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Rosa Fontana

Rosa Fontana – born as Rosa Engracia Sevilla Plo on January 21, 1938 – is a Spanish actress, who had roles in movies and TV series, and also worked in theatre.

Filmography

Films 
¡Se armó el belén! – Maruji
Vente a Alemania, Pepe
Hay que educar a papá
Las tres perfectas casadas
Nothing Less Than a Real Man
Celos, amor y mercado común
Cinco almohadas para una noche
Crónica del alba. Valentina
Lala – Lucía

TV series
Ni pobre ni rico, sino todo lo contrario
Diálogos de Carmelitas
Aquí no hay quien viva

Family 
Rosa is a daughter of poet Avelino Sevilla Hernández and his wife. Rosa was married to Rafael Rivelles and Carlos Manuel Lemos. Carlos and Rosa's daughter is actress Esperanza Lemos.

References

Spanish television actors
Spanish movie actors
1938 births
Hirzel

Hirzel is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hirzel merged into the municipality of Horgen.

Former municipalities of Zürich
Villages in Zürich
Hittnau

Hittnau is a municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official website of Hittnau 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Ali Tanrıyar

Ali Tanrıyar (14 March 1914 – 25 May 2017) was a Turkish politician. He served as Minister of Interior of Turkey from December 13, 1983 through October 26, 1984. He also served as President of the Galatasaray S.K. from March 15, 1986 through March 17, 1990. He was a member of the Motherland Party.

Tanrıyar was born in Eleftheroupoli, Greece to Turkish parents. He studied at Istanbul University. He was the brother-in-law of former President and Prime Minister Turgut Özal. Tanrıyar died on 25 May 2017 in Istanbul at the age of 103.

References

Other websites
 Biography: Ali Tanrıyar

1914 births
2017 deaths
Turkish politicians
Charles Walker (Fijian politician)

Charles Walker (born 12 June 1928) is a retired Fijian civil servant and Alliance Party politician and former diplomat. He was born in the village of Sawana in the Lomaloma district on Vanua Balavu island in the Lau Archipelago.

Walker was a Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister from 1977 through 1987. served as Ambassador to the Empire of Japan, Republic of South Korea & The People's Republic of China from 1988 through 1993.

References

1928 births
Living people
Ambassadors to Japan
Civil servants
Fijian politicians
Ambassadors to China
Eva Estrada Kalaw

Eva Estrada Kalaw (June 16, 1920 – May 25, 2017) was a Filipino politician and professor. She served as a Senator in the Senate of the Philippines from 1965 through 1972. She was elected senator in 1965 under the Nacionalista Party. She was serving in Senate during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, she was part of a major transformation in Philippine domestic and foreign policies. 

Kalaw was a candidate for President of the Philippines in 1986 and again in 1992.

Kalaw was born in Murcia, Tarlac, Philippine Islands. She studied at the University of the Philippines. Kalaw died on May 25, 2017 at a hospital in Manila at the age of 96.

References

Other websites
www.senate.gov.ph
www.geocities.com
www.kababaihan.org 

Amazon.

1920 births
2017 deaths
Filipino politicians
Filipino educators
Chełmno extermination camp

Chełmno extermination camp () was the first extermination camp (death camp) opened by Nazi Germany.  It was 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the city of Łódź, Poland.  In 1939, Nazi Germany had invaded Poland, and had annexed (took control of) parts of Poland.

The Nazis built Chełmno with the specific goal of carrying out ethnic cleansing through mass murder.  The Nazis kept Chełmno open from , as part of Operation Reinhard during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, and again from  to  during the Soviet counter-offensive.

The Nazis murdered over 150,000 people at Chełmno, including many Polish Jews from the Łódź Ghetto and the local people who lived in Reichsgau Wartheland (Warthegau).

Victims

The Nazis killed at least 152,000 people at Chełmno.  Nazi officials were eventually charged with killing at least 180,000 victims.

The Kulmhof Museum of Martyrdom (pl)says that around 200,000 people were killed at Chełmno.

Most of the people killed at Chełmno were:
 Jews from west-central Poland;
 Roma people from around Poland;
 Soviet prisoners of war; or
 Jews who had been forced to live in the Łódź Ghetto.  These included Jews from Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Germany, Luxemburg, and Austria.

The Nazis killed these victims using gas vans.  They forced the victims into large vans, and then pumped carbon monoxide into the vans to suffocate and kill the victims.

Early on, the Nazis experimented at Chełmno.  They developed methods which they used later during The Holocaust in Nazi-controlled Poland.

Destruction
Russian soldiers captured the town of Chełmno on .  By then, the Nazis had already destroyed evidence that the Chełmno camp ever existed.  They left no prisoners behind. One of the camp's survivors, who was fifteen years old at the time, said that only three Jewish males had escaped successfully from Chełmno.

In 1961, the three best-known survivors testified about Chełmno at Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. In 1962-1965, two survivors also testified at trials held in West Germany against people who worked at the camp.

