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Joseph Bologna

Joseph "Joe" Bologna (December 30, 1934 – August 13, 2017) was an American actor and television writer. He was notable for roles in the comedy movies My Favorite Year and Transylvania 6-5000. From 1996 to 1998, he voice-acted the character Inspector Dan Turpin in several episodes of Superman: The Animated Series.

Bolgona won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1973 for his work on The Carol Burnett Show.

Bologna was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Brown University. Bologna was married to Renée Taylor from 1965 until his death in 2017. They had one child together. 

Bologna died in at a hospital in Duarte, California on August 13, 2017 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 82.

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Renée Taylor

Renée Taylor (née Renée Wexler; March 19, 1933) is an American actress, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and one-time director. She is best known for having played Fran Drescher's title character's outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series The Nanny.

Taylor won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 1973 for her work on The Carol Burnett Show.

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Gene Sharp

Gene Sharp (January 21, 1928 – January 28, 2018) was an American political scientist, writer and activist. He was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of nonviolent action. He was a retired professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was known for his writings on nonviolent struggle.

Sharp was born in North Baltimore, Ohio. He studied at Ohio State University and at Oxford University.

Unofficial sources have claimed that Sharp was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, and had been nominated three times, in 2009, 2012 and 2013.

Sharp was widely thought to be the favorite for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize award. In 2011 he was awarded the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize. In 2012 he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award as well as the Distinguished Lifetime Democracy Award.

Sharp died on January 28, 2018 at home in Boston, Massachusetts, exactly 1 week after his 90th birthday.

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Bruno Canfora

Bruno Canfora (; November 6, 1924 – August 5, 2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music arranger. He was born in Milan. He also composed songs for Rita Pavone, Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bassey, and the Kessler Twins. His best known movie composition works are The Man Who Wagged His Tail, Fall of the Mohicans, and in Destruction Force. He was the Eurovision Song Contest conductor for the 1991 contest.

Canfora died on August 5, 2017 in Piegaro, Italy at the age of 92.

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Burton Gilliam

Burton Gilliam (born August 9, 1938) is an American actor. He was born in Dallas, Texas. 

Gilliam appeared in the role of "Floyd", the desk clerk in the movie Paper Moon. He has also appeared in popular motion pictures such as Blazing Saddles and  Back to the Future Part III. He has had roles in several other motion pictures such as Honeymoon in Vegas, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Farewell, My Lovely, Fletch, Gator, Telefon, and The Terror Within II. 

His television appearances include Alice, Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team,The Dukes Of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, and he appeared as a regular on Evening Shade.

Gilliam is married to Susan Gilliam. They have two children together. His granddaughter his gymnast Hollie Vise.

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Do It Like a Dude

"Do It like a Dude" is the debut single by English singer-songwriter Jessie J. The song was released as the lead single from her debut album, Who You Are (2011). It was released as a download in November 2010 in the United Kingdom with a CD release in January 2011. It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and in Scotland too, number eight in New Zealand and Belgium, and number eleven in Ireland. "Do It like a Dude" was awarded Best Song at the 2011 MOBO Awards.

Background

"Do It like a Dude" was written by Jessie J under her real name of Jessica Cornish, George Astasio, Jason Pebworth, Jon Shave, Kyle Abrahams and Peter Ighile Jessie J had wrote the song originally for Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna because Rihanna's song "Rude Boy" was released at the time that Jessie J began to write it, She played the song to her label, Island Records, before sending it to Rihanna's management. Island then wanted the song to become Jessie's J first single, as they thought it was "amazing". Jessie J has said that she would like to perform the song live with Rihanna as Jessie J thinks that Rihanna "would kill it."

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Loing

The Loing is a river in central France. It is a left tributary of the Seine. It flows through three regions of France: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Centre-Val de Loire and Île-de-France

Geography
The Loing is  long. Its drainage basin covers .

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Épisy, Seine-et-Marne, at about  from the mouth of the Loing.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Épisy (69 years)

Course
The Loing starts in Puisaye, a natural region, in the commune of Sainte-Colombe-sur-Loing, in the south of the Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It starts at an altitude of about .

The Loing flows, in general, to the northwest. It goes through the following regions, departments and communes:

 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
 Yonne: Sainte-Colombe-sur-Loing ~ Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye ~ Moutiers-en-Puisaye ~ Saint-Fargeau ~ Saint-Martin-des-Champs ~ Saint-Privé ~ Bléneau ~ Rogny-les-Sept-Écluses
 Centre-Val de Loire region
 Loiret: Dammarie-sur-Loing ~ Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois ~ Châtillon-Coligny ~ Montbouy ~ Montcresson ~ Conflans-sur-Loing ~ Amilly ~ Montargis ~ Châlette-sur-Loing ~ Cepoy ~ Girolles ~ Fontenay-sur-Loing ~ Nargis ~ Dordives
 Île-de-France region
 Seine-et-Marne: Château-Landon ~ Souppes-sur-Loing ~ La Madeleine-sur-Loing ~ Poligny ~ Bagneaux-sur-Loing ~ Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours ~ Nemours  ~Montcourt-Fromonville ~ Grez-sur-Loing ~ Bourron-Marlotte ~ Montigny-sur-Loing ~ La Genevraye ~ Épisy ~ Orvanne ~ Veneux-les-Sablons ~ Saint-Mammès

At its end, the Loing flows into the Seine river in Saint-Mammès (bordering Veneux-les-Sablons), Seine-et-Marne department, at  of altitude.

