The 2017 Women's March was a global demonstration on 21-22 January 2017. It was in response to the inauguration of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America. The Women's March on Washington was said to have seen an attedance of over 470,000 people in Washington alone, which was 3 times more than president Trumps inauguration. This demonstration spanned 7 continents, including Antarctica.
Harry Mathews
Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American author of short fiction, poet, translator and essayist. He was also a translator of French. He sometimes wrote essays and fiction in the French language. In 1961 and 1962 he wrote articles for the "Locus Solus". Mathews is best known for his novels "The Conversions" (1962) and "My Life in CIA" (2005). American conductor David Woodard praised his "Plaisirs singuliers" (1983) as "a long prose piece about masturbation."
Mathews was born in New York City. He was raised in Massachusetts. He studied at Princeton University and at Harvard University. In 1949 he eloped with his childhood friend and artist Niki de Saint Phalle. After having two children together, they separated in 1960. He later married Marie Chaix. Their marriage would last until Mathews' death in 2017.
Mathews died on January 25, 2017 at his home in Key West, Florida from natural causes, aged 86.
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle (Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. She was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Saint Phalle created a series of works in the early 1960s called "Tirs" ("Shots"). These pieces of art included polythene bags of paint in human forms covered in white plaster. After this, Saint Phalle, made life-size dolls of women, such as brides and mothers giving birth. They were primarily made of plaster over a wire framework and plastic toys, then painted all white.
In 1949, Saint Phalle eloped with her childhood friend and American writer Harry Mathews. They had two children. They separated in 1960.
Saint Phalle died on 21 May 2002 in San Diego, California from emphysema, aged 71.
Angelino Alfano
Angelino Alfano (; born 31 October 1970) is an Italian politician. He served in the government of Italy as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018.
Alfano was also Minister of the Interior from 28 April 2013 to 12 December 2016, serving in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Enrico Letta; from 2013 to 2014. He held the office of Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, as part of the Letta Cabinet, and previously served as Minister of Justice from 2008 to 2011 as part of the Silvio Berlusconi Cabinet. He was the first and only secretary of the centre-right party The People of Freedom (PdL) from 2011 to 2013.
In November 2013 he became leader of the New Centre-Right party which is a split from the PdL.
He is married to Tiziana Miceli, a civil lawyer. They have two sons.
Saint-Flour, Cantal
Saint-Flour () is a commune in south central France in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is a subprefecture of the Cantal department. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of the same name.
Saint-Flour is the historical capital of the old region of "Haute-Auverge" ("Upper Auvergne"), one of the two divisions of Auvergne.
After the creation of the Cantal department on 4 March 1790, Saint-Flour was named as the capital (prefecture) of the new department alternating with Aurillac. In 1794, Saint-Flour became the only capital but, in 1795, the capital was moved to Aurillac and Saint-Flour became a subprefecture.
Saint-Flour is in the eastern part of Cantal. The city is divided in two parts:
The "commune" of Saint-Flour has an area of and is surrounded by the "communes" Alleuze, Andelat, Coren, Roffiac, Saint-Georges and Villedieu.
The climate of Saint-Flour, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of Saint-Flour are known, in French, as "Sanflorain" (women: "Sainfloraine").
With a population of 6,643, Saint-Flour has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Saint-Flour
Saint-Flour forms the urban area of Saint-Flour, one of the seven urban areas of Cantal, with a population of 6,626 inhabitants (2013) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Saint-Flour, formed by 17 "communes" with a population of 13,024 inhabitants and an area of .
Saint-Flour is a subprefecture of the Cantal department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Saint-Flour and the administrative centre () of three cantons:
It is part of the intercommunality "Saint-Flour Communauté".
Saint-Flour is twinned with:
Bernard Cazeneuve
Bernard Cazeneuve (born 2 June 1963) is a French Socialist politician. He was Prime Minister of France from December 2016 to May 2017. He was born in Senlis, Oise.
In 2012, he was appointed Minister of State for European Affairs and in 2013 was named Minister of State for the Budget in the second term of the Jean-Marc Ayrault government.
On 2 April 2014 he was appointed the 42nd Minister of the Interior in the Manuel Valls Government. On 6 December 2016, Cazeneuve was appointed Prime Minister after Valls resigned to concentrate on the upcoming presidential election.
Cazeneuve has a wife, Véronique, and two children. The couple divorced and remarried on August 12, 2015.
Jack Mendelsohn
Jack Mendelsohn (November 8, 1926 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer-artist. He worked in animation, comic strips and comic books. He was an Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor. He had many credits as a TV scripter, including "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", "Three's Company", "The Carol Burnett Show" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
Among his work for feature movies, he was a co-screenwriter of "Yellow Submarine" (1968). In 2004, the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mendelsohn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Mendelsohn died of lung cancer on the evening of January 25, 2017, aged 90.
Azerbaijan Basketball Federation
Azerbaijan Basketball Federation (), also known as ABF, is the national governing body of basketball in Azerbaijan.
Tam Dalyell
Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (9 August 1932 – 26 January 2017), known as Tam Dalyell ( ), was a Scottish Labour Party politician and writer. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. He represented West Lothian from 1962 to 1983, then Linlithgow from 1983 to 2005. He is particularly well known for his creating of what came to be known as the "West Lothian question", on whether non-English MPs should be able to vote upon English-only matters after political devolution.
Dalyell died at age 84 after a short illness.
River Edge, New Jersey
River Edge is a town in Bergen County, New Jersey. The population was 11,515 as of 2013.
Robert Garcia (New York politician)
Robert "Bob" Garcia (January 9, 1933 – January 25, 2017) was an American politician. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990. Before this, he served in the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.
Garcia was born in Bronx, New York. His parents were from Puerto Rico. He had three children.
Garcia died from an infection due to his emphysema on January 25, 2017 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was 84.
Robert Garcia (California politician)
Robert Garcia (born December 2, 1977) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He has been the Mayor of Long Beach, California since July 2014.
Garcia was born in Lima, Peru. He moved to the United States at the age of five. He is gay.
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