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Rosemary Leach

Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was an English stage, television and movie actress. 

Leach won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for 84, Charing Cross Road and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her roles in the movies That'll Be the Day (1973) and A Room with a View (1986). 

She appeared in several TV mini-series' including Germinal (1970), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Charmer (1987), The Buccaneers (1995) and Berkeley Square (1998) and had a recurring role on the sitcom My Family (2003-07).

References

Other websites
 
 Rosemary Leach(Aveleyman)

1935 births
2017 deaths
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
Martin Eric Ain

Martin Eric Ain (Martin Stricker; July 18, 1967 – October 21, 2017) was an American-born Swiss bass guitarist and songwriter. He was born in the United States. He was best known for being the former bassist of the influential extreme metal band Celtic Frost. He used the stage name Martin Eric Ain throughout his career in Celtic Frost. 

Ain died on October 21, 2017 following a heart attack in Zürich, Switzerland, aged 50.

References

Other websites
Interview with Martin Eric Ain , Broward-Palm Beach New Times, 2006-10-19
"Metal Israel Exclusive Kinda Interview with Martin Eric Ain"

1967 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
American bass guitarists
American songwriters
Swiss musicians
Julian May

Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer. She had used several literary pseudonyms. She was best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom), beginning with The Many-Colored Land and Galactic Milieu Series books. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.

May was married to author T. E. Dikty from 1953 until his death in 1991.

In August 2015, she was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention.

May died on October 17, 2017 in Mercer Island, Washington at the age of 86.

References

Other websites

 Biography

1931 births
2017 deaths
American science fiction writers
American children's writers
American novelists
Writers from Chicago
Mercer Island, Washington

Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States located on an island of the same name in the southern portion of Lake Washington. Mercer Island is in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, with Seattle located to its west and Bellevue located to its east.

Mercer Island is connected to the mainland on either side via bridges carrying Interstate 90.

he population was 22,699 at the 2010 census.  The population was 22,720 at 2013 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. This makes Mercer Island the most populated island in a lake within the United States.

References

Other websites
 Mercer Island Reporter Local newspaper

Cities in Washington (U.S. state)
Islands of the United States
Andrej Babiš

Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 until 2021.

Babiš, the second richest man in the Czech Republic, is a former CEO and sole owner of the Agrofert group with a net worth of about $4.04 billion according to Bloomberg.

Political career
Babiš served as Finance Minister of the Czech Republic and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the economy from January 2014 to May 2017 until he was fired by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka due to rumors of financial irregularities. Babiš has led ANO 2011 party since 2012 when he founded it as a protest movement against established politics. He has been Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 2013.

Scandals
Babiš has been under investigation since December 2015 due to allegations that an anonymous company he controlled unlawfully received subsidies from the European Union. In September 2017, his parliamentary immunity was stripped after police request in connection with the case and Babiš was formally charged on 9 October 2017.

Prime Minister
Babiš was elected Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his victory in the 2017 legislative election when his party won 78 seats winning the majority party in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.

References

Other websites

 
 Official blog
 Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic website
 Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic website
 Curriculum Vitae on Government website
 Curriculum Vitae on ANO 2011 website

1954 births
Living people
Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
Czech businesspeople
George Saunders

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and a novel. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.

Awards
His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Notes

References

Other websites
 "George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You'll Read This Year", Joel Lovell, The New York Times Magazine, January 3, 2013
2014 George Saunders interview with Jon Niccum, Kansas City Star
10 Free Stories by George Saunders Available on the Web

1958 births
Living people
American novelists
American children's writers
Educators from Texas
American essayists
Writers from Texas
Writers from Chicago
Educators from Chicago
Journalists from Chicago
Journalists from Texas
People from Amarillo, Texas
Kübler-Ross model

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist.
The Kübler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief, is a theory about the feelings of people who are dying.  The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

The five stages came from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' 1969 book On Death and Dying.

References

Other websites
 On Death and Dying, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Psychology
Death
Japanophile

A Japanophile is someone with Japanophilia, or someone with a strong interest in or love of Japanese people, culture, and history. This term even has a Japanese equivalent, shinnichi (kanji:親日, hiragana: しんにち) which literally translates to "pro-Japanese". Aguante Viral.

Japanese culture
Area code 710

Area code 710 is the area code used by the United States Government. It is part of the North American Numbering Plan.

710
Government of the United States
Stan Kowalski

Stan Kowalski (May 13, 1926 – October 20, 2017) was an American professional wrestler. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was one half of the tag team Murder Incorporated with partner Tiny Mills in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1960 to 1975.

Career 
Kowalski turned to professional wrestling, debuting as Buddy Marco for a NWA promotion run by Tony Stecher.

In 1970, he went to New York to wrestle in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) as Krippler Karl Kovacs. In Pennsylvania, Kowalski and Bruno Sammartino set a record attendance and gate of $86,000.

Personal life 
Kowalski died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on October 20, 2017 in Minneapolis at the age of 91.

References

Other websites
The Biography of Minnesotan Wrestler Stan Kowalski

1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Minnesota
American wrestlers
Sportspeople from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Dick Beyer

Richard John "Dick" Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American retired professional wrestler who was best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X.

