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Carbonyl iron

Carbonyl iron is type of very pure iron. Less than 2.5% of the substance isn’t iron. Carbonyl iron is a component of radar absorbing material, for stealth purposes. Carbonyl iron is used to treat iron deficiency.

Carbonyl iron is available under the following different brand names: Feosol (Carbonyl Fe), Icar C, Icar Pediatric, and Irco.

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Iron
Capital Punishment (album)

Capital Punishment is the first studio album by American rapper, Big Punisher. It was released on April 28, 1998 through Loud Records and Terror Squad Entertainment. The album received critical acclaim, peaking at #1 on the Top R&B Albums and #2 on the Billboard 200 charts.

Songs 
1.	"Intro"	
0:33
2.	"Beware"	
Christopher Rios Jerry Tineo
JuJu
3:15
3.	"Super Lyrical" (featuring Black Thought)	
Rios Dana Stinson Tariq Trotter Sean Combs Christopher Wallace Norman Glover Chucky Thompson Reginald Elis
Rockwilder
3:28
4.	"Taster's Choice" (skit)	
1:20
5.	"Still Not a Player" (featuring Joe)	
Rios Jerome Foster
Knobody Dahoud (co.) Nomad (co.)
3:56
6.	"Intermission"	
Mike Zulu
0:21
7.	"The Dream Shatterer"	
Rios
Domingo
3:33
8.	"Punish Me" (featuring Miss Jones)	
Rios Frank Pimentel
Frank Nitty
4:15
9.	"Pakinamac Pt. I" (skit)	
1:35
10.	"You Ain't a Killer"	
Rios Richard Frierson
Young Lord
4:14
11.	"Pakinamac Pt. II" (skit)	
0:57
12.	"Caribbean Connection" (featuring Wyclef)	
Rios Frierson Wyclef Jean
Young Lord
3:24
13.	"Glamour Life" (featuring Fat Joe and Terror Squad)	
Rios Leshan Lewis
L.E.S.
4:43
14.	"Capital Punishment" (featuring Prospect)	
Rios Michael Dewar Collin Dewar
The Infinite Arkatechz
4:20
15.	"Uncensored" (skit) (featuring Funkmaster Flex)	
2:12
16.	"I'm Not a Player"	
Rios Kenny Gamble Leon Huff
Minnesota
3:41
17.	"Twinz (Deep Cover 98)" (featuring Fat Joe)	
Rios Joseph Cartagena Calvin Broadus Andre Young Collin Wolfe
Big Punisher Fat Joe
3:49
18.	"The Rain & the Sun" (Interlude) (featuring dead prez)	
Rios Clayton Gavin Lavonne Alford
dead prez
1:49
19.	"Boomerang"	
Rios Cartagena Vic Padilla
V.I.C.
3:35
20.	"You Came Up"	
Rios Stinson
Rockwilder
3:54
21.	"Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy)" (featuring Prodigy and Rebel-INS)	
Rios Albert Johnson Jason Hunter Robert Diggs Eric Barrier William Griffin, Jr.
RZA DJ Roc Raida (scratches)
4:19
22.	"Charlie Rock Shout" (skit)	
0:26
23.	"Fast Money"	
Rios
Danny O & EQ
3:48
24.	"Parental Discretion" (featuring Busta Rhymes)	
Rios Rodney Lemay

References 
 http://allhiphop.com/2006/11/17/capital-punishment-classic-review/
 http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1110918
 http://www.allmusic.com/album/capital-punishment-mw0000030622

1998 albums
Ned Garver

Ned Franklin Garver (December 25, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1948 to 1961. He played for St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics and Los Angeles Angels. He was born in Ney, Ohio.

Garver died on February 26, 2017 in Bryan, Ohio, at the age of 91.

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1925 births
2017 deaths
American baseball players
Detroit Tigers players
Sportspeople from Ohio
Vladimir Petrov (ice hockey)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Petrov (; 30 June 1947 – 28 February 2017) was a Russian Soviet ice hockey player. He was an Olympic gold medalist twice (1972, 1976) and silver medalist (1980). He was born in Krasnogorsk.

Petrov died on 28 February 2017 in Moscow, at the age of 69.

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1947 births
2017 deaths
Russian ice hockey players
Soviet Olympic gold medalists
Soviet Olympic silver medalists
Sportspeople from Moscow
Ice hockey centres
Peter Mathews (politician)

Peter Mathews (August 1951 – 28 February 2017) was an Irish politician. He was a member of Fine Gael before becoming independent in 2013. He served as Teachta Dála (TD) from February 2011 to February 2016 for the Dublin South constituency. He was born in Dublin.

Mathews died from oesophageal cancer on 28 February 2017, at the age of 65.

