cahya/wikipedia-simple-en huggingface dataset:
Dish, Texas

DISH is a town in the U.S. state of Texas. It used to be called Clark but renamed to "DISH" as part of an agreement with Dish Network.

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Towns in Texas
Combremont-le-Grand

Combremont-le-Grand was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Marnand

Marnand was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Valbroye

Valbroye is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

2011 establishments in Switzerland
Municipalities of Vaud
Interstate 278

Interstate 278 is a highway is in the US states of New Jersey and New York. It runs from US Highway 1-9 in Linden, NJ to the Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95/I-295) in The Bronx. Its names include the Staten Island Expressway on Staten Island, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, (BQE) the Gowanus Expressway, the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, and the Bruckner Expressway.

Interstate Highways
Barkatullah Khan

Barkatullah Khan (25 October 1920  – 11 October 1973) was a politician from Indian state of Rajasthan. He was a leader of Indian National Congress party. He was elected to state assembly from Tijara.

He was Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 9 July 1971 to 11 October 1973. He was the first Muslim to be the Chief Minister. He died in office from a heart attack.

References

Other websites
Photo 

1920 births
1973 deaths
Rajasthan
Indian politicians
Bongo BD

Bongo BD is a Bangladeshi record label company. It is known for the digital version and published latest content to the viewers. The founder and CEO of Bongo BD is Ahad Mohammad. The company also launched cricket website and android app for the cricket fans.

References

Other websites
 Official Website

21st-century establishments in Bangladesh
2013 establishments in Asia
Bangladeshi record labels
Dhaka
La Tour-de-Peilz

La Tour-de-Peilz  is a municipality of the district Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Cities in Switzerland
Veytaux

Veytaux is a municipality of the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

The Chateau of Chillon provides a marvelous view of the entire Lake of Geneva located in Avenue de Chillon.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Cerniaz

Cerniaz was a municipality of the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Granges-près-Marnand

Granges-près-Marnand was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

Transport 
The municipality has a rail connection to the Léman Express network via the Palézieux–Payerne line. On 29 July 2013, two passenger trains on the line suffered a head-on collision at Granges-près-Marnand, causing at least 35 injuries and one fatality.

References

Other websites 
 
 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Sassel

Sassel was a municipality of the district Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Seigneux

Seigneux was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Combremont-le-Petit

Combremont-le-Petit was a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References

Other websites 
 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Villars-Bramard

Villars-Bramard was a municipality of the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2011 the former municipalities of Cerniaz, Combremont-le-Grand, Combremont-le-Petit, Granges-près-Marnand, Marnand, Sassel, Seigneux and Villars-Bramard joined together to become the new municipality of Valbroye.

References 

2011 disestablishments in Switzerland
Former municipalities of Vaud
Jorat-Mézières

Jorat-Mézières is a new municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Carrouge, Ferlens and Mézières merged to form the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières.

References

Other websites 

 Official website of the municipality of Jorat-Mézières 

2016 establishments in Switzerland
Municipalities of Vaud
Brenles

Brenles is a former municipality of the district Broye-Vully, in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Brenles, Chesalles-sur-Moudon, Cremin, Forel-sur-Lucens and Sarzens joined together to become the municipality of Lucens.

References 

Former municipalities of Vaud
Aromanian language

Aromanian (, armãneashti, or armãneshce), also known as Macedo-Romanian or Vlach, is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Meglenoromanian, or a dialect of the Romanian language spoken in Southeastern Europe. Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlachs. It is heavily influenced by Albanian.

References

Other websites 

 
Aromanian Language website
Στα Βλάχικα – In Vlach: A website about the Vlach language in Greece
Aromanian Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh list appendix)
Aromanian basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
Asterios Koukoudis: Studies on the Vlachs
Greek Helsinki Human Rights Organization: Aromanians (Vlachs) in Greece
Conjugation of verbs in Aromanian and Istro-Romanian 
Romanian and the Balkans, with some references to Aromanian
Greek Vlach website
Consiliul A Tinirlor Armanj – CTARM , webpage about Youth Aromanians and their projects
 Armans Association from Serbia
 Armans Cultural Association from Romania

Romance languages
Languages of Europe
Greece
North Macedonia
Albania
Romania
Chadlia Caid Essebsi

Chadlia Saïda Farhat Essebsi (August 1, 1936 – September 15, 2019) was the former First Lady of Tunisia from 2014 through 2019. She was the wife of President Beji Caid Essebsi. She was Tunisia's fifth first lady, as well as the second following the Tunisian Revolution.