Beyer was born in New York City. He studied at Syracuse University. 

eyer began as a "babyface" wrestler in the mid-1950s. His career as a "masked" wrestler, The Destroyer, began in 1962 in Los Angeles. He used the “figure-four-leg-lock” on his way to the Worldwide Wrestling Associates (WWA) championship on July 27, 1962.

Beyer went into semi-retirement in 1984. From 1984-95, Beyer taught physical education in the Akron, New York Central School District, where he also coached football, wrestling and swimming.

On November 4, 2017, it was announced that Beyer would be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, by the Japanese government for "a lifetime spent promoting goodwill and bi-cultural exchanges between Japan and the United States".

Beyer died on March 7, 2019 in Akron, New York, aged 88.

References

Other websites
"THE DESTROYER"

1930 births
2019 deaths
American wrestlers
Educators from New York City
Sportspeople from New York City
Pampero Firpo

Juan Kachmanian (April 6, 1930 – January 9, 2020), better known as Pampero Firpo, was an Argentine-American professional wrestler of Armenian descent.

Career
An early pioneer of hardcore wrestling, Kachmanian usually wrestled as a heel, although he would go on to have a run as a face after being fireballed by The Sheik. Other notable feuds in his career would include Nick Bockwinkel, Alberto Madril and Apollo Jalisco.

Titles
Among the titles he held in his career were the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version), the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version), the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship, as well as being the inaugural holder of the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship.

Moves
Using the bear hug and the El Garfio as his signature moves, Kachmanian popularized the drawn-out catchphrase 'ohhh yeah!' which would later become associated with Randy Savage. He retired in 1986 and then worked for the United States Postal Service in San Jose, California.

Death
Firpo died on January 9, 2020 in San Jose, California at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 Online World of Wrestling profile 

1930 births
2020 deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
American wrestlers
People from Buenos Aires
Bill Mercer

William Anderson "Bill" Mercer (born February 13, 1926) is an American sportscaster, educator and author. He was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 2002, he was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Mercer's best-known work in the field of exhibition wrestling was when he provided play-by-play announcing for the internationally acclaimed World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW,) based in Dallas, from 1982-87.

Mercer is best known as a play-by-play radio announcer for baseball, football, basketball and wrestling.  He was also a news  reporter for Dallas, Texas, television station KRLD, covering the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963.  He and fellow reporters George Phenix, Wes Wise and Bob Huffaker wrote, When the News Went Live, about their experiences during that time.

In his 60-year career, Mercer provided play-by-play broadcasting for several minor league teams: First, the Muskogee Giants of the Class C Western Association, then the Dallas Rangers (Triple A baseball) from 1959–64, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs (Texas League baseball) from 1965 to 1971.  He then moved up to broadcast for major league baseball's Texas Rangers (major league baseball) in 1972 (with Don Drysdale) and Chicago White Sox in 1974.

Mercer has retired to Durham, North Carolina after a long residence in Richardson, Texas.

References

1926 births
Living people
Educators from Oklahoma
Writers from Oklahoma
Sportspeople from Oklahoma
Railbus

The rail bus train can be found in many different countries, they are known as the pacer or the cooker trains in the United Kingdom due to the loud noises and how hot the air was in the trains.

They were made to respond to the outcry for more trains than buses, while saving money with a cheap design. They used the bodywork and engine of a bus and placed them on a train chassis.

Trains
M1917 Browning machine gun

The M1917 Browning machine gun is a .30-06 Springfield machine gun created by John Browning. It was used in World War I and in World War II. It is a heavy machine gun that weighed around 100 pounds with the tripod and 42 pounds without it.

It is a water-cooled machine gun, which allowed it to fire for a long period of time without it overheating. The water-cooling tank made it much heavier. During World War II, M1917 was mostly replaced by the M1919 because it was lighter and let soldiers move more quickly, but the M1917 was still used often.

Heavy machine guns
Spanish Golden Age

"El Siglo de Oro," literally "the century of gold," was the Golden Age of Spain. It was a period of flowering in Spanish art and literature. It happened at about the same time that the Spanish Habsburg dynasty ruled the country. El Siglo de Oro does not have precise dates and is generally considered to have lasted more than a century. It began no earlier than 1492, with the end of Reconquista (Reconquest), Christopher Columbus's first sea voyage to the New World, and the publication of Gramática de la lengua castellana by Antonio de Navarre. Politically, it ended no later than 1659, with the Pyrenees Treaty, which was ratified between France and Hapsburg Spain. The last great writer of the period, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, died in 1681, and his death is generally considered the end of El Siglo de Oro in art and literature.

References

History of Spain
Diorite

Diorite ( /ˈdaɪ.əˌraɪt/) is an melted rock that has cooled made mostly of the silicate minerals (materials made of silicon and oxygen). Diorite is in between that of basalt and granite. Diorite is usually grey to dark-grey in color, but it can also be black or bluish-grey, and often has a greenish cast. It is distinguished from gabbro (basalt) because the materials in diorite has more sodium and less calcium. Diorite may have small amounts of quartz, microcline, and olivine. Tiny amounts of muscovite may also be found.  If there is a lot of quartz it makes the rock type quartz-diorite (>5% quartz) or tonalite (>20% quartz). 

