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Erica Garner (May 29, 1990 – December 30, 2017) was an American activist. She fought for police reform, especially in the use of force during arrests. Garner became involved in activism after her father, Eric Garner, died in 2014. A New York City police officer put him in a chokehold during an arrest and killed him. Garner said that she believed her father's death had more to do with police misconduct than race, and in 2017, she rejected a meeting with the United States Justice Department to discuss the police killing her father.  During the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Garner supported Bernie Sanders, and appeared in an advertisement for him. Garner died in a Brooklyn hospital while in a coma after she had a serious heart attack on December 30, 2017. She was 27 years old.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann (29 August 1945 – 21 December 2017) was an American-born Swiss economist. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He was professor of international political economy at IMD and the founding director of The Evian Group at IMD. In August 2011, he was appointed senior fellow at the Fung Global Institute (FGI). Lehmann died on 21 December 2017 of a pulmonary embolism in Lausanne, Switzerland at the age of 72.
John Calvin Portman Jr. (December 4, 1924 – December 29, 2017) was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer. He was born in Walhalla, South Carolina. He was known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman also had a large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center, Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels. Portman died on December 29, 2017 in Atlanta of heart failure, aged 93.
Khalid Shameem Wynne (28 August 1953 – 30 December 2017) was a Pakistani four star general. Wynne served as the 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee before retiring on 7 October 2013.  Before to his promotion, the official statement said that "General Wynne was appointed as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee by President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani." He also served as field operational Commander of the XII Corps in Quetta from 2007 till 2010, overseeing the Baloch insurgency and the fallout of the war in the Tribal Areas. Wynne was killed in a car crash near Chakri, Punjab, Pakistan on 30 December 2017. He was 64 years old.
"Juyin Sarauta ("The Royal Ascendance")" is a 2017 movie. It was directed by Falalu A. Dorayi. It was produced by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu and Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino MON. It was produced in Nigeria by Ramat Productions Ltd and Dogarai Women Film. The lyrics playback was made by Fati Nijar. The movie won Best Film in the Nigerian Language Award by Zuma Film Festival 2017 and was also nominated for the Best Actor. The movie comes as a medium of enlightenment, entertainment, information and education in the African continent especially of the South Sahara. The plot, the characterization and the dialogue make the story exciting and educating. The producer, defines her attitude towards her intention as gender activist. Plot. Sarki Yusufu (Ado Ahmad Gidan Dabino MON) is the emir of Jadarwa. His wives, concubines and other slaves get divided in moves to produce the next Emir. In the process, each faction is with a particular prince and that leads to murder, rituals, and confusion reigned in the palace. Jakadiya (Ladidi Fagge) and Uwar Soro (Hauwa Musa) connive to turn Ahmadu mad; Umar, the heir apparent is poisoned by Fulani Gaji (Zainab Muhammad); Bashari is framed for stealing from the Emir and is banished; and Suleimanu is sent away from the palace as a tender boy. At the end, the less privileged among the Princes and son of a concubine, Suleimanu, is the Emir. Production. Development. In 2015, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu wrote Juyin Sarauta to bring about new ideas on the women status in Northern Nigeria, where culture and religion dominate their rights. She discussed it with some people and conducted research in different areas. Together with staff of Ramat Productions, they came up with idea about role of women in determining the king in Hausaland. According to her,  “...the story is that it shows that women are
Yacht chartering is the renting a sailboat or motor yacht for sea traveling. This is a vacation activity, but it can be a corporate event. There are two main kinds of the charter: bareboat and skippered. Bareboat charters are when a person is renting a boat and skippering it themselves. Skippered charter meaning that boat comes with a skipper but no additional crew. Crewed charter means that the yacht is rented with a full crew. Usually the crew is based on the specific yacht. A captain, a chef, a decks hand and a hostess are a typical crew. In many destinations the crewed charter is taxed differently from a Skippered charter.
George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an African-American composer, educator and autobiographer. He was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work "Lilacs" in 1996. Early life. Walker was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied at Oberlin College. Career. Walker taught music at Columbia University, Wayne State University, Wellesley College, Temple University, Washington University in St. Louis, Williams College and Montclair State University. In 1946, Walker composed his String Quartet no. 1. A string orchestra arrangement of the second movement of that work received its world premiere in a radio broadcast that was conducted by pianist Seymour Lipkin. Walker was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. The following year, Walker was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry proclaimed June 17, 1997 as “George Walker Day”. in the nation's capitol. His autobiography, "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist", was released in 2009 by Scarecrow Press. Personal life. Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker, and playwright Ian Walker. Walker died on August 23, 2018 from a fall at a hospital in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 96.
