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GERB

**GERB** (which stands for Граждани за Европейско Развитие на България, "Grazhdani za Evropeysko Razvitie na Bŭlgaria," meaning **Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria**. The word герб/gerb also means "coat of arms" in Bulgarian) is a political party in Bulgaria. The party leader is Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

The party supports Bulgaria's membership in the European Union. They are also called a liberal conservative and populist party. The party has been an important force in Bulgarian politics since its creation in 2006. Their best performance was in the 2009 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received around 40% of the national vote and won 117 out of 240 seats. Their most recent performance was in the 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election, where they received 33% of the national vote and won 95 out of 240 seats.

### Parliamentary elections

|width=40|Election|width=100|# of seats won|width=100|# of total votes|width=100|% of popular vote|width=100|Seat change|width=100|% change|
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|align=center|117 / 240|align=center|1,678,583|align=center|39.72%|align=center|—|align=center|—|||
|align=center|97 / 240|align=center|1,081,605|align=center|30.54%|align=center|20|align=center|9.18%|||
|align=center|84 / 240|align=center|1,072,491|align=center|32.67%|align=center|13|align=center|2.13%|||
|align=center|95 / 240|align=center|1,147,283|align=center|32.65%|align=center|11|align=center|0.02%|||

## Other websites

- Official website
- Official website
- GERB's page on the European People's Party website
Volya Movement

**Volya** (Bulgarian: _Воля_ meaning "Will"; previously known as **Dnes** and the **Liberal Alliance**) is a political party in Bulgaria. It was founded on 15 July 2007 by businessman Veselin Mareshki. The name _Volya_ was adapted on 28 November 2016.

The party is seen as having a pro-Russian stance, and is also Eurosceptic (meaning they are critical of the European Union). It is also nationalistic and populist.

Their best performance in the parliamentary election was in 2017, where they received around 4% of the national vote and won 12 out of 240 seats.

### Parliamentary elections

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|align=center|0 / 240|align=center|—|align=center|—|align=center|—|align=center|—|||
|align=center|0 / 240|align=center|8,873|align=center|0.25%|align=center|0|align=center|0.25%|||
|align=center|0 / 240|align=center|—|align=center|—|align=center|—|align=center|—|||
|align=center|12 / 240|align=center|145,637|align=center|4.15%|align=center|12|align=center|4.15%|||

## Other websites

- Official website **(Bulgarian)**
Giannino Castiglioni

**Giannino "Gio" Castiglioni** (4 August 1884 – 27 August 1971) was an Italian architect, urbanist, painter and sculptor. His style was representational. Castiglioni was born in Milan and studied at the Accademia di Brera. He finished his studies there in 1906. From the early 1900s he primarily lived and worked in Lierna, a town on Lake Como. In 1951, he designed the master plan, the square, and several individual buildings in Lierna.

## Works

In his early career, Castiglione worked mainly as a painter. His later works were sculptures.

## Related pages

- List of Italian painters

## Other websites

- Giannino Castiglioni Museum
- Portal - Scenes from the life of S. Ambrogio from the Milan cathedral, Opera Giannino Castiglioni, affixed in 1950 Milan Cathedral

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Giannino Castiglioni
- **image**: Emilio Sommariva (1883 - 1956) Ritratto dello scultore Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971).jpg
- **other names**: Gio Castiglioni
- **birth place**: Milan, Italy
- **death place**: Lierna, Italy
- **nationality**: Italian
Caradoc

**Caradoc** was a knight of the Round Table. He was raised as the son of Caradoc the Elder, the king of Nates. His mother had an affair with a sorcerer named Eliavres who was his real father. During a beheading game, he chopped off his opponents head. The corpse replaced the head and explained that he was Caradoc’s biological father. Humiliated, he took his father and locked him in a tower. While attempting to escape, the wizard made a serpent wrap itself around his son's arm. A witch persuaded Eliaures, who was a magician, to make the snake attach itself to Caradoc's arm, sucking his blood. His friend Cador saved his life by putting his sister Guimer in a vat of milk and Caradoc in a vat of sour wine. This got the snake to cross from one vat to the other, giving Cador the chance to kill it with his sword. The attack caused Caradoc’s arm to “shrivel away”, and he became known as Breifbras (little-arm). Later in life he married Guignier. Due to Caradoc’s mother’s infidelity, he was very paranoid and made his wife go through a chastity test while they were both in Camelot. She passed the test and the two were given the city of Cirencester as a reward.
Cecilia Alvear

**Cecilia Alvear** (November 5, 1939 – April 21, 2017) was an Ecuadorian-American journalist in television news. She was the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She was known as a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burbank, California. In 1995 and 1996, Alvear was Editor at Large of _Si_, a short-lived magazine depicting the Latino experience in the U.S.

Alvear died of breast cancer on April 21, 2017 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 77.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Cecilia Alvear
- **birth place**: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **nationality**: Ecuador and American
- **occupation**: Latino journalist in television news and the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Chris Bearde

**Chris Bearde** (18 June 1936 – 23 April 2017) was an Australian comedy writer, producer and director. He was best known for his work as a writer on the 1960s hit _Laugh-In_ and for co-writing and producing TV specials for Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Sonny Bono, Cher, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Jim Carrey, Andy Williams, Michael Jackson, The Osmonds, Dinah Shore, Diana Ross, and Lucille Ball. He also created the format for the original _The Gong Show_. He also created _That's My Mama_ and _Sherman Oaks_.

