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Johannes Franciscus "Jos" Verstappen (; born 4 March 1972) is a Dutch former racing driver. Some considered Verstappen the most successful Dutch F1 racing driver before he retired. Early career. Verstappen began karting at the age of 8, and it was not long until he started at national competitions. In 1984 he became Dutch junior champion. He remained successful, and won two European titles. At the end of 1991 he started car racing. Nicknames. During his professional career, Verstappen was nicknamed "Jos the Boss" and "Dutch Devil".
The white-lined leaf frog or white-lined monkey frog ("Phyllomedusa vaillantii") is a frog that lives in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, Colombia, and Brazil. The adult male frog is to long from nose to rear end and the adult female frog is to long. Male and female frogs do not look the same: their noses are different shapes. This frog is mostly green with reddish-brown color on its sides. It has whitish or orange spots. It can have red, lavender, or orange color on its legs. Its belly is light orange. This frog lives in trees. It hides during the day and looks for food at night. This frog lays eggs at the rainiest part of the year. The frog builds a nest out of leaves over a pond or other body of water. It puts the eggs in the nest with jelly over them so they do not dry out. When the tadpoles hatch out of the eggs, they fall out of the nest into the water. Sometimes the tadpoles breathe air during the day, but they do not do this at night.
Bihari Hindus are ethnic groups of Bihar, who follows Hinduism. They are mostly present in Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh. A large community of them are also settled in Nepal, Mauritius and Fiji through diaspora. In modern times, many of them are settled in United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates and other nations as technicians, engineers, labourers and other employement purpose. The Bihari culture is directly influenced by Hinduism, including cuisine, literature and music. Ethnic population. Hindus constitute for nearly 82.7% of Bihar population, as of 2011.
Manuel José Dias Soares Costa (19 March 1933 – 2 September 2021) was a Portuguese politician and academic. He was the Minister of Agriculture from 1983 until 1984 during the Mario Soares government. Soares Costa died on 2 September 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal at the age of 88.
Rune Gerhardsen (13 June 1946 – 4 September 2021) was a Norwegian Labour politician. He was born in Oslo, Norway.  He was the Chair of the Norwegian Skating Association three times between 1986 until 1990, 2001 until 2003 and 2013, until 2017. From 1992 until 1997, Gerhardsen was Mayor of Oslo. From 1973, until 1975, he was Leader of the Workers' Youth League. Gerhardsen died on 4 September 2021, in Oslo at the age of 75.
Tunch Ilkin (born Tunç Ali İlkin; September 23, 1957 – September 4, 2021) was a Turkish-born American football player and sports broadcaster. He played as an offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. He was the first Turk to play in the National Football League (NFL). After his playing career, he was a television and radio analyst for the Steelers from 1998 to 2020. His career lasted from 1980 until 1993. Ilkin was born in Istanbul, Turkey. In October 2020, Ilkin announced that he was living with ALS. He died from the disease on September 4, 2021 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the age of 63.
Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru, OBE (; 9 March 1942 – 5 September 2021) was a Romanian actor, stage director, and politician. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000. He was a member of the Romanian Democratic Convention. He was born in Bucharest, Romania. An actor, he was known for his roles in "Citizen X" (1995), "Adam and Paul" (2004) and "Charlie Countryman" (2013). Caramitru died on 5 September 2021 in Bucharest at the age of 79.
Ivan Patzaichin (; 26 November 1949 – 5 September 2021) was a Romanian canoe racing coach and sprint canoeist. He took part in all major competitions between 1968 and 1984. He won four gold medals at the 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. He also won three silver medals at the 1972, 1980 and 1984 Olympics. Patzaichin was born in Crișan, Romania. Patzaichin died on 5 September 2021 in Bucharest, Romania from lung cancer, aged 71. He was diagnosed with the disease in three months before his death.
Võ Chí Công (born Võ Toàn; 7 August 1912 – 8 September 2011) was a Vietnamese politician, a founding member of the Viet Cong and former President of Vietnam. Early life. In 1912, Công was born Võ Toàn in Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam, in 1912. Career. In 1930, he first became active in politics. In 1935, he joined the Communist Party of Indochina; and he rose through the ranks of the party. From 1987 through 1992, he was the Chairman of the Council of State of Vietnam which was like the current office of the President of Vietnam. Death. Công died in Ho Chi Minh City on 8 September 2011, aged 99. His state funeral was broadcast on television.
