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Christopher "Big Black" Boykin (January 13, 1972 – May 9, 2017) was an American entertainer and musician. He was best known for his role on MTV's "Rob &amp; Big", which followed him and his co-star, skateboarder Rob Dyrdek. He was born in Raleigh, Mississippi. Boykin died on May 9, 2017 in Plano, Texas from heart failure after being hospitalized for a heart attack at the age of 45.
Petrozavodsk (Russian: Петрозаводск, Karelian/Vepsian/Finnish: Petroskoi) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of the Republic of Karelia. The city has a population of around 280,170 people. History. Evidence shows that people have lived in the Petrozavodsk region since seven thousand years ago. At the end of the sixteenth century, there was a settlement in the region that was named "Onegaborg". During the Finnish occupation of Petrozavodsk, the city was named "Äänislinna" (or "Ääneslinna"). The city was retaken by the Soviet army on 28 June 1944. The Finns set up concentration camps in the city for people of non-Finnic ethnicity. In total, six camps were set up; which in total held 23,984 civilians of Russian ethnicity. In 1977, the Petrozavodsk phenomenon occurred. This was an incident where a glowing object showered the city with many rays. Many people now believe that it was caused by the launch of the Soviet satellite Kosmos 955. The Petrozavodsk State University is located in the city. The university is made up of 9 faculties and 6 institutes, and was founded on 1 September 1940. There are many popular landmarks in Petrozavodsk. One of them is "Lenin Square," which is an oval space with a large Vladimir Lenin statue in the center. The suburb of "Martsialnye Vody" is the oldest spa in Russia. It was founded in 1714 by Peter the Great. Petrozavodsk is home to the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karelian Musical Theater, the National Library of Karelia, the National Theatre of Karelia and a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Climate. According to the Köppen climate classification, Petrozavodsk experiences a subarctic climate. However, the city has much milder temperatures than other cities in that climate. This is mainly because of the city's position next
Allan Howard Meltzer (February 6, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was an American economist and professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Jewish family.  Meltzer specialized on studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve System, and has authored several academic papers and books on the development and applications of monetary policy, and about the history of central banking in the US. Together with Karl Brunner, he created the Shadow Open Market Committee: a monetarist council that deeply criticized the Federal Open Market Committee. Meltzer served as president of the Mont Pelerin Society for the 2012–2014 term. Meltzer died on May 8, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of 89.
Mario Balbuena González (April 16, 1959 – May 7, 2017), better known under the ring name Gran Apache and El Apache, was a Mexican "luchador", or professional wrestler and trainer. He was born in Mexico City. Balbuena worked for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) from 1996 until his death in 2017, both as a wrestler and a trainer, having been involved in training almost all young wrestlers who worked for in that period of time. Balbuena died on May 7, 2017 from colorectal cancer in Mexico City at the age of 58.
Arthur Moulin (4 July 1924 – 9 May 2017) was a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1958 to 1973, representing Nord. He also served as a member of the French Senate from 1983 to 1992, representing Nord. He was the mayor of Avesnes in Pas-de-Calais from 1971 to 1989. He was born Saint-Aubin, Nord, France. Moulin died in Avesnes, France on 9 May 2017 at the age of 92.
Kevin Allen Hassett (born March 20, 1962) is an American economist and politician who has been the Director of the National Economic Council since 2025. He was the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers from September 13, 2017 to June 28, 2019. He is known for his work on tax policy and for co-authoring the book "Dow 36,000" (1999). Hassett was the chair in American Politics and Culture and Director of Research for Domestic Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Hassett was John McCain's chief economic adviser in the 2000 presidential primaries and an economic adviser to the campaigns of George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and McCain in the presidential election of 2008. He was among Mitt Romney's economic advisers for the 2012 presidential campaign. In April 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Hassett to serve as the 29th chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. He served in the role until his resignation in 2019. In November 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Hassett to be Director of the National Economic Council. Early life. Hassett was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Career. Hassett was an assistant professor of economics at Columbia Business School from 1989 to 1993 and an associate professor there from 1993 to 1994. From 1992 to 1997, Hassett was an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He was a policy consultant to the United States Department of the Treasury during the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. Hassett joined the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as a resident scholar in 1997. He worked on tax policy, fiscal policy, energy issues, and investing in the stock market. In 2003, Hassett was named director of economic policy studies at AEI. Hassett wrote columns in newspapers like "The New York Times", "The Washington Post",
Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally new but also include old technologies finding new applications. Emerging technologies are often perceived as capable of changing the status quo. Related pages. Agriculture Architecture Biomedical technology  Displays, Next generation of display technology Screenless video Electronics Energy production Energy storage Other energy topics Information and communications technology Manufacturing Materials science Military technology Neuroscience Quantum technology Robotics Space launch technologies Spacecraft propulsion Other space technologies Aviation Land transport Pipeline Other technologies Topics
Avigdor Lieberman, Hebrew: אביגדור ליברמן , born as "Evet Lvovich Liberman", Russian: Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман, (born 5 July 1958 in Chișinău) is an Israeli politician. He is a political leader and also founder of Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel Our Home"). Early life and education. Lieberman studied hydrology in his native country. He migrated from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Israel in 1978. After serving in the army he studied political science and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Career. In the 1980s he was involved in Zionist activities on behalf of Soviet Jews and also a leading member of economic and trade union organizations in Jerusalem.  In the 1990s he was an important assistant to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of HaLikud. In 1999 he entered the Knesset with Yisrael Beiteinu, a nationalist political party focused on Israeli Jews from the former Soviet Union, founded in the same year. Lieberman participated in several cabinets, among others as deputy prime minister in the Olmert Government and the Second Netanyahu Government, and as foreign minister in the Second and Third Netanyahu Government. From 2016 to 2018 he was defense minister in the Fourth Netanyahu Government. Since 2021 he has been finance minister in the Bennett-Lapid Government.
