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Big Yellow Taxi

"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970. It was originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. It was a hit in her native Canada (No. 14) as well as Australia (No. 6) and the United Kingdom (No. 11). It only reached No. 67 in the United States in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1974, which peaked at No. 24.

References

Joni Mitchell
Song articles with both composer and songwriter
Testimony

In law and in religion, testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter. The words "testimony" and "testify" both derive from the Latin word testis, referring to the notion of a disinterested third-party witness.

Law

In the law, testimony is a form of evidence given by a witness who makes a solemn statement or declaration of fact. Testimony may be spoken or written. It is usually made by oath or affirmation under penalty of perjury.

Religion

Christians in general, especially within the Evangelical tradition, use the term "to testify" or "to give one's testimony" to mean "to tell the story of how one became a Christian".

References

Law
Religion
Merzkirchen

Merzkirchen is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

References 

Trier-Saarburg
Damflos

Damflos is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

References 

Trier-Saarburg
Kolbingen

Kolbingen is a municipality in Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is about 15 km northeast of Tuttlingen and 7 km from Mühlheim an der Donau.

References

Other websites 
 

Tuttlingen
Ingelfingen

Ingelfingen is a town in the Hohenlohe district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is on the river Kocher, 4 km northwest of Künzelsau, and 36 km northeast of Heilbronn.

Twin town 
Ingelfingen is twinned with:
  Saint-Héand, France, since 1991

References
Bytča

Bytča () is a town in northwestern Slovakia. It is on the Váh river near the cities of Žilina and Považská Bystrica. It is part of the Upper Váh region of tourism.

The town was first mentioned in 1234 as terra Bycha.

Twin towns – Sister cities 
Bytča is twinned with:
  Karolinka, Czech Republic
  Opoczno, Poland

Other websites 

 Official municipal website 

Settlements in Slovakia
Towns in Europe
Hwang Kyo-ahn

Hwang Kyo-ahn  (, Hanja: 黃敎安, RR: Hwang Gyo-an; born 15 April 1957) is a South Korean politician and lawyer. He was the 44th Prime Minister of South Korea from 18 June 2015 to 11 May 2017. He was the Justice Minister. 

Hwang was the Acting President of South Korea after the impeachment and removal of President Park Geun-hye on 10 March 2017, until the election of Moon Jae-in on 9 May 2017.

References

1957 births
Living people
Presidents of South Korea
South Korean lawyers
Prime Ministers of South Korea
Kim Suk-soo

Kim Suk-soo (born November 20, 1932) is a South Korean politician.

He was a justice of the Supreme Court and chairman of the National Election Commission. Kim became the acting Prime Minister of South Korea from 2002 to 2003, during Kim Dae-Jung’s presidency.

References

Prime Ministers of South Korea
1932 births
Living people
Oksana Shachko

Oksana Shachko (; 31 January 1987 – 23 July 2018) was a Ukrainian artist and activist. She was known as the co-founder of  FEMEN in April 2008, along with Anna Hutsol and Alexandra Shevchenko. Shachko was born in Khmelnytskyi but moved to Kiev. She worked in women's rights and civil rights in Ukraine and around the world.

Shachko co-operated with French writer Galia Ackerman who produced a history of 'FEMEN' which was published by Calmann-Lévy in 2013.

Shachko killed herself in her apartment in Paris, France on 23 July 2018. She was 31.

References

1987 births
2018 deaths
Suicides in France
Ukrainian writers
Artists
Human rights activists
Feminist writers
People from Kiev
President of Turkey

The President of the Republic of Turkey () is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Turkey. The president will assume the role of an Executive President and will hold both ceremonial and  executive status. The President represents the Republic of Turkey.

The current office-holder is the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who holds the office since 28 August 2014.

Powers
The Constitution creates all the requirements, election, duties, and responsibilities for the office of the President. The office of the President of Turkey was created on 29 October 1923. The President of Turkey is often known as the Cumhurbaşkanı, meaning 'President of the People'.

Since 2017, a successful referendum voted to make the presidency an executive post.
The Turkish President can appoint or fire Vice Presidents.

List of presidents of Turkey

Living former presidents
There are two living former Turkish presidents:

References

Other websites
President's website
Cemal Gürsel

Cemal Gürsel (; 13 October 1895 – 14 September 1966) was a Turkish army officer. He was the fourth President of Turkey from 1960 until a few months before his death in 1966.

He died from complications of a stroke in Ankara on 14 September 1966 at the age of 70.

References

Other websites
1963–1966 Landmarks of Turkish History
The full translated text of Cemal Gursel's letter The research copy of the Turkish original
Cemal Gursel's Memorandum Revealed
His video and photographs at the President's Web Page

1895 births
1966 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Presidents of Turkey
Prime Ministers of Turkey
Yıldırım Akbulut

Yıldırım Akbulut (; 2 September 1935 – 14 April 2021) was a Turkish politician. He was a leader of the Anavatan Partisi (Motherland Party). He was the Prime Minister of Turkey and twice the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

On May 20, 1999, Yıldırım Akbulut was elected for the second time Speaker of the Grand National Assembly that lasted until September 30, 2000.

