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Bud Moore

Walter Maynard "Bud" Moore Jr. (May 25, 1925 – November 27, 2017) was a NASCAR driver and car owner. He was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Moore worked the Bud Moore Engineering team. He was a decorated veteran of World War II, he described himself as "an old country mechanic who loved to make 'em run fast".

Moore served in World War II as a member of the United States Army. He took part of the Normandy landings. After Normandy, he went on to fight in the Battle of the Bulge and ended his military service as a sergeant. During his military service, Moore was awarded five Purple Hearts and two Bronze Star Medals.

When he returned from the war, he began a career in stock car racing as a crew chief. In the 1960s, he opened Bud Moore Engineering, a team that went on to win three NASCAR Grand National Series championships and 63 races for 37 years until its shutdown in 1999. 

Moore was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2011.

Moore died on November 27, 2017 in Spartanburg at the age of 92.

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Richard Cordray

Richard Adams Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who was the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2012 to 2017. Before to his appointment, Cordray was Ohio's Attorney General, Solicitor General, and Treasurer.

Cordray left the agency in November 2017, with many people believing that he would declare his candidacy for Governor of Ohio in the 2018 gubernatorial election. He declared his candidacy in 2018 only to lose the general election to Republican Mike DeWine.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an agency of the United States government. It was established by President Barack Obama in 2011.

What do they do?
It is responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. They work within banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors and other financial companies operating in the United States.

Creation
The CFPB's creation was made by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, whose passage in 2010 was a legislative response to the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the eventual Great Recession. The CFPB was established as an independent agency, but this status is being reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Leadership
The CFPB is headed by a chief who is appointed by the President for a five-year term. The bureau is also assisted by a Consumer Advisory Council, which is composed of at least six members who are recommended by regional Federal Reserve presidents.

The first director of the CFPB was Ohio politician Richard Cordray who served from 2012 through 2017. The current Director is Kathleen Kraninger since December 11, 2018.

2020 Supreme Court decision
The Supreme Court of the United State (SCOTUS), in a 5-to-4 decision, ruled June 29, 2020, that the structure of the CFPB violates the separation-of-powers clause of the constitution since the bill directed that the CFPB director could be removed by the president only for "cause," defined as "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.

List of directors
 Status

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Patrícia Gabancho

Patrícia Gabancho Ghielmetti (29 September 1952 – 28 November 2017) was an Argentine-born Spanish journalist and author. She was born in Buenos Aires. Her work and personal life were based in Barcelona, Spain. She wrote books on the history of Catalonia, the city life in Barcelona and on Tango.

Death
Gabancho died on 28 November 2017 in Barcelona of lung cancer at the age of 65.

Works
 Crònica de la independència
 El Besòs. El riu que mirava passar els trens
 El segle XX vist per les àvies, con Gemma Aixelà
 Despert entre adormits
 Carta a la societat catalana sobre l'immigració
 La postguerra cultural a Barcelona (1939-1959)
 Cultura rima amb confitura
 La batalla de l'Estatut
 El fil secret de la història
 A la intempèrie

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Unit load device

A unit load device, or ULD, (ULD) is a pallet or a container. It is used to load luggage, freight, and mail on wide-body aircraft and specific narrow-body aircraft. It allows a large quantity of cargo to be bundled into a single unit. As with other cargo transport, this leads to fewer units to load, it saves ground crews time and effort and helps prevent delayed flights. Each ULD has its own packing list (or manifest) so that its contents can be tracked.

Types
There are two kinds of unit load devices: pallets and boxes. The boxes are similar to shipping containers: they are mostly made with metal (usually aluminum) and have standard attachment points that let them be moved easily. The pallets are usually metal with sides that attach to a cargo net. Below is a table of sizes of ULDs. The volume listed is the internal volume, the size of the inside of the container.

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Aviation
Containers
Landmass

A landmass is a collection of land, usually separated by an ocean, isthmus, or a canal. Some examples of landmasses are: North America and South America, separated by a canal.

Geology
Dhyan Chand

Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player. He is known as the greatest field hockey player of all time. His skill is compared to footballer Pelé.

His birthday, 29th August, is celebrated as National Sports Day in India every year. He received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 1956.

Chand earned three Olympic gold medals in field hockey. These were at the 1928, 1932, and 1936 games.