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland was a title given to the rulers during the Great Interregnum from 1649-1659 after the execution of Charles I and the installation of Oliver Cromwell. There were 2 lord protectors, Oliver and his son Richard who ruled as lord protector for under a year (1658-1659) Following Richard Cromwell's resignation of May 25th 1659 he was succeeded by the Council of State who ruled the country until May 28th 1660 when king Charles II took back power and was restored as the monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Dübendorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. It is a suburb of Zürich. About 28,000 people live there. It is the fourth largest city in the canton, after Zürich, Winterthur and Uster. Villages. Dübendorf, Dübelstein, Geeren, Gfenn, Gockhausen, Hermikon and Stettbach.
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer (6 March 1787 – 7 June 1826) was a German physicist. He was born in 1787 in Bavaria. When he was 11 years old, he had no father and no mother. Because of that, he had to work to survive. He worked making glass objects for a man called Philipp Anton Weichelsberger. One day, in 1801, the place where Fraunhofer was working fell down and was destroyed. Fraunhofer was inside when this happened. Luckily, some people found him in the middle of the bits of the house and saved him. The Prince of Bavaria was with these people and he decided to help Fraunhofer. The prince decided to give Fraunhofer money and books to study. He studied for five years and one day he was invited to work for a man called Joseph Utzschneider. This man had a company that made glass lenses to be used in scientific instruments. And this company had a secret laboratory in a monastery called Benediktbeuern. In this laboratory people were trying to discover how to make better glass lenses. Glass lenses at that time was a very complicated technology. After three years, Fraunhofer was one of the directors of this company. And after eight years he was a partner of the owner. Fraunhofer died very sick in 1826, probably because of the time he worked as a child. Spectroscopy. During his time in Benediktbeuern, Fraunhofer did experiments with glass. He discovered very important things about light. One day Fraunhofer was playing with a piece of glass called a prism and a telescope in a room full of sunlight. When he used the telescope to look at the glass, he discovered that he could see all colours of the rainbow. But there were black lines between the colours. Fraunhofer never discovered what the black lines were; he suggested they might be boundaries between different colors. Many years later, scientists discovered that these black spectral lines existed because some materials that exist in the sun and in the sky can absorb parts of the light. Today scientists use a similar technique to discover what chemicals are in stars and planets. The scientists who tried to find out what was happening call this part of science "spectroscopy".
Nick Galifianakis (July 22, 1928 - March 27, 2023) was an American attorney and politician. He was the Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina. He served as a representative from 1967 through 1973.  Galifianakis was born in Durham, North Carolina. He studied at Duke University, and was an assistant professor at this university. Galifianakis was the uncle of comedian Zach Galifianakis. Galifianakis died at the age of 94 on March 27, 2023.
Arthur Ravenel Jr. (March 29, 1927 – January 16, 2023) was an American businessman and a Republican politician. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina's 1st congressional district. He served from 1987 through 1995. Ravenel Jr. decided not to run for re-election in 1994, to run for Governor instead, but lost in the Republican primaries to David Beasley. In 2005, Ravenel Jr. suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome. The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge, near the Cooper River, is named after him. Ravenel was a member of Moultrie Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and was a supporter of the Confederate flag being flown at the South Carolina statehouse. He made controversy at a rally for the flag in 2000 when he called the NAACP as the “National Association for Retarded People”. Ravenel upset even more people after he apologized to mentally handicapped people for comparing them to the NAACP. Ravenel died on January 16, 2023 at the age of 95.
The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Cooper River in South Carolina, United States, connecting downtown Charleston to Mount Pleasant. The bridge is named after former U.S. representative Arthur Ravenel Jr..  The eight lane bridge satisfied the capacity of U.S. Route 17 when it opened in 2005 to replace two old cantilever truss bridges. The bridge has a main span of 1,546 feet (471 m), the third longest among cable-stayed bridges in the Western Hemisphere. It was built using the design-build method and was designed by Parsons Brinckerhoff.
