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Agaya Gangai

**Agaya Gangai** is a waterfall in Tamil Nadu. It is in the Kolli Hills of the Eastern Ghats. The name means that the waterfall is "The Ganges of the Sky".

Agaya Gangai Waterfall starts near the Arapalleswarar Temple in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu. The 300ft waterfall joins Aiyaru river. It is in a valley that is surrounded by mountains on all sides.

The caves of Korakka Siddhar and Kalaanginatha Siddhar are in the nearby forest.
Tilikum (killer whale)

**Tilikum** ( – January 6, 2017), nicknamed **Tilly**, was an orca, or killer whale. He was notable for his role in the deaths of three humans, including two trainers. The first death, in 1991, was a trainer at the Sealand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In 1992, he was moved to SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, United States. In 1999, Tilikum killed a trespasser in his inclosure. In 2010, Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau. This would lead to the documentary movie _Blackfish_ being based on Tilikum.

Born in 1981, Tilikum was captured in 1983 at Hafnarfjörður, near Reykjavík, Iceland.

Tilikum died on January 6, 2017 at SeaWorld Orlando of a bacterial infection, aged 35.
James Mancham

Sir **James Richard Marie Mancham**  (11 August 1939 – 8 January 2017) was a Seychellois politician. He was the first President of Seychelles from 1976 to 1977. He was born in Victoria. He was also Prime Minister of Seychelles from 1975 to 1976.

Mancham died from a possible stroke on 8 January 2017 at his home in Glacis. He was 77.
Nat Hentoff

**Nathan Irving** "**Nat**" **Hentoff** (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media.

## Career

Hentoff was the jazz critic for _The Village Voice_ from 1958 to 2009. Following his retirement from _The Village Voice_, Hentoff moved his music column to _The Wall Street Journal_, who published his work until his death.

Hentoff was formerly a columnist for _Down Beat_, _JazzTimes_, _Legal Times_, _The Washington Post_, _The Washington Times_, _The Progressive_, _Editor & Publisher_ and _Free Inquiry_. He was a staff writer for _The New Yorker_, and his writing has also been published in _The New York Times_, _Jewish World Review_, _The Atlantic_, _The New Republic_, _Commonweal_ and in the Italian _Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo_.

## Death

Hentoff died of natural causes in his Manhattan apartment on January 7, 2017, aged 91.

## Other websites

- About Nat Hentoff
- Columns at JewishWorldReview.com
    - _Booknotes_ interview with Hentoff on _Speaking Freely: A Memoir_ , October 19, 1997.
- Columns on abortion
- "Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye" , _Village Voice_, January 6, 2009.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Nat Hentoff
- **birth name**: Nathan Irving Hentoff
- **birth place**: Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
- **death place**: New York City, New York, New York
- **death cause**: Natural causes
- **occupation**: Columnist, historian, novelist, music critic
- **nationality**: American
- **spouse**: Miriam Sargent (m. 1950; divorced)
Trudi Bernstein (1954–1959; divorced; 2 children)
Margot Goodman (1959–present; 2 children)
Shameless (U.S. TV series)

***Shameless*** is an American comedy-drama television series which airs on Showtime. This remake of the British series is set in Chicago, although filmed in Los Angeles, with the exterior scenes shot in Chicago.

The series is about a dysfunctional family of an alcoholic named Frank Gallagher. He is a single father of six children. While he spends his days drunk or in search of misadventures, his kids learn to take care of themselves. His older daughter, Fiona, took responsibilities as a parent and raised her five siblings.

It stars William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher and Emmy Rossum as Fiona Gallagher. It also stars Joan Cusack who plays Sheila Jackson, a woman who loves Frank and is obsessive. Justin Chatwin, Jeremy Allen White, Cameron Monaghan, Emma Kenney, Ethan Cutkosky, Steve Howey and Shanola Hampton are also in the show.

It first aired on January 9, 2011. It has been nominated for many awards such as Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Golden Globe Awards.
Jerzy Kossela

**Jerzy Kossela** (né **Kosela**; 15 July 1942 – 7 January 2017) was a Polish guitarist and vocalist. He was born in Częstochowa, Poland. Kossela was the founding member of the bands Electron, Niebiekso-Czarni, Pięciolinie and Czerwone Gitary.

Kossela died on 7 January 2017 in Gdynia, aged 74.

## Other websites

- Jerzy Kossela profile , Archiwum Polskiego Rocka
- Jerzy Kossela profile, Polish Catalogue of Gramophone Records
Lech Trzeciakowski

**Lech Trzeciakowski** (24 December 1931 – 7 January 2017) was a Polish historian. He was born in Poznań, Poland. Trzeciakowski served as director of the Western Institute (_Instytut Zachodni_) in Poznań from 1974 to 1978.

Trzeciakowski died on January 7 2017 in Poznań of cancer, aged 86.
Ricardo Piglia

**Ricardo Piglia** (November 24, 1941 – January 6, 2017) was an Argentine one of the most famous contemporary writers in Argentina. He was born in Adrogué and raised in Mar del Plata. He was known for his fiction books _Artificial Respiration_ (1980), _The Absent City_ (1992), _Burnt Money_ (1997); and criticism including _Criticism and Fiction_ (1986), _Brief Forms_ (1999) and _The Last Reader_ (2005).