References

Nazi concentration camps in Poland
Euclidean distance

In Euclidean geometry, the Euclidean distance is the usual distance between two points p and q. This distance is measured as a line segment. The Pythagorean theorem can be used to calculate this distance.

Euclidean distance on the plane
 
In the Euclidean plane, if p = (p1, p2) and q = (q1, q2) then the distance is given by

This is equivalent to the Pythagorean theorem, where legs are differences between respective coordinates of the points, and hypotenuse is the distance.

Alternatively, if the polar coordinates of the point p are (r1, θ1) and those of q are (r2, θ2), then the distance between the points is

Related pages 

 Norm (mathematics)
 Polar coordinates

References 

Geometry
Zehava Gal-On

Zehava Gal-On, Hebrew: זהבה גלאון , born as Zehava Schnipitzky, (born January 4, 1956 in Vilnius) is an Israeli activist and politician. She is political leader of Meretz ("Vigour"). She has been leading Meretz since 2012 (she did already an unsuccessful atttempt in 2007).

She was born in the capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. As a young child she moved with her parents to Israel, where she grew up for the greater part in Petah Tikva (still living in this city). She studied philology and special education, and mastered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gal-On is engaged in all sorts of rights activism, like civil and human rights but also women's rights and social justice. She held leading positions in newspaper Politika, in B'Tselem (a human rights organization concerning Israel's behaviour in the Palestinian territories) and Ratz (a forerunner of Meretz).

In 1999 she was chosen into the Knesset. She lost her seat in 2009 but returned in 2011. She left the Knesset in October 2017.

As a Member of Knesset she was chairing the parliamentarian committee with regard to women trafficking, and criticized the Law of Return for being discriminatory.

References 
 Bio at Knesset Website

1956 births
Living people
Civil rights activists
Former Members of Knesset
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Human rights activists
Israeli activists
Israeli former political leaders
Jewish activists
Jewish feminists
Jewish Israeli politicians
Jewish women politicians
Lithuanian Jews
Meretz politicians
Naturalized citizens of Israel
People from Vilnius
Soviet Jews
Nawele

Nawele was High Chief of Oahu (a Hawaiian island). His name is pronounced in Hawaiian language as Nah-weh-leh.

Life 
Nawele was born on the island of Oʻahu as a son of Chief Kahokupohakano and his wife, Kaumana II. This means that Nawele's grandfather was High Chief Elepuukahonua. After the death of Elepuʻukahonua, an unknown person ruled over Oʻahu. After the death of that man, Nawele became a High Chief.

The wife of Nawele was called Kalanimoeikawaikai. Their son was High Chief Lakona of Oahu. Nawele died on Oʻahu.

References 

Royalty of Oahu
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble (P&G) is an American corporation. The company is in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It mostly has a wide range of cleaning products and hygienic products.

Before selling Pringles to Kellogg's, P&G's products also included food and drink.

Products produced by P&G include Crest, Ivory soaps, Tide laundry detergent and Prell shampoo. In the 1880s, they created Ivory soap, a product that floats in water.

In April 1985, the moon & stars symbol was removed from its packaging, because its stars resembled "666", the Satan symbol.

In January 2005, P&G announced they were buying Gillette, a company known for making razors and razor blades for shaving. P&G used to make Duracell batteries. The company makes Braun products and Oral-B toothbrushes.

P&G got out of the food business in 2012 when they sold Pringles to the Kellogg's food company. P&G had also sold Jif peanut butter, Crisco shortening and Folgers' coffee.

Procter and Gamble produced and sponsored the first serial dramas during the 1930s. Because of P&G being known for detergents, these serial dramas started being called soap operas. With television in the 1950s and 1960s, soap operas, such as Guiding Light, went from the radio to CBS television. The last P&G produced show, As the World Turns, left television in 2010. The only soap opera partially produced by P&G remaining on air is The Young and the Restless on CBS. From May 1964 to June 1999, P&G produced and sponsored Another World on the NBC network.

References

Companies based in Ohio
 1837 establishments
Pharmaceutical companies of the United States
American soap operas
Cincinnati, Ohio
Jared Martin

Jared Christopher Martin (December 21, 1941 – May 24, 2017) was an American movie and television actor. He was best known for his role as Steven "Dusty" Farlow in the 1978 series Dallas and for roles on two science fiction TV shows, The Fantastic Journey and War of the Worlds. He was born in Manhattan, New York.

Martin died on May 24, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from pancreatic cancer at the age of 75.

References

Other websites
 
 

1941 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in Pennsylvania
American movie actors
American television actors
Actors from New York City
Ezekiel Anisi

Ezekiel Anisi (1 September 1988 – 24 May 2017) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He was a member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea from August until October 2012, when he was unseated by the National Court, and from a December 2013 by-election until his death, representing the electorate of Ambunti-Dreikikir Open in East Sepik Province. He was the youngest MP in Papua New Guinea.

Anisi died on 24 May 2017 from possible cardiac arrest at a guesthouse in Port Moresby only weeks before the 2017 general election, aged 28.