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1951 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Disease-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland
Irish politicians
People from Dublin
Leone di Lernia

Leone di Lernia (born Leonardo di Lernia; 18 April 1938 – 28 February 2017) was an Italian radio host, singer, actor and composer. He gained popularity in early 1990s, thanks to the cover of parody or comedic songs of dance music. He has been for almost fifteen years (1999 to 2008 and again, even if partially, from 2011 to 2016) the host of the radio program Lo Zoo di 105 on Radio 105 Network.

Lernia died in Milan on 28 February 2017 from liver cancer, aged 78.

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1938 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from liver cancer
20th-century Italian composers
Italian singers
Italian movie actors
Italian radio personalities
21st-century Italian composers
Toshio Nakanishi

, also known by the pseudonyms Tycoon To$h or Typhoom Tosh, was a Japanese musician and graphic designer. He was best known as the founding member of new wave band Plastics in 1976. 

He was at first a part of the technopop fever in Japan and later acted as a pioneer of the Japanese hip hop scene with his label Major Force.

Nakanishi died in Tokyo from esophageal cancer on February 25, 2017, aged 61.

References

Other websites
 Toshio Nakanishi Discography

1956 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Musicians from Tokyo
Elisabeth Waldheim

Elisabeth "Sissy" Waldheim (née Ritschel; 13 April 1922 – 28 February 2017) was an Austrian businesswoman. She was the wife of Kurt Waldheim, the United Nations Secretary-General and President of Austria. She was the First Lady of Austria from 1986 to 1992. She applied for Nazi Party membership as soon as she was old enough, and was accepted in 1941". She was born in Vienna.

She died on 28 February 2017 in Vienna at the age of 94.

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1922 births
2017 deaths
Austrian businesspeople
People from Vienna
Taarak Mehta

Taarak Mehta (26 December 1929 – 1 March 2017) was an Indian columnist, humourist, writer and playwright. He was best known for the column Duniya Ne Undha Chasma in the Gujarati language. He translated and adapted many comedies into Gujarati. He was also a well-known figure in the Gujarati theatre. He was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Mehta died after a long illness on 1 March 2017, at the age of 87.

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1929 births
2016 deaths
Disease-related deaths in India
Columnists
Indian playwrights
Mahershala Ali

Mahershala Ali (born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore; February 16, 1974) is an American actor and rapper. He is best known for his roles in The 4400 (2004–2007), Predators (2010), House of Cards (2013–2016), [[The Hunger Games trilogy|The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1]] (2014) and Part 2 (2015), Moonlight (2016) and Green Book (2018). He has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for Moonlight and Green Book''. He was the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar.

Ali was born in Oakland, California. He is the son of Willicia and Phillip Gilmore. He grew up in Hayward, California. He is an Ahmadi Muslim. He is married to Amatus Sami-Karim. They have a daughter, Bari Najma (born February 22, 2017).

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1974 births
Living people
Actors from Oakland, California
American movie actors
American Muslims
American television actors
Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winners
Ugrić

Ugrić is a right tributary of the Ugar river in Central Bosnia. It is about  in length, and its source is Vlašić's Mountain slopes.  It is an essential body of water for surrounding wildlife.

Ugrić springs from the fountain of the same named Osmanovac stream; altitude 940 m, in the region of the elevation Krčevine. Above Krčevina regional there is communications Skender Vakuf – Turbe – Travnik, which marks a watershed between the basins of Ugar and Vrbanja rivers. It runs to the southwest, between Ćelehovsko hill (909 m) and by Barišića strane (Glavica, 897 m).

Related pages
Ugar (river)
Skender Vakuf

References 

Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
John Harlan (announcer)

John Henry Harlan (December 21, 1925 – February 27, 2017) was an American television and radio announcer. He has worked on many television projects for over 40 years, mainly game and variety shows. He was born in Sonoma County, California.

Perhaps his best-known work was for the Bob Hope specials aired on NBC during the 1960s through the 1990s and for Name That Tune produced between 1974 and 1985.

Harlan studied at California State University, Fresno, graduating in 1948.

Harlan died in Los Angeles, California on February 27, 2017, aged 91.

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1925 births
2017 deaths
American radio personalities
American television personalities
Entertainers from California
Betty Okino

Elizabeth Anne "Betty" Okino (born June 4, 1975 in Entebbe, Uganda) was one of the first African-American gymnasts. 

Along with being a former Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics, Okino is also an actress today. She retired in 1992 with 3 silver medals, 2 bronze medals, and 1 gold medal. She represented the U.S. She has been in movies like Æon Flux and Creature Unknown.

1975 births
Living people
American gymnasts
American movie actors
American Olympic bronze medalists
American television actors
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Ugandan people
SummerSlam (2016)

SummerSlam (2016) was a wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) made by WWE. It happened on August 21, 2016 at the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was the twenty-ninth time a SummerSlam PPV was held, the second year in a row that it happened at the Barclay's Center and the first WWE PPV since the WWE brand extension started up again.