Võ Thị Ánh Xuân (born 8 January 1970) is a Vietnamese politician. She became the Vice President of Vietnam in 2021. She was elected vice president on 6 April 2021 after winning 93.13% of votes in the National Assembly.
Mamady Doumbouya (born 4 March 1980) is a Guinean soldier and politician. After being appointed by the 4th President of Guinea, Alpha Condé, who had just changed the country's constitution to remain for a 3rd term, with the sole responsibility of preventing another coup d'état from happening. He spearheaded the 2021 Guinean coup d'état to become the 5th and President of Guinea. He was a former French Legionnaire and supposedly also member of a "Special Forces Group" from the Republic of Guinea Armed Forces. He created and became the self-appointed Chairman of the National Committee of Reconciliation and Development from 2021 to 2023.
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara (born 1 January 1964) now called Moïse Dadis Camara is an ex-officer of the Guinean army. He was the President of the Republic of Guinea's National Council for Democracy and Development ("Conseil National de la Démocratie et du Développement", CNDD) from 2008 until 2010. On March 28, 2025, he was pardoned by the transitional president, Mamady Doumbouya.
Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. In 1960, he declared his Democratic Party of Guinea ("Parti démocratique de Guinée", PDG) the only legal party in the state. He ruled from then on as a dictator. He was re-elected unopposed to four seven-year terms since there was no legal opposition. Under his rule many people were killed. In October 2021, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the October 1971 massacre, relatives of 70 Guineans executed under the Sékou Touré regime asked President Mamady Doumbouya for rehabilitation and a dignified burial for the victims.
The 2021 Guinean coup d'état is a government takeover made by the armed forces of Guinea on 5 September 2021. The country's president, Alpha Condé, was arrested and removed from power after gunfire in the capital Conakry. Members of the special forces released a video showing Condé in captivity. The coup was led by special forces commander Mamady Doumbouya and he took power. Many people celebrated in the streets that Condé was removed from power. Doumbouya later created the National Committee of Reconciliation and Development (CNRD) making himself chair of the committee. He said that the CNRD would be in charge of the country for an 18-month transition period. On September 8, 2021, Guinea is suspended from ECOWAS proceedings by ECOWAS Heads of State meeting in a virtual extraordinary summit. On October 1, 2021, Doumbouya was sworn in as interim president.
Christy Dignam (23 May 1960 - 13 June 2023) was an Irish rock singer-songwriter and musician. He was born in Dublin. He was the lead singer of the popular Irish rock band Aslan. His career began in 1980. In March 2013, Dignam was diagnosed with amyloidosis, a rare form of blood cancer.  He died on 13 June 2023.
Panorama Tower is a mixed-use 85-story skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States.  Its construction was put on hold during the Great Recession. The project was revived in 2012. It is the tallest building in Miami, and the tallest building in Florida.
Lai Khutsangbi () (/laai-khoot-shaang-bee/) is a demoness (hingchabi) in Meitei mythology and folklore. Her story is from Antique Kangleipak (Ancient Manipur). She has very long hands. The word "Lai" means "deity or divinity," "Khut" means "hand," and "Sangbi" or "Shangbi" means "long" in Manipuri (Meitei).  The legend says that when she walks, her long hands touch the ground. Her fingers are as sharp as thorns. She has a large mouth with a long tongue. Her look is very frightening. Story. There was a man and woman with a little child named Shasi (or "Shachi" or "Leirik" or "Naocha" in other versions) living in a house by itself in a village. Nearby was a forest where Lai Khutsangbi lived. She usually stole and ate livestock and human babies from the village. She took advantage of people's loneliness. The people in the village were afraid. Lai Khutsangbi wanted to eat the child Shasi. But Shasi's father, Shasipa was so brave that the Lai Khutsangbi was afraid of him. One day, Shasipa left home to work somewhere far away. He would be gone for days. Lai Khutsangbi came to the house at night, and asked Shasi's mother, Shasima if her husband was at home or not. Shasima was smart, so she lied and said her husband was at home. Lai Khutsangbi left. But she came back night after night and asked the same question again and again. Shasi's mother also gave the same reply, hiding the true fact that Shasipa was away. After some time, Shasi's father returned home and Shasi's mother told him what had happened. Shasi's father decided to defeat the demoness. That night, he waited for Lai Khutsangbi with a sharpened sword. At midnight, the demoness, as usual, came
João Sayad (1 December 1945 – 5 September 2021) was a Brazilian economist and academic. He was the professor of the Department of Economics, Management and Accounting of the University of Sao Paulo. He was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sayad was president and chairman of the board of directors of the Inter-American Express Bank in São Paulo and director of the Economic Research Institute Foundation at the University of São Paulo. Sayad died on 5 September 2021 in São Paulo from blood cancer at the age of 75.
