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Jan Eduard de Quay (August 26, 1901 in 's-Hertogenbosch – July 4, 1985 in Beers) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP). De Quay studied psychology at Utrecht University and was a professor at Tilburg University. During the beginning of World War II - from 1940 to 1941, he was one of the three leaders of the Dutch Union ("Nederlandsche Unie"). This political movement wanted to unite the Dutch people considering the changed situation due to the German occupation. In December 1941, the Dutch Union was forbidden by the Germans. From mid 1942 to mid 1943, the German occupier imprisoned him in Kamp Sint-Michielsgestel. Afterwards he went in hiding in the south of the Netherlands till the liberation of that part of the country in 1944. Around the end of the war, he was defense minister for a couple of months. Because of his wartime activities (prime) minister Willem Drees didn't want him to include in his cabinets. Because of this he was queen's commissioner of the province of North Brabant from 1946 to 1959. In 1959, he returned to national politics as prime minister of the De Quay cabinet. It consisted of the three Christian parties (Anti-Revolutionary Party, Catholic People's Party and Christian Historical Union) and the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. The cabinet lasted till 1963. Three years later, he became transport and water management minister and also deputy prime minister in the Zijlstra cabinet. This government lasted only a year. In the meantime he was a senator (1963-1966) and also afterwards (1967-1969). De Quay was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1985, aged 83.
Jozef Maria Laurens Theo "Jo" Cals (July 18, 1914 in Roermond - December 30, 1971 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP). Cals studied law at Radboud University Nijmegen. He worked several years as a lawyer and attorney, at the university mentioned before and also as a school teacher. As a councillor of Nijmegen he entered politics in 1945. Three years later he became an MP. He exercised this position till 1948, and again from 1963 to 1965. In between, he was (deputy) government minister of Education, Arts and Sciences. In 1965 he became prime minister of the so-called Cals cabinet, consisting of his own Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionairy Party (ARP) and the Labour Party (PvdA). A motion of fellow party member Norbert Schmelzer led to the end of his cabinet in 1966. Cals was a Roman Catholic. He died in 1971, aged 57.
Piroska Oszoli (21 January 1919 – 22 March 2017) was a Hungarian painter, is known as "The lover of the Danube and the beautiness". She was born and also dead in Dunaföldvár, Hungary. She made especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. Her master as an amateur artist was the famous Transylvanian painter Ferenc Doór (1918–2015). After teaching she became a pensioner, and started her painting as an individual artist.  Oszoli worked all around her village and neighborhood, after in Hungary, at Balaton. She painted natural surroundings in Italy, Croatia, Germany and Norway. Her paintings are present from Austria to New Zealand. Oszoli died on 22 March 2017 in Dunaföldvár, aged 98.
Louis Harry Feldman (October 29, 1926 – March 25, 2017) was an American professor of classics and literature. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and studied at Trinity College. He was the Abraham Wouk Family Professor of Classics and Literature at Yeshiva University, the institution at which he taught since 1955. Feldman was a scholar of Hellenistic civilization, specifically the works of Josephus Flavius. Feldman's work on Josephus was widely respected by other scholars.
"All for You" is a song recorded by American singer Janet Jackson. It is from her album, also called "All for You". The song was released in 2001. It became her tenth number-one song in the United States. It also reached number one in Canada and the top three in France and the United Kingdom. It reached the top ten in several other countries. It finished as the number-three song of 2001 in the United States. The song samples the 1980 song "The Glow of Love" by the soul group Change. Music video. The song shows Jackson dancing in a train station and in a city with a group of dancers.
Marilyn McCord Adams (October 12, 1943 – March 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and priest of the Episcopal Church. She specialized in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and medieval philosophy. Adams is known for writing her 1999 persuasive narrative "Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God". Adams was born on October 12, 1943 in the United States. She studied at University of Illinois, at Cornell University, at Princeton Theological Seminary and at Oxford University. She married philosopher Robert Merrihew Adams from 1966 until her death in 2017.  Adams died on March 22, 2017 in Princeton, New Jersey from cancer, aged 73.