Twelve matches were performed at the event. In the most important match, Brock Lesnar beat Randy Orton by technical knockout while in another important match, Finn Balor beat Seth Rollins to become the first WWE Universal Champion.

Background

Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler
This match was for the WWE World Championship. SmackDown wrestler Dean Ambrose won a match for the title at Battleground on July 25 against Raw wrestlers Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins. So SmackDown needed to find a challenger for Dean for SummerSlam and they had a six-pack challenge to find the challenger. The first five spots were given to John Cena, Bray Wyatt, AJ Styles, Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler. Apollo Crews took the sixth spot when he won a battle royal, but Dolph won the six-pack.

Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins
Because the WWE World Championship was on SmackDown, Raw had to create their own world championship. They called it the WWE Universal Championship. Raw commissioner Stephanie McMahon felt that Seth had a chance to pin Dean Ambrose at Battleground and that would have brought the World Championship to Raw but Roman Reigns was selfish and broke up the pin. Because of that, Stephanie gave Seth the first spot in the first Universal Championship match. Then, Finn beat Cesaro, Kevin Owens and Rusev in a fatal 4-way match and Roman beat Chris Jericho, Sami Zayn and Sheamus in another fatal 4-way. Finally, Finn and Roman fought in a normal match where the winner would face Seth at SummerSlam and Finn won this match.

Matches
 On the pre-show, American Alpha (Chad Gable and Jason Jordan), The Hype Bros (Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley), and The Usos (Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso) beat Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango), The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor), and The Vaudevillains (Simon Gotch and Aiden English) in a 12-man tag team match.
 On the pre-show, Sami Zayn and Neville beat The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) in a tag team match.
 On the pre-show, Sheamus beat Cesaro
 Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens beat Enzo Amore and Big Cass in a tag team match.
 Charlotte beat Sasha Banks (champion) for the WWE Women's Championship.
 The Miz (champion) (with Maryse) beat Apollo Crews for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
 AJ Styles beat John Cena.
 Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson beat The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (champions) (with Jon Stewart) by disqualification for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
 Dean Ambrose (champion) beat Dolph Ziggler for the WWE World Championship.
 Natalya, Alexa Bliss, and Nikki Bella beat Becky Lynch, Naomi, and Carmella in a six-women tag team match.
 Finn Balor beat Seth Rollins to become the first WWE Universal Champion.
 Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) beat Randy Orton.

2016 in the United States
Professional wrestling
SummerSlam
2010s in New York (state)
Lodève

Lodève () is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France. It is a subprefecture of the department and also the capital of the arrondissement of the same name.

History
Lodève started as the capital of a Celtic tribe before becoming the Roman city Luteva (also known as Forum Neronis). It was a centre for textile production under Louis XV and was home to one of only two royal factories for tapestry, the other being the one in Paris.

Geography
Lodève is in the north of the Hérault department, where the plains rise up to the Larzac plateau. It is a narrow valley of the Lergue river, a tributary of the Hérault river.

The commune has an area of  and is at an altitude of about  above sea level. The city of Montpellier is to the east of Lodève at  and Béziers is to the west at . Lodève is at  from the Mediterranean Sea.

The commune of Lodève is surrounded by the communes Soumont, Olmet-et-Villecun, Poujols, Fozières, Les Plans, Le Puech, Soubès, Lauroux, Lavalette, Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas, Le Bosc and Usclas-du-Bosc.

Climate
The climate of Lodève, in the Köppen climate classification, is Csb - Mediterranean climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Lodève are known, in French, as  Lodévois (women: Lodévoises).

With a population of 7,381, Lodève has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Lodève

Lodève forms with other seven communes the urban area of Lodève with a population of 9,780 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Lodève, formed by nine communes with a population of 9,977 inhabitants (2013) and an area of .

Administration 
Lodève is a subprefecture of the Hérault department, the capital of the arrondissement of Lodève and the administrative centre () of the canton of Lodève.

It is part of the intercommunality Lodévois et Larzac ().

Sister cities 
Lodève is twinned with:
 South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Sites of interest 
 Lodève Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Fulcran de Lodève), parts of which date from the sixth century.
 Museum Fleury (temporary art exhibitions and archeology permanent collection).
 L'Atelier national du tapis de Lodève, the French state carpet-making workshop.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Lodève
 Communes of the Hérault department

References

Other websites

 Ville de Lodève website  
 Communauté de communes Lodévois et Larzac website  
 Tourisme en Lodévois et Larzac 

Subprefectures in France
Communes in Hérault
Radu Gabrea

Radu Gabrea (20 June 1937 – 9 February 2017) was a Romanian movie director and screenwriter. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. He directed more than twenty movies between 1969 and 2016. He was known for directing the movie Gruber's Journey (2008).