Early life
Dhyan Chand was born on 29 August 1905 in Allahabad. His father was in the British Indian Army, and he played hockey in the army. The family moved often because of army transfers. The family finally settled in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Chand joined the Indian Army at the age of 16. The Hindi word Chand literally means "the moon". Dhyan was given the nickname Chand because he would wait until the moon was out so that he could practice hockey.

International competitions
Chand's first international competition was with the Indian Army in New Zealand. The army later gave Chand permission to compete for a place on the Indian Olympic team for Field Hockey.

During the 1928 Olympics, Chand was the top scorer of the tournament, scoring 14 goals in 5 matches. A newspaper report about India's triumph said, “This is not a game of hockey, but magic. Dhyan Chand is in fact the magician of hockey.”

Chand was selected for the 1932 Olympic team without a tryout. The team once again won the gold medal. In the final on 11 August, India played against hosts USA. India won 24-1, a world record at the time.

Chand was again selected without tryout for the 1936 Olympic team. India defeated Germany 8-1 in the final for the gold medal. Chand scored 3 goals.

Legacy
The Dhyan Chand Award is an award in India for lifetime achievement in sports. The National Stadium, Delhi was renamed Dhyan Chand National Stadium in 2002 in his honour.

Family
Chand's younger brother, Roop Singh, played on the Indian Field Hockey team in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. His son, Ashok Kumar, won an Olympic bronze medal in 1972 for Field Hockey.

Autobiography
Chand's autobiography, Goal!,  was published by Sport & Pastime, Madras in 1952.

Other websites
Reading of Dhyan Singh ‘Chand’: Hockey’s Magician

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Domhnall Gleeson

Domhnall Gleeson (born 12 May 1983) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his role as General Hux in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). He has also appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and Part 2 (2011), About Time (2013), Unbroken (2014), Ex Machina (2015), Brooklyn (2015), The Revenant (2015) and Peter Rabbit (2018). He was nominated for a Tony Award in 2006 for his role in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

Gleeson was born in Dublin. His father, Brendan, and his brother, Brian, are also actors. He is a fan of English football club Aston Villa.

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Will Poulter

William Jack "Will" Poulter (born 28 January 1993) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the movies Son of Rambow (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), We're the Millers (2013), The Maze Runner (2014), The Revenant (2015) and Detroit (2017). He won the 2014 BAFTA Rising Star Award.

Poulter was born in Hammersmith, London, England.

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Slobodan Praljak

Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017) was a Bosnian Croat engineer, movie and theatre director and army general. He was a general in the Croatian Army and the Croatian Defence Council, an army of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. In 2013, he was one of six Bosnian Croat politicians sentenced at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes during the Croat–Bosniak War. He was jailed for twenty years. He directed many television shows and one movie, Povratak Katarine Kozul (1989).

Praljak was born in Čapljina. He was married to Kaćuša Babić and had two stepchildren.

On 29 November 2017, Praljak drank cyanide at the ICTY in The Hague, Netherlands. He later died at a hospital of heart failure at the age of 72.

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The Shadows No. 2

The Shadows No. 2 is an extended play 45 rpm record released in 1961 by The Shadows. It was released on Columbia Records/EMI Records as SEG 8148 in mono and reached #12 in the UK EP charts in January, 1962.

All the songs on the record had previously been released on the album The Shadows, and more songs from the album were to be released on the EP The Shadows No. 3.  There appears never to have been a The Shadows No. 1.

The liner notes were written by Cliff Richard.

Track listing
Side 1
 "Shadoogie"  (Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris, Tony Meehan)
 "Nivram"  (Marvin, Welsh, Harris)

Side 2
 "Baby My Heart"  (Sonny Curtis)
 "See You in My Drums" (Meeham)

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Robert Bosch GmbH

Robert Bosch GmbH or simply Bosch is a German multinational engineering and electronics company. Its headquarters is in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany.

Bosch's core products are automotive components including brakes, controls, electrical drives, electronics, fuel systems, generators, starter motors and steering systems; industrial products, such as including drives and controls, packaging technology and consumer goods; and building products, including household appliances, power tools, security systems and thermotechnology.

Bosch has more than 350 subsidiaries across over 60 countries and its products are sold in around 150 countries.

The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886.

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Robert Batailly

Robert Batailly (2 March 1934 – 27 November 2017) was a French politician.