Robert Merrihew Adams (born September 8, 1937), known to intimates as "Bob", is an American analytic philosopher of metaphysics, religion and morality. As a historical scholar, Adams has published on the work of the philosophers Søren Kierkegaard and Leibniz. His work in the philosophy of religion includes influential essays on the problem of evil and the relation between theism and ethics. Adams was married to philosopher Marilyn McCord from 1966 until her death in 2017.
Montgomery Bryden "Monty" Davidson (23 October 1935 – 26 March 2017) was Canadian politician. He served as a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Cambridge from 1975 until 1981.  Davidson died at his home in Cambridge, Ontario on 26 March 2017, aged 81.
Richard S Bustillo (January 28, 1942 – March 30, 2017) was an American martial arts instructor. He was a student of the late Bruce Lee and an authority on Jeet Kune Do Concepts and Filipino Martial Arts. Bustillo was born to a Filipino family at a YMCA center in Oahu, Hawaii.  Bustillo taught Jeet Kune Do, Filipino martial arts, Boxing, Muay Thai, wrestling, mixed martial arts and other arts at his Torrance, California school, the IMB Academy.  Bustillo died on March 30, 2017 in Torrance, California, aged 75.
Halit Akçatepe (1 January 1938 – 31 March 2017) was a Turkish actor. Early life. Akçatepe was born in Üsküdar, Turkey. He was the son of Sitki Akçatepe. He studied at Saint Benoit French High School. Career. In 1943, he made his debut in the movie "Dertli Pınar" at the age of 5 and made more appearances in other movies in some child roles. In 1956. he joined the army and stayed there for less than 2 years before returning to acting. Akçatepe became a household name for his parts in "Ah Nerede Vah Nerede" in 1960 and the movies "Yasak", "Gündoğarken" and "Semaya baktım Seni Gördüm" in 1963. In 1975, he acted in "Hababam Sınıfı" and then later its sequels " Hababam Sınıfı Sınıfta Kaldı", "Hababam Sınıfı Dokuz Doğuruyor" and "Hababam Sınıfı Tatilde". In 2011, he received the Golden Orange Life Achievement Award. Death. Akçatepe died in Istanbul, Turkey on 31 March 2017 from a heart attack, aged 79.
Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 – March 31, 2017) was an openly gay American artist and civil rights activist. He designed the rainbow flag in 1978. Baker's flag became widely known with LGBT rights causes, a symbol of pride that became extremely used and well referenced in the decades since its debut. Baker died on March 31, 2017 in his sleep at his home in New York City at the age of 65. He suffered a stroke a few years before his death and was suffering from stroke-complications at the time of his death.
Michael Richard Hall (4 June 1981 – 31 March 2017) was a British cyclist and race organizer. He specialized in self-supported ultra-distance races. In 2012, he won the inaugural World Cycle Race. In 2013 and 2016, he won the Tour Divide ultra-endurance mountain bike race across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and the United States. In 2014, he won the inaugural Trans Am Bike Race, a road-based event from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast in the United States. From 2013, he was the principal organizer of the Transcontinental Race, an event similar to the TransAm Bicycle Race, but that traverses Europe. He died after being struck by a car while racing in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. Hall was killed in a car accident on 31 March 2017 in ACT, Australia, aged 35.
Charles Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, DL (27 March 1925 – 15 April 2022) was a British farmer turned politician. He was the leader of the National Farmers Union. Plumb later became active in the Conservative Party and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament. He served as an MEP from 1979 to 1999, serving as President of the European Parliament from 1987 to 1989, the only Briton to hold the post. Plumb was made a Life peer as Baron Plumb, of Coleshill in the County of Warwickshire on 6 April 1987. He was also Chancellor of Coventry University between 1995 and 2007 and a founder of leading EU lobbying law firm Alber &amp; Geiger. Plumb died on 15 April 2022, aged 97.