Gabrea died in Bucharest on 9 February 2017, aged 79.

References

Other websites

1937 births
2017 deaths
Romanian movie directors
Romanian screenwriters
Writers from Bucharest
Spanair Flight 5022

Spanair Flight 5022 was a passenger flight from Barcelona, Spain to Gran Canaria via Madrid. On 20 August 2008 the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating this route crashed after take-off from runway 36L at Barajas Airport. 154 passengers and crew on-board died, and only leaving only 18 survivors.

The cause of the crash was pilot error due to failure to configure the flaps and slats for take-off.

Victims

Aviation disasters in the 2000s
Aviation disasters in Europe‎
2000s in Spain
2008 in Europe
Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926 – 1 March 2017) was a British artist and political activist. He was best known for developing the concept of auto-destructive art (ADA) and the Art Strike. He was also one of the starters of the Destruction in Art Symposium in September 1966.

Metzger was born in Nuremberg, Germany. He was the son of Polish Jews. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1939 as a refugee.

Metzger died on 1 March 2017 in London, at the age of 90.

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1926 births
2017 deaths
British activists
British Jews
German Jews
German political activists
Jewish activists
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
People from Nuremberg
Refugees from Nazism
Dardic languages

Dardic is a group of Indo-Aryan languages spoken in the Dardistan region of Pakistan.

Indo-Aryan languages
Amnon Krauz

Amnon Krauz, Hebrew: אמנון קראו , (born August 10, 1952 in Petah Tikva) is a former Israeli swimmer.

Krauz participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City but wasn't able to obtain a medal.

Other websites 
 www.sports-reference.com 

1952 births
Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Living people
Olympians
People from Petah Tikva
Swimmers
Chalybeate

Chalybeate is a mineral water which contains iron. The name comes from the latin word for steel. During the 17th and 18th century, people believed Chalybeate had health benefits. It does not. Chalybeate contains pitiful amounts of iron, and is not used as a source of iron.

Iron
Joe Jackson (musician)

David Ian "Joe" Jackson  (born 11 August 1954) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Jackson's first and second releases, "Sunday Papers" and "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" became a hit in 1979. This was followed by many new wave singles before he started creating more jazz type pop music. He had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with "Steppin' Out". He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 19 studio albums and earned 5 Grammy Award nominations in a career extending from 1978 to today.

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1954 births
Living people
English singer-songwriters
Grammy Award winners
Musicians from Hampshire
Musicians from Staffordshire
LGBT artists
Bisexual people
LGBT songwriters
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Sabra

A sabra, Hebrew: צבר‎‎ - tzabar, is a Jew who is born in Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine or in the State of Israel. As of 2015, about three quarters of the Israeli Jews are sabras.

The term "sabra" is derived from the prickly pear. Like this cactus a sabra is supposed to be hard on the outside but soft on the inside.
Tommy Gemmell

Thomas "Tommy" Gemmell (16 October 1943 – 2 March 2017) was a Scottish football player and manager. 

He served as a left-sided fullback and had powerful shooting ability. 

Gemmell is best known as one of the Celtic side who won the 1966–67 European Cup; he scored the first Celtic goal in the final. Gemmell played 18 times for Scotland, and also played for Nottingham Forest, Miami Toros and Dundee.  After retiring as a player in 1977, Gemmell managed Dundee and Albion Rovers.

Gemmell died on 2 March 2017, aged 73, after a long illness.

References

Other websites
 Newcastle Fans profile

1943 births
2017 deaths
Scottish footballers
Scottish football managers
John Hampshire

John Harry Hampshire (10 February 1941 – 1 March 2017), also known as Jack Hampshire, was an English cricketer and umpire. He played eight Tests and three One Day Internationals (ODIs) for England between 1969 and 1975. 

He played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1961 to 1981, and for Derbyshire from 1982 to 1984. Overseas, he was a successful captain of Tasmania in the period before the state was included in the Sheffield Shield.< He was also appointed President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2016, serving until his death.

References

1941 births
2017 deaths
English cricketers
Sportspeople from Yorkshire
Jins Shamsuddin

Tan Sri Mohamed Zain bin Shamsuddin (5 November 1935 – 1 March 2017), known professionally as Jins Shamsuddin, was a Malaysian movie actor, director and politician. He is known for his role in Bukit Kepong (1981). 

On 13 October 2004, he became the first actor-politician in Malaysia following his appointment as a member of the Dewan Negara in the 11th Parliament of Malaysia. He continued to be a Senator for two terms until 11 February 2011.

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in February 2011, causing him unable to speak and unable to recognising anybody else, including his family. Following several years of bad health, Shamsuddin died at 5:45 pm at a clinic in Taman Melawati, after choking on cekodok on Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at the age of 81. Shamsuddin's second son Putera Hang Nadim confirmed on his father's death.