The Loing river gives its name to the following communes: Sainte-Colombe-sur-Loing, Dammarie-sur-Loing, Conflans-sur-Loing, Châlette-sur-Loing, Fontenay-sur-Loing, Souppes-sur-Loing, La Madeleine-sur-Loing, Bagneaux-sur-Loing, Grez-sur-Loing, Montigny-sur-Loing et Moret-sur-Loing.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Loing are:

Left tributaries:
 Puiseaux - 37 km
 Solin - 31.3 km
 Bezonde - 35 km
 Fusain - 34.4 km

Right tributaries:
 Ouanne - 83.8 km
 Cléry - 43.1 km
 Lunain - 51.4 km

Paintings 
Several painters have painted the Loing river. Some of the paintings are:

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References 

Rivers of France
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Centre-Val de Loire
Île-de-France
AeronautX Luftfahrtschule

AeronautX Luftfahrtschule is a flight school located in Linz, Austria. It has been created in 1998.
It is well known for its partnership with the airline FlyNikki.

The school is member of the International Association of Aviation Personnel Schools.

References

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 Official website

Aviation
Linz
Hélène Martini

Hélène Martini (6 August 1924 – 5 August 2017) was a French nightclub owner. He was known for her ownership with the Folies Bergères and known as The Empress of the Night. She was born in Warsaw, Poland to French parents.

Martini died on 5 August 2017 in Paris at the age of 92.

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Blanche Blackwell

Blanche Blackwell (9 December 1912 – 8 August 2017) was a Jamaican heiress. She was born in Costa Rica. She was the mother of Chris Blackwell (Founder of Island Records) and inspirational muse to Ian Fleming and Noël Coward. She was believed by some to have been the inspiration for some of Fleming’s most memorable female characters; Pussy Galore and Honeychile Rider.

Blackwell died in London on 8 August 2017 at the age of 104.

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Thomas A. Bird

Major Thomas Arthur Bird DSO, MC (11 August 1918 – 9 August 2017) was a British soldier of the Second World War. He was awarded two Military Crosses and the Distinguished Service Order. He later became an architect and worked in collaboration with Richard Tyler restoring country houses.

Bird died on 9 August 2017 at the age of 98.

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Aung Shwe

Brigadier General Aung Shwe (; 19 May 1918 – 13 August 2017) was a Burmese politician and a member of General Ne Win's  Burma Rifles rising to Brigadier General. He was one of the founders and former Chairman of National League for Democracy who took in charge of the party when Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo were under house arrest in the early 2000s.

He served as Burmese ambassador to Australia, Egypt, France, Spain and New Zealand from 1961 to 1975.

Shwe died on 13 August 2017 at Victoria Hospital in Yangon, Myanmar at the age of 99.

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Frank Broyles

John Franklin Broyles (December 26, 1924 – August 14, 2017) was an American football player and coach, athletics administrator, and broadcaster.  He served as the head football coach at the University of Missouri in 1957 and at the University of Arkansas from 1958 to 1976. Broyles also was Arkansas' athletic director from 1974 until his retirement on December 31, 2007.

Broyles was born in Decatur, Georgia. He studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

As a head football coach, Broyles compiled a record of 149–62–6.  His mark of 144–58–5 in 19 seasons is the most wins and the most games of any coach in Arkansas history.  With Arkansas, Broyles won seven Southwest Conference titles and his 1964 team was named a national champion by a number of selectors including the Football Writers Association of America.  He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

Broyles died in Fayetteville, Arkansas on August 14, 2017 of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 92.

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Abdelkrim Ghallab

Abdelkrim Ghallab (December 31, 1919 – August 14, 2017) was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He was born in Fes, Morocco. He was an important figure both in the literary and political field. He studied both at the University of Al-Karaouine in Fez and at the University of Cairo.

Ghallab was the author of five novels and three collections of short stories. His best known novel is Dafann al-m'd (The buried Past), 1966. According to Simon Gikandi his Arabic style is known for its "graceful and at times scholarly classicism".

In 2000, the Union of Arab writers in Egypt included his novel Al-Mu`alîm `Ali (Master Alí) among the hundred best Arabic novels in history. In 2001, the Moroccan department of Culture published the complete works of Ghallab in five volumes. In 2004 he was awarded the Maghreb Culture prize of Tunis. His work has been translated in many languages.

Ghallab died in El Jadida on August 14, 2017, aged 97.