Diorite has an often speckled, texture of coarse grain size.

Diorites may be associated with either granite or basalt intrusions, into which they may merge. Diorite results from the partial melting of a rock above the area where two tectonic plates merge under each other. It is commonly produced in volcanic arcs, and in cordilleran mountain building, such as in the Andes Mountains, as large batholiths. The extrusive volcanic equivalent rock type is andesite.

Occurrence

Diorite is a relatively rare rock; source localities include Leicestershire (one name for microdiorite—markfieldite—exists due to the rock's being found in the village of Markfield) and Aberdeenshire, UK; Guernsey; Sondrio, Italy; Thuringia and Saxony in Germany; Finland; Romania; Northeastern Turkey; central Sweden; the Darrans range of New Zealand; the Andes Mountains.

An orbicular variety found in Corsica is called corsite.

References
Hugo van der Goes

Hugo van der Goes (about 1435 – 1482) was a famous painter of the late 15th century He was probably born in Ghent, Belgium. He painted altarpieces and portraits. He painted his masterpiece, the Portinari Tryptich for a church in Florence. The painting shows the Adoration of the Shepherds, a story from the Gospel of Luke about the shepherds who visited the baby Jesus on the night he was born. The painting influenced other artists of the Italian Renaissance because of its realistic style. 

Van der Goes became mentally ill on a visit to Cologne, Germany  in 1481. On his way home, he tried to kill himself. His friends took him to a monastery in Belgium to recover from his illness, but he died in Auderghem a few weeks later.

References

Belgian painters
1430s births
1482 deaths
Parenthesome

Parenthesomes or  septal pore caps  are special parts of the cells of fungi. In many cases they look like parentheses. Their function  has not yet been studied fully. They do not alwys look the same, and their appearance is useful for differentiating between different species of fungi

Cell biology
Changqing Subdistrict

Changqing Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Hefei, Anhui, China.

References

Subdivisions of China
A Different World

A Different World was an American sitcom. The series was of the Hillman College, a fictional African American college in Virginia. The show aired on NBC.

The show was aired from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993.

There were many actors on the show, like Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Marisa Tomei, Loretta Devine, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Jada Pinkett.

The show looked at strong topics, like LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS, the Equal Rights Amendment, race and class relations.

In season 2, it came to the attention of Bill Cosby and the producers that the show wasn't truly looking at a historically black college. That's when Debbie Allen was hired as the chief creative force to revamp the series.

American comedy television series
1980s American black sitcoms
1987 American television series debuts
1990s American television series endings
1993 television series endings
English-language television programs
Anya Taylor-Joy

Anya Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996 in Miami, Florida) is an Argentine-British actress. She starred as Casey Cooke in the 2017 film Split, and will reprise her role in the film's 2019 sequel, Glass. In 2018, she will star in the film The New Mutants.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Other websites
 Anya Taylor-Joy at the Internet Movie Database
 Anya Taylor-Joy on Twitter

1996 births
Living people
Actors from Florida
Jeanne Brousse

Jeanne Brousse (maiden name: Maurier; April 12, 1921 – October 19, 2017) was a French resistance member. She was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. 

Jeanne Brousse was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. In 1973 she was awarded the title of a Righteous Among The Nations. In 1981, Brousse was one of the founding members of the French chapter of the association of the Righteous Among The Nations. In 1987, she joined the French Yad Vashem committee, of which she remained the Vice President for several years.

In 2005, Jeanne Brousse was awarded the Legion of Honour.

Brousse died on 19 October 2017 in Annecy, France at the age of 96.

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1921 births
2017 deaths
French people
World War II people
Walter Lassally

Walter Lassally (18 December 1926 – 23 October 2017) was a German-born British-Greek cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1964 for the movie Zorba the Greek. He was born in Berlin. He moved to England in 1939. He was closely worked with the Free cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s.

Lassally died on October 23, 2017 at a hospital in Crete, Greece from complications of surgery at the age of 90.

References

Other websites
 

 Walter Lassally telling his life story at Web of Stories (video)

Academy Award winners
1926 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
British cinematographers
Greek people
People from Berlin
George Young (rock musician)

George Redburn Young (6 November 194622 October 2017) was a Scottish-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member of the 1960s Australian rock band the Easybeats, and with bandmate Harry Vanda he was a co-writer of the international hits "Friday on My Mind" and "Love Is in the Air", the latter recorded by John Paul Young (no relation). Vanda & Young were also the producers of some work by the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, formed by his younger brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

Young died on 22 October 2017 in Australia, aged 70. His brother, Malcolm, died a few weeks later on November 18, 2017.

References

Other websites
 Albert Music: Easybeats Facts 

1946 births
2017 deaths
Australian rock musicians
Australian guitarists
Bass guitarists
Australian pianists
Australian songwriters
Writers from Sydney
Musicians from Sydney
Musicians from Glasgow
Al Hurricane

Alberto Nelson Sanchez (July 10, 1936 – October 22, 2017), known professionally as Al Hurricane, was an American singer-songwriter. He was dubbed "The Godfather" of New Mexico music. He released more than thirty albums, and was best known for his works to New Mexico’s unique style of Spanish music.