She died in Tunis of a heart attack on 15 September 2019, aged 83, less than two months after her husband.

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1936 births
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First Ladies of Africa
Michael Shenstone

Michael Shenstone (June 25, 1928 – September 9, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He was born in Toronto. Shenstone was the Canadian ambassador to Saudi Arabia between 1974 and 1978 and to Austria from 1985 through 1990. He played a key role in releasing American hostages from Iran between 1979 through 1981.

Shenstone died in Mississauga, Ontario on September 9, 2019 at the age of 91.

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2019 deaths
Ambassadors of Canada
Politicians from Toronto
Jim Greengrass

James Raymond Greengrass (October 24, 1927 – September 9, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. He appeared in 504 games over five seasons (1952–1956) in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs and Philadelphia Phillies.

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Cincinnati Reds players
Sportspeople from New York
Addison, New York

Addison is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 2,595 at the 2010 census.

References

1791 establishments in New York (state)
Towns in New York
Chatsworth, Georgia

Chatsworth is a city in Murray County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Dalton, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,531 at the 2000 census and 4,299 in 2010. The city is the county seat of Murray County.

References

Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
County seats in Georgia
Dalton, Georgia

Dalton is a city in Whitfield County, Georgia, United States. It is the county seat of Whitfield County and the principal city of the Dalton, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 33,128.

References

Cities in Georgia (U.S. state)
County seats in Georgia
Rudi Gutendorf

Rudolf Gutendorf (30 August 1926 – 13 September 2019) was a German football manager and player. He was known for managing the highest number of national teams – a total of 19 teams plus Iran's Olympic team in 1988 and the China Olympic team in 1992. He played for TuS Koblenz from 1944 through 1953. He was born in Koblenz, Germany.

Gutendorf died on 13 September 2019 at the age of 93.

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1926 births
2019 deaths
German footballers
German football managers
Alex Grammas

Alexander Peter Grammas (April 3, 1926 – September 13, 2019) was an American professional baseball infielder, manager and coach. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Grammas played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Redlegs and Chicago Cubs. He threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as  tall and .

Grammas coached the Cubs, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Reds, the Atlanta Braves and the Detroit Tigers.

Grammas died at his home in Vestavia Hills, Alabama on September 13, 2019 at the age of 93.

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1926 births
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Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Reds players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Sportspeople from Birmingham, Alabama
Bussy-sur-Moudon

Bussy-sur-Moudon  is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Vaud
Champtauroz

Champtauroz is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Vaud
Lovatens

Lovatens is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Vaud
Ropraz

Ropraz is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Vaud
Hermenches

Hermenches is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district  in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Municipalities of Vaud
Chavannes-sur-Moudon

Chavannes-sur-Moudon is a municipality in the of Broye-Vully district  in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Municipalities of Vaud
Chevroux, Switzerland

Chevroux is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References 

Municipalities of Vaud
Corcelles-le-Jorat

Corcelles-le-Jorat is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Curtilles

Curtilles is a municipality in the Broye-Vully district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

References

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Treytorrens (Payerne)

Treytorrens (Payerne) is a municipality in the district of Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Other websites 

 Official website 

Municipalities of Vaud
Don't Call Me Angel

"Don't Call Me Angel (Charlie's Angels)" is a song recorded by American singers Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey.  It was released on September 13, 2019, as the theme song to the upcoming remake of the film Charlie's Angels.  It is an  pop and R&B song. All three artists wrote the song with Savan Kotecha, Alma-Sofia Miettinen, and its producers, Max Martin and Ilya.

References 

2019 songs
Ariana Grande songs
Miley Cyrus songs
Pop songs
R&B songs
Lol Mahamat Choua

Lol Mahamat Choua (June 15, 1939 – September 15, 2019) was a Chadian politician. He was his country's head of state for four months in 1979. He was the President of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) political party.

