The Hôtel de Montesson was a small townhouse on the Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin in Paris, France. It was constructed after 1770 for Madame de Montesson, the secret and morganatic wife of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. He had a house adjoined to Montesson's. The couple would eventually marry circa 1768 in the Chapel of the "Hôtel". The building would be destroyed by an accidental fire in 1810.
Charles Reis Felix
Charles Reis Felix (April 29, 1923 – January 25, 2017) was an America writer and teacher. He was known as a contributor to Luso-American literature.
His work were mainly autobiography, historical narrative and fiction about the human experience. His first book, "Crossing the Sauer", was an account of his three months as a combat infantryman from January through March 1945. "Crossing the Sauer" was called by Paul Fussell as "one of the most honest, unforgettable memoirs of the war I've read."
Naděžda Kavalírová
Naděžda Kavalírová (13 November 1923 – 20 January 2017) was a Czechoslovakian-born Czech physician, human rights activist and former political prisoner.
She became actively involved in the resistance to Czechoslovakia's Communist government. She later headed the Confederation of Political Prisoners ("Konfederace politických vězňů České republiky") from 2003 until her death in January 2017.
Kavalírová died in Pardubice, Czech Republic, on 20 January 2017, at the age of 93.
Đinh Xuân Lâm
Đinh Xuân Lâm (4 February 1925 – 25 January 2017) was a Vietnamese historian. He was known for having to helped build the Department of Recent History and of Modern Vietnam. He served as vice president of the Vietnam History Science and Chairman of the Scientific Council Center for Information and Documentation UNESCO.
He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1980 and Professor in 1984, branches of history.
Arnold Spielberg
Arnold Meyer Spielberg (February 6, 1917 – August 25, 2020) was an American electrical engineer of Jewish descent.
He was known for his help "to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes". For General Electric he designed, with his colleague Charles Propster, the GE-225 in 1959. He said that his greatest contribution was to be the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.
He was the father of movie director Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg died on August 25, 2020 at his home in Los Angeles, aged 103.
Aleksei Petrenko
Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet movie and stage actor. He was known for playing Grigori Rasputin in the Elem Klimov's historical drama "Agony" and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary "".
Eni Faleomavaega
Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. (; August 15, 1943 – February 22, 2017) was an American Samoan politician. He served as the territory's lieutenant governor and congressional delegate. He served as a U.S. House Representative from American Samoa's At-large congressional district from 1989 through 2015.
Faleomavaega died at his home in Provo, Utah on February 22, 2017, aged 73.
Photojournalism
Photojournalism is taking photos to tell a story in mass media. The first photojournalist was Mathew Brady, who took pictures of the American Civil War. From World War II through the 1970s, many magazines and all the world's major newspapers had their own photographers. There was strong competition to take the best pictures. Later it became difficult to make money as a photojournalist, because the places to publish photos disappeared, and because there were many more photographers.
Bradley Ayers
Bradley Earl Ayers (March 7, 1935 – February 10, 2017) was an American soldier, CIA operative, writer and political activist. He was known for saying that the CIA played a role in the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Ayers was one of the first career officers to voice opposition to the Vietnam War and to speak out publicly against it. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Ayers died in Somers Lake, Wisconsin on February 10, 2017, aged 81.
H. Boyd Woodruff
Harold Boyd Woodruff (July 22, 1917 – January 19, 2017) was an American soil microbiologist. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was known for the discovery of actinomycin, and the development of the industrial production by fermentation of many natural products. This included cyanocobalamin (a synthetic form of Vitamin B12), the avermectins, and other important antibiotics.
Woodruff died on January 19, 2017, at the age of 99 at his home in Watchung, New Jersey.
John McCormack (ice hockey)
John Ronald "Johnny" McCormack (August 2, 1925 – February 22, 2017) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta. McCormack began his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. He also played for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks. He retired from the NHL in 1955 season.
McCormack won two Stanley Cups in his career, one in 1951 with Toronto and another in 1953 with Montreal. He also won the 1945 Memorial Cup with the St. Michael's Majors and the Allan Cup in 1950 with the Toronto Marlboroughs.
McCormack died on February 22, 2017 at his home in Oshawa, Ontario, aged 91.
Rhys Wakefield
Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor. He started his career in 2000. He is best known for his roles in the movies "The Black Balloon" (2008), "Sanctum" (2011) and "The Purge" (2013). He also appeared as Lucas Holden in the soap opera "Home and Away" from 2005 to 2008.
Wakefield was born in Cairns, Queensland. He grew up in Sydney, New South Wales.
Sabine Oberhauser
Sabine Oberhauser (30 August 1963 – 23 February 2017) was an Austrian medical doctor and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party. She was the Minister for Health and Minister for Women from 2014 until her death. She had also been a member of the National Council since 2006.
Oberhauser was born in Vienna. She was married and had two daughters.
Oberhauser said she had abdominal cancer in 2016. She died on 23 February 2017, at the age of 53.
Mea Shearim
Me'a She'arim, Hebrew: מאה שערים - "hundred gates", is a neighbourhood of Jerusalem.
The Me'a She'arim neighbourhood was founded in 1874 and its population consists primarily of Haredi Jews.
It is one of the oldest neighbourhoods of the city and lies northwest of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Rishon LeZion
Rishon LeZion, Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן - "first of Zion", is a city in Israel. About 244,000 people were living here in 2015.
Rishon LeZion is situated in the Gush Dan region in the Central District, and lies south of Tel Aviv.
It was founded by Russian Jews in 1882.
It ranks fourth in population and second in newly established settlements.
Districts of Israel
The State of Israel is divided into six districts.
In Hebrew a district is called "mahoz" - מחוז (plural: "mehozot" - מחוזות).
These districts are:
Not official:
Likud
Likud, Hebrew: הליכוד - HaLikud, meaning "The Consolidation", (official name: "HaLikud-National Liberal Movement"), commonly called "Likud", is an Israeli political party.
Its ideology is right-wing conservative liberal, nationalist, and Zionist.
Political leader is Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister 1996–1999; 2009–2021).
Likud was founded in 1973 as a a result of an alliance (and later on a merger in 1988) of six liberal and nationalist parties, like Gahal, Herut and the Liberal Party.
Founders were Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.
Number of seats in the 23rd Knesset: 36 (+4).
Participating in the Fifth Netanyahu Government.
Creos Luxembourg S.A.
Creos Luxembourg S.A. owns and manages electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.