Bearde died suddenly at his home in Westlake Village, California from a heart attack on 23 April 2017 at the age of 80.

## Other websites

- Interview with Chris Bearde
Hubert Dreyfus

**Hubert Lederer Dreyfus** (; October 15, 1929 – April 22, 2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests included phenomenology, existentialism and the philosophy of both psychology and literature. Dreyfus was known for his exegesis of Martin Heidegger, which critics labeled "Dreydegger".

Dreyfus was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and is a recipient of the Harbison Prize for Outstanding Teaching at UC Berkeley. Erasmus University awarded Dreyfus an honorary doctorate "for his brilliant and highly influential work in the field of artificial intelligence, and for his equally outstanding contributions to the analysis and interpretation of twentieth century continental philosophy".

## Other websites

- Professor Bert Dreyfus at the Berkeley Philosophy Department Web page
- Professor Bert Dreyfus's UC Berkeley Home Page
- Webcast: Man, God, and Society in Western Literature
- Webcast: Existentialism in Literature and Film
- Webcast: Heidegger
- Copy of Article "The iPod Lecture Circuit" by Michelle Quinn in _LA Times_, November 2007
- Conversations with History, an interview, November 2005
- Comprehensive interview
- Conversations about media, culture and technology. Interview between Andrew Keen and Hubert Dreyfus February 16, 2006  on AfterTV

## Infobox (philosopher)

- **image**: Hubert Dreyfus.jpg
- **region**: Western Philosophy
- **era**: 20th century philosophy, 20th/21st century philosophy
- **caption**: Dreyfus 2011
- **name**: Hubert Dreyfus
- **birth place**: Terre Haute, Indiana
- **death place**: Berkeley, California
- **alma mater**: Harvard University
- **school tradition**: Phenomenology (philosophy), Phenomenology
- **main interests**: Phenomenology (philosophy), Phenomenology, existentialism, philosophy of literature, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of artificial intelligence
- **notable ideas**: Dreyfus' critique of artificial intelligence, postcognitivism, Heidegger's hermeneutic realism
- **influences**: Martin HeideggerMaurice Merleau-PontyMichel FoucaultSøren KierkegaardDagfinn Føllesdal
- **influenced**: Philosophy of artificial intelligence, Richard Rorty, Mark Wrathall, Sean Dorrance Kelly, Charles Taylor (philosopher), Charles Taylor, John Haugeland, John Searle, Taylor Carman
William Hjortsberg

**William "Gatz" Hjortsberg** (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was known for writing the screenplay of the movie _Legend_. His novel _Falling Angel_ was the basis for the movie _Angel Heart_ (1987).

Hjortsberg died on April 22, 2017 in Livingston, Montana from pancreatic cancer, aged 76.

## Other websites

- William Hjortsberg official website
- Photograph of the author

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: William Hjortsberg
- **birth place**: New York City, New York (state), New York, United States
- **death place**: Livingston, Montana, United States
- **occupation**: Novelist, screenwriter
- **genre**: Mystery fiction, Mystery, screenwriting
John Sparrow David Thompson

**Sir John Sparrow David Thompson**  (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was the fifth Prime Minister of Canada. He served from November 24, 1892 until his death from a heart attack on December 12, 1894.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Sir John Thompson
- **image**: John Thompson.jpg
- **order1**: 5th Prime Minister of Canada
- **term start1**: December 5, 1892
- **term end1**: December 12, 1894
- **monarch1**: Queen Victoria, Victoria
- **governor general1**: Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, The Lord Stanley of Preston
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, The Earl of Aberdeen
- **predecessor1**: John Abbott
- **successor1**: Mackenzie Bowell
- **order2**: 5th
- **office2**: Premier of Nova Scotia
- **term start2**: May 25, 1882
- **term end2**: July 18, 1882
- **predecessor2**: Simon Hugh Holmes
- **successor2**: William Thomas Pipes
- **monarch2**: Queen Victoria, Victoria
- **lieutenant governor2**: Adams George Archibald
- **office3**: Nova Scotia House of Assembly, MLA for Antigonish (provincial electoral district), Antigonish County
- **term start3**: December 4, 1877
- **term end3**: July 27, 1882
- **predecessor3**: John J. McKinnon
- **successor3**: Charles B. Whidden
- **alongside3**: Daniel MacDonald (Nova Scotia politician), Daniel MacDonald, Angus McGillivray
- **constituency mp4**: Antigonish (electoral district), Antigonish
- **parliament4**: Canadian
- **predecessor4**: Angus McIsaac
- **successor4**: Colin Francis McIsaac
- **term start4**: October 16, 1885
- **term end4**: December 12, 1894
- **birth place**: City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
- **death place**: Windsor, Berkshire, England
- **restingplace**: Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax
- **party**: Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942), Conservative
- **children**: 9
- **signature**: JSDTSignature.svg
Chriet Titulaer

**Chriet Titulaer** (May 9, 1943 – April 23, 2017) was a Dutch astronomer, former television presenter and popular science and technology writer. He lived in Houten, Utrecht province. He was born in Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg province.