References

1939 births
2019 deaths
Heads of state of Chad
List of heads of state of Chad

This is a list of heads of state of Chad since the country gained independence from France in 1960 to the present day.

List of officeholders

Notes

Other websites
 Presidency of Chad
 World Statesmen – Chad
Roberto Leal (singer)

António Joaquim Fernandes (November 27, 1951 – September 15, 2019), known as Roberto Leal, was a Portuguese-Brazilian singer-songwriter. He sold more than 17 million albums, and received 30 golden records and 5 platinum records. He was born in Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal.

In an opinion poll by Datafolha in Rio de Janeiro, asking what was the first famous Portuguese person people could think of, Leal came in first, with 15%, ahead of Pedro Álvares Cabral (9%) and Luís de Camões (4%). Some of Leal best known songs are: "Bate o Pé", "Clareou", "O Vinho de Meu Amor", and "Marrabenta".

In 2007 and 2010, he released albums both in Portuguese and Mirandese languages.

In January 2019, Leal revealed that he had skin cancer. He died at the age of 67 on September 15, 2019 at a São Paulo hospital. The cause of death was kidney failure caused by skin cancer-related medicine.

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1951 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Deaths from skin cancer
Portuguese singers
Brazilian singers
Songwriters
Phyllis Newman

Phyllis Newman (March 19, 1933 – September 15, 2019) was an American actress, activist and singer. She won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Martha Vail in the Broadway-theatre production of Subways Are for Sleeping. She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award.

Newman was a breast cancer survivor. She died on September 15, 2019 in New York City at the age of 86. The cause of death was lung disease-related problems.

References

Other websites
 Phyllis Newman's Website 
 

Tony Award winning actors
1933 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from lung disease
Disease-related deaths in New York City
Breast cancer survivors
American movie actors
American television actors
American stage actors
American autobiographers
American activists
American feminists
Writers from New Jersey
Actors from New Jersey
Singers from New Jersey
Actors from New York City
Singers from New York City
Writers from New York City
People from Jersey City, New Jersey
B. J. Khatal-Patil

Bhikajirao Jijaba Khatal-Patil () (March 26, 1919 – September 16, 2019), popularly known as Dada or Khatal Saheb, was an Indian politician, writer and activist. He was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). Khatal-Patil was born in Sangamner, Ahmednagar District. He was a member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly between 1962 through 1978 and again through 1980 through 1985.

Khatal-Patil died on September 16, 2019 at his home in Sangamner of pneumonia at the age of 100.

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1919 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Indian writers
Indian politicians
Political activists
Centenarians
Mike Stefanik

Michael Stefanik (May 20, 1958 – September 15, 2019) was an American professional stock car racing driver. He competed mainly in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. He was a seven-time champion in the Modified series, Stefanik was named the second greatest NASCAR Modified driver of all-time in 2003. His nine total championships (two in the Busch North Series) tie him with Richie Evans for most in NASCAR history. He was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

Stefanik was killed in an airplane crash near Sterling, Connecticut September 15, 2019 at the age of 61.

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1958 births
2019 deaths
Aviation deaths in the United States
NASCAR drivers
Sportspeople from Massachusetts
Wilbraham, Massachusetts

Wilbraham is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb of the City of Springfield, and part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,868 at the 2010 census.

References

Towns in Massachusetts
Sterling, Connecticut

Sterling is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,099 at the 2000 census.

References

Towns in Connecticut
Ric Ocasek

Richard Theodore Otcasek (March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019), known as Ric Ocasek (), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and painter] He was best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and primary lyricist for the rock band the Cars. His best known songs were "Just What I Needed", "My Best Friend's Girl", "You Might Think" and "Drive", the first and latter on which bandmate Ben Orr sang lead vocals. Ocasek was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.

In 2018, Ocasek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars.  Unlike most bands that made it big, The Cars did not do recreational or illicit drug use.  The Cars were known to drink and stay up late and record most of their music throughout the night hours.

Ocasek was found dead in his New York City apartment on September 15, 2019 from hypertension and heart disease at the age of 75.