Akbulut died on 14 April 2021 in Ankara, aged 85.

References

 Akbulut, Yildirim International Who's Who. accessed September 1, 2006.

1935 births
2021 deaths
Prime Ministers of Turkey
Speakers of the Parliament of Turkey
Cevdet Sunay

Cevdet Sunay (; 10 February 1899 – 22 May 1982) was a Turkish army officer and politician. He was the fifth President of Turkey.

Cevdet Sunay died on 22 May 1982 in Istanbul. His body was moved in August 1988 to a permanent burial place in the newly built Turkish State Cemetery in Ankara.

Honours 
  Empire of Iran : Commemorative Medal of the 2500th Anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire (14/10/1971).

References

Other websites
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Presidency of Turkey

1899 births
1982 deaths
Presidents of Turkey
Fahri Korutürk

Fahri Sabit Korutürk (3 August 1903 – 12 October 1987) was a Turkish navy officer and politician. He was the sixth President of Turkey, from 1973 to 1980.

After his retirement in 1960 from the post of Commander of the Turkish Navy, Korutürk was appointed by the Head of State Cemal Gürsel as Turkish ambassador to the Soviet Union (1960-1964) and later to Spain (1964-1965).

In 1968, President Cevdet Sunay appointed him member of the senate. On 6 April 1973, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey elected him the 6th President of the Republic of Turkey.

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1903 births
1987 deaths
Presidents of Turkey
People from Istanbul
Aubonne, Switzerland

Aubonne is a municipality of the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The former municipality of Pizy merged on 1 July 2011 into the municipality of Aubonne.

On 5 December 2017, Michael I of Romania died in his home in Aubonne.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 
 

Municipalities of Vaud
Cities in Switzerland
Boudry

Boudry is a city in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is the capital of the district of Boudry.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Neuchâtel
Cities in Switzerland
Esslingen am Neckar

Esslingen am Neckar (Swabian: Esslenga am Negger or Neckor [ˈeslẽŋə]) is a city in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is on the river Neckar, about  southeast of Stuttgart city center.

Esslingen was a free imperial city for several centuries until it was annexed by Württemberg in 1802.

Other websites 

 Official website  

Cities in Baden-Württemberg
Imperial free cities
Esslingen (district)
Aubonne (river)

Aubonne is a river in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The river flows into Lake Geneva near Aubonne.

Rivers of Switzerland
Vaud
Bo Burnham

Robert Pickering Burnham (born August 21, 1990) is an American comedian, singer, songwriter, musician, rapper, actor, director, screenwriter, and poet. He began his career as a YouTuber in March 2006.

Burnham signed a four-year record deal with Comedy Central Records and released his debut EP, Bo Fo Sho, in 2008. His first full-length album, Bo Burnham, was released the following year.

Burnham co-created and starred in the MTV television series Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous and released his first book of poetry, Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone, in 2013. His first feature movie as writer and director, Eighth Grade, was released in July 2018 to strong positive reviews.

References

Other websites
 Bo Burnham  at Comedy Central
 

1990 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
American television presenters
American television personalities
American television writers
American screenwriters
American movie directors
American movie producers
American poets
American singer-songwriters
American guitarists
American pianists
Rap musicians from Massachusetts
Actors from Massachusetts
Comedians from Massachusetts
Writers from Massachusetts
Musicians from Massachusetts
Singers from Massachusetts
American composers
American stand-up comedians
Screenwriters from Massachusetts
Hamilton, Massachusetts

Hamilton is a rural-suburban town in the eastern central portion of Essex County in eastern Massachusetts, United States.  At the 2010 census, it had a population of 7,764.

References

Towns in Massachusetts
Pedesina

Pedesina is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy. It is the least populated municipality in Italy.

Pedesina is about  northeast of Milan and about  southwest of Sondrio. As of 31 December 2008, it had a population of 33, and an area of .

Pedesina borders the following municipalities: Bema, Gerola Alta, Premana, Rasura, Rogolo.

References 

Settlements in Lombardy
Art Linkletter

Arthur Gordon Linkletter (born Arthur Gordon Kelly, or Gordon Arthur Kelley, July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010) was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Linkletter was the host of House Party and People Are Funny, on NBC radio and TV for 19 years. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1942.

Linkletter died on May 26, 2010 in Los Angeles, California from stroke-complications at the age of 97.

References

Other websites
"Art Linkletter, dies age 97"

Disney Legends profile
Retro Galaxy: Kids Say the Darndest Things! 
Interview with Art Linkletter

Emmy Award winners
Grammy Award winners
1912 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Cardiovascular disease deaths in California
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American radio personalities
American television personalities
American television presenters
American adoptees
American conservatives
Canadian radio personalities
Canadian comedians
Canadian television presenters
Canadian businesspeople
People from Saskatchewan
Businesspeople from California
Actors from California
Comedians from California
Bryant Gumbel

Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel. 

