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Janet Gibson

Janet Gibson is a biologist and zoologist from Belize. 

Gibson was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1990. The prize is for a person who organizes an environmental effort in their region. Gibson won the prize because of her efforts on conservation of the marine ecosystems along the Belizean coast. Between 1985 and 1987, she worked to establish the Hol Chan Marine Reserve. Her efforts were successful and the official sanctuary was established in 1987. It was the first marine reserve in Central America.

Because of her work, along with others, the Belize Barrier Reef was given UNESCO World Heritage status in 1996.

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Andrea Gill

Andrea Gill is a politician and biologist from Belize. 

Gill was President of the Senate of Belize from 2008-2012. Between 2008 and 2009, she served as president of the Forum of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments of Central America and the Caribbean (FOPREL).

Between 1997 and 2001, Gill was part of a manatee research project.

Related pages
 List of scientists from the Americas

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Louis L. Mowbray

Louis Leon Arthur Mowbray (born 19 August 1877 on St. George's, Bermuda; died 5 June 1952) was a naturalist. He was the founding curator of the Bermuda Aquarium.

In around 1907 the Bermuda Natural History Society asked Mowbray to create Bermuda’s first aquarium and a marine research centre. He became known to American scientists and eventually moved to Boston, creating an aquarium there. In 1914, he became superintendent of the New York Aquarium. He also worked to build a new aquarium in Miami.

In 1926 Mowbray returned to Bermuda and built the Bermuda Aquarium. Dr. Charles Townsend, an American zoologist, organized several overseas trips for Mowbray to collect new fish specimens. The trips were paid for by Vincent Astor. He and Astor traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1933. They brought back tortoises and penguins, expanding the aquarium to a zoo. Mowbray then became the first person to successfully breed both the Galapagos tortoises and penguins in captivity.

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David B. Wingate

David Balcombe Wingate OBE (born October 11, 1935, in Bermuda) is an ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist.

In 1951 he and Robert Cushman Murphy and Louis S. Mowbray found the Bermuda petrel, also called a cahow. The bird species was thought to be extinct since the 1620s. The discovery inspired him to study Zoology at Cornell University. When he returned to Bermuda 1958, he began work to save the cahow. He went on to become the Conservation Officer for the Bermuda Government Parks Department from 1966 to his retirement in 2000.

He was credited with rediscovering the black-capped petrel in Haiti in 1963.

Related pages 
 List of scientists from the Americas

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Nucleoid

The nucleoid is an irregularly shaped region within the cell of a prokaryote that contains all or most of the genetic material, called genophore. 
Cell biology
Alice Reynolds

Alice Louise Reynolds (April 1, 1873 – December 5, 1938)  was the first woman professor at  Brigham Young University (BYU).  BYU magazine put her in a list of the 10 best BYU professors of the 20th century. She was the second woman in Utah to be a full professor.

Childhood and education
Alice was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States. Her father was George Reynolds and her mother was Mary Ann Tuddenham. Her father was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and worked as secretary to the First Presidency of the church for many years. When Alice was six years old, her father went to jail because he had more than one wife (plural marriage).

Her father's sister, her aunt Julia Reynolds, helped raise Alice. Alice liked reading and being around grownups. When she was 12, her mother died while giving birth to one of her siblings. Alice's father sent her and her younger sister Florence to the Brigham Young Academy (BYA) for their high school education. Alice was inspired by one of her teachers, Academy Principal Karl G. Maeser. She graduated from BYA in 1890.

Alice had taught for two years when the president of BYA, Benjamin Cluff, asked her to start a literature department at BYA. Reynolds went to the University of Michigan to study literature from 1892 to 1894. When she came back she became a full-time teacher at BYA.

Later in her life Reynolds received more education in Chicago, Cornell, Berkeley and Columbia. She also traveled to Europe four different times.

Career

Teaching

Reynolds was a Professor of English for 44 years. She became the first female to be a full professor at BYU. She taught approximately 5,000 students in 20 different English courses. Reynolds's absent-mindedness was famous at BYU. According to her students, she once walked through a herd of cows while reading a book and brought a teakettle to work instead of her purse.

Reynolds was an editor for the Relief Society Magazine from 1923 to 1930 and a writer for other LDS magazines. She also served in the General Board of the Relief Society of LDS Church for seven years.

