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Frank Strong Lary (April 10, 1930 – December 13, 2017) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Detroit Tigers (1954–1964), New York Mets (1964, 1965), Milwaukee Braves (1964), and Chicago White Sox (1965).  Lary led the American League with 21 wins in 1956 and ranked second in the same category with 23 wins in 1961.  Lary was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1960 and 1961 and won the Gold Glove Award in 1961. He was known as "Taters", "Mule", and the "Yankee Killer." The latter nickname was won due to his 27-10 record against the New York Yankees from 1955 to 1961. Lary died on December 13, 2017 in Northport, Alabama of pneumonia at the age of 87.
Kyle Mark Takai (July 1, 1967 – July 20, 2016) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 1st district from January 3, 2015 until his death. He was also a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1994 to 2014. He became a lieutenant colonel in the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2013. Takai was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was of Japanese ancestry. He was married to Sami and had two children. Takai was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October 2015. He died on July 20, 2016 in Aiea, Hawaii. He was 49.
William Alex "Bill" Hudson (July 9, 1935 – December 13, 2017) was an American football player. He played as a defensive tackle. He played professionally in the American Football League for the San Diego Chargers and the Boston Patriots. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes. He was a member of the South Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. He was born in Hartsville, South Carolina. Hudson died on December 13, 2017 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He was 82.
Rod (Cyrillic: Род) is the supreme God of the universe in the Slavic Native Faith. Old Church Slavonic sources about pre-Christian religion, say that Rod represents divinity and ancestrality. Among the South Slavs, the concept is also known as "Sud" (Judge) or "Prabog" (First God).
Jarilo (Cyrillic: Ярило, Ярила or Јарило) is a Slavic god of vegetation, fertility and springtime. The only historical source that mentions Jarilo was from a German bishop who encountered pagans celebrating a festival called Gerovit (likely a German way of saying, "Jarovit"). Until the 19th century in Russia, Belarus and Serbia, folk festivals called "Jarilo" were celebrated in late spring. In these festivals, they worshiped a springtime god. Similar festivals occurred in Croatia and Slovenia.
Eric the Victorious (Old Norse: Eiríkr inn sigrsæli; Swedish: Erik Segersäll) was the first Kingdom of Sweden. There is debate about whether or not he was actually the first king. He is sometimes called Eric V or Eric VI. He is called this by people who count back from Eric XIV (1560–68). Eric the Victorious originally controlled the area around Uppland. His kingdom may have extended down to Blekinge. He got the name "victorious," because of his victory in the Battle of Fýrisvellir. According to Adam of Bremen, he was also the King of Denmark after the defeat of Sweyn Forkbeard. He probably also founded the town of Sigtuna, 38 km northeast from downtown Stockholm. Adam also dated Eric the Victorious's death as between 992 and 995. He is remembered as a war-like and successful ruler.
Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American movie director, screenwriter, editor and actor. He is best known for directing the movies "Brick" (2005), "The Brothers Bloom" (2008), "Looper" (2012), ' (2017) and "Knives Out" (2019). He has directed three episodes of the AMC series "Breaking Bad". He has also had small roles in ' (2016) and "BoJack Horseman". Johnson was born in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has been dating movie writer Karina Longworth since 2011.
Gwendoline Tracey Philippa Christie (born 28 October 1978) is a British actress and model. She is known for playing Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series "Game of Thrones" and Captain Phasma in the "Star Wars" movies ' (2015) and ' (2017). Gwendoline Christie was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England. She has been dating fashion design Giles Deacon since 2013.
Byron Dorgan (born May 14, 1942) is a former United States Senator and United States Congressman. He was a congressman for twelve years and a U.S. Senator for eighteen. Dorgan was a member of the Senate Democratic leadership for sixteen years. He was first an Assistant Democratic Floor Leader. He was later a Chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. Then, he was Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. In 2010, Dorgan said he wasn't seeking re-election in the 2010 North Dakota Senate election. Dorgan later worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm Arent Fox LLP. He was a senior policy advisor there. Furthermore, Dorgan is a New York Times writer of four books: two on economic and political issues, two as eco-thrillers. Dorgan was born in Dickinson, North Dakota.
Charles Sidney Grodin (April 21, 1935 – May 18, 2021) was an American actor, comedian, author and television talk show host. He won an Emmy Award for writing in 1978. Grodin is best known for his appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "The Late Show". Grodin's movie roles include "Catch-22" (1970), "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972), "Midnight Run" and "The Couch Trip" (both 1988), "Beethoven" (1992) and "Beethoven's 2nd", "Dave" and "Heart and Souls" (all 1993). Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He had a daughter with his first wife, Julie Ferguson. He married Elissa Durwood in 1983. They had a son. Grodin died of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, on May 18, 2021. He was 86.