Since 1995, he has hosted HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. It has been rated as "flat out TV's best sports program" by the Los Angeles Times. It won a Peabody Award in 2012.

References

Other websites
 "Is Bryant Gumbel a Racist?" – Howard Bloom's Sports Business News.com SBN's look at Bryant Gumbel
 -the tiger woods of TV

1948 births
Living people
American television presenters
American journalists
American television news anchors
Writers from New Orleans, Louisiana
African American television personalities
Huey P. Newton

Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African-American political activist and communist anarchist. Along with Bobby Seale, he co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.

In 1989, he was shot and killed during a drug deal in Oakland, California, aged 47.

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1942 births
1989 deaths
American murder victims
Murders by firearm in California
American political activists
American anarchists
American communists
Writers from Louisiana
Politicians from Louisiana
Bobby Seale

Robert George "Bobby" Seale (born October 22, 1936) is an American political activist. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He and fellow activist Huey P. Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party. He was briefly a member of the Chicago Eight.

References

Other websites
 Interview in Detroit, 1978, American Black Journal

1936 births
Living people
American political activists
People from Dallas, Texas
Bobby Hutton

Robert James Hutton, or "Lil' Bobby" (April 21, 1950 – April 6, 1968) was an American political activist. He was born in Jefferson County, Arkansas. He was the treasurer and first recruit to join the Black Panther Party.

On the night of April 6, 1968, Hutton was killed by police officers after Hutton co-led an ambush on the Oakland police department. He was 17 years old.

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1950 births
1968 deaths
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States
American political activists
Politicians from Arkansas
Elbert Howard

Elbert Howard (January 5, 1938 – July 23, 2018), better known as Big Man, was an American civil rights activist and author. He was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party.

After leaving the party in 1974, Howard returned to Tennessee. In Memphis, he  served on the boards of directors of several African American progressive educational institutions.

Howard died on July 23, 2018 in Santa Rosa, California, aged 80.

References

1938 births
2018 deaths
Educators from Tennessee
American civil rights activists
American political writers
Writers from Tennessee
Writers from California
Educators from California
Don Marion Davis

Don Marion Davis (October 9, 1917 – December 10, 2020) was an American child actor. He was born in Hollywood, California. He appeared in many movies during the silent era. While he mostly appeared in comedy shorts, his feature length movies include Down on the Farm and A Small Town Idol.

Davis died on December 10, 2020 in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 103.

References

Other websites

1917 births
2020 deaths
American centenarians
American silent movie actors
American child actors
Actors from Hollywood
Norma Aleandro

Norma Aleandro Robledo (born May 2, 1936) is an Argentine actress, screenwriter, theatre director and author. She is thought to be as one of the best Argentine actresses and is called a cultural icon. 

Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 movie, The Official Story. She starred in The Truce (1974), Cousins (1989), Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998), Son of the Bride (2001) and Cama Adentro (2005). 

For her role as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 movie Gaby: A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination and a Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

References

Other websites
 

1936 births
Living people
Argentine movie actors
Argentine stage actors
Argentine television actors
Argentine screenwriters
Writers from Buenos Aires
Argentine theatre directors
I Will Survive

"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor. It was released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. It became a top-selling song after its release as it sold 14 million copies worldwide.

It reaches number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the UK Singles Chart on many weeks in a row. The song is also seen as a symbol of female strength and as a gay anthem. 

In 2016, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

References

1978 songs
Carla Hayden

Carla Diane Hayden (born August 10, 1952) is an American librarian. She is the 14th and current Librarian of Congress since 2016. Hayden is the first woman and the first African American to hold the post.  She is the first professional librarian appointed to the post in over 60 years.

References

1952 births
Living people
Educators from Florida
People from Tallahassee, Florida
Asado

Asado () is the barbecue of a social event in Hispanic/Latin culture. They are popular in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. In these countries, asado is a traditional way of preparing food and a traditional event. An asado usually has of beef, sausages, and sometimes other meats, which are cooked on a grill, called a parrilla, or an open fire.

References

South American culture
Meat
Billy Vaughn

William Richard Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records.

Vaughn charted a total of 42 singles on the Billboard charts, often based on the sound of two alto saxophones.  He also charted thirty six albums on the Billboard 200, beginning with 1958's Sail Along Silv'ry Moon and ending with 1970's Winter World of Love.

References

Other websites
 Billy Vaughn page at the Space Age Pop Page
 The Billy Vaughn fan page
 Western Kentucky University page on Billy Vaughn and the Hilltoppers

1919 births
1991 deaths
Deaths from peritoneal cancer
Cancer deaths in California
American saxophonists
American bandleaders
Singers from Kentucky
Musicians from Kentucky
2018 Amesbury poisonings

On 30 June 2018, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to hospital in Amesbury, England. Police determined that they were poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent similar to that used in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury,  away, almost four months earlier. Sturgess died on 8 July, and Rowley regained consciousness two days later.