References

1988 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Papua New Guinean politicians
Juliana Koo

Juliana Koo (formerly Young; née Yen; September 26, 1905 – May 24, 2017) was a Chinese-American diplomat. She served as first head of the United Nations Protocol Department. She was a supercentenarian and after emigrating to the United States, she became the third wife of diplomat and politician Wellington Koo.

Koo died on May 24, 2017 in New York City, aged 111.

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1905 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from natural causes
Disease-related deaths in New York City
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Chinese politicians
American diplomats
Civil servants
American supercentenarians
Women diplomats
Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer. He was born in Munich, Germany. Johnson best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also wrote plays, poetry and non-fiction.

Johnson died at his home on May 24, 2017 in Gualala, California from liver cancer at the age of 67.

References

Other websites
 Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
 KCRW Bookworm Interview 
 Profile at The Whiting Foundation
 Denis Johnson profile and poems at Academy of American Poets
 Denis Johnson at Library of Congress Authorities — with 25 catalog records

1949 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
Cancer deaths in California
American novelists
American playwrights
American poets
People from Munich
Writers from Washington
O. Henry Award winners
Laura Biagiotti

Laura Biagiotti (; August 4, 1943 – May 26, 2017) was an Italian fashion designer. She was born in Rome, Italy. She had her first fashion show in 1972. The House of Biagiotti (based on Via dei Condotti in Rome) is now listed among the largest fashion houses in Italy with an expansion of products including accessories and watches. She moved to Beijing for some time and was the first Italian designer to present a collection in China, in April 1988.

Biagiotti died on May 26, 2017 in Rome from complications of a heart attack at the age of 73.

References

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1943 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Italy
Italian fashion designers
People from Rome
Marga Minco

Marga Minco (pseudonym of Sara Menco, born 31 March 1920) is a Dutch journalist and writer. Her real surname was Menco, but an official accidentally switched the first vowel. She was born in Ginneken to an Orthodox Jewish family. In 1957 Minco published her first book,  ("The bitter herb"). The title of a later book was Een leeg huis ("A empty house").

Awards 
 1957 – Bureau voor Postreclame en Adressen De Mutator N.V. Short-story Prize for Het adres
 1958 – Vijverberg Prize for Het bittere kruid
 1999 – Annie Romein Prize for her entire oeuvre
 2005 – Constantijn Huygens Prize for her entire oeuvre

Other websites

1920 births
Living people
Dutch Jews
Dutch journalists
Dutch novelists
Jewish writers
People from Breda
Writers from North Brabant
Rose quartz

Rose quartz is a translucent pink to rose-red variety of quartz. It is rarely found as a crystal and is far more common in massive form. 

Among gemstones, rose quartz is considered a semiprecious stone that may be used in jewelry. Rose quartz stones that are nearly transparent are sometimes cut to make flat surfaces called facets, to better reflect light.

References 

Gemstones
Anaphrodisiac

An anaphrodisiac is something that makes the one who uses it less aroused. This can be a medicine, a food or a procedure. It is sometimes used to treat hypersexuals. It is also used for an animal that is in heat. Pills that lower the libido are sometimes called antaphrodisiacs.

References

Sexuality
Anaphrodisiacs
Lakona of Oahu

Lakona was High Chief of Oahu, a Hawaiian island.

Life 
Lakona was born on Oʻahu around 1340. He was the son of High Chief Nawele and his wife, Kalanimoeikawaikai. Because of his father, Lakona is also known as Lakona-a-Nawele, which means "Lakona, son of Nawele". After the death of his father, Lakona became the ruler of his island. He ruled together with his female cousin, Maelo.

The wife of Lakona was called Alaʻikauakoko, who is also known as Kanakoko. They had a son, Kapaealakona, who succeeded Lakona after Lakona's death.

References 

Royalty of Oahu
1340s births
Ayman Odeh

Ayman Odeh, , , (born January 1, 1975 in Haifa) is an Israeli lawyer and politician. He is political leader both of Hadash ("New") and HaReshima HaMeshutefet / al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah ("The Joint List").

Early life & education
Ayman Odeh was born in the year 1975. He was raised in the city of Haifa which is located within the neighbourhood of Kababir. His father was a construction worker. Even though their family was Muslim but his father sent him to a Christian school.

Ayman Odeh studied law at the University of Craiova located in Romania from 1993 to 1997. When he was studying in Romania then he took part in pro-Palestinian rallies. He also learned Romanian language and read the memoirs of various political thinkers and revolutionaries.

Career
Odeh is an Arab Israeli and a former Muslim. He believes in socialism. He is in favour of Arab and Jewish Israelis collaborating, and is supporting Mizrahi Israelis, who in his opinion are neglected for Israeli Jews coming from the Western world. He also advocates weaponless Palestinian actions to reach its goals.

He started his political career in 1998 by becoming a councillor of Haifa on behalf of Hadash. This lasted till 2005. Next year he became secretary-general.