In 1983 Titulaer began his own television production company _Chriet Titulaer Producties BV_ and did much work for Teleac and the TROS. He presented popular science programmes such as _Wondere Wereld_ (Miraculous World) and television courses such as _Moderne Sterrenkunde_ (Modern Astronomy) and _Nederland en het Weer_ (The Netherlands and the Weather).

Titulaer made a remarkable appearance on Dutch television because of his beard and Limburgian accent.

## Other websites

- Interview by Koen van Santvoord for the magazine Carp

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Chriet Titulaer
- **image**: Chriet Titulaer (1984).jpg
- **caption**: In 1984
- **birth place**: Venlo, Netherlands
- **death place**: Driebergen, Netherlands
- **nationality**: Dutch
- **occupation**: Astronomer, television presenter and writer
- **yearsactive**: 1969-1990 (television)
Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan

**Michael Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan** (11 June 1949 – 23 April 2017) was a British diplomat and crossbench life peer.

Lord Williams was the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon. He was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2008.

Williams previously served as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Situation in the Middle East, before his appointment as the UK Special Representative for the Middle East and Special Projects. Prior to that, he was the Director for the Asia and the Pacific Division in the Department of Political Affairs.

From 1999 to 2005, Williams was the Special Adviser to two UK Foreign Secretaries, Robin Cook (1999–2001) and Jack Straw (2001–2005).

Williams died in London on 23 April 2017, aged 67.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Lord Williams of Baglan
- **image**: Lordwilliams.jpg
- **birthname**: Michael Charles Williams
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour Party
- **alma mater**: University College London
SOAS, University of London
Agustín Edwards Eastman

**Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman** (24 November 1927 – 24 April 2017) was a Chilean newspaper publisher. He was one of the richest people in Chile. He inherited his family's newspaper company El Mercurio SAP, which publishes Chile's leading national dailies _El Mercurio_ and _La Segunda_. He was born in Paris.

Eastman has been described as a media baron, and was known for his right-wing views. Throughout his time as publisher, he has used El Mercurio SAP's newspapers to influence public opinion in Chile, and he supported the 1973 coup d'état to oust socialist President Salvador Allende.

According to the U.S. Senate's Church Committee, he was one of the main Chilean participants in the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Mockingbird campaign to influence the media in Latin American countries.

Eastman died on 24 April 2017 in Graneros, Chile from respiratory failure at the age of 89.

## Other websites

- Perfil
- Agustín Edwards Eastman
- Líos de familia: La oscura historia detrás del edificio de el Mercurio

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Agustín Edwards Eastman
- **image**: 15-01-14-Agustín Edwards Eastman.jpg
- **caption**: Edwards in 2014
- **birth name**: Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman
- **nationality**: Chilean
- **occupation**: newspaper publisher
Eskifjörður

**Eskifjörður** (also called **Eskifjördur**) is a town and port in eastern Iceland. In 2011, the town had a population of 1,043 people. The town has a large fishing industry.

Eskifjörður is part of the Fjarðabyggð municipality, and is in the Eastern Region.

A sculpture by Ragnar Kjartansson is located by the main road in Eskifjördur, honouring the mariners who drowned at sea.

Eskifjörður has many beautiful rare stone collections, with thousands of polished and original stones from all over the island.

## Other websites

- Visit Eskifjordur tourist guide
- Visit Eskifjordur Facebook Fan page for tourist information around Eskifjordur
- Facebook Fan page about everything in Eskifjörður
- Eskifjörður page on Fjarðabyggð municipal website
- Images of Eskifjörður on Flickr
Spokane Native Americans

The **Spokan** or **Spokane** people are a Native American tribe. They live in the eastern part of present-day Washington state and parts of northern Idaho in the United States of America.

The current **Spokane Indian Reservation** is in northeastern Washington, centered at Wellpinit (Sčecuwe). The reservation is almost entirely in Stevens County. However, it also includes two small bits of land (totaling about ) in Lincoln County. This includes part of the Spokane River. In total, the reservation is about .

The city of Spokane, Washington (Sʎˈetkʷ) is named after the tribe. It grew along the Spokane River, within the historic ancestral land of the tribe, but not in the reservation.

## References

- Clark, Ella. _Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest._ Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. Print.
- Fisher, Andrew H. "Dreamer Cult." _Encyclopedia of American Indian History._ Ed. Bruce E. Johansen and Barry M. Pritzker. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 380-381. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 23 May 2016.
- Pritzker, Barry M. _A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples._ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. .
- Pritzker, Barry M. "Spokanes." _The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607-1890: A Political, Social, and Military History._ Ed. Spencer C. Tucker, James Arnold, and Roberta Wiener. Vol. 2. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011. 752-753. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 23 May 2016.
- Ruby, Robert H and Brown, John A. _The Spokane Indians: Children of the Sun._ Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. Print.
- Spokane Reservation, Washington  United States Census Bureau

## Other websites

- Spokane Tribe of Indians, official site
- History and Culture, presented in the Website of the Wellpinit School District
- Spokane Tribe of Indians Language Program
- _The Spokan Indians_, by John Alan Ross, published 2011, , the definitive ethnography
- Spokane Salish Blog

