Robert Thomas "Bobby" Freeman (June 13, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an African-American soul and R&B singer-songwriter and record producer. He was best known for his two Top Ten hits, the first in 1958 on Josie Records called "Do You Want to Dance" and the second in 1964 for Autumn Records, "C'mon and Swim".
Freeman was born in Alameda County, California. He was raised in San Francisco, California. He studied at Mission High School. He began his career in 1956 when he was 16 years old. Bobby was well known and liked as a local figure in Richmond California in the early 60's. Freeman died in San Francisco, California on January 28, 2017, aged 76.
Marcel Prud'homme
Marcel Prud'homme (November 30, 1934 – January 25, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Senate of Canada for La Salle, Quebec from 1993 until his resignation in 2009. Before, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada from 1963 through 1993 for Saint-Denis. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He served as a Liberal in the MP from 1963 through 1993 and as an Independent from 1993 until his death in 2017.
In 2007, he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Russia.
Prud'homme died in Ottawa, Ontario on January 25, 2017 from a heart attack, aged 82.
Desmond Carrington
Desmond Herbert Carrington (23 May 1926 – 1 February 2017) was a British actor and broadcaster. He was best known for his weekly evening show, "The Music Goes Round", on BBC Radio 2. His show went out on Sundays for 23 years from 1981 to 2004, when it moved to Tuesdays – then to Fridays. He retired in his final broadcast on 28 October 2016. He was known for playing Dr. Chris Anderson in the British soap opera "Emergency – Ward 10". He was born in Bromley, Kent.
Carrington died at his home in Perthshire, Scotland on 1 February 2017 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, aged 90.
Ken Morrison
Sir Kenneth Duncan "Ken" Morrison CBE (20 October 1931 – 1 February 2017) was an English businessman. He was the Life President and former chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom since 1956.
Morrison died on 1 February 2017 from a short-illness at his home in Myton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, aged 85.
Abdulkadir Kure
Abdulkadir Kure (26 February 1956 – 8 January 2017) was a Nigerian politician. He was a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He served as Governor of Niger State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
Kure was born in Lapai, Niger State. He was married to Zainab Abdulkadir Kure. They had two daughters and four sons.
Kure died on 8 January 2017 in Germany at the age of 60.
José Antonio Alonso
José Antonio Alonso Suárez (28 March 1960 – 2 February 2017) was a Spanish politician and judge. He was a member of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Minister of the Interior from 2004 to 2006 and the Minister of Defence from 2006 to 2008. He was born in León, León.
Alonso died from lung cancer on 2 February 2017 in Madrid. He was 56.
Albano Bortoletto Cavallin
Albano Bortoletto Cavallin (25 April 1930 – 1 February 2017) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Lapa, Paraná.
Bortoletto Cavallin became a priest in 1953. He served as the Bishop of Guarapuava from 1986 to 1992. He later served as the Archbishop of Londrina from 1992 until his retirement in 2006.
He died from surgical problems on 1 February 2017 in Londrina, Paraná. He was 86.
Stig Grybe
Stig Rudolf Grybe (18 July 1928 – 1 February 2017) was a Swedish actor and comedian. He was born in Stockholm. He was best known for his voice work and dubbing. He also appeared in original Swedish productions. He began his career in the 1940s. He appeared in 22 Swedish movies between 1947 and 2011.
Grybe died after a short illness on 1 February 2017 at the age of 88.
Ramón Martínez Pérez
Ramón Martínez Pérez (6 February 1929 – 6 January 2017), also known as Romaní, was a Spanish footballer. He played as a midfielder for Sevilla and Granada of La Liga. He also played for CD Málaga and made two appearances for the national team in 1952.
Martínez Pérez died on 6 January 2017 at the age of 87.
Ahmed Aboutaleb
Ahmed Aboutaleb, Arabic: أحمد أبو طالب , (born August 29, 1961 in Beni Sidel) is a Dutch politician of Moroccan descent. He is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) and the current mayor of Rotterdam.
Aboutaleb migrated to the Netherlands in 1976. He studied telecommunication and worked as a journalist and a civil servant. He was also director of Forum, an organisation aimed at multicultural issues.
From 2004 to 2007 he was an alderman of Amsterdam and from 2007 to 2008 deputy minister for social affairs and employment in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet.
Since January 2009 he has been mayor of Rotterdam.
Ahmed Aboutaleb is a Muslim, and married with four children.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens. Like his other novels, it first came out as a series in a magazine under the title "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery".
The story is told in the first person. Some of the greatest Dickens characters appear in the novel, such as the evil clerk "Uriah Heep". Other villains in David's life are his brutal stepfather, "Edward Murdstone", and "Mr. Creakle", the headmaster of the boarding school that Murdstone sends him to.
The evil characters are balanced by the good characters, such as "Peggotty" – the faithful servant of the Copperfield family and a lifelong companion to David. Others include David's aunt "Betsy Trotwood" and her friend "Mr. Dick". "Agnes Wickfield" is a close friend of David since childhood, and later becomes David's second wife and mother of their children. "Mr. Micawber" is a gentle and friendly man who goes to debtors' prison, but in the end makes a success as a sheep farmer in Australia. He is based on Dickens's own father.
Dadou
The Dadou is a river in southwestern France, right tributary of the Agout river. It flows through the Tarn department, in the Occitanie region.
The Dadou river has a length of and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Montdragon in the Tarn department.
Average monthly discharge (m/s) at Montdragon (49 years)
The source of the Dadou is on the "Monts de Lacaune", in the southern Massif Central, in the "commune" of Saint-Salvi-de-Carcavès, Tarn department, at an altitude of about .
The Agout flows, in general, to the west through the Tarn department and 26 "communes". Some of the "communes" are Montdragon, Graulhet, Briatexte, Lacaze, Rayssac, Saint-Julien-du-Puy, Vénès, Saint-Genest-de-Contest, Le Masnau-Massuguiès, Saint-Salvi-de-Carcavès, Laboutarie, Lombers, Réalmont, Saint-Lieux-Lafenasse, Saint-Antonin-de-Lacalm, Le Travet, Teillet, Arifat, Mont-Roc, Paulinet, Giroussens, Saint-Jean-de-Rives, Ambres, Saint-Gauzens, Puybegon, Montredon-Labessonnié.
Finally, it flows, as a right tributary into the Agout river at Ambres, near Saint-Jean-de-Rives, in the Tarn department, at of altitude.
The main tributaries of the Dadou are:
Left tributaries:
Right tributaries:
Oran
Oran (Arabic: وهران‎‎ - Wahrān, Berber: ⵡⴰⵀⵔⴻⵏ - Wahren) is a city in western Algeria, situated at the coast. In 2010, about 853,000 people were living there.
It is the capital of Oran Province and was established in 903.
Oran comes second after Algiers. It is well-known because of its business activities and culture.
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