Kennington is a London Underground station on Kennington Park Road in Kennington. The station is at the junction of the Charing Cross and Bank branches of the Northern line. It is within the London Borough of Southwark. Its neighbouring stations to the north are Waterloo on the Charing Cross branch and Elephant &amp; Castle on the Bank branch; the next station to the south is Oval. The station is in Travelcard Zone 2. It is one of the station that has the notable loop, called Kennington Loop, similar to Timothy's Computer on Timothy North Metro and South Ferry on New York City Subway. It would be extended to Battersea Power Station via Nine Elms in the near future, to serve the near-refurbished Battersea Power Station.
Christine King Farris (born Willie Christine King; September 11, 1927 – June 29, 2023) was the oldest child of Martin Luther King, Sr. and the sister of Martin Luther King, Jr..  She taught at Spelman College and was the author of several books and a public speaker on many topics. For many years, she was the Vice Chair and Treasurer of the King Center and has been active for several years in the International Reading Association, and many church and civic organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.  King Farris held a tenure professorship at Spelman College for 48 years before her retirement in 2014. She died on June 29, 2023.
Hans Frauenfelder (born July 28, 1922) is a Swiss-American physicist and biophysicist. He is known for his discovery of perturbed angular correlation (PAC) in 1951. In the modern day, PAC spectroscopy is widely used in the study of condensed matter physics.  Frauenfelder was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He studied at ETH Zurich. Within biophysics, he is known for experiment and theory in understanding the dynamical behavior of protein tertiary structure. In 1992, Frauenfelder won the Max Delbruck Prize. Frauenfelder is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Alain Touraine (; 3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) was a French sociologist. He was the research director at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He founded the "Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux". He was best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society". He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1990. Touraine died in Paris, France on 9 June 2023, at the age of 97.
Robert Alexander Mundell, CC (October 24, 1932 – April 4, 2021) was a Canadian economist. He was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mundell was also known for the Mundell–Fleming model and Mundell–Tobin effect. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1999 for his pioneering work in monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas. Mundell is known as the "father" of the Euro, as he laid the groundwork for its introduction through this work and helped to start the movement known as supply-side economics which inspired Reaganomics. Mundell died on April 4, 2021 in Siena, Tuscany from problems caused by bile duct cancer, aged 88.
Adrienne is a female first name. It is the female form of Adrien. The name can be also spelled Adrianne.The pronunciation of the name is [ ey-dree-en, -"uh"n; "French" a-dree-en ]. This is a unique name (not in the top 1000 newborn names in the US in 2021). The meaning of the name is "from the city of Hadria." It also means "the dark one." There are a few fictional characters with the name, such as Adrienne Johnson from "Days of our Lives".
Adrienne Shelly (also known as Adrienne Levine; June 24, 1966 – November 1, 2006) was an American actress, movie director and screenwriter. Shelly was born in Queens, New York. She wrote, co-starred in and directed the 2007 movie "Waitress". She was also known for her roles in independent movies. In 2000, Shelly won a U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Film Discovery Jury Award. She won the award for the 1999 movie "I'll Take You There". Shelly also guest-starred in "Law &amp; Order" and "Oz". Murder and trial. On November 1, 2006, Shelly was found hanging in the shower of her Greenwich Village work studio apartment. It was originally thought she had killed herself. But an illegal immigrant from Ecuador, a construction worker, confessed to killing Shelly. He was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
MusicBrainz is an music database. It is similar to the freedb project that aims to start an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and start the relationships between them. Client software. Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shut down on March 18, 2019.
Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) is a biennial movie festival held in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was established in 1992. Awards. The festival authority chooses and invites Asian and Australian movies to participate in different sections. The sections are:
The Centaurus is a 64 floored skyscraper in Jinnah Avenue, F-8/4, Islamabad, Pakistan. It was designed by WS Atkins, a British architect and his partners. It is made of 3 skyscrapers with a 36-storey hotel, 23-storey offices and 5-storey shopping mall. The Centaurus' construction started in 2005 and finished in 2011. The Centaurus Shopping Mall has different shops and on the forth floor, there is the food court with food restaurants including McDonald's and KFC. It also includes the Fun City and Cineplex.