## Infobox (ethnic group)

- **group**: Spokane
- **native name**: Sqeliz
- **image caption**: Spokane tribal logo

- **population**: 2,708
- **popplace**: United States ( Washington (state), Washington)
- **rels**: Waashat Religion, Dreamer Faith, traditional tribal religion, Christianity
- **langs**: English language, English, Spokan or Spokane language
(dialect of Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille language)
- **related**: Bitterroot Salish (tribe), Bitterroot Salish, Coeur D'Alene Tribe, Coeur D'Alene, Kootenai (tribe), Kootenai, Pend d'Oreilles (tribe), Pend d'Oreilles, and other Interior Salish tribes
Annie Jump Cannon

**Annie Jump Cannon** was an American astronomer. She was born on December 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware and died on April 13, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

## Life

With an old astronomy book, Cannon's mother taught her the constellation<nowiki/>s and other things about stars when she was little. She encouraged her to learn mathematics, chemistry and biology at Wellesley College. They loved the stars. After graduation she took up photography, and many of her pictures of Europe were published. She caught Scarlet fever which made her deaf. She became an instructor at Wellesley and learned spectroscopy.

Cannon was a great astronomer and gave us new information about the stars.

## Jobs and studies

Cannon had graduate studies in math, physics, and astronomy. She also received many awards such as the Henry Draper Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Ellen Richards Award, and she was the first woman to ever receive the honorary doctorate of science at Oxford University. She also became part of the Harvard Astronomy staff. She discovered 300 variable stars, five novae stars, and a binary star while on the staff. Cannon observed and then classified about 400,000 stars. She invented the Harvard system which is still the usual method of stellar classification according to color and temperature.

## Hardships

Cannon had many hardships. Cannon was a women scientist in a world of men. She had to advocate for herself. She was one of the first women in astronomy at her time. Cannon also faced the hardship of being deaf. Cannon didn’t have access to hearing aids. People had decided not to vote for her for awards despite her discoveries because she was deaf. Now many people admire her and wish to follow in her footsteps. Cannon struggled in a world of stereotypes and first times but she managed to succeed.
Scaphocephaly

**Scaphocephaly** is a condition that occurs when two parts of the skull fuse together. It describes a long narrow head that looks like an overturned boat. It is a type of cephalic disorder.

## Overview

Scaphocephaly is the most common type of skull synostosis, or joining of two bones. It accounts for around 50% of cases of skull synostosis. It can be corrected by surgery if the child is young enough.

## Types

Scaphocephaly can be categorised into multiple types, depending on position or suture closure, such as bathrocephaly, clinocephaly, dolichocephaly, leptocephaly, and sphenocephaly.
Eddie Meduza

**Errol Leonard Norstedt** (June 17, 1948 – January 17, 2002), better known by his stage name **Eddie Meduza**, was a Swedish musician working mainly in the rockabilly genre. His songs were about women, cars and alcohol, often associated with obscene lyrics. He went as far as to aim his views at the Swedish Government which garnered controversy over the years. Meduza died at the age of 53 after suffering a heart attack caused by alcohol poisoning. He is remembered for his explicit work but many of his songs were ironic-made and contained clever social commentary. Meduza is survived by wife and (now adult) children.

## Other websites

- Official Web page

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Eddie Meduza
- **birth name**: Errol Leonard Norstedt
- **birth place**: Gothenburg, Sweden
- **death place**: Småland, Sweden
- **death cause**: Heart attack
- **nationality**: Swedish people, Swedish
- **children**: 3
- **occupation**: musician, composer, guitarist
- **years active**: 1975-2001
Björn Afzelius

**Björn Svante Afzelius** (January 27, 1947 – February 16, 1999), was a Swedish musician and guitarist who's songs were about socialism, love and joy. He released his debut album in 1974 and his last album weeks before his death. He had throat pain after he had played acoustic trio. In autumn 1997, doctors identified lung cancer. He died of the disease one and a half year later at the age of 52.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Björn Afzelius
- **image**: Björn Afzelius 1994 001.jpg
- **caption**: Afzelius in 1994.
- **birth place**: Jönköping County, Sweden
- **death place**: Gothenburg, Sweden
- **death cause**: Lung cancer
- **nationality**: Swedish people, Swedish
- **years active**: 1970-1999
Kathleen Crowley

**Betty Jane "Kathleen" Crowley** (December 26, 1929 – April 23, 2017) was an American actress. She was born in Green Bank, New Jersey. She starred in a number of TV shows and movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s, ending her career in 1970. She was known for her multiple small roles in the TV series _Maverick_.

Crowley died on April 23, 2017 at her home in Green Bank, New Jersey, aged 87.
Benjamin Barber

**Benjamin R. Barber** (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author. He was best known for his 1995 bestseller, _Jihad vs. McWorld_, and for 2013's _If Mayors Ruled the World_.

Barber died on April 24, 2017 in New York City after a four-month battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 77.