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1935 births
2017 deaths
Malaysian politicians
Malaysian actors
People with Alzheimer's disease
David Rubinger

David Rubinger (; 24 June 1924 – 2 March 2017) was an Israeli photographer. His famous photo of three Israeli paratroopers after the recapture the Western Wall in the Six-Day War has become a defining image of the conflict. Shimon Peres called Rubinger "the photographer of the nation in the making".

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1924 births
2017 deaths
Austrian Jews
Israeli artists
Israeli Jews
Jewish artists
Naturalized citizens of Israel
People from Vienna
Photographers
Refugees from Nazism
Joseph Vũ Duy Thống

Joseph Vũ Duy Thống (July 2, 1952 – March 1, 2017) was a Vietnamese prelate, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phan Thiet from July 2009 to his death and the Head of the Episcopal Committee on Cultural Affairs. He was Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh city from 2001 to 2009.

References

1952 births
2017 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops
Vietnamese people
Simon Hobday

Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday (23 June 1940 – 2 March 2017) was a South African professional golfer who won tournaments on three continents.

Personal life
Hobday was born in Mafikeng. He represented the country in the 1966 Eisenhower Trophy. He also lived in Rhodesia.

Career
Hobday turned professional in 1969. He spent his regular career mainly on the Southern Africa Tour, where he won six times and the European Tour, where he won the 1976 German Open and the 1979 Madrid Open. As a senior, he played mainly in the United States on the Senior PGA Tour (now Champions Tour), where he claimed five titles between 1993 and 1995 including one senior major, the 1994 U.S. Senior Open.

References

1940 births
2017 deaths
South African golfers
Pau Donés

Pau Donés Cirera (11 October 1966 – 9 June 2020) was a Catalan songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of the musical group Jarabe de Palo.

Biography

Early years 
Born in Barcelona, Spain, Donés grew up in Barcelona. He got his first guitar when he was 12 years old.

Along with his brother Marc, they set up their first group: J. & Co. Band, and afterwards Dentaduras Postizas. For a while, he combined locals concerts in Barcelona with his job for an advertising agency.

In 1996 he formed Jarabe de Palo, being La Flaca his first album.

Health 
On 1 September 2015 he had to cancel all his concerts after having an operation for colorectal cancer. On 5 April 2016 he announced via Twitter that he had recovered from his illness. However, he had a relapse a year later. He announced in October 2018 that he was to leave the music world indefinitely from January 2019. A year later, in April 2020, it was reported that Jarabe de Palo was recording a new album, Tragas o escupes, to be launched in September. However, its launch was moved forward to May 2020. He died from the disease on 9 June 2020, aged 53.

Discography 
 1996 - La flaca
 1998 - Depende
 2001 - De vuelta y vuelta
 2003 - Bonito
 2004 - 1 m²
 2007 - Adelantando
 2009 - Orquesta reciclando
 2011 - ¿Y ahora qué hacemos?
 2014 - Somos
 2015 - Tour Americano 14-15 (CD/DVD)
2017 - 50 palos (10-03-2017)
2020 - Tragas o escupes

Compiling 
 2003 - ¿Grandes éxitos?
 2004 - Colección "Grandes"
 2005 - Completo, incompleto
 2006 - Edición 10º aniversario "La Flaca"

References

Other websites

 Jarabe de Palo's official website

1966 births
2020 deaths
Deaths from colorectal cancer
Cancer deaths in Spain
Spanish singers
Spanish musicians
Songwriters
Spanish writers
Guitarists
Alternanthera philoxeroides

Alternanthera philoxeroides is "alligator weed", an invasive species. It is an aquatic plant species and can be found in waterways.

References

Aquatic plants
Amaranthaceae
Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known as CP Rail (CP) is a railway in North America with track in both Canada and the United States. It was built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885. Although it used to go all the way to Atlantic Canada, it does not do so anymore.

When British Columbia became part of Canada in 1871, one of the promises the federal government made was to link it to the rest of Canada by rail. Most of the trains that use the CPR carry freight, and the CPR used to run passenger train services until they were taken over by Via Rail in 1978. For many years, until the airplane was invented, the railway was the only way to move people across the country. Because of this, it had a big role in the settlement and development of Western Canada.

The company that owns the CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, was once one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada. It owns about  of track from Montreal in the east to Vancouver in the west and Edmonton to the north. CP also has track in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States. 

The logo of the CPR company is a beaver, the national symbol of Canada, and it has its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and its U.S. operations are in Minneapolis. It trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP.

References

Further reading

 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Premier's Funeral (11 June 1891). The Woodstock Evening Sentinel Review, p. 1.