The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a fight over farmland. It happened in Johnson County, Wyoming between 1889 and 1893. The fights started when cattle companies started ruthlessly punishing accused rustlers in the area. Many of the “rustlers” were actually innocent settlers that competed with the companies for land, livestock and water rights. As tensions swelled between the large established ranchers and the smaller settlers in the state, violence finally reached a peak in Powder River Country, when the ranchers hired armed gunmen to invade the county. The gunmen's initial incursion in the territory aroused the small farmers and ranchers, as well as the state lawmen, and they formed a posse of 200 men that led to a grueling stand-off. The siege ended when the United States Cavalry on the orders of President Benjamin Harrison relieved the two forces, although further fighting persisted in the following months. The events have since become a highly mythologized and symbolic story of the Wild West, and over the years variations of the storyline have come to include some of its most famous historical figures. In addition to being one of the most well-known range wars of the American frontier, its themes, especially class warfare, served as a basis for numerous popular novels, films, and television shows in the Western genre.
Gerd Cintl (11 December 1938 – 26 December 2017) was a German rower. He competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. In 1960, he was a crew member of the German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed fours event. Cintl died on 26 December 2017 at the age of 79.
Arson in royal dockyards was a crime in the United Kingdom and the British Empire. The crime was made by the Dockyards etc. Protection Act 1772 (12 Geo. 3 c.24) passed by the Parliament of Great Britain and was made to protect Royal Dockyards and ships from arson attacks. It remained one of the few crimes punished with death after reform of the death penalty in 1861, and this stayed in effect even after the death penalty was stopped for murder in 1969. However, the crime was then removed from law by the Criminal Damage Act 1971. Case of John the Painter. Only one prosecution was brought under the Act. In that case, the Scottish saboteur John the Painter (also known as James Hill or John Aitken) was prosecuted and executed in 1777 for setting the rope house at Portsmouth Royal Dockyard on fire. He was hanged from the mizzenmast of the frigate , the highest gallows erected in British history. It was set up at Portsmouth Royal Dockyards in view of the damage he had caused. The crowd of witnesses numbered some 20,000.
Prince François of Orléans, Count of Clermont (born François Henri Louis Marie; 7 February 1961 – 31 December 2017) was the eldest son of Orleanist pretender to the French throne, Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France and his former wife Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg. His mother suffered from toxoplasmosis during pregnancy, resulting in Prince François being mentally disabled, as is his younger sister, Princess Blanche. Because of his illness, his father named his second son, Prince Jean, Duke of Vendôme, as Dauphin of France (his heir). On 31 December 2017, Prince Jean reported that Francis had died in France at the age of 56.
Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris, Duke of France ("Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans"; 14 June 1933 – 21 January 2019), was head of the House of Orléans. He was one of the pretenders to the defunct French crown as Henry VII.  Henri was a descendant in the male-line of France's "Citizen-King" Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (ruled 1830–1848), he was also recognized as the legitimate claimant to the throne by those French royalists, called Unionists, who call him as the rightful heir of Henri de Bourbon, Count of Chambord, the last patrilineal descendant of King Louis XV. Henri of Orléans was a military officer as well as an author and painter.
Dame Cheryll Beatrice Sotheran (1945 – 30 December 2017) was a New Zealand museum professional. She was the founding Chief Executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and was thanked with the successful completion of the museum, considered the largest international museum project of the 1990s. She was born in Stratford, New Zealand. In the 1999 New Year Honours Sotheran was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to museum administration. Sotheran resigned from Te Papa for health reasons in 2002. In 2013, Sotheran suffered a stroke. She died in Auckland on 30 December 2017 from an unknown long-illness and stroke-related complications, aged 72.
John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand-born Australian comedian, writer, and satirist. He was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He lived in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a well known actor and writer. His work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print. In 1982, he was nominated for an AFI award for co-writing the acclaimed Paul Cox movie "Lonely Hearts". During the 1980s and early 1990s, Clarke featured in several movies, including "Never Say Die", "Death in Brunswick", alongside another New Zealand actor, Sam Neill, and "Blood Oath". Clarke was also known for his mock interviews for "A Current Affair" until 1997, satirising a range of figures including Paul Keating, Alexander Downer, George Bush, and Alan Bond. After a break, the pair reappeared on ABC TV's "The 7.30 Report" in a similar format. Clarke died while walking in the Grampians National Park in the Australian state of Victoria on 9 April 2017. He was 68. He died because of the heart attack.
John Richard Clarke (born April 4, 1927) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1976. He has been a member of the church's presiding bishopric and a member of the Presidency of the Seventy.  Clarke was born in Rexburg, Idaho. Clarke served as a bishop, stake president, and regional representative in Idaho. He also returned to South Africa as the president of the church's South Africa Cape Town Mission. From 1998 to 2001, Clarke was president of the church's Laie Hawaii Temple.