## Other websites

- CivWorld
- The Interdependence Movement
- A Conversation on American Political Culture with Benjamin Barber
- Barber discusses his book Consumed: How markets corrupt.... Audio on Media Matters April 15, 2007 UIUC.EDU
- Benjamin Barber's blog on the Huffington Post
- Benjamin Barber on Twitter
- Interview with Benjamin R. Barber by JK Fowler for The Mantle March 19, 2011

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: Benjamin Barber
- **image**: Benjamin R Barber in 2010 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Barber in 2010
- **birth place**: New York City, New York (state), New York, United States, U.S.
- **death place**: New York City, New York, U.S.
- **occupation**: Academic
- **nationality**: United States of America, American
- **genre**: Political theory
Ken Sears

**Kenneth Robert "Ken" Sears** (August 17, 1933 – April 23, 2017) was an American professional basketball player. He holds the title of being the first basketball player to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, appearing on the December 20, 1954 issue.

Sears played eight seasons (1955–1961, 1962–1964) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the New York Knicks and San Francisco Warriors. He averaged 13.9 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game in his NBA career, appearing as an NBA All-Star in 1958 and 1959. Sears spent the 1961–62 basketball season in the short-lived American Basketball League.

Sears died on April 23, 2017, at his home in Watsonville, California, aged 83.

## Infobox (nba biography)

- **name**: Ken Sears
- **image**: Ken Sears.jpeg
- **number**: 12, 20, 17
- **position**: Power forward (basketball), Power forward, Small forward
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 9
- **weight lb**: 198
- **birth place**: Watsonville, California
- **death place**: Watsonville, California
- **nationality**: American
- **high school**: Watsonville High School, Watsonville (Watsonville, California)
- **college**: Santa Clara Broncos men's basketball, Santa Clara (1951–1955)
- **draft year**: 1955
- **draft round**: 1
- **draft pick**: 4
- **draft team**: New York Knicks
- **career start**: 1955
- **career end**: 1964
- **years1**: –
- **team1**: New York Knicks
- **years2**: 1961–1962
- **team2**: San Francisco Saints (ABL), San Francisco Saints
- **team3**: New York Knicks
- **years4**: –
- **team4**: San Francisco Warriors
- **highlights**: * 2× NBA All-Star (, )
* All-American Basketball League (1961–63), ABL Second Team (1962)
* Third-team NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, All-American – United Press International, UPI, United Media, NEA (1955 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1955)
* 2× West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year, WCC Player of the Year (1953, 1955)
* No. 55 Santa Clara Broncos men's basketball#Retired jerseys, retired by Santa Clara
- **stats league**: NBA
- **stat1label**: Point (basketball), Points
- **stat1value**: 7,355 (13.9 ppg)
- **stat2label**: Rebound (basketball), Rebounds
- **stat2value**: 4,142 (7.8 rpg)
- **stat3label**: Assist (basketball), Assists
- **stat3value**: 843 (1.6 apg)
- **bbr**: searske01
Munyua Waiyaki

Dr. **Fredrick Lawrence Munyua Waiyaki** (12 December 1926 – 25 April 2017) was a Kenyan politician. He  was a minister for Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Affairs and a former member of parliament for the Kasarani Constituency. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1963, he was appointed Parliamentary secretary

In the 1960s. he was offered a job by the Kenyan government to work as a medical doctor a position he served for less than a year since he retired and decided against to set up his own clinic in Kenya. At the same time, he started becoming active in politics since he served as the District chairman for Kenya African National Union (KANU) for the period of 1960-1968.

In 1962 he challenged Tom Mboya for the Nairobi East parliament seat but he lost by 2668 votes to 31407. He entered into parliament for the first time in May 1963 as a member of parliament for North Eastern Nairobi (now Kasarani) and he also became the permanent secretary for the ministry of health and housing.

Waiyaki died on 25 April 2017 at a hospital in Nairobi from pneumonia, aged 90.

## Other websites

- Munyua Waiyaki — Munzinger Biographie
Sasha Lakovic

**Sasha "The Basha, Pitbull" Lakovic** (Serbian: Саша Лаковић / _Saša Laković_; September 7, 1971 – April 25, 2017) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for 17 different professional teams during his career, but mostly known for playing with the New Jersey Devils.  Lakovic also played for four roller hockey teams in the mid-1990s.

Lakovic attempted to start a career in acting, landing a small role as Russian ice hockey player Boris Mikhailov in the 2004 Walt Disney movie _Miracle_.

Lakovic was diagnosed with brain cancer in October 2016. He died from the disease on April 25, 2017 in Vancouver, aged 45.

## Infobox (ice hockey player)

- **image**: Sasha Lakovic wiki.jpg
- **image size**: 230px
- **birth place**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **death place**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 0
- **weight lb**: 220
- **position**: Winger (hockey), Right Wing
- **shoots**: Left
- **played for**: Calgary Flames
New Jersey Devils
- **draft**: Undrafted
- **career start**: 1992
- **career end**: 2004
Brokpa

**Brokpa** is a tribe in a remote area of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan.

This tribe is described by many great historians, including Strabo, Herodotus and others.