He was born in Bourg-de-Thizy, Batailly later moved to Lyon. Batailly was a member of the Radical Party, he sat on the European Parliament in 1989. Batailly was named a commander of the Legion of Honor in 2010.

Batailly died on 27 November 2017 at the age of 83.

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Medel (Lucmagn)

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

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Rhäzüns

Rhäzuns is a municipality in Imboden in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

It is known for its mineral water brand Rhäzünser and the beer Rhäzünser Pils.

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Tamins

Tamins () is a municipality of the district of Imboden in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

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Trin

Trin is a municipality of the district Imboden in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. Crestasee is located in Trin.

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Lukman Haruna

Lukman Abdulkarim Haruna (born 4 December 1990) is a Nigerian football player. He played for FC Dynamo Kyiv. He played as a midfielder.

Club career statistics

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Related pages 
 List of Nigerians

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Lutter, Haut-Rhin

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

Related pages
 Communes of the Haut-Rhin department

References
INSEE commune file

Other websites 

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Günther Jauch

Günther Johannes Jauch (born 13 July 1956) is a German television presenter. He was born in Münster, Germany. He is a member of the Hamburg Jauch family, but currently lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg with his wife Thea (Dorothea) Jauch and his four children.

Jauch has produced and hosted the prime time TV programme Stern TV, a television news magazine programme, on the private German RTL national TV network since 1990.

Jauch together with Thomas Gottschalk is also part of the German TV show Die 2 - Gottschalk und Jauch gegen alle.

In 2015, shortly after Stefan Raab had announced the end of his TV career, Jauch declared publicly that he intends to gradually reduce his appearance on TV too; stating that he will eventually give up his political talk show Günther Jauch on ARD and to focus on his other TV shows such as Wer wird Millionär? on RTL.

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Sargans

Sargans is a municipality in Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. As of December 2016, 6,063 people lived there.

Sargans is known for its castle, which dates from before the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1291.

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Cities in Switzerland
Luis Gutiérrez

Luis Vicente Gutiérrez (born December 10, 1953) is an American politician. He was the U.S. Representative for , from 1993 to 2019. From 1986 until his election to Congress, he served as a member of the Chicago City Council representing the 26th ward. 

Gutiérrez is a member of the Democratic Party and was part of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.  In the 113th Congress, with his 20 years of service, Gutiérrez became, along with Bobby Rush, the longest serving member of the Illinois House delegation.

In November 2017, Gutierrez announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term, and not seek re-election in 2018.

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Belmiro de Azevedo

Belmiro Mendes de Azevedo (17 February 1938 – 29 November 2017) was a Portuguese entrepreneur. He was born in Tuias, Marco de Canaveses.

Azevedo ranked by Forbes as the 605th richest person in the world (2008), as well as the 2nd richest in Portugal, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2 billion. He owned a controlling stake in Sonae SGPS. He was one of the largest business groups in Portugal, which also operates in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Brazil.

Azevedo died in the CUF Hospital in Porto on 29 November 2017 at the age of 79.

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2017 deaths
Portuguese businesspeople
Life Is Strange

Life Is Strange is a single-player graphic adventure video game. It was developed by Dontnod Entertainment. It was published by Square Enix. The game was released in five episodes during 2015 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. A prequel, Before the Storm, was released in 2017. The first episode of the sequel, Life Is Strange 2, released in September 2018, with the other four parts to release over 2019.

The game features the protagonist, 18-year-old Max Caulfield, who finds out she can rewind time after saving her childhood friend, Chloe Price, from being killed. She must also try and stop an incoming storm that will hit her town Arcadia Bay, Oregon in the United States.

Episodes
 "Episode 1: Chrysalis" (30 January 2015)
 "Episode 2: Out of Time" (24 March 2015)
 "Episode 3: Chaos Theory" (19 May 2015)
 "Episode 4: Dark Room" (28 July 2015)
 "Episode 5: Polarized" (20 October 2015)

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Raj Kapoor

Ranbir Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988) was an Indian movie actor, producer and director.

Kapoor is thought of as one of the greatest and most influential actors and moviemakers in the history of Indian cinema.  Kapoor won many awards. These include 3 National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards in India. He was nominated twice for the Palme d'Or grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His performance  in Awaara was named one of the top ten greatest performances of all time by Time magazine. His movies were popular worldwide, particularly in Asia and Europe.  He was called "the Clark Gable of the Indian film industry".

The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1971.