Contributions to library
While working at BYA, Reynolds became the chairperson of the committee to establish the library. She was the chairperson of the committee for 19 years. She held a large fundraiser to obtain 1,200 books to add to the school's library. Over the course of her life, she organized several other campaigns to help the library grow to 100,000 volumes. Through the efforts of the club, over 10,000 volumes were donated to the BYU library.

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Helfrantzkirch

Helfrantzkirch is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Forest Park, Ohio

Forest Park is a city in Ohio in the United States.

Cities in Ohio
Thomas L. Kane

Thomas L. Kane (January 27, 1822 – December 26, 1883) was an American lawyer. He was friends with Brigham Young, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon church, or LDS Church. Kane helped Brigham Young and the Mormons travel to Utah.

"Friend of the Mormons"

Mormon Battalion 
Kane met with members of the LDS Church at a meeting in Philadelphia in May 1846.   Kane gave them his advice (told them what he thought they should do) and helped with their conflicts (arguments) with the U.S. government. He also helped them when they tried to emigrate (move) to western areas (places) in the US. Jesse C. Little, an LDS religious leader in the East, was asking for help with the Latter-day Saints' move to the West. Kane was able to get letters of recommendation (letters that say Kane can be trusted) from people who knew his father. Kane later joined Little in Washington, D.C. , and they met the secretary of state, secretary of war, and President James K. Polk.    After they negotiated (shared and talked about ideas), the United States agreed to send 500 LDS men, in five groups of 75 to 100 men each, called the Mormon Battalion, to help in the Mexican-American War.

With his fathers help, Kane got U.S. government permission for the refugee (people who have lost or had to leave their homes) Mormons to occupy Pottawattamie and Omaha Indian lands along the Missouri. Kane carried letters to Fort Leavenworth, and looked for Little in the Latter-day Saint camps on the Missouri River.  On July 17, 1846, Kane met with LDS leaders and Army Captain James Allen to make the Mormon Battalion.  Kane met many leaders of the Church, and became a popular figure among Mormon emigrants (people who moved).  Miller's Hollow, the main Iowa settlement (colony) of the LDS group at what is now Council Bluffs, was renamed Kanesville to honor Kane for his help.

During this time, Kane became really ill with a fever. Although he got help from both an army physician (doctor) from Fort Leavenworth and church members, his health was not good for the rest of his life.

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Christie Davies

Christie Davies (1941 – 5 September 2017) was a British sociologist, professor emeritus of sociology. He was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He worked at the University of Reading, England. He was the author of many articles and books on criminology, the sociology of morality, censorship, and humour. He was also visiting professor in India, Poland, United States, and Australia. Professor Davies died in August 2017.

Davies died on 5 September 2017 from a short-illness in Reading, Berkshire at the age of 76.

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Isabelle Daniels

Isabelle Frances Daniels (later Holston; July 31, 1937 – September 8, 2017) was an American sprinter. He was born in Jakin, Georgia.

Daniels competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, where she won the bronze medal in the 4×100 metres with her team mates Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews and Wilma Rudolph, in a race where all three teams beat the existing world record. She was initially placed third in the 100 meters, but was moved to fourth after photos of the finish were examined.

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Nasopharynx cancer or nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the most common cancer which is formed in the nasopharynx, most commonly in the postero-lateral nasopharynx or pharyngeal recess or 'Fossa of Rosenmüller' accounting for 50% cases. 

NPC happens in children and adults.  NPC differs significantly from other cancers of the head and neck in its occurrence, causes, clinical behavior, and treatment. 

It is vastly more common in certain regions of East Asia and Africa than elsewhere, with viral, dietary and genetic factors implicated in its causation. It is most common in males. It is a squamous cell carcinoma or an undifferentiated type. Squamous epithelial cells are a flat type of cell found in the skin and the membranes that line some body cavities. 

Differentiation means how different the cancer cells are from normal cells. Undifferentiated cells are cells that do not have their mature features or functions.

Other websites
Nasopharyngeal Cancer Or Sinus Infection
Cancer Management Handbook: Head and Neck Tumors 
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Kazimierz Ryczan

Kazimierz Ryczan (10 February 1939 – 13 September 2017) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood on 16 June 1963, Ryczan was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of  Kielce, Poland on 17 July 1993.