## History

Historically these people are known as Minaro people. They lived from the 1st century BC in Deosai region. In the 19th century BC they migrated to the rest of Ladakh region.
Grimisuat

**Grimisuat** is a municipality of the district Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

## Villages

Grimisuat, Champlan, Les Fermes, les Places, Coméraz and Saint-Raphaël.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Grimisuat
- **municipality name**: Grimisuat
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Grimisuat COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Grimisuat.png
- **languages**: French
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Sion (district), Sion
- **postal code**: 1971
- **municipality code**: 6263
- **area**: 4.4
- **elevation**: 882
- **population**: 2325
- **populationof**: Dec 2002
- **website**: www.grimisuat.ch
- **mayor**: Géraldine Marchand-Balet
- **places**: Grimisuat, Champlan, Les Fermes, les Places, Coméraz, Saint-Raphaël
- **neighboring municipalities**: Arbaz, Ayent, Savièse, Sion, Switzerland, Sion
Salins, Switzerland

**Salins** is a former municipality of the district of Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Salins merged into the municipality of Sion.

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Salins
- **municipality name**: Salins
- **municipality type**: former
- **imagepath coa**: Salins.png
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Salins.png
- **languages**: French
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Sion (district), Sion
- **postal code**: 1991
- **municipality code**: 6264
- **area**: 4.1
- **elevation**: 842
- **population**: 960
- **populationof**: Dec 2012
- **popofyear**: 2012
- **website**: www.salins.ch
- **mayor**: Nicolas Rossier
- **neighboring municipalities**: Les Agettes, Nendaz, Sion, Switzerland, Sion, Veysonnaz
Savièse

**Savièse** is a municipality in the Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

## Villages

Chandolin, Drône, Granois, La Muraz, Mayens-de-la-Zour, Ormône, Roumaz and Saint-Germain.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **image photo**: En aval de Savièse vers l'Ouest en automne Valais-Suisse.JPG
- **subject name**: Savièse
- **municipality name**: Savièse
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Savièse COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Savièse.png
- **languages**: French
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Sion (district), Sion
- **postal code**: 1965
- **municipality code**: 6265
- **area**: 70.9
- **elevation**: 820
- **population**: 5534
- **populationof**: Dec 2002
- **popofyear**: 2002
- **website**: www.saviese.ch
- **mayor**: Michel Dubuis
- **places**: Chandolin, Drône, Granois, La Muraz, Mayens-de-la-Zour, Ormône, Roumaz, Saint-Germain
- **neighboring municipalities**: Arbaz, Ayent, Conthey, Grimisuat, Gsteig bei Gstaad (BE), Lauenen (BE), Ormont-Dessus (VD), Sion, Switzerland, Sion
- **twintowns**: Vaux-le-Pénil (France)
Balad

**Balad** () is a political party in Israel. It is a Hebrew acronym of _Brit Le'umit Demokratit_ (). Balad () is also an Arabic word. It means "country" or "nation". Balad's full Arabic name is at-Tajammuʿ al-Waṭanī ad-Dīmuqrāṭī ().Its ideology is social democratic, Arab nationalist, pan-Arabic, secular, and anti-Zionist.

Balad was founded in 1995. The party's political leader is Sami Abu Shehadeh.

As of 2022, Balad has no seats in the Knesset.
Jona Lewie

**Jona Lewie** (born **John Lewis**, 14 March 1947 in Southampton, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his 1980 UK hits "You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties" and "Stop the Cavalry".

## Career

In 1969, as a singer/songwriter, he made compositions and recordings for the compilation album _I Asked For Water She Gave Me ... Gasoline_ on the Liberty/UA label. Other compositions in 1969 were for the album _These Blues is Meant to Be Barrel Housed_ on the Yazoo/Blue Goose label in New York, still as a solo artist known as John Lewis.

## Albums

- _Alias Jona Lewie_ (1975)
- _On the Other Hand There's a Fist_ (1978)
- _Gatecrasher_ (compilation of singles for Sonet, 1980)
- _Heart Skips Beat_ (1982)
- _Optimistic_ (1993)
- _Ukephoric: The London Ukulele Festival 2009_ (2010)

## Other websites

- Official site
- Greatest Hits
- The Top 10 Christmas Songs of The Last Decade
- Bestiff.co.uk
- Reference to his song being No 2 on Australian Charts in 1981

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Jona Lewie
- **image**: Jona Lewie.jpg
- **caption**: Lewie in 2010
- **birth name**: John Lewis
- **birth place**: Southampton, England
- **background**: solo_singer
- **instrument**: Vocals, keyboards, guitar
- **genre**: Pop, rock, New wave music, new wave, blues
- **label**: Stiff Records, Sonet Records, Union Square Music
- **years active**: 1967–present
- **associated acts**: Keef Trouble
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, Bob Hall (musician), Bob Hall, Wreckless Eric, Lene Lovich, Wilgar Campbell, Martin Stone (guitarist), Martin Stone, Jools Holland
Veysonnaz

**Veysonnaz** is a municipality in Sion in the Swiss canton of Valais.

## Other websites

- Official Website

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Veysonnaz
- **municipality name**: Veysonnaz
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Veysonnaz COA.svg
- **image photo**: Veysonnaz depuis Nendaz.jpg
- **image caption**: Veysonnaz from Nendaz
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Veysonnaz.png
- **languages**: French
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Sion (district), Sion
- **postal code**: 1993
- **municipality code**: 6267
- **area**: 1.1
- **elevation**: 1233
- **elevation description**: Veysonnaz village
- **population**: 606
- **populationof**: Dec 2015
- **popofyear**: 2015
- **website**: www.veysonnaz.org
- **mayor**: Henri-Bernard Fragnière
- **neighboring municipalities**: Les Agettes, Nendaz, Salins, Switzerland, Salins
Baltschieder