The origin of the poison was possibly a perfume bottle they had picked up in a park.

References

2018 crimes in Europe
2010s crimes in the United Kingdom
June 2018 events
Wiltshire
Anne Olivier Bell

Anne Olivier Bell (née Popham; 22 June 1916 – 18 July 2018) was an art scholar. She was part of the Bloomsbury Group. She was best known for editing the diaries of Virginia Woolf. As a member of the Monuments Men, she was responsible for the protection of cultural artefacts in Europe during the Second World War.

Bell died on 18 July 2018 in Firle, East Sussex, aged 102.

References

Other websites
 Anne Olivier Popham Bell, Monuments Men

1916 births
2018 deaths
British centenarians
British educators
Writers from London
Amesbury

Amesbury is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is most famous for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is in its parish, and for the discovery of the Amesbury Archer. The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age man whose grave was discovered during excavations at the site of a new housing development in Amesbury in 2002. It has been confirmed by archaeologists that Amesbury is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United Kingdom, having been first settled around 8820 BC.

References

Towns in Wiltshire
Melanie Papalia

Melanie Papalia (born 11 July 1984) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Dana in American Pie Presents: The Book of Love, as well as for her roles in movies such as Postal (2007) and Frankie and Alice (2010). In 2011, she starred as Pippa in the Showcase original series Endgame. She was born in Vancouver.

References

Other websites
 
 

1984 births
Living people
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Canadian voice actors
Actors from Vancouver
Clever, Missouri

Clever is a city in Christian County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,139 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.

References

Cities in Missouri
Michelle Von Emster case

Michelle von Emster (died 1994) was a 27-year-old woman who was fatally attacked by an unknown person. She died off the coast of San Diego, California at night. Soon after, two surfers found her body. Her right leg was missing from her mid thigh, and there were tear marks all over her body, suggesting to investigators that she had been attacked by a great white shark. In addition, she had sand in her stomach and other organs, and her neck was broken.

In addition, when experts were later shown the body, some claimed the injuries did not match the measurements of a great white shark.

References

Other websites
 Revisiting the mysterious death of Michelle von Emster 

1994 deaths
Unexplained deaths
History of San Diego, California
1994 in California
Roswell UFO incident

In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Many people believed it was a UFO or alien spacecraft that crashed. Conspiracy theorists say the government is purposely hiding the fact.

References

Other websites
 Walker Air Force Base at Roswell online museum

1947 in the United States
History of New Mexico
Sodder children disappearance

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was owned by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found. The Sodders believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived.

In the 1950s, as they came to doubt that the children had died, they put up a billboard at the site along State Route 16 with pictures of the five.

In support of their belief that the children survived, the Sodders have pointed to a number of unusual circumstances before and during the fire. Authorities say the fire was caused by an electric fire and that the remains were cremated in the fire. The Sodders believed the Sicilian Mafia or someone else kidnapped the children due to George's anti-Benito Mussolini views.

Related pages

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

References

1940s in the United States
1945
20th century in West Virginia
John Shaft

John Shaft is a fictional character. He is played by Richard Roundtree in the 1971 movie that goes by his last name. He was also in the movie's four sequels. Samuel L. Jackson plays John Shaft II in the 2000 remake of Shaft and the 2019 sequel.

There was also a television series in 1973-74 on CBS.

In February 2015, the New Line Cinema got the rights to the reboot of Shaft. The movie is titled Son of Shaft. It will be released in June 2019.

References

 

Fictional American people
Baal Krishna

Baal Krishna is an Indian Hindi-language television soap opera drama which was premiered on 14 March 2016 and it was broadcast on BIG Magic. The series will be produced by Swastik Pictures of Siddharth Kumar Tewarey.

The show went to off air from Swastik Pictures, By going next way to another production house, on it's Maha-Sangam (Episode 247) with Eklavya Serial. After that the show was re-aired as a new name Chakradhari Ajay Krishna in 28 March 2017 on Big Magic wich is now begin produced by Film Farm Productions.

Synopsis 
The show explored lesser known stories and will also deal with widely popular stories about Lord Krishna.

Cast 
 Suman Gupta
 Nimai Bali
 Meet Mukhi
 Bhavesh Balchandani
 Riyanka Chanda

References 

2016 Indian television series debuts
2017 television series endings
2010s television series
Hindi-language television series
Kodakara

Kodakara is a city in Thrissur district of Kerala state in South India. The total population of this town is 27,948. It is located on National Highway (NH 544). It is 20 km south of Thrissur town and about 10 km north of Chalakudy.

Towns in India
Manapparai taluk

Manapparai taluk is a taluk of Tiruchirapalli district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Manapparai.

Tiruchirapalli district
Lincoln, Michigan

Lincoln is a village in Alcona County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 337 at the 2010 census.