Ryczan died on 13 September 2017 in Kielce, Poland at the age of 78.

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Arnold Chan

Arnold Chan (June 10, 1967 – September 14, 2017) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was elected to represent the riding of Scarborough—Agincourt in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2014 by-election.  Chan was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Chan died on September 14, 2017 in Scarborough, Ontario of nasopharynx cancer at the age of 50.

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Grant Hart

Grantzberg Vernon "Grant" Hart (March 18, 1961 – September 13, 2017) was an American musician. He was best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü. After the band's breakup in 1988, he formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar. His solo career became his main focus after the dissolution of Nova Mob in 1997.

Hart died on September 13, 2017 of liver cancer at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota at the age of 56.

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Otto Wanz

Otto Wanz (June 13, 1943 – September 14, 2017) was an Austrian professional wrestler and boxer. He made his professional wrestling debut in 1968. 

Wanz was a one time American Wrestling Association champion and former operator of the Catch Wrestling Association. Among his most famous international opponents were Antonio Inoki, Bull Power and André the Giant. He was one of only a few to bodyslam both André the Giant and Yokozuna. 

Wanz also organized strong men competitions in Austria called "Austrian Giants". He also held several records for tearing telephone books.  Arnold Schwarzenegger has called Wanz as an influence on his fitness and bodybuilding career.

Wanz died on September 14, 2017 in Styria, Austria of heart failure at the age of 74.

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Yokozuna (sumo)

A   in the sport of Sumo is the highest rank any wrestler (Rikishi) can attain.  The word means "Horizontal Rope" and it comes from one of the symbols that Yokozuna wear; a thick rope (綱 tsuna) which is worn around the waist.  It is a sign of their rank.  This rope can be very heavy, weighing around . It is not worn for fights, but only for the wrestler's entrance ceremony into the ring at the start of a tournament.  The rope is similar to that which is used in Shinto religion for purification and to mark off sacred areas of the temple.

Yokozuna are stars in Sumo. They are in many ways, the public face of Sumo and their behaviour is watched very closely.  

Japanese culture
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Clarke Carlisle

Clarke James Carlisle (born 14 October 1979) is an English former footballer. He played as a defender between 1997 and 2013. He played for many teams including Blackpool, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United, Watford and Burnley.

Carlisle was born in Preston. He is of Dominican ancestry. He has three children.

Other websites

Clarke Carlisle career stats at Soccerbase

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List of scientists from South America

This is a list of scientists from South America.

Argentina
Ernesto Sabato - he got the award, Legion of Honour; physicist; he died in 2011

Brazil

 Adib Jatene, was Minister of Health; heart surgeon; died in 2014

 Warwick Estevam Kerr, is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and of the Third World Academy of Sciences; member of the National Order of Scientific Merit; Genetics, Biology, Agronomy, Entomology

 Fritz Müller, known for Müllerian mimicry; Evolutionary biology; died in 1897

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Rosen

Rosen may refer to the following people:

Last names:
 Al Rosen, Jewish-American baseball player
 Beatrice Rosen, American-French actress
 Daphne Rosen, Jewish-American pornographic actress
 Elsa-Marianne von Rosen, Swedish ballet dancer, choreographer and actress
 Magnus Rosén, Swedish bassist
 Michael Rosen, Jewish-English children's novelist and poet
 Sam Rosen, Jewish-American sportscaster
 Yisrael Rosen, Israeli rabbi and journalist

First name:
 Rosen Plevneliev, former President of Bulgaria

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Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel (5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician. He died in 1829.

He did the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

Legacy
The Abel Prize (Abel-prisen) is named after him.

Related pages
 List of scientists

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La Punt-Chamues-ch

La Punt-Chamues-ch is a municipality of the district of Maloja in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Dompierre, Vaud

Dompierre is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is found in the district of Broye-Vully.

Municipalities of Vaud
Parsons Green train bombing

On 15 September 2017, at around 8:20 am BST (07:20 UTC), an explosion occurred on a District line train at Parsons Green tube station, in London, England. Twenty-nine people were injured and later treated in hospital. The main injuries were burn injuries. The incident is being treated by the Metropolitan Police as a terrorist attack. It was one of several attacks to occur on British soil in 2017 which are being treated as terrorism.