Dillon, Read &amp; Co. was an investment bank based in New York City. In 1997, it was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation, which was in turn acquired by UBS in 1998. The Dillon Read name was dropped by 2000. In June 2005, UBS established Dillon Read Capital Management (DRCM), led by former UBS Investment Bank head John P. Costas. On May 3, 2007, UBS announced the closure of Dillon Read Capital Management. The division lost 150 million Swiss Francs in the first quarter of 2007, primarily due to bets on the sub-prime mortgage industry in the United States. The assets under management were transferred into UBS's main asset management business.
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is an American multinational financial services corporation specializing in retail brokerage. It is the wealth &amp; asset management division of Morgan Stanley. In the late 1980s the retail brokerage firm Smith Barney was owned by Primerica Financial Services. Commercial Credit purchased Primerica in 1988, for $1.5 billion. In 1992, they paid $722 million to buy a 27 percent share of Travelers Insurance. By the end of 1993, the merged company was known as Travelers Group Inc. In September 1997, Travelers acquired Salomon Inc. (parent company of Salomon Brothers Inc.), for over $9 billion in stock, and merged it with its own investment arm to create Salomon Smith Barney. In April 1998 Travelers Group announced an agreement to undertake a $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, creating the largest single financial services company in the world. On January 13, 2009, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup announced that Citigroup would sell 51% of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley, creating Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which was formerly a division of Citi Global Wealth Management. The combined brokerage house has 17,649 financial advisors and manages $2 trillion in client assets.
Kannauj district is an administrative district in Uttar Pradesh, India. The capital of this district is the historically famous Kannauj city. This district was formed from Farrukhabad district in September 18, 1997. According to the 2011 census of India Kannauj district has a population of 1,658,005, It is very much famous for Kannauj Perfume. This is the reason for Kannauj city is called as City of Perfumes. There are many temples in Kannauj which are very spiritual (divine) and historical.
There are 4 arrondissements in the Haut-Rhin department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into "arrondissements", which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture. If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture. Arrondissements are further divided into communes. The arrondissements of Haut-Rhin are: History. Haut-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was divided in three districts: Altkirch, Belfort and Colmar, with Colmar as is capital. In 1800, with the creation of the "arrondissements" in France, the three districts were changed into five "arrondissements": Colmar, Altkirch, Belfort, Delémont and Porrentruy. The "arrondissements" Delémont and Porrentruy were eliminated in 1814 and transferred to Switzerland. The subprefecture of Altkirch was moved to Mulhouse in 1857. The Haut-Rhin department was eliminated in 1871 when the territory became part of Germany except for a part that forms the Territoire de Belfort. In 1919, Haut-Rhin is again an department when the territory became part of France with the "arrondissements" Colmar-Ville, Colmar-Campagne, Altkirch, Guebwiller, Mulhouse, Ribeauvillé and Thann. Its capital is Colmar. The "arrondissements" Colmar-Ville and Colmar-Campagne were combined in 1934 to form the "arrondissement" of Colmar. The "arrondissement" of Guebwiller was eliminated in 2015 and its territory combined with Tharn to form the "arrondissement" of Thann-Guebwiller. In that same year, the "arrondissement" of Ribeauvillé was also eliminated and its territory combined with Colmar to form the "arrondissement" of Colmar-Ribeauvillé.
The arrondissement of Altkirch is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital is the city of Altkirch. History. When the Haut-Rhin department was created on 1790, the "arrondissement" of Altkirch was part of that original department. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Altkirch is in the southwest of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the northeast by the Thann-Guebwiller "arrondissement", to the north and west by the Mulhouse "arrondissement", to the south by Switzerland and to the west by the Territoire de Belfort department. The "arrondissement" of Altkirch is the smallest of the "arrondissements" of the department, with an area of , and it is also with fewest people living in it with a population of 69,645 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km². Composition. Cantons. After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements". There are only 2 cantons in the arrondissement of Altkirch: Communes. The "arrondissement" of Altkirch has 108 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Lones Wesley Wigger Jr. (August 25, 1937 – December 14, 2017) was an American sports shooter. In his shooting career, he won 111 medals, including three Olympic medals. He won a gold and silver medal at the 1964 Olympics and a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics. He was also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. He was born in Great Falls, Montana. Wigger died of pancreatic cancer on December 14, 2017 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was 80.
Georges Loinger (29 August 1910 – 28 December 2018) was a French resistance fighter during World War II. He began fighting against Nazi Germany in 1939 but was captured in 1940. He escaped soon after, and rescued hundreds of Jewish children over then next few years. Until September 1943, that part of frontier was guarded by Italian army: Loinger remembers one day Italian high officer secretly told him he approved what Loinger did, that's his rescue activity. After September, there was German invasion and the activity became harder. He was awarded the medal of honorary citizen of the city of Strasbourg in 2014. In July 2016, he was made an officer in the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Loinger was born in Strasbourg. He was Jewish. He turned 100 in August 2010. Loinger died in Paris on 28 December 2018 at the age of 108.