Piglia died at 75 on January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina after suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for three years.
Francine York

**Francine York** (born **Francine Yerich**; August 26, 1936 – January 6, 2017) was an American movie and television actress. She was born in Aurora, Minnesota. Her career began in 1961. She was known for her role as Lydia Limpet in _Batman_ and appeared on _Death Valley Days_ with Ronald Reagan. She retired in 2014.

York died in Van Nuys, California on January 6, 2017 from cancer, aged 80.

## Other websites

- Official website
Tom Harpur

The Reverend **Thomas William** "**Tom**" **Harpur** (April 24, 1929 – January 2, 2017) was a Canadian author, broadcaster, journalist, columnist and theologian. He was an ordained Anglican priest.

He was a known figure of the Christ myth theory. He believed in the idea that Jesus did not exist but is a fictional or mythological figure. He was the author of a number of books, including _For Christ's Sake_ (1993), _Life after Death_ (1996), and _The Pagan Christ_ (2004).

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Thomas William Harpur
- **image**: Photo_of_Tom_Harpur_by_Hugh_Wesley.jpg
- **caption**: Tom Harpur photo by Hugh Wesley
- **birth place**: Toronto
- **death place**: Lion's Head, Ontario
- **nationality**: Canadians, Canadian
- **known for**: _Toronto Star_ religion editor
- **education**: B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Oxon)
- **alma mater**: University of Toronto,
University of Oxford
- **notable works**: _The Pagan Christ_
- **occupation**: Classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist
- **spouse**: Susan <small>(1980-2017, his death)</small>
- **children**: 3
- **website**: [http://www.tomharpur.com/ www. tomharpur.com]
Géori Boué

**Georgette "Géori" Boué** (16 October 1918 – 5 January 2017) was a French soprano. She worked with the French repertory theater areas. She was known especially for her work in _Thais_. She was born in Toulouse. Her career began in 1939. She retired in 1970.

Boué died in Paris on 5 January 2017 at the age of 98.
Paul Goble

**Paul Goble** (27 September 1933 – 5 January 2017) was an English writer and illustrator of children's books. He especially wrote about Native American stories. His book _The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses_ won a Caldecott Medal in 1979.

Goble died from Parkinson's disease on 5 January 2017, aged 83.

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Paul Goble
- **image**: Goble.jpg
- **birth place**: Haslemere, England, United Kingdom, U.K.
- **occupation**: Illustrator, writer
- **nationality**: American
- **genre**: Children's literature, Children's picture books
- **subject**: Native Americans
Brinicle

A **brinicle** is a column of ice that forms in seawater. The name is a combination of the words "brine", which means saltwater, and "icicle". A brinicle starts forming from the top of the water down. A brinicle freezes everything in its way as it forms. It can reach the bottom of the ocean, where it can also form ice on the seabed. It is dangerous to sea stars and sea urchins living on the bottom of the ocean. They move too slowly to get out of the way. They are very rare and only occur in places where it is very cold, such as Antarctica.

## Other websites

- Brinicle- Sinking Brine; YouTube
Angelo Sodano

**Angelo Raffaele Sodano** (23 November 1927 – 27 May 2022) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Dean of the College of Cardinals from 2005 to 2019. He was born in Isola d'Asti, Piedmont.

He was Cardinal Secretary of State from 1991 to 2006, under both popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. On 27 April 2005, he was elected to succeed Benedict XVI as Dean of the College of Cardinals by his fellow Cardinal Bishops. Sodano was the first person since 1828 to serve as Dean and Secretary of State at the same time.

On 22 June 2006, Benedict XVI accepted Sodano's resignation as Secretary of State on 15 September 2006. He was replaced by Tarcisio Bertone, then Archbishop of Genoa.

On 21 December 2019, the Legion of Christ discovered that Sodano was the one who led efforts to cover up the reports of abuse when he was serving as Secretariat of State. Sodano was accused of seeking a deal to bury documents detailing abuse. The same day, Pope Francis accepted Sodano's resignation as Dean of the College of Cardinals.

Sodano died of COVID-19 on 27 May 2022 at a hospital in Rome, Italy at the age of 94.

## Other websites

- Cardinal Sodano – "Look Upwards"
Spartak Belyaev

**Spartak Belyaev** (October 27, 1923 – January 5, 2017) was Russian theoretical physicist. He was born in Moscow. Belyaev was awarded a Lomonosov Gold Medal.

He was elected as a head of Russian Academy of Sciences and also held the same position at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. For his breakthroughs and research in physics he was awarded Feenberg medal in 2004. On May 17, 2011 he and Gerard 't Hooft were awarded a Lomonosov Gold Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Belyaev died on January 5, 2017 in Moscow, Russia, aged 93.
Cedarosaurus

**Cedarosaurus** is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous epoch. It was a herbivore of unknown size. Cedarosaurus was named for the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah, USA. It was a brachiosaurid sauropod that ate tall vegetation from the tree canopy. The skeleton was found in the Cedar Mountains the late 1990s by a team of paleontologists from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The skeleton was missing the neck, head and other parts.

## Other websites

- Cedarosaurus; YouTube
Saurexallopus

**Saurexallopus** (Pronunciation: Saw-ex-allo-pu) is an ichnogenus, which is a trace fossil of a footprint. What made the footprint is unknown although possibly it was by a bird.
Quentin Matsys

**Quentin Matsys** (other spellings: Massijs, Matsijs, Metsys for the last name; Quinten or Kwinten for the given name) was a Dutch painter. He was born around 1466 in Leuven. He died in 1530 in Antwerp.
Peoria, Arizona

**Peoria** is a city in Maricopa and Yavapai counties in the US state of Arizona. Most of the city is in Maricopa County. The northern part is in Yapavai County. It is a major suburb of Phoenix. It was named for Peoria, Illinois because that is where many of the early settlers came from.