William Edwin Dannemeyer (September 22, 1929 – July 9, 2019) was a conservative American politician, activist, and author. He was known for his criticism of homosexuality. He was the honorary national chairman of "Citizens For a Better America". He served as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993. Dannemeyer died of dementia in Thousand Palms, California on July 9, 2019, aged 89.
Esteban Edward Torres (January 27, 1930 – January 25, 2022) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Miami, Arizona. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 34th congressional district. He served as a member of the California Transportation Commission from 1997 to 2007. Torres died on January 25, 2022 in Miami, Florida, two days before his 92nd birthday.
Imke Courtois (born 14 March 1988) is a Belgian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Standard Fémina de Liège and the Belgium women's national football team. Personal life. Imke is often asked if she is Thibaut Courtois' sister. As a joke she started a company called 'Niet de zus van' () and said: "for once and for all: no, Thibaut is not my brother."
Ronald Charleston "Ron" Packard, D.M.D. (born January 19, 1931) is a retired Republican politician from California. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 2001. In 1982, Packard lost the Republican primary for the United States House of Representatives in a crowded field of candidates to Johnnie Crean by 92 votes. After Crean faced controversy, such as laying about being endorsed by then-President Ronald Reagan, Packard ran as a write-in candidate. He won the election in 1982 beating Crean. Packard won the election by 11,000 votes to become the first independent write-in candidate to defeat candidates of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Alfred Alfonso "Al" McCandless (July 23, 1927 – August 9, 2017) was a Republican politician from California. He was born in Brawley, California on July 23, 1927. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1951. Before becoming a representative, he was an automobile and truck dealer from 1953 through 1975. McCandless was on the Riverside County board of supervisors from 1972 through 1982. He was in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1983 through January 3, 1995. McCandless died at his home in La Quinta, California on August 9, 2017 at the age of 90.
Cornelius Edward "Neil" Gallagher (March 2, 1921 – October 17, 2018) was an American Democratic Party politician. He represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 through 1973. Gallagher died on October 17, 2018 in Columbia, New Jersey from brain cancer at the age of 97.
Frank Joseph Guarini (born August 20, 1924) is an American Democratic Party politician. He represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives, where he represented the now-defunct Fourteenth Congressional District from 1979 to 1993. Guarini served in the New Jersey Senate from 1965 to 1972. In 1970, Guarini unsuccessfully challenged incumbent U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams in the Democratic Primary, losing 66%-34%.
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski ("né" Alexeiev; ; 7 August 1938) was a Russian actor and director. He was widely known as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed created a reputation as one of the leading theatre directors of his generation. His principal fame and influence, however, rests on his 'system' of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique.
Herbert C. "Herb" Klein (June 24, 1930 – November 24, 2023) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. He represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives. He was widely called as one of New Jersey's foremost trial lawyers and was the lead counsel in some of the most important trials in the state. Klein died on November 24, 2023 in Clifton, New Jersey at the age of 93.
Ernest Jackson Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (23 June 1926 – 8 May 2017) was a British microbiologist and parasitologist. In 1990 he was made a Conservative life peer and sat in the House of Lords until his retirement in December 2015. He was born in Westmorland, North West England. Soulsby died on 8 May 2017 at his home in Swaffham Prior at the age of 90.
Curt Lowens (17 November 1925 – 8 May 2017) was an American actor of the stage and in feature movies and television, as well as a Holocaust survivor and a rescuer who saved about 150 Jewish children during the Holocaust. He was known for his roles as Director Swift in "Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory" (1962) and as a Soviet ambassador on "The A-Team", appearing from 1983 through 1987. He was also in "Angels &amp; Demons". Lowens died in 8 May 2017 in New York City at the age of 91.
Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 – 9 May 2017), better known by his stage name Robert Miles, was a Swiss-Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. In 1994, Miles wrote a trance/chill-out piece based on acoustic guitar chords and soft synthesizer effects, "Children", which was later developed into a dream trance song featuring a piano theme on top. Miles died in Ibiza, Spain, on 9 May 2017 at the age of 47 after a short battle with stage 4 metastatic cancer.
Qian Qichen (; 5 January 1928 – 9 May 2017) was a Chinese diplomat and politician. He served as China's foreign minister from 12 April 1988 to 18 March 1998. He was Vice Premier of the State Council from 1993 until he retired in 2003. Qian died on May 9, 2017 in Beijing at age of 89.
