Olympic silver medalists
Fencers
Sportspeople from Warsaw
Bernard Panafieu

Bernard Louis Auguste Paul Panafieu (26 January 1931 – 12 November 2017) ) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Marseille from 1995 until his retirement in 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2003. He was born in Châtellerault, France.

Panafieu died on 12 November 2017 at a hospital in Venasque, France of complications from Parkinson's disease at the age of 86.

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1931 births
2017 deaths
Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Disease-related deaths in France
French Roman Catholics
People from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Roman Catholic archbishops
Photometry (astronomy)

Photometry is a method of problem solving in astronomy. It aims to measure flux. When photometry is performed over broad wavelength bands of radiation, where not only the amount of radiation but also its spectral distribution is measured, the term spectrophotometry is used.

The word is combination of the Greek affixes "photo-" ("light") and "-metry" ("measure").

Astronomy
Santiago Vernazza

Júlio Carlos Santiago "Ghito" Vernazza (September 23, 1928 – November 12, 2017) was a former Argentine footballer. He was a forward who played for Platense and River Plate until 1956, when he moved to Italy and signed for newly promoted Serie A club Palermo.

He was born in Buenos Aires.

In 1960/1961, Vernazza played for AC Milan, where he obtained a second place. In 1961/1962, he moved to Vicenza, where he played two seasons before retiring in 1963 at the age of 35.

Vernazza died in Buenos Aires on November 12, 2017 at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
Argentine players in Italy at rsssf
 Platense profile 

1928 births
2017 deaths
Argentine footballers
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
David Poisson

David Poisson (31 March 1982 – 13 November 2017) was a French World Cup alpine ski racer. He was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France.

Poisson represented France at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. At the 2013 World Championships, Poisson made his first podium, taking bronze in the downhill.

Poisson died in a crash during training in Nakiska, Alberta, Canada on 13 November 2017, aged 35.

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1982 births
2017 deaths
Deaths in sport
French Olympians
French skiers
Sportspeople from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Alex Azar

Alex Michael Azar II (born June 17, 1967) is an American politician and businessman. He was the 24th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from January 29, 2018 to January 20, 2021. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. From 2012 to 2017, Azar was President of Eli Lilly and Company. He was a member of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, a pharmaceutical lobby.

On November 13, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Azar to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018.

Early life
Azar was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He was raised in Salisbury, Maryland. He studied at Dartmouth College and at Yale University.

Career
Azar was as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then as a law clerk for Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1992 to 1993.

From 1994 to 1996, he served as an Associate Independent Counsel for Kenneth W. Starr in the United States Office of the Independent Counsel.

Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (2005–2007)
On August 3, 2001, Azar was confirmed to be the General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

On July 22, 2005, Azar was confirmed as the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services. He was twice confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate. He worked under Secretary Mike Leavitt. Azar resigned in January 2007.

Business career
In June 2007, Azar joined Eli Lilly and Company as its Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Communications, where he “lead Lilly public affairs and lobbying efforts.”

On January 1, 2012, Azar became President of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest division of Eli Lilly and Company and was responsible for the company's entire operations in the United States. In January 2017, Azar resigned from Eli Lilly.

Secretary of Health and Human Services (since 2018)
On November 13, 2017, President Trump announced via Twitter that Azar was his nominee to be the next United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.

His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24, 2018. He was sworn in on January 29.

Personal life
Azar is married to Jennifer Azar. They have two children. They live in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Sam Johnson

Samuel Robert Johnson (October 11, 1930 – May 27, 2020) was an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for  serving in Congress from 1991 to 2019. He was a member of the Republican Party.

On January 6, 2017, Johnson announced he will not run for reelection in 2018.

He was the last Korean War veteran to serve in Congress.

Johnson died at his home in Plano, Texas on May 27, 2020 of natural causes at the age of 89.

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 Congressman Sam Johnson  official House site
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 Tribute to Sam Johnson, Smithsonian Institution
 Texas Nonprofit Is Cleared After GOP-Prompted Audit: Group Says Probe Was 'Political Retaliation' by DeLay Allies, Washington Post, February 27, 2006

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President of Singapore

The President of the Republic of Singapore is the country's head of state. Singapore has a parliamentary system of government. Executive authority is exercised by the Cabinet who was led by the Prime Minister of Singapore. The current president is Halimah Yacob, who is the Singapore's first female president, who was elected unopposed at the 2017 presidential election.

The president's official residence and office is the Istana. However, no presidents since Yusof bin Ishak (1965–1970) have lived there. The current president, Halimah Yacob, had wanted to stay in the HDB flat at Yishun, but if she fails to comply with the security requirements, she will have to move out. She is also the first female President of Singapore and first Malay head of state in 47 years since the death of Mr Yusof bin Ishak who was Singapore's first president.