After several failing attempts to become a Member of Knesset in 2009 and 2013, Odeh has eventually succeeded in 2015. The very same year he had become political leader of Hadash and of The Joint List (last one is a cooperation of the four mainly Arab parties in parliament).

References

Other website
 Bio at Knesset Website

1975 births
Living people
Israeli lawyers
Israeli political leaders
Israeli-Palestinian people
Members of Knesset
People from Haifa
Socialist politicians
Kapaealakona

Kapae-a-Lakona — also spelled Kapea-a-Lakona — was High Chief of Oahu in ancient Hawaii.

Family 
He was a son of High Chief Lakona of Oʻahu and his wife, Chiefess Alaʻikauakoko — daughter of a man named Pokai and his wife Hineuki. After his father's death, Kapae became the Chief of Oʻahu. Kapae married a woman named Wehina, whose parents are not known today. Wehina and Kapae's only known child was Chief Haka of Oahu.

References 

Royalty of Oahu
14th-century births
Samsu-iluna

Samsu-iluna ruled Babylon from 1750 BC to 1712 BC. He was the son of Hammurabi, the conqueror of Mesopotamia. He became King with the death of his father in 1750 BC.

Mesopotamian people
18th century BC
Kings and queens
Sexbot

A sexbot is a robot that could be used for sexual intercourse. Sexbots do not exist yet, but they may exist in the future. It could be useful for people who are disabled or extremely shy. It has been predicted by some sociologists that sexbots will be used by TFLers (True Forced Loners) and people suffering from inceldom. Some analysts say that sexbots exist because young men outnumber young women in the dating scene.

References 

Human sexuality
Hochfelden, Switzerland

Hochfelden is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

References

Other websites

 Official Website of Hochfelden 
 

Municipalities of Zürich
Flag of Louisiana

The flag of the US state of Louisiana features the image of a white pelican and her young in a nest on an azure field.

Below the nest on a white banner is the Louisiana state motto in capital letters:  "UNION CONFIDENCE JUSTICE"

Flags of the United States
Alistair Horne

Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) was a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France.  He wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography.

Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955. He was the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

Horne died on 25 May 2017 at his Oxfordshire, England home at the age of 91.

Honours and awards
 CBE (1992)
 Knight Bachelor (2003)
 Chevalier, Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (1993)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1968)

References

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1925 births
2017 deaths
British journalists
British historians
Spies
Writers from London
Tom Daschle

Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Daschle was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1978 and served four terms. In 1986, he was elected to the Senate, becoming minority leader in 1994. Defeated for re-election in 2004, he took a position as a policy advisor with a lobbying firm, and also became a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.  He co-authored a book supporting universal health care.

Daschle was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy, and was nominated by then President-elect Obama for the position of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after the 2008 election. However, Daschle withdrew his name on February 3, 2009, amid a growing controversy over his failure to report and pay income taxes accurately. 

Daschle is currently working for The Daschle Group, a Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson, a large law firm and lobbying group.

References

1947 births
Living people
American lobbyists
United States representatives from South Dakota
United States senators from South Dakota
Minority leaders of the United States Senate
Majority leaders of the United States Senate
People from Aberdeen, South Dakota
Businesspeople from South Dakota
US Democratic Party politicians
Leo Varadkar

Leo Eric Varadkar ( ; born 18 January 1979) is an Irish politician and physician serving as the Leader of Fine Gael since 2017 and Tánaiste since 2020. He was Taoiseach and Minister for Defence from 2017 to 2020. He is the Leader of Fine Gael since June 2017 replacing Enda Kenny. He has served as Minister for Social Protection since May 2016. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) since 2007 for the Dublin West constituency.

Early career
In 2004 he was co-opted onto Fingal County Council and served as deputy mayor before his election to Dáil Éireann. He was promoted to the Front Bench by Enda Kenny as Spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, remaining in this position until a 2010 reshuffle when he became Spokesperson on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

After the formation of the Coalition Government in March 2011, he was appointed Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. A cabinet reshuffle in July 2014 saw Varadkar appointed to the position of Minister for Health. During his tenure he became the first openly gay Irish government minister. 

Following the formation of a Fine Gael minority government in May 2016, he was appointed Minister for Social Protection.

Taoiseach

2017 Fine Gael leadership election
After the resignation of Enda Kenny as Leader of Fine Gael in May 2017, Varadkar announced his candidacy for party leader. He faced Minister for Housing Simon Coveney in the Fine Gael leadership election. He won the election on 2 June 2017.

On 14 June, he was nominated as Taoiseach by Dáil Éireann and this nomination was approved by the President of Ireland. Varadkar became Ireland's first openly gay Taoiseach, as well as the youngest and the first of half-Indian descent.

Defeat
On 26 June 2020, it was announced that Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party had agreed to form a coalition government, marking the first time the two main Irish parties had formed a government together. As part of the agreement, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will hold the office of Taoiseach until December 2022, while Varadkar will take the position of Tánaiste. The pair will then swap roles after roughly 2½ years, with Varadkar retaking the position of Taoiseach for the remainder of the coalition's term. Martin is expected to be elected Taoiseach by the Dáil on 27 June.

