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Tan Sri Mohamed Zain bin Shamsuddin (5 November 1935 – 1 March 2017), known professionally as Jins Shamsuddin, was a Malaysian movie actor, director and politician. He is known for his role in "" (1981).  On 13 October 2004, he became the first actor-politician in Malaysia following his appointment as a member of the Dewan Negara in the 11th Parliament of Malaysia. He continued to be a Senator for two terms until 11 February 2011. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in February 2011, causing him unable to speak and unable to recognising anybody else, including his family. Following several years of bad health, Shamsuddin died at 5:45 pm at a clinic in Taman Melawati, after choking on cekodok on Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at the age of 81. Shamsuddin's second son Putera Hang Nadim confirmed on his father's death.
Simon Forbes Newbold Hobday (23 June 1940 – 2 March 2017) was a South African professional golfer who won tournaments on three continents. Personal life. Hobday was born in Mafikeng. He represented the country in the 1966 Eisenhower Trophy. He also lived in Rhodesia. Career. Hobday turned professional in 1969. He spent his regular career mainly on the Southern Africa Tour, where he won six times and the European Tour, where he won the 1976 German Open and the 1979 Madrid Open. As a senior, he played mainly in the United States on the Senior PGA Tour (now Champions Tour), where he claimed five titles between 1993 and 1995 including one senior major, the 1994 U.S. Senior Open.
Pau Donés Cirera (11 October 1966 – 9 June 2020) was a Catalan songwriter, guitarist and vocalist of the musical group Jarabe de Palo. Biography. Early years. Born in Barcelona, Spain, Donés grew up in Barcelona. He got his first guitar when he was 12 years old. Along with his brother Marc, they set up their first group: J. &amp; Co. Band, and afterwards Dentaduras Postizas. For a while, he combined locals concerts in Barcelona with his job for an advertising agency. In 1996 he formed Jarabe de Palo, being "La Flaca" his first album. Health. On 1 September 2015 he had to cancel all his concerts after having an operation for colorectal cancer. On 5 April 2016 he announced via Twitter that he had recovered from his illness. However, he had a relapse a year later. He announced in October 2018 that he was to leave the music world indefinitely from January 2019. A year later, in April 2020, it was reported that Jarabe de Palo was recording a new album, "Tragas o escupes", to be launched in September. However, its launch was moved forward to May 2020. He died from the disease on 9 June 2020, aged 53.
The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), also known as CP Rail (CP) is a railway in North America with track in both Canada and the United States. It was built between Eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885. It formerly travelled all the way to Atlantic Canada, but not anymore. When British Columbia became part of Canada in 1871, one of the promises the federal government made was to link it to the rest of Canada by rail. Most of the trains that use the CPR carry freight, and the CPR also ran passenger train services until they were taken over by Via Rail in 1978. For many years, until the airplane was invented, the railway was the only way to move people across the country. Because of this, it had a big role in the settlement and development of Western Canada. The company that owns the CPR, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, was once one of the largest and most powerful companies in Canada. It owns more than of track from Montreal in the east to Vancouver in the west and Edmonton to the north. CP also has track in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago, and New York City in the United States.  The logo of the CPR company is a beaver, the national animal of Canada, and it has its headquarters in Calgary, Alberta and its U.S. operations are in Kansas City Missouri. It trades on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CP.
Evin Prison is Iran's most notorious prison. It is in the foothills of the Alborz Mountains above Tehran. Some of Iran’s most respected activists and lawyers are serving time in this prison. The prison started in 1971 during the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a place for political prisoners. At the time, there was space for 320 prisoners. Since the 1979 revolution, the prison has 15,000 prisoners. The prison has a reputation for brutality and torture. It is believed that many people died in this prison from torture.
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition. It is played by the men's national teams of the members of FIFA, the sport's global body of the sport.  The tournament was created in 1995 as the Beach Soccer World Championship. It took place every year for the next decade controlled by Beach Soccer Worldwide. Because the sport was increasing rapidly in popularity and growth, FIFA was interested in controlling the tournament, they took over and also changed the name to make it a official FIFA tournament. Since 2009, the tournament has taken place every two years. The most recent edition was held in Espinho, Portugal. Portugal were crowned as champions for the second time, the first under being controlled by FIFA, after defeating Tahiti 5–3 in the final.