References

Other websites

Ric Ocasek VH1 artist page 
Ric Ocasek AOL artist page
[ Ric Ocasek Allmusic artist page]

1944 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from hypertension
Cardiovascular disease deaths in New York City
American rock singers
American rock guitarists
American pop singers
American pop musicians
American keyboard players
American singer-songwriters
American painters
Record producers
Singers from Maryland
Writers from Baltimore
Singers from Cleveland, Ohio
Writers from Cleveland, Ohio
Musicians from Maryland
Musicians from Cleveland, Ohio
Pitch bend

A pitch bend is a music effect on where one note will slide to another note. Pitch bends is a technical term that is used in MIDI technology and there are some genres of music such as rock and video game where pitch bends are often heard. The first synthesizer with a pitch wheel was the Minimoog, in 1970.

References 

Music
Kodela Siva Prasada Rao

Kodela Siva Prasada Rao (2 May 1947 – 16 September 2019) was an Indian politician. He was born in Kandlagunta, Andhra Pradesh. Rao was a member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (APLA) from 1983 through his death. He was the Speaker of the APLA from 2014 until his death. 

On 16 September 2019, Rao died at a hospital in Hyderabad after hanging himself at the age of 72.

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1947 births
2019 deaths
Suicides by hanging
Politicians who committed suicide
Indian politicians
Paul Cronin

Paul Cronin (8 July 1938 – 13 September 2019) was an Australian actor. He was known for his roles in the Australian television series Matlock Police and The Sullivans. He won the Silver Logie five times. Cronin was born in Jamestown, South Australia.

Cronin died on 13 September 2019 in Melbourne at the age of 81.

References

Other websites

1938 births
2019 deaths
Australian movie actors
Australian television actors
Actors from South Australia
John Ralston (American football)

John R. Ralston (April 26, 1927 — September 14, 2019) was an American football player, coach, and sports executive. He was born in Oakland, California and raised in Norway, Michigan.

Ralston was the head football coach at Utah State University (1959–1962), Stanford University (1963–1971), and San Jose State University (1993–1996). He also coached the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL) from 1972 to 1976 and the Oakland Invaders of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983.

Ralston was added into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1992.

Ralston died on September 14, 2019 in Sunnyvale, California at the age of 92.

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1927 births
2019 deaths
American football linebackers
American football coaches
Sportspeople from Michigan
Sportspeople from Oakland, California
Norway, Michigan

Norway is a city in Dickinson County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 2,845 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Iron Mountain, MI–WI Micropolitan Statistical Area.

References

Cities in Michigan
Neil Hartigan

Neil F. Hartigan (born  May 4, 1938) is an American Democrat. He was Illinois Attorney General, the 40th Lieutenant Governor, and a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court.  

Hartigan also was the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1990 but lost the race to Republican Jim Edgar.

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1938 births
Living people
Lawyers from Chicago
Lieutenant Governors of Illinois
Politicians from Chicago
US Democratic Party politicians
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (OFR) (born December 7, 1957) is a Nigerian political scientist, administrator and career diplomat. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly from 2019 to 2020.

He was the permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations and was the Vice-President of the General Assembly during its 71st session in September 2016. 

On June 4, 2019 he was elected the President of the 74th session of the Assembly to replace María Fernanda Espinosa in September 2019.

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1957 births
Living people
Nigerian people
Political scientists
Ambassadors
Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
Philippe Pétain

Philippe Pétain (1856-1951) was a French General  who served as leader of Vichy France between 1940 and 1944. 

During World War I Pétain was the hero of the Battle of Verdun and led the French Army until the end of the war in 1918.

In 1940 during the Battle of France the French government asked him to govern the country. He surrendered to the Germans. From 1940 to late 1942, Vichy France was a client state of Nazi Germany. In November 1942 Pétain became a puppet of Nazi Germany as they fully occupied and disarmed Vichy France.

After the war, Pétain was tried and convicted for treason. He was originally sentenced to death, but due to his age and World War I service his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He died in 1951.

1856 births
1951 deaths
Ambassadors of France
French criminals
French diplomats
French generals
French military personnel of World War I
French people of World War II
French prisoners
French Roman Catholics
Government ministers of France
Legion of Honour
Marshals of France
Members of the Académie française
People from Hauts-de-France
People who died in prison custody
Presidents of France
Prime Ministers of France
War criminals
World War II political leaders
Marginal sea

A marginal sea is a part of an ocean that is between the coastal zone and open ocean. Such a sea is partly enclosed by land and not as deep as the open ocean. There are many named marginal seas. However, there is some disagreement on what makes a sea a marginal sea or not.

