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Lech Ordon (24 November 1928 – 21 October 2017) was a Polish actor. In 1948, he graduated from The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, at the time located in Łódź. He was born in Poznań. He was known for his roles in "Letters to Santa", "Der Schimmelreiter", "Czterdziestolatek" and in "Mister Blot's Academy". In December 2008, he was awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. He died on 21 October 2017 in Warsaw from pneumonia complicated by a stroke at the age of 88.
The People's Summit is an annual conference in Chicago held by a group of progressive political organizations in the United States. It is held at the McCormick Place every year around in June. The organizers of the Summit stated that they wanted to get the energy of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.  First summit. Held in June 2016, the first People's Summit was set against the backdrop of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016. The conference was led by National Nurses United and The People for Bernie Sanders. People's Action,  Over 3,000 people attended the 2016 People's Summit to hear speakers including Rosario Dawson, Tulsi Gabbard, Gaby Hoffmann, Naomi Klein, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, and Frances Fox Piven Second summit. The second Peoples Summit was held June 9–11, 2017 at McCormick Place. The conference was sponsored by People for Bernie, National Nurses United, Our Revolution, and others. The theme for the 2017 summit was "Beyond Resistance: A People’s Movement for a Just World".  Bernie Sanders headlined the conference, along with RoseAnn DeMoro, Naomi Klein, Nina Turner, Michael Moore, Linda Sarsour, Christine Pellegrino, Larry Krasner, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, and others. The conference was attended by over 4,000 people. Bernie Sanders delivered the keynote speech calling for an agenda "that can enhance and expand issue campaigns and hold all elected officials accountable to popular demands for justice, equality, and freedom."
The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution is a 2017 bestselling political book authored by former U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, published by Henry Holt and Co. It is aimed at teenage readers. The book is a YA version of 2016's . Sanders created the book to help young people "to fight for a progressive economic, environmental, racial, and social justice agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment, and provides healthcare for all." The book features many graphics and illustrations in the hopes of breaking down complex issues like income inequality, climate change, healthcare, law enforcement reform, prison system reform and student loan debt.
Francis Walter Nye (June 29, 1918 – January 13, 2019) was an American military personnel. He served as a United States Air Force major general who was a B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress combat pilot. He was commander, Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency, Sandia Base, N.M. During his career, he was awarded the Legion of Merit two times and the Distinguished Flying Cross also two times. In November 1968, he was appointed chairman of the U.S. delegation of the Inter-American Defense Board, the Joint Brazil-U.S. Defense Commission, and the U.S. section, Joint Mexican-U.S. Defense Commission. Nye was born in Barton, Vermont. He studied at the University of Vermont. His wife, Nina, died in 2017. Nye died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 13, 2019 at the age of 100.
Jeanne Manet (born Gilberte Marcelle Lachmann; 27 November 1917 – 15 January 2012) was a French movie actress. After appearing in some French movies, Manet moved to Hollywood. Originally called there as a rising starlet, her roles were generally supporting ones. She was born in Houilles, France.  Career. Manet's career began in 1937. Her best known roles are in "Long Live Liberty" (1946), "Slightly French" (1949), "Operation Mad Ball" (1957), "The Flying Fontaines" (1959) and in "Pepe" (1960). She retired in 1961.
Doris M. Grumbach ("née" Isaac; July 12, 1918 – November 4, 2022) is an American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. In 1979, Grumbach published the novel "Chamber Music", which was critically well received and helped establish her reputation as a novelist. In six years, three more books followed: "The Missing Person" (1981), "The Ladies" (1984), and "The Magician's Girl" (1987). Grumbach taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and American University in Washington, DC, and was literary editor of "The New Republic" for several years. For two decades, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, managed a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine, until 2009 when they moved to a retirement home in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Grumbach celebrated her 100th birthday in 2018, and died in Kennett Square on November 4, 2022, at the age of 104.
Indumati Bhattacharya (born 2 July 1918) is an Indian politician. She was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Hooghly, West Bengal in 1984 as a member of the Indian National Congress. Bhattacharya was born in Hooghly district, Bengal Presidency, British India. She married Umanath Bhattacharyya. They have one son.
Saint Xavier University (SXU) is a four-year, coeducational institution of higher learning located on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The current president is Laurie M. Joyner. Saint Xavier's main campus is located in City of Chicago in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood on the corner of 103rd Street and Central Park Avenue. The university's main campus is made up of several buildings. It was founded in 1846. Saint Xavier also has a campus located in Orland Park. In September 2015, Saint Xavier University opened their third campus with technology that allows its students improved educational capabilities. It had a full simulation center for advanced nursing careers as well as numerous huddle spaces and an auditorium. Saint Xavier University has one of the most diverse undergraduate student bodies in Chicago, and qualified as a Hispanic-serving institution in 2015.
