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Ernst Zündel

Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (April 24, 1939 – August 5, 2017) was a German publisher and pamphleteer known for promoting Holocaust denial. He had been jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, for overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred".

Zündel died at his home in Germany, of a suspected heart attack, on August 5, 2017.

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Don Baylor

Donald Edward Baylor (June 28, 1949 – August 7, 2017) was an American professional baseball player and manager. During his 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), Baylor was a power hitter known for crowding the plate, and was a first baseman, left fielder, and designated hitter.

Baylor played for six different American League (AL) teams, primarily the Baltimore Orioles and California Angels, but also played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, and Boston Red Sox. In 1979, Baylor was an All-Star and won the AL Most Valuable Player Award.

Baylor won three Silver Slugger Awards, the Roberto Clemente Award, and was a member of the 1987 World Series champions.

After his playing career, Baylor managed the expansion Colorado Rockies for six years and the Chicago Cubs for three seasons. He was named NL Manager of the Year in 1995 and inducted into the Angels Hall of Fame.

Baylor died on August 7, 2017, at the age of 68 from multiple myeloma in Austin, Texas.

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Haruo Nakajima

(January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Yamagata. Nakajima was best known for portraying Godzilla from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Nakajima was Godzilla for 12 movies straight. He retired from acting in 1973.

Nakajima died on August 7, 2017 in Tokyo of pneumonia at the age of 88.

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 Roberto, John Rocco. Shigeko Kojima  (trans.) Winter 1999. "An Interview with Godzilla: Hauro Nakajima", Originally published in Kaiju Fan.
 Biography of Haruo Nakajima in comic book format

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Bobby Morgan (baseball)

Bobby Morris Morgan (born June 29, 1926) is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1950 and 1958 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs. He retired in 1958.

Morgan was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Julius W. Becton Jr.

Julius Wesley Becton Jr. (born June 29, 1926) is an American military official. He is a retired United States Army lieutenant general. He served as Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush presidencies from 1985 to 1989. He is also an education administrator.

Becton went on to serve in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant general in 1978 and command of VII Corps in Europe during the Cold War. Becton retired from the U.S. Army in 1983, after nearly 40 years of service.

His autobiography, Becton: Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant, was published in 2008 by Naval Institute Press.

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Gary Cohn

Gary David Cohn (born August 27, 1960) is an American investment banker and political figure. He is the chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump and Director of the National Economic Council. He was formerly the president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2017. Cohn is a registered Democrat, but has donated extensively to Republican politicians as well.

Cohn was thought to be one of the most influential voices in the Trump administration. On March 6, 2018, it was reported that Cohn planned to resign from his position in the coming weeks.

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Carl Panzram

Carl Panzram (June 28, 1891 - September 5, 1930) was an American serial killer who was hanged for murder. He served time under his own name and various aliases in Fresno, California; Rusk, Texas; The Dalles, Oregon; Harrison, Idaho; Butte, Montana; Montana State Reform School in Miles City; Montana State Prison (as "Jeff Davis" #4194 #3194 and "Jefferson Rhodes" #4396); Oregon State Prison ("Jefferson Baldwin" #7390); Bridgeport, Connecticut ("John O'Leary"); Sing Sing Correctional Facility, New York ("John O'Leary" #75182); Clinton Correctional Facility, New York ("John O'Leary" #75182); and Washington, D.C (Carl Panzram #33379) and Leavenworth, Kansas (Carl Panzram #31614). While incarcerated, Panzram frequently attacked guards and refused to follow their orders. The guards retaliated, subjecting him to beatings and other punishments.

Early life
Panzram was born on June 28, 1892, in East Grand Forks, Minnesota the son of Johann Gottlieb Panzram 1843-1926 and Matilda. He had five other siblings who did not become thieves, but Carl was stealing since he was six years old.

Death 
After being sentenced to death for killing Warnke,in response to offers from death penalty opponents and human rights activists to intervene, Panzram wrote, "The only thanks you and your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it."
On September 5, 1930, Panzram was hanged for murder at Leavenworth prison. When asked if had any last words, he snapped back "Hurry it up you Hoosier Bastard. I could kill ten men while you're fooling around!". He was buried in the prison graveyard marked only by his prison number.