The bomber had placed the device in a white plastic bucket inside a shopping bag, according to images and videos posted on social media just after the attack. Wires were visible hanging out, as well as a black towel. Reports also indicate the device had a timer attached.

In a statement after the incident, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "My thoughts are with those injured at Parsons Green and the emergency services who, once again, are responding swiftly and bravely to a suspected terrorist incident."

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Marcel Herriot

Marcel Paul Herriot (18 May 1934 – 14 September 2017) was a Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Moussey, Vosges, France.

Herriot was ordained to the priesthood in 1960. He served bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun, France, from 1987 to 1999. He then served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons from 1999 to 2008.

Herriot died on 14 September 2017 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Vosges, France at the age of 83.

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 Fiche  French official website 
  Fiche from catholic-hierarchy.org

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Dwijen Sharma

Dwijen Sharma (May 29, 1929 – September 15, 2017) was a Bangladeshi naturalist and science writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Award in 1987 and Ekushey Padak in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh for his work in language and literature.

In 1962 he left Barisal to join the faculty of Notre Dame College, Dhaka and worked until 1974. Then, he moved to Moscow to work for Progress Publishers as a translator.

Sharma died of kidney disease on September 15, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh at the age of 88.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and movie director. He has been based in France since the early 1970s. He has won multiple Tony and Emmy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, the Praemium Imperiale, and the Prix Italia. He has been called "our greatest living theatre director".

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Official Peter Brook website - Site officiel 
 Dan David Prize laureate 2005
 
 
 
 Peter Brook at Internet Off-Broadway Database
 
 Peter Brook profile by Experimental Theatre Organization 
Review of Brook's Mahabharata in Caravan Magazine
 Master's Degree in Urban Scenography in Barcelona 

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Ata Kandó

Ata Kandó (born Etelka Görög; 17 September 1913 – 14 September 2017) was a Hungarian-Dutch photographer of Jewish descent. She was born in Budapest, Hungary.

Beginning her photography practice in the 1930s with children's photography, Kandó later worked as a fashion photographer, photographed refugees and travelled to the Amazon to photograph landscapes and indigenous people. In the 1930s she stayed two times in Paris. During the war she lived in Hungary, but after the war she returned to Paris.She moved to the Netherlands in 1954.

In 1959, she won a silver medal in Munich for fashion photography and then in 1991, received the Pro Cultura Hungarica Medal. This was followed in 1998 with the Imre Nagy Prize and that same year, she and her husband received the Righteous Among the Nations, awarded by Israel for saving Jews during the Holocaust.

In 1999 she was awarded the Hungarian Photographers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Kandó died at the age of 103 in Bergen, Netherlands on 14 September 2017.

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Bruce Glover

Bruce Herbert Glover (born November 2, 1932) is an American character actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is of English and Swedish descent. He is best known for his role of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever. He is the father of actor Crispin Glover.

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Giuseppina Projetto

Giuseppina Projetto-Frau (30 May 1902 – 6 July 2018) was an Italian supercentenarian. She was the oldest living person in Italy since the death of Marie Josephine Gaudette on 13 July 2017. Projetto was the oldest living person born in Italy since the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017, as Gaudette was born in the United States.

Projetto was born in La Maddalena. In 1946, she married Giuseppe Frau, a widower with three children. Projetto lived in Tuscany with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Projetto died on 6 July 2018 at the age of 116.

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Marie Josephine Gaudette

Marie-Josephine Clarice Gaudette (25 March 1902 – 13 July 2017) was an American-born Italian supercentenarian. She was the oldest living person in Italy from the death of Emma Morano, who was the oldest living person in the world and the oldest Italian person ever on 15 April 2017 until her own death three months later. 

Gaudette was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, and was the oldest living person born in the United States from the death of Susannah Mushatt Jones on 12 May 2016 and the oldest emigrant from the U.S. ever.

A nun known as Mother Cecilia, she lived in the Italian convent from 1958 until her death and was considered "the world's oldest nun". She lived in Canada and France before settling in Italy. Gaudette died on 13 July 2017, aged 115 years, 110 days.

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Rhys Hoskins

Rhys Dean Hoskins (born March 17, 1993) is an American professional baseball first baseman and left fielder for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2017. Before playing for the Phillies, he played college baseball for the Sacramento State Hornets.

He is the fastest player in history—in terms of games played—to hit the following number of career home runs: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17.

