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Brahmo Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded in the 19th century in India. History of Brahmo Samaj. During the 19th century Indian society had various social and religious problems in the Indian society. Several movements were started to help reform the society various "samajs" were formed. These included the Prathna Samaj, the Satya Shodhak Samaj, the Theosophical Society, and others. The Brahmo Samaj was one of these. It was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the year 1828. It can also be said as the first attempt by the Indians to reform their religion and end its harmful practices. While under Keshab Chandra Sen it was able to make great progress and set up many branches across India. The Brahma Samaj helped reform the Indian society. Reforms. Some of its important reforms were to end the practice of sati (the widow committing suicide on her dead husband's funeral pyre), opposing the worship of many gods, ending costly sacrifices and meaningless rituals. The movement proposed the belief that God is omnipresent, promoted inter-caste and widow remarriage, opposed child marriage and polygamy, and more. Doctrine. The following doctrines, as noted in Renaissance of Hinduism, are common to all varieties and offshoots of the Brahmo Samaj:
Chernihiv () is a city in Ukraine. About 300,000 people live there. Twin towns — Sister cities. Chirnihiv is twinned with:
Ústí nad Labem (, ) is the seventh-largest city in the Czech Republic. The area has many mountains. The city is where the Bílina and Elbe rivers join. Twin towns – Sister cities. Ústí is twinned with:
Sternenberg was a municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich. On 1 January 2015, the former municipality of Sternenberg merged into the municipality of Bauma.
Niuean (Niuean: "ko e vagahau Niuē") is a Polynesian language spoken by about 8,000 people, the majority of whom live in New Zealand. There are also Niuean speakers in Niue, where almost the entire population of about 2,000 speak the language, the Cook Islands and Tonga. The closest relative of Niuean is Tongan, while Māori, Sāmoan, and Hawaiian are also quite close.  The alphabet was written in the 19th century by Christian missionaries, being influenced by the Samoan writing system.
Iván Fandiño Barros (September 29, 1980 – June 17, 2017) was an award winning Spanish bullfighter. He was born in Orduña-Urduña, Spain. Fandiño died of injuries he sustained after being gored by a bull on June 17, 2017 in Aire-sur-l'Adour, France, aged 36.
Józef Grudzień (1 April 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish boxer. Grudzień was born in Piasek Wielki, Poland. He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Tokyo 1964 and silver at Mexico City 1968. He also twice won medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships, silver at East Berlin 1965 and gold at Rome 1967. He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1991.
Venus Ramey (September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contest, and later an activist. She won the Miss America competition in 1944. She was born in Ashland, Kentucky. Ramey left Kentucky to work for the war effort in Washington, D.C., and won the Miss District of Columbia pageant and then became Miss America in 1944. She was the first red-haired contestant to win the title. Ramey died on June 17, 2017 in Science Hill, Kentucky at the age of 92.
Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumalak (29 September 1944 – 17 June 2017) was a Filipino Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines He was the incumbent Military Ordinariate of the Philippines since 2005 until his death in 2017. He was born in Santander, Cebu, Philippines. Tumulak died on 17 June 2017 at a hospital in San Juan City, Manila, Philippines from pancreatic cancer, aged 72.
The Stanley Dynamic is a children's TV show. It started on YTV on March 19, 2015. It ended on April 7, 2017. Charles Vandervaart, Taylor Abrahamse, Madison Ferguson, Kate Hewlett, and Michael Barbuto play the most important people in the show. The show was almost the winner of a Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series. It was also one of the best shows at the 2016 Cynopsis Kids imagination Awards for Best New Series. Story. The show is about Larry Stanley and his cartoon twin brother Luke Stanley as they go through high school. It's also about the rest of the Stanley family, like Lori, their smart little sister, Lane, their dad who draws cartoons, and Lisa, their mother who works making food.