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2017 Ouagadougou attack

18 people were killed and more than 20 were injured when jihadists opened fire on a Turkish restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 13 August 2017. The attackers took hostages after being cornered by police and were killed in an ensuing shootout.

Ouagadougou was also the site of a similar attack in 2016.

It is suspected by the government that al-Qaeda Maghreb affiliate was behind the attack.

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, voice actor and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury), and his early band Mudcrutch.

Petty was also known for his voice role as Lucky in the television series King of the Hill.

In his career, Petty sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In 2002, Petty was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Petty died on October 2, 2017 after he was found in his home in Santa Monica, California suffering from cardiac arrest after accidentally overdosing on prescription pain medication and fentanyl patches at the age of 66.

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Yuriko, Princess Mikasa

, born  on 4 June 1923, is a member of the Imperial House of Japan as the widow of Takahito, Prince Mikasa, the fourth son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. The Princess is the last surviving paternal aunt of the present emperor, Akihito. She is the oldest member of the Imperial Family, and the only living member who was born in the Taishō period during the reign of her father-in-law.

On 29 March 1941, Yuriko's engagement to her second cousin once removed, Prince Mikasa, was announced. The engagement ceremony was held on 3 October 1941, and the wedding ceremony took place on 22 October 1941. Prince and Princess Mikasa were married for 75 years, until Prince Mikasa's death in October 2016.

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Inga Swenson

Inga Swenson (born December 29, 1932) is an American actress. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. 

Swenson is best known for her roles as Gretchen Kraus in the TV sitcom Benson and as Ingrid Svenson on the TV sitcom Soap, which had the same producers. She also appeared as northern matriarch Maude Hazard in the acclaimed mini-series North and South in 1985 and again in 1986.

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K.I.S.S. (Keep It Sexy & Simple)

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| recorded = October 2010—February 2011
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| label = Manhattan  Planet 9
| producer = Mýa Harrison (also exec.)   Michael Barney  Aaron Bennett  PJ Bianco  BigHeadDez  Carvin & Ivan  Fredro  Hardwork  Chuck Harmony  Loren Hill  John Ho  Daisuke Imai  Lil' Eddie  Bei Maejor  Duwayne Mills  Jeff Miyahara  Rich Shelton  Young Yonni
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}}K.I.S.S. (abbreviation of Keep It Sexy & Simple''') is the sixth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mýa. It is her second album to be released on Manhattan Records. The album was later re-released as a deluxe version with new songs for her American fans on February 14, 2012.

ReceptionK.I.S.S.'' received generally positive reviews from music critics.

Track listing

Japanese standard edition

North American deluxe edition

International Deluxe/U.S. 2013 Limited Mint Edition

Sample credits
 "Take Him Out" contains a sample of "Pon de Floor" by Major Lazer.
 "Break Your Neck" contains a sample "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock

Personnel

Managerial
 A&R – Rambo Harrison, Kensuke Hara, Kazuya Sasamura
 Artist coordination – Jake McKim
 Business management – Theresa Harrison
 Executive producer – Mýa Harrison
 Marketing – Takahiro Ikeda, Haruka Ikgeami, Mike Killmon
 Management – Sherman Harrison, Mike Killmon, Carol Rosenthal, Crystal Bozeman, Troy Ramsey, Teron Beal, Tatiana Noboa

Visuals and imagery
 Art direction and design – Motoki Mizoguchi
 Clothing design – André Adkins, Leon Frager
 Hair stylist – Yusef
 Make-up – Lisa Hayes
 Photography – Marc Baptiste
 Stylist – Leon Frager

Instruments
 Drums – Alex Selph
 Guitar – Daniel Groover
 Keyboard – Alex Selph
 Piano – Julian Brazer
 Strings – Jonathan Perkins

Technical and production
 Backing vocals – Caramel M. Faith, Tasha J. King, Lindsay Fields, Krystle Oliver, Atozzio Town
 Engineering – PJ Bianco, Mýa Harrison,  Loren Hill, Mike Johnson, Jared Newcomb, Rich Shelton, Young Yonny
 Mastering – Tucky@parasight
 Mixing – Ivan Barias, Brandon Bishop, Ben Chang, D.O.I., Carvin Haggins, John Ho, Satoshi Hosoi, Mike Johnson, Mike Mo, Frankie Mumbles, Nemhara, Young Yonny
 Recording – Jeff Miyahara

Charts

Release history

References

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2012 albums
Electronica albums
Hip hop albums
R&B albums
Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department

There are 4 arrondissements in the Eure-et-Loir department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.

If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.

Arrondissements are further divided into communes.

The arrondissements of Eure-et-Loir are:

History
Since its creation, the Eure-et-Loir department has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the department with six districts: Chartres, Châteaudun, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, Dreux, Janville and Nogent-le-Rotrou; the capital was Chartres.
 1800 : creation of four arrondissements: Chartres, Châteaudun, Dreux and Nogent-le-Rotrou.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou was eliminated.
 1943 : Nogent-le-Rotrou was made again an arrondissement.