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Independence Day Award

The Independence Day Award is the highest state award given by the government of Bangladesh. It is also termed Independence Award, Swadhinata Padak, and Swadhinata Puroskar. The award was introduced in 1977 and since then it has been given to Bangladeshi citizens or organizations in recognition of substantial contribution to one of many fields, including the War of Liberation, the Language Movement, education, literature, journalism, public service, science and technology, medical science, social science, song, games and sports, fine arts, rural development, and other areas.

Each awardee receives a gold medal, a certificate of honour, and a sum of cash. The amount of the cash reward was originally taka 20 thousand, but later in 2004, it was increased to taka one lac (.10 million in Bangladeshi currency).

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Laax

Laax () is a municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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 Official website 
 Official Tourism website 

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Ladir

Ladir is a former municipality in the district Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Ladir, Castrisch, Ilanz, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Ilanz/Glion

Ilanz/Glion is a new municipality of the district Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Castrisch, Ilanz, Ladir, Luven, Pitasch, Riein, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.

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Riein

Riein is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Riein, Castrisch, Ilanz, Luven, Pitasch, Ladir, Ruschein, Schnaus, Sevgein, Duvin, Pigniu, Rueun and Siat merged into the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Luven

Luven is a former municipality of the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is part of the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Ruschein

Ruschein is a former municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is part of the new municipality of Ilanz/Glion.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Schluein

Schluein is a municipality of the district Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Amazonas Department

Department of Amazonas  (, ) is a department in the southern Colombia. The capital is Leticia. The name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department.

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Antioquia Department

The Department of Antioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia. It is located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. The capital is Medellín.

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Sucre Department

Sucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The capital is Sincelejo.

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La Sierra, Cauca

La Sierra is a municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.

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Almaguer, Cauca

Almaguer is a municipality in the Cauca Department, Colombia.

Municipalities of Colombia
Basil Gogos

Basil Gogos (March 12, 1929 – September 13, 2017) was an Egyptian-born American illustrator. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was best known for his  portraits of movie monsters which appeared on the covers of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine in the 1960s and 1970s. 

Gogos died in Manhattan, New York of a heart attack on September 13, 2017 at the age of 88.

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Savognin

Savognin is a former municipality of the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Savognin, Bivio, Cunter, Marmorera, Mulegns, Riom-Parsonz, Salouf, Sur and Tinizong-Rona merged into the new municipality of Surses.

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Arjan Singh

Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, DFC (15 April 1919 – 16 September 2017) was an Indian Air Force Officer. He served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969. He was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, British India ().

After retiring from the IAF, he served as a diplomat, politician and advisor to the Indian government. In 2002, he became the first and only officer of the Indian Air Force to be promoted to five-star rank as Marshal of the Indian Air Force, equal to the army rank of Field Marshal.

In 1971 (after his retirement) Singh was appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Switzerland. He concurrently served as the Ambassador to the Vatican. He was also appointed as the High Commissioner to Kenya in 1974.

Singh died of a heart attack on 16 September 2017 in New Delhi, India at the age of 98.

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 Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh - Indian Air Force Official Website
 Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh
 Book on Arjan Singh: Marshal of The Indian Air Force (Hardcover)
 Book review on Arjan Singh: Marshal of The Indian Air Force
 Article on Marshal of The Indian Air Force Arjan Singh 
 Photograph of Arjan Singh today

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Henflingen

Henflingen is a former commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Illtal.

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Portage County, Ohio

Portage County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 161,419 people lived there. The county seat is Ravenna.

Ohio counties
1808 establishments in Ohio
Albert Speer Jr.

Albert Speer (; 29 July 1934 – 15 September 2017) was a German architect and urban planner. He was the son of  Albert Speer  (1905–81) who was Adolf Hitler's chief architect. He was born in Berlin, Germany.

In 1984 he founded the company Büro Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main. He was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 in Hanover, design of the Shanghai International Automobile City, and the central axis in Beijing created while serving as lead designer for the 2008 Olympics.

Speer Jr. died in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 15 September 2017 at the age of 83.

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Urban planners
Keely Smith

Keely Smith (born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, March 9, 1932 — December 16, 2017) was a Grammy Award-winning American jazz and popular music singer. She performed and recorded many times in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo-artist.