Other websites

 Canadian Pacific Railway official website
 Canadian Railway history and stories
 CPR, from Sea to Sea: The Scottish Connection — Historical essay, illustrated with photographs from the CPR Archives and the McCord Museum's Notman Photographic Archives
 
 The Canadian Pacific Railway inception - A rich digital set of unique artifacts, archival and graphic material from the UBC Library Digital Collections
 The Early Chinese Canadians: Working in B.C.: Gold, Railway, Mining, and Salmon
 Royal Canadian Pacific
 , illustrated account of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Rail transport in Canada
Evin Prison

Evin Prison is Iran's most notorious prison.  It is in the foothills of the Alborz Mountains above Tehran.  Some of Iran’s most respected activists and lawyers are serving time in this prison.

The prison started in 1971 during the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a place for political prisoners. At the time, there was space for 320 prisoners. Since the 1979 revolution, the prison has 15,000 prisoners.  The prison has a reputation for brutality and torture. It is believed that many people died in this prison from torture.

References  

Human rights abuses in Asia
1971 establishments in Asia
1970s establishments in Iran
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition. It is played by the men's national teams of the members of FIFA, the sport's global body of the sport. 

The tournament was created in 1995 as the Beach Soccer World Championship. It took place every year for the next decade controlled by Beach Soccer Worldwide. Because the sport was increasing rapidly in popularity and growth, FIFA was interested in controlling the tournament,  they took over and also changed the name to make it a official FIFA tournament. Since 2009, the tournament has taken place every two years.

The most recent edition was held in Espinho, Portugal. Portugal were crowned as  champions for the second time, the first under being controlled by FIFA, after defeating Tahiti 5–3 in the final.

Football
EgyptAir

EgyptAir is the flag carrier of Egypt. It began in 1933. Originally, it was named "Misr Airwork". The name was finally changed to EgyptAir in October 1971. The airline was the first from the Middle east to have jet aircraft. In 2008, it joined Star Alliance. EgyptAir suffered heavy losses during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Gallery

References 

1933 establishments
Airlines of Africa
Transport in Egypt
Star Alliance
20th-century establishments in Egypt
IATA members
Arash Sadeghi

Arash Sadeghi (Farsi: آرش صادقی) is an Iranian activist and political prisoner. He stated a hunger strike on October 24, 2016 after his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee went to prison for an unpublished story on her computer about a woman watching a movie about a stoning. the government promised to let her out of prison until her case was reviewed, but after Sadeghi ended his hunger strike, they took her back to prison.

References 

Political prisoners
Iranian people
Paul Kangas

Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was an American broadcaster. He was born in Houghton, Michigan. He was the co-anchor of the PBS television program Nightly Business Report, a role he held since 1979 through December 31, 2009. He is best known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes").

Kangas died on February 28, 2017 in Miami, Florida from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.

References

1937 births
2017 deaths
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Michael Bennet

Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer, and Democratic politician. He is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He became a senator when Ken Salazar was appointed Secretary of the Interior.

Bennet worked as managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver mayor (and former Colorado Governor) John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

On April 3, 2019, Bennet announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had surgery and was later announced cancer-free. A month later on May 2, Bennet launched his 2020 presidential campaign. He ended his campaign on February 11, 2020 after a poor performance in the New Hampshire primaries.

References

Other websites
 Senator Michael F. Bennet official U.S. Senate site
 Michael Bennet for Senator
 
 

 Collected news and commentary at The Denver Post

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Bob Iger

Robert Allen "Bob" Iger (; born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020.

Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996.

He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in the year 2015.

On February 25, 2020, Iger announced his retirement as the CEO of Disney.

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Huntingdonshire

Huntingdonshire was an historic county of England. It is now is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire. Its council is based in Huntingdon.

Districts
Anna J. Cooper

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author and educator. She was one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. 

She was born into enslavement. Her mother was Hannah Stanley Haywood, a slave in the home of prominent landowner George Washington Haywood.

Early life 
Anna was born in 1859, right into slavery. She had 2 brothers, Rufus and Andrew. As well as a grandfather. Her grandfather was a carpenter that was sent to the Capital of North Carolina. After the slaves were free Anna’s brothers became good carpenters. Anna was freed at the age of 6. She then went to school.

Education 
Anna went to school and an all-black school called St. Augustine, by the age of ten she was teaching math. She stayed there for 14 years as a student and a teacher of Latin, Greek, and Math. But before, Anna had to beg them to let her in the gentlemen, because she thought that it was unfair that due to her gender Anna was limited with the Classical classes. Thankfully she did not give up and was able to “sit in” on the male greek classes. Anna felt frustrated that she had to fight to get this opportunity, she wanted students to be offered Greek no matter the gender. She kept fighting to make it equal, eventually, the school provided Greek classes for male and female students. After going to St. Augustine she went to the college Oberlin in Ohio, but she had to to the women courses which were really trying to build their domestic skills. The classes for women did not require taking Latin, Greek or even advanced mathematics. Anna asked to be in the gentlemen’s course, and of course she excelled at  full classical education at Oberlin. Anna.J.Cooper got her bachelors degree in Math in 1884.