Personal life
Varadkar is openly gay. He is first openly gay cabinet member in Ireland.

His partner is Matthew Barrett.

References

Other websites

Leo Varadkar's page on the Fine Gael website

1979 births
Living people
Taoisigh of Ireland
LGBT politicians
Members of Fine Gael
Gay men
LGBT rights activists
People from Dublin
Toni Bertorelli

Toni Bertorelli (18 March 1948 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian movie and television actor. He performed in over sixty movies from 1971 through 2016. He was born in Barge, Piedmont. His roles in Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician and Marco Tullio Giordana's Who Killed Pasolini? made his popular in Italy. He was known for his role as Annas ben Seth in Mel Gibson's 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ. 

From 2016 until his death, Bertorelli played the role as Cardinal Caltanissetta in the 2016 television series The Young Pope alongside Jude Law and James Cromwell.

Bertorelli died at a hospital in Rome, Italy from complications of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69.

References

Other websites
 

1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Cancer deaths in Italy
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
People from Piedmont
Sulaymaniyah

Sulaymaniyah ( Silêmanî; , as-Sulaymāniyyah), also called Slemani,, is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmer Range, Goyija Range and the Qaiwan Range in the northeast, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluja Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with very hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters. Sulaymaniyah served as the capital of the historic Kurdish principality of Baban from 1784 to 1850.

The modern city of Sulaymaniyah was founded on 14 November 1784 by the Kurdish prince Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it after his father Sulaiman Pasha.

From its foundation Sulaymaniyah has been a center of great poets, writers, historians, politicians, scholars and singers, such as Nalî, Mahwi, and Piramerd.

References

Kurdistan
Iraq
1784 establishments in Asia
Establishments in Iraq
Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery (, also transliterated Uri Avneri, 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018) was an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.

Avnery was born as Helmut Ostermann in Beckum, Germany.

Avnery was a member of the Irgun as a teenager, he sat in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. He was also the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993.

He was famous for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem (2008); Israel’s Vicious Circle (2008); and My Friend, the Enemy (1986).

On 4 August 2018, Avnery suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in Tel Aviv in a critical condition. He died on 20 August 2018 at the age of 94.

References

Other websites

Uri Avnery's official website
Uri Avnery's weekly article
Obama's trilateral meeting will fail – interview with Radio France Internationale in English, September 2009
Interview with Uri Avnery  Video Journalism Movement

1923 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Former Members of Knesset
German Jews
Israeli activists
Jewish activists
Jewish Israeli writers
Naturalized citizens of Israel
Politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia
Israeli journalists
Rance Howard

Rance Howard (Harold Rance Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor. He acted in movies and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard. He was the grandfather of the actress Bryce Dallas Howard.

Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He studied at the University of Oklahoma. He changed his name to "Rance Howard" when he became an actor. 

Howard's career began in 1956. He appeared in many movies such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Chinatown (1974), Ed Wood (1994), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), and in The Lone Ranger (2013).

Howard was married to Jean Speegle from 1949 until her death in 2000. In 2001, he married Judy Howard. She died in January 2017.

Howard died on November 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California of heart failure complicated by the West Nile virus at the age of 89.

References

Other websites

Genealogy Wiki 
 Interview May, 2014  in The Oklahoman

1928 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
Deaths from West Nile virus
Cardiovascular disease deaths in Los Angeles
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Actors from Oklahoma
Henry Tilney

Henry Tilney is the most important man in the story by Jane Austen called Northanger Abbey.

Henry is said to be the nicest of all Jane Austen's church men (pastors).  He is a good dancer and a good driver. He also talks in an amusing way.

Meeting and marrying Catherine

Henry meets Catherine Morland at a dance, and they get on well. He laughs at her in a kind way.  He is a guide for Catherine, and comes to love her for her honesty.

Henry's father thinks Catherine is rich.  So he invites her to the family home at Northanger Abbey. Henry goes on looking after Catherine there, and they grow close. Then his father orders Catherine out of his house, as he now thinks she is poor.

Henry stands up to his father. He goes to Catherine's home, and asks her to marry him. They have to wait, but at last the father lets them marry.

Related pages
Romance

References

Characters in written fiction
Haka of Oahu

Haka (Hawaiian pronunciation: Hah-kah) was High Chief of the island of Oahu, in ancient Hawaii.

Life 
Chief Haka was born on Oʻahu to High Chief Kapae-a-Lakona and his wife Wehina. He was a member of the House of Maweke of Tahiti. Haka was married to Kapunawahine. Their son was Kapiko-a-Haka. Kapiko-a-Haka married Ulakiokalani, and they had three daughters: Ka’auiokalani, Kaʻulala and Kamili.

Haka was killed and was succeeded by his relative Maʻilikākahi.

References 

Royalty of Oahu
14th-century births
Neonatal progeroid syndrome

Neonatal progeroid syndrome, also known as Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch syndrome is an autosomal recessive progeroid syndrome. Is characterized by low birth weight an old-born baby appearance, rare hair, elongated nose, unexplained cranial stitches, a characteristic facial dysmorphia associated with fat loss, and mild mental retardation. The disease results from damage to the FBN1 gene.

