Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is at Holtzheim in the Bas-Rhin department, for the period 1965 - 2017.
Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist. He is the main leader of the Democracy Wall Movement in 1979. Wei was sentenced to prison because he has been criticized the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and he has spent more than 18 years in prison.
Wei was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 1994,  the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Award in 1996, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1996 and the National Endowment for Democracy Award in 1997. Wei Jingsheng has been nominated seven times for Nobel Peace Prize since 1993.
Wei is also the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition and the Chairman of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation. Now Wei lives in Washington, D.C.
Moder (river)
The Moder is a river in Alsace, in north-eastern France. It is a left-side tributary of the Rhine river.
The Moder 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 Auenheim.
The Moder starts in the Vosges mountains in the place called "Moderfeld" in the "commune" of Zittersheim, (Bas-Rhin department), at an altitude of about . From here, the Moder flows to the north and then turns to the southeast; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.
The Moder river flows within the Grand Est region, the Bas-Rhin department and the following "communes" ː Zittersheim, Wingen-sur-Moder, Wimmenau, Ingwiller, Menchhoffen, Schillersdorf, Obermodern-Zutzendorf, Schalkendorf, La Walck, Pfaffenhoffen, Uberach, Niedermodern, Dauendorf, Ohlungen, Schweighouse-sur-Moder, Haguenau, Kaltenhouse, Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, Bischwiller, Rohrwiller, Drusenheim, Sessenheim, Dalhunden, Stattmatten, Auenheim, Fort-Louis, Rœschwoog, Neuhaeusel.
Finally, the Moder river flows into the Rhine river in Neuhaeusel.
The main tributaries of the Moder river areː
Virgil van Dijk
Virgil van Dijk (born 8 July 1991) is a Dutch professional footballer. He plays as a Center-Back for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team. He was born in Breda, North Brabant.
Van Dijk began his career with Dutch team Groningen. He played there between 2011 and 2013. Then he moved to Scottish Premiership team Celtic. He won two league titles and a Scottish League Cup in both his seasons at Celtic. In 2015, he moved to Southampton of the Premier League. On 1 January 2018, van Dijk joined Liverpool.
Wang Dan
Wang Dan (born February 26, 1969) is a Chinese activist involved in Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He is a leader of the Chinese democracy movement. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.
Veritas (mythology)
In Roman mythology, Veritas, meaning "truth", is the goddess of truth, a daughter of Chronos, the God of Time (who has been identified with Saturn-Cronus, perhaps first by Plutarch), and the mother of Virtus. She is also sometimes considered the daughter of Zeus.
Jean-François Hory
Jean-François Hory (15 May 1949 – 28 December 2017) was a French politician. He was born in Neufchâteau, Vosges. From 1981 to 1986, he was a member of the French Parliament. In 1989, he became a member of the European Parliament (MEP). While serving as a MEP, he was elected president of the Radical Party of the Left in 1992, a position that he held until 1996. In February 1995, he declared his candidacy for the French presidential election but later withdrew.
Hory died from cancer at the age of 68 on 28 December 2017 in Burgundy.
Murbach
Murbach is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Murbach Abbey is located near Murbach.
Nambsheim
Nambsheim is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Fernando Birri
Fernando Birri (March 13, 1925 – December 28, 2017) was an Argentine filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, critic and theorist. He was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. He was thought by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema. He was known for his movie "Tire dié". Birri debuted with a short movie called "La primera fundación de Buenos Aires", which premiered in the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1986 Birri co-founded Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (The International School of Film and Television), in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba.
Birri died in Buenos Aires of respiratory arrest complicated from a fall on December 28, 2017 at the age of 92.
Neuf-Brisach
Neuf-Brisach is a fortified town of the Haut-Rhin department in the French region of Alsace. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2014, 1,950 people lived there.
Neuwiller
Neuwiller is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is on the border to Switzerland.
Sufers
Sufers () is a municipality of the district of Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Zorn (river)
The Zorn is a river in north-eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Moder river.
The Zorn 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 Hœrdt (Bas-Rhin).
The Zorn starts in the Vosges mountains in the "commune" of Walscheid, (Moselle department) as the "Yellow Zorn" (, ) at an altitude of about . The Yellow Zorn becomes the "Zorn" after its confluence with the right-hand tributary, the "White Zorn" (, ) at an altitude of about .
From here, the Zorn flows to the north and then turns to the east; in the final part, the river flows to the northeast.
The Zorn river flows within the Grand Est region, the Moselle and Bas-Rhin departments and 91"communes".
Finally, the Zorn river flows into the Moder river in Rohrwiller, (Bas-Rhin department).
The main tributaries of the Zorn river areː
Hsu Hsin-liang
Hsu Hsin-liang (; born 27 May 1941) is a Taiwanese politician. He is a formerly Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). He was a supporter of the Pan-Blue Coalition from 2000 to 2008 but then supported the DPP in the 2008 presidential election.
He was expelled from the Kuomintang but broke ranks in 1977 when he ran and won as an independent in the election for Magistrate of Taoyuan County.
Hsu was involved in opposition activity during the first part of 1979. The government impeached him and removed him from office for two years.
John Thomaides
John Thomaides (born September 15, 1965) is the mayor of San Marcos, Texas. He was elected on December 13, 2016.
Thomaides was a member of the city council from 2003-2010. In 2010 Thomaides ran against Daniel Guerrero who had been elected Mayor of San Marcos in 2010, by a margin of 42 votes Thomaides served from 2011-2016 on the city council when he ran for mayor again in 2016 against local business owner, Ruben Becerra. In the 2016 December runoff, Thomaides beat Becerra by a margin of 42 votes- the same number he lost by in 2010. During his first year in office, Thomaides was the 6th Texas mayor to join the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda.
D Shivakumar
D. Shivakumar, or Shiv as he is popularly known, is a Bangalore born leader and a management thinker.
He is currently the Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy at Aditya Birla Group. Previously, Shivakumar was the Chairperson & Chief Executive Officer at PepsiCo Holdings Private Limited, India. Prior to that, Shivakumar was Senior Vice President for Emerging Markets at Nokia Telecommunications.
Shivakumar was born and raised in Bangalore, India.
He graduated from IIT, Madras in 1982 and from IIM, Calcutta in 1984. In 2005, he went on to study at The Wharton School.