Career
In 1887 she became part of the M Street High school faculty, she taught mathematics, science, and later latin. 

In the 1890’s Anna was involved in the black women's club, were she and some middle class black women would help the less fortunate black women. Also in that time Anna was becoming a very popular public speaker. She also addressed a wide variety of group, which included the National Conference of Colored Women, this was in 1895. She was also there at the first Pan African Conference in 1900. In 1902 She was the principal of M Street High School. When Anna was Principle she enhanced the academic reputation, plus lots of her graduates entered Ivy leagued schools. The District of Columbia did not renew her contract for working there, but Anna was not scared. After she continued her career by teaching in Lincoln University for four years. In 1910 Anna was rehired by M Street High School. By the age of 67 Anna received her doctorate from Paris.

Death
Cooper died at the age 105 in 1964. Anna. J. Cooper was a fighter for what is right and hopefully her legacy reigns on.

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Hallopus

Hallopus was a prehistoric crocodylomorph that was classified as a dinosaur in 1881 by Othniel Charles Marsh.

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Coronium

Coronium was thought to be a chemical element  in 1882. The evidence was a thin green spectrometry line in the solar corona. In 1930, it was proved that it did not exist. The green line was just highly ionized iron, (Fe13+), which is now called coronium.

Spectroscopy
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Continental margin

The continental margin is the zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust. Together, the continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise are called the continental margin. Continental margins are about 28% of the oceanic area.

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Nyctibatrachus

Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog". 

These frogs are quite common, and researchers think this has been overlooked because of their their small size. They are indeed extremely small, and can sit on a coin or a fingernail. However, they are not so small as Paedophryne, which is the smallest land vertebrate.

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Igor Sychev

Igor Sychev is a Kazakh blogger and a political prisoner.  He received international attention when he went to prison over an online poll about whether Kazakhstan should join Russia in the same way as Crimea in the Ukraine.

Sychev is an ethnic Russian from a former Russian area in the east of Kazakhstan.  It has a majority of ethnic Russian people.  Sychev was the administrator of VKontakte, a popular Russian social networking site. On November 18, 2015, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Sychev said he did not put up the poll, and he took it down after he received complaints.

Synchev was convicted under a new law, passed in 2015, that prohibits calling for separatism. In January 2017, Sychev's sentence was upheld on appeal.

The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) asked the EU to support Sychev and other victims of free speech violations.

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Anne Kristin Sydnes

Anne Kristin Sydnes (13 May 1956 – 3 March 2017) was a Norwegian politician. She was a member of the Labour Party. She served as the Minister of International Development from 2000 to 2001. She was married to Jan Egeland.

Sydnes died after a long illness on 3 March 2017, at the age of 60.

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Jhulelal (Hinduism)

Jhulelal (Sindhi:جهوللال), Kutchi: ઝૂલેલાલ) is the Ishta Dev (community God) of Sindhi people. His birthday Cheti Chand falls on the second day of the Chaitra month. It is auspicious for Sindhis and celebrated all over the world.

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HaBayit HaYehudi

HaBayit HaYehudi, Hebrew: הבית היהודי , meaning The Jewish Home (often called like that), is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is (far) right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, Modern Orthodox Jewish, and Religious Zionist.

Political leader is Rafi Peretz.

HaBayit HaYehudi was founded in 2008 as a result of a merger of three parties but in fact it is the successor of Mafdal (National Religious Party).

Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 1 (-1).

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

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Religious Zionism

Religious Zionism (Hebrew: ציונות דתית - Tziyonut Datit) is a branch of Zionism. It is a combination of Zionism and Judaism.

Religious Zionists are in favour of a State of Israel, that is mainly populated by Jews and dominated by Judaism.

In their view the State of Israel should encompass the entire Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael). This includes the so-called Palestinian territories (West Bank, Gaza Strip) and also the Golan Heights.

Religious Zionism dominates Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel.

Politically Religious Zionists can especially be found in HaBayit HaYehudi (The Jewish Home) but also in HaLikud.

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Yesh Atid

Yesh Atid, Hebrew: יש עתיד , meaning There is a Future, is an Israeli political party.

Its ideology is centrist social liberal, secular, and Zionist.

Political leader is Yair Lapid.

Yesh Atid was founded in 2012.

Number of seats in the 24th Knesset: 17 (+4).

Participating in the Bennett-Lapid Government.