John Clarke (April 14, 1932 – October 16, 2019) was an American actor.  Clarke was known for his role as Mickey Horton on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" for 39 years, beginning with the debut of the program in 1965, until he retired early in 2004 because of health concerns. Clarke was replaced in the role by John Ingle, who left the program in 2006. His daughter was actress Melinda Clarke, who started out on "Days of our Lives". In 2005, Clarke received the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award. Clarke died of pneumonia-related problems in Laguna Beach, California on October 16, 2019 at the age of 88.
Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell ("née" Palmer 17 September 1947 – 12 May 2018) was an English Labour Party politician. Jowell was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood from 1992 to 2015. Her most senior position in Government was as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post she held from 2001 to 2007.  Jowell member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she was also Minister for the Olympics (2005–2010) and Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London until September 2012, resigning after the London Olympic Games. In September 2015, she was unsuccessful in seeking to be selected as the Labour Party's official candidate in the 2016 election for Mayor of London, coming second to Sadiq Khan in the contest of six candidates. In September 2017, Jowell announced she had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Jowell died on 12 May 2018 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by the disease at the age of 70.
Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead singer, lyricist and only constant member of the post-punk group The Fall. Smith formed The Fall in 1976 after attending a Sex Pistols gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in June that year. Smith died on 24 January 2018 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester of lung and kidney cancer at the age of 60.
, born as , is a Japanese movie director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. He directed the highest-earning anime movie "Your Name". Biography. Shinkai was born in Nagano Prefecture. He went to Chuo University where he studied Japanese literature. He was a part of the literature club there and he drew picture books there. He said that he liked creating because he had read manga, novels and had watched anime when he was young. After finishing university in 1994, he got a job at Falcom. It is a video game company. He worked there for 5 years by making video clips. In 1999, Shinkai released "She and Her Cat". It is a five-minute short movie that is black and white. It won many awards. It won the grand prize at the 12th DoGA CG Animation contest (2000). The short movie is about the life of a cat. It is from the cat's point of view. Shinkai quit his job at Falcom after winning the prize. He began making a new movie about a girl in space, which was called "Voices of a Distant Star". After, he released his first full movie. It was called "The Place Promised in Our Early Days" and was released in Japan on November 20, 2004. His next movie was called "5 Centimeters per Second" and was released on 3 March 2007. It consists of three short films called "Cherry Blossom", "Cosmonaut", and "5 Centimeters per Second". In 2009, he started to work on his next movie. Shinkai said that the movie he was making would be his longest movie that he made and said the story was a "lively" animated movie that would have adventure, action, and romance. He revealed that his next movie would be called "Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below". The movie was released on 7 May 2011. His next movie, "The Garden of Words", was released on 31 May 2013. On 26 August 2016, he released "Your Name", which was praised by audiences. It became the highest-grossing anime movie. Shinkai directed the 2019 anime movie "Weathering With You".
The Pistol Mitralieră model 1963 (abbreviated PM md. 63) is an Romanian assault rifle based on the Soviet AKM, and chambered in the 7.62×39mm cartridge. It is exported as the AIM. The Pistol Mitralieră model 1965 (abbreviated PM md. 65) is the underfolding-stock version of the PM md. 63, and is exported as the AIMS. History. In the early 1960s, the Romanian Army used mostly PPSh-41, Oriţa submachine guns and imported AK-47 assault rifles. With the development of the stamped Type 4 AKM receiver, and the Soviet Union's call to each of the Warsaw Pact's nations to produce their own assault rifles chambered in 7.62mm, be they AK-47 pattern or not, the Romanian State Arsenal developed an AKM clone featuring a forward-pointing front handgrip molded into the lower handguard, called the Pistol Mitralieră model 1963 (literally 'machine pistol' model 1963). The underfolding stock version is designated the Pistol Mitralieră model 1965, and features a rear-pointing front handgrip, allowing the underfolding stock to be completely retracted.
"Beautiful Inside" is a song recorded by English singer Louise. It was released on 30 October 2000 as the second and final single from Louise's third studio album "Elbow Beach" (2000) and charted at number 13. The single was taken from her 3rd solo album "Elbow Beach" and contains a sample from the song "Different Strokes" by Syl Johnson and had also been sampled by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Track listings. UK CD 1 single UK CD 2 single
"Light of My Life" is the debut single released by English singer Louise. It was released on 25 September 1995 as the lead single from Louise's debut album "Naked" (1996). "Light of My Life" is her first single as a solo artist following her leaving her former group Eternal earlier that year. It reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart and number eighteen in Ireland. The video was directed by Russell Young. Track listings. UK CD 1 single UK CD 2 single