In the 2020 United States Census, 190,985 people lived in the city. Peoria is the eighth largest city in Arizona. Peoria has a Mayor–council government; a mayor and six councilmen who are all elected.

## Native Americans

Small groups of hunter-gatherers called Paleo-Indians moved through what would later become Peoria. Spear points found in Peoria date from 10,000–8,000 BC and show there was hunting activity here. About 1500 BC, there was farming here which indicates that semi-nomadic peoples used the area. From about 1–500 AD the peoples here settled into two areas. There were crops being raised here in the Peoria area during the spring and summer. At other times they lived in the upland areas where they gathered seeds, cholla, and cactus fruits.

There is evidence that the Hohokam lived here before 1150 AD. They built their houses out of wattle and daub. Later they used adobe and stone. They vanished after about the mid-1400s. They left almost no clues as to where they went or what happened to their civilization.
As late as the 1870s, small bands of Yavapai were farming small pieces of land in the area depending on surface runoff and springs for water.

## European settlers

European and American explorers discovered gold in 1863 near Wickenburg, Arizona. This caused a conflict with the Yavapai in the area. Ranchers were attracted to the area because of the grasslands for cattle. Relations with the Yavapai turned to war over the land. This was in part because the American Civil War caused the Army to leave the area.  When the army returned, the Yavapai were eventually removed to a reservation.

For about 13 years, the area around what would become Peoria lay vacant. In the late 1880s, four farming families moved to Peoria from Peoria, Illinois, naming the new town after the town they came from. From that time Peoria steadily grew as a farming community. Peoria incorporated in 1954.

## Recreation

Lake Pleasant Regional Park is a large recreational area that is in Peoria. It serves the entire Phoenix area. Its main feature is the 10,000 acre (40 km² or 15.6 mi²) Lake Pleasant. It is an artificial reservoir that has campgrounds, boating and fishing.

Peoria also is home the Peoria Sports Complex. It is the official spring training facility for the Seattle Mariners and the San Diego Padres. It has the Challenger Space Center and Canyon Raceway.
Waterbed

A **waterbed** is a bed or mattress filled with water. Waterbeds intended for medical therapy date back to the 19th century. The modern waterbed was invented San Francisco in the late 1960s by Charlie Hall. It was patented in 1971. It became a very popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.

Waterbeds are made of two types: hard-sided and soft-sided.
Fort Lauderdale airport shooting

The **Fort Lauderdale airport shooting** was an attack in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The mass shooting took place at the Fort Lauderdale—Hollywood International Airport on January 6, 2017.

At 12:55 pm Eastern Standard Time, Esteban Santiago-Ruiz started shooting. The shooting killed five people. Forty two people were injured.
Punica

***Punica*** is a small genus of fruit-bearing deciduous shrubs or small trees. It belongs in the family Lythraceae.

## Name

The name of the genus _Punica_ was given by Linnaeus in 1753 in _Species Plantarum_ (Vol. 1, page 472). The type species is _Punica granatum_ L.

_Punica_ comes from the Latin name for the pomegranate, _malum punicum_, meaning "Carthaginian apple" ("apple from Carthage").

## Description

The species in this genus are shrubs or small trees that could grow up to  high. Leaves are opossite. Flowers and fruits are yellow to bright red.

Fruits are berries with a strong skin, like leather. Fruits have many seeds with fleshy and edible coats (called **sacrotesta**).

## Species

There are only two species accepted in the genus _Punica_:
- _Punica granatum_ L., pomegranate. The pomegranate originated in the region of modern-day Iran, and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region and northern India.
- _Punica protopunica_ Balf.f., Socotra pomegranate. It is  endemic to the island of Socotra. It differs from the common pomegranate because it has pink (not red) flowers and smaller, less sweet fruit.

Although previously placed in its own family **Punicaceae**, recent phylogenetic studies have shown that _Punica_ belongs in the family Lythraceae, and it is classified in that family by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
Unadilla, Georgia

**Unadilla** is a town in Dooly County, Georgia. The population of Unadilla was 3,118 as of 2020.
Needed Me

"**Needed Me**" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna.  It is the seventh track from her eighth studio album, _Anti_.  The song was written by Rihanna, DJ Mustard, Adam Feeney, Brittany Hazzard, Charles Hinshaw, Derrus Rachel, Khaled Rohaim, Lewis Hughes, Nick Audino, and Te Whiti Barbrick, while DJ Mustard produced the song.  It was released as a single in the US on March 26, 2016.  "Needed Me" reached number seven on the _Billboard_ Hot 100.  On the year-end Hot 100 of 2016, the song ranked number 13.  It has been certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA.

## Infobox (song)

- **name**: Needed Me
- **artist**: Rihanna
- **album**: Anti (album), Anti
- **genre**: Electronic music, Electro-Contemporary R&B, R&B
- **length**: 3:11
- **producer**: DJ Mustard
- **prev title**: Kiss It Better (Rihanna song), Kiss It Better
- **prev year**: 2016
- **next title**: This Is What You Came For
- **next year**: 2016
Mentha arvensis

***Mentha arvensis*** – also known as **field mint** **wild mint**, or **corn mint** – is a species of Mentha genera, family _Lamiaceae_.
It has circumboreal distribution. It is native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia. It is also found naturally in North America.