**Baltschieder** is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

## Other websites

- Official website of Baltschieder

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Baltschieder
- **municipality name**: Baltschieder
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Baltschieder COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Baltschieder.png
- **languages**: German
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Visp (district), Visp
- **postal code**: 3937
- **municipality code**: 6281
- **area**: 31.4
- **elevation**: 658
- **population**: 1128
- **populationof**: Dec 2002
- **popofyear**: 2002
- **website**: www.baltschieder.ch
- **mayor**: Markus Nellen
- **neighboring municipalities**: Ausserberg, Blatten (Lötschen), Eggerberg, Lalden, Mund, Naters, Raron, Visp
Embd

**Embd** is a municipality of the district Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Embd
- **municipality name**: Embd
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Embd COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Embd.png
- **languages**: German
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Visp (district), Visp
- **postal code**: 3926
- **municipality code**: 6283
- **area**: 13.37
- **elevation**: 1356
- **population**: 354
- **populationof**: Dec 2002
- **website**: www.embd.ch
- **mayor**: Alex Bumann
- **neighboring municipalities**: Ergisch, Grächen, Oberems, Switzerland, Oberems, St. Niklaus, Switzerland, St. Niklaus, Törbel and Unterbäch
- **twintowns**: Ebikon (Switzerland)
Grächen

**Grächen** is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

It is at an elevation of  on a terrace above St. Niklaus in the Mattertal, north of the Mischabel range (and Dom).

## Other websites

- Official website of the municipality of Grächen
- information.

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Grächen
- **municipality name**: Grächen
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Graechen COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Grächen.png
- **languages**: German
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Visp (district), Visp
- **postal code**: 3925
- **municipality code**: 6285
- **area**: 14.29
- **elevation**: 1619
- **population**: 1367
- **populationof**: Dec 2002
- **website**: www.gemeinde-graechen.ch
- **mayor**: Jakob Walter
- **neighboring municipalities**: Eisten, Embd, St. Niklaus, Switzerland, St. Niklaus, Stalden, Switzerland, Stalden, Törbel
Lalden

**Lalden** (Walliser German: _Lalu_) is a municipality in Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Lalden
- **municipality name**: Lalden
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Lalden COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Lalden.png
- **languages**: German
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Visp (district), Visp
- **postal code**: 3931
- **municipality code**: 6286
- **area**: 1.37
- **elevation**: 658
- **population**: 668
- **populationof**: Dec 2015
- **popofyear**: 2015
- **website**: www.lalden.ch
- **mayor**: Georges Schnydrig
- **neighboring municipalities**: Baltschieder, Brig, Switzerland, Brig, Eggerberg, Mund, Visp
Frank Rizzo

**Francis Lazarro "Frank" Rizzo, Sr.** (October 23, 1920 – July 16, 1991) was an American politician. He was the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1980. He was also the police commissioner as well. When he was mayor, Rizzo was a Democrat, but when he left office, Rizzo became a Republican in 1986.

## Biography

Rizzo was born in Philadelphia. His father, Rafael, worked as a police officer. He grew up in a row house neighborhood in South Philadelphia. In his senior year of high school, he left Southern High School. He later obtained a high school equivalency diploma and took government courses at the Fels Institute of Government.

After enlisting in the United States Navy, Rizzo served on the USS Houston cruiser for 19 months. However, he was medically discharged due to diabetes insipidus. Upon returning to Philadelphia, Rizzo found employment at Midvale Steel, where he contributed to the production of naval guns in preparation for World War II.
Rizzo's father was actually a big part of his life he helped him become what he was because his father was a police officer.
Rizzo was commissioner from 1968 to 1971 and eventually became mayor in 1972. While he was mayor his relationships with the black community was very violent and devastating. Others would say he was racially motivated only because he would liked to target activities in black neighborhoods.

Rizzo died of a heart attack on July 16, 1991 in Philadelphia, aged 70.

## Other websites

- Biographical sketch of Rizzo's controversial methods
Night of Terror

The **Night of Terror** refers to November 14, 1917 when several women were arrested for protesting in front of the White House for women's rights. This event is most known for the brutal torture of women in the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. The 300 plus activists involved were fighting against President Woodrow Wilson for the right to vote. Thirty-three women were thrown in jail and these women were the ones who experienced the night of terror. Lucy Burns, one of the founders of the National Woman's Party was chained to her cell with her arms in the air.  The women declared a hunger strike and in response, they were force-fed by being held down on a chair and having a long tube shoved down their throats. The jailers attached a funnel to the tube, and poured in mushed up raw eggs and milk for protein until they threw up. During the Night of Terror, Burns was beaten for calling out to other inmates, and her arms handcuffed above her head in her cell. Police officers hurled Dora Lewis into her cell, smashing her head against an iron bar. Her cellmate Alice Cosu thought she was dead, and suffered a heart attack. One woman was stabbed between the eyes with the broken staff of her banner at the Workhouse.
Sarah Parker Remond

**Sarah Parker Remond** (June 6, 1815 – December 13, 1894) was an African-American educator, abolitionist, and member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She made her first speech against slavery when she was only sixteen years old. Late in life she became a physician in Italy.