Andreas Kaplan (born October 5, 1977), Professor of Marketing, is the Dean of ESCP Business School in Berlin and Paris. He is specialized in the areas of social media, viral marketing, and the digital world in general. Life. Kaplan was born on October 5, 1977 and grew up in Munich, Germany. His mother is Anneliese Kaplan and his father Vincenc Kaplan. Kaplan holds a Master of Public Administration from the École Nationale d'Administration, an MSc from ESCP Business School, and a BSc from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He completed his Habilitation at the Sorbonne and his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne and HEC Paris. Kaplan is an executive education advisory board member at Kozminski University. Research. Kaplan’s research mainly deals with analyzing and decrypting the digital sphere. With approximately 30 000 citations on Google Scholar, Professor Kaplan was counted amongst the Top 50 Business and Management authors in the world according to John Wiley &amp; Sons. In 2020, Andreas Kaplan ranked in Stanford study of the world's top 2% of scientists. In particular his 2010 article "Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of social media" published in "Business Horizons" is widely cited and known in the field. This seminal article recurrently achieved first place in Science Direct's annual list of the 25 most downloaded publications across all 24 core subject areas covered in Science Direct and thus was downloaded more often than any other of the approximately 13.4 million papers in the collection.
Linstead is a town in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. It had about 14,000 people in 1991.
Colón is a port city at the Caribbean Sea in Panama. It had about 78,000 people in 2010. It is at one end of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal.
Hans Gösta Gustaf Ekman (28 July 1939 – 1 April 2017) was a Swedish actor. He was best known for his roles in "Martin Beck" and "Jönssonligan" movies. He began acting in the 1950s. Ekman was born in Stockholm. His father and grandfather were also actors. He was married three times. Ekman died on 1 April 2017 in Stockholm, at the age of 77.
Belgian Chocolate is a type of chocolate produced in the country of Belgium. 220,000 tons of Belgian chocolate is produced annually. One of the types of chocolate there is its chocolate pralines which were first made by the chocolatier Neuhaus (chocolatier).
Johann Adam Weishaupt (6th February 1748-18th November 1830) was a German philosopher influenced by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment. During his life, he was also influenced by the ideas of Liberalism. He was a Freemason, and liked the ideas of Deism and Republicanism. He also started the short-lived secret society called Illuminati. Weishaupt studied history, law, political science and philosophy in Ingolstadt, In 1768, he got his Doctorate in philosophy. In 1772 he became a professor for law, with a specialization in church law.
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman or UTAR (Simplified Chinese: 拉曼大学; traditional Chinese: 拉曼大學; pinyin: Lā Màn Dà Xué) is a prestigious private university in Malaysia. It was established in 2002. An event was held on August 13, 2002, to start UTAR at Tunku Abdul Rahman University College. Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister, attended. He also launched the university's new campus in Kampar, Perak. UTAR is ranked top 100 in Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2018 and top 600 in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, which is 2nd in Malaysia.
Moto GP on BBC was a presentation of Moto GP produced by BBC Sports. Races are aired on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three or BBC HD and streamed live on BBC Red Button. History. 2003 season. In March 2003, BBC signed a two year deal to broadcast Moto GP races with Suzi Perry hosting all races while most rounds were shown on Sunday Grandstand or on Grandstand if it was a Saturday race. For 2003, Exclusive live coverage was on Eurosport and BBC chose to broadcast four races live (Britain, Pacific, Australia and Valencia.) with their own commentary team for Britain, Australia and Valencia of Charlie Cox and Steve Parrish, using the world feed commentary in the other races of Nick Harris and Matt Roberts with Gavin Emmett in the pits. Delayed coverage was used in the remaining twelve races (Japan, South Africa, Spain, France, Italy, Catalan, Dutch TT, Germany, Czech Republic, Pourtugal, Rio de Janeiro and Malaysia.) All races were shown on BBC Two during the 2003 season.  2004 season. In 2004, Cox and Parrish commentated full time with twelve live races (South Africa, Spain, France, Italy, Catalan, Britain, Czech Republic, Pourtugal, Japan, Qatar, Australia and Valencia) and with delayed coverage was used in the remaining four races (Dutch TT, Germany, Rio de Janeiro and Malaysia.) Most races were shown on BBC Two during the 2004 season, Only Qatar was shown on BBC One because it was a Saturday race. 2005 season. Gavin Emmett joined as pit reporter in 2005 and the BBC had ten live races (Spain, France, Italy, Catalan, Britain, Germany, Czech Republic, Qatar, Turkish and Valencia) and with delayed coverage was used in the remaining seven races (Pourtugal, Chinese, Dutch TT, United States, Japan, Australia and Malaysia.) Most races were shown on BBC Two during the 2005 season, Only Qatar was shown on BBC One because it was a Saturday race.  After 2006 season. In 2006 All races were shown live with five races (Chinese, United States, Japan, Australia and Malaysia.) on the BBC Red Button while all the rounds were on BBC Two including re runs from the early morning races. Grandstand got written out by the BBC before the 2007 Moto GP season started.