Early life
Kapoor was born in 1924 to Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni Devi Kapoor. The Kapoor family is well known for their acting and directing in India. Kapoor's father, brothers, children and grandchildren have had success as actors or producers.

Kapoor acted in his first movie when he was only 10 years old.

Career
Kapoor was the lead actor for the first time in Neel Kamal (1947). His co-star was Madhubala. In 1947, he started his own movie company, R. K. Films. At 24 years old, he directed his first movie Aag. His co-star was Nargis. He and Nargis worked together in 16 movies, 6 of these were produced by Kapoor. His first major success as an actor was in the movie Andaz directed by Mehboob Khan. Andaz was the second-highest earning movie in 1949. The highest earning movie that year was Barsaat, also starring Kapoor.

He went on to produce and star in several hit movies made by his company including  Awaara (1951), Shree 420 (1955), and Jagte Raho (1956). His movie Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai, directed by Radhu Karmakar, won Filmfare Award for Best Film. Kapoor also won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for the movie. The romantic musical movie Sangam was his first movie in colour.

In 1970, he produced, directed and starred in his movie Mera Naam Joker. The movie took more than six years to complete but it did not earn very much money. Later in 1973, his movie Bobby became the highest earning movie of the year and the second highest earning movie of the 1970s at the Indian box office. The movie was the first lead role for Kapoor's son, Rishi Kapoor.

Later movies produced and directed by Kapoor focused on the female lead character. The movie Prem Rog (1982) with Padmini Kolhapure won the Filmfare Award for Best Director.

Filmography

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Umberto Pettinicchio

Umberto Pettinicchio (born 1943) is an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born in Torremaggiore, a town in Apulia. Later, he moved to Milan. In Milan he studied art at the Accademia di Brera. He had his first exhibition in 1969. His early paintings were in the expressionist style. His later paintings were more abstract. His 1981 painting The Death of the Bull is held in the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria.

Umberto Pettinicchio was trained at the Brera Academy and in 1969 he began to exhibit in his first solo exhibitions, including at the Nuova Sfera, Milan, 1973 (curated by Carlo Munari), in 1977 at the Rome Triptych, in 1974 at Il Castello di Milano, in 1975 (edited by Raffaele De Grada). In 1976 Pettinicchio opened his Milan studio in via Bolzano, where he produced some of his important works with which he achieved international fame.

In the 1980s, he was always present at the most important exhibitions (at the Salotto di Como in 1980, at Il Castello di Milano in 1981, at Il Mercante di Milano in 1982), and was also enriched by important Spanish exhibitions (Sargadelos, Barcelona, ​​1982 , Piquio, Santander, 1982, at the VIII Madrid Biennial, 1983).

Style 
The artist Umberto Pettinicchio has often dealt with the human figure in his pictorial research, initially in an expressionist style. Subsequently, his pictorial style becomes more and more abstract until finally reaching the Informal. Only a vaguely perceptible appearance remains of the figure, while, from a formal point of view, everything is distorted in the artist's pictorial gestures. Pettinicchio's gesture breaks the dimensional planes and transforms the human figure into a shapeless matter marked by large black lines. The one carried out by Pettinicchio seems a kind of brutalist operation in the vein of a Jean Dubuffet, but while the French gave much more importance to the subject, our artist solves everything through pictorial writing.

Related pages
 List of Italian painters

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1943 births
People from Apulia
Living people
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Italian sculptors
Incus

The incus or anvil is a bone in the middle ear. The anvil-shaped small bone is one of three bones in the middle ear.

Bones
Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade, was a siege in Leningrad during World War II. The siege started on 8 September 1941, when the last road to the city was severed. Although the Soviet Union forces managed to open a narrow path to the city on 18 January 1943, the siege was only stopped on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began. It is thought of as one of the most destructive sieges ever to happen. It was possibly the heaviest in terms of casualties, killing over 1 million innocent people.
Also, because of the siege, no food was allowed to enter Leningrad, leaving the residents to eat things such as:
 Cats
 Sawdust
 Horses
 Wallpaper paste
 Human flesh (e.g babies)
 Anything that could be salvaged and was edible

Because of the German operations, no people or supply trucks were allowed to enter or leave the city, leaving the occupants without food often for weeks or months.

Related pages
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Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was a British singer and songwriter. She performed the songs "They Don't Know" (1979) and "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" (1981). She also made cover versions of "A New England" by Billy Bragg and "Days" by The Kinks. She is well-known for singing on the Christmas song "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues. She performed on many songs produced by her husband Steve Lillywhite.

