Muntaka Connmassie, CON (10 February 1946 – 12 October 2017) was a Nigerian jurist. He was born in Kaduna State, Nigeria. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from 2008 through 2016. Before to joining the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 2008, he was a Judge at the Court of Appeal, serving in Port Harcourt, Jos, Abuja, Ilorin, and Benin divisions.
Connmassie died on 12 October 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria at the age of 71.
Edward B. Giller
Edward Bonfoy Giller (July 8, 1918 – October 1, 2017) was an American Air Force (USAF) Major General. He was the assistant general manager for military application, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Germantown, Maryland. He was born in Jacksonville, Illinois
Giller was assistant director and then director of the Research Directorate for the Air Force Special Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base in the 1950s and 60s.
Giller died in Bernalillo, New Mexico on October 1, 2017 of pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer's disease at the age of 99.
Montbrison, Loire
Montbrison is a French commune, a "subprefecture" in the Loire department in central France. It is in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Montbrison.
The "commune" of Montbrison is in the centre of the Loire department and has an area of . The average altitude is and the city hall is an altitude of .
The distances from Montbrison to other cities are:
The "commune" of Montbrison is surrounded by the "communes":
Two small rivers flow through the "commune":
The climate of Montbrison, in the Köppen climate classification, is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
The inhabitants of this city are known, in French, as "Montbrisonnais" (women: "Montbrisonnaises").
With a population of 15,689, Montbrison has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Montbrison
Montbrison forms, with other 5 "communes", the urban area of Montbrison with a population of 23,329 inhabitants (2014) and an area of . This urban area is the centre of the metropolitan area of Montbrison, formed by 13 "communes" with a population of 27,829 inhabitants (2014) and an area of .
Montbrison is a subprefecture of the Loire department, the capital of the "arrondissement" of Montbrison and the administrative centre () of the canton of Montbrison, with 40,780 inhabitants .
It is part of the intercommunality "Loire Forez" ().
Montbrison is twinned with:
Downey Studios
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Pierre Hanon
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William Lombardy
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Lombardy was one of the leading American chess players during the 1950s and 1960s, and a contemporary of Bobby Fischer, whom he coached from the time Fischer was age 11½ through the World Chess Championship 1972. Lombardy led the U.S. Student Team to Gold in the 1960 World Student Team Championship in Leningrad. He was the only World Junior Champion to win with a perfect score.
Bo Holmström
Bo Erik Holmström (18 October 1938 – 13 October 2017) was a Swedish journalist, reporter and author. He worked as a reporter both for SVT and TV4. He was the Swedish reporter covering the Norrmalmstorg robbery in 1973 and the West German Embassy siege in 1975.
In 2007 he was awarded the Stora journalistpriset for his journalism work. In 2015 he was awarded an honorary Kristallen at the Kristallen awards.
In 2016, gangrene in his leg led to its amputation. He spent his last year at a nursing home in Vagnhärad and died on 13 October 2017.
Anna Lindh
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Joining the government as minister of environment in 1994, she was elevated to minister for foreign affairs by prime minister Göran Persson in 1998 and considered his successor as party chairman and prime minister (neither of which posts had ever been held by a woman) before her assassination in September 2003.
Lindh died in the early morning of 11 September 2003 after a knife attack in Stockholm on the afternoon of 10 September. Just after 16:00, she was attacked while shopping in the ladies' section of the Nordiska Kompaniet department store in central Stockholm. She was stabbed in the chest, abdomen and arms. At the time of the attack, Lindh was not protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service.
Satish Chandra
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Chandra has been described as of India's leading scholars of the Moghul period and as one of India's most influential historians. His book, "Medieval India", has been widely used as a textbook in schools and colleges around India.
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His movie roles include "The Savage Seven" (1968), "Five Easy Pieces" (1970), "Monte Walsh" (1970), "The Jesus Trip" (1971), "The Organization" (1971), "Welcome Home, Soldier Boys" (1972), "The Culpepper Cattle Co." (1972), "40 Carats" (1973), "Electra Glide in Blue" (1973), "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974), "Mackintosh and T.J." (1975), "The Call of the Wild" (1976), "The Beasts Are on the Streets" (1978), "The Jericho Mile" (1979), "Tom Horn" (1980), "The River" (1984), "The Hitcher" (1986), "Critters" (1986), "Rampage" (1987) and "" (1993).
Willi Gerdau
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Gerdau was a midfielder, who played for Heider SV.
He participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Australia, and also in the national football team of West Germany in 1957.
Willi Gerdau died the day before his 82th birthday.
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The current President is George Weah since January 22, 2018.
Between 1847 and 1980, the presidency was exclusively held by Americo-Liberians, the original American settlers of Liberia and their descendants. The original two-party system, with the Republican Party and the True Whig Party, ended in 1878, when the election of Anthony W. Gardiner marked the beginning of 102 years of single-party rule by the True Whigs.