There have been over 51 cases of NPS. Rarely is the case of adulthood and teenage age, the average life expectancy of NPS is 7 months. The illness syndrome was first described in 1979 as a sickness syndrome by Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann, who previously described two cases of the disease: one in 1966 and another in 1977. Thomas Rautenstrauch in 1977 recognized the syndrome of two siblings as Progeria.

NPS is associated with abnormalities in bone maturation, lipid and metabolism. Is very rare in less than 1 in million births.

Related pages 
 Lizzie Velasquez

References

Syndromes
Hofstetten bei Elgg

Hofstetten bei Elgg or Hofstetten is a former municipality of the district Winterthur in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

On 1 January 2018, the former municipality of Hofstetten bei Elgg merged into the municipality of Elgg.

References

Other websites

 Official Website 
 

Former municipalities of Zürich
Hombrechtikon

Hombrechtikon is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Horgen

Horgen is a city in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is capital of the district of Horgen.

It is one of the larger towns along the south bank of the Lake Zurich.

On 1 January 2018 the former municipality of Hirzel merged into the municipality of Horgen.

Villages 
Dorf, Arn, Horgenberg, Käpfnach, Oberdorf, Sihlbrugg Station, Sihlwald, Tannenbach, Waldegg and Horgen

History 
It is also the type-site of Switzerland's middle Neolithic archaeological culture. The settlement there, the so-called Horgner Kultur (Horgen culture), produced examples of a type of crude pottery with parallels to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture of northern France.

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August Ferdinand Möbius

August Ferdinand Möbius (17 November 1790 - 26 September 1868) was a German astronomer and mathematician, who taught at the University of Leipzig. He wrote several articles on geometry and astronomy. He introduced concepts such as homogeneous coordinates, or that of Duality in Projective Geometry. He is also seen as one of the fathers of topology, in which his most famous creation is the Möbius strip.

1790 births
1868 deaths
German geometers
Topologists
Saint-Jean-d'Angély

Saint-Jean-d'Angély is a French commune, a subprefecture in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. It is in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

The commune has its historical origins in the Abbey of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Geography
Saint-Jean-d'Angély is in the northeast of the Charente-Maritime department, in the old province of Saintonge, along the Boutonne river, a tributary of the Charente river.

The commune of Saint-Jean-d'Angély has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The commune of Saint-Jean-d'Angély is surrounded by the communes:

Climate
The climate of Saint-Jean-d'Angély, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as Angériens (women: Angériennes).

With a population of 7,123, Saint-Jean-d'Angély has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saint-Jean-d'Angély

Administration 
Saint-Jean-d'Angély is a subprefecture of the Charente-Maritime department, the capital of the arrondissement of Saint-Jean-d'Angély and the administrative centre () of the canton of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

It is part of the intercommunality Vals de Saintonge ().

Twinned and partner towns 
Saint-Jean-d'Angély is twinned with:
  Saint-Sulpice, Quebec, Canada
  New Iberia, Louisiana, United States

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 Arrondissement of Saint-Jean-d'Angély
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Subprefectures in France
Communes in Charente-Maritime
Sai Dhansika

Dhanshika is an Indian actress in Tamil movies. Her notable movies include Peranmai (2009), Aravaan (2012), Paradesi (2013), and Kabali (2016).

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1989 births
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Jamal Zahalka

Jamal Zahalka, Arab: جمال زحالقة , Hebrew: ג'מאל זחאלקה , (born January 11, 1955 in Kafr Qara) is an Israeli pharmacist and politician. He was political leader of Balad.

Zahalka is an Arab Israeli. He obtained several degrees in pharmacy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, including a PhD.

He was a Member of Knesset from 2003 to 2019. He was also leading the Balad party from 2007 till 2019, due to the flight of Azmi Bishara abroad. From 2015 to 2019 he was a Joint List politician.

Zahalka compares Israeli's policy towards the Palestinian territories with the former apartheid system of South Africa.

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 Bio at Knesset Website

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Höri

Höri is a municipality in the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Humlikon

Humlikon is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Hüntwangen

Hüntwangen is a municipality of the district of Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Hütten, Switzerland

Hütten is a former municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg merged into the municipality of Wädenswil.

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Hüttikon

Hüttikon is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Municipalities of Zürich
Illnau-Effretikon

Illnau-Effretikon is a municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. About 16,000 people were living in Illnau-Effretikon in 2015.

History
On 1 January 2016 the former municipality of Kyburg merged into the municipality of Illnau-Effretikon.

Villages
Illnau, Effretikon, Kyburg, Ottikon bei Kemptthal, Bisikon, Agasul, Bietenholz, Bilikon, First, Horben, Kemleten, Luckhausen, Mesikon and Oberkempttal.