During his last imprisonment a prison guard Henry Lesser gave Panzram a dollar to buy cigarettes; Panzram was so surprised by this one act of kindness that in return he wrote his autobiography—making it quite clear that he did not repent at all of the robberies, murders, arsons, and rapes which he had committed-writing a detailed summary of his crimes and nihilistic philosophy. It began with a straightforward statement:

In 1938, Karl Menninger wrote Man Against Himself, including writing about Panzram using the pen name of "John Smith", with Panzram Prison Number # 31614. Lesser preserved Panzram's letters and autobiographical manuscript, then spent the next four decades in search of a publisher willing to print the material. Finally, in 1970, it was released under the title Killer: A Journal of Murder. In 1996, the book formed the basis of a film of the same name, starring James Woods as Panzram and Robert Sean Leonard as Lesser. In 1980, Lesser donated Panzram's material to San Diego State University, where they are housed, as the "Carl Panzram papers", in the Malcolm A. Love Library. In 2012 filmmaker John Borowski released a documentary entitled Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance.

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Yoshio Tsuchiya

is a Japanese actor. He appeared in such movies as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal Bara No Soretsu (a.k.a. Funeral Parade of Roses) and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and Red Beard, and Kihachi Okamoto's Kill!.  

He has a long-standing interest in UFOs and had written several books on the subject. He preferred starring in science fiction movies, usually as aliens, or people possessed by them, in such movies as Battle in Outer Space, Monster Zero, and Destroy All Monsters.

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Katsumi Tezuka

(born August 31, 1912) is a Japanese actor. He is best known for playing monsters in several Toho science fiction and horror movies directed by Ishirō Honda. He played Godzilla, alongside Haruo Nakajima, in the 1954 movie Godzilla.

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Akira Takarada

is a Japanese movie actor. He is most known in the west for his roles in the Godzilla movie series. He appeared in the 2014 American reboot of the franchise. He also appeared in Half Human (1955), The Last War (1961), Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), King Kong Escapes (1967), and Latitude Zero (1969).

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Yukiko Shimazaki

is a Japanese actress and singer. She appeared in more than twenty movies from 1950 to 1964. She was married to director Tatsumi Kumashiro from 1955 to 1967. Her best known roles were in Repast (1951) and in Seven Samurai (1954).

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Río Negro (Uruguay)

The Río Negro (Black River) is the most important river in Uruguay.is a river in central France. It is a left tributary of the Uruguay river. It starts in southern Brazil and flows west across the entire width of Uruguay to the Uruguay River.

The course of the Río Negro across Uruguay effectively divides the south of the country from the north.

Geography
The Río Negro is  long. Its drainage basin covers , most of it in territory of Uruguay; only  are in Brazil.

Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  (70 years) at the Palmar dam,  to the east of the city of Mercedes, Soriano department.

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Palmar

Course
The Río Negro starts in the Bagé municipality, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. It flows from northeast to southwest through Uruguay and divides the country in two parts: the northern part with 6 departments and the southern part (slightly larger) with the 13 remaining departments.

Its course forms the border of the departments:
 On its northern (right) side: Rivera, Tacuarembó and Río Negro.
 On its southern (left) side: Cerro Largo, Durazno, Flores and Soriano.

At its end, to the south of the city of Fray Bentos in the Río Negro department, the Río Negro flows into the Uruguay river as a left tributary. The river has many meanders along its course and three hydroelectric dams has been built on this river that form three artifical lakes (or reservoirs in this case), from northeast to southwest:
 Rincón del Bonete Reservoir, also called the Gabriel Terra Reservoir or the Río Negro Reservoir;
 Baygorria Dam; and the
 Palmar or Constitution Dam.

The main cities along the river:
 Tacuarembó department
 Paso de los Toros.
 San Gregorio de Polanco.
 Soriano department
 Mercedes, capital of the department.
 Villa Soriano, one of the oldest towns of Uruguay; it is near the mouth of the Río Negro river.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Río Negro are:

Left tributaries:
 Yí - 210 km.

Right tributaries:
 Tacuarembó - 260 km.