Billy Apple (born Barrie Bates; 1 January 19356 September 2021) was a New Zealand artist. Most of his works focused on pop art in the 1960s and with the Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He worked with Andy Warhol and other pop artists.  His work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu, The University of Auckland, and the SMAK/Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Apple died on 6 September 2021 in Auckland from a short-illness, aged 86.
The unicameral parliament of the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina is known as the Assembly of the Autonomous province of Vojvodina. It has 120 members that are elected every four years. The President of the Assembly was István Pásztor of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (SVM). The current parliament was elected in 2020.
Sándor Egeresi (; ; 25 June 1964 – 5 September 2021) was a Hungarian-Serbian politician, engineer and lawyer. He was born in Bačka Topola, SFR Yugoslavia. He was a member and president of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians Party. Egeresi was President of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2008 until 2012. Egeresi died on 5 September 2021 in Novi Sad, Serbia at the age of 57.
Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi (1 February 1962 – 6 September 2021) was a South African politician. She was born in Makhosini, South Africa. In 2011, she was elected Leader of the National Freedom Party. From 2014 until 2019, she was a member of the National Assembly. In November 2014, kaMagwaza-Msibi was hospitalized in critical condition after having a stroke. She died on 6 September 2021 at a hospital in Durban, South Africa from COVID-19 at the age of 59.
Iván Vitányi (3 July 1925 – 6 September 2021) was a Hungarian sociologist, essayist, dance historian, philosopher of art and politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1990 to 2014. He was a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party and of the Hungarian Communist Party. He was born in Debrecen, Hungary. Vitányi died on 6 September 2021 in Budapest at the age of 96.
György Faludy (September 22, 1910 – September 1, 2006), sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian-born poet, writer and translator. Faludy died on September 1, 2006 in Budapest at the age of 95. He was openly bisexual.
Imre Mécs (4 September 1933 – 19 January 2023) is a Hungarian politician. He was born in Budapest. He was a member of the Alliance of Free Democrats. He was a member of the National Assembly from 1990 until 2010. He was sentenced to death during the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. In 1963, he was released from prison. He lost his re-election to parliament 2010, causing his retirement. He died in 2023.
Kayin State (Eastern Pwo: ဖၠုံခါန်ႋကၞင့်; S'gaw Karen: ကညီကီၢ်စဲၣ်, pronounced [kɲɔkɔshæ], , ), also known by its former name Karen State, is a state of Myanmar. The capital city is Hpa-An, also spelled Pa-An. Government. The government of Kayin State is split into three branches: an executive (Kayin State Government), a legislative (Kayin State Hluttaw), and a judicial (Kayin State High Court). Administrative divisions. Karen State has one city and nine towns. It has four districts, seven townships and 4092 villages. Villages and hamlets. Kayin State is very mountainous so the villages are very small. Lots of Kayin State's population is across the countryside in hundreds of villages. Population. Since the 1973 Census, the population of Karen State has increased from 858,429 to 1,055,359 in the 1983 census and 1,574,079 in the census of 2014. Transport. Karen State has two airports, Hpapun Airport and Hpa-An Airport, but they aren't open to the public currently.