## Description

Field mint  is a herbaceous perennial plant generally growing to  and rarely up to  tall. It has  erect or semi-sprawling squarish stems. The leaves are paired in  opposite positions. They are simple,  long and  broad. Leaves are  hairy, and with a coarsely serrated margin. The flowers are pale purple, but rarely  white or pink. These are in whorls on the stem at the bases of the leaves. Flower's Length  is  about . It  has a five-lobed hairy calyx, a four-lobed corolla with the uppermost lobe larger than the others. It has four stamens. The fruit is a two-chambered carpel.

## Related pages

- Mentha

## Other websites

- Jepson Manual Treatment
- USDA Plants Profile
- Photo gallery
John Deely

**John Deely** (April 26, 1942 – January 7, 2017) was an American philosopher and semiotician. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Saint Vincent College and Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He was at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Deely died in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on January 7, 2017 from cancer, aged 74.
Heinz Billing

**Heinz Billing** (7 April 1914 – 4 January 2017) was a German physicist and computer scientist. He is thought to be a pioneer in the construction of computer systems and computer data storage. He also built a prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. He was award the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1987.

## Life & career

Billing was born in Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He studied at University of Göttingen.

During his career, Billing worked at Aerodynamic Test Centre at Göttingen, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics.

In 1943, he married Anneliese Oetker. They had three children. Billing turned 100 in April 2014.

Billing died on 4 January 2017 in Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany at the age of 102.

## Other websites

- Tracking down the gentle tremble at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft's website on account history of GEO600 with Heinz Billing.
Lois Smith

**Lois Smith** (born November 3, 1930) is an American actress. She won a Drama Desk Award in 2006.

She has played supporting roles in movies including _East of Eden_, _Five Easy Pieces_, _Resurrection_, _Fatal Attraction_, _Fried Green Tomatoes_, _Dead Man Walking_, _Tumbleweeds_, _Twister_,  and _Please Give_.

In television she has performed in series that include  _The Americans_, _True Blood_, and _Desperate Housewives_.

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: Lois Smith 1955.jpg
- **caption**: Smith in 1955
- **birth name**: Lois Arlene Humbert
- **birth place**: Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, Kansas, United States, US
- **yearsactive**: 1952—present
- **occupation**: Actress
- **spouse**: Wesley Smith (1948–1970; divorced)
Eddie Garcia

**Eduardo Verchez García** (2 May 1929 – 20 June 2019), popularly  known as **Eddie Garcia** or **Manoy**, was a Filipino movie actor and movie director. He appeared in over 600 movies and TV shows as of 2019.

He is also the only person in the Philippines inducted into the FAMAS _Hall of Fame_ in three categories: _Best Actor_, _Best Supporting Actor_ and _Best Director_.

On 8 June 2019, Garcia suffered a neck fracture after having a fall and was hospitalised in Manila. He was soon moved to Makati, where he died on 20 June 2019. He was 90.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Eddie Garcia
- **image**: Eddie Garcia, 2019.png
- **caption**: Garcia in 2019
- **birth name**: Eduardo Verchez García
- **birth place**: Juban, Sorsogon, Philippine Islands
- **death place**: Makati, Philippines
- **nationality**: Philippines, Filipino
- **years active**: 1948–2019
- **other names**: Manoy
Henry Haller

**Henry Haller** (January 10, 1923 – November 7, 2020) was a Swiss-American chef. He served as Executive Chef of the White House from 1966 to 1987. He served under the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He retired on October 1, 1987.

Haller was born in Altdorf, Switzerland. He studied as an apprentice at hotels and ski resorts in Bern, Davos and Lucerne. He married Carole Itjem in the 1950s. They had four children. Haller died on November 7, 2020 in Rockville, Maryland at the age of 97.
Greg Jelks

**Gregory Dion** "**Greg**" **Jelks** (August 16, 1961 – January 5 or 6, 2017) was an American Australian baseball third baseman. He played with the Philadelphia Phillies of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1987. He later moved to Australia and played for Perth Heat and the national team. He was born in Centre, Alabama.

Jelks died sometime returning to Australia from the United States. His death was confirmed when his plane arrived in Sydney. He was 55.
Sex Tape (movie)

***Sex Tape*** is a 2014 American comedy movie.

## Plot

Jay and Annie Hargrove are a married couple. After having two kids, they have sex every chance they get. When Jay struggles to have an erection, Annie suggests making a sex tape. After making it, Annie asks Jay to delete the recording.

The son of Jay and Annie's friend says he will upload a copy of the sex tape to YouPorn unless they give him $25,000. They are not able to pay the money. Jay and Annie break into YouPorn's headquarters. They begin destroying the web servers. Their plan is stopped when an alarm sounds. The owner of YouPorn removes the sex tape.

Jay and Annie watch the video once themselves. After this, they take the USB flash drive and later destroy it.