With her former husband Prima, their songs included Johnny Mercer's and Harold Arlen's "That Ol' Black Magic", which was a Top 20 hit in the US in 1958. At the 1st Annual Grammy Awards in 1959, Smith and Prima won the first Grammy for Best Performance by a Vocal Group for "That Ol' Black Magic".

Smith died of apparent heart failure in Palm Springs, California on December 16, 2017 at the age of 85.

References

Other websites
 NPR: "Keely Smith: A Swingin' Icon of Early Vegas"
 Interview by KUOW-FM's Amanda Wilde 

Grammy Award winners
1932 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from heart failure
American pop singers
American jazz musicians
Singers from Virginia
Musicians from Virginia
People from Norfolk, Virginia
Redfoo

Stefan Kendal Gordy (September 3, 1975, Los Angeles, California) is better known for his scene, Redfoo's art was an American Singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ, record producer, dancer, and the son of an American record executive, the founder of Monotow Records, Berry Gordy. In 2006, he created the band LMFAO with its worldwide success in 2011 with the album Sorry Party Rocking before they were removed in 2012. In 2016, he released his album Party Rock Maison.

Acknowledgments

The first artist to reach 1 million like on YouTube with Videoclip Party Rock Anthem on November 15, 2011 (under the pseudonym LMFAO.)

1975 births
American record producers
American pop singers
Living people
American songwriters
Nabeel Qureshi

Nabeel Qureshi (April 13, 1983 – September 16, 2017) was an American Christian apologist writer and speaker, converted from Islam to Christianity. He was born in California.

Qureshi was a speaker with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) and the author of three books, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (Zondervan, February 2014), Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward (Zondervan, March 2016), and No God But One—Allah or Jesus (Zondervan, August 2016).

Qureshi died of advanced stomach cancer on September 16, 2017 at the age of 34.

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2017 deaths
Alumni of the University of Oxford
American Protestants
Cancer deaths in the United States
Christian writers
Converts to Christianity
Deaths from stomach cancer
Writers from California
Peter Lassally

Peter Lassally (born 1933) is a German-born American executive television producer and Holocaust survivor. He was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is a former Carson Productions executive. He was the executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with David Letterman,  the Late Show with David Letterman and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

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1933 births
Living people
Naturalized citizens of the United States
German Jews
German businesspeople
American Jews
American television producers
Businesspeople from New York City
Holocaust survivors
People from Hamburg
Jaspillite

Jaspillite, or jaspilite, is a chemical rock formed similar to chert. It is usually iron rich. It also has the name jasper taconite. 

Jaspillite is typically a layered mixture of hematite and quartz. It is common in the banded iron formation rocks of Proterozoic and Archaean age in the Canadian shield of North America.

Jaspillite is also a sedimentary rock.in certain lead-zinc ore deposits.

It is used as a gemstone.

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Mindat.org data

Sedimentary rocks
Gemstones
Bautista Álvarez

Bautista Goyel Álvarez Domínguez (1933 – 16 September 2017) was a Spanish nationalist politician and historian. He was born in San Amaro, Spain. He served as the President of the Galician People's Union from 1964 through 1977.

Álvarez died of a heart attack on 16 September 2017 at his sister's home in Beariz, Spain at the age of 84.

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 Biography 

1933 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Spanish politicians
Spanish writers
Spanish historians
María Cristina Arango Vega

María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928 – 15 September 2017) was the widow of the 23rd President of Colombia, Misael Pastrana Borrero. She served as First Lady of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. She was also the mother of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango. She was born in Bogota.

Arango Vega died in Bogota on 15 September 2017 at the age of 88.

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First Ladies of Colombia
People from Bogotá
Misael Pastrana Borrero

Misael Eduardo Pastrana Borrero (14 November 1923 – 21 August 1997) was the 23rd President of Colombia from 1970 to 1974.

During his four years in office, Pastrana was cautiously progressive. He sought to increase employment opportunities with a famous four-point strategy. He attempted to boost national savings as a way of moving away from dependency on foreign investment and credit, and he extended pensions rights for many people.

His son, Andrés Pastrana Arango, later became the 30th President of Colombia.

Pastrana died in Bogotá, Columbia on 21 August 1997 of a stroke at the age of 73.

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1923 births
1997 deaths
Deaths from stroke
Presidents of Colombia
Colombian lawyers
Ted Christopher

Ted Christopher (June 5, 1958 – September 16, 2017), sometimes called "Teddy" Christopher, was an American racing driver. He was born in Plainville, Connecticut.

