Flash Airlines Flight 604, a Boeing 737-300, was a flight from Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to Paris, France, via Cairo. On January 3, 2004 the plane crashed into the Red Sea just moments after take-off at Sharm El Sheikh International Airport. All 135 passengers and 13 crew members on-board the plane died. The cause the crash remains disputed and suggested to be spatial disorientation from the Captain.
The crash remains Egypt's deadliest air-disaster, until the bombing of Kogalymavia Flight 9268, with 224 deaths. The crash is also the worst crash of a Boeing 737-300.
Fatemeh Ekhtesari
Fatemeh Ekhtesari (Farsi: فاطمه اختصاری )(born 1984 or 1985) is a poet from Iran. She is known for poems about Iranian women.
Fatemeh Ekhtesari was arrested with Mehdi Mousavi in 2013. They were put in solitary confinement and interrogated. In January 2015, they were released on bail. Ekhtesari received a prison sentence of 11½ years and 99 lashes.
Ekhtesari's writing was approved by the Ministry of Islamic Guidance. However, Ekhtesari said she shook hands with male participants at a poetry event in Sweden. This is illegal in Iran. Ekhtesari made the statement during interrogation, but during the trial, she denied the charges.
More than 100 poets signed a letter asking for a pardon. In 2016, Ekhtesari and Musavi escaped from Iran.
Asim Basu
Asim Basu (; 30 November 1935 – 1 February 2017) was an Indian theatre artist and director, painter and playwright. He was known for his set design work in Ollywood movies and designing Oriya book covers and movie posters. He was awarded at the 2012 Parampara Awards. He was born in Balasore district, Odisha.
Basu died from a lung infection on 1 February 2017 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha at the age of 81.
Lou Rowan
Louis Patrick "Lou" Rowan (2 May 1925 – 3 February 2017) was an Australian Test cricket match umpire. He umpired a total of 25 Test matches between 1963 and 1971. He also umpired the first One Day International match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 January 1971. He was also a police detective in Queensland. He was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales.
Rowan died on 3 February 2017 on the Gold Coast, Queensland at the age of 91.
Hassan Joharchi
Hassan Joharchi (‎; 28 July 1968 – 3 February 2017) was an Iranian actor. He began his career in the 1980s. He was known for roles in "Oo yek freshteh bood" (2005), "Shoghe parvaz" (2012) and "Ensanha" (2012). He was born in Tehran. He was married with two children.
Joharchi died from a cardiac arrest due to liver disease on 3 February 2017 in Tehran. He was 48.
Elliot Sperling
Elliot Sperling (January 4, 1951 – January 2017) was an American historian and academic. He was one of the world's leading historians of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations. He was also a well known human rights activist. He spent almost thirty years at Indiana University's Department of Central Eurasian Studies. He was born in New York City.
On February 2, 2017, it was announced that Sperling died in late January at the age of 66.
Kneževo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kneževo, previously called Skender Vakuf, is a small town in Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kneževo is situated between the rivers Ugar, Vrbas and Vrbanja and surrounded by the mountain masiff of Čemernica, Ranča in the west, Vlašić in the south and Ježica in the north-east. The municipality has an official altitude of , but really ranges from . Kneževo is southeast of Banja Luka by the M56 motorway.
The mountainous region in the south is forested and impracticable; its limestone mountains reach a height of .
In Imljani and Javorani, Roman basilica have been found, as well as the Roman road from Servitium (Banja Luka) to Levsaba (Travnik) in the vicinity were also found. Tombstones of the Stećak type date back to the 14th and 15th centuries, when the area was part of the Kingdom of Bosnia. In 1463 the town became part of the Ottoman Empire and Islam was to become the dominant religion of the region. The Old Mosque was significant and one of the first in the region. It was destroyed, along with the New Mosque, in 1992 during the Bosnian War.
In the Korićani Cliffs massacre of 21 August 1992, some 200 Bosniaks and Croats detainees were massacred by the Bosnian Serbs Police and Army forces (in deep cliff in the canyon of Ilomska) river.
After the Bosnian War, part of the municipality was split off to form the Dobretići municipality of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.
According to the results of the 2013 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there were 3.958 inhabitants in Skender Vakuf town, and 10.428 inhabitants in the Skender Vakuf Municipality.
Čemernica (Bosnia)
Čemernica (altitude ) is a mountain in Central Bosnia, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is surrounded by the river Vrbas, and its confluences of the Ugar and Vrbanja rivers. It is south of Banja Luka. It is in the transitional areas which connects the municipalities of Mrkonjić Grad, Skender Vakuf and Banja Luka. At Čemernica's foothills there are the cities of Kotor Varoš (northeast) and Skender Vakuf (east). There is also the village of Bočac (west), including the hydroelectric power plant reservoir of "Bočac".
Zabrđe (Kotor-Varoš)
Zabrđe is a populated place in the Kotor Varoš municipality of Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, 611 people live there.
Grabovica (Kotor-Varoš)
Grabovica is a settlement on the Vrbanja river in central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kotor Varoš municipality. The new village is on the mouth of the Grabovička rijeka. The old village is about upstream of the Vrbanja's tributary. Grabovica is at an altitude of about . It is from Banja Luka. Grabovica is about from Kotor Varoš. It is also about from Šiprage.
During the War in Bosnia, in Grabovica's Elementary school about 200 Bosniaks "disappeared" from the Večići village and its surrounding settlements. Their mass grave has not been discovered.
Tunceli
Tunceli is a city in Turkey. It is the capital of Tunceli Province. In 2012, about 31,000 people were living there.
Lufengosaurus
Lufengosaurus is a genus of early sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of China. It lived in the earliest Lower Jurassic in what is now southwestern China.
Lufengosaurus was an omnivore. The largest "Lufengosaurus" skeleton is long, high and wide. It weighted about . It could probably walk upright based on its powerful rear legs.
It was the first complete dinosaur skeleton mounted in China, and first time a dinosaur was depicted on a stamp.
Fusome
Fusome is a term from microbiology that describes a way different cells communicate with each other. Fusomes are simple openings, or pores, in the walls of certain types of cells. These allow certain chemical compounds to pass through.
Cartago Province
Cartago is a province of Costa Rica. It is in the central part of the country. The provincial capital is the city of Cartago.
The Cartago province is a landlocked province (it does not border the ocean) and is bordered on the east and north by the Limón province and on the south and west by the San José province.
Cartago is the second smallest province of Costa Rica, only the Heredia province is smaller. It has an area of .
There are two mountain ranges in the province: the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain range"), also known as Volcanic Central mountain range, and the Talamanca mountain range.
There are several volcanoes in the province; among them are the Irazú, high, and the Turrialba, high.
Some rivers in the province are Reventado, Reventazón, Palomo, Grande de Orosi, Macho, Tiribí, Chirripó, Tuis and Pejibaye.
A person from the province is known as "cartaginés" (woman: "cartaginesa").
The Cartago province had a population, in 2011, of 490,903 for a population density of inhabitants/km. The canton of Cartago, with 147,898 inhabitants, is the canton with more inhabitants.
Evolution of the population in Cartago