## Cast

- Cameron Diaz as Annie Hargrove, Jay's wife
- Jason Segel as Jay Hargrove, Annie's husband
- Rob Corddry as Robby
- Ellie Kemper as Tess
- Rob Lowe as Hank Rosenbaum
- Nat Faxon as Max
- Nancy Lenehan as Linda
- Randall Park as Edward
- Harrison Holzer as Howard
- Jolene Blalock as Catalina, the wife of the owner of YouPorn
- Dave "Gruber" Allen as Mailman
- Kumail Nanjiani as Punit
- Artemis Pebdani as Kia
- Jack Black (_uncredited_) as the owner of YouPorn

## Release

_Sex Tape_ was released on July 18, 2014.

## Box office

The movie earned a total of $38.5 million in the United States alone. Worldwide, it earned a total of $126.1 million.

In the United Kingdom, it topped the box office. It earned £1.43 million. The movie opened at #1 in markets, such as Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

The biggest market was in countries like Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom. In those countries, the movie got back $12.14 million, $6.9 million and $7.14 million, respectively.

## Reviews

_Sex Tape_ earned mostly negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has an approval rating of 17%. Metacritic gives the movie a score of 36, meaning generally unfavorable reviews.

## Awards

_Sex Tape_ won a Golden Raspberry Award for the Worst Actress. It was also nominated for Worst Screen Combo and Worst Screenplay.
Michael Chamberlain

**Michael Leigh Chamberlain** (27 February 1944 – 9 January 2017) was a New Zealand-born Australian writer, teacher and pastor. He was best known due to the August 1980 death of his missing daughter Azaria as the result of a dingo attack while camping near Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Chamberlain's then-wife Lindy was falsely convicted of the baby's murder in 1982 and he was convicted of being an accessory after the fact. The findings of a 1987 royal commission made sure that the couple was innocent, but not before they were hated by the public and negatively covered by the media.

Chamberlain died on 9 January 2017 at Gosford Hospital, on the New South Wales central coast, aged 72 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.
Phil Rudd

**Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis** (born 19 May 1954), better known as **Phil Rudd**, is an Australian drummer. He is best known for being a member of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1975 to 1983, and again from 1994 to 2015. He lives in Tauranga, New Zealand. In November 2014, he was arrested for many crimes, including threatening to kill, trying to plan a murder and keeping illegal drugs. In July 2015, he was sentenced to eight months home detention.

Rudd was born in Melbourne. He is of a German and Irish background. His stepfather was from Lithuania. He has six children.
Dokkum

**Dokkum** is a city in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân. It has about 13,000 people (2014).

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Dokkum
- **settlement type**: City
- **image skyline**: Dokkum, stadhuis.jpg
- **image caption**: , the town hall
- **image flag**: Flag of Dokkum.svg
- **image shield**: Dokkum wapen.svg
- **image map**: Dokkumvroeger.jpg
- **mapsize**: 280px
- **pushpin map**: Netherlands Friesland
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: Netherlands
- **subdivision type1**: Province
- **subdivision name1**: Friesland
- **subdivision type2**: Municipality
- **subdivision name2**: Noardeast-Fryslân
- **leader party**: Christian Democratic Appeal (Netherlands), CDA
- **leader title**: Burgemeester, Mayor
- **leader name**: Marga Waanders
- **population total**: 12576
- **timezone1**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset1**: +1
- **timezone1 dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset1 dst**: +2
- **postal code type**: Postal codes in the Netherlands, Postcode
- **postal code**: 9100–9103
- **area code**: 0519
- **area code type**: Telephone numbers in the Netherlands, Area code
Ulf Dinkelspiel

**Ulf Adolf Roger Dinkelspiel** (4 July 1939 – 9 January 2017) was a Swedish politician and financier. He was a member of the Moderate Party. He served as the Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade from 1991 to 1994. He was born in Stockholm.

Dinkelspiel died from cancer on 9 January 2017 in Stockholm. He was 77.
Winschoten

**Winschoten** is a small city in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 2010, it has been a part of the municipality of Oldambt. It has about 18,000 people (2013).

There is a railway station with direct connections to Groningen and Leer (Germany).

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Winschoten
- **settlement type**: City
- **image skyline**: Winschoten Burgemeester Schönfeldplein.jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **image caption**: City center of Winschoten in 2010
- **image flag**: Flag of Winschoten.svg
- **flag size**: 100px
- **image shield**: Winschoten wapen.svg
- **shield size**: 75px
- **nickname**: Sodom, Molenstad
- **pushpin map**: Netherlands Groningen
- **pushpin map caption**: Location in the province of Groningen (province), Groningen in the Netherlands
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: Netherlands
- **subdivision type1**: Province
- **subdivision name1**: Groningen (province), Groningen
- **subdivision type2**: Municipality
- **subdivision name2**: Oldambt (municipality), Oldambt
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area footnotes**:  (2006)
- **area total km2**: 22.24
- **area land km2**: 21.66
- **area water km2**: 0.58
- **population total**: 18518
- **population as of**: 1 January 2007
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset1**: +1
- **timezone1 dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset1 dst**: +2
- **postal code type**: Postal codes in the Netherlands, Postal code
- **postal code**: 9670–9675
- **area code**: 0597
Zierikzee

**Zierikzee**, Zeelandic: _Zurrikzeê_, is a city in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality and island of Schouwen-Duiveland. It has about 11,000 people (2015).