His signature look, which included an eye-patch, was due to an automobile accident that occurred during the 1960s.

Sanchez died of complications from prostate cancer on October 22, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the age of 81.

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1936 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from prostate cancer
American singer-songwriters
American saxophonists
American rock guitarists
American pianists
American country guitarists
American country singers
American rock singers
Singers from New Mexico
Writers from New Mexico
Musicians from New Mexico
Jasmine Guy

Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer. She is best known for playing Whitley Marion Gilbert in the 1987-93 sitcom A Different World. She also played Erica in K.C. Undercover.

For her work, Guy was nominated for and won 4 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series from 1990 to 1993.

Guy was born in Boston, but raised in Atlanta.

Sources differ on Guy's birthdate. Some sources say she was born in 1962. Other sources mention 1964.

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1962 births
American television actors
American stage actors
American movie actors
Actors from Boston, Massachusetts
Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
Living people
Tony Richardson

Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and movie director and producer. His career lasted for fifty years. In 1964 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the movie Tom Jones.  He also directed The Loved One, during which he worked with established stars including John Gielgud, Rod Steiger and Robert Morse.

He helped pay for the escape of a Wormwood Scrubs prison-imprisoned spy and double agent George Blake in 1966.

References

Other websites
 
 BFI: Tony Richardson
 

Academy Award winning directors
BAFTA Award winning directors
1928 births
1991 deaths
Deaths from AIDS
Disease-related deaths in California
English movie directors
English movie producers
Bisexual people
English LGBT people
People from Yorkshire
Al-Qaryatayn massacre

The Al-Qaryatayn massacre was a massacre of 128 civilians in the Syrian city of Al-Qaryatayn between its capture by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 1 October 2017, and its recapture by the Syrian army in 21 October 2017. The victims were indiscriminately executed for being accused of cooperating with the Syrian government.

References

War crimes
Dennis Skinner

Dennis Edward Skinner (born 11 February 1932) is a British Labour politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolsover between 1970 and 2019. He was Chairman of the Labour Party for one year from 1988–89 and served as a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, with brief breaks, for thirty years.

References

Other websites
 This much I know, Skinner runs down some matters of importance to him, hosted by The Guardian

 Giving George Osborne a line of wit in December 2005
 Junction 29A in December 2004
 Heart bypass in March 2003

1932 births
Living people
Former Labour Party (UK) MPs
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
UK MPs 1997–2001
UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
UK MPs 2010–2015
UK MPs 2015–2017
UK MPs 2017–2019
Melissa Benoist

Melissa Marie Benoist (born October 4, 1988 in Houston, Texas) better known simply as Melissa Benoist is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying Kara Danvers / Supergirl in the superhero television series, Supergirl.She also portrays Marley Rose in Glee

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Other websites
 
 Melissa Benoist on Twitter

1988 births
Living people
Actors from Houston, Texas
American movie actors
American television actors
Paul J. Weitz

Paul Joseph Weitz (July 25, 1932 – October 23, 2017) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and former NASA astronaut.

Weitz flew into space twice. He was a member of the three-man crew who flew on Skylab 2, the first manned Skylab mission. He was also Commander of the STS-6 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle Challenger flights.

Weitz died on October 23, 2017 in Flagstaff, Arizona from myelodysplastic syndrome at the age of 85.

References

Other websites

Astronautix biography of Paul J. Weitz
Spacefacts biography of Paul J. Weitz
Weitz at Spaceacts 
Weitz at Encyclopedia of Science

1932 births
2017 deaths
American astronauts
American aviators
American engineers
Cancer deaths in Arizona
Deaths from myelodysplastic syndrome
Scientists from Pennsylvania
Guion Bluford

Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., Ph.D. (born November 22, 1942), (Col, USAF, Ret.), is an American aerospace engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut.

Bluford was the first African American in space. Before becoming an astronaut, he was an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he remained while assigned to NASA, rising to the rank of Colonel. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992. In 1983, as a member of the crew of the Orbiter Challenger on the mission STS-8.

References

Other websites

Guion "Guy" Bluford Penn State African American Chronicles profile and interview
 Guy Bluford interviewed on Conversations from Penn State

1942 births
Living people
American astronauts
American aviators
Engineers from Pennsylvania
American military people
Scientists from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dhanteras

Dhanteras (Hindi: धनतेरस), also known as Dhanatrayodashi () or Dhanvantari Trayodashi, is the first day of the festival of Diwali in India and the festival of Tihar in Nepal.

Dhanteras is celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha ("dark fortnight" in the moon's cycle) in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar month of Ashwin. Dhanvantari, who is also worshipped on Dhanteras, is the god of Ayurveda who brought and shared the wisdom of Ayurveda for the betterment of mankind and to bring relief from the suffering of disease with Ayurvedic remedies.

The Indian ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy), announced its decision to observe Dhanteras as the “National Ayurveda Day.” This day was first observed on October 28, 2016.