On 19 June 2017, at 00:15 BST, police officers responded to a vehicle running over several civilians with a reported "numerous casualties" in Finsbury Park, London. The attack occurred near Finsbury Park Mosque where the van ran over several worshippers. The car reportedly crashed close to the Finsbury Park Mosque, with many of the injured seen wearing Muslim attire. Witnesses have said this is because worshippers were leaving the mosque at the time of the incident. One person has been arrested in relation to the attack. The individual, Darren Osborne, has been confirmed to be the attacker. It is being reported that 10 people have been injured in the attack and one person has been confirmed to have died.  A witness reported to BuzzFeed News that the driver screamed that he wanted to "kill all Muslims". On 23 June, Darren Osborne of Cardiff was charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. In early February 2018 at Woolwich Crown Court, he was found guilty on both counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Timothy Edward "Tim" Lee Hague (May 9, 1983 – June 18, 2017) was a Canadian mixed martial artist. He competed in the heavyweight division, most recently for Absolute Championship Berkut. He became a professional fighter in 2006, and formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, World Series of Fighting and King of the Cage, where he went 11-0 and was the King of the Cage Canada Heavyweight Champion. He was born in Boyle, Alberta. On June 16, 2017, he suffered a brain hemorrhage after being knocked out in a boxing match against Adam Braidwood in Edmonton, Alberta. He died on June 18, 2017 at the age of 34.
Anthony Liscio (July 2, 1940 – June 18, 2017) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys from 1963 through 1971. He played college football at the University of Tulsa. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Liscio died from complications from ALS in Dallas, Texas on June 18, 2017 at the age of 76.
Pierluigi Chicca (22 December 1937 – 18 June 2017) was an Italian fencer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the individual and team sabre events and won a team bronze medal in 1960 and team silver medals in 1964 and 1968. He was born in Livorno, Italy. Chicca died on 18 June 2017 in Rome, Italy, aged 79.
Shih Chun-jen (; 2 December 1923 – 18 June 2017) was a Taiwanese neurosurgeon. He led the Department of Health from 1986 to 1990. Shih was appointed the head surgeon at Tri-Service General Hospital, a medical institution affiliated with the National Defense Medical Center, in 1975. Two years later, he co-founded the Taiwan Neurological Society. He was born in Gosei, Taikō, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan.  Shih died of a heart attack at a hospital in Taipei on 18 June 2017, aged 93.
A series of wildfires erupted across central Portugal during the night of 17–18 June 2017, resulting in at least 65 deaths and at least 254 injured people.  The majority of deaths took place in Pedrógão Grande when a fire swept across a road filled with evacuees. Portuguese officials dispatched more than 1,700 firefighters nationwide to combat the blazes and Prime Minister António Costa declared three days of national mourning.
The Deseret alphabet () is a writing system invented in the 19th Century in America by the Mormon Church. A group of leaders called the Board of Regents created it. They were from Brigham Young University. Brigham Young wanted all letters to match sounds, to make reading and writing easier for immigrants. Teachers taught the alphabet in the school system at the time.  Between 1854 and 1869, books, newspapers, street signs and mail used the new alphabet. Even though the LDS church tried very hard to support the alphabet, it wasn't continued for very long. History. Creation (1847–1854). Church leaders Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball were part of the Board of Regents that made the Deseret alphabet. Other important creators were George D. Watt and William W. Phelps. Before they decided to use the Deseret alphabet, the Board of Regents thought they would use Pitman style alphabets. On 29 November 1853, they came together to vote. Then, Willard Richards, who was sick when the Board of Regents had talked about which alphabet to use, saw the Pitman style alphabet. He said it looked too much like the English alphabet, and he wanted to start over with something new. His words convinced Brigham Young and the rest of the Board of Regents to make the Deseret alphabet. Less than two months later, the Board of Regents approved the first 38-letter Deseret alphabet.  Alphabet. In the Deseret alphabet, capital letters ("majuscule" or upper case) look the same as the lower case ("minuscule") letters, except the capital letters are larger. In the chart below, the "Glyph" is the letter shape, and next to it is the letter's name, which is how it sounds.