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Zierikzee
- **settlement type**: City
- **native name lang**: nl
- **image skyline**: Zierikzee_1.jpg
- **image caption**: View over Zierikzee
- **image flag**: Flag of Zierikzee.svg
- **image shield**: Zierikzee wapen.svg
- **image map**: LocatieSchouwen-Duiveland.png
- **image map1**: Map NL - Schouwen-Duiveland - Zierikzee.png
- **map caption1**: The town centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Zierikzee in the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland.
- **pushpin map caption**: Location in the Netherlands
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **subdivision name**: Netherlands
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces of the Netherlands, Province
- **subdivision name1**: Zeeland (province), Zeeland
- **subdivision type2**: List of municipalities of the Netherlands, Municipality
- **subdivision name2**: Schouwen-Duiveland
- **population total**: 11460
- **population as of**: 5-1-2020
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset**: +1
- **timezone dst**: Central European Summer Time, CEST
- **utc offset dst**: +2
- **postal code type**: List of postal codes in the Netherlands, Postal code
- **postal code**: 4301
- **area code type**: Telephone numbers in the Netherlands, Dialing code
- **area code**: 0111
Torgny (village)

**Torgny** is a village in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is part of the municipality of Rouvroy. About 200 people live there.

Torgny is the southernmost settlement in Belgium.
Tithe

A **tithe**, means the tenth-part of something, usually income, paid to a religious organization.  A tithe can be seen as a tax, a fee for a service or a voluntary contribution.   Tithing came from the Book of Numbers.  In ancient Israel, the tribes of Levites were the priests. The other tribes gave tithes to the tribes of Levies because they had been given no land in Canaan.  Tithes may be money or crops or other valuable thing.

## Mosaic law

Under the Laws of Moses a tenth part is given to the priests. Then, the priests were required to give a tenth part of what they received as an offering to God. These tithes were paid once a year.

## Europe

In France, tithes were taxes levied by The Roman Catholic Church before the French Revolution. Tithes were levied on the Third Estate (common people), which made up about 98% of the French population. The Tithes were taxes for land owned by members of the Third Estate. The tithe was abolished after the creation of The New Constitution of France in 1791, when the Constitution was completed.
Gouda, Netherlands

**Gouda** is a municipality in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 about 71,000 people lived there.

The city is famous for its Gouda cheese and stroopwafels. The city hall was built in the 15th century.

## Other websites

- A collection of old pictures and drawings of Gouda. (A journey through the past)

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Gouda
- **settlement type**: List of municipalities of the Netherlands, Municipality
- **image skyline**: Gouda vanuit de lucht.jpg
- **imagesize**: 265px
- **image caption**: View of Gouda
- **image flag**: Flag of Gouda.svg
- **image seal**: Wapen van Gouda.svg
- **pushpin map**: Netherlands
- **pushpin mapsize**: 265px
- **pushpin relief**: yes
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces of the Netherlands, Province
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader name**: Pieter Verhoeve
- **area total km2**: 16.50
- **population total**: 71,782
- **population as of**: January 1, 2001
- **population density km2**: 4,350
- **timezone**: Central European Time, CET
- **utc offset**: +01:00
- **postal code type**: Postal code(s)
- **postal code**: 2800–2809
- **blank name sec2**: Community Identification Number, MCN
- **blank info sec2**: 0513
Jacob Cats

**Jacob Cats** (10 November 1577 in Brouwershaven - 12 September 1660 in The Hague) was a Dutch poet, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books. His poems were told like nursery rhymes for many years.

Cats was pensionary of Middelburg and Dordrecht, and grand pensionary of Holland.

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Jacob Cats
- **image**: Jacob Cats by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt.jpg
- **caption**: Jacob Cats by Michiel van Mierevelt
- **birth place**: Brouwershaven, Netherlands
- **death place**: The Hague, Netherlands
- **occupation**: Poet, writer, politician
- **nationality**: Dutch
- **education**: Law
- **period**: Dutch Golden Age
- **genre**: Emblem books
- **notableworks**: _Het Spaens Heydinnetje_
- **spouse**: Elisabeth van Valckenburg
- **children**: Anna, Johannes, Cornelis, Elisabeth, Helene & Jacobus Cats
The Bottom

**The Bottom** is the capital of the Caribbean island of Saba. In 2001, 462 people lived there.

The town was first called _De Botte_, which is old Dutch for "The Bowl". This is because the town made a bowl shape at the bottom of the mountains.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: The Bottom
- **settlement type**: Town
- **image skyline**: Saba School of Medicine.jpg
- **image caption**: The Bottom, with the campus of the Saba University School of Medicine, School of Medicine at the bottom right
- **image map**: Saba.JPG
- **mapsize**: 250px
- **map caption**: Map of Saba showing The Bottom
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Public body (Netherlands), Public body
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **population total**: 462
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Atlantic Standard Time, AST
- **utc offset1**: -4
- **blank name**: Köppen climate classification, Climate
- **blank info**: Tropical savanna climate, Aw
ENAC Foundation

The **ENAC Foundation** (French: _Fondation de l'École nationale de l'aviation civile_) has been created in 2012. It is to promote scientific and public interest activities in aviation, aerospace and aeronautics.

## History

The Foundation has been created in 2012. The first scholarships have been given in 2014, in order to help students to go abroad. In 2015, the first research activity in UAV is financed, in partnership with Ineo, Cofely and Sagem.