Judith McGrath (21 April 1947 – 21 October 2017) was an Australian actress. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She was best known for her television soap roles as Colleen Powell in "Prisoner" (1979–1984) on Network Ten, Bernice Hudson in A Country Practice on Network Seven between 1992 and 1993 and Von Ryan in the medical drama "All Saints" (1998–2009) on Network Seven. McGrath died on 21 October 2017 at a hospice in Sydney from lung cancer at the age of 70.
Emilio D'Amore (26 November 1915 – 21 October 2017) was an Italian writer, journalist, and politician. He was born in Montefalcione, Italy. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948 as a representative of the Monarchist National Party. D'Amore joined the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (PDIUM) and won reelection in 1953. He served a final term in the Chamber of Deputies from 1963 to 1968, again as a member of the PDIUM. D'Amore died in Avellino, Italy on 21 October 2017 of congestive heart failure at the age of 101.
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, formerly Bellevue Hospital Center and Bellevue Hospital, is the oldest public hospital in the United States. It was founded on March 31, 1736. It is on First Avenue in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is also home to FDNY EMS Station 08, formerly NYC*EMS Station 13. The hospital handles nearly 460,000 non-emergency outpatient clinic visits, nearly 106,000 emergency visits and some 30,000 inpatients each year. More than 80 percent of Bellevue’s patients come from the city’s medically underserved populations. The hospital currently occupies a 25-story patient care facility with an ICU, digital radiology communication and an outpatient facility. The hospital has an attending physician staff of 1,200 and an in-house staff of about 5,500. Bellevue was renamed in November 2015 as a reflection of its parent organization's rebranding. In 2014 Bellevue was ranked 40th overall in the New York metro area and 29th in New York City by "US News and World Report".
Maidstone West railway station is one of three railway stations which serve Maidstone in Kent. It is on the Medway Valley Line. Services. Train services at Maidstone West are run by Southeastern, They use and EMUs. The off-peak service is: Some trains go to . Two high speed services run to and from London St Pancras International. On Sundays, the service is hourly.
The arrondissement of Riom is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Puy-de-Dôme "département", Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and a subprefecture of the department, is the city of Riom. History. When the Puy-de-Dôme department was created in 1790, the "arrondissement" of Riom was part of that original department. Geography. The "arrondissement" of Riom is the most northern of the "arrondissements" of the department and borders to the north with the Allier department, to the east with the "arrondissement" of Thiers, to the southeast with the "arrondissement" of Clermont-Ferrand, to the south with the "arrondissement" of Issoire, and to the west with the Creuse department. The "arrondissement" of Riom is the largest "arrondissement" of the department, with an area of , and the second in population with 121,158 inhabitants and a 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". In the "arrondissement" of Riom there are 10 cantons: Communes. The "arrondissement" of Riom has 155 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes): The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Rosemary Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was an English stage, television and movie actress.  Leach won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for "84, Charing Cross Road" and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her roles in the movies "That'll Be the Day" (1973) and "A Room with a View" (1986).  She appeared in several TV mini-series' including "Germinal" (1970), "The Jewel in the Crown" (1984), "The Charmer" (1987), "The Buccaneers" (1995) and "Berkeley Square" (1998) and had a recurring role on the sitcom "My Family" (2003-07).
Martin Eric Ain (Martin Stricker; July 18, 1967 – October 21, 2017) was an American-born Swiss bass guitarist and songwriter. He was born in the United States. He was best known for being the former bassist of the influential extreme metal band Celtic Frost. He used the stage name Martin Eric Ain throughout his career in Celtic Frost.  Ain died on October 21, 2017 following a heart attack in Zürich, Switzerland, aged 50.
Julian Clare May (July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer. She had used several literary pseudonyms. She was best known for her "Saga of Pliocene Exile" ("Saga of the Exiles" in the United Kingdom), beginning with "The Many-Colored Land" and "Galactic Milieu Series" books. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. May was married to author T. E. Dikty from 1953 until his death in 1991. In August 2015, she was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention. May died on October 17, 2017 in Mercer Island, Washington at the age of 86.
Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States located on an island of the same name in the southern portion of Lake Washington. Mercer Island is in the Seattle metropolitan area, with Seattle located to its west and Bellevue located to its east. Mercer Island is connected to the mainland on either side via bridges carrying Interstate 90. The population was 25,748 at the 2020 census. This makes Mercer Island the most populated island in a lake within the United States.
Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 until 2021. In 2023, he unsuccessfully ran for President of the Czech Republic, losing to General Petr Pavel. Babiš, the second richest man in the Czech Republic, is a former CEO and sole owner of the Agrofert group with a net worth of about $4.04 billion according to Bloomberg. Political career. Babiš served as Finance Minister of the Czech Republic and Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the economy from January 2014 to May 2017 until he was fired by Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka due to rumors of financial irregularities. Babiš has led ANO 2011 party since 2012 when he founded it as a protest movement against established politics. He has been Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) since 2013. Scandals. Babiš has been under investigation since December 2015 due to allegations that an anonymous company he controlled unlawfully received subsidies from the European Union. In September 2017, his parliamentary immunity was stripped after police request in connection with the case and Babiš was formally charged on 9 October 2017. Prime Minister. Babiš was elected Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his victory in the 2017 legislative election when his party won 78 seats winning the majority party in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and a novel. His writing has appeared in "The New Yorker", "Harper's", "McSweeney's", and "GQ". He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to the weekend magazine of "The Guardian" between 2006 and 2008. Awards. His story collection "In Persuasion Nation" was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's "" won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel "Lincoln in the Bardo" won the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-American psychiatrist.&lt;br&gt; The Kübler-Ross model, or the five stages of grief, is a theory about the feelings of people who are dying. The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages came from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' 1969 book "On Death and Dying".
A Japanophile is someone with Japanophilia, or someone with a strong interest in or love of Japanese people, culture, and history. This term even has a Japanese equivalent, "shinnichi" (kanji:親日, hiragana: しんにち) which literally translates to "pro-Japanese".
The following is a list of Mesopotamian . Minor deities. This is only some of them. There are thousands. This is in Alphabetic order. Legendary beasts. The eleven mythical monsters created by Tiāmat in the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš:
Stan Kowalski (May 13, 1926 – October 20, 2017) was an American professional wrestler. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was one half of the tag team Murder Incorporated with partner Tiny Mills in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) from 1960 to 1975.  Career. Kowalski turned to professional wrestling, debuting as Buddy Marco for a NWA promotion run by Tony Stecher. In 1970, he went to New York to wrestle in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) as Krippler Karl Kovacs. In Pennsylvania, Kowalski and Bruno Sammartino set a record attendance and gate of $86,000. Personal life. Kowalski died of complications from Alzheimer's disease on October 20, 2017 in Minneapolis at the age of 91.
Richard John "Dick" Beyer (July 11, 1930 – March 7, 2019) was an American retired professional wrestler who was best known by his ring names, The Destroyer or Doctor X. Beyer was born in New York City. He studied at Syracuse University.  eyer began as a "babyface" wrestler in the mid-1950s. His career as a "masked" wrestler, The Destroyer, began in 1962 in Los Angeles. He used the “figure-four-leg-lock” on his way to the Worldwide Wrestling Associates (WWA) championship on July 27, 1962. Beyer went into semi-retirement in 1984. From 1984-95, Beyer taught physical education in the Akron, New York Central School District, where he also coached football, wrestling and swimming. On November 4, 2017, it was announced that Beyer would be awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays, by the Japanese government for "a lifetime spent promoting goodwill and bi-cultural exchanges between Japan and the United States". Beyer died on March 7, 2019 in Akron, New York, aged 88.
Juan Kachmanian (April 6, 1930 – January 9, 2020), better known as Pampero Firpo, was an Argentine-American professional wrestler of Armenian descent. Career. An early pioneer of hardcore wrestling, Kachmanian usually wrestled as a heel, although he would go on to have a run as a face after being fireballed by The Sheik. Other notable feuds in his career would include Nick Bockwinkel, Alberto Madril and Apollo Jalisco. Titles. Among the titles he held in his career were the NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version), the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship (Detroit version), the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Championship, as well as being the inaugural holder of the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship.  Moves. Using the bear hug and the El Garfio as his signature moves, Kachmanian popularized the drawn-out catchphrase 'ohhh yeah!' which would later become associated with Randy Savage. He retired in 1986 and then worked for the United States Postal Service in San Jose, California. Death. Firpo died on January 9, 2020 in San Jose, California at the age of 89.
William Anderson "Bill" Mercer (February 13, 1926 – March 22, 2025) was an American sportscaster, educator and author. He was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 2002, he was honored into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. Mercer was best known for doing the play-by-play announcing for World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) from 1982 to 1987. Mercer was also a radio announcer for baseball, football, basketball and wrestling. He was also a news reporter for Dallas, Texas, television station KRLD, covering the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963. He and fellow reporters George Phenix, Wes Wise and Bob Huffaker wrote, "When the News Went Live," about their experiences during that time. In his 60-year career, Mercer did the play-by-play broadcasting for some minor league teams: First, the Muskogee Giants of the Class C Western Association, then the Dallas Rangers (Triple A baseball) from 1959–64, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Spurs (Texas League baseball) from 1965 to 1971. He then moved up to broadcast for major league baseball's Texas Rangers (major league baseball) in 1972 (with Don Drysdale) and Chicago White Sox in 1974. Mercer retired to Durham, North Carolina after a long residence in Richardson, Texas. He died on March 22, 2025 at the age of 99.