Career 
Christopher has raced and won in many different types of race cars, including Modifieds, SK Modifieds, ISMA, Camping World East Series, Late Models, Pro Stocks, and Midgets.  

Christopher also raced in NASCAR's Nextel Cup, Busch, and Craftsman Truck Series.  He is best known for competing in NASCAR's Whelen Modified Tour, where he has over 40 victories and a championship in 2008.  He is also well known for his success on the 1.058 mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway where Christopher has won five Camping World East Series events and 5 Whelen Modified Tour events.

Christopher was an aggressive driver, known for his infamous "Three Tap Rule" when passing cars in front of him, though his driving style changed in his later career and has brought more success to his racing career.

Christopher was killed in an airplane crash near North Branford, Connecticut on September 16, 2017 at the age of 59.

References

Other websites
 Driver statistics at Racing-Reference.com

1958 births
2017 deaths
Aviation deaths in the United States
NASCAR drivers
American racecar drivers
Sportspeople from Connecticut
Mitchell Flint

Mitchell Flint (June 27, 1923 – September 16, 2017) was an American lawyer and a veteran aviator. He was a U.S. Navy Fighter pilot during World War II, and later served as an American Volunteer pilot in Israel's first fighter squadron during its War of Independence. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Flint died on September 16, 2017 in Los Angeles, California from complications of pneumonia at the age of 94.

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Carl Duering

Carl Duering (born 29 May 1923) is a German-born British actor. He was born in Berlin, Germany. He is best known role is as Dr. Brodsky in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange.

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1923 births
Living people
German movie actors
German television actors
German stage actors
British movie actors
British television actors
British stage actors
Actors from Berlin
Steven Berkoff

Steven Leslie Berks (born 3 August 1937), known professionally as Steven Berkoff, is an English character actor, author, playwright and theatre director. 

As an actor, he is best known for his performances in villainous roles, such as Lt. Col Podovsky in Rambo: First Blood Part II, General Orlov in the James Bond movie Octopussy, Victor Maitland in Beverly Hills Cop and Adolf Hitler in the TV mini-series War and Remembrance. He also played Det. Const. Tom in the 1971 movie A Clockwork Orange.

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1937 births
Living people
English movie actors
English television actors
English stage actors
English playwrights
English novelists
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Marcelo Rezende

Marcelo Luiz Rezende Fernandes (November 12, 1951 – September 16, 2017) was a Brazilian journalist and television presenter. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.

He began his career as a sports journalist in Rio de Janeiro in the coverage of several major games in the 1970s. Rezende worked at Rede Globo for 23 years as a reporter, where he was hired to present the Linha Direta police program until December 2000. The last program he worked in was called Cidade Alerta (Alert City) and was presented on RecordTV. 

Rezende died of multiple organ failure complicated by pancreatic cancer in Rio de Janeiro on September 16, 2017 at the age of 65.

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1951 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian television presenters
Brazilian writers
People from Rio de Janeiro
Cecilia Caballero Blanco

Cecilia Caballero Blanco (30 September 1913 – 13 August 2019) was the widow of the 24th President of Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.

Caballero Blanco was born on 30 September 1913 in Bogotá. She married Alfonso López Michelsen on 23 October 1938. They had three children: Alfonso, Juan Manuel, and Felipe.

Caballero Blanco turned 100 in September 2013. She died on 13 August 2019 in Bogotá at the age of 105.

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1913 births
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Alfonso López Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen (30 June 1913 – 11 July 2007) was the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. López was the son of former two time president of Colombia, Alfonso López Pumarejo. He was born and raised in Bogotá.

Presidency
In 1974, López was selected by the Liberal Party in as their candidate for president after defeating former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo in the party presidential primaries. He won the general election by a large margin against the Conservative Party candidate Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and the ANAPO candidate, María Eugenia Rojas.

In his inaugural speech on August 7, 1974, López was mostly remembered for calling the border disputed area in the Gulf of Venezuela by its native name "Gulf of Coquibacoa" given by the wayuus. On September 14, 1977 in Bogotá a bloody riot started in all sections of the city, the riot was called The National Civic Strike. The two days riot left a death toll of 80 people, and 2000 people injured.