## Further reading

- Official website
Angelica Ross

**Angelica Ross** (born 1980/1981) is an American activist for transgender rights.  She started TransTech Social Enterprises to help transgender people. She was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

## Work

In 2014, Angelica Ross started the TransTech Social Enterprises organization in Chicago. Transtech is a training and design organization.  It trains and contracts transgender people in technology.  Transtech is a project of Allied Media Projects, an NGO in Detroit.

According to Ross, who transitioned in 2000, the time of gender transition can be difficult.  Some people need work but do not have the skills.  Other people have skills, but cannot find work because of discrimination.   If people can telecommute, they can work during the time of gender transition.

## Awards

In 2016, Ros received a Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign.

## Other websites

- Angelica Ross's website
Charlie Brotman

**Charles Julian "Charlie" Brotman** (born December 30, 1927) is an American public relations specialist and public address announcer. He is known for his presentation of U.S. presidential inaugural parades of 12 presidents from Harry S. Truman to Joe Biden (excluding only Donald Trump).

## Personal life

Brotman was born on December 30, 1927 in Washington, D.C.. He sudied at the University of Maryland. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1948, then attended the National Academy of Broadcasting.

## Career

In 1949, while a student at the National Academy of Broadcasting, Brotman was recommended by his teacher to serve as an announcer for Harry S. Truman's second inauguration, which was the first presidential inauguration to be televised.

Brotman has been behind the microphone for every inaugural parade in Washington, DC, since 1957, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in for his second term. Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013 was the 15th consecutive ceremony that Brotman has announced, and his 16th overall.

In 2017, President-elect Donald Trump's Presidential Inauguration Committee said that Brotman would not broadcast his inauguration, ending his broadcasting streak. Brotman was, however, picked to welcome the National Organizers for the Women's March on Washington on January 21, 2017 - the day following the Inauguration.

Brotman was again selected to serve as announcer for Joe Biden's inaugural parade on January 20, 2021.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Charlie Brotman
- **image**: MG 9498 (6367271663).jpg
- **birth name**: Charles Julian Botman
- **birth place**: Washington, D.C., U.S.
- **occupation**: Public relations specialist, announcer
- **years active**: 1949–2021
- **known for**: Announcing the US presidential inaugurations from Truman to Obama and Biden
Leanne Pittsford

**Leanne Pittsford** is an American entrepreneur.  She started the professional network Lesbians Who Tech.

## Life

Pittsford received a master's degree in education, equity and social justice from San Francisco State University and a bachelor's degree in political science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

## Work

Leanne Pittsford started her career with the organization Equality California.  She wanted to repeal Proposition 8, a law in California against marriage for same sex couples. She saw there were not enough networking opportunities for lesbian women.  There were not any lesbian mentors to give help and advice to new people.

In 2012, Pittsford started Lesbians in Tech.  In 2015 she got Edie Windsor, a former manager from IBM, to speak to the organization, and started a scholarship in her name. Lesbians in Tech is now an international organization with 20 chapters from Berlin to Vermont. It has 10,000 members. In two years, they had over 200 events in 22 cities.  Every year they have summits in New York, San Francisco, and Berlin. In 2015 they had their first summit in Tel Aviv.

In 2015, Lesbians in Tech received a $165,000 award from the Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation. They wanted to create more inclusion in the technology sector. The money will help start two programs: Bring a Lesbian to Work Day, for mentoring, and the Coding Scholarship Fund, for tuition.

In 2015, U.S. President Obama had an LGBT Pride reception at the White House for prominent member of the LGBT tech community. The event was attended by former Google executive and U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith, Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford, and others.

Pittsford also helped support five other organizations for diversity in tech: AllOut, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, CODE2040, Chicana Latina Foundation, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

## Other websites

- Lesbians Who Tech

### Awards

- Named one of "40 under 40" by San Francisco Times, 2015
- Featured in San Francisco Magazine's Power Issue, 2015
- Named one of "40 Diverse People In Tech Who Made Big Moves In 2015"  by Techcrunch
Deaths in 2017

The following is a list of **notable deaths in 2017**. For notable deaths for a selective month during the year, please see "Months".  Per month, names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
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## Months

- January
- February
- March
- April
- May
- June
- July
- August
- September
- October
- November
- December

## Related pages

- Deaths in 2014
- Deaths in 2015
- Deaths in 2016
- Deaths in 2018
- Deaths in 2019
- Deaths in 2020
- Deaths in 2021
- Deaths in 2022
- Deaths in 2023

## Other websites

- _The Guardian_, UK obituaries
- Obituaries, _Los Angeles Times_
- Obituaries, _Chicago Tribune_
- _The New York Times_, US obituaries
- _The Sydney Morning Herald_, Australian obituaries
- _The Telegraph_ obituaries
Deaths in January 2017

The following is a list of **notable deaths in January 2017**. For notable deaths of other months in 2017, please see "Months".

- Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.
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Ramanuja Devnathan

**Ramanuja Devanathan** (2 April 1959 – 7 January 2017) was an Indian educator. He was the head of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan at Jammu and the former Vice Chancellor of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University. He was the Registrar of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi.

In 2013, Devanathan was the recipient of Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF)'s 32nd annual award. He is also the editor of 2007 edition of English-Sanskrit Dictionary.