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Tan Kah Kee MRT station

Tan Kah Kee MRT Station is a MRT station in Singapore. It is the first station to be named after a person. It is named after Tan Kah Kee, a Chinese businessman, community leader and philanthropist. It is within walking distance of Hwa Chong Institution, Nanyang Girls' High School, Raffles Girls' Primary School, Methodist Girls' School, and National Junior College.

Prior to the opening of the station, this station was named Duchess, and all of the Hwa Chong students wished to name the station "Hwa Chong". Other Singaporeans also decided to name it Hillcrest, Watten, Namly or Coronation. In the end, it was renamed to Tan Kah Kee, in honour of the businessman and community leader who founded Hwa Chong Institution.

During the Downtown MRT Line Stage 2 open house on 5 December 2015, LTA was told that the Tamil translation of the station name was incorrect. The LTA apologized in the evening for the error.

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Botanic Gardens MRT station

Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an interchange MRT station in Singapore. It is one of four stations where commuters can transfer from the Circle MRT Line to Downtown MRT Line,

This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens at the intersection of Bukit Timah Road and Cluny Park Road, hence its name. It is also near the National University of Singapore Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre. 

As Bukit Brown Station will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Botanic Gardens and Caldecott is the longest on the Circle Line. 

As the distance between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms is relatively long, it has travelators, the fourth station after Dhoby Ghaut, Serangoon and Bugis to have travelators within the paid area.

History
The Downtown Line station (DT09) was designed by AEP Consultants and Geoconsult Asia and was constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors. Botanic Gardens station is one of only two MRT stations in Singapore to have an official Malay name. The other station will be the future Gardens by the Bay MRT Station.

Prior to the opening of the station, it was named Adam. Public consultation of the station began in January 2006 and only two names were selected - Botanic Gardens and Cluny Road. Botanic Gardens was eventually selected because this station also goes to the popular UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cluny Road was also selected because it was served by the railway station "Cluny Road" that was closed down in 1930s. On 12 September 2006, the final name is renamed to Botanic Gardens.

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MacPherson MRT station

MacPherson MRT Station (CC10/DT26) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station between the Circle Line and the Downtown Line in Geylang. It is located along Paya Lebar Road, near the Geylang Neighbourhood Police Centre. The station, and the nearby housing estate, is named after Colonel Ronald Macpherson, the first Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements in 1867.

This is one of the few stations on the network which has easy transfers between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms, connected through escalators.

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Lavender MRT station

Lavender MRT Station (EW11) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Kallang, Singapore. It is located underneath the junction of Kallang Road and Kallang Walk. This station is within the vicinity of Bendemeer and Jalan Besar stations on the Downtown Line. It is also near to ICA Building.

It was formerly known as E2 before 2001.

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Bugis MRT station

Bugis MRT Station (EW12/DT14) is an underground MRT interchange station on the East West Line and the Downtown Line located at the boundary of Downtown Core and Rochor planning areas, Singapore. 

This station serves Bugis+, Sim Lim Square, Bugis Village, Bugis Junction and many housing retail and food outlets. The station is also nearby to National Library and the Kampong Glam as well as many private educational schools in the area like Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and LASALLE College of the Arts which also situated nearby. The station is within five minutes walk of Jalan Besar Station on the Downtown Line. It is one of the stations that serves the huge demand when transferring from East West Line to Downtown Line.

History
The East West Line portion of Bugis station is located next to Bugis Junction, which has a direct link to the mall. It has almost the same design as the neighbouring Lavender station. The Downtown Line section is built on the site of the demolished The New 7th Storey Hotel, and opened on 22 December 2013. This station served as the northern terminus of the Downtown Line until 27 December 2015, when it was replaced by Bukit Panjang as the second phase of the line opens. As the distance between the platforms is relatively long, it is one of four stations to have travelators, with the others being Dhoby Ghaut Botanic Gardens and Serangoon.

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Tanjong Pagar MRT station

Tanjong Pagar MRT Station (EW15) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Downtown Core, Singapore. The station caters to people, especially businessmen and residents, working and living in the Shenton Way and Robinson Road areas. Currently the station is surrounded by recent developments of Tanjong Pagar Centre, of which it is the tallest skyscraper in Singapore (290 metres). Permission is required by the authority and it is exempted from the height restrictions due to Paya Lebar Airbase.

History
The station was first opened on 12 December 1987, as part of the extension of the system to Outram Park.

The station was expanded in 2004 to facilitate disabled access and the new Exit I was later opened. Before the Tanjong Pagar Centre (Exit J) opens, there are several exits in the MRT station, all connected by the underpass:

A: Peck Seah Street
B: Maxwell Road
C: Anson Road
D: Prince Edward Road
E: AXA Tower (formerly Temasek Tower)
F: Robinson Road
G: Telok Ayer (Amoy Street Market)
H: Springleaf Street

The faregates at this station were replaced in 12 October 2012 and the Exit I faregates were replaced on 20 August 2017.