Edward Lunn Young (September 7, 1920 – May 9, 2017) was a Republican U.S. Representative from South Carolina. He served in the House from January 3, 1973 through January 3, 1975. Young was the Republican candidate for Governor in 1978, but lost to Democratic State Senator Richard Riley. He ran again for Governor, but lost in the Republican primaries to John Light Napier. After his 1980 defeat, Young retired from politics.  Young died in his sleep on May 9, 2017 at his home in Florence, South Carolina, aged 96.
Nelson Xavier (30 August 1941 – 10 May 2017) was a Brazilian actor and director. He appeared in more than 95 movies and television shows between 1959 and 2017. He starred in the 1964 movie "Os Fuzis". In 1976 Xavier co-directed "A Queda" along with Ruy Guerra. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize. His last movie was "Trash" (2014). Xavier died on 10 May 2017 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais from lung disease, aged 75.
Jasmine Directory is a human-edited, partly for money web directory listing websites by topic and by region. This list offers a range of thirteen topics and one region-based list with hand-picked and reviewed users' suggested resources. History. The project was created in 2006 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics by Pecsi Andras and Robert Gombos and shown to the public in 2009. It was developed using a core code created by TOLRA Micro Systems Ltd. In 2013 and 2014, Ken Anderson—editor at the Magic City Morning Star, early meta editor for the Open Directory Project (DMOZ), and editor at Go.com and Zeal directories—rated Jasmine Directory in his "Top Ten Web Directories", where each directory is reviewed quarterly. Currently, Jasmine Directory is based in Valley Cottage, New York. Review fee and advertising. Jasmine Directory's editors add resources to the index by hand. Website owners can also suggest their websites for review by paying a fee. However, inclusion is not guaranteed if the suggested websites don't comply with the rules from the editors. Because editors review every listing, search engines view listings in "quality directories" as valuable. Website owners report that submitting their sites to web directories can be worthwhile. Ann Smarty—search marketer and writer at "Entrepreneur", Mashable, and Moz—mentions Jasmine Directory as providing a "valuable user experience". The company claims that review by editors is key in maintaining a neutral and useful index of information that doesn't depend on how any single user sees things, as Matt Cutts mentioned in 2011.
Theeran Athikaram Ondru (English Title "- Theeran Chapter One") is an action thriller movie, written and directed by "Sathuranga Vettai" fame Vinoth and produced by S.R. Prakashbabu and S.R. Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures. Karthi and Rakul Preet Singh play lead roles in this movie. Production. After "Siruthai", Karthi plays as a cop in "Theeran Athikaram Ondru".Abhimanyu Singh is roped in to play as antagonist in this movie. Producer S.R. Prabhu says that, there are many action sequences in the movie which is based on the life of an adventurous cop. Karthi wanted to undergo the training like the real cops and that’s why he is getting trained now." Shooting of this film is commenced in Jan 2017.Cinematographer of this movie is Sathyan Sooriyan, stunts by Dhilip Subbarayan, art department is handled by Kathir, music is scored by Ghibran and editing is by Shivanandeeswaran.
Sohu (Chinese: 搜狐) is a Chinese Internet company. On August 1996, it is founded by Charles Zhang. The general headquarters of Sohu is in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu has been listed on NASDAQ since 2000. In 2019, Sohu ranked as the 7th most visited site in the world according to the Alexa internet ranking site. Sohu’s Sogou.com is a famous webisite in China now. The company also have other services, such as Sogou Pinyin, which is used by a lot of Chinese now.
Jichang Garden () is in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. It is close to Huishan Temple. It was claimed as a national protected location of historical and cultural relics on 13 January 1988. Xiequ Garden (谐趣园) in the Summer Palace and Guo Ran Da Gong (廓然大公) (or, Double-Crane House 双鹤斋) in Yuanming Yuan in Beijing are both similar to Jichang Garden. History. Jichang Yuan is also called "Qin Yuan" (秦园). The site used to be two buildings called "Nan Yin" (南隐) and "Ou Yu" (沤寓). During the Ming dynasty, Qin Jin (秦金), bought "Ou Yu" of Huishan Temple. Qin was a metropolitan graduate in 1493 and also the descendant of Qin Guan, a famous lyricist in the Northern Song dynasty.He built it on the basis of old building, making hills and ponds, planting flowers and trees, building houses, and changing it to a garden. After the death of Qin Jin, the garden was inherited by his family member Qin Han and his son Qin Liang. In the summer of 1560, Qin Han built another garden at the top of Huishan, called "Feng Gu Shan Zhuang" or "Villa of Phoenix Valley". After the death of Qin Liang, the garden was owned by his family member Qin Yao. Qin Yao was a member of Donglin party. In 1591, Qin Yao failed in the government. He returned to Wuxi in a bad mood, so he used the beautiful garden to relax. He changed the name to Jichang Yuan (寄畅园). The meaning of the name is "send happiness". In the Wanli era of the Ming dynasty, there are 20 places of interest in the garden, and Qin Yao make poems for each of them.