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 List of rivers of France

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Sigmund Sobolewski

Sigmund Sobolewski () (May 11, 1923 – August 7, 2017) was a Polish activist, lecturer and Holocaust survivor. He was the 88th prisoner to enter Auschwitz on the very first transport to the concentration camp on June 14, 1940. He remained a prisoner for four and a half years during World War II. He was a critic of Holocaust denial and was known for having confronted modern neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers.

Death 
Sobolewski died of pneumonia complicated from Alzheimer's disease at his home in Bayamo, Cuba on August 7, 2017 at the age of 94. He was survived by his wife, Ramona Sobolewski.

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Kyōko Kagawa

is a Japanese actress. She is known for her roles in movies like Tokyo Story, Sansho the Bailiff and High and Low. She has appeared in 118 movies. Her most recent movie was Ballad in 2009.

In late 2011, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, honored her long career and her contribution to Japanese cinema with an exhibition titled 'Kyoko Kagawa, Film Actress'.

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La Plata, Maryland

La Plata is a city in Charles County, Maryland, United States. In 2010, 8,753 people lived there. It is the county seat of Charles County and home of the Charles County Courthouse.

La Plata was hit by two tornadoes, one in November 1926 that killed 13 people at La Plata Elementary School, and another in April 2002.

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Annie Cordy

Baroness Léonie Cooreman, known under the stage name Annie Cordy (16 June 1928 – 4 September 2020) was a Belgian movie actress and singer. She appeared in 50 movies beginning in 1954. 

She staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia. Her version of "La Ballade de Davy Crockett" was number 1 in the charts for five weeks in France in August 1956.

Cordy died on 4 September 2020 from cardiac arrest in Vallauris, France, aged 92.

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Amir Fryszer Guttman

Amir Fryszer Guttman (April 25, 1976 – July 23, 2017) was an Israeli singer, musician, choreographer, actor, and theater director. He died from drowning after being swept away with his niece, whom he had held above water; his niece survived.

Biography 
Amir Fryszer Guttman was born as Amir Feiger in Kiryat Haim to a Romanian-born couple. He shortened his original family name to Fei when his parents divorced and added the surname of his maternal grandfather, Guttman, in honor of family members perished in the Holocaust. Fey Guttman began his career as a young journalist and model. After serving in the Israel Defense Forces, he joined the Eilat hotel's entertainment team. In 1996 he was selected by Hed Arzi Music to join a new boy band called "Hi-Five". Until it was dismantled in 2000, the band released three albums, all of which reached gold status, and an EP, and won the Festigal twice. He released two solo albums during his career: "Mantra" (2000), and "Honey In Beehives" (2007). He wrote and composed several songs for other artists, including Roni Dalumi, Tal Mosseri, Roni Duani, Eliana Tidhar and Tuval Shafir. He also worked as a choreographer and as a producer for Hamsa (musical group), David D'Or, Miri Mesika and as a director/assistant directors for plays such as the Israeli versions of High School Musical and The Jungle Book, amongst others, that featured many stars, including Tuvia Tzafir, Zachi Noy and many others.

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Jerry Tarbot

Jerry Tarbot was an American conman who claimed he was an amnesia victim of World War I. On April 10, 1926 The Healdsburg Tribune published on article/photograph on Tarbot calling him the "sliding ghost" of World War I.