Ben-Gurion International Airport Garden is a public garden. It is located in Terminal 3 of Ben-Gurion International Airport and opened in 2004.  The garden was designed by the architect Shlomo Aronson and was lead by the architect Ram Karmi. The garden is symbolised the view of the Land of Israel and the plants of Israel. in 2005 the Ben-Gurion Airport Central Garden won an Award of Honor in the Professional General Design Category from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Tulip breaking virus is one of five plant viruses that cause both tulips and lilies to have a different petal color effect, such as stripes or flames on an otherwise single color flower. "Tulip breaking virus" is in the same virus group as "Tulip top-breaking virus (TTBV), Tulip bandbreaking virus (TBBV), Rembrandt tulip-breaking virus (ReTBV)" and "Lily mottle virus (LMoV)" but they are all considered different viruses. "Tulip breaking virus" can come in two forms: Severe tulip breaking virus and mild tulip breaking virus. Severe tulip breaking virus can cause light colors to appear on tulips, whereas mild tulip breaking virus tends to cause darker colors to appear. Effects of the virus. "Tulip breaking virus" infects the bulb of the tulip or lily and changes the color of the petals. This change depends on the strain of the virus, the type of plant and the age of the plant when it gets infected. "Tulip breaking virus" causes differences in the pigments in the flowers, which in turn changes the colors.  In lilies, it takes two weeks after infection to see a change in petal color and then changes the shape of the leaves and flowers. In all forms, the virus harms the bulb and makes it more difficult for the plant to sprout again year after year. Eventually, the bulb is unable to flower again, which is why rare color broken bulbs from the past are no longer in existence. History. "Tulip breaking virus" used to be considered the earliest recorded virus, but now it is considered the second earliest, virus-induced leaf chlorosis being the first in 752 AD.  The first time "tulip breaking virus" was described was in 1576 by Carolus Clusius, a Flemish professor of botany. He called it "rectification" because he believed that the color changes were the plant trying to purify or "rectify" itself. Clusius also noticed the harm done to the bulb by the virus, but did not know that a virus was
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (18 July 1932 – 1 April 2017) was a Soviet and Russian poet. He was also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, publisher, actor, editor and director of several movies.  In 1961, he wrote a poem "Babi Yar" describing mass murder of the Holocaust at Babi Yar during World War II. Yevtushenko died of heart failure after having kidney surgery at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 1 April 2017, aged 84.
Gary Austin (October 18, 1941 – April 1, 2017) was an American improvisational theatre teacher, writer, and director. He wrote two solo shows, "Church" and "Oil," and performed them coast to coast. His most recent show was "Gary Austin in Word And Song". He directed the improvisational group The Groundlings.  Austin was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He was raised in Dallas, Texas and in Santa Fe Springs, California. He studied at San Francisco State University. was married to Wenndy MacKenzie from 1990 until he died in 2017. They had one son together. Austin died on April 1, 2017 of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 75.
Richard Nelson Bolles (March 19, 1927 – March 31, 2017) was an American Episcopal clergyman and writer. He was known for being the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, "What Color is Your Parachute?".  Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied at Harvard University. Bolles died on March 31, 2017 in Danville, California, aged 90.
Elizabeth Wagele (May 31, 1939 – March 27, 2017) was an American artist, musician, and writer of books on the Enneagram of Personality and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Early life. Wagele was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was raised in Berkeley, California. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Wagele was married to Gus Wagele until her death in 2017. Career. Wagele was one of the best-selling authors on the subject of the Enneagram and wrote about the Myers-Briggs system, especially introversion. An award-winning cartoonist, she also illustrated her books with many cartoons and was known for her humor in her writing. Death. Wagele died of neuroendocrine cancer at her home in Berkeley, California on March 27, 2017, aged 77.