On 19 June 2017, the driver of a car containing guns rammed the car into a police vehicle on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. He was immediately killed by police. The Champs-Élysées was the site of the an attack in April. At 3:40 pm Paris local time in Paris a man attempted to ram his vehicle into a police car on the heavily guarded Champs-Élysées. The car contained an AK47 assault rifle, handguns, and a gas canister. The attacker was killed and the incident is under investigation as possible terrorism.
Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London. Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time. She married Stephen Freedhoff while an undergraduate, and had two children, Michal Freedhoff and Yoni Freedhoff. Freedhoff died suddenly of cardiac arrest on 10 June 2017 at the family's cottage in Muskoka, Ontario, aged 77.
Luis Lusquiños (27 November 1951 – 17 June 2017) was an Argentine politician. He was born in the San Luis Province. He had the highest number of absences in the 2005-2009 period. He was appointed Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during the brief presidency of Adolfo Rodríguez Saá. Lusquiños died on 17 June 2017 at the age of 65.
Ivan Dias (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an Indian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Bandra, a suburb of Bombay. Dias was Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2006 to 2011, having served as Archbishop of Bombay (1996–2006) and papal diplomat in the Balkans, East Asia, and West Africa. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student. He was imprisoned in North Korea from March 2016 to June 2017 after being convicted of "hostile acts" against the country. Imprisonment. Warmbier, then 21 years old, confessed to stealing a political propaganda poster from a hotel and was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor. The United States made diplomatic efforts to seek Warmbier's release. A U.S. State Department spokesman said Warmbier's harsh sentence was a response to U.S. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear activities. According to his father, Warmbier's confession was forced and he was abducted by the North Korean government for political purposes. Release. Warmbier fell into a coma in North Korea and was released in June 2017, after nearly 18 months in North Korea. According to North Korean authorities, Warmbier's coma was a result of botulism and a sleeping pill, but U.S. physicians cast doubt on that claim. Warmbier arrived in Cincinnati on June 13 and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for immediate evaluation and treatment. He was diagnosed with "severe neurological injury." His father believes that he was "terrorized and brutalized". Death. Warmbier died on June 19, 2017, in Cincinnati, six days after his return to the United States from complications of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by botulism and sepsis. He was also suffering from pneumonia and kidney failure.
Brian Cant (12 July 1933 – 19 June 2017) was an English actor, television presenter and writer. He was best known for his work in BBC television programmes for children from 1964 until his death in 2017. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. He was best known for presenting "Play School" and for starring as Brian the Farmer in "Dapplewood Farm". On 28 November 2010, he received the special award at the Children's BAFTAs for his work in children's television. Cant died on 19 June 2017 in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 83.
Joshua Michael Peck (born November 10, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Josh Nichols in the Nickelodeon live-action sitcom "Drake &amp; Josh".  He began his career as a child actor in the late 90's and early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his role on "The Amanda Show". He has since acted in movies such as "Mean Creek", "Drillbit Taylor", "The Wackness", "ATM", and "Red Dawn", along with voicing Eddie in the "Ice Age" franchise.  He also starred as Gerald in a lead role with John Stamos in the series "Grandfathered". He also voiced Casey Jones in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". He also starred in a Netflix comedy, "Take the 10", along with Tony Revolori. In 2023, he appeared in the Christopher Nolan movie "Oppenheimer". Peck is Jewish. Josh has two children with his wife Paige O'Brien, viz., Max Milo (b. January 2019) and Shai Miller (b. October 2022).