Timeline
In March 1927 Congressman Royal Johnson of South Dakota Chairman of the Veterans Committee claimed what was the real story of "Tarbot":
 His real name was Alexander Dubois, jr. the son of a chef in a Cuban hotel and Mary Richards Riley and had a Aunt in New York named Riley.
 He had 20 alias.
 He was a draft dodger.
 In January 1913 under the alias of "Howard Francis Noble" he applied for a job with General Electric Company in Erie, Pa
 In 1915 and 1916 he was known as "Howard Noble" and resided in Sharon Pa from June 1916 to July 1917. and was working at the Briggs Seabury Company. ^
 In 1916 he was working in the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co at Akron, Ohio.
 He had married at least twice:
 In Schenectady, New York to a first wife.
 That after working in the American Car and Foundry Company in Detroit, Michigan he meet Flora Lange and that he married her under the name "Harold Noble" in Toledo, Ohio December 22, 1917. And that after living in Erie, Pennsylvania there was a divorce after domestic trouble and that she last heard from "Noble" in 1918 when he claimed not to be responsible for her debts. They were divorced in January 1918
 In 1922 he was arrested in San Francisco for auto theft under the alias of "Blake". ^; that his attorneys had him declared insane and placed in a asylum where he posed as a amnesic war veteran ^
 In 1928 he published his alleged life story: Jerry Tarbot The Living Unknown Soldier.
 In 1932 Tarbot was a resident of Santa Rosa, California
 In January 1956 Tarbot renewed the copyright of “Jerry Tarbot The Living Unknown Soldier” under the name Jerry J Martin
 In 1972 still using the alias of Tarbot, he died in Califorina

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West Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana

West Creek Township is one of eleven townships in Lake County, Indiana. When counted at 2010, its population was 6,826 people and it had 2,664 houses.

History
West Creek Township was founded in 1839. It took its name from the westernmost of the three nearby large streams.

Geography
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which  (or 99.81%) is land and  (or 0.19%) is water.

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National Super Alliance

The National Super Alliance, known by the abbreviation NASA, is a Kenyan political coalition that was formed in January 2017 by opposition parties. These parties include the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Wiper Democratic Movement (Wiper), Forum for the Restoration of Democracy - Kenya (FORD-Kenya), Amani National Congress (ANC), National Rainbow Coalition, Progressive Party of Kenya, CCU, Muungano and other parties.

In the 2017 General Elections the flagbearer of the coalition will be Raila Amollo Odinga and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka. They'll be seeking to oust incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta.

2017 establishments
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Nankai University

Nankai University or NKU (simplified Chinese: 南开大学; traditional Chinese: 南開大學;), is a famous university in Tianjin, China. It was founded by Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling in 1919. The first Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai graduated from Nankai University.

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Arrondissements of the Loir-et-Cher department

There are 3 arrondissements in the Loir-et-Cher 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 Loir-et-Cher are:

History
Since its creation, the Loir-et-Cher department has had few changes:
 1790 : creation of the department with six districts: Blois, Vendôme, Romorantin, Mondoubleau, Mer and Saint-Aignan; the capital was Blois.
 1800 : creation of three arrondissements: Blois, Romorantin and Vendôme.
 1926 : the arrondissement of Romorantin was eliminated.
 1943 : Romorantin was made again an arrondissement.
 1961 : Romorantin was merged with Lanthenay and the name, of the commune and of the arrondissement, was changed to Romorantin-Lanthenay.

Related pages
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Fläsch

Fläsch is a municipality of the district Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.

History
Painter Anna Barbara Bansi was a native of the town.

References

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 Official website of Fläsch 

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Kuzakai Station

is a train station in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

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Dobra, Bolesławiec County

Dobra is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bolesławiec in Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland. It is approximately  west of Bolesławiec, and  west of the regional capital Wrocław.

Villages in Poland
Geishouse

Geishouse is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.

Communes in Haut-Rhin
Dejan Miladinović

Dejan Miladinović, (; 2 December 1948 – 3 August 2017) was a Serbian opera director. He was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. Miladinović has served as Principal Stage Director and two times as Artistic Director of the National Opera of Novi Sad. He has also served as Director and Artistic Councilor for "Grand Opera Projects" with Convention Centre "Sava" in Belgrade.

Miladinović died in Belgrade on 3 August 2017 at the age of 68.

References

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 Dejan Miladinovic Personal Website
 Dejan Miladinovic Biography at Pinnacle Arts

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Patsy Ticer

Patricia Smith "Patsy" Ticer (January 6, 1935 – August 7, 2017) was an American politician. She was born in Alexandria, Virginia. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Ticer served on the City Council of Alexandria, Virginia in the 1980s. She then served as Mayor of Alexandria from 1991 to 1996. Ticer served in the Senate of Virginia from 1996 until her retirement in 2011.

Ticer died in a hospital in Alexandria, Virginia from complications from a fall on August 7, 2017 at the age of 82.