Post-presidency
Upon the end of his term in 1978, he again became the leader of Liberal Party. He ran for president again in 1982, but was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate, Belisario Betancur.

Death
Lopez Michelsen died in Bogotá on July 11, 2007 after suffering a heart attack.

References

Other websites
 MOIR: the six lies of President Lopez 
 EL TIEMPO: Alfonso López Michelsen 1913-2007 

1913 births
2007 deaths
Deaths from myocardial infarction
Presidents of Colombia
People from Bogotá
President of Colombia

The President of the Republic of Colombia () is the head of state and head of government of Colombia.

The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was "la Gran Colombia". The first president, General Simón Bolívar, took office in 1819. His position, initially self-proclaimed, was ratified by Congress.

The current president of the Republic of Colombia is Iván Duque Márquez, who took office on 7 August 2018.

Living former presidents
As of , there are five living former presidents:

The most recent death of a former president was that of Belisario Betancur (1982–1986) on ; he was 95 years old.

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Presidencia de la Republica de Colombia 
Georgetown University - Requisites to be President of Colombia
Nydia Quintero Turbay

Nydia Quintero Turbay (born 28 August 1932) is a Colombian philanthropist and the ex-wife of the 25th President of Colombia, Julio César Turbay Ayala, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 when they were still married.

She is the President of Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of impoverished Colombian families through educational and nutritional programs for children, the disabled and the poor.

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1932 births
Living people
First Ladies of Colombia
South American philanthropists
Gustavo Balcázar Monzón

Gustavo Balcázar Monzón (born 10 August 1927) is a Colombian lawyer and retired politician.

Balcázar Monzón is a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as Member of both the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, presiding over both chambers of Congress. He also served in the administrations of President Guillermo León Valencia as the 48th Governor of Valle del Cauca, and as the 16th Minister of Agriculture, and in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala as the 18th Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, and Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria.

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1927 births
Living people
Colombian politicians
Colombian lawyers
Ambassadors of Colombia
Émile Idée

Émile Idée (born 19 July 1920) is a former French professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Nouvion-le-Comte, France. 

Idée is a five-time winner of the Critérium International, a record shared with Raymond Poulidor and Jens Voigt. He finished in second place in the 1948 Paris–Roubaix.

References

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Official Tour de France results for Emile Idée

1920 births
Living people
French cyclists
Chris Wallace

Christopher W. Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American television anchor and political commentator. He is the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company/Fox News Channel program Fox News Sunday. 

Wallace has won three Emmy Awards and the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award. Wallace has been with Fox News since 2003. As a previous moderator of Meet the Press on NBC, Wallace is the only person to date to have served as host/moderator of more than one of the major Sunday morning political talk shows.

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1947 births
Living people
American political commentators
American political writers
American television presenters
Journalists from Chicago
French Stewart

Milton French-Stewart (born February 20, 1964), known professionally as French Stewart, is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Harry Solomon on the 1990s sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun and for his role as Chef Rudy on the sitcom Mom.

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1964 births
Living people
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American voice actors
Comedians from New Mexico
Actors from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Xiaolongbao

Xiaolongbao (小笼包) are small steamed buns, originally from the Jiangnian region in China, especially connected to Shanghai and Wuxi. Traditionally they are filled with pork, but this can be mixed with other things, like crab meat and roe (eggs).  Modern versions of these buns are often contain other meats, seafood or vegetarian fillings.   

The buns are wrapped in a dough, which sometimes gets bigger by rising (called a leavened dough), or they're wrapped in a dough which doesn't do this (called an unleavened dough).  The buns are then steamed over boiling water to cook them.  

It is possible to buy deep frozen Xiaolongbao worldwide, normally in special shops or supermarkets which sell ingredients for Chinese cooking.
List of Ekushey Padak winners in Arts

The Ekushey Padak in Arts winners are listed here.

List of winners

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

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Award winners
Lists of award winners
Arts
Herrlisheim-près-Colmar

Herrlisheim-près-Colmar is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Huron County, Ohio

Huron County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 59,626 people lived there. The county seat is Norwalk.

1815 establishments in Ohio
Ohio counties
Sandusky County, Ohio

Sandusky County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. In 2010, 60,944 people lived there. The county seat is Fremont.

1820s establishments in Ohio
1820 establishments in the United States
Ohio counties