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Tiong Bahru MRT station

Tiong Bahru MRT Station (EW17) is an underground station located on the East West Line of the Mass Rapid Transit in Bukit Merah, Singapore. It is the last underground MRT station on the line westwards. The station is directly connected to a shopping mall, Tiong Bahru Plaza and is at Tiong Bahru Road and Jalan Membina. The MRT Station serves the surrounding residential neighborhoods of Bukit Ho Swee, Bukit Merah View and Tiong Bahru. This station was named after the Tiong Bahru Estate, together with Tiong Bahru Market and Tiong Bahru constituency.

It was the closest station to Sentosa before the opening of North East Line station on 20 June 2003. Shuttle bus services linking Sentosa to Tiong Bahru MRT operated for several years until it was eventually withdrawn in 2004.

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Kallang MRT station

Kallang MRT Station (EW10) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Kallang, Singapore. It is painted in yellow livery and located next to the Kallang River, which is famous for its water sports. This is the last above-ground station westbound until Redhill. Westward of the station towards Lavender, the tracks lose elevation until they level out when sufficiently underground. This is because of space limitations in the Central Business District.

The station is within the vicinity of Boon Keng MRT Station on the North East Line, Stadium MRT Station on the Circle Line and Geylang Bahru MRT Station on the Downtown Line. Kallang station is located next to the Lorong 1 Geylang Bus Terminal and within walking distance to the Kallang Riverside Park located at Kampong Bugis.

When Stadium MRT Station was under construction, Kallang station would be crowded when either the Singapore Indoor Stadium or the National Stadium hosted an event. After the opening of the Singapore Sports Hub, a sheltered walkway was built to connect Kallang station to the Singapore Sports Hub to ease overcrowding on Stadium station which only caters to 3-car trains.

It was formerly E3, before 2001.

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Redhill MRT station

Redhill MRT Station (EW18) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line located in Bukit Merah, Singapore. This is the last above-ground station eastbound until Kallang station. Eastward of the station towards Tiong Bahru Estate, the tracks lose elevation until they level out when sufficiently underground. This is because of the space limitations as there is no such elevation of tracks in the Central Business District. This station is near to Enable Village for people with special needs.

Redhill is the only MRT station in which the two platforms are not parallel to each other.

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Little India MRT station

Little India MRT Station (NE7/DT12) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the North East Line and the Downtown Line located at the boundary of the planning areas of Kallang and Rochor, Singapore. The station derives its name from the ethnic district of Little India. This station and Rochor is the nearest of any station on the Downtown Line as it takes only 20-25 seconds to reach.

This station was built in the heart of Little India, with Tekka Centre within walking distance of the station.

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Farrer Park MRT station

Farrer Park MRT Station (NE8) is an underground station along the North East Line of the Mass Rapid Transit at the boundary of Kallang and Rochor planning areas, Singapore. It is at the north end of the ethnic neighbourhood of Little India. This station is near Mustafa Centre, Serangoon Plaza, and City Square Mall.

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Chinese Garden MRT station

Chinese Garden MRT Station (EW25) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Jurong East, Singapore. It serves residents in Yuhua and Hong Kah, as well people visiting tourist attractions in Jurong Lake, including the Chinese Gardens, which give the station its name. Its station colour is yellow. The roof of the station is based on a Chinese design.

The original name for Chinese Garden was Jurong Lake.

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Downtown MRT station

Downtown MRT Station (DT17) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Downtown Core, Singapore under Central Boulevard. It serves the south part of the Marina Bay area.

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Telok Ayer MRT station

Telok Ayer MRT Station (DT17) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Downtown Core, Singapore under Cross Street. This station uses side platforms.

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Rochor MRT station

Rochor MRT Station (DT13) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in the planning area of Rochor, Singapore. It is near Sim Lim Square, The Verge, the Lasalle College of the Arts and Tekka Centre. The station is white and grey with a futuristic design. This station and Little India is the nearest of any station on the Downtown Line as it takes only 20-25 seconds to reach. The station opened along with other station on the DTL2 in December 2015.

This station had basement 1 reserved for the future North-South Corridor, and basement 2 and 3 are typically station levels.

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Jalan Besar MRT station

Jalan Besar MRT Station (DT22) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Rochor planning area, Singapore. The station is under Jalan Besar, at the junction with Weld Road. The station is also called Sungei Road. Sungei Road Thieves' Market was located next to this station, together with Sim Lim Tower.

The station is within five minutes walk of Rochor station on the Downtown Line and Bugis station on both the Downtown Line and East West Line, allowing an out-of-system transfer to those stations and lines. It opened on 21 October 2017.

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