Mount Agung, a volcano on the island of Bali in Indonesia, erupted in 2017. Thousands of people had to leave the area. Air travel was affected. As of 27 November 2017, the alert level was at its highest and evacuation orders were in place. Tectonic earthquakes from the volcano had been detected since early August. Volcanic activity increased for several weeks. It decreased significantly in late October. A second, more violent period of major activity began in late November.  Forty thousand people had to leave 22 villages around Mount Agung. Airports had to be closed. More than 400 flights were canceled. About 59,000 passengers could not get on their flights.
A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury (1 December 1944 – 15 December 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician. He was a member of the Bangladesh Awami League (BAL). He served as the mayor of Chittagong, the second-largest city in Bangladesh, from 1994 to 2009. He was born in Chittagong District. Chowdhury died on 15 December 2017 in Chittagong, at the age of 73.
This is the list of Chief Military Rabbis. The Chief Military Rabbi presides over the "Military Rabbinate" of the Israel Defense Forces, and holds the rank of brigadier general.
The Military Rabbinate (of Israel), Hebrew: חיל הרבנות הצבאית - "Heil HaRabanut HaTzvait", is a unit of the Israel Defense Forces, which takes care of the religious needs of the Israeli soldiers, especially the Jewish soldiers among them. The Chief Military Rabbi presides the Military Rabbinate, and has the rank of brigadier general.
OS X El Capitan ( ) (version 10.11) is the twelfth major release of OS X (now named macOS), Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. It was released after OS X Yosemite and focuses mainly on performance, stability and security. Starting with OS X Mavericks, future operating systems of OS X were named after regions of Northern California. El Capitan was named after a rock formation in Yosemite National Park, to highlight a refined version of its predecessory, OS X Yosemite.  El Capitan is the final version to be released under the name OS X. Its successor, Sierra, was announced as macOS Sierra. El Capitan received much better reviews when compared to Yosemite. The first beta of OS X El Capitan was released to developers shortly following the WWDC keynote on June 8, 2015. The first public beta was made available on July 9, 2015. There were multiple betas released after the keynote. OS X El Capitan was released to end users on September 30, 2015, as a free upgrade through the Mac App Store.
Bruce Gray (September 7, 1936 – December 13, 2017) was a Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor. Gray was probably best known as investment banker Adam Cunningham on the Global series "Traders", the father of the groom in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", as Judge J.E. Reilly on the soap opera "Passions" and the ghost of Joe's father on the hit television show "Medium". Gray died on December 13, 2017 of brain cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81.
John Gerald O’Brien (2 December 1924 – 13 December 2017), known as Gerald O'Brien, was a New Zealand soldier and politician. He was a member of the Labour Party. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He represented the Island Bay electorate from 1969 to 1978. O'Brien died in Wellington on 13 December 2017 at the age of 93.
Yurizan Beltrán Lebanue (November 2, 1986 – December 13, 2017), known as Yurizan Beltran, was an American pornographic actress. She was born in Los Angeles on November 2, 1986 of Mexican descent. Her mother was Brazilian and her father was Canadian. Beltran was nominated for a total of six AVN Awards. Her career began in 2005. Beltran died on December 13, 2017 in Los Angeles from a suspected drug overdose at the age of 31.
Marilyn Ware (November 4, 1943 – December 14, 2017) was an American politician, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the United States Ambassador to Finland from March 2006 to March 2008 after being nominated by George W. Bush. She was a member of the Republican Party. Ware was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ware died on December 14, 2017 in Denver, Colorado of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 74.
Heinz Siegfried Wolff (29 April 1928 – 15 December 2017) was a German-born British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series "The Great Egg Race". He was born in Berlin, Germany. Because they were of Jewish descent, he and his family fled to the United Kingdom in September 1939. He studied physiology and physics at University College London. He specialized in biological engineering, and was a professor at Brunel University. A familiar face in the 1970s and early 1980s, well known to British television audiences with his memorable bow tie and pronounced German accent. Wolff died in London of heart failure on 15 December 2017 at the age of 89.
Jiang Bihou (; 22 November 1923 – 16 December 2017), better known by his pen name Tu An (), is a Chinese poet and translator. He was a member of China Writers Association. Jiang was the first person from China to write sonnet in Chinese and he was the first few in China who translated the works of John Keats's into Chinese language. His translation, "Poetry of John Keats", which had won the 2nd Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2000. Jiang died on 16 December 2017 in Aarhus, Denmark of complications from Parkinson's disease at the age of 94.