Twin towns
  Orlova, Czech Republic
  Grossbottwar, Germany
  Arvigo, Switzerland
  Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland

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Kappel am Albis

Kappel am Albis is a municipality of the district Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

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Boutonne

The Boutonne is a river of western France that flows through the Deux-Sèvres and Charente-Maritime departments, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is a right tributary of the Charente river.

Geography
The Boutonne has a length of , and a drainage basin with an area of approximately .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Saint-Séverin-sur-Boutonne in the Charente-Maritime department, at an altitude of .

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Saint-Séverin-sur-Boutonne (1969-2017)

Course
The Boutonne starts in the southeast of the Deux-Sèvres department, in the commune of Chef-Boutonne (that is, "Head of the Boutonne"), at an elevation of about .

It flows to the west and, later, to the southwest through the Deux-Sèvres and Charente-Maritime departments before flowing, at almost right angle, into the Charente river in Cabariot at about  of altitude.
 
The Boutonne flows through 1 region (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), 2 departments and 41 communes; they are, from source to mouth:

 Deux-Sèvres: Chef-Boutonne (here is the source of the river), Fontenille-Saint-Martin-d'Entraigues, Chérigné, Lusseray, Brioux-sur-Boutonne, Vernoux-sur-Boutonne, Séligné, Brieuil-sur-Chizé, Villefollet, Villiers-sur-Chizé, Chizé, Le Vert (the last commune of Deux-Sèvres in the course of the river).
 Charente-Maritime: Dampierre-sur-Boutonne (the first commune where the Boutonne gets into the department), Saint-Séverin-sur-Boutonne, Coivert, Blanzay-sur-Boutonne, Saint-Georges-de-Longuepierre, Saint-Martial, Saint-Pierre-de-l'Isle, Nuaillé-sur-Boutonne, Saint-Pardoult, Les Églises-d'Argenteuil, Antezant-la-Chapelle, Vervant, Poursay-Garnaud, Courcelles, Saint-Julien-de-l'Escap, Saint-Jean-d'Angély (main city in the course of the river), Ternant, La Vergne, Voissay, Torxé, Les Nouillers, Tonnay-Boutonne, Puy-du-Lac, Archingeay, Saint-Coutant-le-Grand, Champdolent, Lussant, Cabariot (place where the river flows into the Charente river).

Seven communes have the name of the river in their names: Chef-Boutonne, Saint-Séverin-sur-Boutonne, Dampierre-sur-Boutonne, Tonnay-Boutonne, Blanzay-sur-Boutonne, Nuaillé-sur-Boutonne, Vernoux-sur-Boutonne.

Main tributaries 
The main tributaries of the Boutonne river are:

Left tributaries:
 Nie - 26 km

Right tributaries:
 Béronne - 29.5 km
 Belle - 25 km
 Trézence - 27.7 km, the main tributary of the Boutonne

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 Banque Hydro - Station R6092920 - La Boutonne à Saint-Séverin-sur-Boutonne 

Rivers of France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sound barrier

When an object comes closer to the speed of sound (Mach 1), air pressure changes drastically, and there will be pressure waves around the object. This pressure will rise until the speed of Mach 1 is reached. At this point, it will suddenly decrease, and a sound burst will result. The speed of Mach 1, where this burst happens, is often called sound barrier. Aircraft wings had to be redesigned, so that certain aircraft can fly at speeds faster than Mach 1.

Thermodynamics
Hypersomnia

Hypersomnia is a medical condition which is characterized by unusual sleepiness. People with hypersomnia easily feel sleepy during the day, and fall asleep. The condition where people wake up often during the night, and have trouble sleeping through the night is called insomnia and is different. Hypersomnia is a sleep disorder. 

Hypersomnia affects about five percent of the population, or about one of twenty people. Very often, people with Sleep apnea suffer from hypersomnia. Hypersomia can also occur with other conditions, such as mood disorders. 

If the hypersomnia is caused by a problem with the brain or nervous system, it is called primary hypersomnia. Narcolepsy is an example of a primary hypersomnia. If the hypersomnia is the effect of another condition, it is usually called secondary hypersomnia. Examples of secondary hypersomnias include someone losing consciousness because of epilepsy. Sleep apnea, cited above, is one of the most common forms of secondary hypersomnia. Certain drugs can also cause (secondary) hypersomnias.

Primary hypersomnias are very rare. Secondary hypersomnias are quite common. 

Sleep disorders
Holy orders in the Catholic Church

The Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders: bishop, priest, and deacon.

In the phrase “Holy Orders”, the word “holy” means “set apart for some purpose.” The word “order” means a hierarchy or way of organizing people.

Catholicism
Don Robinson (rugby league)

Donald "Don" Robinson (4 June 1932  – 27 May 2017) was an English professional Rugby League World Cup winning footballer. He played in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, England, Yorkshire, and Rugby League XIII, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity (captain) (Heritage № 584), and Leeds.