References

Related pages 
 List of seas
 Inland sea

Bodies of water
Seas
Lynx (web browser)

Lynx is a customizable text-based web browser for use on cursor-addressable character cell terminals. , it is the oldest web browser still in general use and active development, having started in 1992.

History
Lynx was a product of the Distributed Computing Group within Academic Computing Services of the University of Kansas. It was first created in 1992 by a team of students and staff at the university (Lou Montulli, Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac) as a hypertext browser. It was used only to distribute campus information as part of a Campus-Wide Information Server. It was also used for browsing the Gopher space.

References

Other websites

Web browsers
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War

This was the fourth Anglo-Dutch War between the Anglos and Dutchs. It occurred immediately after the Third and before the Fifth Anglo-Dutch Wars. Anglos and Dutchs did not like the number 4 so they moved on to the Fifth War in the year in 1784. Anglos the mass slaughter of Dutchs but mistakenly killed the bush Maori and Turks. The result of the war led to the birth of Jesus Christ. Amen.

1780s
History of the Netherlands
Wars involving England
Wars involving the Netherlands
Wars involving the United Kingdom
Penny Whetton

Penelope Whetton (5 January 1958 – 11 September 2019) was an Australian climatologist. She was an expert in regional climate change effects due to global warming and in the impacts of those changes. Her primary scientific focus was  Australia.

In 1989, she joined the Atmospheric Research division of CSIRO (later becoming CMAR CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research). She was one of the lead authors of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 

Whetton was born in Melbourne. She was married to Senator Janet Rice. In 2003, she had sexual reassignment surgery. Whetton died on 11 September 2019 in Sisters Beach, Tasmania at the age of 61.

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1958 births
2019 deaths
Transgender and transsexual people
Australian LGBT people
Environmentalists
LGBT scientists
Australian scientists
People from Melbourne
Luigi Colani

Luigi Colani (born Lutz Colani; 2 August 1928 – 16 September 2019) was a German industrial designer. He was born in Berlin. His long career began in the 1950s when he designed cars for companies including Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Volkswagen, and BMW. 

Colani died in Karlsruhe on 16 September 2019 at the age of 91.

References

Other websites 

 Colani Design Germany GmbH
 Colani Trading AG
 Japanese Colani fan web site
 3 pictures of the Kitchen Satellite
 Website of his son's design company and his Instagram  and IMDb pages
 Article in the New York Times: Colani’s Concepts Make Concept Cars Look Tame (2007)

1928 births
2019 deaths
German architects
People from Berlin
Steve Dalachinsky

Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – Septemeber 16, 2019) was an American poet. He was from New York City. 

He was a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, received the Franz Kafka Prize, Acker Award, PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. 

Dalachinsky died of a stroke on September 16, 2019 at a hospital in Long Island, New York at the age of 72.

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1946 births
2019 deaths
Deaths from stroke
American poets
Writers from New York City
H. S. Dillon

Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon (23 April 1945 – 16 September 2019) was an Indonesian Sikh and political/human rights activist. He was Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture and Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights. He was an outspoken critic of corruption in Indonesia.

Dillon died on 16 September 2019 at a hospital in Jakarta at the age of 74.

References

Other websites
HS Dillon, a fearless campaigner - March 09, 2005. Interview, personal background and list of positions.
Indonesians in Focus: H. S. Dillon - H. S. Dillon and governance reform  planetmole.org
 The Association for Human Rights Reporting Standards (FIHRRST)

1945 births
2019 deaths
Indonesian activists
Human rights activists
Political activists
Sakahoko Nobushige

Sakahoko Nobushige (born as Yoshiaki Fukuzono; 18 June 1961 – 16 September 2019) was a Japanese sumo wrestler. His highest rank was sekiwake. He later became the head coach of Izutsu stable. He was the elder brother of Terao Tsunefumi. Nobushige was born in Kagoshima, Japan. Sakahoko made his professional debut in January 1978.