Villages in Michigan
Lincoln, Vermont

Lincoln is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,271 at the 2010 census.

References 

Towns in Vermont
Lincoln, California

Lincoln is a city in Placer County, California, United States. It grew 282.1 percent between 2000 and 2010, making it the fastest growing city over 10,000 people in the United States. The population was estimated to be 45,837 in 2015.

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1850s establishments in California
1890s establishments in California
1859 establishments in the United States
1890 establishments in the United States
Cities in California
Settlements in Placer County, California
Lincoln, North Dakota

Lincoln is a city in Burleigh County, North Dakota, United States. It is a suburb of Bismarck. The population was 2,406 at the 2010 census, making it the 15th largest city in North Dakota. Lincoln was founded in 1977.

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1977 establishments in the United States
Cities in North Dakota
20th-century establishments in North Dakota
Walter Hirrlinger

Walter Hirrlinger (24 June 1926 – 24 July 2018) was a German politician. He was honorary President of Sozialverbands VdK Deutschland (SPD) from 1990 to 2008. From 1953 to 1968, Hirrlinger was a member of the municipal council of Esslingen am Neckar, from 1959 to 1989, he was also on the county council of the district of Esslingen.

From 1964 to 1968 he was also Deputy State Chairman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg; until 1975.

Hirrlinger died on 24 July 2018 at the age of 92 years in Esslingen.

References

1926 births
2018 deaths
German politicians
Lincoln, New Hampshire

Lincoln is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It is the second-largest town by area in New Hampshire. The population was 1,662 at the 2010 census.

References 

1764 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Towns in New Hampshire
18th-century establishments in New Hampshire
Grafton County, New Hampshire

Grafton County is a county in the state of New Hampshire, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 89,118. The county seat is Haverhill.

References 

18th-century establishments in New Hampshire
New Hampshire counties
1769 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
Mitsuo Matayoshi

(February 5, 1944 – July 20, 2018) was a Japanese political activist. He was known for his perennial candidacy for Mayor of Tokyo. He called himself The only God Matayoshi Mitsuo Jesus Christ (唯一神又吉光雄・イエス・キリスト) or Jesus Matayoshi (又吉イエス). He was a conservative politician. In 1997, he created the World Economic Community Party (世界経済共同体党), a political party based on his belief that he was God.

Matayoshi died from pneumonia on 20 July 2018 in Tokyo, aged 74.

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1944 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in Japan
Japanese politicians
People from Tokyo
Alien: Isolation

Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game created by Creative Assembly. It is based on the Alien science fiction horror movie series. It was published by Sega and released for Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in October 2014. The game is set 15 years after the events of the 1979 Alien movie.

The game is about Amanda Ripley, daughter of Alien main character Ellen Ripley, as she investigates the disappearance of her mother while trapped in a spaceship with xenomorphs.

Alien: Isolation had strong positive reviews and had sold over two million copies by May 2015.

References

2014 video games
Horror video games
Belknap County, New Hampshire

Belknap County () is a county in the state of New Hampshire, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 60,088. The county seat is Laconia.

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19th-century establishments in New Hampshire
1840 establishments in the United States
New Hampshire counties
Vakhtang Balavadze

Vakhtang Balavadze (Georgian: ვახტანგ ბალავაძე, (November 20, 1927 – July 25, 2018) was a Georgian welterweight freestyle wrestler.
 He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He won the world title in 1954 and 1957, and was a runner-up in 1959.

Balavadze died on July 25, 2018 in Tbilisi from a heart attack at the age of 90.

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1927 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Sportspeople from Georgia (country)
Olympic bronze medalists
Laconia, New Hampshire

Laconia is a city in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 15,951 at the 2010 census, and an estimated 16,470 as of 2016. It is the county seat of Belknap County. Laconia is between Lake Winnipesaukee and Winnisquam Lake, includes the neighborhoods of Lakeport and Weirs Beach.

References 

19th-century establishments in New Hampshire
1855 establishments in the United States
Cities in New Hampshire
County seats in New Hampshire
Laconia, Indiana

Laconia is a town in Boone Township, Harrison County, Indiana, United States. The population was 50 at the 2010 census.

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1816 establishments in the United States
Towns in Indiana
1810s establishments in Indiana
Sergio Marchionne

Sergio Marchionne (; June 17, 1952 – July 25, 2018) was an Italian-Canadian businessman. He was born in Chieti, Italy and raised in Toronto, Ontario.

Marchionne was the chairman of CNH Industrial, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, the chairman and CEO of FCA US LLC, the chairman and CEO of Ferrari, and the chairman of Maserati. He was the chairman of Swiss-based SGS and vice chairman of UBS from 2008 to 2010, as well as the chairman of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association for 2012 (first elected in January 2006). He was a member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the chairman of the Italian branch of the Council for the United States and Italy.

In June 2018, Marchionne underwent shoulder surgery after suffering from pain in that area. Following complications from surgery he died on July 25, 2018 in Zurich at the age of 66.

