Her education was very important to her and her parents.  She studied to become a surgeon at Syracuse Medical College and graduated in 1855 with a medical degree. After college she met Albert Miller, also a physician, and they got married in 1856 but she kept her last name as Walker.  After marriage, together they started a medical practice, but not many people wanted to go to a woman doctor as they did not trust she could do as good of a job as a man physician. The practice struggled and so did the young couples marriage. Thirteen years later Mary Walker and Albert Miller divorced and their practice failed. Although her marriage failed, she came back more confident than ever as the Civil War began.
At the break of the Civil War and with high confidence, Walker tried to enlist in the Union Army. She was denied because of her gender but did not take no for an answer. Trying again, she enlisted as a surgeon in the war and was transferred to the 52nd Ohio Infantry. Later she was appointed assistant surgeon. This was a very big accomplishment for a woman at this time.  During one of her trips to the Confederacy to tend to the sick and wounded, she was captured. During 1864 Walker was imprisoned for four months in Richmond, Virginia. After four months Walker, along with other surgeons in the Union, were released in a trade for 17 Confederate doctors. Even after her capture, Walker still continued to cross the line between the Confederates and Union to tend to the sick and wounded even after her experience of being imprisoned with the Confederates. Until the war ended, Walker remained with the 52nd Ohio Infantry, tending to the sick and wounded. Mary Edward Walker’s persistence and determination paid off as she served the sick and wounded on the battlefield, refusing to be pulled down because of her gender.
Once the war had ended, Walker went back home to Oswego, New York. She was honored for her work. On November 11, 1865, she received the Congressional Medal of Honor. She was the first and only woman to ever receive this honor.  Soon after she got her medal, it was revoked by Congress because she was not involved in combat.  Walker did not let this get her down. Every single day, until she died, she wore her medal and refused to give it back. Since she almost never wore women’s clothing, she was arrested several times for wearing men’s but never was put in jail. Walker believed that the Constitution gave women a right to vote and wear what they wanted. She died on February 21, 1919, three months before the 19th amendment was passed giving women the right to vote. After her death, she was remembered for her intelligence, bravery, and determination.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter restored Mary Edwards Walker’s medal. She was smart, kind, and helped change the face of women’s rights to get it to the place it is today. At the time she was doing something that people believed was impossible; a woman becoming a doctor who served on a battlefield. She was different, and proved that it’s ok to take risks and to be bold in your beliefs. In 2012, a large statue of her was made in her hometown. A cargo ship, The SS Mary Walker was named after her in World War II. Multiple medical campuses were named after her and the post office put her on a stamp to honor her.
Horace Burrell
Horace G. Burrell JP OM (8 February 1950 – 6 June 2017), also known as Captain Burrell, was the president of the Jamaica Football Federation, and a Vice-President of CONCACAF. He was also the founder of the Jamaican restaurant chain The Captain's Bakery and Grill and Captain's Aviation Services which he founded in 1995 and 2008 respectively. He died on 6 June 2017 after ailing for some time.
Burrell died of lung cancer on 6 June 2017 in Kingston at the age of 67.
Latifur Rahman
Latifur Rahman (1 March 1936 – 6 June 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician and lawyer. He served as the 10th Chief Justice of Bangladesh from January 2000 through February 2001. In 2001, he was appointed to briefly serve as Prime Minister, a position he would hold from 15 July 2001 until 10 October 2001.
Rahman died in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 6 June 2017 at the age of 81.
Rokas Žilinskas
Rokas Žilinskas (20 July 1972 – 6 June 2017) was a Lithuanian journalist and politician. He was elected to the Seimas in 2008 and was a member of the Lithuanian Parliament until his death. He was the first openly gay member of the parliament.
Žilinskas died of respiratory arrest caused by pneumonia in Vilnius, Lithuania on 6 June 2017 at the age of 44.
Arthur Bunting
Arthur Bunting (July/September 1936 – 7 June 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He played in the 1950s, and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, playing at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7, and coaching at club level for Hull Kingston Rovers, and Hull F.C.. He was born in Hemsworth, West Yorkshire.
Bunting died on 7 June 2017 in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire at the age of 80.
Trento Longaretti
Trento Longaretti (29 March 1917 – June 2017) was an Italian painter. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini.
Longaretti stated that painting is an "elixir for long life", and continued to paint and exhibit as a centenarian.
His oil paintings have been described as dense and oily like those of Paul Cézanne, and his style having similarities to the fantasy settings of Marc Chagall and "pictorial culture" of Egon Schiele. His still life paintings have been described as "delicate and almost religious".
He became involved in the Italian figurative art movement of the 1950s.
He turned 100 in March 2017 and died on 7 June 2017.
Montbard
Montbard is a commune and subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Montbard and of the canton of Montbard.
The "commune" of Montbard has an area of , and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" of Montbard is surrounded by the "communes":
The city of Montbard is to the northwest of the city of Dijon, capital of the department, and in the valley of the Brenne river.
The climate of Montbard is Marine West Coast Climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb), with mild winters and warm summers.
The inhabitants of Montbard are known, in French, as " Montbardois" (women: "Montbardoises").
With a population of 5,350, Montbard has a population density of inhabitants/km.
Evolution of the population in Montbard
Montbard is a subprefecture of the Côte-d'Or department since 1926. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Montbard and the administrative centre () of the "canton" of Montbard formed by 57 "communes", with 18,764 inhabitants (2014).
Montbard is twinned with:
Shahmukhī alphabet
Shahmukhi is a set of letters used to write the Punjabi language by Punjabi speakers in Pakistan. It is written from right to left.
The Shahmukhi script is based on the Perso-Arabic script which is used to write Urdu. Shahmukhi cannot be called an alphabet; it is really an "abjad". An abjad is a script that has letters to represent consonants but not vowels. Of course, Shahmukhi, and other scripts relating to it, are impure abjads. This means that there are ways to represent vowels in the writing but they are used in a very bare method.
There are 38 letters in the Shahmukhi abjad. This may seem like a lot to learn, but the letters are really not too difficult to remember.
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