Sakahoko died of pancreatic cancer on 16 September 2019 at the age of 58.

References

Other websites
Article on brothers in sumo

1961 births
2019 deaths
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Khem Singh Gill

Khem Singh Gill (1 September 1930 – 17 September 2019) was an Indian academic, geneticist and plant breeder. He was a former Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University from 1990 through 1993.

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1930 births
2019 deaths
Indian educators
Indian geneticists
Brian McClendon

Brian McClendon (born 1964) is an American software designer, developer, and engineer. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc.. Keyhole is a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004. Google bought it so they could create Google Earth. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Early life
McClendon grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. His childhood home, Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, is the default center point of Google Earth. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1982. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering.

Career

Technology
McClendon became a vice president at Google in 2004. This was when Google purchased Keyhole. Keyhole's main application suite, Earth Viewer, formed the basis of Google Earth.

He left Google to join Uber in June 2015. He did this to work on mapping.

In March 2017, he quit Uber (though was still an adviser) to return to his hometown. He said he was interested in Kansas politics.

Politics

In January 2018, he said he would run for Kansas Secretary of State as a Democrat. He had no opponent in the primary election. He was selected as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by the Republican candidate Scott Schwab.

References

Other websites
 Website 
 NAE Profile

1964 births
Living people
Kansas Democrats
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Alan Mulally

Alan Roger Mulally (born August 4, 1945) is an American engineer, business executive, and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ford Motor Company. He retired from Ford Motor Company on July 1, 2014. Ford had been struggling during the late-2000s recession. Mulally made it profitable again. Because of him, Ford was the only American major car manufacturer to avoid a bailout fund given by the government. On July 15, 2014, he was chosen to be on the Google Board of Directors.

Mulally was the executive vice president of Boeing and the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA). He started his career with Boeing as an engineer in 1969. He was mostly credited with BCA's :simple:wikt:resurgence against Airbus in the mid-2000s. In 2015, Mulally was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Early life 
Mulally was born in Oakland, California. He was the son of Lauraine Lizette (Clark) and Charles R. Mulally, who met at a USO dance. Mulally grew up in his mother's hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. This was where he was a member of Plymouth Congregational Church. He considered Rev. Dale Turner "a mentor and an inspiration". He used to sit at the front of the church to study the minister's influence on the congregation. Mulally said that he was motivated at the age of 17 by president John F. Kennedy's challenge to send a man to the moon.

Education 
Mulally graduated from the University of Kansas. It was also his mother's alma mater. He graduated with Bachelor of Science (1968) and Master of Science (1969) degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. He was also a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

References

Other websites 

 Biography: Alan Mulally at Ford Motor Company

 Profile at Bloomberg Businessweek
 Alan Mulally's federal campaign contributions from Newsmeat
 

1945 births
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Ford
People from Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence High School (Kansas)

Lawrence High School (LHS) is a public secondary school in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. It is operated by Unified School District 497. It serves students of grades 9 to 12. The school is one of the two public high schools located in the city. Lawrence High had 1,260 students in the 2007–2008 school year. The school colors are red and black. The mascot is the "Chesty Lion".

Lawrence High School was created in 1857. It was created to help educate Lawrence because there were a lot of people living there. The first classes were held in the basement of a Unitarian Church. Three years later, the school was moved to the current place of Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, on Massachusetts Street. In 1930, the Lion became the school symbol. In 1946, it made its official debut as the school mascot. Lawrence High moved to its current place on Louisiana Street in 1954.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics
Currently Lawrence High has more than 100 state championships in various sports, one of the highest totals in the United States. The first state championship was won in 1914 in boys basketball. Due to the success of Lawrence High and the University of Kansas, Lawrence was featured as a candidate for Titletown, United States by ESPN.

Football
The Lawrence High School Chesty Lions have 31 undefeated seasons in football. This is the most in the United States. The Chesty Lions won a High School Football National Championship in 1960. From 1930–2008, games were played at Haskell Memorial Stadium. Once the new football stadium was finished being built at Lawrence High School, the football team started playing games at the new stadium in 2009.