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Gonzague Saint Bris

Gonzague Saint Bris (16 January 1948 – 8 August 2017) was a French award-winning novelist, biographer and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for Les Vieillards de Brighton. He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. He was born in Loches, Indre-et-Loire.

Saint Bris was killed in a car crash on 8 August 2017 in Saint-Hymer, Calvados at the age of 69.

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Cluster analysis

Clustering or cluster analysis is a type of data analysis. The analyst groups objects so that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar to each other than to objects in other groups (clusters) in some way. This is a common task in data mining.

Statistics
Dick MacPherson

Richard Francis "Dick" MacPherson (November 4, 1930 – August 8, 2017) was an American football coach. 

He was born in Old Town, Maine. He served as the head coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1971 to 1977 and at Syracuse University from 1981 to 1990.

Career 
He had a career college football record of 111–73–5.  MacPherson was the head coach of the National Football League's New England Patriots from 1991 to 1992, tallying a mark of 8–24.  He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2009.

MacPherson also served as an assistant coach with the Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns.

Personal life 
MacPherson died at a hospital in Syracuse, New York on August 8 2017 at the age of 86.

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Mercedes-Benz TN

The Mercedes-Benz TN (Transporter Ne, Internally called T1) were vans and minibuses built by Mercedes-Benz from 1977 to 1995. it was available as a box van, a flat bed light truck or a minibus.

Force Motors Traveller
In 1986 Bajaj Tempo, (now Force Motors) and Mercedes Benz (Daimler Benz) built the Force Motors Traveller and Tempo Traveller for Indian countries.

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Annie Up

Annie Up is the second studio album by Pistol Annies. The album was released on May 7, 2013 through RCA Records Nashville.

2013 albums
Eugenio Martínez

Eugenio Rolando Martínez (alias Musculito, July 8, 1922 – January 30, 2021) was an American real estate agent who was a member of the anti-Castro movement in the early 1960s, and later was one of the five men recruited by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt in 1972 for the Memorial Day weekend Watergate burglary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. After completing his prison term, Martinez was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

Martínez died on January 30, 2021 in Minneola, Florida at the age of 98.

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 watergate.info
 Spartacus Biography - Eugenio Martinez 

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Alexander Butterfield

Alexander Porter Butterfield (born April 6, 1926) is a U.S. military officer, public servant, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.

Butterfield revealed the existence of the White House taping system on July 13, 1973, during the Watergate scandal investigation, but had no involvement in the scandal. From 1973 to 1975, he served as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Shahid Khaqan Abbasi

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (Urdu/; born 27 December 1958) is a Pakistani politician who was the Prime Minister of Pakistan, from August 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018. He is a member of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N).

Abbasi served as the Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources in the third Sharif ministry from 2013 to 2017, and briefly held the cabinet portfolio of Minister for Commerce in the Gillani ministry in 2008.

On 1 August 2017, Abbasi was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan after the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision.

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Operation Sentinelle

Operation Sentinelle is a counter-terrorism mission of the French army. It was put in place in January 2015 after the attacks against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the supermarket Hyper Casher.

It was the President of the French Republic, François Hollande, who took the decision to create it and his successor Emmanuel Macron extended it.

All the units of the French army but also of the French Air Force and the French Navy participate in Operation Sentinelle. It results in a massive presence of French soldiers in the streets, public places and public transport, in reinforcement of the police and the gendarmerie.
Their function is to provide surveillance and dissemination of jihadist threats.

National security
Military of France
Grumman S-2 Tracker

The Grumman S-2 Tracker is an american military aircraft built for operations against soviets submarines of the Cold War. Grumman sold it at various foreign countries like Brazil, Japan, or Turkey.
The Conair Firecat is a water bomber variant built in Canada.

United States Navy aircraft
Vietnam War aircraft
S-2
Nord N-3202

The Nord N-3202 is a French military training light aircraft. It was used only by the French Army.

French military aircraft
Nord aircraft
Data collection

Data collection is the task of gathering and measuring data (information) in an orderly or systematic way. Researchers follow a formal plan for data collection to ensure that the information they collect has clear definitions, and is accurate. If you do not have clearly defined, accurate information, decisions you make using that information will not have validity.