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Indian culture
Hinduism
Religious holidays
Nepali culture
Grottaglie

Grottaglie is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, Apulia, in southern Italy.

Geography 

Grottaglie is in the Salento peninsula, a whole rock of Limestone dividing Adriatic Sea from Ionian Sea. The countryside around the city has many large and deep ravines.

History 
The name Grottaglie comes from the Latin Cryptae Aliae, meaning "many ravines". People lived here since the paleolithic Age. The fief of Grottaglie was given by the Norman overlords to the Archdiocese of Taranto in the 11th century. In the 14th century the church gave the fief a walls and a castle.

Since the 15th-17th centuries the jurisdiction over Grottaglie fief was split between the ecclesiastic administration (civil law) and the lay feudal lords (criminal law, Cicinelli-Caracciolo family). Fights between these two competing authorities and revolts by the heavily-taxed population were common until the end of feudalism (1806).

Main sights 
 The massive Castello Episcopio (13th century) castle.
 The main church, also known as Chiesa Matrice, dating back to 1379.
 The city's oratory, known as Purgatory Oratory.
 Palazzo Cicinelli, a massive building on the main square later redecoreted to the current fashion during the Baroque period. The palazzo was the seat of the Duke of Grottaglie also Prince of Cursi and Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, hence the residence of the feudal lords of the town on the grant of Bohemo.
 Palazzo Urselli, which maintains the original Renaissance (pre-Baroque) façade, with a massive 15th century gate and a decorated internal courtyard.
 Palazzo Maggiulli-Cometa, whose structure is similar to Palazzo Urselli’s.
 Palazzo De Felice, an 18th Century palace, and ancestral home of the De Felice's family.
 Monastero di Francesco di Paola, representing the greatest Baroque monument in the city. It has a splendid cloistered-court inside.
 Chiesa del Carmine, housing a 1530 stone crib scene made by Stefano da Putignano.

Culture 
Folkloristic and religious events include the commemoration-day of Ciro di Alessandria d'Egitto and Easter-period when the Medieval-rooted confraternal religious orders perform their processions during the days of the Holy Week (Easter rituals include Procession and pilgrimage of confrères called “Bubble-Bubble” through the streets of town).

Other events include:
 The exhibition “Ceramica nel Quartiere delle Ceramiche”
 The Mediterranean ceramics contest, theatrical and musical events
 Promotion of dessert grapes, months of July–August–September
 Exhibition-contest about ceramic crib scene during the months of December and January
 “Musica Mundi” – international festival of ethnic music in July.

Economy 
Grapes and ceramics are two main elements of the local economy.

Alenia Composite is a factory of Alenia group making parts for the Boeing 787.

References

Towns in Italy
Settlements in Apulia
Madhan Bob

S. Krishnamoorthy (born 9 October), better known by his screenname Madhan Bob, is a popular comedian and Tamil film actor from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He started his film career as a musician and became an actor instead. Apart from appearing in supporting roles in Tamil films he also appears in the Sun TV comedy show Asathapovathu Yaaru as one of the judges. His debut film was Vaaname Ellai. It was Madan Bob who first taught Maragathamani music.

He was eighth child in his family, so he was named Krishnamurthy which also happened to be his uncle’s name and there was a lot of confusion in the house, so they changed his name to Madan. his brother’s name is Padmanabhan a.k.a. Babu. Both started a music group called ‘Madan and Babu’. In time, the Babu became Bob and that’s how director Balachander introduced him in his first film.