MacColl was born in Croydon, Surrey, England. She was the daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) and dancer Jean Newlove (1923–2017). She was married to Lillywhite from 1984 to 1994. The couple had two sons, Jamie and Louis.

MacColl died in an accident on 18 December 2000 in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico. She was 41. She had been diving in a reef with her sons when a motorboat entered the restriced area. She was able to pull her son Jamie to safety but was hit by the propeller in doing so. She died at the moment of impact.

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Eluru

Eluru is the largest city in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is on the banks of Tammileru river. Eluru is one of the 14 municipal corporations, and headquarters of the Vijayawada mandal and West Godavari district. The city is well known for its wool-pile carpets and hand woven products.

Eluru Railway station is the major railway station which serves the city, others being Powerpet, Vatlur and Denduluru stations. Eluru is well connected to road and state run APS RTC bus services from major cities from Eluru New Bus Station and ariport is near to gannavaram that's about 35kms from eluru .

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Cities in India
West Godavari district

West Godavari district (or Paschima Godavari Jilla) is one of the 13 districts in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The district headquarters are located at Eluru. As of the 2011 census of India, it spreads over an area of 7,742 km2 (2,989 sq mi) with a population of 3,936,966.

History 
Eluru was primarily a part of Vengi(Buddhist kingdom). Historical evidences are found at the villages, Pedavegi and Guntupalli (Jilakarragudem). The West Godavari district was formed from the old Godavari district in the year 1925.

Administrative divisions 
There are 48 mandals consists of 881 villages, one municipal corporation, eight municipalities and five census towns. Of them, Eluru is the only Municipal Corporation. whereas Kovvur, Narasapuram, Nidadavolu, Palakol, Tadepalligudem, Tanuku, Bhimavaram, Jangareddigudem are Municipalities.

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Rob Brydon

Robert Brydon Jones  (born 3 May 1965), better known as Rob Brydon, is a Welsh actor, comedian, radio and television presenter, singer and impressionist. He has acted in Supernova, Gavin & Stacey, Marion and Geoff, The Keith Barret Show and Little Britain. Since 2009, he has hosted the BBC One comedy panel show Would I Lie to You?.

Brydon was born in Baglan, Glamorgan, Wales. He was married to Martina Jones until 2000. They had three children, daughters Katie and Amy, and son Harry. Since 2006, he has been married to Claire Holland. They have two sons, Tom and George. He is a fan of Swansea City Association Football Club.

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Lee Mack

Lee Gordon McKillop (born 4 August 1968), better known as Lee Mack, is a British comedian and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out (2006–present). He is also known for being a "captain" on the panel show Would I Lie to You?. He has also presented the panel shows They Think It's All Over and Duck Quacks Don't Echo.

Mack was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. His parents later separated and Mack moved to Southport. He married Tara McKillop in 2005. They have three children. He has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

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Tommy Cooper

Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a British prop comedian and magician. He was famous for wearing a red fez, his large build and failing magic tricks as part of his comedy. He was actually a skilled magician and was a member of The Magic Circle.

Cooper was born in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales. He was married to Gwen Henty from 1947 until his death. They had two children, daughter Victoria and son Thomas (1956–1988), who became an actor.

Cooper died due to a heart attack on 15 April 1984 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. He was 63. He was performing as part of his comedy routine on live television when he slumped to the ground because of the heart attack. He died shortly after.

References

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Cardiovascular disease deaths in London
Deaths from myocardial infarction
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American sitcom television series. It ran for five seasons from 1964 to 1969, producing a total of 150 episodes. It became a spin-off of the American sitcom The Andy Griffith Show after the character Gomer Pyle became very popular. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was produced in what is now Paramount Television Studios. It originally aired on CBS.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. stars Jim Nabors as the main character, Gomer Pyle, who joins the United States Marine Corps as a Private First Class. It also stars Frank Sutton as Sergeant Carter who does not like Pyle's antics and finds ways to keep Pyle out of his way.

American television
1964 television series debuts
1969 television series endings
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2001 southern Peru earthquake

The 2001 southern Peru earthquake happened on Saturday, June 23, 2001 at around 3:30 PM local time. It had a magnitude of 8.4. It was felt by many parts of southern Peru, a country in South America. It is one of the deadliest earthquakes ever recorded in Peru.