Lee Jae-myung (; born 22 December 1964) is a South Korean politician and lawyer. He has been a member of the National Assembly since 2022. In August 2022, he was elected Leader of the Democratic Party. Lee was Mayor of Seongnam, the tenth largest city in South Korea, from 2010 to 2018. He is a member of the centre-liberal Democratic Party. In 2018, he became Governor of Gyeonggi Province. He became well known during his time as governor for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2021, Lee announced his candidacy for President of South Korea in the 2022 election. He was seen as the front-runner for the presidency, leading in many polls until late 2021. He lost the election to conservative former prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol by a small amount of votes in March 2022. Personal life. Lee was born on 22 December 1964 in Andong, the fifth of seven children. He was raised in poverty. As a child, he worked at a rubber factory illegally as he was not old enough to work. He hurt his finger during a work accident. In a second workplace injury, an industrial press crushed his wrist joint. The injury was untreated and caused a disability in his arm. He is registered as a disabled person. He studied at Chung-Ang University and Gachon University. He became a lawyer after graduating. In 1991, he married Kim Hye-kyung. They have two children. Mayor of Seongnam. As mayor of Seongnam, he was known for creating the city's social welfare program. From 2010 to 2014, Lee announced a moratorium on payments of debt. Some criticized Lee for this and accused him of creating a political stunt. Critics said the moratorium was not needed because the city had never been forced to repay the debt immediately. At the same time, he used the money saved to expand social welfare programs, such as offering a universal basic income for young people, free school uniforms and free postnatal care. Lee was also known for banning dog meat and to shut down
Domodedovo () is a city in Moscow Oblast of Russia. As of 2010, the city has 96,145 people. The city surrounds Domodedovo Airport, one of the international airports of Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia. History. Domodedovo was started in 1900, was given after nearby village of Domodedovo, was first mentioned around 1401 in the statue of Vladimir the Bold, Prince of Serpukhov and Borovski. Domodedovo is located on the old road, Kashira way, that for centuries which connected Moscow with Kashira and many other southern cities of Russia. Domodedovo was founded in 1900 as a city next to a train station of the Domodedovo. It was called after a nearby village of Domodedovo, which is known at 1410. Domodedovo got city status in 1947. Geography. Domodedovo is located on the Moskva-Oka Plains, at part of the East European Plain, south-east of Moscow, 37 km from Moscow's center, on the Moscow – Kashira highway and the Paveletsky suburban railway line, near the federal highway named M4 Don. Most of Domodedovo is located at the west of the Moscow railway line. Domodedovo was from the north to south along the rail tracks on 26 kilometers. Climate. The climate is continental, with cold, snowy winters, and warm, humid summers. The passage of cyclones from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea sometimes causes an increase in cloud cover. Average mid-January temperature in Domodedovo is about −10,5 °C, and mid-July is +17,5 °C. The average time of the frost-free season is 130 days. Environment. Water resources in Domodedovo are non-existent. The rivers that flow in Domodedovo are Rozhayka, Severka and Pakhra Rivers.
Rom Houben (born 1963) is a Belgian man who is in a coma and was falsely thought to have the ability to type through facilitated communication. Houben was thought to be comatose and in a vegetative state for 23 years after a near-fatal automobile accident. However, many caregivers said he was conscious and paralyzed during the entirety of his hospital stay.  In 2010, the claim that Houben was able to talk was rejected when communication could not be repeated with a different facilitator and by hiding the object to be identified from the view of the facilitator.
Stevenson Adonis (born 22 September 1977), best known as Adonis Stevenson, is a Haitian Canadian former professional boxer. He competed from 2006 to 2018. He won the WBC, "Ring" magazine and lineal light-heavyweight titles in 2013. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Stevenson was considered one of boxing's hardest punchers during his prime.  He made ten successful defenses of the WBC and lineal titles until getting a life-threatening brain injury in his 2018 fight against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. In 2012, Stevenson said he was in jail in Quebec, on charges of managing prostitutes, assault, and making threats.
Nurul Huda Abdullah @ Ch'ng Su-Lin AMN (born 31 July 1972) is a former Malaysian competitive swimmer. She holds the record of the most number of gold medals won at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) for a Malaysian athlete, having won a total of 22 gold medals in the swimming events at three SEA Games (from 1985 to 1989). She was the first Malaysian swimmer to win a medal at the Asian Games and remains the only Malaysian female swimmer to have won medals at the Asian Games and Asian Swimming Championships, with a total of 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 10th Asian Games 1986 Seoul, and a total of 2 silver and 1 bronze medal at the 3rd Asian Swimming Championship (1988) in Guangzhou.