Related pages
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Eure-et-Loir
Franklin Cleckley

Franklin Dorrah Cleckley (August 1, 1940 – August 14, 2017) was an American lawyer. He was the Arthur B. Hodges Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. He taught at the law school from 1969 to 2013. He held the endowed professorship emeritus. 

Cleckley was born in Huntington, West Virginia. 

Cleckley became the  first African-American to serve as a Justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, when Governor Gaston Caperton appointed him to the position in 1994. Justice Cleckley served on the Court until 1996.

Cleckley died at his home in Morgantown, West Virginia, on August 14, 2017, aged 77.

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Jean Carnahan

Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan (born December 20, 1933) is an American politician and writer. She served as First Lady of Missouri from 1993 to 2000, and as her state's junior U.S. senator from 2001 to 2002. 

A member of the Democratic Party, she was appointed in 2001 to fill the Senate seat of her husband Mel Carnahan, who had been elected but died before taking office, becoming the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate.

Other websites
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Online News Hour account of the 2000 election 
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Arrondissement of Châteaudun

The arrondissement of Châteaudun is an arrondissement of France, in the Eure-et-Loir department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Châteaudun.

History
When the Eure-et-Loir department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Châteaudun was part of that original department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Châteaudun is the most southern of the arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department. It has an area of  and a population of 59,794 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Chartres, to the east by the Loiret department, to the southeast by the Loiret department, to the south by the Loir-et-Cher department and to the west by the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Châteaudun are:

 Brou (2803) (partly)
 Châteaudun (2807)
 Illiers-Combray (2811) (partly)
 Voves (2815) (partly)

Communes
The arrondissement of Châteaudun has 64 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Alluyes (28005)
 Baigneaux (28019)
 Bazoches-en-Dunois (28028)
 Bazoches-les-Hautes (28029)
 Bonneval (28051)
 Bouville (28057)
 Brou (28061)
 Bullainville (28065)
 Bullou (28066)
 La Chapelle-du-Noyer (28075)
 Châteaudun (28088)
 Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières (28103)
 Commune nouvelle d'Arrou (28012)
 Conie-Molitard (28106)
 Cormainville (28108)
 Courbehaye (28114)
 Dambron (28121)
 Dampierre-sous-Brou (28123)
 Dancy (28126)
 Dangeau (28127)
 Donnemain-Saint-Mamès (28132)
 Flacey (28153)
 Fontenay-sur-Conie (28157)
 Le Gault-Saint-Denis (28176)
 Gohory (28182)
 Guillonville (28190)
 Jallans (28198)
 Lanneray (28205)
 Logron (28211)
 Loigny-la-Bataille (28212)
 Lumeau (28221)
 Marboué (28233)
 Meslay-le-Vidame (28246)
 Mézières-au-Perche (28250)
 Moléans (28256)
 Montboissier (28259)
 Montharville (28260)
 Moriers (28270)
 Mottereau (28272)
 Neuvy-en-Dunois (28277)
 Nottonville (28283)
 Orgères-en-Beauce (28287)
 Péronville (28296)
 Poupry (28303)
 Pré-Saint-Évroult (28305)
 Pré-Saint-Martin (28306)
 Saint-Avit-les-Guespières (28326)
 Saint-Christophe (28329)
 Saint-Denis-les-Ponts (28334)
 Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir (28353)
 Sancheville (28364)
 Saumeray (28370)
 Terminiers (28382)
 Thiville (28389)
 Tillay-le-Péneux (28390)
 Trizay-lès-Bonneval (28396)
 Unverre (28398)
 Varize (28400)
 Vieuvicq (28409)
 Villampuy (28410)
 Villemaury (28330)
 Villiers-Saint-Orien (28418)
 Vitray-en-Beauce (28419)
 Yèvres (28424)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Chateaudun
Gunnar Birkerts

Gunnar Birkerts (, January 17, 1925 – August 15, 2017) was a Latvian-American architect. He was born in Riga, Latvia.

For most of his career, Birkerts was based in the metropolitan area of Detroit, Michigan. Some of his designs include the Corning Museum of Glass and the Corning Fire Station in Corning, New York, Marquette Plaza in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela.

In 2014, he designed the National Library of Latvia in Riga, Latvia, aka the Castle of Light, whose architectural form references and draws inspiration from Latvian folklore.

Birkerts died at the age of 92 on August 15, 2017 at his home in Needham, Massachusetts of congestive heart failure.

References

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"Gunnar Birkerts papers 1930–2002", at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
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Stephen Wooldridge

Stephen Brian Wooldridge  (17 October 1977 – 14 August 2017) was an Australian racing cyclist, an Olympic and four-time world champion on the track. He was born in Sydney. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

In 2005, Wooldridge was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia. He was inducted into the NSW Hall of Champions in 2015.

Wooldridge committed suicide on 14 August 2017 in Sydney at the age of 39.

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Arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou

The arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou is an arrondissement of France, in the Eure-et-Loir department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Nogent-le-Rotrou.