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List of Kenyan scientists

This is a list of noted scientists from Kenya.

K
Kamoya Kimeu

L
Louis Leakey - archaeologist, anthropologist and naturalist; he died in 1972.
Louise Leakey - she is an paleontologist and anthropologist.

M
Wangari Maathai - she got a Nobel Peace Prize; environmentalist; died in 2011.

Related pages
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Wojciech Krzemiński

Wojciech Krzemiński (20 May 1933–5 August 2017) was a Polish astronomer and a retired professor of Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of Polish Academy of Sciences. He worked many years for the Carnegie Institution for Science Observatories. Krzemiński also discovered the optical companion of X-ray pulsar Centaurus X-3, which was named Krzemiński's Star in his honor.

He was also one of the first astronomers who correctly interpreted the nature of polar stars like AM Herculis.

Krzemiński died on 5 August 2017 in Warsaw at the age of 84.

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Marián Varga

Marián Varga (January 29, 1947 – August 8, 2017) was a Slovak musician, composer and organ player. He was born in Skalica, Czechoslovakia.

In 1979, he began a solo career. Among other achievements, he became a pioneer of absolute improvisation (real-time composition) in Slovakia. In the meantime he continued to contribute to popular music. His work with Pavol Hammel led to five successful albums and to the first rock musical in Slovakia.

Death
Varga died on August 8, 2017 of heart failure in Bratislava, Slovakia at the age of 70.

Awards
 Hall of Fame ZAI Award – Grand Prix
 Aurel Award – Lifetime Achievement
 Pribina Cross – 2nd Class

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Loir

The Loir is a river in central France. It is a left tributary of the Sarthe. It flows through two regions of France: Centre-Val de Loire and Pays de la Loire

The Eure-et-Loir and Loir-et-Cher departments are named after this river.

Geography
The Loir 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 Durtal, Maine-et-Loire (1961 - 2017).

Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Durtal

Course
The Loir starts in the former province of Perche, in the commune of Champrond-en-Gâtine, Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val de Loire region. It starts at an altitude of about .

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

 Centre-Val de Loire region
 Eure-et-Loir: Alluyes, Illiers-Combray, Bonneval, La Chapelle-du-Noyer, Châteaudun, Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, Donnemain-Saint-Mamès, Douy, Marboué, Moléans, Montboissier, Montigny-le-Gannelon, Romilly-sur-Aigre, Saint-Avit-les-Guespières, Saint-Christophe, Saint-Denis-les-Ponts, Saint-Éman (sources), Saint-Hilaire-sur-Yerre, Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir, Saumeray, Le Thieulin.
 Loir-et-Cher: Areines, Artins, Brevainville, Couture-sur-Loir, Fréteval, Lavardin, Les Roches-l'Évêque, Lignières, Lisle, Mazangé, Meslay, Montoire-sur-le-Loir, Morée, Naveil, Pezou, Saint-Firmin-des-Prés, Saint-Hilaire-la-Gravelle, Saint-Jacques-des-Guérets, Saint-Jean-Froidmentel ; Saint-Martin-des-Bois, Saint-Ouen, Tréhet, Villiers-sur-Loir, Vendôme, Thoré-la-Rochette.
 Pays de la Loire region
 Sarthe: Poncé-sur-le-Loir, Ruillé-sur-Loir, La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, Lhomme, Chahaignes, Marçon, Dissay-sous-Courcillon, Château-du-Loir, Vaas, Le Lude, La Flèche.
 Maine-et-Loire : Durtal, Seiches-sur-le-Loir, Villevêque, Soucelles, Briollay.

At its end, the Loir flows into the Sarthe river at the place called Bec du Loir ("beak of the Cher") in Briollay, Maine-et-Loire department, at  of altitude.