State Championships

Lawrence High has won the following state championships:

^ predates KSHSAA playoffs and AP poll
+predates KSHSAA playoffs; ranked #1 in final AP poll

Notable alumni
 Erin Brockovich, had a movie made about her when she helped a town win a $333 million lawsuit because Pacific Gas and Electric Company had contaminated their water supply
 Danny Manning, led the University of Kansas basketball team to the 1988 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship
 Brian McClendon, Google Earth creator
 Alan Mulally, former Ford Motors CEO
 Sri Srinivasan, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

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Lawrence, Kansas
Schools
Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye Hospital

The Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a well-known hospital in the Poissy and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, close to Paris. It was created in 1997.
It is partner of the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

References

Further reading 
   CHIPS

1990s establishments in France
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Île-de-France
Manuel Delgado Parker

Manuel Delgado Parker (November 18, 1936 – 16 September 2019) was a Peruvian businessman. He was born in Lima. He founded the media company Grupo RPP. In 1990 Manuel founded the Society of Latin America Broadcasting, made up of the main radio networks of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela Bolivia and Argentina. He was responsible for leading Panamericana Televisión during the 1990s.

Delgado Parker died on 16 September 2019 in Lima at the age of 82.

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Cokie Roberts

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019), known as Cokie Roberts, was an American journalist, political commentator and bestselling author. 

Her career as a political reporter and analyst included working for National Public Radio and ABC News. She also appeared on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week.

In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died from problems of the disease in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2019 at the age of 75.

References

Other websites
 
 Cokie Roberts Interview with Chris Matthews, Plum TV
 Official biography – NPR
 Recent NPR stories by Cokie Roberts – NPR
 Video Interviews with Cokie Roberts – Charlie Rose
 Women of Influence – National Endowment for the Humanities
 1994 Commencement Speech – Wellesley College
 Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives – Cokie Roberts gives a first-hand account of growing up in the capital.

1943 births
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Hale Boggs

Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 – disappeared October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission.

In October 1972, Boggs was travelling with congressman Nick Begich, of Alaska, and two others when the plane disappeared while flying from Anchorage to Juneau, Alaska. He was declared dead in declared dead in absentia in December 1972.

Related pages

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

References

Other websites

 
 
 Hale Boggs Telex — Debunked
 

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Board of education

A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or anything like those.

In the United States
For over a century, local boards were responsible for public education funding, standards, instruction, and results. To a extent is still true. At their height in the 1930s, there were as many as 127,500 boards. Some rural states had more school board members than teachers. Such boards looked over school systems serving agrarian and industrial economies.

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Education
School district

A school district is a special-purpose district that runs local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.

United States
In the U.S, public schools belong to school districts. They are governed by school boards.

School districts in the Midwest and West often cross city borders. School districts in New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions tend to stay inside of city, township, and/or county boundaries.

References

More reading
 Yan, Wenfan (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). "A Comparison of Rural School Districts" (Archive). The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania General Assembly. September 2006.
 "How Small Is Too Small? An Analysis of School District Consolidation" (Archive). Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) (Fiscal and policy advisor of the California Legislature). May 2, 2011.

More websites
 2002 Census of Governments
 U.S. School Districts Online

Education
Local government
John W. McCormack

John William McCormack (December 21, 1891 – November 22, 1980) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Democrat. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1928 through 1971. He was the 45th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1962 until his 1971 retirement.

McCormack died of pneumonia in a Dedham, Massachusetts nursing home on November 22, 1980 at the age of 88.

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Special-purpose district

Special districts (also known as special service districts, special district governments, limited purpose entities,  or special-purpose districts in the United States) are independent, special-purpose governmental units that exist separately from local governments such as county, municipal, and township governments. They have a lot of independence in their administration and funding. They are created to do a single task or a many similar tasks. The U.S. Census Bureau says that school districts aren't special district governments.  In 2007, the U.S. had more than 37,000 special district governments.

Related pages
Local government

References

More reading
 Friedman, L. M. A history of American law. (3rd). Simon & Schuster: New York. 2005.
 Krane, D., Rigos, P. N., and Hill, M. B. Home rule in America: A fifty-state handbook. CQ Press. 2001.
 Mergent's Municipal and Government Manual
 Zimmerman, J. F. The New England town meeting. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1997.