Arash Sadeghi (Farsi: آرش صادقی) is an Iranian activist and political prisoner. He started a hunger strike on October 24, 2016 after his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee went to prison for an unpublished story on her computer about a woman watching a movie about a stoning. the government promised to let her out of prison until her case was reviewed, but after Sadeghi ended his hunger strike, they took her back to prison.
Paul Henry Kangas (April 14, 1937 – February 28, 2017) was an American broadcaster. He was born in Houghton, Michigan. He was the co-anchor of the PBS television program "Nightly Business Report", a role he held since 1979 through December 31, 2009. He is best known for signing off each NBR broadcast with "I'm Paul Kangas, wishing all of you the best of good buys!" (a pun on "the best of goodbyes"). Kangas died on February 28, 2017 in Miami, Florida from complications of Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, aged 79.
Michael Farrand Bennet (born November 28, 1964) is an American businessman, lawyer, and Democratic politician. He is the senior United States Senator from Colorado. He became a senator when Ken Salazar was appointed Secretary of the Interior. Bennet worked as managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to then-Denver mayor (and former Colorado Governor) John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools. On April 3, 2019, Bennet announced that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had surgery and was later announced cancer-free. A month later on May 2, Bennet launched his 2020 campaign for President of the United States. He announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president during an interview on "CBS This Morning". He ended his campaign on February 11, 2020 after a poor performance in the New Hampshire primaries.
Robert Allen "Bob" Iger (; born February 10, 1951) is an American businessman. He was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company from 2005 to 2020. Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996. He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney to shake-up the management of the company. As part of his yearly compensation, Iger earned $44.9 million in the year 2015. On February 25, 2020, Iger announced his retirement as the CEO of Disney.
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author and educator. She was one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. She was the fourth Black American woman to earn a Ph.D. She was a mathematician and a Classics scholar. She fought for women's right to be educated and the strength the United States could build by educating Black women and men. Early life. Cooper was born in 1859. She was born into slavery. Her mother was Hannah Stanley Haywood, a slave in the home of prominent landowner George Washington Haywood. She had two brothers, Rufus and Andrew. Her grandfather was a carpenter that was sent to help build the capital of North Carolina. After the slaves were free Cooper’s brothers became good carpenters. Cooper was freed at the age of six. She then went to school. Education. Cooper went to a school for Black children called St. Augustine. By the age of ten she was teaching math. Cooper had to beg them to let her in the Greek class. It was only for boys. Cooper thought that it was unfair that due to her gender she was kept out of the Classical classes. Thankfully she did not give up and was able to “sit in” on the male Greek classes. Cooper felt frustrated that she had to fight to get the opportunity to study Classics. She wanted all students to be offered Greek. She kept fighting to make it equal. Eventually, the school provided Greek classes for male and female students. She stayed at St. Augustine for 14 years as a student and a teacher of Latin, Greek, and Math. In 1877 she married another teacher, George A.G. Cooper. He died two years later. After going to St. Augustine she went to the college Oberlin College in Ohio. Again, she could only take the women's courses. Classes for girls taught household skills. The classes for women did not require taking Latin, Greek or even advanced mathematics. Cooper asked to be in the men’s courses. She excelled at the full classical education at Oberlin. Cooper got her bachelors degree in Math in 188
Coronium was thought to be a chemical element in 1882. The evidence was a thin green spectrometry line in the solar corona. In 1930, it was proved that it did not exist. The green line was just highly ionized iron, (Fe13+), which is now called coronium.
Nyctibatrachus is a genus of frogs endemic to the Western Ghats of southwestern India. Their common name is night frogs. Their scientific name also means "night frog".  These frogs are quite common, and researchers think this has been overlooked because of their their small size. They are indeed extremely small, and can sit on a coin or a fingernail. However, they are not so small as "Paedophryne", which is the smallest land vertebrate.
Igor Sychev is a Kazakh blogger and a political prisoner. He received international attention when he went to prison over an online poll about whether Kazakhstan should join Russia in the same way as Crimea in Ukraine. Sychev is an ethnic Russian from a former Russian area in the east of Kazakhstan. It has a majority of ethnic Russian people. Sychev was the administrator of VKontakte, a popular Russian social networking site. On November 18, 2015, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Sychev said he did not put up the poll, and he took it down after he received complaints. Synchev was convicted under a new law, passed in 2015, that prohibits calling for separatism. In January 2017, Sychev's sentence was upheld on appeal. The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) asked the EU to support Sychev and other victims of free speech violations.