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England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk
Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org
Floodlit feast at Odsal 

1932 births
2017 deaths
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Sportspeople from Yorkshire
Saucy Sylvia

Saucy Sylvia (Sylvia Cadeski; July 27, 1920 – May 25, 2017) was a Canadian-born American comedian, classically trained pianist, singer, and radio personality. She was born in Owen Sound, Ontario. In the 1940s and the 1950s, she hosted The Sylvia Show on radio. 

Sylvia died at her home in Newport, Rhode Island from complications of pneumonia on May 25, 2017 at the age of 96.

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Sex is the thing that started it all
0069
Saucy Sylvia's Official Website

1920 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Disease-related deaths in the United States
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Canadian comedians
Canadian radio personalities
Singers from Ontario
Musicians from Ontario
Comedians from Rhode Island
American pianists
American radio personalities
Singers from Rhode Island
Frank Deford

Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Deford III (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter, novelist and health activist. Over his 40 year career, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's Morning Edition radio program (from 1980 to 2017).

Deford was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Princeton University. He was married to Carol Penner until his death in 2017. They had three children.

Deford wrote for Sports Illustrated magazine from 1962 until his death in 2017, and was a correspondent for the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel television program on HBO.  He wrote 18 books, nine of them novels such as Everybody's All-American (1981).

Deford died on May 28, 2017, at the age of 78, at his home in Key West, Florida.

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 Frank Deford Archive at SI
 Frank Deford's Insider Archive also at SI
 
 Frank Deford, NPR Biography
 Frank Deford articles at Byliner
 Frank Deford  at Yahoo!

1938 births
2017 deaths
American journalists
American novelists
American radio personalities
American activists
Writers from Baltimore
Writers from Florida
Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago Transit Authority, also known as CTA, is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois and some of its surrounding suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service.

The CTA is an Illinois independent governmental agency that started operations on October 1, 1947 upon the purchase and combination of the transportation assets of the Chicago Rapid Transit Company and the Chicago Surface Lines streetcar system. In 1952, CTA purchased the assets of the Chicago Motor Coach Company, which was under the control of Yellow Cab Company founder John D. Hertz, resulting in a fully unified system. 

Today, the CTA is one of the three service boards financially supported by the Regional Transportation Authority.

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Transport in Chicago
1947 establishments in the United States
1940s establishments in Illinois
Red Line (CTA)

The Red Line, sometimes known as the Howard-Dan Ryan Line or the North-South Line, is a rapid transit line in Chicago, run by the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) as part of the Chicago "L" system. It is the busiest line on the "L" system, with an average of 251,813 passengers boarding each weekday in 2012. The route is  long with a total of 33 stations, from Howard station in Rogers Park on the north side, through the State Street subway and to 95th/Dan Ryan in Roseland on the south side. 

Like the Blue Line, the Red Line runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; it is one of only five mass-transit rail systems in the United States to do so (the others being the PATCO Speedline, Staten Island Railway, the PATH lines, and the New York City Subway).

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Roman citizenship

Client state citizens and allies (socii) of Rome could receive a limited form of Roman citizenship such as the Latin Right. Such citizens could not vote or be elected in Roman elections. Slaves were considered property and lacked legal personhood. Over time, they acquired a few protections under Roman law. The rights available to individual citizens of Rome varied over time, according to their place of origin, and their service to the state. They also varied under Roman law according to the classification of the individual within the state. Various legal classes were defined by the various combinations of legal rights that each class enjoyed. However, the possible rights available to citizens with whom Roman law addressed were:

The toga was the characteristic garment of the rich Roman male citizen, and statues of emperors (here Antoninus Pius) frequently depict them togate (togatus).
Ius suffragiorum: The right to vote in the Roman assemblies.

Ius gentium: The legal recognition, developed in the 3rd century BC, of the growing international scope of Roman affairs, and the need for Roman law to deal with situations between Roman citizens and foreign persons. The ius gentium was therefore a Roman legal codification of the widely accepted international law of the time, and was based on the highly developed commercial law of the Greek city-states and of other maritime powers.[4] The rights afforded by the ius gentium were considered to be held by all persons; it is thus a concept of human rights rather than rights attached to citizenship.
Ius conubii: The right to have a lawful marriage with a Roman citizen according to Roman principles,[5] to have the legal rights of the paterfamilias over the family, and for the children of any such marriage to be counted as Roman citizens.
Ius migrationis: The right to preserve one's level of citizenship upon relocation to a polis of comparable status. For example, members of the cives Romani (see below) maintained their full civitas when they migrated to a Roman colony with full rights under the law: a colonia civium Romanorum. Latins also had this right, and maintained their ius Latii if they relocated to a different Latin state or Latin colony (Latina colonia). This right did not preserve one's level of citizenship should one relocate to a colony of lesser legal status; full Roman citizens relocating to a Latina colonia were reduced to the level of the ius Latii, and such a migration and reduction in status had to be a voluntary act.
The right of immunity from some taxes and other legal obligations, especially local rules and regulations.[6]
The right to sue in the courts and the right to be sued.
The right to have a legal trial (to appear before a proper court and to defend oneself).Auxilia and gained citizenship through service.

Ancient Rome