Other websites
 A Citizen's Guide to Special Districts in California 
 California Special Districts Association
 U.S. Census Bureau
  U.S. Census Bureau/Governments Organization/Volume 1
  Government Accounting Standards Board
  2006 Government Finance and Employment Classification Manual, U.S. Census Bureau
 2007 Governments Integrated Directory, U.S. Census Bureau
  IRS tax-exempt bond information 
  Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington
  Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Special District Accountability Program
 State and Local Government Review - current and past issues
 Bloomberg News
 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Special Districts (HBO)

Local government
Joseph W. Martin Jr.

Joseph William Martin Jr. (November 3, 1884 – March 6, 1968) was an American politician. He was the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and 1953 to 1955. He represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 through 1967. He was the only Republican become Speaker in a sixty-four year period from 1931 to 1995.

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North Attleborough, Massachusetts

North Attleborough, alternatively spelled North Attleboro, is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,712 at the 2010 United States Census.

References

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Kingston, Tennessee

Kingston is a city in and the county seat of Roane County, Tennessee, United States. This city is thirty-six miles southwest of Knoxville. It had a population of 5,934 at the 2010 United States census.

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Cities in Tennessee
County seats in Tennessee
Stanley Stair

Stanley Stair (October 1900 – April 2008) was the last British West Indies Regiment veteran.  He enlisted into the Infantry in 1918. At the end of the war he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. 

He died in Animal Hill, Lucea, Jamaica, in April 2008 at the age of 107.

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James Robertson (judge)

James Robertson (May 18, 1938 – September 7, 2019) was an American politician and lawyer. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1994 until his retirement in June 2010. Robertson also was on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2002 until December 2005, when he resigned from that court in protest against warrantless wiretapping. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Robertson died on September 7, 2019 at the age of 81, in Washington, D.C. from heart failure.

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Henri de Contenson

Henri de Contenson  (4 March 1926 – 8 September 2019) was a French archaeologist. He was the Research Director at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research. He was born in Paris. He was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976. 

de Contenson died in Paris on 8 September 2019 at the age of 93.

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1926 births
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Sander Vanocur

Sander "Sandy" Vanocur (; born Alexander Vinocur, January 8, 1928 – September 16, 2019) was an American television journalist and actor. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He focused on national electoral politics. After leaving NBC in 1971, Vanocur worked for PBS and as a television writer for The Washington Post. He joined ABC News in 1977 and worked there until 1991.

Vanocur hosted two of the History Channel's primetime series: Movies in Time and History's Business. His work at NBC earned him a place on the Nixon administration's "enemies list". He played himself in the 1994 television movie Without Warning.

Vanocur died in Santa Barbara, California on September 16, 2019 from dementia-related problems at the age of 91.

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Cynthia Cockburn

Cynthia Cockburn (1934 – 12 September 2019) was a British academic, feminist journalist, and peace activist. She was active in the international women's peace movement. Cockburn was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at City University London and honorary professor in the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick.

Cockburn was widely published in academic journals, including in Feminist Review, Gender & Development, Journal of Classical Sociology, Peace in Process.

Cockburn died on 13 September 2019 of thyroid cancer at her London home at the age of 85.

References

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 Personal website
 Women in Black - London

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Dennis Edwards (footballer)

Dennis Edwards (19 January 1937 –  13 September 2019) was an English professional footballer. He played as an inside forward in the Football League.

He played for Charlton Athletic, for whom he made over 170 appearances. He also played league football for Portsmouth, Brentford and Aldershot. He was a goalscorer in non-league football for Slough Town and Wycombe Wanderers. He  capped by England at amateur level.

Edwards died on 13 September 2019 in Denmead, Portsmouth at the age of 82.

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1937 births
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Denmead

Denmead is a village in Hampshire near Portsmouth, England. It is part of the City of Winchester district. At the 2011 Census the population had increased to 6,736.

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Hallmark Cards

Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a private, family-owned American company in Kansas City, Missouri. It was created in 1910 by Joyce Hall. Hallmark is the oldest and biggest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Employees
Worldwide, Hallmark has over 27,000 employees; 20,000 of them work in the United States. About 5,600 of them are full-time employees. About 2,700 Hallmark employees work at the Kansas City headquarters.

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