## Life

Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She was born  June 6, 1826, and she died in 1894. She went to an all black elementary school. she was not a slave but her father was, who then became an American citizen. Her family moved to Newport, Rhode Island and she went to a private school. She made her first speech in 1842. She made her first speech when she was 16 years old against slavery.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Sarah Kathleen Sequoia Parker Jacquelina Remond
- **image**: Sarah Parker Remond.jpg
- **birth place**: Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
- **death place**: Florence, Italy
- **occupation**: Activist, physician
- **alma mater**: Bedford College (London), Bedford College for Women, London
:it:Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, Florence
- **spouse**: Lazzaro Pintor Cabras
- **parents**: John Remond (father)
Nancy Lenox (mother)
- **relations**: Charles Lenox Remond (brother)
Caroline Remond Putnam (sister)
Cecilia Remond Putnam (sister)
Marchita Remond (sister)
Sophie Scholl

**Sophia Magdalena Scholl** (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a member of the White Rose Resistance group. Along with Hans scholl, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Kurt Huber, Sophie helped write leaflets that opposed Hitler and Nazi Germany.

On February 18,1943, Sophie and her brother went to the Munich University to pass out leaflets. They were spotted by a custodian, who alerted the Gestapo. They were put on trial on February 22. They were sentenced to death. Before her death, her roommate, Else Gebel, recalls the last thing that Sophie said to her: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone wiling to give himself up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny, day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of lives are awakened and stirred into action.”. She was killed the same day of the trial, February 22, 1943.

## Other websites

- _The Geschwister-Scholl-Institut_
- Court documents and testimonies (Center for White Rose Studies
- Sophie Scholl's childhood years in Ludwigsburg
- _The Line_, a comic that compares and contrasts Sophie Scholl and Traudl Junge
- _Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V._ (German)
Air India Flight 855

**Air India Flight 855** was a flight from Bombay to Dubai. On January 1, 1978 the Boeing 747 crashed into the Arabian Sea  , killing all 213 people on board.
108 (number)

**108** (**one hundred [and] eight**) is a natural number that comes before 107 and after 109. It is the emergency number in India.

## Infobox (number)

- **number**: 108
Sphygmomanometer

A **sphygmomanometer** ((, ; also called a **blood pressure meter**, **blood pressure monitor**, or **blood pressure gauge**) is a device used to measure blood pressure in humans. It was first invented by an Austrian physician in 1881. They now come in different shapes and sizes. They can be found in many places.

The sphygmomanometer works by wrapping a tube of fabric (called a "cuff") around the arm or other body part. The cuff is filled up with air. That stops the flow of blood in the arm. The air is then released slowly until the blood flows again. The whole process, from start to finish, only takes about a minute.

Many sphygmomanometers are inflated by squeezing a bulb. A gauge shows how much the cuff is inflated. The gauge can be mechanical or hydraulic (filled with mercury).  It is important that the cuff is not inflated too much, so whoever is using the device has to use a stethoscope.

Some sphygmomanometers, especially those that people use at home, are automatic. They inflate using an electric pump. They show the blood pressure on a screen. They are meant to be very easy to use.
Randa, Switzerland

**Randa** is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

The municipality is between the Weisshorn and Dom in the Matter Valley.

## Other websites

- Official website of Randa

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Randa
- **municipality name**: Randa
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Randa COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Randa.png
- **languages**: German
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Visp (district), Visp
- **postal code**: 3928
- **municipality code**: 6287
- **area**: 54.53
- **elevation**: 1406
- **population**: 446
- **populationof**: Dec 2015
- **popofyear**: 2015
- **website**: www.randa.ch
- **mayor**: Leo Jörger
- **places**: Wildi
- **neighboring municipalities**: Ayer, Switzerland, Ayer, Oberems, Switzerland, Oberems, Saas Fee, St. Niklaus, Switzerland, St. Niklaus, Täsch, Zermatt
Saas Almagell

**Saas-Almagell** is a municipality of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

## Other websites

- Official website of Saas-Almagell

## Infobox (swiss town)

- **subject name**: Saas-Almagell
- **municipality name**: Saas-Almagell
- **municipality type**: municipality
- **imagepath coa**: CHE Saas-Almagell COA.svg
- **map**: Karte Gemeinde Saas Almagell.png
- **languages**: German
- **canton**: Valais
- **iso-code-region**: CH-VS
- **district**: Visp (district), Visp
- **postal code**: 3905
- **municipality code**: 6288
- **area**: 110.28
- **elevation**: 1672
- **population**: 399
- **populationof**: Dec 2002
- **popofyear**: 2002
- **website**: www.saas-almagell.ch
- **neighboring municipalities**: Antrona Schieranco (IT-VB), Ceppo Morelli (IT-VB), Macugnaga (IT-VB), Saas Fee, Saas Grund, Simplon, Täsch, Zermatt, Zwischbergen
Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger

The **Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger** is a US helicopter. It is a military variant of the famous civilian Bell 206 used for training by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy.

## Related pages

- Training aircraft.