References

Other websites

Article on Marchionne (2006)

1952 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Canadian businesspeople
Italian businesspeople
People from Toronto
New Amsterdam, Indiana

New Amsterdam is a town in Washington Township in Harrison County in the state of Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 27 at the 2010 census. It is the smallest town in Indiana.

References 

Towns in Indiana
Gallarate

Gallarate  (Lombard: Galaraa) is a city in northern Italy. Gallarate is in the Lombardy Region. It has a population of 52,857 people.

Cities in Lombardy
Alene Duerk

Alene Bertha Duerk (March 29, 1920 – July 21, 2018) was a United States Navy admiral. 

She was born in Defiance, Ohio. She became the first female admiral in the U.S. Navy in 1972. She was also the director of the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps from 1970 to 1975. She was a 1974 recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award of Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing.

Duerk died in Lake Mary, Florida on July 21, 2018 at the age of 98.

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1920 births
2018 deaths
American military personnel of World War II
American military personnel of the Korean War
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
People from Ohio
Busto Arsizio

Busto Arsizio (; Lombard: Büsti Grandi) is a city in northern Italy. Busto Arsizio is in the Lombardy Region. It has a population of 83,405 people.

It is  north of Milan. The economy of Busto Arsizio is based on industry and commerce.

Pro Patria Calcio football club plays in Busto Arsizio.

Cities in Lombardy
György Szepesi

György Szepesi (5 February 1922 – 25 July 2018) was a Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive.

Szepesi was a Hungarian Olympic Committee member from 1962 to 2000, and was the Executive Committee Chairman for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) from 1982 to 1994.  He was Chairman of the Hungarian Football Association (HFA) from 1978 to 1986.  He is honorary chairman of the HFA, and an honorary member of FIFA’s Executive Committee.

Szepesi died on 25 July 2018 in Budapest at the age of 96.

References

Other websites
The match of the century, by György Szepesi, Hungarian News and Information Service
Népesedésünk ma és holnap, by György Szepesi, Kossuth, 1986, 
Hungarian football rhapsody: 70 years of soccer history, by György Szepesi, Pannonia Press, 1968

Hungarian sportspeople
Radio personalities
Journalists
Hungarian businesspeople
People from Budapest
1922 births
2018 deaths
Tradate

Tradate is a comune in northern Italy. Tradate is in the Lombardy Region. It has a population of 18,768 people.

It is  from the city of Varese (the province's capital).

Settlements in Lombardy
Rocket fuel

Rocket propellant or rocket fuel means fuel for rockets. It may be in the form of solid, liquid or gas. Most rockets are chemical rockets propelled by fire. Most chemical rockets use two propellants: a fuel and an oxidizer. These two chemicals are sometimes mixed, and sometimes kept in separate containers.

The Space Shuttle had solid fuel boosters with powdered aluminium as fuel and ammonium perchlorate as oxidant. The Space Shuttle main engines used liquid hydrogen as fuel and liquid oxygen as oxidant.

A toy water rocket uses a gas, such as compressed air, as a propellant.

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Fuel
Rockets
Braunau

Braunau may refer to:

Places 
 Braunau am Inn (district), Austria
 Braunau am Inn, a municipality
 Braunau (river), in Bavaria, Germany
 Braunau, Switzerland
 Broumov, Czech Republic, also known as "Braunau" in German
FC Petržalka 1898

FC Petržalka is a football club which plays in Slovakia. It is based in the capital, Bratislava. The football club was founded in 1898.

Other websites 
 Official website  

Football clubs
Football in Slovakia
Bratislava
1898 establishments in Europe
Sankt Anton im Montafon

Sankt Anton im Montafon is a municipality in the Montafon valley in the district of Bludenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

It is a popular ski resort, and much of the population makes a living from tourism.

References

Other websites 
Official website
Golm ski resort 

Settlements in Vorarlberg
Les Brenets

Les Brenets was a municipality of the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

Where did the residents go 
On January 1, 2021, the residents were moved into the municipality of Le Locle.

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Municipalities of Neuchâtel
Le Cerneux-Péquignot

Le Cerneux-Péquignot is a municipality of the district Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Neuchâtel
Montreux (disambiguation)

Montreux can mean:
 Montreux, a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
 Montreux, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a commune in France
 Montreux-Jeune, a commune in the Haut-Rhin department
 Montreux-Vieux, a commune in the Haut-Rhin department
 Montreux-Château, a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department

Other 
 Montreal (disambiguation)
Meredith Salenger

Meredith Dawn Salenger (born March 14, 1970) is an American actress, who is best known for her role as Lainie Diamond in Dream a Little Dream.