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Peru
Opinion poll

An opinion poll shows what a large group of chosen people think about the poll's topic. An opinion poll usually has a set of choices from which the chosen person may choose as his opinion. The number of people that select each choice is recorded. These numbers are then written as percentages of the overall group. This gives a general idea of how many people in a certain group agree or disagree on a certain topic.

Social sciences
Lester Holt

Lester Holt is an American television show host for NBC. Since 2015, Holt has been the anchor for the NBC Nightly News during the weekdays.

NBC
American television presenters
Ethereum

Ethereum is a system on the Internet where people can make deals. Ether is type of money which uses the Ethereum system to make sure that every person gets the right amount in every deal.

Ethereum was proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer. Many people donated money to support the development of the system in what was one of the first initial coin offerings. The system came online on 30 July 2015, with 72 million coins. 

In 2016, Ethereum split into two separate versions: Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. 

Ethereum has started implementing a series of upgrades called Ethereum 2.0, which includes a transition to proof of stake and aims to increase transaction throughput using sharding.

Overview 
Ether is a type of money that is decentralized, which means that there's no company, bank or government that oversees it. Instead, it uses the Ethereum network of computers spread around the world, which keep track of every payment of ether. As in other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum keeps track of payments by using a blockchain, which is a growing registry of every payment. This blockchain is open for everyone to read, and it is spread across the network so that everyone can check what payments have been made. This also protects against hacking or theft of money from the system, because if the blockchain was to be altered in some computers then it would be noticed that it is not identical with the others.

Ether is a form of cryptocurrency, which means that it is decentralized, and also means that people can use it for payments without revealing who they are. Instead, people can use the Ethereum system by addresses (also called keys) which they can keep secret from others. The Ether coin can be transferred between accounts and used as a payment mechanism. The Ether coin is mined and used as compensation to miners for verifying transactions.

History 
Ethereum was initially described in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin, a programmer and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine in late 2013. His goal was to build decentralized applications.          

Ethereum was announced at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, in January 2014. During the conference, Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, and Anthony Di Iorio (who financed the project) rented a house in Miami with Buterin to develop a fuller sense of what Ethereum might become.         

In January 2018, Ethereum was the second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, behind only Bitcoin. As of 2021, it maintained that relative position.            

In 2019, Ethereum Foundation employee Virgil Griffith was arrested by the US government for presenting at a blockchain conference in North Korea.            

On 27 August 2021, the blockchain experienced a brief fork that was the result of clients running different incompatible software versions.

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Adarsh Sein Anand

Adarsh Sein Anand (1 November 1936 – 1 December 2017) was an Indian politician and lawyer. He served as the 29th Chief Justice of India from 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001. He was also Chief Justice of the Madras High Court (1989–1992) and the Jammu and Kashmir High Court (1985–1989). He was born in Jammu.

Anand died on 1 December 2017 in Noida at the age of 81.

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1936 births
2017 deaths
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Indian lawyers
Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian,  (born Richard Patrick Russ; 12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000) was a British novelist and translator. He is best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series (1969–2004) of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The book series was about the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish-Catalan doctor Stephen Maturin. The series had a total of 21 books.

O'Brian was born in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England. He served during the Second World War. He was married to Elizabeth Jones until their divorce. They had two children, Jane and Richard. He was married Mary Tolstoy from 1945 until her death in 1998. They lived in Collioure, France.

O'Brian died on 2 January 2000 in Dublin, Ireland at the age of 85.

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2000 deaths
British military personnel of World War II
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Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his roles in movies such as Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), Ned Kelly (2003), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005), Animal Kingdom (2010), Warrior (2011), The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Zero Dark Thirty (both 2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Gift, Black Mass (both 2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017) and Red Sparrow (2018).

Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales. His brother, Nash, is a movie director.

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Allianz

Allianz SE is a German financial services company. It is headquartered in Munich, Germany. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. The company was founded in 1890.

It has over 70 countries and has around 147,000 employees.

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 Official website

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Munich
1890s establishments in Germany
Schlans

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

The former municipality of Schlans merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Trun.

Former municipalities of Graubünden
Vals, Switzerland

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

On 1 January 2015 the former municipality of St. Martin merged into the municipality of Vals.

It is known for its mineral water brand Valser.