The rail bus train can be found in many different countries, they are known as the pacer or the cooker trains in the United Kingdom due to the loud noises and how hot the air was in the trains. They were made to respond to the outcry for more trains than buses, while saving money with a cheap design. They used the bodywork and engine of a bus and placed them on a train chassis.
The M1917 Browning machine gun is a .30-06 Springfield machine gun created by John Browning. It was used in World War I and in World War II. It is a heavy machine gun that weighed around 100 pounds with the tripod and 42 pounds without it. It is a water-cooled machine gun, which allowed it to fire for a long period of time without it overheating. The water-cooling tank made it much heavier. During World War II, M1917 was mostly replaced by the M1919 because it was lighter and let soldiers move more quickly, but the M1917 was still used often.
"El Siglo de Oro," literally "the century of gold," was the Golden Age of Spain. It was a period of flowering in Spanish art and literature. It happened at about the same time that the Spanish Habsburg dynasty ruled the country. El Siglo de Oro does not have precise dates and is generally considered to have lasted more than a century. It began no earlier than 1492, with the end of Reconquista (Reconquest), Christopher Columbus's first sea voyage to the New World, and the publication of "Gramática de la lengua castellana" by Antonio de Navarre. Politically, it ended no later than 1659, with the Treaty of the Pyrenees which was ratified between France and Hapsburg Spain. The last great writer of the period, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, died in 1681, and his death is generally considered the end of El Siglo de Oro in art and literature.
Diorite ( ) is a melted rock that has cooled made mostly of the silicate minerals (materials made of silicon and oxygen). Diorite is between basalt and granite. Diorite is usually grey to dark-grey in color, but it can also be black or bluish-grey, and often has a greenish cast. It is distinguished from gabbro (basalt) because the material in diorite has more sodium and less calcium. Diorite may have small amounts of quartz, microcline, and olivine. Tiny amounts of muscovite may also be found. If there is a lot of quartz it makes the rock type "quartz-diorite" (&gt;5% quartz) or tonalite (&gt;20% quartz). Diorite has an often speckled texture of coarse grain size. Diorites may be associated with either granite or basalt intrusions, into which they may merge. Diorite results from the partial melting of a rock above the area where two tectonic plates merge under each other. It is commonly produced in volcanic arcs, and in cordilleran mountain building, such as in the Andes Mountains, as large batholiths. The extrusive volcanic equivalent rock type is andesite. Occurrence. Diorite is a relatively rare rock. It is found in Leicestershire (one name for microdiorite—markfieldite—exists due to the rock's being found in the village of Markfield) and Aberdeenshire, UK; Guernsey; Sondrio, Italy; Thuringia and Saxony in Germany; Finland; Romania; Northeastern Turkey; central Sweden; the Darrans range of New Zealand; the Andes Mountains. An orbicular variety found in Corsica is called corsite.
Hugo van der Goes (about 1435 – 1482) was a famous painter of the late 15th century He was probably born in Ghent, Belgium. He painted altarpieces and portraits. He painted his masterpiece, the "Portinari Tryptich" for a church in Florence. The painting shows the "Adoration of the Shepherds", a story from the Gospel of Luke about the shepherds who visited the baby Jesus on the night he was born. The painting influenced other artists of the Italian Renaissance because of its realistic style.  Van der Goes became mentally ill on a visit to Cologne, Germany in 1481. On his way home, he tried to kill himself. His friends took him to a monastery in Belgium to recover from his illness, but he died in Auderghem a few weeks later.
A Different World was an American sitcom. The series was of the Hillman College, a fictional African American college in Virginia. The show aired on NBC. The show was aired from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993. There were many actors on the show, like Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Marisa Tomei, Loretta Devine, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Jada Pinkett. The show looked at strong topics, like epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, the Equal Rights Amendment, race and class relations. In season 2, it came to the attention of Bill Cosby and the producers that the show wasn't truly looking at a historically black college. That's when Debbie Allen was hired as the chief creative force to revamp the series.
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born April 16, 1996) is an actress. She starred as Casey Cooke in the 2017 movie "Split", and in the movie's 2019 sequel, "Glass". In 2020, she starred in the movie "The New Mutants". She has also appeared in "Last Night in Soho" (2021), "The Northman" (2022), "The Menu" (2022), and "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" (2023).