For Disney, she played Natty Gann in The Journey of Natty Gann, and a television news reporter named Natalie Gann in the 2009 movie Race to Witch Mountain. She also did the voices of Barriss Offee and several characters in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Aurora Six in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!. She also played Daphne in the ABC TV show Grey's Anatomy, Amber Wheeler in My Town, and did additional voices in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Other websites 
 

1970 births
American child actors
American television actors
American movie actors
Jewish American actors
Harvard University alumni
Actors from Malibu, California
Living people
Compressed air

Compressed air is air stored under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure. It is generally produced by an air compressor.

Uses
Compressed air may be used for transfer of energy in industrial processes. Compressed air is used to power pneumatic tools. Compressed air is used to spray paint, to operate air cylinders for automation, and to propel vehicles. Railway brakes applied by compressed air make train travel safer. Compressed air brakes are also found on large road vehicles, such as trucks and buses.

Physics
Mechanics
Matthias Ginter

Matthias Ginter (born 19 January 1994) is a German footballer. He plays as a defender for Borussia Mönchengladbach.

1994 births
German footballers
Sportspeople from Baden-Württemberg
People from Freiburg im Breisgau
Living people
Ralph J. Lamberti

Ralph J. Lamberti (born November 14, 1934) is an American politician. He was born in New York City. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Lamberti was borough president of Staten Island, New York from 1984 to 1989.

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1934 births
Living people
Staten Island borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
James Molinaro

James P. Molinaro (born March 11, 1931) is an American politician. He was the Borough President of Staten Island from 2002 to 2013.

Molinaro first won election as Borough President on November 6, 2001 beating his Democratic opponent Councilman Jerome X. O'Donovan, with 50 percent to 43 percent. He took office on January 1, 2002.

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1931 births
Living people
American political activists
American conservatives
American environmentalists
People from Manhattan
Staten Island borough presidents
US Republican Party politicians
James Oddo

James Steven Oddo (born January 12, 1966) is an American politician. He is a Republican politician from Staten Island. He was the Borough President of Staten Island from 2014 until 2022. Oddo was re elected Borough President on November 7, 2017 with 75.56% of the vote.

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1966 births
Living people
Staten Island borough presidents
US Republican Party politicians
Borough president

Borough president is an office in each of the five boroughs of New York City. The office holds executive powers within each borough, and the five borough presidents also sat on the New York City Board of Estimate. Since 1990, the borough presidents have been stripped of a majority of their powers in the government of New York City.

Borough presidents advise the mayor, comment on land-use items in their borough, advocate borough needs in the annual municipal budget process, appoint some officials and community board members, and serve ex officio as members of many boards and committees.

Current borough presidents

The current borough presidents were either elected or re-elected in the most recent election in 2021:

References

Other websites
 Borough Presidents in the Rules of the City of New York
 World Statesmen List of Borough Presidents
 Contact a Borough President
Boroughs of New York City

New York City is made up of five county-level sections called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. All boroughs are part of New York City. Queens is the largest borough.

Boroughs have existed since the official creation of the city in 1898, when the city and each borough assumed their current boundaries. However, the boroughs have not always been part with their respective counties. Before 1914, the borough of The Bronx had been earlier in the southern part of Westchester County which had then been annexed to New York County. Before 1899, the County of Queens included an eastern part, which was split off during the formation to become Nassau County.

Each borough is represented by a Borough president.

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Robert Abrams

Robert Abrams (born July 4, 1938) is an American lawyer and politician. He was the Attorney General of New York from 1979 to 1993 and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate election in New York in 1992. He was the Borough president of The Bronx from 1970 to 1978.

References

Other websites
 Political Graveyard 
 Robert Abrams - Partner: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP 

1938 births
Living people
Bronx borough presidents
Lawyers from New York City
US Democratic Party politicians
Columbia University alumni
Rubén Díaz Jr.

Rubén Díaz Jr. (born April 26, 1973) is an American politician. He was the Borough President of the Bronx in New York City. He was elected in April 2009 and reelected in 2013 and 2017.

His father is politician Rubén Díaz Sr..

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1973 births
Living people
Bronx borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
Eric Adams

Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician. Adams is the Mayor of New York City since 2022. He was the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City. Before, he was a Democratic State Senator in the New York Senate, representing the 20th Senate District. On November 5, 2013, Adams was elected Brooklyn Borough President, the first African-American to hold the position.

Police career
Before entering politics, Adams was a police officer in the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for 22 years. He started in the New York City Transit Police. He co-founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, an advocacy group for black police officers, and often spoke out against police brutality and racial profiling.

Mayor of New York City (since 2022)

Campaign
In November 2020, Adams announced his candidacy for Mayor of New York City in the 2021 election. On July 6, Associated Press announced that he won the Democratic primary. Adams was elected mayor on November 2, 2021.

Adams supports cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. On November 4th, 2021, he tweeted that he wants to take his first three paychecks as Mayor in bitcoin, and that New York City would be "the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing, innovative industries." He also believes young students should be taught about cryptocurrency. He said "We must open our schools to teach the technology, to teach this new way of thinking when it comes down to paying for goods and services."