History
When the Eure-et-Loir department was created on 1800, the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou was part of that original department.

On 10 September 1926, the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou was eliminated but in 1943 Nogent-le-Rotrou became again an arrondissement of the department.

Geography
The arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou is the most western of the arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department. It is the smallest arrondissement of the department with an area of  and the one with fewest people living in it, with a population of 36,668 inhabitants.

It is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Dreux, to the east by the arrondissement of Chartres, to the southeast by the arrondissement of Châteaudun, to the south by the Loir-et-Cher department, to the southwest by the Sarthe department and to the west by the Orne department.

Composition

Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.

The cantons in the arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou are:

 Brou (2803) (partly)
 Illiers-Combray (2811) (partly)
 Nogent-le-Rotrou (2813)

Communes
The arrondissement of Nogent-le-Rotrou has 52 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː

 Argenvilliers (28010)
 Authon-du-Perche (28018)
 La Bazoche-Gouet (28027)
 Beaumont-les-Autels (28031)
 Belhomert-Guéhouville (28033)
 Brunelles (28063)
 Béthonvilliers (28038)
 Champrond-en-Gâtine (28071)
 Champrond-en-Perchet (28072)
 Chapelle-Guillaume (28078)
 Chapelle-Royale (28079)
 Charbonnières (28080)
 Chassant (28086)
 Combres (28105)
 Coudray-au-Perche (28111)
 Coudreceau (28112)
 Fontaine-Simon (28156)
 Frazé (28161)
 Friaize (28166)
 Frétigny (28165)
 Happonvilliers (28192)
 La Croix-du-Perche (28119)
 La Gaudaine (28175)
 La Loupe (28214)
 Le Thieulin (28385)
 Les Autels-Villevillon (28016)
 Les Corvées-les-Yys (28109)
 Les Étilleux (28144)
 Luigny (28219)
 Manou (28232)
 Margon (28236)
 Marolles-les-Buis (28237)
 Meaucé (28240)
 Miermaigne (28252)
 Montigny-le-Chartif (28261)
 Montireau (28264)
 Montlandon (28265)
 Moulhard (28273)
 Nogent-le-Rotrou (28280)
 Nonvilliers-Grandhoux (28282)
 Saint-Bomer (28327)
 Saint-Denis-d'Authou (28331)
 Saint-Éliph (28335)
 Saint-Jean-Pierre-Fixte (28342)
 Saint-Maurice-Saint-Germain (28354)
 Saint-Victor-de-Buthon (28362)
 Soizé (28376)
 Souancé-au-Perche (28378)
 Thiron-Gardais (28387)
 Trizay-Coutretot-Saint-Serge (28395)
 Vaupillon (28401)
 Vichères (28407)

The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:

Related pages
 Arrondissements of the Eure-et-Loir department
 List of arrondissements of France

References

Nogent-le-Rotrou
Time in Ukraine

Ukraine observes Eastern European Time (EET) (UTC+02:00) as standard time and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03:00) as daylight saving time. The eastern parts and Crimea use Moscow Time (MSK) (UTC+03:00) without daylight saving time.

Ukraine has observed daylight saving time since 1981 (then part of the Soviet Union) switching to EEST on the last Sunday in March at 03:00 local time, and switching to EET on the last Sunday in October at 04:00 local time.

Ukraine
Ukraine
Flond

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

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Flond and Surcuolm merged into the new municipality of Mundaun.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Ftan

Ftan is a former municipality of the district of Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Ftan, Guarda, Sent and Tarasp merged into the municipality of Scuol.

Other websites

 Official Website 

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Numberblocks

Numberblocks is a British children's CGI-animated television series. It debuted on CBeebies on 23 January 2017. It is animated by Blue-Zoo Productions, the studio that also produces Alphablocks, which is related. It is a show to teach kid under the age of 11 how to count.

Premise 
Numberblocks follows the adventures of one hundred anthropomorphic block characters in Numberland, with the number of blocks determining which numeral they stand for and a tiny black floating numerical figure above them to show how many blocks they are made of, called a numberling. When one of the blocks jumps on top of another, they transform into a different character to make a new number. The show tries to help preschool children learn numeracy skills, especially how to count and add up.

Characters

Episodes
There are 6 seasons in Numberblocks.