Filmography

 Neengal Kettavai (1984)
 Vaaname Ellai (1992)
 Thevar Magan
 Jathi Malli (1993)
 Uzhaippali
 Udan Pirappu
 Thiruda Thiruda 
 Honest Raj (1994)
 Pattukottai Periyappa 
 Nammavar 
 Sathi Leelavathi (1995)
 Magalir Mattum 
 Pullakuttikaran
 Poove Unakkaga (1996)
 Sundara Purushan 
 Priyam
 Gopura Deepam (1997)
 Mannava
 Vivasaayi Magan
 Pagaivan
 Nerrukku Ner 
 Roja Malare
 Chachi 420 (Hindi)
 Rathna (1998)
 Kaadhala Kaadhala
 Jolly
 Priyamudan
 Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen 
 Aasai Thambi
 Unnudan 
 Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999)
 Unnai Thedi
 Edhirum Pudhirum
 Anandha Poongatre
 Suyamvaram
 Nee Varuvai Ena
 Unakkaga Ellam Unakkaga
 Poovellam Kettuppar
 Minsara Kanna
 Jodi
 Kannukkul Nilavu (2000)
 Thai Poranthachu
 Unnai Kann Theduthey
 Kuberan
 Thenali
 Anbudan
 Friends (2001)
 Looty 
 Rishi
 Sonnal Thaan Kaadhala
 Pennin Manathai Thottu
 Star
 Parthale Paravasam
 Alli Thandha Vaanam
 Punnagai Desam  (2002) 
 Pammal K. Sambandam
 Kamarasu
 Krishna Krishna
 Gemini
 Yai Nee Romba Azhaga Irukey 
 Anbe Un Vasam
 Youth
 Sundhara Travels
 Villain
 Kadhaludan (2003)
 Nala Damayanthi 
 Priyamana Thozhi
 Thittikudhey
 Three Roses
 Anbe Un Vaasam
 Aethirree (2004)
 Vasool Raja MBBS 
 Karka Kasadara
 Vishwa Thulasi
 Chatrapathy
 Giri
 Ayyaa (2005)
 Chandramukhi
 6'2
 Jithan
 ABCD
 Jerry
 Mazhai
 Aathi (2006)
 Kusthi
 Varalaaru
 Mudhan Mudhalai
 Manikanda (2007)
 Periyar 
 Thottal Poo Malarum 
 Marudhamalai
 Thavam
 Vel
 Vedha (2008)
 Arai En 305-il Kadavul 
 Seval
 Ananda Thandavam (2009)
 Thee 
 Bhramaram (Malayalam)
 Engal Aasan
 Ainthaam Padai
 Sura (2010)
 Pen Singam
 Kaavalan (2011)
 Maapillai 
 Pathayiram Kodi
 Singam II
 Yuvan Yuvathi
 Chandhamama (2013)
 Ethir Neechal 
 Saravanan Engira Surya
 Thulli Vilayadu
 Ramanujan (2014)
 Aindhaam Thalaimurai Sidha Vaidhiya Sigamani
 Jamai
 Lingaa
 Vellaikaara Durai
 En Vazhi Thani Vazhi (2015)
 Adhibar 
 Saagasam (2016)
 Tea Kadai Raja 
 Ka Ka Ka Po 
 Ennama Katha Vudranunga 
 Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum 
 Uchathula Shiva 
 Kaththi Sandai
 Ner Mugam
 Motta Shiva Ketta Shiva (2017)
 Vaigai Express
 Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen  
 Ivan Thanthiran
 Ullam Ullavarai
 Aalukku Paathi 50/50

References

Tamil actors
Tamil comedians
T. S. Balaiah

Tirunelveli S. Balaiah (; 23 August 1914 – 22 July 1972) was an Indian actor best known for playing supporting roles in the Tamil films. He was introduced to the cine field by director Ellis R. Dungan in Sathi Leelavathi (1936), along with M. G. Ramachandran, N. S. Krishnan and M.K. Radha. He was one of the very few actors who excelled as a villain, as well as in character roles and comic roles.

Early life 
T. S. Balaiah was born on 23 August 1914. He was born in Sundankottai, now in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu. He ran away from home at young age and joined a Circus. Later joined Jagannatha Iyer’s famous drama company which was working in Tirunelveli and from which no turning back.

Career 
Balaiah began his film career through the Tamil film Sathi Leelavathi in 1936. Balaiah played first lead role in Mohini paired opposite Madhuri Devi, where he played elder brother to V. N. Janaki and supporting role by M. G. Ramachandran. He gained lot of weight at the age of 40 in 1954, hence started getting more character roles.  Among his villain roles, Ambikapathy, Madurai Veeran, Thaikkupin Tharam, Hello Mister Zamindar and Thiruvilaiyadal were critically acclaimed. Balaiah also excelled in comedy roles in movies such as Kavalai Illaadha Manithan, Kadhalikka Neramillai, Bama Vijayam and Thillana Mohanambal. Actor Sivaji Ganesan had once mentioned that Balaiah along with M. R. Radha was his most admired actor.

Personal life 
Actress Manochithra is his daughter, while one of his sons Junior Balaiah has also appeared in films. Another son, Sai Baba, was part of MSV's troupe and sang a few song.

Partial filmography

References

Other websites
 
 http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2319/stories/20061006000707900.htm 
 The Three-in-One T. S. Balaiah in My Movie Minutes
 100 years of laughter

Tamil actors
The New Mutants (movie)

X-Men: The New Mutants (or simply titled The New Mutants) is a 2020 American superhero  horror movie. It is the thirteenth film of the X-Men film series and it was released on August 28, 2020. The movie is directed by Josh Boone. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, Henry Zaga, Blu Hunt, and Alice Braga.

References 

American horror movies
American LGBT movies
Movies produced by Lauren Shuler Donner
Movies produced by Simon Kinberg
X-Men (movie series)
2020 horror movies
2020s LGBT movies
2020s superhero movies
Superhero horror movies
Wilhelm Ostwald

Wilhelm Ostwald (23 September 1853 - 4 April 1932) was a Latvian-German chemist born in Riga, Latvia, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 

His parents are Elizabeth Leuckel and Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald. His son is Wolfgang Ostwald. 
Wilhelm Ostwald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 and it is Latvia's only Nobel prize. Although he was a German chemist, he was born in Latvia so the Nobel prize went to Latvia.

1853 births
1932 deaths
Esperantists
German academics
German chemists
German Nobel Prize winners
Latvian scientists
People from Riga
Russian Nobel Prize winners
Ugo Fangareggi

Ugo Fangareggi (30 January 1938 – 20 October 2017) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He was born in Genoa, Italy. He was best known for the role of Mangold in Mario Monicelli's The Incredible Army of Brancaleone.

Fangareggi died of Parkinson's disease at the age of 79.