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1960 births
Living people
African American politicians
Brooklyn borough presidents
American police officers
US Democratic Party politicians
Mayors of New York City
Marty Markowitz

Martin "Marty" Markowitz (born February 14, 1945) is an American politician. He is a former Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City. He was first elected in 2001 after being a New York State Senator for 23 years. His third and final term ended in December 2013.

References

Other websites
New York Finance Campaign Voter's Guide
New Yorker profile of Markowitz
 Marty Markowitz: «In Brooklyn there is place for everybody!» Exclusive interview with Marty Markovitz for Russian-American web portal RUNYweb.com

1945 births
Living people
Brooklyn borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
Fernando Ferrer

Fernando James "Freddy" Ferrer (born April 30, 1950) is an American politician. He was the Borough President of The Bronx from 1987 to 2001, and was a candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2001 and the Democratic Party nominee for Mayor in 2005.

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Bronx borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
1950 births
Living people
Gale Brewer

Gale Arnot Brewer (born September 6, 1951) is an American politician. She was the Borough President of the New York City borough of Manhattan and a Democratic politician. She was a member of the New York City Council. She was elected Manhattan Borough President on November 5, 2013.

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1951 births
Living people
Manhattan borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
Scott Stringer

Scott M. Stringer (born April 29, 1960) is an American politician. He was the New York City Comptroller and a New York Democratic politician. He was the 26th Borough President of Manhattan.

In September 2020, he announced his plans to run for Mayor of New York City for the 2021 election.

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1960 births
Living people
Manhattan borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
C. Virginia Fields

C. Virginia Fields (born August 6, 1945) is an American politician. She is the former Borough President of Manhattan, elected in 1997 and reelected in 2001.  Her second term expired at the end of 2005.

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1946 births
Living people
Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama
Manhattan borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
Ruth Messinger

Ruth Wyler Messinger (born November 6, 1940) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party as well as the Democratic Socialists of America. She was the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City in 1997 losing to Rudy Giuliani. Messinger was the 24th Borough President of Manhattan from 1990 to 1997.

In 2015 she was named as one of The Forward 50 along with Senator Bernie Sanders.

References

Other websites
Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive
Hazon website

1940 births
Living people
Jewish American politicians
Jewish women politicians
Manhattan borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
Melinda Katz

Melinda R. Katz (born August 19, 1965) is an American politician. She was the 19th Queens Borough President from 2014 to 2020.

Katz was a New York City Councilwoman from 2002 to 2009. She left politics in 2009 to work at a law firm. 

In 2012, she announced her return to politics with a run for Queens Borough President in 2013.

In June 2019, Katz won the Democratic nomination for Queens County's District Attorney, and won the general election in November 2019.

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1965 births
Living people
Lawyers from New York City
Jewish American politicians
Jewish lawyers
Jewish women politicians
Queens borough presidents
US Democratic Party politicians
Imagawayaki

is a Japanese dessert often found at Japanese festivals in Kanto. Traditionally it is filled with sweet azuki bean paste, but a wider variety of fillings can be used.

Its name came from its original shop location, the Imagawa Bridge, in the Edo Period.

It is known as Obanyaki in Kansai or Jimanyaki in Nagano.

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Japanese food
Hillerød

Hillerød is a city in Denmark. It's nearby Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Hillerød has a castle named Frederiksborg castle ().

Cities in Denmark
Minecart

is a short story written by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. It was published in 1922. It is a story about a young boy who experiences the adult world for a short amount of time. Many junior high school students in Japan study this short story in class.

In 2009, a movie based on this story was released.

Plot
Construction of a light railway has begun between Odawara and Atami, two towns in east Japan. At the construction site, workers are using minecarts for transporting earth and sand. Ryōhei, aged eight, is interested in these minecarts. One day, he pushes one of the minecarts with a construction worker. At the beginning, he is very excited. But as it gets late in the day, he starts to worry about how he will get home. After a while, the construction worker tells him to go home because it is late. Ryōhei runs down a dark hill road thinking “I  just don’t want to die”. As soon as he comes back home, he bursts into tears.

He becomes an adult and moves to Tokyo. He looks back on that time. He is tired of everyday life. Without any reason, he sometimes dreams of the dark hill road.

The story is set between Odawara and Atami. The boy describes seeing the sea on his right as he heads away from his home, and on his left on the way back. Because of this, it seems that he was moving toward Odawara from Atami.

Additional information
Rikiishi Heizo was a journalist from Yugawara, a town between Atami and Odawara. The Atami light railway was under construction when he was a boy. Construction workers changed a human-powered railway into a light railway. Rikiishi looked back on his memory of watching this construction work and wrote it down. The story’s author, Akutagawa, embellished Rikiishi’s writing to make the story.

Other websites
"Torokko" modern kanji forms and kana spellings（Aozora Bunko）
"Torokko" modern kanji forms and old kana spellings（Aozora Bunko）

Short stories