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 Therme Vals 
 Archipreneur's Journey to Vals

Municipalities of Graubünden
Ski areas and resorts in Switzerland
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Sagogn

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

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Wanna One

Wanna One (Korean: 워너원) is a South Korean boy band, under YMC Entertainment. It consists of eleven members, consisting of Kang Daniel, Park Ji-hoon, Lee Dae-hwi, Kim Jae-hwan, Ong Seong-wu, Park Woo-jin, Lai Kuan-lin, Yoon Ji-sung, Hwang Min-hyun, Bae Jin-young and Ha Sung-woon.

Members
Yoon Ji-sung
Ha Sung-woon
Hwang Min-hyun
Ong Seong-wu
Kim Jae-hwan
Kang Daniel
Park Ji-hoon
Park Woo-jin
Bae Jin-young
Lee Dae-hwi
Lai Kuan-lin

Discography

EPs
 1X1=1 (To Be One) (2017)

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Smart

smart is a brand of microcars and superminis based in Böblingen, Germany. It is a division of Daimler AG. The brand was started in 1994.

Current models 
 Smart Fortwo
 Smart Fortwo Cabrio
 Smart Forfour

Historic models 
 Smart City Coupe
 Smart Crossblade
 Smart electric drive
 Smart EV
 Smart K
 Smart Roadster

Concept models 
 Smart Crosstown
 Smart Formore
 Smart Forspeed
 Smart Forstars
 Smart Forvision
 Smart Tridion4

Other websites 
 Official website

1994 establishments in Germany
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Baden-Württemberg
Lutterbach

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

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Sumvitg

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

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 Official website (in Romansh)/

Municipalities of Graubünden
Delsa Solórzano

Delsa Solórzano Bernal is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, vice president of the social democratic party Un Nuevo Tiempo, was a deputy to the Latin American Parliament, Venezuela Chapter, period 2011-2016.

She is the daughter of the political leaders César Orlando Solorzano and Esperanza de Solorzano. Married to the lawyer Luis Izquiel, Venezuelan criminal and constitutionalist and mother of a son. She is a deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela, for the period 2016-2021, and is president of the Permanent Commission of Domestic Policy of the National Assembly of Venezuela. She is Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

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Dr. Oetker

Dr. Oetker is a German food company that produces baking powder, cake mixes, yogurts, frozen pizza, pudding, cake decoration, cornflakes and various other products.

The company is a wholly-owned branch of the Oetker Group.

It is headquartered in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia.

The company was founded by Doctor August Oetker in 1891.

Other websites 
 Official international homepage of Dr. Oetker 
 Dr. August Oetker Group

1890s establishments in Germany
1891 establishments in Europe
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Bielefeld
Corbynmania

Corbynmania is enthusiastic support for Jeremy Corbyn who was elected as leader of the Labour Party in 2015.

His authentic, informal style and radical policies appealed to many of the young new members who had joined after the membership fee had been reduced to £3.  Hundreds of supporters turned out to hear him speak at the hustings across the nation and their enthusiastic reception and support for him was dubbed "Corbynmania" by the press.

A chant of "Oh, Jeremy Corbyn" has now been adopted as an anthem or chorus by his supporters.  This is sung in the style of "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes.  It attracted especial attention at the Glastonbury festival of 2017, where Corbyn appeared and spoke to the crowds.

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Robert Mueller

Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer and civil servant. He was the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013. He is a Republican. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and his original ten-year term was given a two-year extension by President Barack Obama. 

Mueller is the longest-serving FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover. He is currently head of the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Robert Mueller 

1944 births
Living people
American military personnel of the Vietnam War
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Saintes, Charente-Maritime

Saintes is a French commune and historic town, a subprefecture in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. It is in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is also the capital of the arrondissement of Saintes.

Before the French Revolution, Saintes was the capital of the old province of Saintonge.

Geography
Saintes is in the central eastern part of the Charente-Maritime department, in the old province of Saintonge, along the Charente river that flows through the commune from south to north.

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

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

The commune of Saintes is surrounded by the communes:

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

Population
The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as Saintais (women: Saintaises).

With a population of 25,149, Saintes has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Saintes

Administration 
Saintes is a subprefecture of the Charente-Maritime department, the capital of the arrondissement of Saintes and the administrative centre () of the canton of Saintes.

It is part of the intercommunality CA Saintes ().