References

Other websites 
 

1938 births
2017 deaths
People from Genoa
Italian stage actors
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
ESPCI Paris

ESPCI Paris (officially the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris; The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution) is a renowned graduate engineering school in France. It is a constituent school of the University PSL (Northern France).

Its different curricula lead to the following French & European degrees :
 Ingénieur ESPCI Paris (ESPCI Paris Graduate engineer Masters level program)
 PhD doctorate studies
 Master of Science
 Massive Online Open Course.

Academic activities and industrial applied research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen of nationalities participate to the different curricula at ESPCI Paris.

Research labs 
Research activities at ESPCI relate to the following topics:
Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Biotechnology

Notable graduate 
 Marie Curie, first woman to win a Nobel Prize

References

Other websites 

 Official website

Technical colleges and universities in Paris
1882 establishments in France
Mustafa Adrisi

General Mustafa Adrisi ( – 28 July 2013) was Vice President of Uganda. He served from 1977 to 1978 and was one of President Idi Amin's closest allies. In 1978, after Adrisi was injured in a suspicious auto accident, troops loyal to him decided to rebel. Amin sent soldiers against the rebelling people, some of whom had fled across the Tanzanian border. This led to the Uganda–Tanzania War.

In the late 1990s, Mustafa Adrisi was living quietly in Arua, West Nile, in a house provided by the Ugandan government, and had recently gone back to complete his primary school certificate. He died in 2013.

References

1922 births
2013 deaths
Ambert

Ambert is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central-southern France.

It is a subprefecture of the department and the capital of the arrondissement of Ambert.

Geography
Ambert is in the southeast of the Puy-de-Dôme department, at  to the south of Thiers,  to the east of Issoire and  to the southeast of Clermont-Ferrand.

The commune is in the plain of Ambert, surrounded by mountains: the Monts du Forez to the east and the Monts du Livradois to the west. The town is along the Dore, a tributary of the Allier river.

Ambert has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

The distances from Clermont-Ferrand to other cities are:
 Paris, the national capital - ;
 Lyon, the regional capital - ;
 Bordeaux - ;
 Marseille - ;
 Montpellier - ;
 Nantes - ;
 Nice - ;
 Strasbourg - ;
 Toulouse - .

Ambert is surrounded by the communes:

Climate
The climate of Ambert, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

Population
The inhabitants of Ambert are known, in French, as Ambertois (women: Ambertoises).

With a population of 6,794, Ambert has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Ambert

Administration
Ambert is a subprefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Ambert and the administrative centre () of the canton of Ambert, formed 30 communes, including Ambert, with 18,178 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Ambert Livradois Forez.

Sister cities 
Ambert is twinned with:
 Annweiler, Germany, since 1988
 Saitama, Japan, since 1989
 Gorgonzola, Italy, since 2002.

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Puy-de-Dôme department
 Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department

References

Other websites

 City council website 
 Office of tourism website  

Communes in Puy-de-Dôme
Subprefectures in France
Dianbu, Anhui

Dianbu () is a town in and the seat of Feidong County in the eastern suburbs of Hefei, the capital of Anhui province, People's Republic of China.

Subdivisions
There are multiple several subdivisions;
Qingqing District, Hefei (青春社区)
Zhennan, Hefei (镇南社区)
Zhenxi, Hefei (镇西社区)
Zhenbei, Hefei(镇北社区社区)
Huayuan, Hefei (花园社区)
Duihe, Hefei(对河社区)
Paitou, Hefei(排头社区)
Dingguang, Hefei (定光社区)
Tangyang, Hefei (唐杨社区)
Guangtai, Hefei (光大社区)
Xishanyi, Hefei (西山驿社区)
Beitang, Hefei (陂塘社区)
Shuangqiao, Hefei (双桥社区)
Zhongxin, Hefei (中心社区)
Anhe, Hefei (安乐村)
Tanglinhuizumanzu Village (塘林回族满族村)
Huatanming, Hefei (花滩民族村)
Mahan, Hefei(马厂村)
Longxi, Hefei(龙西村)
Anji, Hefei(昂集村)
Jianshe, Hefei(建设村)
Yangwang, Hefei (杨王村)
Hepu, Hefei(合浦村)
Pangdian, Hefei (半店村)
Qunli, Hefei (群力村)
Da'an, Hefei (大安村)
Zhaogang, Hefei (赵岗村)
Yangba, Hefei (杨坝村)
Sangyuanheyixin, Hefei (桑园村和一心村

References
Topaz Solar Farm

Topaz Solar Farm is located near San Luis Obispo, California.  It is one of the biggest solar farms in the world.

Energy in California
Solar power
I. V. Sasi

Irruppam Veedu Sasidaran (28 March 1948 – 24 October 2017), better known as I. V. Sasi, (മലയാളം: ഐ.വി. ശശി) was an Indian movie director. He made over 150 movies in various Indian languages and genres. He was known for his Malayalam movies of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, although he directed a few Tamil and Hindi movies as well. 

In 2015, he was awarded the J. C. Daniel Award, the highest award in Malayalam cinema.

Sasi died at his home in Saligramam, Chennai on 24 October 2017 at the age of 69 at 10:30 am, due to a massive heart attack.