Season 1 (2017) 

 One
 Another One
 Two
 Three
 One, Two, Three!
 Four
 Five
 Three Little Pigs
 Off We Go
 How To Count
 Stampolines
 The Whole of Me
 The Terrible Twos
 Holes
 Hide & Seek

Season 2 (2017) 

 Six
 Seven
 Eight
 Nine
 Ten
 Just Add One
 Blast Off
 Counting Sheep
 Double Trouble
 The Three Threes
 Odds & Evens
 Fluffies
 The Two Tree
 Numberblock Castle
 Ten Green Bottles

Season 3 (2018-2019) 

 Once Upon a Time
 Blockzilla
 The Numberblocks Express
 Fruit Salad
 Zero
 Now We Are Six to Ten
 Numberblobs
 Building Block
 Peekaboo!
 Hiccups
 What's the Difference?
 Numberblock Rally
 Five and Friends
 Octoblock to the Rescue!
 Ten Again
Flatland
 Pattern Palace
 Legend of The Big Tum
 Mirror, Mirror
 The Wrong Number
Eleven
Twelve
 The Way of the Rectangle
 Ride the Rays
 Block Star
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Tween Scenes
 Step Squads

Season 4 (2019) 

 Fifteen’s Minute of Fame
 On Your Head
 Ten’s Place
 Balancing Bridge
Sixteen
Square Club
 Seventeen
Eighteen
 Loop the Loop
Nineteen
 Twenty
 Tall Stories
 Flights of Fancy
 I Can Count To Twenty
Heist
Sign of the Times
 Fun Times Fair
 The Lair of Shares
 Terrible Twosday
 Divide and Drive
 Twenty-One and On
 We're Going On A Square Hunt
 Thirty's Big Top
 Land of the Giants
 Fifty
 Sixty's High Score
 The Big One
 One Hundred
 One Hundred And One
 More To Explore

Season 5 (2020)

References

Other websites
 Official website
 Numberblocks on Cbeebies
 

British children's television series
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248

Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a regularly-scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore to Chicago-Midway. On approach, the aircraft skid off the runway and into a street, killing a 6 year old boy in a car. It was the first fatal accident in the company's history.

Aviation disasters in the United States
2000s in Chicago
Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler

Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC (born 2 February 1938) is a British politician. He was a member of Margaret Thatcher's ministry. He was the Lord Speaker from September 2016 until April 2021.

After serving as Shadow Minister of Transport, he was appointed Minister of Transport in 1979, being responsible for making seat belts compulsory. Later, as Secretary of State for Health and Social Services, he drew public attention to the dangers of AIDS. He resigned from the cabinet as Employment Secretary, and was knighted in 1990.

On 25 February 2021, Fowler announced that he would resign as Lord Speaker on 30 April 2021 to focus on campaigning work.

References

Other websites
 Official website of the Lord Speaker
 "Europe should appoint Aids envoy, peer says" - a Guardian article by Michael White, dated 21 February 2003

1938 births
Living people
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UK MPs 1979–1983
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Vera Glagoleva

Vera Vitalievna Glagoleva (31 January 1956 – 16 August 2017) was a Russian actress. She was born in Moscow. She was known for her roles in Christmas movies or romantic comedies. Her best known roles were in Vyyti zamuzh za kapitana, Bednaya Sasha, and in Zhenshchin obizhat ne rekomenduyetsya. Glagoleva was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 2011.

Glagoleva died in Baden-Baden, Germany on 16 August 2017 of cancer at the age of 61.

References

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1956 births
2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in Germany
Deaths from stomach cancer
Russian movie actors
Actors from Moscow
Andrzej Blumenfeld

Andrzej Stanisław Blumenfeld (12 August 1951 – 14 August 2017) was a Polish actor and voice dubber. He was born in Zabrze, Poland. His career began in 1973. He was known for Polish-dubbing from American movies. His best known work are The Pianist, Delivery Man, and The Witcher.

Blumenfeld died on 14 August 2017 in Warsaw, Poland of cancer at the age of 66.

References

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1951 births
2017 deaths
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Polish movie actors
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Aharon Yadlin

Aharon Yadlin (; born 17 April 1926) is a former Israeli educator and politician. He was born in Ben Shemen, Mandatory Palestine.

Yadlin studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He was a member of the The Alignment after switching from the Labor Party.

He served as Deputy Minister of Education from 1964 through 1972, and as Minister of Education from 1974 through 1977 in the First Rabin Government.

References

Other websites
 Bio at Knesset Website

1926 births
Living people
Deputy government ministers of Israel
Former Members of Knesset
Government ministers of Israel
HaAvoda politicians
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
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Mapai politicians
Eugenio Polgovsky

Eugenio Polgovsky (June 29, 1977 – August 11, 2017) was a Mexican movie director, cinematographer and editor. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. Polgovsky was known for the Mexican documentaries "Tropic of Cancer" ( Semaine de la Critique 2005) and  Los Herederos "The Inheritors" (Mostra of Venice, Orrizontti 2008 & Berlinale Generation 2009).

Polgovsky died in London on August 11, 2017 at the age of 40.

References

Other websites
Eugenio Polgovsky Official website: www.tecolotefilms.com
 French webpage Les Enfants Heritiers  
 Polgovsky - Berlinale 
 Polgovsky Rotterdam Int. Film Festival "Los Herederos" Hubert Bals, Bright Future  
 Semaine de la Critique, Cannes 2005 "Trópico de Cáncer" 
 Tropic of Cancer - Sundance 2005 
 Variety - The Inheritors 

1977 births
2017 deaths
Mexican movie directors
Cinematographers
People from Mexico City
Vern Ehlers

Vernon James "Vern" Ehlers (February 6, 1934 – August 15, 2017) was the former U.S. Representative for , having served from 1993 until 2011. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Ehlers was the first research physicist to be elected to Congress; he was later joined by Rush Holt, Jr. (D-NJ) and Bill Foster (D-IL).