Main tributaries
The main tributaries of the Loir are:

Left tributaries:
 Conie - 32.4 km
 Aigre - 30.8 km
 Houzée - 20.8 km
 Dême - 32.5 km
 Fare - 36.9 km
 Maulne - 29.3 km
 Marconne - 20.9 km

Right tributaries:
 Thironne - 26 km
 Foussarde - 30.5 km
 Ozanne - 44 km
 Yerre - 48.7 km
 Egvonne - 24.2 km
 Braye - 75.1 km
 Veuve - 26.2 km
 Aune - 29.8 km
 Argance - 19.7 km

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Related pages
 List of rivers of France

Notes

References 

Rivers of France
Centre-Val de Loire
Pays de la Loire
Vendôme

Vendôme is a commune in central French, and is a subprefecture in the Loir-et-Cher department. It is also the capital of the arrrondissement of Vendôme and the administrative centre of the Vendôme canton.

Vendôme is one of the main towns along the Loir river. It is the third largest city of the department after Blois and Romorantin-Lanthenay.

Geography
The city of Vendôme is along the Loir river. The commune has an area of . Its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .

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

The commune of Vendôme is surrounded by the communes:

Climate
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Vendôme is an "Oceanic climate" (also known as Marine West Coast Climate) and of the subtype Cfb.

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Vendôme is . The month with the most precipitation on average is October with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Vendôme is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

Population
The inhabitants of Vendôme are known, in French, as Vendômois (women: Vendômoises).

With a population of 16,879, Vendôme has a population density of  inhabitants/km2.

Evolution of the population in Vendôme

Administration 
Vendôme is a subprefecture of the Loir-et-Cher department, the capital of the arrondissement of Vendôme and the administrative centre () of the canton of Vendôme, with 24,663 inhabitants (2014).

It is part of the intercommunality Territoires Vendômois ().

Twinned and partner towns 
Vendôme is twinned with:

  Gevelsberg, Germany, since 1965

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 Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department

Other websites

 Ville de Vendôme - Official website 

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Krzysztof Książek

Krzysztof Książek (born 5 August 1992) is a Polish classical pianist. He was born in Krakow, Poland. He is a winner of highest prizes at national and international piano competitions. His nomation is Polityka Passport Award for Classical Music. Since 2005, he has trained with Stefan Wojtas, first at music secondary school, now as a student of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. He has won prizes in Polish and international competitions, including the Ricard Vines in Leida, Spain, the Lviv international competitions in Ukraine, the "Città di Avezzano" in Italy (2011, First Prize) and the Polish Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2011, Third Prize; 2015, Second Prize ex aequo), XV International Pianist Ricard Vines (Lleida, Spain 2009), The International Chopin Piano Competition (Lviv, Ukraine 2010), VI Concorso Internazionale Pianistico "Citta di Avezzano" (Avezzano, He participated in the 67th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the 18th International Festival of Young Winners of Silesian Music Contests, 5th National Promotion Festival "August Talents" He is a scholarship recipient of the "Sapere Auso" Malopolska Foundation, the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and the Pro Musica Bona Foundation.

On his preliminary round he was admitted as ex-aequo winner of the 2nd Prize on the 2015 Polish National Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. He was stopped in the third stage of the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015. Although Krzysztof Książek was not qualified for the finals of the Chopin Competition, Andrzej Sułek believes that his name may return to the competition in those days.

CD
In November 2016 a CD with Fryderyk Chopin’s Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, performed by Krzysztof Książek with the Santander Orchestra under the baton of José Maria Florêncio was released. In the autumn of this year, Krzysztof Książek's solo album will be released with Fryderyk Chopin’s works.
Krzysztof Książek is represented by the Ludwig van Beethoven Association.

Chopin Competition 2015

Stage 1
 Songs:

Nocturne in F sharp minor, Opus 48 No. 2

Etude in E minor, Opus 25 No. 5

Etude in F major, Opus 10 No. 8

Scherzo in B minor, Opus 20

 Results: Get into stage 2

Stage 2
 Songs: 

Mazurka in A flat major Op. 7 No. 4 

Polonaise in F sharp minor Op. 44

Mazurka in B flat major Op. 7 No. 1

Waltz in A flat major Op. 42

Mazurka in A minor Op. 7 No. 2

 Results: Get into stage 3.