Devanathan died on 7 January 2017 in Mumbai while traveling on work of a heart attack, aged 57.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Ramanuja Devanathan
- **native name**: ரா. தெவனாதன்
- **image**: Ramanuja devanathan.jpg
- **image size**: 220px
- **caption**: Devanathan in 2015
- **birth place**: Aheendrapuram (Cuddalore District) Tamil Nadu, India
- **death place**: Mumbai, India
- **occupation**: Professor, Vice Chancellor, Researcher
- **nationality**: Indian
Miriam Goldberg

**Miriam Harris Goldberg** (May 18, 1916 – January 8, 2017) was an American newspaper publisher. She was born in Chicago. From 1972 to 2017, she was the editor and publisher of the _Intermountain Jewish News_ in Denver, Colorado. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 1987. She turned 100 in May 2016.

Goldberg died on January 8, 2017 in Denver at the age of 100.
Zygmunt Bauman

**Zygmunt Bauman** (19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish-British sociologist and philosopher. He had been living in England since 1971.

## Life

Bauman was born to a Jewish family in Poland.

After World War II, he rose in the ranks of Poland's military and by the early 1950s he had become one of the youngest majors in the Polish army, but was driven out of Poland by a political purge in 1953 engineered by the Communist government of the Polish People's Republic.

He was the Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds. Bauman was one of the world's most eminent social theorists writing  on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.

## Related pages

- List of sociologists from Europe

## Infobox (philosopher)

- **region**: Western Philosophy
- **era**: 20th-century philosophy, 20th / 21st-century philosophy
- **image**: Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped).jpg
- **name**: Zygmunt Bauman
- **birth place**: Poznań, Second Polish Republic, Poland
- **death place**: Leeds, England, UK
- **school tradition**: Continental philosophy Western Marxism
- **alma mater**: University of Warsaw
London School of Economics
- **main interests**: Ethics Political philosophy Sociology Postmodernity Postmodern art
- **notable ideas**: Modernity's struggle with ambiguity, resulting in the Holocaust postmodern ethics critique of Liquid modernity, "liquid" modernity
- **influences**: Karl Marx Georg Simmel Antonio Gramsci Hannah Arendt Theodor Adorno Stanisław Ossowski Jacques Derrida Alain Touraine Emmanuel Levinas
- **influenced**: Peter Beilharz Keith Tester
Ali Shariatmadari

**Ali Shariatmadari** (6 January 1924 – 9 January 2017) was an Iranian academic and educationist. He was Minister of Culture in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was President of the Iranian Academy of Sciences from 1990 until 1998. He was also a Professor of Education at the Teacher Training University in Tehran and a member of High Council of the Cultural Revolution from 1982 until his death.

Shariatmadari died in Shiraz, Iran on 9 January 2017, aged 93.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Ali Shariatmadari
- **image**: Ali Shariatmadari.jpg
- **order3**: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran), Minister of Culture and Science
- **term start3**: 5 February 1979
- **term end3**: 6 October 1979
- **primeminister3**: Mehdi Bazargan
- **predecessor3**: Mohammad-Amin Riahi
- **successor3**: Hassan Habibi
- **birth date**: 6 January 1924
- **birth place**: Shiraz, Iran
- **death place**: Shiraz, Iran
- **party**: Party of the Iranian People
Bayezid Osman

**Bayezid Osman**, also known as **Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu** with a surname as required by the Turkish Republic, or known by the Ottoman imperial name as **Prince Şehzade Bayezid Efendi** (; 23 June 1924 – 6 January 2017), was the 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman, which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1281 to 1922. The monarchy was abolished in 1922, with the modern Republic of Turkey replacing it.

Osman died in New York on 6 January 2017, aged 92.

## Infobox (royalty)

- **name**: Osman Bayezid Osmanoğlu
- **succession**: House of Osman, Head of the House of Osman
- **reign**: 23 September 2009 – 6 January 2017
- **reign-type**: Term
- **predecessor**: Ertuğrul Osman
- **successor**: Dündar Aliosman
- **birth place**: Paris, French Third Republic, France
- **death place**: New York City, United States
- **house**: Ottoman Dynasty, Imperial House of Osman
- **father**: Şehzade Ibrahim Tevfik
- **mother**: Hadija Sadiye Hanım
- **religion**: Sunni Islam
Progressive supranuclear palsy

**Progressive supranuclear palsy** (**PSP**; or the **Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome**, after the doctors who described it in 1963) is a degenerative disease involving the deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain.
Males and females are affected the same equally and there is no racial, geographical or occupational predilection. Approximately 6 people per 100,000 population have PSP.
It has been described as a tauopathy.
Peter Sarstedt

**Peter Eardley Sarstedt** (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017) was an English singer, instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter. He was the brother of musicians Eden Kane and Robin Sarstedt. His music was traditional folk music rather than traditional rock and roll.

## Career

He was best known for writing and performing the single "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?". It topped the UK Singles Chart in 1969 and won the Ivor Novello Award along with "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. Sarstedt remained a one-hit wonder, despite having released numerous successful albums and singles beginning from the late 1960s and releasing two singles a year from 1967 until 1987, with the popular track "Frozen Orange Juice" and the novelty song "Take off Your Clothes" entering the top ten.

## Death

Sarstedt had progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) since 2015. He died on 8 January 2017 in Sussex at the age of 75.

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Peter Sarstedt
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Peter Eardley Sarstedt
- **birth place**: Delhi, India
- **death place**: Sussex, England
- **origin**: Croydon, London, England
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter
- **years active**: 1967–2010 (retirement)
- **label**: United Artists Records, United Artists
Island Records
Angel Air
Singer Records