Ehlers served on the Kent County Board of Commissioners from 1975 to 1982. Ehlers served from 1983 to 1985 in the Michigan House of Representatives and then served from 1985 to 1993 in the Michigan Senate.

Ehlers died on August 15, 2017 in Grand Rapids, Michigan of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 83.

References

Other websites
 Vern Ehlers for U.S. Congress official campaign site
 
 

1934 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Disease-related deaths in Michigan
United States representatives from Michigan
American physicists
Politicians from Minnesota
Scientists from Michigan
Politicians from Michigan
US Republican Party politicians
Bessie Camm

Bessie Camm or Bessie Kemm (20 June 1904 – 11 May 2018), age , was a British supercentenarian and the oldest living resident of the UK, after the death of Gladys Hooper on 9 July 2016 until her death in 11 May 2018.

Camm was born in Swaledale, North Yorkshire on 20 June 1904. She lives in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. She worked as a nurse from 1926 until 1972. She married her husband John shortly before the outbreak of World War II. The couple had no children. When asked what the secret to long life was, she said “hard work, knowing lovely people and good food”. She died on 11 May 2018 at the age of 113.

References

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2018 deaths
British supercentenarians
People from Yorkshire
Hans Streuli

Hans Streuli (13 July 1892 – 23 May 1970) was a Swiss politician.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council representing the Canton of Zürich on 22 December 1953. He served until 31 December 1959 when Willy Spühler took office. He was a member of the Free Democratic Party.

During his time in office he held the Department of Finance and was President of the Confederation in 1957.

Other websites
 

Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
1892 births
1970 deaths
Politicians from Zürich
Fritz Honegger

Fritz Honegger (25 July 1917 – 4 March 1999) was a Swiss politician.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 7 December 1977. He served until Rudolf Friedrich took the position on 31 December 1982. He was member of the Free Democratic Party. 

During his time in office he held the Federal Department of Economic Affairs and was President of the Confederation in 1982.

Other websites
 

Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
1917 births
1999 deaths
Fuldera

Fuldera is a village and former municipality of the district of Inn in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2009 the former municipalities of Fuldera, Lü, Müstair, Santa Maria Val Müstair, Tschierv and Valchava merged into the municipality of Val Müstair.

Villages in Graubünden
Former municipalities of Graubünden
Fadwa Soliman

Fadwa Soliman or Fadwa Suleiman (17 May 1970 – 17 August 2017) was a Syrian actress and activist. She was born in Aleppo, Syria. She led a Sunni-majority protest against Bashar al-Assad's government in Homs. She became one of the most recognized faces of the Syrian Civil War.

On 17 August 2017 Soliman died of cancer while in exile in Paris, aged 47.

References

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2017 deaths
Cancer deaths in France
Syrian people
Movie actors
Television actors
Voice actors
Activists
2017 Barcelona attack

On 17 August 2017, a white van hit pedestrians on La Rambla, Barcelona, leaving fourteen people dead and dozens injured. The two suspects then fled on foot.

At around 17:20 CEST, a white Fiat Talento drove onto the pavement of Barcelona's Las Ramblas, crashing into pedestrians between Plaça Catalunya and Gran Teatre del Liceu.

In the press conference held by the police at 7:00pm local time, the spokesperson confirmed the terrorist nature of the event, a dead person and 32 injured —10 of those in serious condition.  Other sources are claiming the fatality count is 13.

Police said two men were arrested in connection with the attack; another was reported killed in a shootout with police. In Ripoll, a man in his 20s was alleged to have rented the van, but told police his ID was stolen. Amaq News Agency said the attackers were "soldiers of the Islamic State" who "carried out the operation in response to calls for targeting coalition states".

An explosion happened the night before the attack in the Catalan town of Alcanar. It flattened a building and killed a woman. The head of the Mossos d'Esquadra Josep Lluís Trapero said it was related to the ramming. Nine hours after the attack, police killed four people in Tarragona said to be planning a terrorist attack in Cambrils.

References

2017 murders in Europe
2010s in Barcelona
August 2017 events
Crime in Spain
Islamic terrorist incidents in 2017
Islamic terrorist incidents in Europe
Massacres in Europe
Terrorist incidents in Europe in 2017
Terrorist incidents involving vehicular attacks
Grentzingen

Grentzingen 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.

It is 25 km west of Basel and 10 km southeast of Altkirch.

References 

Former communes in Haut-Rhin
2016 disestablishments in France
Griesbach-au-Val

Griesbach-au-Val is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Grussenheim

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Viaur

The Viaur is a river in southern France, left tributary of the Aveyron river. It flows through the Aveyron, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne departments.

Geography
The Viaur river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of .