Sharon Laws (7 July 1974 – 16 December 2017) was a British professional cyclist and environmental consultant. She gained support in conservation and worked both before and during her cycling career as an environmental consultant to organisations including the British Government, the United Nations and for mining company Rio Tinto in Australia. Early life. Laws was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but was raised in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. Career. Her first victory with the team was the Cheshire Classic stage race, which she won after coming second on the first and second stages. Her addition to the British team, which included Cooke and Emma Pooley, was expected to improve chances of a medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but Laws crashed twice and came 35th of 62 finishers.  Laws retired in August 2016 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer one month later. Death. Laws died on 16 December 2017 of cervical cancer, aged 43.
This is a list of areas and neighbourhoods in Chennai by region. The city is divided on the basis of composition into four major parts: North, Central, South and West. Suburban Chennai. Suburban Chennai includes almost half of the places in the districts of Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur. Suburban Chennai is commonly called as Greater Chennai.
Taramani is an area in the metropolitan area of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is known for the IT parks and research institutions. IT Parks in Taramani. Famous Tidel Park, an information technology (IT) industrial park is situated here . It is South India's first IT park. The area is also known for its other IT parks including Ascendas IT Park, Ramanujam IT Park, Elnet Software City and TICEL Biotech Park. MGR Film city. The MGR Film City was constructed in Tharamani in 1996. The Film City was a major project of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. This was made during her first term in office as Chief minister. Recently, there have been news reports that it is being made into a "Knowledge Park".
Avadi is a residential locality. It is located in the Western part of the metropolitan city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. it is a Special Grade Municipal Corporation of Chennai Metropolitan Area. The neighbourhood has its own railway station, Avadi Railway Station of the Chennai Suburban Railway. The Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF) is located in Avadi. Avadi has a lake with the same name. Major military establishments having divisions in Avadi are the Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF), EFA-Engine Factory, Avadi, Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indian Navy, Central Vehicle Depot (CVD), The Ordnance Depot [OD], Unfit Vehicles Park [UVP] and the Ordnance Clothing Factory (OCF). According to the 2011 census of India, Avadi had a population of 345,996.
The arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is an arrondissement of France in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region. Its capital, and prefecture of the department, is the city of Colmar. History. When the Haut-Rhin department was created on 1790, the "arrondissement" of Colmar was part of that original department. In 1871, the Haut-Rhin department became part of Germany. In 1919, Haut-Rhin is again an department when the territory became part of France with 7 "arrondissements", including the new "arrondissements" of Colmar-Ville, Colmar-Campagne and Ribeauvillé. The "arrondissements" Colmar-Ville and Colmar-Campagne were combined in 1934 to form the "arrondissement" of Colmar. In 2015, the "arrondissement" of Ribeauvillé was eliminated and the name of the "arrondissement" of Colmar was changed to Colmar-Ribeauvillé. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is the most northern of the "arrondissements" of the Haut-Rhin department. It is bordered to the north by the Bas-Rhin department, to the east by Germany, to the southeast by the Mulhouse "arrondissement", to the south by the Thann-Guebwiller "arrondissement" and to the west by the Vosges department. The "arrondissement" of Colmar-Ribeauvillé is the largest of the "arrondissements" of the department with an area of . It has a population of 200,243 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km². Composition. Cantons. After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements". There are 5 cantons in the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé: Communes. The "arrondissement" of Colmar-Ribeauvillé has 98 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Justin Andrew Honard (born May 6, 1985), known by his drag name Alaska Thunderfuck, is an American drag queen, rapper, singer, and songwriter. Thunderfuck moved to Erie, Pennsylvania at age 10. In early 2013, She then joined the cast of fifth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race", where she was a runner-up. In October 2013, Thunderfuck signed to Producer Entertainment Group with distribution from Sidecar Records. Her debut album, "Anus", was released on June 23, 2015. It produced the singles "Your Makeup Is Terrible", "Nails", "Hieeee", "This Is My Hair" and "Anus". "Your Makeup Is Terrible" managed to peak at number four on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and peaked in the top ten around the world. She released a single, "Puppet", on 16th of September 2016, before releasing her second studio album, "Poundcake", on October 14, 2016. She has recently been featured as a contestant on "Scared Famous" alongside American reality TV personalities Don Benjamin, Sky Days, Erica Mena, Safaree Samuels, Eva Marcille, Tiffany "New York" Pollard, Drita D'Avanzo, Yung Joc and Nikki Mudarris. In 2016, she returned for the of "", where she was crowned the winner. On the 24th of May 2019, Thunderfuck released her third studio album "Vagina". Thunderfuck is the first and only drag queen to be on Scared Famous. She is known for her funny voices and weird styles.