Stage 3
 Songs:

Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 45 

Rondo in E flat major Op. 16 

Mazurka in C sharp minor Op. 50 No. 3

Mazurka in G major Op. 50 No. 1

Sonata in B minor Op. 58:

Allego maestoso

Scherzo, Molto vivace

Finale, Presto non tanto

 Results: Stopped at stage 3.

Although Krzysztof Książek was not qualified for the finals of the Chopin Competition, but Andrzej Sułek believes that his name may return to the Chopin Competition in one more time. 

He has one more opportunity to return the XVIII Chopin Competition in 2020.

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Story 

SpongeBob and Patrick get on a bus after going to an amusement park. They get on the wrong bus that takes them to a 90 degree cliff. The cliff takes them to a dark city named Rock Bottom where many strange animals live. Patrick gets back on the bus but forgets to bring SpongeBob with. SpongeBob is stuck in the city and tries many times to get on another bus. He goes to a bus station and has to wait in a long line. When he gets to the front, there is only one bus left. He misses that bus and will have to wait the next day for another one. He hears a raspberry sound from far away. He runs back to the cliff to get away from the sound. He learns that a nice anglerfish was making the sound to give him a balloon. The anglerfish puts air in the balloon and ties it to SpongeBob's hand. The balloon takes SpongeBob up and back to Bikini Bottom. He sees Patrick getting on another bus thinking that SpongeBob is still at Rock Bottom.

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"Rock Bottom" was written by Paul Tibbitt, Ennio Torresan, and David Fain. Tom Yasumi directed the episode's animation and Tibbitt and Torresan directed the storyboard. Merriwether Williams thought that the episode is one of the best because the story is "so simple". She said "It just stayed with one idea. 'Rock Bottom' was about how he [SpongeBob] keeps missing the bus and how that makes him feel." She said that the story was so small that "you could explore gags (jokes) and opportunities for gags."

Reception 

The episode was watched by about 2.1 million people when it was first broadcast. Nancy Basile from About.com said that "The raspberries and SpongeBob's increasing frustration make this a hilarious episode." She says that the episode is "relatable" for having "SpongeBob running up against Murphy's law" (which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong). Emily Estep from WeGotThisCovered.com said that the episode is "mostly a goofy episode" but "also one of the scarier episodes". She thought that the balance of cuteness and horror makes the episode known well. The roller coaster SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge was made similar to the episode.

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Heinz F. Dressel

Heinz Friedrich Dressel (28 September 1929 – 4 August 2017) was a German theologian and writer. He was born in Marktredwitz, Germany. His work focused on human rights and the history of Brazil. He wrote many books about the history of Latin America and views of Christianity. 

Dressel died on 4 August 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany at the age of 87.

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Rius

Eduardo Humberto del Río García (June 20, 1934 – August 8, 2017), better known by his pen name Rius, was a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer. He was born in Zamora, Michoacán. He was a supporter of the Cuban revolution and was a strong critic of Fidel Castro's rule. His best known works were Cuba for Beginners and It's a Pity, Cuba.

Rius died on 8 August 2017 in Cuernavaca, Morelos at the age of 83.

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 Website about Rius  (in Spanish)
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 Current articles from Rius from Vinculando.org (in Spanish)
 Webpage about issue #1 of comic book Los Supermachos  from Los Supermachos Remasterizados (in Spanish)
 El Chamuco, official web site of El Chamuco, a comic magazine about Mexican politics and critics founded by Rius (in Spanish)

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Cuernavaca

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Giancarlo Giannini

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Patricio Echegaray

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Ken Roberts (rugby league)

Kenneth "Ken" Roberts (died 8 August 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain and Lancashire, and at club level for Swinton, Halifax, Bradford Northern, Rochdale Hornets and Salford.

Roberts was born in Atherton, Lancashire. He died on 8 August 2017.

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Photpgraph "A flying tackle" at rugbyleagueheritageproject.com
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Janet Seidel

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Her albums, recorded with her brother bassist David Seidel, have been nominated for prizes such as the ARIA Music Awards. Her album Moon of Manakoora won the Bell Award for Best Australian Jazz Vocal Album in 2006. She was a music teacher at Sydney Girls High School.

Seidel died on 8 August 2017 from ovarian cancer at her home in Sydney, New South Wales at the age of 62.

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