References

Other websites
 

1948 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Indian movie directors
Girija Devi

Girija Devi (8 May 1929 – 24 October 2017) was an Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas. She performed classical and light classical music and helped elevate the profile of thumri.

Early career
Devi agreed to not perform privately for others, but gave her first public concert in Bihar in 1951. She worked as a faculty member of the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in Kolkata in the 1980s and of the Banaras Hindu University during the early 1990s, and taught several students to preserve her musical heritage. Devi often toured and continued to perform in 2009.

Musical career
Devi sang in the Banaras gharana and performed the purabi ang thumri style typical of the tradition, whose status she helped elevate.

Death
Devi died on 24 October 2017 of cardiac arrest at the age of 88.

Awards
 Padma Shri (1972)
 Padma Bhushan (1989)
 Padma Vibhushan (2016) 
 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1977)

References

Other websites

1929 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiac arrest
Indian singers
Glenn Barr

Albert Glenn Barr OBE (19 March 1942 – 24 October 2017) was a Northern Irish politician. He was born in Derry, Northern Ireland.

Barr was an activist of Ulster nationalism. For a time during the 1970s he straddled both Unionism and Loyalism due to simultaneously holding important positions in the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Ulster Defence Association.

Barr died ￼at Altnagelvin hospital on 24 October 2017 at the age of 75.

References

1942 births
2017 deaths
Irish politicians
Political activists
Ebrahim Ashtiani

Ebrahim Ashtiani (Persian: ابراهیم اشتیانی; January 4, 1942 – October 24, 2017) was an Iranian football player. He played for the Iran national football team and spent most of his career at Persepolis. 

His son Ardalan is also a professional football player.

After the retirement of Persepolis captains Jafar Kashani and Homayoun Behzadi, Ashtiani became captain of the club when he was only 28 making him the youngest captain of Persepolis, a record that was broken by Alireza Haghighi in 2010. He retired in the summer of 1976 at the age of 30.

Ashtiani won the Asian Cup in Thailand in 1972 as well as the football tournament of the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. He made 35 appearances for the Iran national football team from 1969 to 1974.

Ashtiani died in Tehran of heart disease on 24 October 2017 at the age of 75.

References

1942 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from cardiovascular disease
Sportspeople from Tehran
Iranian footballers
Olympians
Agave deserti

The desert agave (Agave deserti) is an agave, which is a type of plant. It is found in deserts in southern California, Arizona, and Baja California.

Agavaceae
Robert Campin

Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444) was a famous Flemish painter. He is also known as The Master of Flémalle. He painted altarpieces and portraits. Campin was a very successful painter. He made a lot of money and owned several houses in Tournai. For thirty years he was the most famous painter in Tournai. He had a large workshop where many painters worked for him. Campin's best known work is the Mérode Altarpiece. He painted it between 1425 and 1428.

No one knows where Campin was born. By 1406 he was a master painter in Tournai. By 1419 he had a large workshop there. Many cities and churches in Flanders bought his paintings. He was married to Ysabel de Stocquain. They had no children. In 1432 he had an affair with Laurence Polette. He was taken to court for this and banished (sent away) from Tournai for one year. Margaret of Burgundy admired his work. She convinced the court to let him pay a fine instead of banishment. Campin died in Tournai in 1444.

References

Belgian painters
1370s births
1444 deaths
Leviathan (book)

Leviathan  is a famous book by Thomas Hobbes. Its full name is Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. Hobbes wrote the book in 1651. The name of the book comes from a sea monster called "Leviathan" in the Book of Job (one of the books in the Old Testament of the Bible).  In Leviathan, Hobbes writes about the structure of society and what makes a good government. It was a very early book on social contract theory. It influenced many other writers. He also wrote a version of the book in Latin in 1668.

References

Other websites
A copy of the complete book published in 1651

17th-century books
Non-fiction books
La Noche Triste

La Noche Triste (Spanish for "The Sad Night") was a famous battle between the Spanish conquistadors and the Aztecs, a native people of Mexico. The battle took place on the shores of Lake Texcoco near the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in the night between June 30 and July 1, 1520.

The Spanish side, led by Hernán Cortés, had 600 to 1000 Spanish soldiers and 20,000 native Mexican allies. The Aztecs, led by Cuitláhuac (the son of Moctezuma II), had 50,000 soldiers. The Aztec soldiers won the battle. They made the Spanish army leave their city. The Spanish army lost almost all their equipment and the gold they took from Tenochtitlan.  Between 400 and 800 Spanish soldiers were killed or captured. Between 2,000 and 4,000 native Mexican allies of the Spanish were killed or captured. The Aztecs lost about 1,000 soldiers.

References

Battles
1520
Aztec
16th century in Spain
History of Mexico
Shedinja

Shedinja is one of the fictional species of Pokémon from the Pokémon media franchise owned by Nintendo and Game Freak.

It is a Bug/Ghost type Pokemon from the third generation of games, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. It is evolved from a Nincada when there's a free space in the player's party. Shedinja is notable because it only takes damage from super effective attacks and has one HP.

Pokémon monsters