Steinmaur is a municipality in the district Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Villach
Villach (, ) is the seventh-largest city in Austria (after Klagenfurt). It is also a district of Carinthia. About 70,000 people lived there in 2016.
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco
Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California.
Carl Gustav Hempel
Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-1997) was a German mathematician and philiospher. In philiosphy, he was one of the proponents of logical positivism. He developed the Deductive-nomological model, which is also known as Hempel-Oppenheim model. He also formulated the Raven paradox.
Sternenberg, Switzerland
Sternenberg is a former municipality of the district of Pfäffikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipality of Sternenberg merged into the municipality of Bauma.
Leeward slope
A leeward slope is the part of a mountain that does not face the wind i.e. the slope opposite the windward slope.
Niuean language
Niuean (Niuean: "ko e vagahau Niuē") is a Polynesian language spoken by about 8,000 people, the majority of whom live in New Zealand. There are also Niuean speakers in Niue, where almost the entire population of about 2,000 speak the language, the Cook Islands and Tonga. The closest relative of Niuean is Tongan, while Māori, Sāmoan, and Hawaiian are also quite close.
The alphabet was written in the 19th century by Christian missionaries, being influenced by the Samoan writing system.
Iván Fandiño
Iván Fandiño Barros (September 29, 1980 – June 17, 2017) was an award winning Spanish bullfighter. He was born in Orduña-Urduña, Spain.
Fandiño died of injuries he sustained after being gored by a bull on June 17, 2017 in Aire-sur-l'Adour, France, aged 36.
Józef Grudzień
Józef Grudzień (1 April 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish boxer.
Grudzień was born in Piasek Wielki, Poland. He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Tokyo 1964 and silver at Mexico City 1968. He also twice won medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships, silver at East Berlin 1965 and gold at Rome 1967.
He was the winner of the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award 1991.
Venus Ramey
Venus Ramey (September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contest, and later an activist. She won the Miss America competition in 1944. He was born in Ashland, Kentucky.
Ramey left Kentucky to work for the war effort in Washington, D.C., and won the Miss District of Columbia pageant and then became Miss America in 1944. She was the first red-haired contestant to win the title.
Ramey died on June 17, 2017 in Science Hill, Kentucky at the age of 92.
Leopoldo S. Tumulak
Leopoldo Sumaylo Tumalak (29 September 1944 – 17 June 2017) was a Filipino Bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines He was the incumbent Military Ordinariate of the Philippines since 2005 until his death in 2017. He was born in Santander, Cebu, Philippines.
Tumulak died on 17 June 2017 at a hospital in San Juan City, Manila, Philippines from pancreatic cancer, aged 72.
Biederthal
Biederthal is a commune. It is found in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France.
Pärnu
Pärnu is the fourth-largest city in Estonia. It has 39,828 people.
The Stanley Dynamic
The Stanley Dynamic is a children's TV show. It started on YTV on March 19, 2015. It ended on April 7, 2017. Charles Vandervaart, Taylor Abrahamse, Madison Ferguson, Kate Hewlett, and Michael Barbuto play the most important people in the show. The show was almost the winner of a Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series. It was also one of the best shows at the 2016 Cynopsis Kids imagination Awards for Best New Series.
The show is about Larry Stanley and his cartoon twin brother Luke Stanley as they go through high school. It's also about the rest of the Stanley family, like Lori, their smart little sister, Lane, their dad who draws cartoons, and Lisa, their mother who works making food.
2017 Finsbury Park attack
On 19 June 2017, at 00:15 BST, police officers responded to a vehicle running over several civilians with a reported "numerous casualties" in Finsbury Park, London. The attack occurred near Finsbury Park Mosque where the van ran over several worshippers.
The car reportedly crashed close to the Finsbury Park Mosque, with many of the injured seen wearing Muslim attire. Witnesses have said this is because worshippers were leaving the mosque at the time of the incident. One person has been arrested in relation to the attack. The individual, Darren Osborne, has been confirmed to be the attacker. It is being reported that 10 people have been injured in the attack and one person has been confirmed to have died.
A witness reported to BuzzFeed News that the driver screamed that he wanted to "kill all Muslims".
On 23 June, Darren Osborne of Cardiff was charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. In early February 2018 at Woolwich Crown Court, he was found guilty on both counts and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Tim Hague
Timothy Edward "Tim" Lee Hague (May 9, 1983 – June 18, 2017) was a Canadian mixed martial artist. He competed in the heavyweight division, most recently for Absolute Championship Berkut. He became a professional fighter in 2006, and formerly competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, World Series of Fighting and King of the Cage, where he went 11-0 and was the King of the Cage Canada Heavyweight Champion. He was born in Boyle, Alberta.
On June 16, 2017, he suffered a brain hemorrhage after being knocked out in a boxing match against Adam Braidwood in Edmonton, Alberta. He died on June 18, 2017 at the age of 34.
Tony Liscio
Anthony Liscio (July 2, 1940 – June 18, 2017) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys from 1963 through 1971. He played college football at the University of Tulsa. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Liscio died from complications from ALS in Dallas, Texas on June 18, 2017 at the age of 76.
Pierluigi Chicca
Pierluigi Chicca (22 December 1937 – 18 June 2017) was an Italian fencer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the individual and team sabre events and won a team bronze medal in 1960 and team silver medals in 1964 and 1968. He was born in Livorno, Italy.
Chicca died on 18 June 2017 in Rome, Italy, aged 79.
Shih Chun-jen
Shih Chun-jen (; 2 December 1923 – 18 June 2017) was a Taiwanese neurosurgeon. He led the Department of Health from 1986 to 1990. Shih was appointed the head surgeon at Tri-Service General Hospital, a medical institution affiliated with the National Defense Medical Center, in 1975. Two years later, he co-founded the Taiwan Neurological Society. He was born in Gosei, Taikō, Taichū Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan.
Shih died of a heart attack at a hospital in Taipei on 18 June 2017, aged 93.
2017 Portugal wildfires
A series of wildfires erupted across central Portugal during the night of 17–18 June 2017, resulting in at least 65 deaths and at least 254 injured people.
The majority of deaths took place in Pedrógão Grande when a fire swept across a road filled with evacuees. Portuguese officials dispatched more than 1,700 firefighters nationwide to combat the blazes and Prime Minister António Costa declared three days of national mourning.
Deseret alphabet
The Deseret alphabet () is a writing system invented in the 19th Century in America by the Mormon Church. A group of leaders called the Board of Regents created it. They were from Brigham Young University.
Brigham Young wanted all letters to match sounds, to make reading and writing easier for immigrants. Teachers taught the alphabet in the school system at the time.
Between 1854 and 1869, books, newspapers, street signs and mail used the new alphabet. Even though the LDS church tried very hard to support the alphabet, it wasn't continued for very long.