Anne Kristin Sydnes (13 May 1956 – 3 March 2017) was a Norwegian politician. She was a member of the Labour Party. She served as the Minister of International Development from 2000 to 2001. She was married to Jan Egeland. Sydnes died after a long illness on 3 March 2017, at the age of 60.
HaBayit HaYehudi, Hebrew: הבית היהודי , meaning "The Jewish Home" (often called like that), is an Israeli political party. Its ideology is (far) right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, Modern Orthodox Jewish, and Religious Zionist. Political leader is Rafi Peretz. HaBayit HaYehudi was founded in 2008 as a result of a merger of three parties but in fact it is the successor of Mafdal (National Religious Party). Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 1 (-1). Participating in the Fourth Netanyahu Government and the Netanyahu-Gantz Government.
Religious Zionism (Hebrew: ציונות דתית - "Tziyonut Datit") is a branch of Zionism. It is a combination of Zionism and Judaism. Ideas. Religious Zionists are in favour of a State of Israel, that is mainly populated by Jews and dominated by Judaism. In their view, the State of Israel should encompass the entire Land of Israel ("Eretz Yisrael"). This includes the so-called Palestinian territories (West Bank, Gaza Strip) and also the Golan Heights. Influence. Religious Zionism dominates Modern Orthodox Judaism in Israel. Politically Religious Zionists can especially be found in HaBayit HaYehudi (The Jewish Home) but also in HaLikud.
Yesh Atid () is an Israeli political party. Background. The Yesh Atid was founded in 2012. Ideology. The party is centrist, Zionist, secular and social liberal. The party's leader is Yair Lapid, who was the Prime Minister of Israel from July 2022 to December 2022. Today. The party's number of seats in the 25th Knesset: 24 (+7). It was part of the Bennett-Lapid Government.
A toll-free telephone number is a telephone number in which the person who owns that telephone number is charged for calls that come to them, rather than the person making the call to that number being charged. These numbers usually begin with "1-800" in North America (800 being the area code under the North American Numbering Plan), but are different around the rest of the world. They are not to be confused with "collect calls", which are made when the person making the call does not want to have to pay their telephone company to make it. In this case, the person receiving the call has to agree to be charged for that call, while those owning toll-free numbers already agree to being charged for incoming calls.
Rhys Joseph Wesser (born 31 March 1979) is an Australian former professional rugby league player. He played in the National Rugby League (NRL) between 1998 and 2011. He was best known for playing for the Penrith Panthers, winning the 2003 premiership with them. He later played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He scored 129 total club tries in his career. Wesser was born in Rockhampton, Queensland. He is of Indigenous Australian ancestry.
Ayer is a village and former municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers.
Stephen Peter Kearney (born 11 June 1972) is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach and former player. He was the head coach of the National Rugby League (NRL) New Zealand Warriors from 2017 to 2020. He has also been head coach of the New Zealand national team and the Parramatta Eels. He also played for the Warriors and Melbourne Storm in the 1990s and 2000s. Kearney was born in Paraparaumu, North Island. He is Māori.
Philip George Neal (born 20 February 1951) is an English former footballer. He is best known for playing for Liverpool between 1974 and 1985. He won eight First Divisions, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, four European Cups, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup with Liverpool. He also played for Northampton Town and Bolton Wanderers. He later managed Bolton, Coventry City, Cardiff City and Manchester City. Neal was born in Irchester, Northamptonshire. He has two children, including a son, Ashley (born 1974), also a footballer. Honours. Player. Liverpool Manager. Bolton Wanderers
Arthur Henry "Artie" Beetson (22 January 1945 – 1 December 2011) was an Australian rugby league player and coach. He played between the 1960s and 1981. He was known for playing for Easts and captaining Australia. He also played for Queensland and the Parramatta Eels. He was the first Indigenous Australian to captain his country in any sport. Beetson was born in Roma, Queensland. His mother was a member of the Stolen Generation. Beetson died from a heart attack on 1 December 2011 on the Gold Coast, Queensland. He was 66.
Elisabeth Lichtenberger (17 February 1925 – 14 February 2017) was an Austrian geographer. She taught at the University of Vienna. She was born in Vienna. She was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1999. She was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1991. Lichtenberger died on 14 February 2017 in Vienna, aged 91.
Boaz Vaadia (November 13, 1951 – February 25, 2017) was an Israeli-American artist and sculptor. He was born in Gat Rimon, Israel. He worked primarily in stone and later by casting in bronze. He said that his work is based on the power of natural materials and the relation of human beings to that power. Vaadia died in Brooklyn, New York from pancreatic cancer on February 25, 2017, aged 65. He was survived by his wife Kim and two daughters.