The Trinidad leaf frog or Trinidad leaf-nesting frog ("Phyllomedusa trinitatis") is a frog that lives in Trinidad and in mountains in Venezuela near the ocean. Scientists have seen it up in the mountains, between 280 and 1000 meters above sea level. This frog lives in trees and moves around at night. It lives in forests both low to the sea level and high up in mountains. People have seen it in ditches and in other places that human beings have changed. People call this a "bush-dwelling frog" because people see it in bushes, but the frogs are only in these low plants when it is time to lay eggs. The rest of the year, they are high in the trees where the branches meet like a roof, where people do not see it.
Kirov () is a city in and the capital of Kirov Oblast in Russia. As of 2020, the city has 518,348 people. It is a historical, cultural, industrial, and scientific center of Priural'e. This city is home to the Dymkovo toys. History. The native Slavic tribe of Central Russia and the Volga regions, the Vyatichis. They mixed with the Novgorodian Slovenes and Finno-Ugric people. According to the medieval chronicles, the first settlements of Russia in the area appeared in the 12th century. Kirov was first mentioned as Vyatka for the first time in 1374 when Novgorod ushkuyniks plundered it on their way to Bolghar. Vyatka was governed by a veche as other Northern Russian republics of Pskov Oblast and Novgorod Oblast. At different times in the late 14th and 15th centuries Vyatka militias raided Ustyug, Novgorod and Tatar lands on Kama and Volga. Vyatka supported Yury of Zvenigorod during the Muscovite Civil War and after his party lost the victorious Vasily II sent Muscovite armies twice against Vyatka to subjugate it and eventually it was forced to accept the suzerainty of Moscow while retaining a significant measure of autonomy. In 1469 Vyatka allied with Khan Ibrahim of the Khanate of Kazan and did not take part in the campaign of Ivan III against the khanate. After several unsuccessful campaigns by Moscow against Vyatka in 1480s, the latter was finally annexed in 1489. Khlynov became known throughout Russia for its clay small statues and whistles. Kirov's oldest surviving monument is the Assumption Cathedral (1689), an imposing structure inhabiated by 5 globular domes. In 1780, Catherine the Great renamed the town Vyatka and made it the seat of Vyatka Governorate. Kirov also served as a place of exile, notably for Alexander Herzen, Alexander Vitberg, and
James Hemings (1765-1801) was an enslaved man from Virginia. He is famous for being Sally Hemings' older brother and for being Thomas Jefferson's chef, or head cook, while he was in Paris. Jefferson freed him when he was 30 years old. He died at age 36. He may have killed himself. Early life and family. James Hemings was the son of an enslaved woman called Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings and a white man named John Wayles. According to one of her grandchildren, Elizabeth Hemings was Wales' concubine. This means they had a sexual relationship, and she was not his wife. According to James' nephew, Madison Hemings, Elizabeth Hemings' mother was an African woman who might have been born in Africa. She was enslaved to the Eppes family in Virginia. Historians do not know for sure what her name was. Papers with the names of enslaved women in the Eppes family include "Dinah," "Judy," "Abbie," "Sarah," "Parthenia," and others. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed said that there were many girls named "Thenia" in the Hemings family, and they might have been named after Parthenia. But she also says that "Sally" is a nickname for "Sarah," and there were many girls named "Sarah" and "Sally" in the Hemings family too. Madison Hemings told the story: Elizabeth Hemings' mother was an African woman and her father was an English sea captain named Hemings. The sea captain tried to buy Elizabeth Hemings from her owner, but the owner said no. He said he wanted to see what a half-white, half-African child would look like. Then Captain Hemings tried to take the child away from the owner without paying, but someone told the owner about his plan. Captain Hemings left Virginia and did not come back. Captain Hemings tried to take his daughter from one of the men in the Eppes family, but historians do not know which one because they do not know when Elizabeth Hemings was born. One paper says "about 1735."  Elizabeth Hem