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World Tamil Badminton Federation

The World Tamil Badminton Federation (WTBF) (Tamil: அகில உலக தமிழர் பூப்பந்தாட்ட பேரவை) is the international governing body of Badminton for the world Tamils. It conducts the annual international competition. The first ever tournament was held on 2013 in Switzerland.

Tournament Winners

Men's Singles Open

Ladies Single Open

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Related pages
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Qantas Flight 32

Qantas Flight 32 was a passenger flight from London to Sydney via Singapore operated by an Airbus A380. On November 4, 2010 the plane suffered an engine failure over Indonesia, but the plane made an emergency landing at Singapore Changi Airport with no loss of life to the 469 people onboard.

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Toll-free telephone number

A toll-free telephone number is a telephone number in which the person who owns that telephone number is charged for calls that come to them, rather than the person making the call to that number being charged. These numbers usually begin with "1-800" in North America (800 being the area code under the North American Numbering Plan), but are different around the rest of the world.

They are not to be confused with "collect calls", which are made when the person making the call does not want to have to pay their telephone company to make it. In this case, the person receiving the call has to agree to be charged for that call, while those owning toll-free numbers already agree to being charged for incoming calls.

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Rhys Wesser

Rhys Joseph Wesser (born 31 March 1979) is an Australian former professional rugby league player. He played in the National Rugby League (NRL) between 1998 and 2011. He was best known for playing for the Penrith Panthers, winning the 2003 premiership with them. He later played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He scored 129 total club tries in his career.

Wesser was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He is of Indigenous Australian ancestry.

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 Rhys Wesser at the Rugby League Project

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Ayer, Switzerland

Ayer is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.

Villages in Valais
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Stephen Kearney

Stephen Peter Kearney  (born 11 June 1972) is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach and former player. He was the head coach of the National Rugby League (NRL) New Zealand Warriors from 2017 to 2020. He has also been head coach of the New Zealand national team and the Parramatta Eels. He also played for the Warriors and Melbourne Storm in the 1990s and 2000s.

Kearney was born in Paraparaumu, North Island. He is Māori.

References

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 Stephen Kearney at Rugby League Project

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Phil Neal

Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English former footballer. He is best known for playing for Liverpool between 1974 and 1985. He won eight First Divisions, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, four European Cups, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup with Liverpool. He also played for Northampton Town and Bolton Wanderers. He later managed Bolton, Coventry City, Cardiff City and Manchester City.

Neal was born in Irchester, Northamptonshire. He has two children, including a son, Ashley (born 1974), also a footballer.

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 Phil Neal at LiverpoolFC.com

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Arthur Beetson

Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson  (22 January 1945 – 1 December 2011) was an Australian rugby league player and coach. He played between the 1960s and 1981. He was known for playing for Easts and captaining Australia. He also played for Queensland and the Parramatta Eels. He was the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport.

Beetson was born in Roma, Queensland. His mother was a member of the Stolen Generation.

Beetson died from a heart attack on 1 December 2011 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He was 66.

References

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 Arthur Beetson at the Rugby League Project

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Elisabeth Lichtenberger

Elisabeth Lichtenberger (17 February 1925 – 14 February 2017) was an Austrian geographer. She taught at the University of Vienna. She was born in Vienna. She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1999.

Lichtenberger died on 14 February 2017 in Vienna, aged 91.

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Boaz Vaadia

Boaz Vaadia (November 13, 1951 – February 25, 2017) was an Israeli-American artist and sculptor. He was born in Gat Rimon, Israel. He worked primarily in stone and later by casting in bronze. He said that his work is based on the power of natural materials and the relation of human beings to that power.

Vaadia died in Brooklyn, New York from pancreatic cancer on February 25, 2017, aged 65. He was survived by his wife Kim and two daughters.

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Howard Schmidt

Howard Anthony Schmidt (October 5, 1949 – March 2, 2017) was an American cyber security expert and partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity.

He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month.

Schmidt died in Muskego, Wisconsin on March 2, 2017 from brain cancer, aged 67.

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Paula Fox

Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She was born in New York City.

She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.

Fox died at age 93 at a hospital in Brooklyn from congestive heart failure on March 1, 2017.

References

Other websites
 Interview by Ramona Koval for The Book Show on ABC Radio National (July 29, 2004).
 Interview with short biography by Jesse Lichtenstein for Loggernaut (no date)
 The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox by Greg Gerke (January 24, 2010)

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Míriam Colón

Míriam Colón (born Míriam Colón Valle; August 20, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. She was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Colón was known for her roles as Georgina Montana in Scarface (1983), Maria in Gloria (1999), and as Mercedes in Goal! (2005).

Colón died on March 3, 2017 from complications of a lung infection in New York City, aged 80.

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 Miriam Colón bio  at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
 The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater 
Miriam Colon's Interview on NBC Latino 

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