Savannah Janine "Savvy" Shields (born July 1, 1995) is an American beauty queen and Miss America 2017. She won the Miss America title on September 11, 2016. Before that, she was Miss Arkansas 2016. She was crowned Miss America by Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell. Shields is the third Miss America from Arkansas. Before being Miss Arkansas, Shields won the title for Miss Arkansas' Outstanding Teen in 2009. She represented Arkansas in 2010 at Miss America Outstanding Teen. Shields worked for eating better and living better. Shields was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Pablo Alfonso Espinosa of the Monteros Rueda (born 24 December 1941) is an Ecuadorian news anchor and vice-president of news of Ecuavisa in Quito. He holds the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster". Early life. Espinosa de los Monteros was born on 24 December 1941 in Quito, Ecuador. His parents were from Ibarra.  Career. Espinosa de los Monteros worked for different radio stations in the cities of Ibarra and Guayaquil until 1962. In 1963 he was news director for Radio La Prensa. He began in Ecuavisa in 1967, the year of its foundation, as the first news anchor of the station. He was News Director for almost three decades. He hosted the Ecuadorian version of "Who wants to be millionaire" (2001 - 2004 and 2009 - 2011). He received the “Honorato Vázquez” medal from the Ecuadorian government in 1992. On 1 May 2023, Espinosa de los Monteros retired from Ecuavisa after 56 years. Records. In August 2014, he obtained the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster”.
Antonio Medellín (15 April 1942 – 18 June 2017) was a Mexican actor. He was known for his roles in the telenovelas "Muchachitas" and "Rubí". In movies, he was known for his role in the 1982 drama Mexican movie "Aquel famoso Remington". He was born in Mexico City, Mexico. His career lasted from 1962 until his death in 2017. Medellín died on 18 June 2017 at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 75.
Pearl Lavinia Carr (2 November 1921 – 16 February 2020) and Edward Victor "Teddy" Johnson (4 September 1919 – 6 June 2018) were an English husband-and-wife team of entertainers, popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Carr and Johnson were on British television light entertainment programmes, such as "The Winifred Atwell Show" as well as "Big Night Out" and "Blackpool Night Out". They represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959 and finished second with the song "Sing, Little Birdie". This peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart. Carr was born in Exmouth, Devon, while Johnson was born in Surbiton, Surrey. Johnson died on 6 June 2018 at the age of 98. Carr died on 16 February 2020, at the age of 98.
Alysia Reiner (born July 21, 1970) is an American actress and stage producer. Reiner is best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series, "Orange Is the New Black" (2013–2017) for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast. Reiner is Jewish.
Meitei language, officially known as Manipuri language, is the official language, the lingua franca and the most widely spoken language of the Indian state of Manipur. It is developed from the Ancient Meitei language. It is also one of the official languages of Assam. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. On 11th May of 2022, Meitei language was supported by Google Translate among 8 newly added Indian languages out of 24 total newly added languages at the same time.
Zaporizhzhia ( before 1921 it was called Oleksandrivsk) is a city in southeastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. In 2024, 500,000 people lived there. It is on the Dnieper River, where the transport and communication corridors connecting the south with the capital of Ukraine, western and central regions meet. Together with the surrounding settlements it forms the Zaporizhzhia agglomeration. It is one of the largest administrative, industrial and cultural centers of southern Ukraine. It has advanced engineering, ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, chemical and construction industries. It has a river port and an important transit railway junction.  In the zone of influence of Zaporizhzhia as a regional center on the territory of 2690 thousand hectares there are 14 cities, 23 urban-type settlements and a significant number of villages. More than 2 million people live. The suburban zone covers Zaporizhzhia, Vilniansk, Orikhiv, Vasylivka and Kamyansko-Dniprovsky. They are administrative districts of Zaporizhzhia region, the total area of which is 760 thousand hectares. There are 5 cities, 6 urban-type settlements and about 300 rural settlements. The total population of the suburban area is approximately 315 thousand people. The city of Zaporizhzhia concentrates about 65% of the productive capacity of the region and 43% of the population of the region.  On June 27, 2014, the decision of the Zaporizhzhia City Council adopted the final report of the working group to clarify the founding date of the city and changed the official founding date. The working group concluded that the city was founded in 952. The treatise of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus "On the management of the empire" was the first written mention of the settlement on both banks of the Dnieper and the island of Khortytsia.  Name. Until March 15, 1921, the city
Truttikon is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland. Villages. Burghof, Gisenhard, Hausen bei Ossingen and Langenmoos.