Howard Anthony Schmidt (October 5, 1949 – March 2, 2017) was an American cyber security expert and partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity. He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. He announced his retirement from that position on May 17, 2012, effective at the end of the month. Schmidt died in Muskego, Wisconsin on March 2, 2017 from brain cancer, aged 67.
Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She was born in New York City. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel "The Slave Dancer"; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for "A Place Apart"; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for "A Portrait of Ivan" (1969) in its German-language edition "Ein Bild von Ivan". Fox died at age 93 at a hospital in Brooklyn from congestive heart failure on March 1, 2017.
Míriam Colón (born Míriam Colón Valle; August 20, 1936 – March 3, 2017) was a Puerto Rican actress. She was the founder and director of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. She was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Colón was known for her roles as Georgina Montana in "Scarface" (1983), Maria in "Gloria" (1999), and as Mercedes in "Goal!" (2005). Colón died on March 3, 2017 from complications of a lung infection in New York City, aged 80.
Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg died in Amsterdam on 3 March 2017, aged 81.
Chandolin is a village in the municipality of Anniviers in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Until 2009 it was a municipality. History. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Chandolin, Ayer, Grimentz, Saint-Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie merged into the new municipality of Anniviers. Culture. It has at least one museum: the Ella Maillart Museum previously was the home of travel writer Ella Maillart .
Pierre Guénin (19 February 1927 – 1 March 2017) was a French journalist and gay rights activist. He was an early publisher of LGBT magazines in the late 1960s and the 1970s. He was the founder of LGBT movie awards in France. He was the founder of the Prix Pierre Guénin for LGBT activists. He was a journalist for "Cinémonde". Guénin was born in Étampes, France on 19 February 1927.  Guénin founded Editions S.A.N., a publisher of LGBT magazines, in 1967. He was the founding editor of "Eden" and "Olympe", whose writings were forbidden under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1978. Guénin died on 1 March 2017 from complications from pneumonia in Paris at the age of 90.
Fitzroy Edwards (17 November 1955 – 4 March 2017), better known by his stage name Edi Fitzroy, was a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter. His career began in 1975 but best known for his work in the dancehall era. He was known for his songs "Miss Molly Colly" and "Deep in Mi Culture". He has been a regular performer at annual Peter Tosh memorial concerts in Jamaica. Personal life. Fitzroy was born in Chapelton, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. He studied at Chapelton All-Age and Clarendon College. Fitzroy was a Rastafarian, stating that he has been "from birth". Fitzroy died on 4 March 2017 at a hospital in May Pen, Claredon Parish, Jamaica, aged 62.
John Michael "Mike" McConnell (born July 26, 1943) is a former vice admiral in the United States Navy.  During his naval career he served as Director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996. His civilian career includes serving as the United States Director of National Intelligence from 20 February 2007 to 27 January 2009 during the Bush administration and seven days of the Obama administration. McConnell was born and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina.
Dennis Cutler Blair (born February 4, 1947) is the former United States Director of National Intelligence and is a retired United States Navy admiral. He was the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific region.  Blair was a career officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the White House during the presidencies of both President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan. Blair retired from the Navy in 2002 as an Admiral. In 2009, Blair was selected as President Barack Obama’s first Director of National Intelligence, but after a series of bureaucratic battles, he resigned on May 20, 2010.
Kenneth W. Dam (born August 10, 1932) served as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (the second highest official in the United States Department of the Treasury) from 2001 to 2003. He worked in international economic development.  Dam is a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution and a professor emeritus and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
James Robert "Jim" Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is the former Director of National Intelligence. He served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995. He was the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006. On June 5, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Clapper to replace Dennis C. Blair as United States Director of National Intelligence. Clapper was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for the position on August 5, 2010.
Gerald Michael Charlebois (born April 17, 1929), better known as Michael Forest, is an American actor and pilot. He played the voice of Prince Olympius in "Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue".  In his earlier years, Michael was a movie and television actor, notably playing the part of Apollo in the 1967 "" episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" and most recently reprised this role in the "Star Trek Continues" episode "Pilgrim of Eternity" 47 years later. Personal life. Forest was born in Harvey, North Dakota. He moved with his family at a very early age to Seattle, Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in English and drama from San Jose State University. He is married to Diana Hale.