James Rosenquist (November 29, 1933 – March 31, 2017) was an American artist. He was one of the protagonists in the pop art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Rosenquist said the following about his involvement in the Pop Art movement: "They [art critics] called me a Pop artist because I used recognizable imagery. The critics like to group people together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964. I did not really know Andy or Roy Lichtenstein that well. We all emerged separately." Rosenquist died at his home in New York City on March 31, 2017 at the age of 83 after a long illness.
Radley Metzger (also known as Radley Henry Metzger and by the pseudonyms, "Jake Barnes" and "Henry Paris" (born January 21, 1929; died March 31, 2017) was an American pioneering filmmaker and . Metzger was known for directing popular , , including ' (1969), ' (1974), ' (1970), ' (1975) and "" (1976). According to one , Metzger's films, including those made during the , are noted for their "lavish design, witty screenplays, and a for the unusual ". Another reviewer noted that his films were "highly artistic — and often cerebral ... and often featured gorgeous cinematography". Film and audio works by Metzger have been added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. On March 31, 2017, Metzger died at the age of 88 in New York City.
Darcus Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) was a British broadcaster, writer, and civil liberties campaigner. He was an editor of "Race Today", and chair of the Notting Hill Carnival. He was best known in the UK for his "Black on Black" series on Channel 4; his affairs programme, "Devil's Advocate"; and his work with Tariq Ali on "Bandung File". Howe died in Streatham, London on 1 April 2017 from complications of prostate cancer, aged 74.
Kenneth Joseph "Ken" Donnelly (July 15, 1950 – April 2, 2017) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 2009 until his death in 2017. He represented the Fourth Middlesex district. He was a Democrat.  Donnelly was born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1950. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BA in Labor Studies. He was a retired lieutenant with the Lexington Fire Department in Lexington, Massachusetts. Donnelly died on April 2, 2017 in Arlington, Massachusetts from complications of a brain tumor, aged 66.
Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson (28 June 1931 – 10 September 2017) was a Swedish actor, movie director, writer and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his works with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse &amp; Tage. Alfredson's 1985 movie "False as Water" won the award for Best Director at the 21st Guldbagge Awards.
It (also known as It: Chapter One) is a 2017 American supernatural horror movie based Stephen King's 1986 novel of the same name and directed by Andy Muschietti, produced by KatzSmith Productions, Lin Pictures, and Vertigo Entertainment, and distributed by Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema "It" is the highest-grossing horror movie in history with $677.6 million in the box office, beating "The Sixth Sense" with $672.8 million. Background. "It" is the first installment in a planned duology, as well as being the second adaptation following Tommy Lee Wallace's "It" (1990) miniseries. In June 2016, Bill Skarsgård was cast as the villain Pennywise the Dancing Clown after another actor, Will Poulter, dropped out due to other projects. Plot. The movie tells the story of seven children in Detroit, Michigan who are terrorized by Pennywise the Clown, only to face their own personal demons in the process. Release. "It" was released on September 8, 2017 in the United States. The movie made $13.5 million from Thursday night previews, setting the record for highest amount by both an R-rated (beating "Deadpool"s $12.6 million) and a horror movie. The movie was released to positive reviews and has an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 203 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Well-acted and fiendishly frightening with an emotionally affecting story at its core, "It" amplifies the horror in Stephen King's classic story without losing touch with its heart." Sequels and adaptations. A sequel, "It – Chapter Two", was released in 2019.
The Naz Male Health Alliance (NMHA), founded in Pakistan in 2011, is a non-governmental organization providing technical, financial, and institutional support for improving the sexual health, welfare and human rights of the country's LGBT community. It is the first and only LGBT community-based organisation in Pakistan of its kind.  The Alliance provides support and guidance to groups and organisations offering direct services to the community. Health services include HIV/AIDS treatment and contraceptive information and distribution.