Clos du Doubs is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Epauvillers, Epiquerez, Montenol, Montmelon, Ocourt, Saint-Ursanne and Seleute merged into the new municipality of Clos du Doubs. Clos du Doubs is about west of Delémont.
Adrian is a city in Oldham County, Texas, United States. It is on the historic U.S. Route 66.  128 people lived there in the 2020 United States Census.
The Köllerbach (Saar) is a river in Saarland, Germany.
Elias (Eli) Burstein (September 30, 1917 – June 17, 2017) was an American experimental condensed matter physicist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.  His career in science lasted for 70 years. He was known for his pioneering fundamental research in the optical physics of solids; for writing and editing hundreds of articles and other publications; for bringing together scientists from around the world in international meetings, conferences, and symposia; and for training and mentoring dozens of younger physicists. Burstein died on June 17, 2017 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania at the age of 99.
Hans Breder (October 20, 1935 – June 18, 2017) was a German-American artist. His works have been presented in several places in the United States and all over the world. He has shown with the Richard Feigen Gallery (1967-1972), the Mitchell Algus Gallery, and Hachmeister Gallery. Breder was born in Herford, Germany. He studied at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg in Hamburg. He was married to Barbara Welch from 1984 until his death in 2017. Breder died in Iowa City, Iowa on June 18, 2017, aged 81.
Tony DiCicco (August 5, 1948 – June 19, 2017) was an American soccer player and coach and TV commentator. He was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut. DiCicco was best known as the coach of the United States women's national soccer team from 1994 to 1999, during which time the team won an Olympic gold medal in 1996 and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. He was also coach of the USA team that won the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. DiCicco died on June 19, 2017 from cancer at his home in Wethersfield, Connecticut, aged 68.
Albert Johnson (November 2, 1974 – June 20, 2017), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was an American rapper. He was known for being the one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep with Havoc. He also appeared in the 2007 drama movie "Blackout" and Eminem biopic 8 Mile. Prodigy died of complications from sickle-cell anemia and choking on an egg at a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 20, 2017, aged 42.
Melanie Anne Safka (February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024), better known as Melanie, was an American singer and songwriter. She was best known for hit songs, like "Ruby Tuesday" and "Brand New Key". Another well-known song was about performing at the 1969 Woodstock Festival: "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)". In 1989, Melanie won an Emmy Award for writing the lyrics to "The First Time I Loved Forever". It was the theme song to the television series "Beauty and the Beast". One of Melanie's songs, "Brand New Key", was banned by some radio stations because the lyrics could be teasing about sex. Melanie was born in the Astoria area of Queens in New York City. Melanie died on January 23, 2024 at the age of 76.
The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is the result of a huge volcanic outburst which started at the end of the Triassic period.  It is the Earth's biggest continental large igneous province, with an area of about 11 million km2. It is mainly of basalt, and formed before the breakup of Pangaea in the Mesozoic Era. It may have caused the end-Triassic extinction event.  The subsequent breakup of Pangaea created the Atlantic Ocean and provided a legacy of basaltic dikes, sills, and lavas over a vast area around the present central North Atlantic Ocean.
St. George's is a city in Grenada. It is the capital. Many people come to visit. Economy. The city grows a lot of cocoa, nutmeg, and mace spice.
Theodor Bergmann (March 7, 1916 – June 12, 2017) was a German agronomist and writer. He was born in Berlin. Until 1981, he was Professor for international comparisons in agrarian policy at University of Hohenheim. He was born in Berlin and of Jewish descent. Bergmann died on June 12, 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany at the age of 101.