Its discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) has been observed from 1937 to 2017 in Laguépie, a commune of the Tarn-et-Garonne department near the confluence with the Aveyron river. Its average yearly discharge at Laguépie is .

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Laguépie

Course
The Viaur river starts on the sides of the Puech del Pal in the commune Vézins-de-Lévézou, in the Aveyron department, at an altitude of .

The  Viaur passes through the departments and towns of:
 Aveyron : Bor-et-Bar, Pont-de-Salars, Ségur
 Tarn : Pampelonne, Mirandol-Bourgnounac
 Tarn-et-Garonne : Laguépie

The Viaur river flows through 30 communes and two of them have the name of the river: Sainte-Juliette-sur-Viaur and Saint-Just-sur-Viaur, both in the Aveyron department.

Finally, it flows into the Aveyron river in the commune of Laguépie, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, at  of altitude.

Main tributaries 
The main tributaries of the Viaur are:

Left tributaries:
 Céor - 55.9 km
 Vioulou - 33.1 km

Right tributaries:
 Lézert - 39 km
 Lieux - 25.3 km
 Jaoul - 22.5 km

Gallery

Related pages
 List of rivers of France

References 

Rivers of France
Occitanie
M. T. Liggett

Myron Thomas "M. T." Liggett (December 28, 1930 – August 17, 2017) was an American folk sculptor. He was born near Mullinville, Kansas. He exhibited hundreds of his artworks on the roads of Mullinville. 

His works were often made of painted, welded metal and often contained re-used farm implements, such as combine discs. His art is often critical of politicians on the local, state, and federal level. Many of his works are kinetic and move with the wind.

Work
Liggett's main work was the land along his front fence, on the north side of U.S. Route 400 in Mullinville. He was also a featured artist at the Folk Art Museum in Lucas, Kansas.

He and some of his sculptures appear in the 2009 documentary What's the Matter with Kansas?.

Death
Liggett, suffering from brain cancer, died on August 17, 2017 in Wichita, Kansas of kidney failure at the age of 86.

References

Other websites
 M.T. Liggett's Political Sculptures
 Kanza Art Studio - The art of M.T. Liggett

1930 births
2017 deaths
Deaths from renal failure
Deaths from brain cancer
American sculptors
People from Kansas
John Boorman

Sir John Boorman  (; born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker.

Boorman is best known for his feature movies such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Leo the Last, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, The Tailor of Panama, and Queen and Country. 

Boorman has directed 22 movies and received five Academy Award nominations.

References

Other websites
 

1933 births
Living people
English movie directors
People from Surrey
George Edward Glass

'''George Edward Glass(born in 1960,Oregon) is an American businessman and diplomat. He has been confirmed by the United States Senate as the next United States Ambassador to Portugal. This nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2017. He took office on August 25, 2017.

Glass was the owner of MGG Development LLC in Lake Oswego, Oregon. He founded Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon in 1990 and served as the company's president until 2014.

He is a trustee for Oregon Health & Science University and a former trustee for the University of Oregon.

References

Other websites
 Profile at Bloomberg

Living people
Businesspeople from Oregon
Politicians from Oregon
Ambassadors of the United States
US Republican Party politicians
Duke Buchan

Richard Duke Buchan III (born July 3, 1963) is an American entrepreneur, financier, farmer, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Hunter Global Investors, a private investment management firm. Buchan was the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra from 2018 until 2020.

References

1963 births
Living people
Businesspeople from North Carolina
Ambassadors of the United States
Politicians from North Carolina
US Republican Party politicians
Pete Hoekstra

Cornelis Pieter "Pete" Hoekstra (; born October 30, 1953) is an American politician of Dutch descent. He was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from November 2017 to January 2021. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Michigan's 2nd congressional district from 1993 to 2011. Hoekstra is a member of the Republican Party.

In July 2017, Hoekstra was nominated to be the next United States Ambassador to the Netherlands by President Donald Trump. This nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 9, 2017.

He moved to the United States at the age of three, studied political science at Hope College and obtained an MBA at the University of Michigan.

Before entering into politics he was working as a marketing employee in a furniture business.

Hoekstra is a member of the Reformed Church in America.

References
  Bio at United States Congress 

1953 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States
American Calvinists
Naturalized citizens of the United States
People from Groningen (city)
Politicians from Groningen (province)
United States representatives from Michigan
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Jamie McCourt

Jamie D. McCourt (born December 5, 1953) is a businesswoman and investor. She is the founder and CEO of Jamie Enterprises, and the former co-owner and executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She became the highest-ranking woman in Major League Baseball, appointed first as Vice Chairman of the Dodgers in 2004, then President in 2005, and finally CEO in 2009. On June 22, 2017, she was nominated as United States Ambassador to Belgium.

On August 2, 2017, President Trump formally withdrew her nomination and instead nominated her as United States Ambassador to France and United States Ambassador to Monaco. This nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 2, 2017.

References

1953 births
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Ambassadors of the United States to France
Businesspeople from Baltimore
Politicians from Baltimore
US Republican Party politicians