Twinned and partner towns 
Saintes is twinned with:
  Nivelles, Belgium
  Xanten, Germany
  Timbuktu, Mali
  Vladimir, Russia
  Salisbury, England
  Cuevas del Almanzora, Spain

Gallery

Related pages
 Arrondissement of Saintes
 Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References

Other websites

 Ville de Saintes website 
 Tourist Office Saintes & Saintonge 

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Communes in Charente-Maritime
Charles C. McDonald

General Charles Clarence McDonald (October 1, 1933 – November 22, 2017) was a United States Air Force general. He served as Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC) from  1989 to 1992.

From August 1979 to February 1981 McDonald was commander of the 320th Bombardment Wing, Mather Air Force Base, California. Under his command the wing won the Fairchild Trophy, awarded to the top bomber wing in the Strategic Air Command for combined bombing and navigational excellence.

He was promoted to general November 1, 1989, with same date of rank, and retired June 30, 1992. 

McDonald died on November 22, 2017 in Niceville, Florida of ALS-related complications at the age of 84.

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Deaths from motor neurone disease
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Stephen Knapp

Stephen Knapp (October 15, 1947November 24, 2017) was an American artist. He was best known for his use of the medium of lightpainting. He created an international reputation for large-scale works of art held in museums, public, corporate, and private collections, which are executed in media as diverse as light, kiln-formed glass, metal, stone, mosaic, and ceramic.

Knapp died in Worcester, Massachusetts on November 24, 2017 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia at the age of 70.

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Aminul Islam (academic)

Aminul Islam (1 January 1935 – 29 November 2017) was a Bangladeshi academic. He was the president of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. He was a fellow of the academy since 1978.

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Surin Pitsuwan

Surin Pitsuwan (; ; 28 October 1949 – 30 November 2017) was a Thai politician and diplomat. He served as the 12th Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from 2008 to 2012. He was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Thailand from 1997 to 2001.

Pitsuwan was born in Nakhon Si Thammarat. He was a Thai Malay. He studied at Thammasat University.

Pitsuwan died of heart failure on 30 November 2017 in Bangkok. He was 68.

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1949 births
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ASEAN
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Thai politicians
Time in the United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates uses Gulf Standard Time (GST) (UTC+04:00) and does not observe daylight saving time.

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United Arab Emirates
Time in Indonesia

Indonesia has three time zones: Western Indonesia Time (WIB) (UTC+07:00) covers the western part of the country, including Jakarta, Central Indonesia Time (WIT) (UTC+08:00) covers the central part of the country, and Eastern Indonesia Time (WITA) (UTC+09:00) covers the province of Papua. Indonesia does not observe daylight saving time.

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Indonesia
Cliff Williams

Clifford "Cliff" Williams (born 14 December 1949) is a former British musician. He is best known as a member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He was a member of the band between 1977 and 2016 as their bassist and backing singer. He, along with AC/DC, were added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

Williams was born in Romford, Essex, England. His wife, Georganne, is from Colorado. They have two children, Erin (born 1985) and Luke (born 1986).

References

Other websites

 Cliff Williams at Ampeg

1949 births
Living people
English rock guitarists
English rock singers
Musicians from Essex
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees
Charles E. Merrill Jr.

Charles E. Merrill Jr. (1920 – November 29, 2017) was an American educator, author, and philanthropist. He was best known for supporting historically black colleges and founding the Commonwealth School in Boston.

Merrill Jr. died on November 29, 2017, in Nowy Sącz, Poland at the age of 97.

References

Other websites
 Commonwealth School Website 
 Article re Merrill College at UC Santa Cruz 

1920 births
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Harvard University alumni
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Writers from Massachusetts
Colin Groves

Colin Peter Groves (24 June 1942 – 30 November 2017) was an Australian Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.

Groves was born in England. He emigrated to Australia in 1973 and joined the Australian National University, where he was promoted to full Professor in 2000

Groves died on 30 November 2017 in Canberra at the age of 75.

His research interests included human evolution, primates, mammalian taxonomy, skeletal analysis, biological anthropology, ethnobiology and biogeography. He was a member of the Australian Skeptics and had many published skeptical papers, as well as research papers covering his other research interests. He also conducted regular debates with creationists and anti-evolutionists.

References

Other websites
 The Groves Collection at No Answers in Genesis
 ANU Faculty Homepage
 ANU Researcher Profile page

1942 births
2017 deaths
Australian writers
Australian educators
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